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Seasonal Tips for Summer - Tomatoes, Courgettes,

As crops start to mature in quick succession, keep up with the harvest. Vegetables such as courgettes will be more productive if the crop is harvested regularly.

  • Keep vegetable plants well watered while they are cropping to ensure that the crops develop and swell properly, this is particularly important for tomatoes, courgettes, marrows, melons and pumpkins.
  • Feed developing plants using an appropriate, quality fertiliser. For tomatoes and fruiting plants choose Nutri Tomato Feed. Tomato plants have very specific requirements to keep them healthy and strong.
    Blossom End Rot is usually caused by a deficiency in calcium, which normal flowering plant foods do not contain in sufficient amounts to satisfy tomato plants. Westland’s specially formulated Nutri Tomato Feed has just the right levels of NPK to promote and sustain healthy green plants with trusses of tasty fruit, and it also contains trace elements to ensure the plant has access to every additional requirement to keep it healthy. More than that it is enriched with added calcium and magnesium to give your plants the best possible chance to avoid common tomato diseases. In essence everything tomatoes need for strong, healthy growth.
  • Pinch out the tips of tomato plants when five trusses of fruit have set, this diverts the energy of the plants into the developing fruits and also keeps the plants in check.
  • Continue to tie in and support tomato plants, peppers, cucumbers, aubergines and melons as they develop, especially as fruit starts to swell or they will quickly topple over and be damaged.
  • Don’t allow tomato plants to dry out. Stress, inconsistent watering and a lack of calcium can lead to split fruits and Blossom End Rot. Feed with Nutri Tomato Feed, which contains vital trace elements to reduce the risk of this disfiguring disease.
  • Continue to harvest ripe tomatoes as they mature.
  • Pinch out the plant tips of cucumbers and melons.
  • Remove any yellowing leaves from the base of your tomato plants. This allows more light in to ripen the fruit. Do not remove leaves above developing or ripening fruit trusses.

Gardening tips for this Summer:

If you would like to refer back to the Seasonal Tips for April/May click here. 

If you would like to refer back to the Seasonal Tips for February/March click here.

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