Potting up
4 June 2020 12:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
igenlodeUsed the last scraps of my bag of supermarket compost (peat-based, alas...) and my only large pot for potting-up my two tomato plants, one into the large pot and one into the smaller pot thereby vacated. A ticklish job, since the plants are now large and heavy to handle but with rather fragile stems.
I was given two in case one of them died, but in fact they have both lived and grown amazingly, considering that they were only in mini-yoghurt-size pots when they arrived.
If they get any bigger I'm going to have problems. The large pot is the one that my turned-out-not-to-be-Green-Zebra tomato was in last year, and the smaller one is the one that the aubergine was in. However, they are already starting to flower without being as large as the beefsteak tomato, and I was assured that they were supposed to be cherry tomatoes, which are not only more useful but more suitable.
I still have a lot of tomato feed left from last year, but it says you aren't to use it until two trusses have set, so I'm feeding them on Baby Bio along with the rest. (Maybe why they seem bigger and more demanding than last year's, which I acquired as an unwanted extra when it was already quite large -- it probably hadn't been fed from a relatively early stage, as these have.)
I was given two in case one of them died, but in fact they have both lived and grown amazingly, considering that they were only in mini-yoghurt-size pots when they arrived.
If they get any bigger I'm going to have problems. The large pot is the one that my turned-out-not-to-be-Green-Zebra tomato was in last year, and the smaller one is the one that the aubergine was in. However, they are already starting to flower without being as large as the beefsteak tomato, and I was assured that they were supposed to be cherry tomatoes, which are not only more useful but more suitable.
I still have a lot of tomato feed left from last year, but it says you aren't to use it until two trusses have set, so I'm feeding them on Baby Bio along with the rest. (Maybe why they seem bigger and more demanding than last year's, which I acquired as an unwanted extra when it was already quite large -- it probably hadn't been fed from a relatively early stage, as these have.)