tomatoes.

lizzyb1812

I'm not an expert but Tumbler and Sungold are good. You can do tumbler in a hanging basket or let it hang over the side of a pot - I've been picking them for about 3 weeks now. Sungold are prolific and taste fabulous

The advantage of Shirley is that it produces larger tomatoes, but I prefer the smaller ones for the taste and haven't grown Shirley again, despite now having a small greenhouse.

There is a variety called Latah that is supposed to be very early - I tried it this year but lost my seedlings when "life" intervened with gardening for a while. I shall definitely try again with the rest of the packet next year - I want to extend the growing season as much as I can.

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my problem is that I am reallty worried about tomato blight. A friend down the road lost all her plants last year and she said it was very sudden. I would prefer to ripen all my fruit on the vine but I daren`t hence me wrapping a load in newspaper. At least they ripen much more quickly and I get to make and bottle the roasted tomato passata, instead of endless green tomato chutney. The ones I have wrapped are all at different stages and in 5 separate boxes. Sungold have been trouble free and have ripened very quickly outside

rabidbun

I am growing Red Alert, Bloody Butcher and Sungold this year, along with Venus and a couple of random others from garden centre seeds.

Red Alert and Venus have given most, then Bloody Butcher and Sungold are way behind. Also hoping for no blight as even the ones in the greenhouse are poking out of the door at the moment as they're so huge!

raven83

Just to let you all know, my tomatoes finally started turning red about 2 weeks ago after waiting patiently for ages for anything to happen! Just goes to show with patience and plenty of water and sun they do turn and boy do they taste good! So hang in there guys and they will turn in time

pendulum

I'm worrying about mine now, because my outdoor plants have got loads of big, green tomatoes but not one has ripened yet. Some of the ones I'm growing inside have ripened on the vine and have been for a long time. I think I should pick them and let them ripen on a window sill at this point?

Farway

pendulum wrote: »

I'm worrying about mine now, because my outdoor plants have got loads of big, green tomatoes but not one has ripened yet. Some of the ones I'm growing inside have ripened on the vine and have been for a long time. I think I should pick them and let them ripen on a window sill at this point?

Depends where you live, I reckon to leave mine until October at least, and hope for Indian summer, but I am in south Hampshire

pendulum

I'm in South East (Southend) area. I'll stop worrying and leave them be for now then!