Tomato Growing Thread 2021

First trusses of flowers just showing on toms sown 26th Feb

 

Just sowed some Tamarillo - Cyphomandra betacea / solanum betaceum and
Dwarf Tamarillo - Solanum abutiloide.

 

All GD seedlings from @JWK up and running, sown with the last of a mix of B&Q verve and a Westland mpc. Went to B&Q for a 120lt bale of verve but all gone, wouldn't buy the 50lt as previous bags were not the same consistency. For the first time I saw that they were stocking Jack's Magic although I didn't know it was Westland. Bought two anyway plus a bag of JI2.
All toms and peppers will be potted on with Jack's.

 

The soil is so cold.
the grain with not want to germinate in a hurry,

another late harvest ....

and the Kent cherry blossom won't be pollinated now

No pollinators out and about whilst its only 3 degrees here,

JENNY

 

Soory,
wrong thread...

 

I didn't look at the contents of Jack's Magic when I bought it and didn't realise it had peat.
I shall still use it as the toms may grow better in it than last years rubbish.
I have a couple of baby plum toms growing saved from super market ones, hoping they might be tastier growing in compost than the probable hydroponic massed produced ones.

 

I've been buying toms called Piccolo, they actually taste nice for supermarket toms.

 

They are the only toms I buy from the supermarket.

 

Still too cold here to prep the beds :( I'm getting 2 degrees at 6am in the greenhouse. I'm guessing 10 degrees overnight is still needed for toms? Looks like we might get that far by early May...

 

I've got two growhouses yet to be put up for the Italian varieties, so hopefully I can get them out in a few weeks. Then the ground bed late May fingers crossed. They're still growing on nicely in pots and spending their days outdoors.

 

first tomatoes formed