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Message: [QUOTE="Oliver Buckle, post: 269321, member: 12649"] Hi, I am a lot further south than you and I already have some of my tomatoes planted out outside, I usually grow moneymaker, an old fashioned variety, but I like it, reliable, also Alisia Craig and Outdoor girl, both good. Tomatoes will survive at temps. down to 10C and grow at temps above 16C, 18 to mid 20's is best. I am talking daytime temperatures, they won't mind lower at night so long as you don't get down to freezing, and you should be okay now. We don't have the weather America has, I have seen them talking about growing huge plants with multiple stems, I take off all the side shoots, and that is pretty normal in Britain. I try to catch them when they are just a couple of leaves in the leaf node, but they occasionally escape me. I still take them off and stick to a single stem. When I have four trusses (Some people say three) I pinch out the top and stop them going any further, otherwise you can get a lot of very small tomatoes. Start feeding as soon as you see small tomatoes, Tomarite is good, and it is a good basic feed for anything else as well. Like YumYum says fungal disease is the commonest problem with tomatoes, wet and overcrowded side shoots won't help with that. Moneymaker will breed true from saved seed, I know a packet of seed is not dear, but it is fun to grow your own. Scrape out the seed and a goo around them and leave for a few days in a warm place to start fermenting, then wash them through a sieve and dry out the seeds. Mind, one old boy I knew used to just drop a tomato on the greenhouse floor and tread on it, then prick out the resulting seedlings :) maybe not quite as reliable. Good luck. [/QUOTE]

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