tumbling toms

[clairissa]

This is going to be embarrassing..... here goes. I bought a wall hanging basket that came with a packet of seeds of tumbling toms , it said chuck em in and reap the benefits of hundred of tiny toms in the summer.... I now have a basket bursting with plants which is great but odd as I didnt think there were that many seeds in the packet...I have NO idea what to do next.. do I thin them out or leave em to it..B&Q didnt go into any details on the packet so since iv never grown a tomato in my life i could do with some advice...... I do hope its not going to be too technical............ Clairissa

[Bramble_killer]

how many plants do you want? how big is the basket?

If you only want to keep one plant then pull out the rest and keep the strongest looking one. If you want to keep more then you need to prick them out, which is gently trying to pick the plant and the roots and then repotting it to another place.

Someone more experienced will be along shortly

[clairissa]

toms

the basket i a flat backed one and its about 11 inches end to end.... blimey seems a bit mean to bin them all but a few..... Isnt that cruelty to tomatoes...I should start a group...

[Bramble_killer]

how many are there in the basket?

[clairissa]

erm..... il go count....................ok... its hard to tell as they are all argueing with each other but id say about 30.... want some??

[clairissa]

they are about 6 " tall.... why do they give you all those seeds and then not tell you that oddly!!! they might ALL grow??

[HotStuff]

Thirty in one semi-circular 11" basket? I've got circular 14" baskets and only put two or three plants in each. Do you have anywhere else you can "rehouse" some of them to?

Oh, and welcome to the Vine by the way

[clairissa]

Il have to go get some more pots, I cant just pull em out and kill em....... I cant kill anything even the snails come to my garden to retire from miles around.......thats a lorra lorra pots tho.....oh dear.

[tamsin]

They should be fine if you pull them out and replant elsewhere. Toms will root from a broken off bit of stem so even if your a bit rough they should still recover

[veggielover]

i too have realised i have 2 many t.toms..... some going to live with my mum, i have 2 baskets to transfer into, but no homes for the other 5!!! My roma tom plant is in a flower bucket with lots of room so i have put one of the t.toms in with it..... idea being that roma grows up t.toms go down...... be colourful when fruits come as i have yellow t.toms.

[Incy]

My poor hubby is having to put up posts with brackets for baskets all over the garden to house my t.toms so you have my sympathy. garage wall and back of the house are also about to get brackets.....Lets just hope they all do well and we get to eat some this year

[clairissa]

well iv done it!! all my tubs have now got lodgers in and iv pushed a couple onto my sister(not literally)so all being well il get flowers and toms at the same time.....Ha!! thats the theory....not much good at planting things well not outside my proffesion anyway...........................

[abby]

I have a large pot with four tumblingtoms in and a smaller one with one in. The over crowded pot is flowering its head off and got small green toms on and the other is doing nothing..Think they like it crowded lol..

[HotStuff]

....not much good at planting things well not outside my proffesion anyway...........................

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[bustertom]

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