[ruffmesiter_69]

How are your outdoor tom's doing, are they outside yet? inside itching to get out? or still hardening off, or even still in the packet?

[mandycharlie]

Good thread

Mine are hardening off at the moment, I nearly left them out all night last night, but I just couldn't do it..   It was a real love moment...    

and then hubby said, "its a clear night, with a full moon, quite a risk of frost you know"  and I started scurrying them back into the safety of their greenhouse.

[richyrich7]

Nope still growing snug and warm in the greenhouse it won't be for another week or two before they start being toughened up. Even though I can just see the first trusses forming

[Welsh Girls Allotment]

I've person half a dozen on the back yard, they were just getting to big to stay on the window sil anymore - they've been out for over a week now and appear to happy, I've got more upstairs which are going out today and some teeny ones which I planted a week or so ago, I don't think I will be putting them in the ground though until the end of the month - just in case

[Aidy]

Got mine in the cold frame getting really hard as this year I am going to see if they will do battle with the couch grass as it says in the book.

[richyrich7]

Got mine in the cold frame getting really hard as this year I am going to see if they will do battle with the couch grass as it says in the book.

What book's that Aidy and whats it say ?

[agapanthus]

Put mine out about a week ago under a fleece cloche..(trying to avoid tomato blight) and I've 3 little green tomatoes already :oops:  :oops:

[Aidy]

The Allotment Book, Andy Clevely. He reckons that the roots of outdoor toms poison couch grass so I have kept a small area ready to try his theory.

[Welsh Girls Allotment]

turnips are supposed to do the same thing sow thickly in your couchy areas and they will do battle for you

[Sadgit]

Put mine out about a week ago under a fleece cloche..(trying to avoid tomato blight) and I've 3 little green tomatoes already :oops:  :oops:

eh? toms already? you must have sown them last December!?!

[Aidy]

Nah, over here in the tropical north west    they jump up.

[Ann]

I put some out on Saturday they were just too big for the window sill.  I still have some more inside so if anything happens to them I still have enough plants to go on with.

At the moment they seem to be okay and look healthier than when they were inside.

[Jim T]

I put some out on Saturday they were just too big for the window sill.

As a newby I've been told to plant some toms in an uncultivated grassland area. :?
Will they be OK if I make 4 holes with the Pogo stick (Thats what we call the long handled bulb planter) and put a Tomato plant in each with a little compost and water.
Any advice gratefully received

[crowndale]

Put my toms out last week, they were getting enormous.  I got a bit carried away with early sowing because last year I got only green toms they were planted out so late so thought I'd get an extra month on them this year.  They are fine and have grown at least another 4-5" since planted out.

[Aunt Sally]

As a newby I've been told to plant some toms in an uncultivated grassland area. :?
Will they be OK if I make 4 holes with the Pogo stick (Thats what we call the long handled bulb planter) and put a Tomato plant in each with a little compost and water.

I don't think the competition of uncultivated grass will do them any favours  :!: