[Food] Tomato and chilli/pepper growing

GOM · Jan 25, 2021

Got a greenhouse for the first time this year and although have grown previously outdoors want to try in my small polycarbonate greenhouse 6x4.

Based in in the cooler climes of West Yorkshire so looking for any recommendations and advice as it must be getting on time to start sowing.

I have a seedling heat map for getting started.

So experts advise away please.

clapham_gull · Jan 25, 2021

I've started my chilies already inside. 8 plug propagator on the window sill near a radiator.

Do the same every year with Chillies.

Tomatoes (now) a waste of time. Not enough light and they don't get ahead anyway in my experience.

So if you like chillies and if you have a heat mat, I'd get them going now.

AmexRuislip · Jan 25, 2021

clapham_gull said:
I've started my chilies already inside. 8 plug propagator on the window sill near a radiator.

Do the same every year with Chillies.

Tomatoes (now) a waste of time. Not enough light and they don't get ahead anyway in my experience.

So if you like chillies and if you have a heat mat, I'd get them going now.

GOM said:
Got a greenhouse for the first time this year and although have grown previously outdoors want to try in my small polycarbonate greenhouse 6x4.

Based in in the cooler climes of West Yorkshire so looking for any recommendations and advice as it must be getting on time to start sowing.

I have a seedling heat map for getting started.

So experts advise away please.

https://www.northstandchat.com/show...illi-Growing-Thread&highlight=Growing+chillis

This should help you :thumbsup:

clapham_gull · Jan 25, 2021

I'm be growing again my favourite Spanish variety Guindilla. Almost impossible to get hold of the seeds, so I saved a load from last years crop.

banjo · Jan 25, 2021

Tumbling tomatoes. Put them in hanging baskets, look and taste nice too.

Billy the Fish · Jan 25, 2021

Got some seeds this year, will hopefully start then this week. Everything I bought was easy to grow and can go outside

maresfield seagull · Jan 25, 2021

I have a bundle of chillies 🌶 I grew a few years ago and dried out
I found them at the pack of the cupboard What are the chances the seeds will be ok to grow ?

portslade seagull · Jan 25, 2021

Had loads of chillies last year pretty hot ones in my greenhouse, didn't plant them though so must've taken from an old plant like my tomatoes loads of the buggers and really sweet

neilbard · Jan 25, 2021

You need to be growing some of these bad boys.

Machiavelli · Jan 25, 2021

clapham_gull said:
I've started my chilies already inside. 8 plug propagator on the window sill near a radiator.

Do the same every year with Chillies.

Tomatoes (now) a waste of time. Not enough light and they don't get ahead anyway in my experience.

So if you like chillies and if you have a heat mat, I'd get them going now.

I had a look through that historic thread. Any tips for growing tomatoes outside?

jevs · Jan 25, 2021

Chillis have been in for nearly 3 weeks now. All up, need potting on soon.
Tomatoes and sweet peppers to be sown next week.

Edit, god knows why it’s sideways!!!

The Large One · Jan 25, 2021

Machiavelli said:
I had a look through that historic thread. Any tips for growing tomatoes outside?

You're moving to near Fiveways, right?

Make sure you grow and propagate the seed indoors. Then find your best suntrap place in the garden; one where it see most (afternoon) sunlight. And if it next to a garden wall, consider painting that part of it white.

banjo · Jan 25, 2021

maresfield seagull said:
I have a bundle of chillies 🌶 I grew a few years ago and dried out
I found them at the pack of the cupboard What are the chances the seeds will be ok to grow ?

Give them a go. Nothing too lose.

vegster · Jan 25, 2021

maresfield seagull said:
I have a bundle of chillies 🌶 I grew a few years ago and dried out
I found them at the pack of the cupboard What are the chances the seeds will be ok to grow ?

Very good.. There is every chance they will grow, unless of course they are F1 hybrids in which case they might not germinate or breed true.

juliant · Jan 25, 2021

neilbard said:
You need to be growing some of these bad boys.

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Moruga Scorpion? I grew them 2 years ago for a laugh to try. When eventually tried my god I wasn't laughing!

Ended up giving them to the local curry house owner who said his wife loved them

Peteinblack · Jan 25, 2021

neilbard said:
You need to be growing some of these bad boys.

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If your using those for a recipe, make sure you wash your hands before you go for a pee :thumbsup:

Questions · Jan 25, 2021

Peteinblack said:
If your using those for a recipe, make sure you wash your hands before you go for a pee

And wash your hands after a pee as well before you chop chillies.

Peteinblack · Jan 25, 2021

Machiavelli said:
I had a look through that historic thread. Any tips for growing tomatoes outside?

Haven't grown tomatoes from seed, but buy from garden centres as small plants; we like the sweet cherry tomatoes, so Gardener's Delight or Sungold for us.

Usually buy in April, and put the pots out during the day to toughten them up, then bring in at night, otherwise any frost could fatally damage them.

Plant outside permanently when lasts frosts have gone, usually early May.

Avoid a spot where they will get too much sun all day (ie, not south-facing) otherwise they will wilt in the heat - or need watering 2-3 times per day (OK, if you or a family member are at home, but no good if you're at work).

You'll need something (poles, posts) to tie them to for support - ours grow to 7-8 feet - or they'll collapse with the weight of the fruit in the summer, and the stems will snap. They produce so many tomatoes that, before they ripen, they look like bunches of grapes.

Otherwise, water once a day, and mix in some tomato feed once or twice a week once the flowers appear.

Ready to eat from late June until September. Something really pleasing about eating a salad outdoors on a summer's evening, with home-grown freshly-picked tomatoes still warm from that day's sun. And they are so much tastier than supermarket tomatoes.

Machiavelli · Jan 25, 2021

Thank you PiB.
A couple of questions:
1, cherry toms are great, and I'll look to grow some, but I'm a big fan of larger tomatoes, eg Coeur du Lion, Marmande. Have you grown these?
2, our new place's orientation is east west. Unfortunately the east is where the back garden is, so we'll only get direct sunlight until (probably very) early afternoon. (The problem with the front is that there's less space; mind you, there's very little space out the back.) What you seem to be saying about wilting/south-facing is that we'll be OK to go out the back, or would you recommend experimenting with both front/west-facing and back/east-facing?

The Spanish · Jan 25, 2021

Just got new tomatoes shooting from seed from previous plant. I left a couple off fallen ones on the ground for a week, gave it a go and planted the tom about two inches down. Lo and behold got about a dozen new shoots now. Apparently most die off as one becomes the 'winner'. More luck than judgement, if I had read how to to do this online I wouldnt have bothered as they make it mega touch and go whether it works.

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