Ooh advice thread since all you tom experts are in one place! Help please.
I can't grow toms, but I have 6 on the go (again!) , yellow pear/italian/roma, what sort of soil/feeding coz I always mess it up. I've got home clay with a warm concrete fence faces south, or silt on the lottie (not very sheltered) but I could always snaffle some soil for a pot at home ?
Pigguns, as I'm first up here, the best link is to John's advice really!
http://www.allotment-garden.org/vegetable/tomato/index.phpMy advice is to use growbags if you're not sure of what sort of medium to grow them in, or if you have six big pots, then half allotment soil mixed with half ordinary seed compost should be fine!
I think that as you have a mixture of bush toms and cordon toms, you'll need to stake them somehow to keep them off the ground , but 'Roma' bush quite heavily, whereas I think 'Yellow pear', can be grown as cordons, i.e.pinching out the little side shoots at the join between leaves and stem, until you have about four or five trusses up a cane!
I have several times grown 'Roma' as cordons in a greenhouse, and they did pretty well, but of course, they were a smaller crop as they weren't allowed to take off in all directions!
Start feeding them with Tomorite when the first truss has set.
(Reading this again, John's probably said all you need to know...;0)