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How are your tomatoes doing ?

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  • yogi_brrr
    yogi_brrr Posts: 83 Forumite
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    I get blight. I tried once to grow tomatoes outdoors, got the makings of a really good crop then the blight hit them really bad - didn't get a single useable tomato from the outdoor plants. Fortunately I'd still got my greenhouse crop, so in the general scheme of things it wasn't anything like a disaster

    Ugh! That's really annoying. I am hoping that there aren't many other growers near me so my plants don't become infected. I am growing mine in our back yard, nowhere near allotments or anything like that. Hopefully the dry weather should help too. I haven't researched it yet, but I believe there are varieties of tomato that are more resistant to blight.
  • Davesnave
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    edited 19 July 2018 at 12:30PM
    I have been picking polytunnel toms for about week now in Devon, but not Gardeners' Delight, as I have found these hard to please when spring temperatures fall overnight.


    In the past, I have grown 'fast' tomatoes based on Latah and had the first one ready as early as 9th June, but they are such untidy plants, I don't bother now.


    I grow Sungold and Floridity. More doesn't = better IMO. Anyway, mine usually grow to around 10' at which point they hit the polytunnel roof.
  • unrecordings
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    For me Ailsa Craig and either Alicante or Shirley. I can't stand shop bought tomatoes now, they all seem just tasteless.

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  • Enterprise_1701C
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    We are on Surrey/Hampshire border and ours have only just started growing really, although they were late in this year due to the previous weather. We have had no rain for a good 6 weeks and it is hard work keeping them watered, but they are getting there.

    Have to grow cherry tomatoes due to blight problems, the smaller ones tend to be more blight resistant and so far so good this year *touch wood*.
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  • unrecordings
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    I'm looking for a nice tasty cherry tomato for next year - any recommendations anyone ?

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  • Davesnave
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    edited 19 July 2018 at 12:31PM
    I'm looking for a nice tasty cherry tomato for next year - any recommendations anyone ?
    The two in my post above (Sungold & Floridity) have been praised by many people, including in RHS taste tests, but there will be many more recommendations, I'm sure.

    Of course, they're all wonderful in the seed catalogues. ;)

    'Tasty' is subjective. I've grown toms raved about by others, like Dr Carolyn, and I've been unimpressed, though those are pretty enough for showing. Another factor is soil and feeding. Mine always get lots of smelly comfrey water!
  • Farway
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    I've had some conservatory ones for a about a fortnight now, South Hampshire. My first were Balcony Yellow, then it was Sungold. Indigo Cherry Drops ripened a day ago, and Harzfeur is just colouring red now

    I've got Gardeners' Delight as well, but it is nowhere near ripe yet

    All the above demonstrates why I grow different varieties, not just taste, colour, size etc but spread the harvest a bit

    I mainly grow in the conservatory now, blight has been a problem in the past & now there is no longer access to a workable control for private gardeners, [I used Dithane, with Bordeaux mix as a poor alternative]
    Harzfeur is supposed to blight resistant, and is also the "normal" red, round & 8 to the pound type of tom
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  • Farway
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    I'm looking for a nice tasty cherry tomato for next year - any recommendations anyone ?

    As Dave says, Gardeners' Delight wins most, but I find Balcony Yellow suits my taste. I've not done a taste test yet because my GD are not ripe:o
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  • Living_proof
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    I had to take tumbling tomatoes out of greenhouse as it was too hot for them in hanging pots and I couldn't water them often enough so they went outside on the decking. I have been getting 7-8 red tomatoes every day, whereas the ones of several varieties in the greenhouse soil are all determinedly green and look weeks away from ripening. Those on the allotment are light-years away from doing anything at all, even though they have been watered daily. A really mixed bunch this year.
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  • unrecordings
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    Super - Gardener's Delight next year then. For some reason I thought they weren't cherry tomatoes - don't know where I got that from...

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