Friday, May 18, 2012
Tomatoes suffering from cold nights
I had Tuesday off and, in between the showers, was able to spend some time in the garden. My tomato plants, which I had put out at the weekend, were looking good.
Tuesday night was cold (colleagues at work living outside London had had ice on their car windscreens), I checked the tomatoes before leaving for work. They had been badly hit but had survived.
Waiting for the bus home from the the local Radical History Group talk last night at ten o'clock it felt a bit nippy, but I forgot to check the tomatoes this morning. If they have no more cold nights they can recover; repeated hits of frosty weather and I won't be having homegrown tomatoes this year!
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It is really too early for the toms to go out even in the south, as there is still a danger of frost. Mine haven't gone out yet even in the cold frame. I never put mine out until June.
ReplyDeletePete F.
I usually put my tomatoes out early May (though note in 2010 I put them out on 20 May after some cold nights). I can remember years, and years ago there being cold winds one May that shrivelled by courgettes, but haven't had other trouble till this year. I must have been lucky!
DeleteToday hot and it was really nice spending the evening gardening.