What spacing do you have between your toms in the greenhouse/polytunnel

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stompy

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As the title says, this is for next year obviousely.

I feel that i could have gotten more in my greenhouse than i did as i have now stripped off the bottom leaves from the tomato plants to alow the measilly amount of sun in and it seems rather sparse.

I allowed 18" between the plants and have chillie and pepper plants at the front of the border.
Im asking as well because there are quite a few on my site that grow in what look like 9inch pots and have them right next to each other.
This would mean i could in theory get twice the amount of plants in than i did.


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Stompy, I grow mine in the border soil in exactly the same way as you even down to the spacing and the chillies.  I let them grow right up to the top of the green house and then stop them.  It seems pretty shady inside and I have just started taking the lower shading leaves off.  I don't think I could get any more in.  Being a little shady seems also to stop too many coming to picking ripeness at the same time.  So I am pretty happy with the set up like yours.

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get twice the amount of plants in than i did.

and also get botytis through lack of air circulation ::)

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Stompy - I also use the same spacing as you and have used that for many years - and even at that any peppers I planted in front of the toms did not do well - so I do not think that closer planting would work well.

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Mine are about 12 ins apart and tbh I wish I had left them more room as they are very crowded and I have had to remove foliage far sooner than I would normally have done.

Silly really... just trying to cram too much inot our new little tunnel  :blink:

Won't do that again -- fewer plants and better fruit fer me next year.
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I've got very good fruit set and planty of fruit on the plants, but it looks rather sparse now the bottom foliage has been removed and it looks like i could get quite alot in there extra.

Your all probably right though as we all seem to be putting them in roughly the same spacing.

Thanks for thr responses guys.

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Mine are about 12 ins apart and tbh I wish I had left them more room as they are very crowded and I have had to remove foliage far sooner than I would normally have done.

Silly really... just trying to cram too much inot our new little tunnel  :blink:

Won't do that again -- fewer plants and better fruit fer me next year.

Same here sunshineband... I've planted mine in a square about 12" apart either way and didn't take the time to keep things tidy so things got well out of hand.  Needless to say, I did some hacking trimming and things should start to grow much better.   :wub:
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I believe that ripening is determined by temperature and the ethylene hormone.

I grow my toms on straw bales - 2 plants to a bale and have 4 bales as close together  in the centre of the gh as possible ie 2 rows of 4 plants  but i do have space to walk around on all sides.  So guess spacing is 12 to 15 inches. I  dont remove leaves  until they are no longer capable of photo synthesising.

they are ripening ok


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In the polygon el, I grow three rows of tomatoes zig-zagged in a 4th bed, about 2ft between the plants. I grow basil in between the back two rows. In between the plants in the front row I put pots of peppers or dwarf Chinese lantern (physalis). If the peppers don't grow too large they can stay there but if the get too big, I move them onto the path. I grow lots of different types of tomatoes so they ripen over a long period of time.




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