No tomatoes on my plants

Can`t be of any help Bluebellwould.
I can kill artificial plants but you will get help off our Gransnetters for sure.

We do have tomatoes but not so many as we normally do..I do so hope it isn’t because of lack of pollinators☹️

Did you feed them? Limiting the flower trusses allows the plant to put energy into developing fruit.
Also the variety of tomato can make a difference.

Should add that removing side shoots as they grow and leaves as the fruit develop, helps. Gardeners Delight and Moneymaker are reliable varieties.
Better luck next year.

I think we traditionally start toms off too late - I started most of mine early February which meant I had to keep potting them on and keep them in the house except on sunny days before putting them outside permanently at the end of May. They already had toms ripening by then and we’ve been eating them since June. I’m not sure I’d do it that early again, it was a right faff moving them around all the time but it did mean we’ve been able to eat them from Spring when we’re big into salads. Now I’m thinking about more autumnal grub!

bluebellwould, that is such a shame, don`t let it put you off trying next year. Get the plants going as early as you possibly can. Pollination is wind blown not insect so just a little light tap will do it. They need air and sun and consistent water and absolutely no food until the first fruit has set

A good variety for outdoors is ferline, it is one of those where you take off the side shoots all the way up. Stop the top ie nip the top so that you only have 4 trusses and be sure to keep it staked, ie put a cane in when you plant it.

My best ones were ferline, home sown in february and I have now taken all the green tomatoes off to ripen indoors, have enjoyed many red ones. My worst ones were losetto, bought plants that came from dt brown in mid june, ridiculous. Lots of tiny green tomatoes, was not worth the cost and they are all indoors now on their sprays and plants are chopped for compost

Do take some leaves off to give them more light and sun and fingers crossed they may still have some growing

The side shoots

Those are the shoots that grow in the angle between the main stem and the leaf, not the flower producing trusses off the main stem. Tear them rather than cut them off; this needs doing regularly and the early ones would grow into new plants if put into compost.

Our Moneymakers were not at all good this year and the plants produced a couple of tomatoes then died back.

The Gardener's Delight are still producing plenty of fruit.

Don't despair- we could have a glorious September and if they are in a sheltered position you could get more fruit.

I have five tomato plants in the greenhouse and that would normally mean I could give some away but I’ve just enough to keep me going this year.