Already, our tomatoes were starting to look cramped in their little 9cm pots. It’s only a couple of weeks since we moved them from the kitchen windowsill out into the greenhouse, so I didn’t think we’d be doing this so quickly. Nonetheless today we transplanted nine of the finest specimens into the larger pots where [...]
It’s late in the season, but we still have plenty of green tomatoes. In an effort to get them to ripen, we have trimmed back the foliage on our vines.
Caring for tomato plants is simple, but if you want to maximise your crop some careful, regular pruning is essential. It’ll keep your plants’ minds on the job in hand.
Well, we’ve had our first tomato of the year, but it isn’t great news. It was green for starters, as you’d expect right now, but more importantly it had also been nobbled by thing or things unknown.
Now that they’re starting to get a bit bigger and stronger we’ve transplanted our healthiest tomato seedlings into bigger pots, giving them room to start stretching their roots.
I’m very impressed by the Black Russian tomatoes. It’s only taken them a week to start shooting in their little paper pots. At the moment they’re sat by the patio doors in the dining room and the enjoying the sun, sheltered from the worst of the weather.
The growing season has officially begun on the plot as we have planted 2009′s first seeds: a dozen Black Russian tomatoes that should stand out from our regular crops.
