Growing some early tomatoes - 2019

**Small pumpkin** · 30-12-2018, 05:57 PM

I'm very tempted to play again this year

**Ms-T** · 30-12-2018, 06:41 PM

Originally posted by Small pumpkin View Post

I'm very tempted to play again this year

i am too.

**Chestnut** · 30-12-2018, 07:10 PM

I have a few spare packets too, but might have to leave it til next month as I haven’t made my pots yet!

**veggiechicken** · 30-12-2018, 07:22 PM

Next month is in 2 days - start pot-making, Chestnut.

**MyWifesBrassicas** · 30-12-2018, 07:26 PM

Originally posted by Chestnut View Post

I have a few spare packets too, but might have to leave it til next month as I haven’t made my pots yet!

how do you make your pots?

**Bren In Pots** · 30-12-2018, 08:00 PM

I'm going to join in with this then hopefully I'll have early and late toms.

**Penellype** · 30-12-2018, 08:21 PM

I will be sowing my 2 early Shirleys as usual in the first week of January. These will start under lights and be moved to the sitting room windowsill when they get too tall. They will be stopped at 2 or 3 trusses and spend their whole lives on the windowsill. I expect to harvest the first tomatoes from these in mid June. I'll also be sowing Balconi red and yellow in early February - these usually beat the Shirley and produce the first ripe fruit in the 2nd half of May.

**Scarlet** · 30-12-2018, 08:27 PM

I'm in! I'll sow a bush Tom, they don't get so leggy as cordons. Maybe Latah.

**lottie dolly** · 30-12-2018, 08:32 PM

OK,you twisted my arm,on 1st January i will sow a few garden pearl,as they will have to be inside,they not to big

**Thelma Sanders** · 30-12-2018, 09:28 PM

Originally posted by Small pumpkin View Post

I'm very tempted to play again this year

Me too! .

**Ger-annie-um** · 30-12-2018, 09:36 PM

Umm, can I give it a go with a couple of maskotka in hanging baskets. I tried some last year and they weren't too bad

**Mark_Riga** · 31-12-2018, 11:14 PM

still eating this years toms to think about sowing more, about 6kg still to go. Then about 50kg in the out-house so not sure if I need to sow any next year, maybe a couple of gardeners delight.

**casejones** · 01-01-2019, 04:31 AM

when do you plan on getting ripe tomatoes using this method?

**Penellype** · 01-01-2019, 08:45 AM

Originally posted by casejones View Post

when do you plan on getting ripe tomatoes using this method?

May-June for plants grown in the house, as opposed to August onwards for more conventionally grown tomatoes. If you move the plants to a greenhouse or outside when the weather warms up the fruit will ripen later.

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