Fw: Weekly Specials from Thursday 7th May, 2009
Mark Smith
There are a few gardening items at the bottom of this email, thought someone
may be interested.
Mark
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Christine Weetman
greenhouse doing?
Chat again soon, Christine.
Mark Smith
Sorry for the delay here with replying.
Our greenhouse is doing well, and temperatures are getting well into the
upper 30's, and I have taken down all the bubble insulation from the winter.
We've had a little family of snails enjoying a nice feast on some baby plug
plants (Broccoli and cauliflower), and have lost a few plants, so if anyone
has a solution to this then please give me an email back on this list.
Tomatoes are doing well and we are going to try the bush variety this year,
as last year it was like a tropical tomatoes forest in the greenhouse!!
Best wishes
Christine Weetman
we took Lawrences duck into the greenhouse when we saw a slug and woosh, it
was gone!
The best solution is maybe a saucer of beer Mark, slugs love beer, get drunk
and they die, or if your not too green, then just use the slug pellets, I
expect they work?
Strange you should say your greenhouse was a mass of tom plantation last
year Mark, I had the same thing, but not much fruit, I hoped you might have
some advice for me on how to grow more fruit and less foliage? I've got some
gardeners delight variety comeing on a treat, but nothing else seems to be
doing too well on the toms.
Thanks for the update, Christine.
Roy
hear so much about though I've not tried them myself.
Good luck.
From: "Mark Smith" <mark.sm...@ntlworld.com>
To: <blind-g...@googlegroups.com>
Christine Weetman
lol Surely we don't do that to slugs to? Grins, Christine.
Mark Smith
Best wishes
Mark
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Mark Smith
I am no expert with Tomatoes and its really my partner who looks after
these.
I think the secret seems to be to nip out the side shoots, water regularly
and feed when they are flowering and only allow 4 trusses to grow, but
someone else on this list may be able to tell you if I am wrong here?
Thanks
mark
Christine Weetman
Mark Smith
Not sure I have spelt this correctly, but its like a branch off the main
trunk I hink or something like that?
Come on Norman you will probably know more about this than me!
Thanks now.
John Hinchliffe
The truss is if you like the actual Tomatoes, a stalk comes out of the main
stem and the tomatoes form on this, a large truss may consist of a dozen or
more tomatoes whilst a small truss may have only 4 or 5. When I used to grow
tomatoes I used to allow the plant to develop 5 trusses and then I stopped
the plant by nipping out the top. This results in larger tomatoes. If the
plant is allowed to grow more than this it is trying to feed many more
fruits resulting in smaller fruit.
Also, the nipping out of side shoots is important in the larger varieties to
stop the plants getting too straggly and again trying to over produce.
Limiting the plant to 4-5 trusses per root is best.
I think you said that you were growing Gardeners Delight or similar, these
are the small cherry tomatoes, these can be allowed to grow more vigorously
and the side shoots can up to a point be allowed to develop and these too
will bear fruit, as you are looking for small sweet tomatoes from these then
it doesn't matter that they carry more trusses. Even so I wouldn't allow
more than maybe 4 offshoots to develop.
Hope that makes sense.
Cheers!
All the best,
John.
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Subject: [B-G-1056] Re: Advice On The Toms
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I am in danger of confusing things here but.........
Did you know that Tomatoes produce more fruit if you tickle them?
Roy
From: "Mark Smith" <mark.sm...@ntlworld.com>
To: <blind-g...@googlegroups.com>
Subject: [B-G-1051] Copper Bands for Slugs
Mark Smith
Regards
John Hinchliffe
It's not a rude question at all my friend!
Unfortunately it is not something a blind person can do easily so if you
have a sighted partner or family member it is better if they do it.
Tomato's are as you know self pollinating but they are not very good at it
so to get a maximum crop you can give them a hand by tickling the flowers.
You need something very soft and furry, a soft brush can be used but care
must be taken not to damage the flowers. I used to use a rabbits tail
fastened onto a piece of cane about a foot long, or you could use a piece of
other fur prefferrably with a longish hair. Once the flowers develop going
round them twice a day maybe lunchtime and early evening with the "tickler"
and just lightly brushing each open flower with the fur helps distribute the
pollen evenly and guaranteeing the flower is fertilised and thus produces a
fruit. Flowers that are not pollinated will go "blind" and not produce a
tomato.
Humidity is also important at pollination time.
Depending on the humidity in your greenhouse it is a good idea to go around
with a fine spray in very hot weather misting the air to keep it moist too.
If the greenhouse has a flagged path or similar it can help the humidity
also to throw a bucket of water down every so often during hot dry spells.
Dr Norman Waddington
I always used to use a soft paint brush for this purpose.
Norman.
Christine Weetman
remember to do this, to my tomato plants, I always think it sounds drastic
to nip off the top of the plant, even though I do understand the reason for
doing this, I just hope it will produce me more fruits this year. Now I'm
not sure what variety I'm growing as most of the ones I've transplanted
today were again from stray seeds, no idea where they came from really, but
wow, they are there anyway and are doing far better than the ones I planted
on purpose! Oh dear.
Thanks for the chat gentlemen, oh and can you please tell me, is it true I
should feed the plants with tomato feed Every day? That is what it says on
the Wilkinsons tomato feed, but it sounds quite accessive?
Chat soon, Christine.
From: "John Hinchliffe" <jo...@32mountroad.fsnet.co.uk>
To: <blind-g...@googlegroups.com>
Mark Smith
I think you normally only feed your tomatoes when they are either flowering
or setting fruit, but perhaps someone else can advise me if I am wrong here?
We are trying the bush variety this year in our greenhouse and they are just
flowering, so given a couple more months I am hoping for some toms!
Christine Weetman
know how they do for you? Please...I'd like to buy the variety which
produces the most fruits! lol
Dr Norman Waddington
Feeding tomatoes with this food does appear to be rather excessive on the
instructions. I would suggest feeding them once a week with that feed and
once a week with another feed. You will have to water them every day. If
you do not water regularly your fruit could crack and not form properly.
John's thoughts may be helpful on this one.
Norman.
From: "Christine Weetman" <goa...@aol.com>
To: <blind-g...@googlegroups.com>
John Hinchliffe
Feeding the tomato's daily does seem a bit excessive, I suppose it depends
on the formulae of the feed and strength. I used to feed every 3-4 days
whilst the plants were in full growth and producing flowers, easing off a
little as the fruit set and began to fill out.
Once the last truss had fully set I stopped feeding completely, eased off
the watering a bit too as overwaterering once the fruit start to ripen can
lead to split fruit.
Not sure what you meant by "stray seeds", if these are seeds that you have
possibly saved from shop bought tomatos then they often will not produce
good crops of fruit as they usually come from F1 varieties and this type
will not reproduce plants true to form.
Any idea of what variety you are growing Mark? there seem to be lots of
different interpretations of bush tomato's, from Tumbler to Red Alert....
Today is the first day I've spent a fair bit of time in the garden, it's
like a meadow, I've started to cut the grass, some of it for the first time
as it has been too wet so far. The fruit trees are in full bloom and have
been for a couple of weeks now, hoping for some good crops this year! Done a
couple of planters with Impatiens and I am going to do a couple of tubs of
strawberries too, I've found a tray of plants I'd forgotten I had, very
small and weedy but flowering like mad. Don't know how they'll do but we'll
see what happens when they get some good compost around their feet.
Think I'll get some night scented stock seed tomorrrow, I'ts a bit late but
we'll give it a go, I love the scent on an evening.
Christine Weetman
and more tomatos this year. last year was hilarious, a greenhouse full of
leaves and twigs! lol Thanks again for this sound advice John.
How is your gardening coming along? Christine W.
From: "John Hinchliffe" <jo...@32mountroad.fsnet.co.uk>
To: <blind-g...@googlegroups.com>
Christine Weetman
indeed be another reason why I didn't see many toms last year! Now should I
borrow my sons tickling stick? I found it the other day whilst clearing out
our computer room for re-decorating, was going to use it on the cobwebs (if
there are any) but then my daughter realized the celaphane said "Ken Dodds
Tickling Stick" he bought it when he went to see the show at the Grand
Theatre and it cost him a Bomb--Wow, wouldn't I have been in trouble! ha ha
ha Christine.