Can I ask a stupid question about tomato plants???

Millie · Post: # 64610Post **Millie** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 9:40 am

Mums on hols and I was weeding round her BBeans, and I noticed shes got loads of tom plants shot up all of a sudden. She had toms on that patch last year, but neither she, nor I, realised they came back the following year! Is this a freak, or do they come back year after year? I had wondered if it could be from fallen toms, but shes dug that bit over and over, wouldnt have thought they would have survived.

Anyway, Im now embarrassed, so Im off

wulf · Post: # 64613Post **wulf** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 9:48 am

I regularly find that I do quite badly at getting tomato seeds going and then get my small collection supplemented by ones that pop out of the ground; I think they produce a lot of seeds that are fairly hardy and so it is not surprising that a few plants sneak their way back into the system.

Hurrah for nature!

Wulf

red · Post: # 64625Post **red** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 10:23 am

yeht hey self seed quite readily

and in the past I have foudn that my sown ones were not as good as the the volenteers so i kept them instead! course you might have any ol variety...

Millymollymandy · Mon Jul 09, 2007 12:33 pm

I always have tomatoes coming up everywhere from the home made compost, and a lot of pumpkins too!

possum · Post: # 64712Post **possum** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 11:09 pm

Yes our entire tomato patch I didn't sow this year but chucked on a load of compost the previous owner had left - dozens of plants - they did better than the ones I sowed

Peggy Sue · Post: # 64879Post **Peggy Sue** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 8:27 am

I always have tomatoes come up where they were last year. And actually they are often the strongest- late but good survivors against the odds!

Wombat · Post: # 65057Post **Wombat** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 10:37 am

Yup, I agree with the rest, tomatoes readily self seed, I get plenty self sown, direct and in the compost!

Nev

Millie · Post: # 65068Post **Millie** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 1:29 pm

Ive moved them alongside the other toms, only one looked happy about it, so I shall see how they go.

burek · Post: # 65171Post **burek** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 1:29 pm

I have another 'stupid' question about tomatoes. Hope you don't mind me hijacking your thread, Millie?

How long do tomatoes take to start turning red? Mine seem to have been green forever. Ok, so three weeks or more. And I have fed them and given them lovely manure too. Plenty of water or rain.

Millymollymandy · Sun Jul 15, 2007 6:39 am

3 weeks isn't very long! Give them more time!

(Do you have any sunshine where you are? It helps!

)

burek · Post: # 65226Post **burek** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 7:48 am

sunshine we have APLENTY!

rain is what we are lacking some weeks

So I just need to be more patient. OK!

ohareward · Post: # 65234Post **ohareward** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 9:16 am

Also water the ground around the plants, not the foliage as this can lead to splitting of fruit in very hot weather.

Robin

Millymollymandy · Sun Jul 15, 2007 11:56 am

burek wrote:sunshine we have APLENTY!
rain is what we are lacking some weeks

So I just need to be more patient. OK!

You are lucky! And in no time at all you will be overrun with beautiful tomatoes and everyone in north western Europe will be really jealous because most people lost theirs to blight!

burek · Post: # 65257Post **burek** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 1:31 pm

oh dear
mind you, I've just lost my spuds to blight too, despite better weather conditions, so my sympathies are with you.
On a brighter note though, I just found that one tomato is now that lovely in-between orange colour - hooray!

Millymollymandy · Mon Jul 16, 2007 5:51 am

Yippee!