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Too many tomato plants!

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Witzend Sun 24-May-20 12:00:32

I’ve offered them locally, just 3 I don’t really have room for, but no takers.

Three are already in large pots but I don’t have room for more anywhere that sunny enough. The other 3 will have to go anywhere there’s a bit of space in the very large pots that have flowers. Lots of tomato food will be needed I expect, mind you my mother always said it was brilliant for flowers, too, since that’s what it’s designed to make - flowers.
We shall see.

travelsafar Mon 01-Jun-20 12:40:57

I have planted some in the flower beds and they seem to be doing ok, i think they wil look pretty once the fruit appears, 'red jewels' among the flowers. smile

Bakingmad0203 Mon 01-Jun-20 12:52:02

I have mine in the greenhouse. Unfortunately it gets very hot in there and some of the leaves look as if they are burnt!
I’m watering them 3 times a day as they wilt otherwise. Any suggestions ? I can’t take them out of the greenhouse as they are tied up to canes

Callistemon Mon 01-Jun-20 13:16:16

Can you put anything inside the windows on the sunny side, Bakingmad? eg a membrane taped to the very sunniest window?
I remember my father used to paint the windows with a whitewash, I think you can buy special greenhouse paint now.

Luckylegs Mon 01-Jun-20 16:40:08

I had the bright idea (read it somewhere) to try and grow tomatoes from the pips in a tomato. I succeeded so well we now have 16 big plants in the greenhouse coming up nicely plus as many smaller ones which will probably go into the vegetable garden. Daughter and son have six each, friends have been given some and I’m just anxious to see what occurs! I think it was a big vine tomato but we will see! On the strength of that, we’ve done melon plants too. They won’t fruit up here in the north west but it’s interesting nonetheless. Anyone who’d like some, you’re welcome?

ExD Mon 01-Jun-20 16:46:36

I grew a little tree from an avocado stone, pretty little tree but I lost it over winter. I think it was lack of daylight up here in the north. I find a lot of plants don't thrive without daylight in the winter compared with my daughter in Wiltshire, where they seem to get an extra hour night and morning.

Callistemon Mon 01-Jun-20 16:51:56

The sweet pepper seeds I paid £3.60 for did not germinate but those from inside a red pepper have, the plants are about half an inch tall now - can't see them producing much!

We get little grape vines sprouting up in various places.

Daisymae Mon 01-Jun-20 17:14:44

I've got 20 plants! Is that too many then? I have cherry, trailing and chocolate! I have them in pots, grow bags, and even fat ball containers. If there's overload then I intend to cook them up with onions and freeze as a sauce. However if I only have a few on each plant I expect that we will manage.

Chewbacca Mon 01-Jun-20 18:29:51

Same here with the sweet pepper seed Callistemon, not one has terminated. Total waste if time and money. Grrr!

Callistemon Mon 01-Jun-20 21:55:32

I've bought plants before and all I got was a few green peppers, some with a neat hole in. We don't like the green ones.
It's hope over experience.

Furret Mon 01-Jun-20 22:43:00

We have a glut of cucumber plants and you know how much room they take up!

Callistemon when I grew peppers the green ones turned red, or orange or yellow when they ripened.

Purpledaffodil Mon 01-Jun-20 22:56:06

I’ve had very little luck with seeds planted directly in the ground, although ones in newspaper pots were fine.. Interesting people have grow bags. Totally unobtainable here as is Tomorite. ,

Hetty58 Mon 01-Jun-20 23:36:25

I just plant seeds from a fresh tomato (in February) in pots on the windowsill. They always germinate and grow - every single one - so I have too many plants. When I pot them on I just leave the extras by the front gate. People do take them, so no problem.

Ohmother Tue 02-Jun-20 07:34:25

Find a tasty tomato in your local supermarket. I like small tomatoes on the vine. Take a few pips and separate onto dampened kitchen roll. Place onto a cm of compost and cover lightly with more compost. Place on sunny windowsill. Water sparingly for a couple of weeks. Pick out and pot on when able to lift by real leaf.

Callistemon Tue 02-Jun-20 09:42:27

Furret some of the peppers started going a kind of dark red but by then it was about October!
I don't know why I'm trying again.

Not tomatoes but sunflowers - some very old seeds have germinated so I transplanted 7 into a large oblong container. "Don't stake them yet, says DH, let them get stronger". Yesterday morning one was snapped off and the smallest heaved out of the soil. I blamed the pigeons or the squirrel and I did stake the others.
However, last evening I was sitting outside and heard a shuffling behind me and there was Mr Blackbird looking for ants in the container, not caring what he damaged.

craftyone Thu 04-Jun-20 12:14:34

I have 11 tomato plants, ferline, mountain magic, losetto and 3 yellow balconi

Only me grin I cannot bear to throw the survivors away, they grow well in plant halos sitting in a bucket. I know I will have lots of tomatoes, I will bottle or freeze them for all of winter. I bought citric acid ready. I will stop new flowers in good time, so as not to have many green tomatoes