🌿Tomato Plant Hygiene 🍅🌿🌿

 

So far , everything is going well with the tomatoes in the greenhouse .

Lots of lovely shiny green fruits coming .

So today I am going to take off some of the leaves under the bench  , primarily to let more air in .

Cushion to sit on and another to rest my elbow on as I have to lie down to reach in under the greenhouse bench .

                   Look at that Bowiea volubilis !                   It's one crazy plant !

Put some nice music on and got on with the quite therapeutic job .

  🌿    That fragrance of tomato leaves mmm ... 🌿 

Now then , everyone has different ways of doing things . I think it is best for newbies to learn "the proper way of doing tomatoes " and then gradually learn how to adapt it to your growing conditions .

Some people grow them in the ground outside , some in pots , some in the ground in the greenhouse , some in sheds , some in polytunnels  .

My best success  is growing them under cover in pot/bags , both in the shed and greenhouse . 

 

We have a very humid and often mizzly and rainy weather here in the far south west of Cornwall . Often severe gales and big storms . ..which then if the tomatoes are not under cover ...brings blight !!

There's plenty to read about it on line , you choose your way .

This year I have tried to get away with using as little shop bought multi-purpose compost as I can get away with .

Pot/bag rolled down only half full of compost . 🍅  Pot/bag rolled up. Thinking about topping it up .

You can see in the above picture that I have not topped up those pot/bags . They are about two thirds or half full and a couple of them have two plants in . So I've been really mean ! lol !

It's about trying to save money !!  ..but still getting as much out of these plants as possible !

 But the plants are doing really well , healthy , lots of flowers and tomatoes coming on them .

This one is a new lovely variety to me Cocktail Crush . It is trying to climb out of the pot !

It is also putting out arial roots ! 

So although it's getting nutrients when I water with feed in it, I am thinking I may top this one up and a couple of the others too .  It wants MORE !  🌿🌿🌿🍅

The other thing I do is I leave any new shoots at the very bottom . There was one year when one of my plants  , one growing by the door , which I sometimes leave open when it becomes very hot ...but this one plant started to look as if it might have the dreaded blight . I cut the top off and let the lower healthy shoots take over and it worked a treat , I didn't lose the plant and a bit later than the others, but I still got a good harvest   .

I will do the above bench tomatoes another day , but did pull in the vines to the paracord I'd tied up .

While I'm down here on the floor I dragged across this Crassula muscosa plant which has been almost smothered by the flaming nuisance Oxalis corniculata ...which is very pretty with it's dainty yellow flowers, but which can very quickly spread through a cactus collection . I can't even see my  Crassula plant it has become so swamped by it !

Here it is ...also known as "The Watch Chain Plant "  It is very fragile plant and I am cross that the Oxalis has found it's way in .

So there we are ! I had a little sweep up and it got too hot to do any more work in the garden .

So I harvested a couple of cucumbers and picked a good cupful of nice fat juicy Blackcurrants .

Very surprised to find them already !

                                   Hope you are all enjoying the nice weather .

   

                                                   That's all fer now folks !

        

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