[davesellars]

Hi.  I acquired an allotment late last year, so this is is my attempt growing pretty much everything so i've been reading up a fair bit on t'internet and books etc and all seems to be going reasonably well so far... 

I have approx 30 tomato plants all grown from seed currently sitting in small pots.  Some have gone a little leggy I think (they have all been indoors grown next to a window left open the majority of the time!) and seeing plants available from the market etc they all seem to have a much larger "trunk" than mine.  Should I be concerned?  Is there anything I can do to strengthen them up before planting them outside?

Also, what would be the best advice for planting them outside?  I have a large roll of horticultural plastic to make a large cloche - should I use this, or just leave them to the elements?

[lucywil]

i would get them outside asap, just during the day to start with but if they are going outside this will toughen them up.

i have ones that go outside with no protection which i have planted in the ground today and i have some that are ina cold greenhouse so its up to you if you want to protect them or not

[davesellars]

Thanks.  I live in an apartment so i'll plant them out and just cover them over with plastic for the night.  Just means i'll have to get up a bit earlier to go down the allotment to uncover them for the day..    I suppose this will be OK?