Tomato Querry

 I was given some tomato plants last night from a friend who was going
off on holiday. When I look at them this morning, there are 2 varieties
I don know and can not find any details on via google. They are:

Pomodora
and
Grosse Lisse

Al I need to know is type/height do I pinch out etc.

Also,

I looked at my growbags today, and it says on them do not plant tomatoes
until first flowers have opened. I've never done this before, does it
make any difference.

Thanks

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Roger T

700 ft up in Mid-Wales

 "Roger Tonkin"  wrote

Pomodora is simply Italian for tomato so goodness knows what you have there,
maybe a Roma (bush) type but you can't tell at this stage.
http://www.thompson-morgan.com/vegetables/vegetable-seeds/tomato-seeds/tomato-pomodora-roma-nano-vita-sementi-italian-seeds/gww0475TM

Grosse Lisse is an indeterminate to possibly 2 metres but doubtful in the
UK, so you pinch out the side shoots.

I've always planted our Tomatoes like everything else, when the ground is
ready and the frosts have finished but then they will be out on our plot in
the soil.

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Regards
Bob Hobden
W.of London. UK

 
I always plant in growbags when they look like they have outgrown the 9cm
pots they are in! Which is typically well before they have flowered.  This
year 2 of the 18 I have done so far have an open flower, but they look
/really/ seriously in need of somewhere bigger to get their roots into!

 

If you can, it is sometimes better to plant out in pots than GroBags as they
are easier to keep watered and provide more support when the plants are
large.
At least, that is what I do :-)

I still use GroBags because they are good value for money - just empty them
into pots before planting out the tomatoes.

HTH

Dave R
--
No plan survives contact with the enemy.
[Not even bunny]

Helmuth von Moltke the Elder

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We buy 'deep' growbags (cost proportionally more, I think, but worth it) and
then sink large pots with their bottoms kncoked out into them, then plant as
deep as possible in that, and build up the soil from either another growbag
or a soil bale.