Tomatoes:
For a few years now have been disappointed again & again ..just as the fruit gets large, along comes a virus & the plant dies.
Being the eternal optimist I never give up.
About 2 months ago I plucked a plant from the compost heap & planted it & looked after it, & is now VERY healthy & the fruit seems to be getting bigger & bigger & the plant appears to be thriving.
We live in coastal inner west Sydney & never have had frosts here, does anyone have any ideas wether or not this plant will continue, or if we will eventually get the fruit to ripen?
Thanks for any response!

possum70 said:

Tomatoes:
For a few years now have been disappointed again & again ..just as the fruit gets large, along comes a virus & the plant dies.
Being the eternal optimist I never give up.
About 2 months ago I plucked a plant from the compost heap & planted it & looked after it, & is now VERY healthy & the fruit seems to be getting bigger & bigger & the plant appears to be thriving.
We live in coastal inner west Sydney & never have had frosts here, does anyone have any ideas wether or not this plant will continue, or if we will eventually get the fruit to ripen?
Thanks for any response!

never had frosts here.. is all you need to know. in a good warm position.. tomatoes may do very well in certain parts of Australia during winter.

White Cliffs for example.. I have seen some very large plants fruiting in bulldozer cuts on a noth facing wall, in July.

In my home town in certain parts of town I have seen tomatoes fruiting in midwinter whereas elsewhere in town.. everything is black.

roughbarked said:

possum70 said:

Tomatoes:
For a few years now have been disappointed again & again ..just as the fruit gets large, along comes a virus & the plant dies.
Being the eternal optimist I never give up.
About 2 months ago I plucked a plant from the compost heap & planted it & looked after it, & is now VERY healthy & the fruit seems to be getting bigger & bigger & the plant appears to be thriving.
We live in coastal inner west Sydney & never have had frosts here, does anyone have any ideas wether or not this plant will continue, or if we will eventually get the fruit to ripen?
Thanks for any response!

never had frosts here.. is all you need to know. in a good warm position.. tomatoes may do very well in certain parts of Australia during winter.

White Cliffs for example.. I have seen some very large plants fruiting in bulldozer cuts on a noth facing wall, in July.

In my home town in certain parts of town I have seen tomatoes fruiting in midwinter whereas elsewhere in town.. everything is black.

Tomatoes grow well all year round up here, sorry that doesn’t help, but yes, I agre with RoughBarked: no frost = good chance of tomato production…do your days warm up much?

You could even wrap some clear sheeting on stakes around the plant to help generate some additional warmth???

Our toms are doing OK, albeit growing a little slowly. they are against a north facing wall in full sun, so are protected from the wind.

Certainly not fruiting as prolifically as they do in summer.

possum70 said:

Tomatoes:
For a few years now have been disappointed again & again ..just as the fruit gets large, along comes a virus & the plant dies.
Being the eternal optimist I never give up.
About 2 months ago I plucked a plant from the compost heap & planted it & looked after it, & is now VERY healthy & the fruit seems to be getting bigger & bigger & the plant appears to be thriving.
We live in coastal inner west Sydney & never have had frosts here, does anyone have any ideas wether or not this plant will continue, or if we will eventually get the fruit to ripen?
Thanks for any response!

I live on the south coast about 15km inland and we do get a few frosts each year. However a few years ago I had a self-sown tomato still alive and bearing fruit in June. Admittedly it was in a fairly protected north facing aspect. I too have had lots of trouble with viruses etc with tomatoes and have found that my late plantings seem to have fared better than early plantings, so I intent to go with late planting in future.

Firestorm said:

Our toms are doing OK, albeit growing a little slowly. they are against a north facing wall in full sun, so are protected from the wind.

Certainly not fruiting as prolifically as they do in summer.

I think it’s the night-time temps you need to watch out for: ours will cope with some cold nights (as in 1 -2 C) but I’m not sure about weeks of them…anyways, the flavour of 1 home grown tomatoe is equal to about 2 – 3 shop ones, wouldn’t you say?

Keep us posted :)

Dinetta said:

Firestorm said:

Our toms are doing OK, albeit growing a little slowly. they are against a north facing wall in full sun, so are protected from the wind.

Certainly not fruiting as prolifically as they do in summer.

I think it’s the night-time temps you need to watch out for: ours will cope with some cold nights (as in 1 -2 C) but I’m not sure about weeks of them…anyways, the flavour of 1 home grown tomatoe is equal to about 2 – 3 shop ones, wouldn’t you say?

Keep us posted :)

I’m still getting a few toms on one surviving Cherry tom plant from this year’s lot…and yes the flavour is worth about half a dozen shop bought ones

AnneS said:

I’m still getting a few toms on one surviving Cherry tom plant from this year’s lot…and yes the flavour is worth about half a dozen shop bought ones

Some of my self-sown have been tough as all-get-out, but the flavour for cooking was superb…

my winter toms – they grow alright but i’m not confident about getting lots of fruit – north of adelaide.

pepe said:

my winter toms – they grow alright but i’m not confident about getting lots of fruit – north of adelaide.

They look the part Pep.

Oh Oh
Has not stopped raining here for the last week!
Toms have survived but I think NO chance of them ripening.
Ho hum…that’s life.

possum70 said:

Oh Oh
Has not stopped raining here for the last week!
Toms have survived but I think NO chance of them ripening.
Ho hum…that’s life.

I’ve known them to hang on, and hang on, and eventually ripen…so if your plants don’t succumb to a disease, you may yet harvest what’s there…

possum70 said:

Oh Oh
Has not stopped raining here for the last week!
Toms have survived but I think NO chance of them ripening.
Ho hum…that’s life.

Eat ‘em green then???