I spotted the trailing tomatoes in Sainsbury’s today but they were seedy things in a packet with no soil and no leaves. I wouldn’t know what to do with them.
Maybe next year.
I spotted the trailing tomatoes in Sainsbury’s today but they were seedy things in a packet with no soil and no leaves. I wouldn’t know what to do with them.
Maybe next year.
It’s amazing what warmth and water can do
Ours are going great guns, we have hanging ones grown upside down in a bucket, training ones in top of bucket and another six plants in open border and they are all setting fruits now. Anyone got courgettes ours are huge plants but no flowers yet ?
Flowers are out on mine with small fruits, I have them against an outside wall
How often do you feed yours, weekly?
Not feeding yet Mups, I am relying on the compost to have enough food for another couple of weeks then I will hit them with the tomato fertiliser.
This warm and wet spring has really been appreciated by the veg.
Edited to add, but I am watering every day
I have loads of flowers but they don’t make fruits if I tap them they fall off .
That will be the male flowers Muddy, your female flowers should be along shortly, you will notice a swelling behind the flower and that will be your courgette, in the mean time eat the flowers, deep fried or in batter, all us posh people do it
Sorry I only deep fry Mars bars .
( just kidding )
No really so all my tomatoes are useless males?
Wouldnt you know it.
Now I am confused. Older varieties of cucumbers did need to have the male removed-but these days they are FI all female.
As for tomatoes-they do their own thing.
I am confused…nothing unusual…I thought we were discussing courgettes…
Yes probably i was still on my OP tomatoes.
But i have no courgettes either( becasue i never planted any)
Ahhh, ok forgot what I said then…sulk mode on.
You had me going then! Thinking, well I didn’t realise they had male and female tomatoes. Anyway I’m not growing courgettes either! Don’t worry Rehab, at least we now know that the female courgettes do all the work!
I am one of the terminally confused
Now the beggars are wilting and have fell over and need gallons of water to revive .
Have tied them up with string .
oh dear…triffids do that too…
Not a pretty sight I can tell you.
Au contraire the triffids ( teasels ) are doing just fine they are at least 9 feet tall .
http://www.over50sforum.com/picture.php?albumid=890&pictureid=10264
Don’t know how to get the picture the right way up .
No, this is a triffid,
That’s my gardener and his wife with the weed killer.