how warm does it have to be overnight before I can stop fleecing the toms?

[janeyo]

It's currently as low as 6 degrees so a bit cold still I guess.

I am getting fed up of covering them all and uncovering them everyday esp the days when I now have to go to work.

How warm does it have it be before they won't shrivel overnight?

Thanks

[lynda66]

not sure exactly, but i accidentally left my cloche off them the other night and they didn't look too happy

[TEB]

I wouldnt be happy leaving mine uncovered at anything less than 10 - 12 at night

[cheery tree]

put mine in ground in greenhouse unheated last night their ok it was about 8 d im in cumbria even left plants uncovered i was getting fed up with doing it so i took pot luck

[Lorraine70]

Since I moved my toms into the poly three weeks ago I haven't once covered them with fleece. They're all doing great and are all developing trusses. Maybe I've developed a Geordie hybrid tomato that don't need coats (I'm not being anti-Geordie as I'm from up that neck of the woods!)

[Alice]

Anything above 6 degrees is a growing temperature. I wouldn't fleece anything if I was condident the temp would be more than that.

[FionaH]

Mine are in the unheated greenhouse un fleeced at 4 degrees and are fine.

[selfraising]

Mine are in the unheated greenhouse un fleeced at 4 degrees and are fine.

Yep, so are mine and the peppers. As of yesterday, the aubergines have also gone in!

[Alice]

Good luck with the aubergines Selfraising. I give mine about 25 during the day and 15 overnight and get diddlysquat from them. Ungrateful brats.

[janeyo]

ok thanks all. I will monitor the min temp for a few days and then hopefully leave the fleece off.

I did leave 2 outside with a view to composting them, as they were just too leggy and spindly (from my dec experiment). This was wednesday. They still haven't shriveled so I moved them back inside again, felt sorry for them lol.

[Jardiniere]

its not the cold that got to mine...i left my little mini greenhouse thing closed the other afternoon with the temperature on the terrace in the high twenties and killed off about 6 tomato seedlings ...i have now put more into pots and am leaving them outside.

[selfraising]

Good luck with the aubergines Selfraising. I give mine about 25 during the day and 15 overnight and get diddlysquat from them. Ungrateful brats.

Thank Alice, I'll need it! What's more they are not staying in gh as it is only a 4 tier placcie one so as soon as frost risk is over they're being evicted to the big outdoors Only one is staying in the gh, the others, which are baby varieties are going in a large container covered by a customised old gh cover, although I might try a couple in the raised bed uncovered to see what happens! Only got flowers last year but weather wasn't good and I sowed far too late (she says, ever the optimist!)

[SarzWix]

I try and keep mine at around 10°c for steady growth, but they will survive at above 5°c. Just keep an eye on the forecast - some nights they Will need to be covered. And you'd be upset if you killed them all

[janeyo]

Too right I'd be upset - the december ones are over 3 feet tall and have flowers!

[FionaH]

Good luck with the aubergines Selfraising. I give mine about 25 during the day and 15 overnight and get diddlysquat from them. Ungrateful brats.

I left mine in the greenhouse the other night by mistake! they looked very sorry for themselves the next day They seem to have recovered now thankfully