Still going strong...
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A mixture of Whippersnapper, Garten Pearle, Reisentraube, Auntie Madge's and Roma/San Marzano..
:)
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some of the plants...
I'm too lazy to take most of the foliage off but that was after a cropping.. :)
WWWAAAAAHHHH mine are all black and rotten and in the bin :'(
I'd say I hate you but that would be mean spirited ;D Lovely toms you have there, so shiny and perfect!
Ohh..they are looking good..my outdoor ones are only just starting to ripen.. ::) No blight on them ..yet..so there is still hope for a crop..
We have been really lucky with the blight this year... I usually loose them all by mid August.
:-X
Those look great Saddad! Lost my Marmande to blight up at the top of the garden before any went red but still have the Gartenperle and San Marzano against the house alive and ripening. Not getting the quantities you have though.
I also have finally got loads of tomatoes They are very late. I had two 2009, and about 20 in 2010, so I think is was my turn to be successful this year.
I have grown some blight resistant varieties and they have been brilliant, kept the entire county free of blight. ;D Or perhaps it was the lack of rain.
I have a few blighty fruit but only two or three so far on one plant.
Just an update...
I've just been up the lottie and got yet another load... 2.5 lbs... ;D
Spectacular!! No frost yet??
I just picked bucket full of tomatoes...in all stages of the 'ripeness'...majority of them are green though.
I thought to put an end for our plants as there is wet weather coming on so I'm not going to lost the fruit.
Quote from: GrannieAnnie on October 31, 2011, 16:32:21
Spectacular!! No frost yet??
close a couple of times... 2 or 3C but no not yet!.... We usually get the first frost in early October here... :-X
Saddad,
Give us a run down on your Tomato year, and what you have them growing in, I'm planning on something similar next year, especially that you are in Derbyshire, :)
We have about 16 indoor varieties growing in two greenhouses... but the outdoor ones are listed at the start of this thread.
Whippersnapper in hanging baskets, Garten pearl in large tubs and the Madge/Marzano just planted alongside the greenhouse as in the first pictures... :)
I also have toms outside, still growing strong. I sow a few early [Jan] and most in Feb/Mar - and grow them really hard at the start germinating them inside and putting them into the unheated greenhouse as soon as they are 2 inches tall after a swift hardening off.
I choose one and grow it on indoors for early fruit. Which didn't come this year.
I'm down to 3 Tigerella plants with about 30 odd green tommies on them. :D
Going going off the weather today (shirt sleeves at work) it's ideal for Toms, :)
Best thing I tried with my outdoor tomatoes (Gardener's Delight) was an old portable greenhouse my neighbour was throwing away. It was the usual thing, good strong steel frame, flexible plastic cover, flimsy and easily broken zips.
So I planted out my toms in it early May, kept the cover on during the June cold spell, and removed the cover leaving the frame in place in early July. I got ripe toms in late July. I kept the door closed when necessary by placing blocks at the bottom and also by sticking it with gaffer tape. I used the frames to secure the plant supports, which were needed as the plants got up to six foot tall.
After expressing my thanks to my neighbour in the appropriate way I still had more tomatoes this season than I knew what to do with.
I've still got loads ripening off indoors, but TBF I've had so many this year it's hard finding the enthusiasm to deal with any more.... for most of August, September adn October I was pulling 5-10 kilos of fruit, twice a week.... I've got a big trug and it would be piled high and a struggle to lift one-handed some days.... The freezer is groaning under the weight of frozen tomato pulp/sauce base and I've only just stopped taking a punnet of tomatoes into work every day for nibbles....
And I lost pretty much all my outdoor toms to contaminated manure... all but one of the San Marzano and all the Heinz... Next year I plan on a fine mesh tunnel using scaffold sheeting, I hav ethe frame components already cut an derecting the frame will happen over the winter.... Plan is for some big onions, some strawberries, a few giganda beans, maybe some painted lima beans and a few Heinz, San Marzanao and Brandywines to go in there.....maybe a couple of cherry types for snacking on the plot too... IT's 4.5m long by 2m so I've got space to play a bit.... need to fininsh off the autowatering setup for it though...
Your plan is sounding good. I'm going to build 'bush shelter' for my new peach so plan (that is in my head) is to make it that little bit bigger so I can grow row of toms under the same roof.. ;D
My outdoor toms are giving up for the weather now. There is still loads of cherry toms but all the larger ones are in GH and slowly ripening up.
Half of the GH tomato plants are still green but only the cherry types are fruiting.. ::) Normally by now they would all be gone and just fruit hanging from the dead plants.
Cherry type tomatoes seem to be hardier and coping with cooler temperature bit better at the end of season..hmm..maybe I need to grow more of the them next year.. :-\
That's amazing - lucky you!
I lost most of my toms in June due to blight but have still got small bush tomatoes 'nova' going in a large pot at the front of the house. No sign of blight, though the other tub had to go two weeks ago, as it was blighted.
I suppose in tubs they might be better protected, at least no splash up from the soil (I don't know whether that's a way blight is spread but people often say it is). Maybe the humidity is less, as they're surrounded by tarmac!
Maybe, as Goodlife says, it's to do with the type - small bushy growth protects them? :-\
I cleared the last of mine 2 weeks ago. It has been a bumper year for toms for me. I still have a little yellow cherry, a dwarf variety, in flower and producing the odd tomato in the conservatory. I am going to try and keep it going all winter.
Still picking outdoors; another trug full yesterday.
That is amazing- a trug full!
I've about come to the conclusion I should plant sherry toms twice, the second almost midway through the season because the cherry tomato canes get long and beaten up looking and leaves are sparce by Aug. and don't produce well.
What are sherry toms?
lottie lou i think GrannieAnnie accidental misspelled cherry.
i think GrannieAnnie accidental misspelled cherry. ...or she is desperately trying to get sherry pickled cherry tomatoes to grow.. ;) ;D
GA..it won't work!... ;)
i just hope she is not trying to make tomato wine. very strong and not very taste pleasing for most people. but one hell of kick.
My mistake. It's called Senior Spelling.
(Sherried tomatoes sound terrible)
Quote from: GrannieAnnie on November 07, 2011, 22:40:56
That is amazing- a trug full!
I've about come to the conclusion I should plant sherry toms twice, the second almost midway through the season because the cherry tomato canes get long and beaten up looking and leaves are sparce by Aug. and don't produce well.
Mine were all started early; and shoved into an unheated greenhouse as soon as they were about an inch and a half tall. They were slow to get going [I keep a few indoors for an earlier start, but these go into the greenhouse] but because they were treated to cold spells at the start; they seem hardier at the end. If that makes sense.
Still picking....I need to use up the half trug left that are still in the fridge. Might make some HFW ketchup later.
Just finished picking the last of mine. Grew some Golden Peach this year (thanks to seeds from Saddad some time ago I believe :) )
Best treat of the year as I had to stop growing due to having to sell up our home. Missed my garden so badly so it was an absolute delight to hurriedly shove some seeds in a tray as soon as we got our house in Feb.
I'm back in the game! ;D
If it was me it would have been "Garden Peach" not golden.... I didn't realise my handwriting had degenerated so much! :-[
LOL its my memory. I'm getting old. ;)
Just got another two and a half pounds from the outdoor ones and about a pound from the greenhouse ones.. :)
I picked the last few of my cherry toms in a hanging basket yesterday and put them in a salad with a lettuce and some spring onions from my allotment (NOT winter varieties either)...what an unusual november this is ???
Still picking; am giving a talk tomorrow on seed saving so picked some heritage ones to take along.