Tomato planting

Andy Hamilton · Tue Apr 04, 2006 10:10 am

I have been a bit late with my planting this year as I was waiting for the chance of frost to go... and it did not seem to want to. So should I still plant my tomatoes from seed now 4th April or should I cheat and buy some half grown ones from the garden centre... or perhaps do both.

FluffyMuppet · Tue Apr 04, 2006 2:53 pm

You should find that any tomatoes you sow now will catch up, because of the increased light levels. I wouldn't leave it too much longer though.

wulf · Post: # 16655Post **wulf** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 3:56 pm

Which reminds me! I really must get round to figuring out what I want to plant where! I've been putting it off because of the cold weather and a couple of short breaks away but I'm back, it's springing outside and I'm looking forward to getting grubby.

Wulf

Andy Hamilton · Tue Apr 04, 2006 4:45 pm

Cheers FluffyM and yep Basswulf, certainly has lifted my spirit the longer days and being able to plant again

wulf · Post: # 16663Post **wulf** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 5:27 pm

The lifting of the spirits that we experience when the clocks change is often given as an argument for BST all year and getting an extra hour on top during the summer. However, I have to say I'm not fully convinced; if we hadn't been living with darker evenings (and still seeing them get longer and longer) perhaps we wouldn't feel so lifted by an extra hour!

Wulf

Muddypause · Tue Apr 04, 2006 8:18 pm

wulf wrote:The lifting of the spirits that we experience when the clocks change is often given as an argument for BST all year

Think what mornings would be like when the sunrise isn't till 9:30.

ina · Post: # 16671Post **ina** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 8:45 pm

I would actually vote for joining the rest of Europe - timewise. They are always an hour ahead; if we joined them, we'd have even longer evenings in summer, it would still be light (more or less) at getting-up-time, and we'd have the chance to see daylight in winter, too. At the moment it's generally dark in the mornings as well as the afternoons after work...

Millymollymandy · Wed Apr 05, 2006 5:52 am

I have light from about 8.45am to about 5.45pm in winter. I love it like this!

ina · Post: # 16702Post **ina** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 8:02 am

We have it from about 9 to 3 or 4... If we had European time, we'd still need the lights on in the morning (which we have anyway), but at least we'd see some daylight in the afternoon!

gunners71uk · Wed Apr 05, 2006 3:29 pm

my gardeners delight seed pkt says sow indoors mar-april.well its only april 5th so andy you got time.
regards gunners.

Andy Hamilton · Thu Apr 06, 2006 4:50 pm

Cheers, yep they are all planted now, 15 plants if they all come up, hopefully I will be posting - what should I do with a glut of toms later in the year

At least we don't have the same light as some of the scandinavian countries, I don't think I could stick that. As it is, fine by me. If we did not suddenly have the extra hour would our spirits not be lifted at that time also??

Wombat · Post: # 16885Post **Wombat** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 12:32 pm

Our daylight savings time has just finished..................one less hour of sunlight per day on the solar panels!

Nev

ina · Post: # 16888Post **ina** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 12:37 pm

Oh yeah?

Actually, at the moment it's not too bad with the daylight. The dark months are definitely over; it's light when I start work, and still light for a few hours after I finish.

The only problem with that is: No excuse not to get stuff done outside and in the garden!

hedgewizard · Fri Apr 07, 2006 3:23 pm

*vibrates with excitement*

Gotta get my tomatoes in! Gotta get my tomatoes in! An' the sweetcorn! An' the pumpkins! An'... an'...

*faints*

gunners71uk · Fri Apr 07, 2006 3:24 pm

gotta get me money plant in lol