2017 Tomato Growing

False alarm, just counted 32 flowers on a branching truss.

The top leaf growth of those stabilised open pollinated N'th generation Big Zacs can be so vigorous that it's possible to mistake a leaf for the growing point. I'm pinching out the tops when they get to 4'/1.2m high and restricting to only 1 or 2 tomatoes per plant. Never known plants so vigorous and with so many megablooms, no wonder they're producing the world and lots of national records for heaviest toms.

Here's what the seed came from




My Phill's Fantastic plants, a variety I've grown for several years, are doing better than ever this year and might produce a new pb for that variety, but I'm also growing a couple of other Biz Zac strains that might produce good results, if not at least I'll get some seeds from them for other years.

 

Grrr, the blackbirds helped themselves to my first truss of ripening black Russians. I've rescued the one they left (the smallest!) and also a tempting looking black trifele that's a couple of days off ripe. Hopefully with the current rain the birds will hop off and go nick my worms instead.

 

F!!!! tomato blight!?

 

Thank you @JWK was starting to panic.

 

What John said Give em a feed Linz

 

Today I picked my first tomatoes of the season. They are about a week overdue but they look like they are worth waiting for. The variety is Tropic, which I have been growing for several years.

 

No sign of me plums ripening yet

One of me Angelina's has set

 

@"M" s Ciligia have started to set

 

what are the white dots on the plant?

 

Thems blue, bordeaux mixture

 

My tomato forest... most at least 6ft tall...

 

Good work @Zigs Hope they are tasty!

 

Eating my own toms now........will be for several weeks now. So much tastier, and healthier, than shop bought :rasp:

 

Couldn't agree more!
I've only grown Tumbling Toms this year and I'm waiting, patiently ... I've even tried telling mine some rude jokes in the vain hope they'll blush and redden up faster