Toms-a-tumbling

This weekend we've dealt with all the tomatoes. 60 of them.

3 tumbling toms in hanging baskets

I've put the hanging basket brackets up for the Tumbling Toms. Lack of space means one is above the other.










All the other tomatoes have been potted on into the final large pots. They had all been potted on from 3.5in pots to 5in pots and kept in the greenhouse due to the cold weather. Some were only in the 5in pots for a week or so.

Some of the tomatoes in pots outside

All the tomatoes are outside now, apart from the one Shirley, which is best grown in the greenhouse. We'll put a few of the others back in the greenhouse when we've planted out some other seedlings and made some room in the greenhouse.

Most of the rest will be moved to the stepped beds outside the back of the house in 2 or 3 weeks time. At the moment, the stepped beds are still in shade part of the daytime - in a few weeks they'll get full sun all day.

The list is:
1 Shirley (greenhouse)
3 Tumbling Toms (in hanging baskets)
Moneymaker
Belle
Plum
Beefsteak
Gardeners Delight (Cherry)
White Cherry (Cherry)
Sungold (Cherry)
Mr Stripey (Tigrella)
Pomodoro (Beef?)
Harbinger
1 unknown (probably Moneymaker or Belle - we lost the tag so weren't sure)


Most of the big pots are Morrisons flower buckets, 8 for 99p. They don't have holes in them, so I drilled holes around the outside, about an inch from the bottom. The idea is that the holes will still provide drainage, but the bottom inch of the pot will work as a bit of a reservoir to help keep the compost moist. I'm hoping that saves us a lot of watering, especially which is quite important as we have a hosepipe ban.