Every year i got fever,symtomes are a desperite need to sow so many tomatovarieties as i can.Last weekend i had my first stage more will follow.In my first stage of my illness i sowed the following varieties:Green bell pepper,Grushovka,Basinga,Mule team,Costoluto genovese<Federle,Nepal,Noir de crimee,Bordo,Granny cantrells,Cleoto pink,Khurma,Ghanti,Green cherokee,Rose beauty,Naygous,White heirloom,Kosovo,Mennonite orange,Green zebra,Auntie madges,Purple calabash,Wladecks,Salt spring sunrise,Jersey sunrise,Ackers west-virginia,Wapsipinicon peach and Mexico. Oeps feel some fever coming on for next weekend,will be continued.
Slap on a cold compress quick ruud ;D Have saved this list to my Note Booke for next year! Crikey!
I didn't even know there was so many varieties
Good grief ;D ;D
Ah... that might explain a lot. Do the symptoms include itching (to sow more) and paranoia (that they might have been sowed too early and the white fly are out to get you?) Not to mention obsessively sorting your seed packets in alphabetical order - or maybe that's just me ;D
I think I might be coming down with a serious case of tomato sowing fever soon too... ::)
Ruud I think it is contagious via the post!! Thanks to your very generous posting of seeds, i too have the same disease, but unlike you, I obviously have a different strain cos I cannot remember all the varieties I have sown! ;D ;D
PS: thanks again! Pinky X
I definitely suffer from the disease. :-\
I'm running out of indoor space. :(
Can't wait for harvesting tons of tomatoes ;D
Oh dear.
God help you all if the blight gets to you.....
Like it did to me last year.....
Still, I'm OK. :-\
Didn't upset me. :'(
No really, it didn't. :(
Bovvered? This face look bovvered? ::)
Tearing up those plants. >:(
Throwing away all those nearly-ripe tomatoes >:( >:(
no it didnt upset me as you vcan see i am calm and nhf lauler'ptb'pb'pijmi;km;m. ???
Aah, thank you doctor...... that's better. ;D
Oooh my god it is contagious,its going beyond bounderies and borders.Weeding project said the bliep words bliiiiiiiiggggghhhhht,dont mention the war (sh.......t john cleese is also involved) bligggggghhhht i mean dont mention bliigggggghhhhht.
:o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There are those that howl when the moon is full, me I smile and sow when the sun is full.
Is this another indication of the aforementioned madness? If so, long may it continue :)
The unmentionable got me last year...................its just made the tomato madness worse................am growing about 10 varieties this year instead of 4 last year and am determined to get a crop this year in spite of having no greenhouse. The strategies I'e got planned........
Sounds like its a progressive disease then Ruud?
This year I have 37 varieties to go in ...
My 2 year old is very keen on my allotment - he wants his own, so I am digging him a bed - He has asked for potatoes, beetroot, carrots, cabbages and jelly plants.
Luckily, I have tracked down a variety of cherry tom called Jelly Bean - How lucky is that?
;D ;D ;D ;D
He will go Far, that son of yours ;)
And I thought I was crazy with nine varieties!
ruud - I shall look forward to the next swapping session ;D
btw my little seeds that you kindly sent me are romping away ;)
Ruud how many hectares is your farm? :P
Hey, I'm growing 22 different kinds of potato ::)
The size of my farm is half a soccerfield and that is more than enough work to keep it all going on.
Cor MT I thought I was bad with 5!!!! :-[ ::)
What do you do with all the tomatoes?
I feel almost sane, only 12 varieties (just discovered spellcheck good int it)
only trouble is 8by6 gr/hs can't grow on lotty cus of bl**** not to be said aloud they are indoors being nursed on the w/sill at the moment cus they
looked unhappy out there and it's easier to talk to them too
I make sauce,eat them and put them in almost every recipe,got a big family and friends,neighbours and compleet strangers.I have just read that in every tomato contains a little bit anti-cancer,scientists discovered a protien that helps your body to repair cel stucture,wenn it is damaged.So that is also a good motivation to eat them,they are super healty.
Healthy indeed, we eat masses. The only drawback is, it's going to be a question of a glut for a fairly short time, then back to the market for them. This year at least I'll be poised to make masses of chutney at the first sign of blight. Last year I lost half the crop, as I was too unwell to cope when the plague hit. I hadn't even been able to stake them, they were sprawling all over the ground, and fruiting like mad anyway.
I don't have a problem with the reasons for growing them. I just can't imagine how peeps can grow vast quantities on a lottie. And find time to process the crop. And space to freeze it. and so on
I had 6 Alicante and 8 Shirley in my greenhouse last year and it was mega crowded!!
last year i made loads of pasta sauces and jarred them. delicious all the year round, i also made some passatas and froze them in the chinese take-away plastic tubs you get, gluts of toms are no match for me! ;)
Mmmm... my questionwas where do you grow them?
Last year, grew Roma, a cooking tomato - about 12 plants, outside, on a patch measuring 3 ft wide by about 15 ft long. I reckon I got about 8-9 kg per plant, the yield for the area used was pretty good.
Now that's an answer i can understand! Thanks Jen! :)
just the six varieties for me (at the moment, hopefully do another couple after we have moved but i have been allowed one gravel tray full of seedlings to keep me going until then).
marmande - huge yields and ripened well outdoors in the north east last year
yellow pear - lovely and look great
sungella - yum
tiny tim - for a mixed edible border
garden pearl - again for a mixed edible border
roma - brilliant flavour and good yields
all grew and ripened outdoors up north last year, so i expect great things in new down south garden!
I'm beginning to think I should sow another 10 trays! ;D ;D