When do you move indoor sown toms to out greenhouse?

[archerellie3425]

Just as the title says.
I have a walk in plastic greenhouse, quite thick covering, as we are still having frosts now and for a few weeks yet, when would be the safest time to move them?

[Paulottie]

Between a rock and a hard place there! Indoors will cause weak leggy growth if too warm and dark. (although with toms you can and should pot them on as deeply as poss)

Outdoors...they really shouldn't drop far into single figures as it will tend to set them back....before I had a small heater I quite often found that the toms sown in April caught up with those sown early March.

I'd suggest the Labour intensive option of out in the morning and in at night.

Where are these tom plants destined for? outdoors?....Your mighty early for a late may set out if you don't have a greenhouse.

[archerellie3425]

They are going in the walk in greenhouse that i put up today, was rather suprised that the thermometer went upto 18oc within half an hour even with the door open, but i think it may lose a lot of heat rather quickly overnight, have put in a min/max thermometer so will have a peek in the morning, my brick shed only got upto 10oc with an overnight temp of -3 !!!!!

[rana]

Don't be fooled by high daytime temperatures, it can fall to near freezing at night which will really set back your tomato plants if not kill them. I would bring them in at night.

[Flummery]

Mine will go in and come back again morning and night until the end of May. Up here we get frosts until the beginning of June so I never risk toms and peppers in the cold greenhouse until then. It's a faff but then, I haven't sown most of them yet!

[Alison]

Mine won't stay outside overnight until well into May by which time I'll probably be stuggling to find the back door in the jungle that is the conservatory.

[j r hilton]

I agree that they should be in the greenhouse only in the day and back inside at night until the end of May at the earliest.

[Flummery]

Unless you heat your greenhouse, that is.

[DaveC]

Should I have started Toms off already. I have a greenhouse which I only heat when the temperature drops below 0. I was under the impression that I could grow them from start to finish in the GH . I live in S.Yorks and we get frosts sometimes in may

[bramble]

Mine are in the unheated greenhouse at the moment.
I potted them up yesterday and left them out last night in the unheated propagators.
They are covered with 3 layers of fleece and polystyrene.
Am watching the temps and if it goes towards freezing I will take them indoors.

[shirlthegirl43]

I think mine might go out to the greenhouse tomorrow. The overnight temp hasn't gone below 10 this week so they should be okay.

[coreopsis]

I'll stick with Flummery.

[shirlthegirl43]

I would too if I lived up your way

[ardroil]

mine are all in the spare bedroom, the bed is under the window and i have pilled pillows on it so that all the tomatos get loads of light, and they are all doing really well, they are in 3" pots but need repotting,

[Mi Jardín]

Mine are already in my plastic greenhouse!
They are doing well, though their growth has slowed obviously, but are definately still growing.