Tomatoes, tomatoes and more tomatoes!

[cambourne7]

All my toms have been late ripening this year - with the exception of Totem, which seems to have shrugged off deluges, high winds and the odd scorcher. Will def. grow them again next year.   Sungold sounds interesting Chris.
Cambourne - sorry to hear about the blight.  Hope the others are ok though.

Thanks Ellkebe but they have just gone black and fallen over :(

[cambourne7]

[Emagggie]

Just tasted 1st orange banana, that was a dissapointment ::),a bit woolly and not as flavoursome as it looks, so I'll cross that off then....

Bad luck Cam :(

[ellkebe]

Oh Cam  :(   There's always next year though.

[real food]

While Black cherry produced a huge crop for me, I find the flavour not a patch on Sungold. Black cherry is also about 3 weeks later and has been slightly affected by Blight.

[cornykev]

Ripped all mine out the lottie yesterday, covered in blight, but garden ones seem OK so far, I shouldn't have said that.  ???   ;D ;D ;D

[shirlton]

Hey Kev you should grow have grown Shirley. hahahhaha

[tim]

Emaggie - never judge a variety on one fruit. You may have several in a row that are unimpressive - possibly due to treatment at the time.

[Emagggie]

Then I shall carry on eating them Tim. There are some lovely fruits on the plant.
Tried Green Grape today, they were beautiful.

[sawfish]

Tomatos here in Glasgow have been useless due to our non summer up here.

[Barnowl]

We have what might be called creeping blight - it moves very slowly, so it's a race between the fruit ripening and getting blighted.

The infection sets in either in the leaves and then spreads to the stem, or the stem itself,  usually where the plants outer skin has been rubbed or weakened.

Good Resistance: Shirley F1, Sungold, Gartenperle, an Italian plum (Follia F1) Idyll and Gruschovska

Fairly good resistance:  Ailsa Craig, and my (late planted) Japanese Trifele  .

Not good resistance: Santa F1,  NectarF1, Juliet F1; Costoluto, Latah

Wipe out: Black Russian

New growth seems unaffected at the moment, but I expect the infection will continue to travel upwards.

[greyhound]

Same here.  We've managed to get quite a lot of fruit ripened (even some beefsteak ones), but don't hold out much hope for the topmost trusses.

Sungold has stood up quite well, so has Harlequin F1. 

[cornykev]

Shirl I suppose the Shirley Toms are sweet but a bit fruity, sorry Tony.  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D :-*