Tomato plants are either tall or bush, Indeterminate or determinate respectively. There are thousands of different varieties, producing tomatoes of all shapes and sizes.
Transpiration in Tomato Plants – water evaporates through a plant’s leaves and is replaced by water absorbed through a plant’s roots – in an unbroken flow. Why this is important for our plants If moisture is unable to evaporate … Read More
Tomato Plant Petals and Sepals One of the interesting characteristics of tomato plants is that their flowers are not only different in size, depending on the variety, but also different in the number of sepals each variety has. The sepals … Read More
Talking Tomatoes – One Plant Two Varieties or Colours!After last week’s look at rootstock and grafting, one of the Newsletter readers (Nick from Stirchley) suggested the possibility of grafting two different plant varieties onto one rootstock. This would have the … Read More
Professional tomato growers are very conscious of the diseases that are likely to affect their plants. If growing outside each season, and in the same soil, a grower will have a good idea “what lurks beneath!” and how to combat … Read More
Twenty Years AgoIf you had visited the “tomato plants” area of a garden centre twenty years ago, you would have seen mainly tall, cordon varieties for sale such as the old favourites Moneymaker, Alicante, Ailsa Graig and Gardener’s Delight with … Read More
This week – Pam, who grew tomatoes for the first time last season, tells us how she was eating her own toms from July through to the end of November with just two bush tomato plants! I received two tomato … Read More
Heirloom and Open Pollinated Varieties To be considered an heirloom, a variety should have been around at least 50 years and be open-pollinated. An open-pollinated variety holds on to the parents characteristics generation after generation. This is important if you … Read More
Potting on tomato plants and giving them a bigger home is important so as not to confine their roots to the point of becoming root bound. So why not plants seeds directly in the garden soil or in their large … Read More
When to plant tomatoes in their final position It is best to put them into their final pot, container or grow bag after yellow flowers start to appear. If you put them in before flowering you may get lots of … Read More
Tomato plants come in two basic types: Tall varieties, also known as Cordon or Indeterminate. Bush varieties, also known as Determinate. Cordon varieties (indeterminate) grow tall and usually need to be stopped above the fourth or fifth truss (growing outside) … Read More