How are your tomatoes doing!!!!!!!!!!!!

[saddad]

Good looking Tomato basket there, Baronvon... what variety?  ;D

[saddad]

[cleo]

Mine are geting better-the `big` ones are just coming-had the first Caspian Pink for lunch

As to new(to me) so far-Piccolo(cherry) is nice but no better than sweet Million

Japanese Black Trifle-oh yes-another `must grow`

Larissa-it`s OK

Vanessa-I don`t grow many F1 types-I`ll offer it for sale next year as I have some seeds left but it isn`t going onto my `must have` list

[Deb P]

Slowly getting some ripe to try.........

Goodies so far.... ;D

Garden Peach: Slightly furry skin, very very sweet, a bit like a peach!

Realeza: Had a go with one grown from a supermarket tomato. Lovely firm heart shaped toms, with good flavour, good experiment!

Speckled Roman (largest). I kept the seeds from the largest of these last year, and now have big heart shaped stripey toms. Will save some more of the best this time too. Great taste as well.

Disappointing... :(

Jaune Flamme: Dull orange colour, no real taste of anything.

Darby Yellow & Green Striped: These go completely yellow if left to ripen, also taste of cotton wool!

My outdoor tomatoes have now got blight, both of the Golden Nuggets have succumbed completely, the others I have cut off the affected leaves, of which there are only a few at the moment. Lots of green fruit on them, hope it gets to ripen! :-\

[Tin Shed]

Best for flavour and texture so far - Speckled Roman and Legend, Tamina and Black Krim not far behind.

[baronvon]

Good looking Tomato basket there, Baronvon... what variety?  ;D

Tumbling Tomato  ?

got it from B&Q about 3" tall for £1.50 :)

Cheers

[cornykev]

I started a bit late this year and I still haven't got a red one .  :'(     ;D ;D ;D

[loopyloulou]

been n checked mine at the lotty 2day, some have blown down some have black spots on stems and leaves, some of which are yellow, loads of green toms tho!!! sun come out come out wherever you are!!! the lotty ones r doing so much better than my ones at home too, siigh, another failed yr! can i chuck black bananas round the bottom of the toms aty the lotty to help them along at all? or do they need 2b in a confined space? i reeeeeelly wanted some decent toms this yr!!! poo!  :'(

[newbies]

My tomatoes have been rubbish, even the red ones taste like supermarket stuff, I think its the lack of sunshine.
>:(

[thifasmom]

been n checked mine at the lotty 2day, some have blown down some have black spots on stems and leaves, some of which are yellow, loads of green toms tho!!! sun come out come out wherever you are!!! the lotty ones r doing so much better than my ones at home too, siigh, another failed yr! can i chuck black bananas round the bottom of the toms aty the lotty to help them along at all? or do they need 2b in a confined space? i reeeeeelly wanted some decent toms this yr!!! poo!  :'(

the bananas around the toms seems to work in confined places i tried it on my outdoor ones with no success, but my neighbour used it in the greenhouse with success.

[Sinbad7]

My toms are brilliant this year even though they are slow to rippen, have frozen some and have two punnetts of them on the window sill.  I just wish I hadn't got the labels mixed up so knew what one's were which.  Impressed with Siletz and Oregon something.

Have to say after not having any toms for the last 3 years through blight any toms would delight me.

Sinbad

[glosterwomble]

All of toms at plot (outdoor varieties) had got blight when we went on the weekend, stripped all unaffected green toms off and last night made HUGE batch of green tomato chutney which does taste lovely.  :P

The toms at home are now all showing signs of blight   :'( (outdoor ones too) so more chutney making for me I think! I really was looking forward to some proper red homegrown toms this year.

I was looking on google for blight resistant varieties and Thompson andmorgan says Ferline and Legend were both good, does anyone agree with this or have a variety (for outside) that they think is resistant?

[Gobby]

Same here Glosterwomble, has lovely large green toms and loads of them untill i got home today to find 95% of them brown topped and all the foliage dieing off :(

[isbister]

Yes Ferline seem to be resistant so far - all my Marmande have keeled over but the Ferline (Interspersed in the same rows) are completely unaffected

[toddy1064]

8 plants all over 7 feet tall with lots of fruit, so far had about 3lbs of the best tasting toms I have ever had! Cheating though, all in a greenhouse, used a hozelock auto watering system for our 2 week hol, was v dubious but it worked like a dream.
Not bad for a newbie.

[Sean and Julie]

   I guess i got around 30 plants in all and they are 7 different types shapes and sizes, most are on the allotment but some at home been picking cherry type for six weeks now the stripey ones are still green tho but loads of them so chutney jars at the ready :P

Sean

[davyw1]

I would like to say its been a good season for my tomatoes but it has,nt but on the other hand i cant complain i still had a good crop to eat but none for the show bench.
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I had two die early in the season so dug down past the compost i had put in and replaced them that the two plants in the back ground
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All was not lost as i have another three greenhouse what got different compost so i still got plenty to eat.

[Jeannine]

I picked an Aussie tom today, weighed in at 1lb 11 ounces. First time I have grown this variety, taste was pretty good but not excellent. It was one of my fun ones for this year.

XX Jeannine

[oakmore2]

I've got several different varietys growing outdoors. I started them off early enough, but none of the tomotoes are showing any sign of ripening yet. There's LOADS of them though. Does anyone know whether it's too late in the year now, or whether they're likely to ripen still? (I know nothing about growing toms!! ;D)

Thanks

[Rhubarb Thrasher]

of the 15 odd varieties i've grown this year, the star in terms of taste has been the Lime Green Salad, from America via Jeannine. Anyone else trying it? I know Jeannine had some seed

mind you, a couple of the tom seeds in this years seed swap weren't what they said on the tin!  ;D Nice tho

[cornykev]

Mine are still green.  :(   ???   :-\       ;D ;D ;D