Feeding tomatoes

Hi, now your tomatoes are flowering , you should not feed them. Water regular, but don't waterlog the plant. Feed young tomatoe plants once a month. Always read the label on feed solutions.

Thanks for that folks 

As tlm1965 says, read the instructions on the bottle, over-feeding will not hasten ripening, as mumofstig says.

However, tlm1965 has it totally incorrect when it comes to when to feed them and the frequency thereof!

I wouldn't worry Kathie.  I've still got loads of huge but green toms.  I've only had a few of the Shirley F1 and Flamme variety.  I think its just a slow season this year.  I understand that ripening tomatoes is more to do with temperature than anything else.  You could throw in a few banana skins - again I understand that the gas given off by bananas helps to ripen tomatoes.  I tried it last year when I was ripening off my green ones left over from the end of the season and it seemed to work.  Good luck and don't give up just yet.

I also feed according to the bottle. I did once read that you should not water the plants more than a little once the tomatoes have set as too much water will grow large relatively tasteless fruit. However, when I tried it, I got blossom end rot, so now I water about 4 pints every other day in grow bags and have a dripped system in the polytunnel fixed to a water butt which fills from the downspout. I picked the first of my brandywine tomatoes yesterday - 14 oz. Been having cherry tomatoes for a couple of weeks.