Follow on tomatoes

[Oliver Buckle]

If you remove side shoots at about four or five inches and stand them in water they will start growing roots. These are 'water roots', and I tend to plant the cuttings in a small pot as soon as they appear, then I stand the pot in a larger container and fill that to the rim of the pot, so they are in earth but effectively still in water. They take pretty soon and you have your next generation of tomatoes to pot on in the normal way.

 

[DirtMechanic]

Do you have tomato guilt when you have no more room to plant tomatoes?

 

[Oliver Buckle]

Do you have tomato guilt when you have no more room to plant tomatoes?

It's more when I don't have variety, I just used side shoots to quadruple the number of the variety I only had one of, roll on the next generation.

 

[Oliver Buckle]

Put all my odd extra plants out the front of the house and mentioned it on the village plant swap site on Facebook, all gone within a couple of hours.