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04 Jan 12, Matt (Australia - temperate climate)

Hi all. I live in Melbourne in ringwood and had to rip out two tomato plants, a mighty red and an, appollo, was disappointing since they had fruit already on them, they seemed fine until the leaves and stalk started to wilt the leaves also began to turn yellow, any ideas what happened to them? Cheers

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04 Jan 12, Dianne (Australia - temperate climate)

Is it too late to put more tomato plants in the garden

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06 Jan 12, Miguel (Australia - temperate climate)

Hi Dianne, I've grown tomatoes as late as December, shortly before Christmas. I've had success but got only a small handful of tomatoes. They ripened on the windowsill as there was not enough sunlight or time to vine rippen them and some tasted a little bland. So in answer to your question, you can plant tomatoes now but don't expect them to give you more than 2-3 green tomatoes each plant.

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31 Jan 12, tim (Australia - temperate climate)

try tommy toe. i have grown them from february and picked full flavoured fruit through to end of june in southern riverina in frost free years.

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02 Jan 12, Cathy (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

I am growing Grosse Lisse tomatoes, they have fruited well but the fruit is splitting before they are ripe. Does anyone have any ideas as to why this is happening?

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05 Jan 12, Mudhonei (Australia - temperate climate)

Sounds like too much water.

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23 Mar 12, (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

generally it is caused by irregular watering or lack of lime

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28 Nov 11, Richard (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

I have good green growth on my tomatoes, have been fertilising them with seasol, cow dung and a little blood and bone, I have plenty of flowers but am not getting any fruit, the flowers have been out for about 1.5 weeks, how long should it take to see fruit form.

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04 Dec 11, Malcolm in Melton (Australia - temperate climate)

Patience, Richard, especially if you are south of Sydney, incl. Victoria where I am. The recent cooler-than-normal days have caused the plants to "baulk" - they'll only let their babies (the flowers) out to play (to start growing) in regular (and a succession of) temperatures of 20 deg. plus. Let's now about mid-December how they are going then.

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21 Nov 11, BCW (Australia - temperate climate)

Tomato and potato are the same family and carry the same deseases from one crop to the next so plant other vegies in rotation to avoid problems

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