Outdoor Toms Spacing?

[Alan G]

I've just dug over a small south-facing border next to the house and I'm thinking of putting some outdoor toms in, when the weather picks up.

Its approx 3 ft by 3 ft.

Would I get away with 2 rows of 3 in there?

Thanks

[bramble]

Yes, just but you would need to keep pinching out the side shoots., What variety of tomato are you thinking of growing.

[Alan G]

I've planning on planting Red Alert.
Sowing them indoors this week.
Cheers

[Potstubsdustbins]

Red alert are a bush tomato and though a compact plant I think you might struggle to get 6 good plants in that area.

Think about putting 2 of them in morrisons buckets and 4 in the plot.

Colin

[Two_Sheds]

Outdoor tomatoes often/usually get blight. I don't bother now, just grow a few plants in the gh

[Alan G]

Okay - sweetcorn it is

[Potstubsdustbins]

Is blight more prevalent in some areas than others? I ask because I have grown toms in hanging baskets for years and touch wood never had a problem.

Colin

[binley100]

last year I grew some Ferline toms ........although the other toms near them got the blight the ferline didn't. Neither did my hanging basket toms get it.......

[Two_Sheds]

Is blight more prevalent in some areas than others?

Yes, it starts off in the west (Ireland, Devon) and spreads east and north through the summer. It needs wet leaves to take hold, so avoid wetting the leaves of your spuds & toms as much as you can, or grow them under cover.
My back garden is sheltered and nobody else nearby grows veg, but my lotty toms get (got) it every year