All tomato plants benefit from support as they grow. Besides supporting the plants in winds or bad weather, supporting the plant’s shape as it grows increases the eventual harvest and helps ensure good air flow around the plant preventing disease. While pot or bush tomatoes grow well on a single garden cane, climbers and vine …Read More about Training tomatoes
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Courgettes and Cucumbers
In terms of productivity, there is nothing better than courgettes and cucumbers for the small city garden. Courgettes will grow well in large containers or in one square metre of soil bed and produce 2 or 3 courgettes per week over a long growing period. Cucumbers will grow in smaller pots (6 litres) or in …Read More about Courgettes and Cucumbers
First tomato planting
With the high temperatures continuing and no rain in sight, it is better to be patient and move small tomato plants out into garden beds slowly. Planting in pots or containers is different, they can go outside now but do require extra attention for watering. Young plants are better started in shaded spots or provided …Read More about First tomato planting
Potting up
Tomato seeds started now should germinate quickly, between 5-10 days. They are best started in separate pots or modules as the roots of the small plants can be difficult to dis-entangle when transplanting. Potting up the small plants is about giving the plant growing space in step with its growth rate. Tomato seedlings grow quickly …Read More about Potting up
Hardening off
All plants require a process of hardening off before being planted out in the garden. Whether bought from a store or started from seed indoors, young plants require to be slowly introduced to the outdoor conditions in which they will be expected to grow on. Store bought plants are better to sit in their pots …Read More about Hardening off
Tomato Gallery 2019 (Part 2)
As a general rule it is better to grow the smaller varieties of Mediterranean tomato in city gardens where they have restricted exposure. However, over the last 2 years the raised bed in this garden has been used to experiment with Eastern European varieties which produce larger tomatoes and can put up with the restricted …Read More about Tomato Gallery 2019 (Part 2)