Tomatoes

[Polly]

Hi all advise please as I am slightly baffled. I have 6 tumbler tomato plants all in pots sitting happily in an unheated greenhouse waiting to go outside permenantly. They have the start of flowers coming so my question is when should I start feeding them? I thought it was when flowers appeared!!! No surprise to learn I am new to this gardening lark. Love reading all your chat, think I am joining the Old Herbaceous fanclub.

[oldherbaceous]

Dear Polly, as long as they are looking healthy at the moment, i would leave feeding until the first truss of flowers has set, so this should be after you have planted them out.
If however, you cannot plant out for any reason and the plants start flagging, i would pot them on into the next size pot, instead of feeding.

[Polly]

Thank you OH my gardening guru. I apologies in advance if I ask daft questions, and if I had the ability to turn back time I would have taken more notice of my late father in the garden. Now I have discovered the joys it has cost me a fortune in pots, Greenhouse and other stuff. The flavour of home grown. Sneaky question I have thick clay soil what do you think about raised beds? or should I carry on with pots.

[Polly]

Forgot to mention quote of 5 years wait for an allotment near me

[Nature's Babe]

Your homegrown ones look best, mine always grow well in home made, even the seeds too, I just seive it.