Anyone else's Tomatoes rubbish this year?
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Every year I buy some young plants from a local Nursery and get a bumper batch of tomatoes. This year they're all rubbish. Not growing to full size, deep red on the outside but still deep green inside. Some are pretty tasteless too.
Haven't done anything different so just wondered if I've got a bad batch or there's a wider issue.
Haven't done anything different so just wondered if I've got a bad batch or there's a wider issue.
Grown some beef and plum tomato's from seed this year. Planted in beds in the greenhouse left to fend for themselves with automatic watering and the occasional trim and staking when I remember.
Absolute tomato jungle in there, never had so many tomatoes. Gave some spare plants to my dad and my father-in-law both have little twigs with the odd tomato.
Absolute tomato jungle in there, never had so many tomatoes. Gave some spare plants to my dad and my father-in-law both have little twigs with the odd tomato.
I seem to have more fruit than last year, but none of them are anywhere near ready to be picked yet. And my compost bag (just a cheap B&M one) seemed to be better this time - last year was more bits of old wood. But so far the only thing I've been able to pick and eat is lettuce. Mine are all from seed, chilli and tomato, nothing special. Scotch bonnets from seeds extracted from supermarket ones seem to be doing well, but still only one actual chilli.
Edited by droopsnoot on Thursday 14th August 09:13
sparkythecat said:
I wonder if the problem is with compost?
Since the rush to go peat free there really is some poor quality compost being sold.
Yes - the purple bag 'compost' from Bodgit & Quick is atrocious...never buying it again after taking 3 years to realise it was causing issues.Since the rush to go peat free there really is some poor quality compost being sold.
I had a very bad start to the year, so only ended up with 6 tomato plants and a couple of chilli’s (the cucumbers, peppers etc all failed) but after a bad start, what I have has been growing reasonably and producing useful harvest for a couple of weeks now.
Agree with compost comments, the standard stuff from the sheds and even our local independent garden centre has been very poor, but thankfully, after 3 years here, next year we should finally be self sufficient in compost.
Agree with compost comments, the standard stuff from the sheds and even our local independent garden centre has been very poor, but thankfully, after 3 years here, next year we should finally be self sufficient in compost.
My tomatoes seem late this year. Majority are in the greenhouse but five or six plants outside. Normally by now I'd expect to have loads of them and trying to eat more.
However, I suspect that I should have done another pot-on for the oldest plants before they went into their final locations. Once planted, the oldest plants seemed to be very tall before starting to flower. I also think I was later than usual putting them into the greenhouse.
However, I suspect that I should have done another pot-on for the oldest plants before they went into their final locations. Once planted, the oldest plants seemed to be very tall before starting to flower. I also think I was later than usual putting them into the greenhouse.
No ... A bumper year ,,, but I'm careful whose grow bags I use and they get watered every day and fed once a week.
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