Help with plant rescue mission & upside down tomato planters please

 


Hi I'm new and I have a teensy garden and aside from summer hols in
suffolk
with my great uncle & aunts huge allotment many years ago have
zero exoerience
of anything.

I bought some 'micro-tomate' from Lidl a while back as well as some
Basil,
Chives & Mint. I added to them with some dill and coriander from
Morrisons (the
latter 2 were very spindley).  Things were ok, until I
wasn't able to be at home
unexpectedly due to an urgent family matter
and everything's gone a bit squiffy,
with things getting eaten,
battered in storms, and dried out unwatered in the
sun so I am now on a
rescue mission for all of them. I had lavender too - but
heaven knows if
that can ever be revived.

I can't find out what type of tomatoes I have as all it says on the tag
of the
toms is Lycopersicon lycopersicum with a picture of the sun, a
height indication
of 100-160cm height and then a dinner plate with a
knife and fork and VII - X
(is this the amount of toms I'll get? LOL)!
Whilst away I received 2 upside down
tomato planters I got cheap off of
an auction site.

I need help as they have come with no instructions. I have 2 growbags
from Lidl,
but I don't want to use them at low level as I am pushed for
space, and I have
lots of snails eating my plants & I caught one of my
small dogs with a tomato in
it's mouth a few days back (they are
poisonous to dogs).  I also need to
identify what type of small
tomatoes these are and if the tomatoes are even
going to adjust to
being tipped upside down as they already have fruit growing
downwards.
They look in a pretty sorry state though and I am desperate toplant
them today if poss.

It appreaciate it's all very simple to those who know, but I don't want
to be
too shy to ask and ruin my plants, or not save them. They
desperately need
repotting, and I was going to put some chives, mint
basil and poss dill in the
top (although they have come with a lid) as
these are looking less healthy than
they were before I went away. I
know basil hates the sun though and toms need
sun - but I did read they
were good to keep flies away.

I'm deliberating and feel very silly for asking, but these planters are
pretty
huge and I've read about toms having two roots at different
levels, one set for
drinking and one set for feeding. there's also only
one bit of sponge in the
bottom bit and I wondered if I needed to cut up
some more and put in mixed with
the earth or just do it as it came?




--
Learner-Grower

 


Who on earth told you that? Tomatoes are fine for dogs, mine love tomato
juice as well. Maybe you mean the flowers and fruit on potatoes which i
think can induce sickness.

Tomatoes are definitely NOT poisonous to dogs or i assume they would
also be poisonous to us:!
--
Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraph
http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk

 

On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:55:55 +0100, Janet Tweedy


Bunny Guinness on GQT has more than once recommended adding tomato
juice to female dogs' food which apparently stops their urine killing
the grass.  Can't confirm it as I don't have dogs.  I guess the
poisonous bit is the potato fruit, as Janet says.

Pam in Bristol

 


'Pam Moore[_2_ Wrote:

I had heard it at my vets, and when I googled it it appeared on several
food
lists so I have been wary of a few things since.

http://tinyurl.com/lct4fw

http://tinyurl.com/2e4kn9

http://tinyurl.com/5fr4gp

As I had an unexplained sudden death (I paid for an extensive post
mortum) on an
otherwise apparrantly health young Chihuahua which
devastated me - I have always
felt that I would prefer to err on the
side of caution. With my dogs also being
very small I suspect dosage
levels of certain things would be higher to them
than say a GSD a
labrador or a newfoundland sized dog.

I've replanted my struggling 2 plants the right way up now and put them
higher
up on a garden utensils container.




--
Learner-Grower