Whilst out checking things over I got a snap of my tomatoes -well three of the 42 ;-).... I know they still don't look very tall -and these are the ones that went outside first , so the others are smaller! but they are really sturdy and suprisingly I have noticed a ouple of them have their first flower buds on ...oohhhh can summer really be on its way???Sunday, May 17, 2009
I have just spotted the first flower buds on a few tomatoes!!
Whilst out checking things over I got a snap of my tomatoes -well three of the 42 ;-).... I know they still don't look very tall -and these are the ones that went outside first , so the others are smaller! but they are really sturdy and suprisingly I have noticed a ouple of them have their first flower buds on ...oohhhh can summer really be on its way???
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They look good.
I'm having a tomato crisis since I arrived home today to find mould growing on the soil of two of the plants I had finally potted on a week ago. If you have any ideas, I'd appreciate the help. I've put photos up on my blog
http://livingthesimplelifeiwant.blogspot.com/2009/05/mould-on-soil-around-tomatoes.html
Thanks.
Hi there
Just tried to post on your blog, but it didn't appear -so just in case...
I think the newspaper might be the problem -holding in too much moisture and possibly rotting -if you can I would re-pot them into new compost. I don't have any gravel etc in my tomatoes either:-)
When you water them are you watering into the pot? only tomatoes like water from below -so even just stood in a small plastic tray with a drop of water in and they should be fine -it will make the roots dig down for a drink and make them stronger... but when you start feeding them when they are flowering you feed into the top of the pot as the feeder roots are just below the surface of the compost.
I bet they will recover -tomatoes are sturdy little things.. hope that helps sort them out..
Thanks for your help. I had a spambot attack or twenty earlier in the year and I had to enable comment moderation again. So your comment did get through, it just takes a while for me to see it and approve.
I'm going to scrape off the mould and re-pot them minus the paper (I really didn't think that one through properly!). I posted on the New House Farm forum (formerly It's Not Easy Being Green - great forum) as well and apparently what I have is the fruiting body of one of the slime moulds. Lovely!
Thanks again.
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