Topic: When do greenhouse tomatoes finish up?

[Gordonmull]

Hi folks

It's my first season growing tomatoes in a GH and I have it rammed full of them!  ;D The only thing is I now have overwintering carrot, lettuce, scallions and christmas spuds in containers waiting to go in. When would anyone alse make the swap? I want to give the overwintering stuff as best a head start as I can under glass but also want to get the most out of the tomatoes.

Cheers

Gord

[pumkinlover]

Last year was so nice in the late autumn that I was still picking them in December! however if you need to make space then I have seen it on telly that you can cut the tomato stalk then hang them upside down in the greenhouse to ripen. They will be shorter by then so then you can plant underneath :-\

Let me know if it works ;D ;D ;D

[Deb P]

I find that when the weather stasrts to cool and I shut the greenhouse all day, I start to reduce the watering of tomatoes and this encourages them to ripen fully. I have not had a good year for tomatoes this year at all, the majority have yet to ripen and most plants have not cropped as generously as usual. Looking at weatherspark it appears temperatures are falling over the next week and autumn is starting so I will be cutting back on my watering now, probably not watering at all by the end of the month.

[Gordonmull]

Thanks for you input folks. It turned out, though, that i could in fact manage to squeeze 20 tomato plants, 3 big planters of spring onion, 2 sacks and a bin of tatties and 4 planters of carrots in a 8x6. Just can't fit much in the way of me in it though  ;D

Will follow your advice Deb and hopefully I will have some movement space soon.

Not too sure about cutting them off if I can possibly help it, and I seem to be able to - with a contortionist performance when I go in.

[davyw1]

I think i will still be going at Xmas