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Tomato Varieties Sown 15/3/09

1.   Clear Pink Early
2.   Blaby
3.   Greek
4.   Black Mavr
5.   Garden Peach
6.   Striped Stuffer
7.   Auntie Madge
8.   Garten Pearle
9.   Giant Belgian
10.   Orange Banana
11.    Black Prince
12.    Market King
13.   Yellow Murden
14.   Fox Cherry
15.   Britain's Breakfast
16.   Charlie Green
17.   Whippersnapper
18.   Gardener's Delight
19.   Black Cherry
20.   Big White
21.   Silvery Fir Tree
22.   Euromoney
23.   Sungold
24.   Potato Leaf White
25.   Salt Spring Sunrise
26.   Peremoga
27.   Broad Ripple Yellow Currant
28.   Eristic Trial
29.   Super Marmande
30.   Tigerella
31.   Legend
32.   Sub Arctic Plenty
33.   Cuore Di Bue
34.   Marmande
35.   Giant Tree
36.   Tangella

The green sausage are currently "missing" I know I saved some last year so they must be in another box... and Ruud is sending me a couple of varieties that haven't arrived yet....  :-X

Wow, not a bad day's work!

Only a dozen of the more obscure ones... but more of our favs like Black Cherry.
:)

Yes I must get around to sowing mine this week.... ::)

Saddad-Do you still do open days?

Yep.. 1st Sunday in June and September... 11-5pm £3 for the NGS...
;D

Take it you are fond of tomatoes then?

Can I  please remind anyone who does not know this,  that from the side shoots ( the ones we nip off) of tomato plants we can use to make cuttings which catch up very quickly.

Just stick the whole shoot into wet compost in a flower pot.

Saddad, your greenhouse must cover all of Derby

No `moneymaker ` then?? ;D

I find other plotholders "donate" moneymaker to the plant sale... we usually have 30-50 of them left but they don't get planted in the "greenhouse" as the weird ones and any that need growing out for seed get priority...  :)

   saddad, please, can't we do a A4A coach party to come and see you in Derby !

   Think I had better Google Earth,   want to see all this going on,

   I am too old for 30 odd varieties of tomatoes, but I don't mind watching !     ;D

   floss xxx

If you want to organise it We'd love to have you all, as a "party" for the NGS... they keep the cash. I'd recommend just before the "Open Day" Sale in June...

You could even get to see inside DebP's fabled shed...
:)

Bump... for the insomniacs...  ;D

As I had photobucket open I thought I'd start us all drooling in anticipation of the summer...







;D

My goodness me these are lovely, I must get sowing this week end I have the bug now .
               Lol June.

Just having a drool myself with a late lunch...  ::)

Quote from: saddad on March 17, 2009, 14:22:08
Just having a drool myself with a late lunch...  ::)

Thats too much information Saddad  ;D ;D ;D

Are any of the varieties you listed Beef toms? I tried some a couple of years ago (but can't remember the variety) and they grew to a decent size but by the time they started to ripen they were being eaten  - and not by me! I wonder if they need more heat than normal toms, as I grew mine on the patio?  I'd be interested to know how you get on with them?
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Yes several, Marmande and super Marmande are probably the best known from my list. I grow the big ones under glass... you can see one in one of the photo's with the knife...  :)

Thanks Saddad - I think the "under glass" is key with these beauts. I'll see what I can rig up in the garden....

Or polythene... many of the "bush" ones can grow well under a poly canopy, helps keep the rian off the foilage and reduces blight... they need the long season more than the heat...  :)