Transplant

I have been really struggling to meet the water needs of my tomato plants in the renewed heat (nice warm temperatures of around 70 degrees coupled with plentiful rain were much better for plant growth). Meanwhile the overwintered corn-chamomile plants that were putting on a fine display in the two large pots that I had originally destined for this year's tomatoes have finished flowering and died and dried up; I spent some time attempting to winnow out a usable seed collection from the dry heads -- having eventually worked out that the actual seeds are right down at the bottom and in practice you have to split the spiky dry head open to get them out -- so that I could empty out the larger of the pots.

I'd assumed that my tomatoes had missed the boat in terms of being moved into larger pots, since they are now fruiting and flowering prolifically and have reached the mystical stage of 'setting the second truss', after which one is allowed to administer official tomato feed. But according to the Internet it is actually possible to transplant tomatoes in fruit, and since the three towel-tomatoes which were sharing a six-inch pot were clearly quite horribly pot-bound (and were the smallest and easiest to handle of the various tomato plants, presumably in consequence) I thought I would give it a go. ( Read more... )

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