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Produce => Under Glass => Topic started by: tonybloke on March 07, 2009, 18:01:39
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here we go again!! 3 varieties, Gardeners delight, Marmande and Whippersnapper. all own saved seed. watered with seaweed solution in heated propagator, inside mini greenhouse, inside unheated greenhouse.
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germinated 4th mar
have you started yet, Tim?
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I haven't sown any tomatoes this year yet. I might sow some tomato, along with a more more varieties of chillies. I did sow a couple of seeds as an experiment in Nov in our conservatory. These are a dwarf bush variety. I just potted the best one up today and it's doing well. This was an experiment after seeing an article about sowing in Nov in a heated greenhouse.
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I just had to Google for Whippersnapper Tomato ;D they look delish ;D
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Me? Have you seen our last Electricity bill??
We now have only one room in the house where you don't need HWBs. The Kitchen with the AGA!!
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Phew! Mine look about that size; was wondering if they were having problems. Feel better now. 8)
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Ain't your AGA hooked up to your radiators??
see my post in 'top tips' for fuel economy in your AGA. (I'm assuming you got a solid fuel one?)
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Sowed some Tamina, Tumbling Toms and Lidl today. They now reside in the airing cupboard until signs of life appear. I meant to sow some last month to see if they would 'catch up', but didn't get organised in time. Also sowed some saved chili and sweet peppers today and they're keeping the tomato seeds company. I bought some chili seed last year and got 8 seed in the packet, only four of which germinated. The plants grew to about six inches high and refused to grow any more? Then the Peach Potato Aphid appeared and I threw the plants out. Better luck this year ::)
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pricked out 20 gardeners delight, 10 whippersnapper and 10 marmande into 2" pots, in mini greenhouse inside unheated greenhouse
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Only just sowed mine at the weekend, Sungold, Shirley and Juliet which I have grown every year. This year I'm also trying Lemon Tree, Olivade and Principe Borghese
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6 black cherry , 6 marmande,6 Roma, 6 moneypenny for the family as there always want them i prefer the other varities all in 4inch pots in the cold greenhouse doing well average day temp 13-14 degrees at the moment candle burning at night to take the edge off
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Mine are still in their packets...... :-[
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This year I'm also trying Lemon Tree, ....
i grew lemon tree outside with nine other varities it was the last one to start ripening its fruit, but they were very nice, but as they started ripening so late the majority of fruit ended up in a green tom chutney.
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Tony - no, & no!!
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Mine as well Deb... :-\
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Mine as well Deb... :-\
Mine too :-[.....praps we should start a Support Group? The earliest I can sow anything will be during the week before 30th March - an I'm already feeling anxious :'(
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This year I'm also trying Lemon Tree, ....
i grew lemon tree outside with nine other varities it was the last one to start ripening its fruit, but they were very nice, but as they started ripening so late the majority of fruit ended up in a green tom chutney.
Mine will be in the GH so I hope for a better result but thanks Thifasmom for the advice
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Half of mine are germinating now, the other half went in yesterday :) :) :) :)
Ailsa Craig, Tamina, Gostoluto Genovese, Black Russian, Gardeners Delight, Super Roma, Legend, Cristal, Aurora & Gartenperle
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This year I'm also trying Lemon Tree, ....
i grew lemon tree outside with nine other varieties it was the last one to start ripening its fruit, but they were very nice, but as they started ripening so late the majority of fruit ended up in a green tom chutney.
Mine will be in the GH so I hope for a better result but thanks Thifasmom for the advice
your very welcome, i think they will be better suited to a greenhouse enviro, i don't grow my toms in the greenhouse and was following the packets instructions on the ability to be grown outdoors and as i am in Kent i figured they would perform OK but the weather last year may have also affected their performance.
wishing you a bumper crop :).
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Your buckits don't look very big Tone. We use the asda ones and from your pics they are much bigger than yours. I dare'nt give them to ower Tone yet cos they would be drowned in the asda ones. My job is finished once I have done the babbying of em
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they ain't buckits, shirl! I was potting them on from a 2" pot into a 3" pot ! ;)
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Have lost half a dozen... to slugs from the 300+ we pricked out, they seem particularly fond of the Charlie Green... :-\
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Excellent set of photos for potting on tonybloke, these are mine about ready for the same
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Those were great pictures, Tonybloke. Really handy as I'd never thought to use the pot as a mould. Timely too as I'm potting mine on today. ;D
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I`m getting fed up of the sight of them-hey ho only another two weeks and I can start offering them to new homes ;D
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they ain't buckits, shirl! I was potting them on from a 2" pot into a 3" pot ! ;)
From the pics I thought the pots were in the floor of your GH but it must be your potting tray.lol. You have a look and you will see how I made the mistake.
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They are looking good Tony and liked the demo on poyying on.
Here are mine all at different stages and some still to germinate.
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Heres my toms and other stuff
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Helpful stuff.
Here's my start. Too leggy for 3 1/2" pots, I know, but they had a 'careless' start!
And I like to get a 'transportable' rootball before moving on.
The pots, BTW, were bought in 1975 when I thought that I might do Market Gardening.
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todays update,planted at 7.30 this morning, 2 x Marmande, 2 x Korol Gigantov and 8 x Gardeners Delight.
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Blimey, yours are in already! :o
Mine are growing away well in 3 1/2" pots, but I'm nowhere near ready to put them in their final places t......haven't got the room in my greenhouse yet! ;D
And I've grown way too many as usual ::)....good job we have a plant sale at the Open Day.... ;D
Good job I looked at that last sentence before I posted it or we would be having a pant sale.... ;D
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Put ours in at the allotment GH yesterday. 9 Shirley.
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Saved me starting a new thread, Tony.
So far as I can see, even as large as yours are, no flowers?? Against all teaching.
But who does get flowers at the recommended 6-8" - & HOW??
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The only time I've got flowers before planting up was when I ran out of greenhouse room and left some plants in 3 1/2 " pots....the grew tall and lanky then flowered, presumably due to stress! Does it make sense to stress plants into flowering before a final planting up?? I put mine out when the roots have filled the pot but before becoming potbound....always worked for me but not 'by the book'! ::)
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Good job I looked at that last sentence before I posted it or we would be having a pant sale....
From DebP
That's one attraction I don't think we need on the day... :o
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Always worked - yes, I get a good return, but does it not mean that the first truss sets lower - like Shirley - & that's more productive?
Otherwise, why do all references go on about it?
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These are mine as yesterday; (http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd27/tgalmanac/April%202009/P1090558.jpg)
They were sown 26th Feb, pricked out 13th March and grown in good light at around 40°F.
All from own seed!
Varieties include Ailsa Craig, Vanessa from proprietory sources, and Feurta which I got from a tomato grown in Feurtaventura, Calahonda sourced the same way from Southern Spain. Tatton from a tasting tomato exhibition I visited at last years Tatton show............scraped the seed out before eating the sample....it tasted good so hopefully my ones will be equally as good.
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V healthy, TG - but no flowers yet??
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They have got flowers, but not open yet!! ( I'll take a close-up for you) ;)
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(http://s660.photobucket.com/albums/uu328/phoenixco2/th_DSC01436.jpg)
These are some of mine today, inside in my nosun room (north faceing never gets the sun), are they ok to out into my mini greenhouse now
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your mini greenhouse will heat up and cool down really quickly, are you able to keep a CONSTANT eye on things?
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here you go, Tim
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Mine this morning
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looking good Davy! ;)
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one of ours 9" tall, in the poly border, has flowers coming on..could be golden sunrise or tigerella, lost it's label..planted out a week ago :)
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your mini greenhouse will heat up and cool down really quickly, are you able to keep a CONSTANT eye on things?
which would be bad the heating up or the cooling down??? its just one of those little 3 shelf plastic jobbies, i can always unzip it and zip it up again morning and night, or shall i just keep them all inside till further notice???
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your mini greenhouse will heat up and cool down really quickly, are you able to keep a CONSTANT eye on things?
which would be bad the heating up or the cooling down??? its just one of those little 3 shelf plastic jobbies, i can always unzip it and zip it up again morning and night, or shall i just keep them all inside till further notice???
I'm similar to yourself Phoenix, I'm growing in a mini greenhouse.
I bought my plants from Homebase a fortnight ago for 99p each.
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Left to right,Ailsa Craig, Italian Plum, Red Alert
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Alicante, Money Maker, Beefsteak
Most have flowers developing but none have so far flowered. I've had terrible success over my last 2 growing seasons with a very poor crop from each. I'm wondering am I doing something wrong?
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Tony - never doubted you!! But why you & not me - ever??
CO2 - you won't be potting up yet will you - I doubt that the roots are half formed yet, so no gain.
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(http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s121/shirlton/ShirleyTomsinGHatplot.jpg)
These are Tony's in the GH at the plot. 9 Shirleys. grown in buckits with the bottom cut out
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Very professional! Some folk must start at Christmas??
Some of mine are still 2" high.
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Feb Tim, But I still have some 2" high that we are growing for the kids and for my GH
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I kept some seeds from a plant I had last year and its coming up great. I didn't plant it until a few weeks ago and its not as strong as the shop bought ones but this is staying on my window sill. It should produce small cherry tomatoes, can't remember the variety of it:
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some of my tomatoes are falling ill already.
variety's ildi are developing yellow n greying leaves. wonder is it mould. or early blight???? it is on the variety ildi which ive never grown before.
they are in pots.
also have another plant which has developed speckling leaves ( faded n becoming slightly see through.
i removed the damaged leaves..... but maybe i should just chuck them?
this is on a red pear variety.
i'm beginning to wish i'd stuck to moneymaker and gardener's delight.
they are in an unheated greenhouse.
anyone any advice. dont have pics to put up unfortunately.
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Mine are currently about 1ft tall. I am growing them in containers this year as opposed to in buckets with holes in the bottom. I have lined the greenhouse with plastic. With taking on a second plot it will be one less thing to weed whilst keeping the outside ground weed-free. ::) ::)
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comfrey leaves laying around some of my tomato plants at the lotty
Marmande x 2 Korol Gigantov x 2 and Gardeners delight x 8
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'Whippersnapper' planted out in windowboxes this morning.
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Does this mean i can plant my tumbling toms now??? ;D Looking good tony
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We are considering it MummyBunny...
If, like Tonybloke, they are on a windowsill the wall will provide a little extra heat at night.
Becca, how big are the plants? Are they still in the 3" pots you get them in? If so I'd suggest the compost has run out of nutrients and they are getting potbound nad starved... they will loose some leaves at that stage if not potted up into slightly larger pots and some fresh compost... :-\
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those are just outside my back door, the brick shed is a good heatsink, I can fleece or bubblewrap if I need to at night. and I live less than a mile from the sea, so very few frosts in May. ( I also have some spare in the greenhouse if these get frosted heavily) ;)
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variety's ildi are developing yellow n greying leaves. wonder is it mould. or early blight?
they are in pots.
What type of compost have you used?
You may have a magnesium defficiency; http://www.thegardenersalmanac.co.uk/Data/Soil-Magnesium/Soil-Magnesium.htm (http://www.thegardenersalmanac.co.uk/Data/Soil-Magnesium/Soil-Magnesium.htm)
also have another plant which has developed speckling leaves ( faded n becoming slightly see through.
i removed the damaged leaves..... but maybe i should just chuck them?
this is on a red pear variety.
Have you warered them overhead?
Droplets of water can magnify the effects of the sun and burn/scorch the leaves.
i'm beginning to wish i'd stuck to moneymaker and gardener's delight.
they are in an unheated greenhouse.
Who knows you mught have had the same problem with these!
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Half way there - but quite a way to go!
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love your glasshouse, tim!! ;)
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Good God... that's bigger than my house!
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The mystery of what really happened to Crystal Palace is revealed.... the "fire" was just a government cover up.......
It's great TIm, I'm like a man possessed.... or at least, wants to possess....
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variety's ildi are developing yellow n greying leaves. wonder is it mould. or early blight?
they are in pots.
What type of compost have you used?
You may have a magnesium defficiency; http://www.thegardenersalmanac.co.uk/Data/Soil-Magnesium/Soil-Magnesium.htm (http://www.thegardenersalmanac.co.uk/Data/Soil-Magnesium/Soil-Magnesium.htm)
also have another plant which has developed speckling leaves ( faded n becoming slightly see through.
i removed the damaged leaves..... but maybe i should just chuck them?
this is on a red pear variety.
Have you warered them overhead?
Droplets of water can magnify the effects of the sun and burn/scorch the leaves.
i'm beginning to wish i'd stuck to moneymaker and gardener's delight.
they are in an unheated greenhouse.
Who knows you mught have had the same problem with these!
they are in good compost mix.(cant remember the name) n they are about same height as shirlton's one's in pic above. (not good with measurements haha). I dont think they could be magnesium deficient as have a good compost with a plant boost mix added( had magnesium in it and also have some from home compost bin.. I grew them from seed, and have them transplanted into 9 inch pots.
i think the second illness could be due to water damage, they are on a shelf below plants and think there might be a constant dripping down on them in the greenhouse.
It was only the first mouldy leaves on the one plant that i was concerned about. - I had a full grown plant die on me towards end of last season due to blight.
the plant isnt in that soil ( its in pot) but I didnt change the soil in the greenhouse- should i have?
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I so love your greenhouse Tim, I want to move in!
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Remember that TG & others have 4 or more.
Anyway - bit by painful bit. Another 12 to go!
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Hi Tim, I thought you usually cut your grow bags in half and went vertical?
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how many tomatoes do you get out of there ??
Great Work :)
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WOW - I have serious greenhouse envy (as well as shed envy....) now! V impressive toms too - was getting worried but glad to hear I'm not the only one with 2" toms! ;D
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biggest ones, as of today ;D
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Cuttting bags? Nothing 'usual' in this house! But getting too old for clever ideas.
Produce? I'm going to check this year. 79 plants.
Later - not my year. Damping off or other ailments? Never. Not me!
Just looked in the lean-to..................
Make that 78!!
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A lot of Tomatoes there Tim , Do you Eat /Sell Give them away ?
Are they all one type ??
Too old for idea ??? Never ;D
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Oh yes and Do let us know how many Pounds / Ok Killos Then you get out of the greenhouse :D
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Progress?-over 200 sold but still plenty more in need of a home.
But I have now planted out a few for myself
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Which have you kept for eating, Stephan??
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That`s always the problem Tim-I only have room for about 25? plants.
It`s a balance between growing for next year`s seed and my personal favourites.
Black Russian is always there though as is Sweet Million,and since I found some `Blaby` hiding under the staging I`m keeping a couple.
I go on and on about Brandywine and Caspian Pink but the truth is-I have taken a year out to grow others-Oh well some suppliers rely on us buying new seed now and again?
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Blimey Tim, what do you do with them all?!!! :o
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Eat, share, freeze, sell.
Stephan - does BW really need hand pollinating?
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does BW really need hand pollinating?
Tim-if that means Brandywine-not as far as I know and have grown them on and off for 16 years now
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Thanks - Simpsons suggest that it might.
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I go on and on about Brandywine and Caspian Pink but the truth is-I have taken a year out to grow others-Oh well some suppliers rely on us buying new seed now and again?
How about growing Pink Brandywine? Two for the price of one :)
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I have planted up six in the black buckets and six more are a week or so away from final potting, they are a mixture of Delight, Beeftseak and Alicante. ;D ;D ;D
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this afternoons update
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Thems big uns aint they Tone
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gardeners delight !! (by name and by nature!!)
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These are mine 40 in total all shirley.
trying loads of others.(http://i475.photobucket.com/albums/rr111/gardentg44/alottmentphotos004-3.jpg)
monymaker ,alicante,g delight,fantasio,beefsteak.
nowhere as big as yours though tony.
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A bit younger than yours Tony, they are Shirley, Juliet, Sun Gold, Lemon Tree and Olivade. Looking forward to a good harvest from the lovely summer we are going to have ! ???
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Starting to get on top of mine
Polytunnel
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Greenhouse two
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Finaly what tomatoes should be looking like
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today
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Ginormous, Tony! Remind us how & when you sowed, & how grown on?
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After always sowing my toms far too early as previously we didn't have a greenhouse, I sowed by toms really late this year. I think I actually left it too late. Mine are still tiny (only just beyond true leaf stage). Not good! I can't make my mind up to bear with these ones or to just go out and buy some plants. We have a greenhouse now and I was hoping to put the toms and cucumbers planted out in there next week. Yours look great Tony. I do actually have 1 dwarf cherry plant in flower that I planted back in November. Wanted to get a few more than that this year though!
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Ginormous, Tony! Remind us how & when you sowed, & how grown on?
sown on Feb 28th, germinated on Mar 4th, pricked out on Mar 7th (in heated propagator, inside mini greenhouse, inside unheated greenhouse at home)
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todays update,
Marmande
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God pics Tony. ;D
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Can't all be professionals!! Late, but we'll get there.
But WHY can I NEVER get a truss to set uinder a foot? Except, in this case, for Costoluto & Whippersnapper (thanks Tony!) ?
PS The green posts are to keep the hose off the plants.
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Well, for a change I actually do have some flowers on some of my plants......but.....they are still in 4" pots and not in their final positions yet!
I blame the plant sale, I haven't got room in my greenhouse until I have a clear out then..... ;D
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Bring some stuff up to the big greenhouse if you want to put them into position Deb... :)
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yesterday evening in the unheated allotment 8 x 6 greenhouse
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I give up!!
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Mine only got planted in their final positions about 10 days ago, so look more like Tim's did at the end of May.....sigh :-\
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I give up!!
They just planted earlier than us tim. mine are only just flowering as well.
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some of ours today
tigerella, golden sunrise and eric's sundance from south africa :)
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So what's that shoot doing in the middle one??
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don't worry, Tim, it's now in it's own little plot of land, freebie ;D
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looking good manic's !! ;) ;D ;D ;D
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can't wait, just want one, we're refusing to buy the cr@p the supermarkets sell so our salad is tomato-less ;D
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well, would you adam and eve it? the outdoor toms were first this year!!
whippersnapper, tasted great! ;)
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[attachment=3] lunch ;) ;D ;D ;D
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Which Supermarket are you using, Tony??
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What with those cucumbers as well I think I might pay him a visit soon-any decent places for lunch Tony?-I love oysters
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Tim is that an Alton cedar green house, looks like mine but yours is HUMONGOUS!!! :o and they look like good toms hope you have lots of recipes to use them all up.
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I hope Tim will excuse this gentle tease-he doesn`t have a green house-it`s a bloody hangar!!
Only a bit smaller than these
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardington,_Bedfordshire#Airships.2C_barrage_balloons_and_RAF_Cardington
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Which Supermarket are you using, Tony??
none for tomatoes, Tim !! ;)
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Cleo - been there, done it!
Used to pass those every to & from school.
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Cleo - been there, done it!
Used to pass those every to & from school.
I do remember that -I only made the `Modern` :)
And that`s co-ed these days-what ever happened to the Girls High School and Dame Alice??
Sort of ruins the chase really
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My "Vanessa" tomatoes as at 9am this morning.
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looking good 'up north' ;)
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very, very close to having the first tigerella, it's just turned pink ;D
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how are you coping with the wait? LOL ;)
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not had a tomato since march, waiting ;D
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it'll be worth the wait, you know it will !! ;)
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The first red tomato was spotted in the polytunnel this morning---and it had BER :(
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B***ER!!
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;D
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looking good but noting red yet
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plenty there though ,davy ;D
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plenty there though ,davy ;D
Got some beautiful trusses one with more than twenty on unfortunately they will be to early for the show bench.
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not too early to eat, though , I've a couple on the tigerella like that, never had so many ;D
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Be PATIENT!
Don't grab them before what you have bred them for & then say well, these are tasteless!!
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Gardeners Delight
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More G.D.
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Korol Gigantov
(no supermarket 4 me, Tim;) )
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god grief, those look good ;D
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Mind that Nettle, Tony!!
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thanks for the warning Tim!! (well spotted, it's nice to know someone actually looks at your photo's) ;)
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god grief, those look good ;D
god grief? LOL that's a new sort of grief to me!!
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God has every reason to be sad!!
And the Tattoo, Tony? V artistic. Subject?
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god grief, those look good ;D
god grief? LOL that's a new sort of grief to me!!
no excuse ;D ;D ;D
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We had our first pickings yesterday...
Whippersnapper, tumbling Tom, Gartenpearle all from the baskets... and a solo sungold... :)
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my tomatoes are no bigger than a large marble at the moment I have 20 marmande 20 alicante about 8 moneymaker and a few cherry toms at home here in bolton. I want my toms now, the fresh succulent delicious tasteing gorgoues aaaarrrrgghghgh :P
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... and a solo sungold...
If only....
Hopefully soon.
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It's weird; although my tomato plants were pretty late in being planted into their final positions, and were nearly all flowering when they were, 'Sweet Olive' is usually the first to fruit and ripen, but this year althought it had fruit first, 'Thai Pink Egg' looks as though it will win the race this year! Also doing well, HSL 'Orange Heart', 'Orange Banana' and 'Legend' have started to change colour slightly.... ;D
I'm trying something different this year, no sideshoots or leaves below the first truss, then letting them go, tying in the sideshoots as they grow. We shall see if I get a bigger yield this way!
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Intresting Deb, i think you may get a bigger crop quantity wise, but i wonder if you will be down on size and wieght, wonder if this will affect the size of the seeds
Regardless, hope it works the way you want it
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Tony - not sown till 15 May but a bit daunting??
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if half of those flowers set....................................... ;)
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some of todays tom's. going to enter them in local flower / produce show 2morra
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I would have put a photo of my pickings, but its hardly worth taking a photo of two black russian toms
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We had the first of the season yesterday-`Matina`- a standard red with a decent flavour-nothing too complicated and fairly low in acid.
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Yipee!! I won the Tomato class at my local hortic show !! ;) 8)
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Well done TonyBloke,
Mine are not there yet, but I am sure the little green ones will go red in time. Me thinks I put them out to late.
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Well done Tony... :)
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Well done Tony what did you bench.
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15 gardeners delight, 1st prize
2 cucumber 'cumlaude' 1st prize
plate blackcurrants (sprigs) 1st prize
9 runner beans 1st prize
plate redcurrants (sprigs) 2nd prize
20 gosseberries 2nd prize
1 x single fuchsia (novice section) 1st prize and a cup!!
1 x double fuchsia, 2nd prize
Not a bad day !! 8) 8)
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I would have put a photo of my pickings, but its hardly worth taking a photo of two black russian toms
Davy, I'm eager to hear about your Russian toms. I'm trying Anna Russian and Black Krim for the first time. Anna is heart shaped with a definite point on the end and very flimsy looking plants though the tomatoes look like they'll be a hefty size. The Black Krim are just beginning to turn darkish orange but the shoulder is dark green still and cracked- I was wondering what color they should be to pick??
(A ground hog gnawed away half of a ripe-ish one last night >:( )
Congrats, Tonybloke- you swept them clean, didn't you!
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Sounds like a good meal, Tony?
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the show is on for 2 days, but yes, it'lll make a good meal tonight!! ;)
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Not in the running this year, but who cares??
When you consider the lack of light we have.
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any chance of some seed, tim? ;)
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Of??
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ships saint and lucciola?
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A few - e-mail me?
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I would have put a photo of my pickings, but its hardly worth taking a photo of two black russian toms
Davy, I'm eager to hear about your Russian toms. I'm trying Anna Russian and Black Krim for the first time. Anna is heart shaped with a definite point on the end and very flimsy looking plants though the tomatoes look like they'll be a hefty size. The Black Krim are just beginning to turn darkish orange but the shoulder is dark green still and cracked- I was wondering what color they should be to pick??
(A ground hog gnawed away half of a ripe-ish one last night >:( )
Congrats, Tonybloke- you swept them clean, didn't you!
I tend to go by squeezing the tomato if it has a little give in it then its ripe. The colour tends to be a brownish when ripe
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All my tomato varieties are poor this year. Plenty of green growth but hardly any fruit. I usually do OK but I will be lucky if my 15 plants have enough tomatoes on to make 2 plants worth combined at the moment
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In doors or out KT
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In doors or out KT
Indoors, unheated greenhouse. (Shirley, Roma, a beefsteak, Golden cherry tomato, moneymaker. and tumbling tom in hanging baskets for outdoors.)
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:D I've had lots of quite large green toms in my unheated greenhouse for weeks, look how hot its been, they are still green,
outside my tumbling toms in hanging baskets were green yesterday, red today so don't lose heart KT / shades x
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these 'gigantov' are living up to their name 8)
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just eaten our first 2 golden sunrise ;D
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I picked Sungold last week, always the first to ripen with me.
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Finaly got my first decent toms
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they look lovely davy, and bet they tasted lovely, too!! ;)
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Finaly got my first decent toms
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Finally mine are still green like me looking at these pictures.
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Had a couple of Couer De Beouf ripen early (BER) but cut it out and ate the rest ... :)
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Great picture Davyw1, making my mouth water. My tomatos are green but are going a paler green from bottom to top, is this a sign of gradual ripening or misplaced optimism?
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this Korol Gigantov is starting to redden, and I reckon it'll be the largest tom I've ever grown.
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todays harvest
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a mix of 'marmande' 'korol gigantov' and 'gardeners delight'
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Small, yes - but wait till you see the big one!!
Brandywine.
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mine are all green still, and the ones outside seem to be doing been then the greenhouse ones. :'(
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Not a great beauty. Had to pick it before its time becaue it was going soft.
Amish Paste.
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In a Basil Salad last night.
PS But see Brandywine tonight. 1lb of Tomato.
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It must be that time of the year but I`m already getting fed up with things to do with tomatoes.
I`ll regret saying that in a few months time I know :)
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Try Chickens??
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Process the glut for use in the winter, it will be here soon enough...
Thanks Tony... they arrived today... :)
Just been picking over the greenhouse... have about 3kg... :-X
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I picked two blue box fulls this morning wieghed and baged them, sold 13lb in 10 minutes.
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IO gre Black Krim this year and I'm well impressed with it. It's another one of these dark eastern-european beefsteaks adn you have to be on your toes about its ripeness as the fruits start out pale green, then go dark-green with brownish-purple coming through, and that's when they're ripe.... if you let them go dark red then they're over-ripe..... They look dreadful, flesh is brownish-green-purple (has to be seen to be appreciated really) but they taste pretty good and they taste ridiculously good baked or grilled. What really blew me away though is how early they are. I sowed four types of tomatos together back in March, the Krim, Gardeners delight, Alicante and San Marzano. THe GD managed about five fruits between them before the Krim started to ripen, we've been cropping both for a couple of weeks now and the first Alicante are just starting to ripen..... THis is in an unheated greenhouse in 14" pots, proably a bit crowded and limited to four trusses per plant. Dripper watering.
Some of the Krims are big sods adn one of those is just ripening now (I noticed this morning). I will try to get a photo over the weekend.
They do have all the beefsteak bad growth habits though, they fork, they gtrow blind into a leaf, they grow blind into a truss and they throuw some truly ugly kingfruit, but they taste good and they are the eearliest I've ever grown any beefsteak. I'll definitely have them in the GH again....
chrisc
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They do have all the beefsteak bad growth habits though, they fork, they gtrow blind into a leaf, they grow blind into a truss and they throuw some truly ugly kingfruit, but they taste good and they are the eearliest I've ever grown any beefsteak. I'll definitely have them in the GH again....
chrisc
;D ;D-Welcome to the world of growing the more `unusual` types of tomatoes.
If you didn`t know it before you know now why it`s not always possible to give advice on tomato growing-some of the best tasting ones have so many `problems`that it`s a matter of discovery
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They do have all the beefsteak bad growth habits though, they fork, they gtrow blind into a leaf, they grow blind into a truss and they throuw some truly ugly kingfruit, but they taste good and they are the eearliest I've ever grown any beefsteak. I'll definitely have them in the GH again....
chrisc
;D ;D-Welcome to the world of growing the more `unusual` types of tomatoes.
If you didn`t know it before you know now why it`s not always possible to give advice on tomato growing-some of the best tasting ones have so many `problems`that it`s a matter of discovery
Heh heh..... I think of them as being a tomato equivalent of Pink Fir Apple potatos..... you wouldn't gow that if it wasn't for the taste :-) .... That said one of the Krims forked, both sides grew blind into a truss, then one of the trusses threw a sideshoot which I ended up having to tie in as the leadshoot.... which explains why the main stem on that one turns into a truss for about a foot then turns back into stemj.....
chrisc
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A bit of bad timing 10 days to early for best truss
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I have an almost ripe "Ananas"/Pineapple in the big greenhouse.. :)
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I have an almost ripe "Ananas"/Pineapple in the big greenhouse.. :)
What are they like to grow
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Like most beefsteaks... can get confused but less aggressive than say Giant Tree... :)
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Like most beefsteaks... can get confused but less aggressive than say Giant Tree... :)
The reason for asking is i am not a lover of beefy toms, not because of the flavor because of they tend to go blind. I have a yelllow which is a great cropper the name i dont know, i got it 20 year ago and the grower who give me it had been growing it that long he had forgot the name. It did that well on the show bench we called "show yellow" hoping to put a stand of six in the village show tomorrow and some from that truss for a stand of red.
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Good luck with "show yellow"... have you asked HSL about it... they may be able to identify it or if not find it a "Home" in the collection... :-\
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I must invest in a better camara, hoping that this is going to spot on for the first monday in Sept
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