Posted by furlow on August 31, 2010, 8:41 am
Hi,
I've been trying to search around on google to find any information on
how other peoples crops in the uk (I'm the east to be more specific)
have done this year. My first year of growing marrow has been great
they obviously seam to do great even at temperatures bellow 20C. My
problem has been with my tomatoes and peppers, I know they both fully
into two different speed growing catagories with the peppers going to
take longer to get a crop. The thing is though on my tomatoes I have
quite a few Trusses, although I only pinched out the growing tip only
a week ago after I decided to give up on getting any more than 3-4
trusses. My tomatoes just seam to be growing very slowly, I have them
outside and not in any poly tunnel or greenhouse, but they just
haven't produced this year, I'm usually not so good at getting my
plants out very early (around mid june), but I usually would have
gotten some tomatoes at least by now. I'm blaming the cold rainy
summer we have had this year. Although its actually quite nice today,
about 25C in the sun. Rant over, How has everybody else's Tomatoes
done?
Posted by ®óñ© © ²°¹° on August 31, 2010, 9:00 am
On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 05:41:07 -0700 (PDT), furlow
>Hi,
>I've been trying to search around on google to find any information on
>how other peoples crops in the uk (I'm the east to be more specific)
>have done this year. My first year of growing marrow has been great
>they obviously seam to do great even at temperatures bellow 20C. My
>problem has been with my tomatoes and peppers, I know they both fully
>into two different speed growing catagories with the peppers going to
>take longer to get a crop. The thing is though on my tomatoes I have
>quite a few Trusses, although I only pinched out the growing tip only
>a week ago after I decided to give up on getting any more than 3-4
>trusses. My tomatoes just seam to be growing very slowly, I have them
>outside and not in any poly tunnel or greenhouse, but they just
>haven't produced this year, I'm usually not so good at getting my
>plants out very early (around mid june), but I usually would have
>gotten some tomatoes at least by now. I'm blaming the cold rainy
>summer we have had this year. Although its actually quite nice today,
>about 25C in the sun. Rant over, How has everybody else's Tomatoes
>done?
Half of my greenhouse toms are on their 9th truss and growing out
through the top windows. I did remove sideshoots regularly but let
half of the plants carry on un-topped.
They are in greenhouse soil borders, fed regularly with alternating
tomorite and Miracle Grow. I water the soil copiously every second
day.
Cropping has been, and is, excellent, with many more pounds yet to
come.
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Posted by Moonraker on August 31, 2010, 9:23 am
On 31/08/2010 14:00, ®óñ© © ²°¹° wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 05:41:07 -0700 (PDT), furlow
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've been trying to search around on google to find any information on
>> how other peoples crops in the uk (I'm the east to be more specific)
>> have done this year. My first year of growing marrow has been great
>> they obviously seam to do great even at temperatures bellow 20C. My
>> problem has been with my tomatoes and peppers, I know they both fully
>> into two different speed growing catagories with the peppers going to
>> take longer to get a crop. The thing is though on my tomatoes I have
>> quite a few Trusses, although I only pinched out the growing tip only
>> a week ago after I decided to give up on getting any more than 3-4
>> trusses. My tomatoes just seam to be growing very slowly, I have them
>> outside and not in any poly tunnel or greenhouse, but they just
>> haven't produced this year, I'm usually not so good at getting my
>> plants out very early (around mid june), but I usually would have
>> gotten some tomatoes at least by now. I'm blaming the cold rainy
>> summer we have had this year. Although its actually quite nice today,
>> about 25C in the sun. Rant over, How has everybody else's Tomatoes
>> done?
> Half of my greenhouse toms are on their 9th truss and growing out
> through the top windows. I did remove sideshoots regularly but let
> half of the plants carry on un-topped.
> They are in greenhouse soil borders, fed regularly with alternating
> tomorite and Miracle Grow. I water the soil copiously every second
> day.
> Cropping has been, and is, excellent, with many more pounds yet to
> come.
I grow and have for a number of years, tumbling toms, this has been
their best year by far. Whereas my courgettes which normally crop in
abundance have been sparse. My onions have also cropped poorly, it never
is a good year for everything, that, I guess, is natures way.
--
Residing on low ground in North Staffordshire
Posted by ®óñ© © ²°¹° on August 31, 2010, 10:07 am
wrote:
>I grow and have for a number of years, tumbling toms, this has been
>their best year by far. Whereas my courgettes which normally crop in
>abundance have been sparse
I know a few people growing courgettes in their garden or allotment.
Their crops have been huge. Some of the courgettes are up to 20"
long and good quality. Similarly with marrows.
I grow about 9 varieties of greenhouse tomato from seed.
I gave a neighbour some Country Taste F1 hybrid plants and he keeps
bringing some of his fruit to show me. Some over 2lbs, and one of
over 2.5lbs.
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Posted by mogga on August 31, 2010, 9:20 am
On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 05:41:07 -0700 (PDT), furlow
>Hi,
>I've been trying to search around on google to find any information on
>how other peoples crops in the uk (I'm the east to be more specific)
>have done this year. My first year of growing marrow has been great
>they obviously seam to do great even at temperatures bellow 20C. My
>problem has been with my tomatoes and peppers, I know they both fully
>into two different speed growing catagories with the peppers going to
>take longer to get a crop. The thing is though on my tomatoes I have
>quite a few Trusses, although I only pinched out the growing tip only
>a week ago after I decided to give up on getting any more than 3-4
>trusses. My tomatoes just seam to be growing very slowly, I have them
>outside and not in any poly tunnel or greenhouse, but they just
>haven't produced this year, I'm usually not so good at getting my
>plants out very early (around mid june), but I usually would have
>gotten some tomatoes at least by now. I'm blaming the cold rainy
>summer we have had this year. Although its actually quite nice today,
>about 25C in the sun. Rant over, How has everybody else's Tomatoes
>done?
greenhouse tomatoes are rubbish this year.
A pound or two off them so far.
Green peppers look not much bigger than match heads and aubergine are
just flowers I think.
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>I've been trying to search around on google to find any information on
>how other peoples crops in the uk (I'm the east to be more specific)
>have done this year. My first year of growing marrow has been great
>they obviously seam to do great even at temperatures bellow 20C. My
>problem has been with my tomatoes and peppers, I know they both fully
>into two different speed growing catagories with the peppers going to
>take longer to get a crop. The thing is though on my tomatoes I have
>quite a few Trusses, although I only pinched out the growing tip only
>a week ago after I decided to give up on getting any more than 3-4
>trusses. My tomatoes just seam to be growing very slowly, I have them
>outside and not in any poly tunnel or greenhouse, but they just
>haven't produced this year, I'm usually not so good at getting my
>plants out very early (around mid june), but I usually would have
>gotten some tomatoes at least by now. I'm blaming the cold rainy
>summer we have had this year. Although its actually quite nice today,
>about 25C in the sun. Rant over, How has everybody else's Tomatoes
>done?