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Hi all this may seem a strange question but i was wondering about keeping tomato plants for a second year. The reason behind this is i manage a garden project and we havd a large polytunnel with several tomato plants in it. Some of the plant stems

weather . I would leave them until the main stem is about a quarter of an inch thick . then they will be strong enough to withstand any moving about . the first year i grew tomatoes outside  when i had put them in their growing position ( and about quarter

This is the time of year when I go tomato crazy. Suddenly I've gone from eating relatively few tomatoes to buying punnet loads from the shops. There is no doubt that if you go for the British Grown logo on the front of the pack they taste 100

Despite persevering with growing beefsteak tomatoes last summer, I was once again severely disappointed with the results. I've grown them several times over the past few years but always found their yields really small compared to normal

This year I'm determined to only grow one variety of tomato. This is because my garden was overrun with tomato plants last year and I couldn't get onto my patio for growing bags and poorly staked cordons. So 2011 will see a more streamlined effort

I dont have a greenhouse and was wondering it i could grow tomatoe's from seed in my South Facing lounge - of which gets very hot when the sun appears. Reason being - have too many munchers in my garden and also a badger/foxes who like to have

Just wondered if anyone could help me with my tomato plants.  They are still quite small (not in final planting pots/growbags) but some have started to develop brown edges on the leaves and what looks like purple discolouring on the underside

and spraying with tepid water but still no fruit.I am growing tumbling tom in baskets and sweet n neat in pots. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks Sounds like tomato blossom drop,usually caused by temperature or stress.

Hello  my son has given me some tomatoes to grow they are about 8 inches tall and i have just put them in larger pots. I remeber when my mum used to grow them she used to 'pinch out' the leaves but i cant remember why or how does anyone else do

Can someone please help me to identify what is wrong with these tomatoes (var. Gardener's Delight)? They have brownish speckles all around the top half of each tomato. However the leaves look healthy. I have about 16 tomato plants in total but only