First time growing tomatoes

Hi all,
I'm attempting to grow my own tomatoes for the first time this year.  I bought the plants a couple of months ago and they're all in the conservatory in pots and seem to be doing well (3 foot high or so) and have began to flower.

I have 2*Gardeners Delight, 1* Sungold and 1* Sparta varieties.

I have a few questions though:

1. Up to now I haven't fed them.  How often do I need to apply feed, and from when?

2. I haven't removed any "sideshoots" yet.  I know what these are from reading elsewhere on this forum, but do I remove all sideshoots from all my varieties?

3. Some leaves have been touching the conservatory windows (they were on the window sill).  These leaves have gone whitish and dry looking, do I need to remove them?

4. Is there anything else I don't know about?

Any help is appreciated.  I'd really love to have some great toms to eat this year!

Tomatoes are self fertile and will be ok inside. Once the flowers open tap the canes a few times a day to release the pollen...no problem.

An industrious tomato grower from Texas writes:

"I have several different kinds of tomatoes. Right now I have little "hoods" of the breathable row cover type fabric on each cage to guard against violent winds, hail and cold. Will the flowers pollinate to become fruit inside this hood? Should I remove the covers or will they pollinate themselves?"

Great job protecting your tomato plants from the elements! Fortunately tomatoes can pollinate just by wind/motion, so removing the hoods is not necessary. All you need to do is reach in and gently shake the plants every once and a while, as this will do the same thing as the wind and pollinate the flowers.

They will need good support as the bunches of toms get really heavy, if keeping them in your conservatory I guess strong canes and a bit of twine will do the job.  I grew gardeners delight last summer and had loads of toms off them, BTW I'm quite envious mine are still only 3 inches high in the greenhouse as been waiting for the cold nights to warm up before sewing

Mine go from 3" pots, straight into 12" pots. or thereabouts.

Sorry, yes.

"I have mixed up & now don't know which are which"

Both Gardeners Delight and Moneymaker need the same amount of space - about 18" to 24" between then pots.

Gardeners Delight is a cherry type, so will have smaller fruit (and probably a many more per truss), Moneymaker has standard sized fruit (rather than huge fruit like Beefsteak varieties), so once they fruit you will be able to see which-is-which.