GYO's Tumbling Toms

[Strepsy]

Did anyone else plant their 'Gartenperle' tomatoes from their copy of GYO? I have 4 on the go, here's one of them. It has one little yellow flower about to open at the top. And as the pack said no support or sideshooting I haven't done any, hope that's right. Please add a pic if you have one.

[Strepsy]

Hmm I don't seem to be able to post the pic directly I did it yesterday no problem...

[blackkitty]

You need to copy the IMG address, the last one below the photo, and paste that in your post. It then comes up as the photo. Its great as you don't need to resize as it takes up no space on the actual forum.

[andrewo]

Have grown Gartenperle before, you just plant and let them go, no fuss and good toms.

[bramble]

Hi Strepsy, your tomato looks great, very healthy looking but the pot looks a little small for the size of the plant. Check the roots underneath the pot to make sure its not getting pot bound. Good luck.

[Strepsy]

I now have a tomato! Yay!

[eskymo]

I've got several Gartenperle plants on the go, but they don't seem to be getting any bigger and have stayed 10cm high for weeks on end. Once the latest spat of rain is over I'm just going to plant them into my hanging toughs and let them go for it and hopefully they'll settle in and grow. That's what I love about tumbling varieties - you can just leave them to get on with it and just need to water and feed them regularly.

[sewer rat]

You are all so far ahead of us up here. I have 5 varieties of toms on the go and none are any bigger than a couple of inches at the mo, but are growing well.
I do have one question which I'm sure you'll be able to help me with. Never having grown bush or tumbler tomatoes before, never mind in hanging baskets, how much space do I need to leave between plants, or how many plants to a hangng basket. Gertenperle (GYO freebie) is the variety I refer to.

[Lesley Jay]

Bush tomato plants can grow very big so give them 2 foot between plants. We also use extra cane sticks to tie the branches to and last year put up a frame with wires going across so that we could tie the branches in. I have been told that just one tumbling tomato plant should be put in hanging baskets.

[eskymo]

I've got 80-90cm troughs and plant two tumbling toms per trough with a nasturtiums in between. Keep them well fed and watered and you'll get loads of toms!

[Shortie]

Tomato Growth Question...

OMG Streps that's HUGE! I'm no-where near yours, although mine are bush and not tumbling any way... Mine sound like Esky's. They're definately not dying, put on a growth spurt 2 weeks ago and have stopped

They're outside now unde cloches as I wanted my dinner table back... I've never grown tomatoes from seed before - is this normal behavour - do they act like children and have growth spurts or the fact mine have now stopped does it mean somethings wrong? They stopped their spurt 2 weeks ago before I put them outside so I haven't put it down to transplanting shock or anything...?

[andrewo]

Give them a feed of tomato feed. They will slow down, the weather has slowed down.

[Alice]

I planted my Garden Pearl on 25th Feb and photo there was taken about 2 weeks ago. You can see the size of them in 12" pots. They'e about twice that size now and are all flowereing. I'm absolutely delighted with them and looking frward to the toms.

The potatoes in buckets are Charlotte. Piccy taken abot 2 weeks ago and now twice the size too. Look great plants. Hope I get a good crop. I have some in a bin too and planning to plant some more as I have plenty of space.

I've made a planting chart to keep a record of dates things planted, germinated, transplanted etc and how they get on so that I can refer to it for next year and learn from my successes and mistakes. First time I've ever had the time to do this and everything was a hit and miss before. I'm pinning al my gardening hopes on that chart!

[eskymo]

That's a good idea - I wish I'd done that! I could probably make a rough estimation of planting times for this year, but will definitely do a chart for next year! Thanks for the idea.

[WiZeR]

I like your idea of using buckets at pots, cheaper than plant pots and bigger!