Wednesday 21 May 2014

Help... the tomatoes are attacking us!

We need more, well lit growing space...
these two pictures show the state of play in the coldframe....

Full to bursting....

and the lounge...

But these are just too large for the coldframe, anyway!!


The tomatoes are somewhat over "leggy"....
a combination of too much growlight...
not enough natural daylight...
and too small a pot.

The pot size seems to send the plant into a frenzy of top growth....
probably to try and reproduce.
Not too much of a problem once we can get them into the ground...
we bury 'em.
A foot [30cms] down, and a growing ring of 8" [20cm] will halve their height...
and the buried stem will quickly send out new roots...
but planting them will be a two-person job!!
Some of them, though, will go into bigger pots....
kindly loaned by Alex and Nicole [ChezANIA Paysagistes]....
of Les Limornieres as we still need to prepare space.
Until then we will remain under attack by these rampant plants!!

Footnote.... [or 30cm note]...
the big plant pots Pauline ordered last week have arrived!!

2 comments:

Colin and Elizabeth said...

Hi Do you want any more... You can't give em away these days everybody has tooo many!! Happy Planting... C

Pollygarter said...

We went to a plant swap and came back with more than we took. Quelle blague