Tomatoes. What next?

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I`m no expert on blight hippeechiq but it doesn`t look like it. I had a couple of tomatoes with those same patches and they ripened and cooked beautifully and others on the same plant didn`t get that blemish. I am wondering if it is because the watering wasn`t quite right as the weather has been so up and down. I wouldn`t worry

Hippeechiq

Thanks for the reply Kittie. I wondered if it might be a watering issue too, especially with the temperatures fluctuating so erratically.

They smell lovley, IYKWIM, like Tomatoes used to smell when I was a child.

I'm growing the Cherrys to eat with salad, but the Shirleys mainly to chop & boil down to freeze and then use as you would tinned tomatoes (I get through a huge amount of tinned tomatoes) so their appearance isn't vital. Obviously I'd rather they looked beautiful and blemish free, but as long as the skin markings don't affect the flavour, and you don't think anything major is wrong with the plants, then that's great

My lovely Dad ordered these as baby plants for me, along with an Aubergine plant, 6 Chilli Pepper & 6 Sweet Pepper plants, so it's been a baptism of fire really, but one I've thoroughly enjoyed. I think I'd like to try from seed next year, now that I've got the grow-your-own bug.

I see you're growing several varieties Kittie. Are you experimenting to see which taste/produce better, or do you always grow several different types?