Tomato Growing Thread 2022

Heres hoping for a good year! i bought a few cool tolerant ones from tomato eden to try out.

Costoluto Fiorentino- indeterminate beefsteak
Bloody butcher - early, indeterminate
Cherokee purple - mid to late indeterminate
Cherry Rosella - mid cherry indeterminate
Gordorst Sibiri - not tried before, seems to be a mid season indeterminate but tomato eden says different....Early determinate
Honeycomb F1 - supposed to split less than sungold....
Kardynal- mid season oxheart
Sevryuga- mid season indeterminate
Sungold F1- we all know this one
Aurora- determinate early from real seeds
Azoychka- early indeterminate, yellow
Banan Krasnyi- early semi determinate,
Crimson Crush F1- blight resistance
Dwarf Parfait- late season dwarf, freebie seeds from tomato eden, will try on my patio I think

 

My plans so far:

Galina - yellow cherry vine
Brad's Atomic Grape - multicolour grape vine
Matt's Hornet - striped grape vine
Green Zebra - green and yellow striped vine
Malachite Box - early green beefsteak vine
Mat-Su Express - early red beefsteak vine
Northern Lights - early pinky orange beefsteak vine
Tumbling Tom Red and Yellow - cherry tumblers
Golden Grape - gooseberry sized yellow fruits, bush
EM Champion - early red bush

A lot of these are new to me, the only ones I've grown before are the tumbling toms, golden grape, galina and green zebra so I'm really looking forward to seeing (and tasting!) what they are all like.

 

Cutting down this year as only one small greenhouse as the person who looks after my large greenhouse is finding it too much to look after when i am on holiday.

My choice for this year

Sungold A must for me
Tigrella I like the zingy taste when just ripe (orange)
Juanne Flamme the fruitiest taste
Steak Sandwich A nice tasting larger tomato
Honeymoon New to me going off JWK's report on taste
Honey Combe Another new one for me

rgds Sandy

 

I'm thinking about 2021 unsuccessful season in the greenhouse (growing directly in the soil). I didn't enrich soil before planting last spring, I didn't water it during the previous winter, and actually in autumn I had to water a few times a day for a week to wet the compost in the greenhouse. No surprise my toms barely had roots left. I did things wrong. This autumn I added well rotted horse manure, sowed phacelia, dug it later into the soil. Applied thin layer of a fresh compost on top. Watering once a week. Now collecting rainwater for watering. I plan to plant tomatoes in bottomless bags this season, so that they get fully fresh compost in the beginning.
How are you preparing for the next season aoart from choosing seeds? Re seeds, I haven't decided on the full list yet. Will do a couple of dwarfs, Alice's Dream (my name tomato ), sungold and black cherry and a couple of others.

 

Yes, I start with lamps too: on the windowsills plus lamps over the plants. I managed to get decent plants by mid May last year in pots to plant out.
For shading I used that white horticultural fleece, but it disintegrated with time... just turned into the dust. But it wasn't needed by that time actually. Ventilation - opened roof window and 2 glass panes on the side out for the summer. My greenhouse is small 1.8 x 2.4 m, and it doesn't keep warmth much, so it's more protection from rain and wind.
I really would like some watering system, so that I can go away during the summer. So far I have a collection of plastic bottles in the shed. Would fill and pierce them to give water to plants.
I want to organise leaky hose at least from rainwater.

 

I can't post in 2021 tomato forum now I don't think, so putting this here instead.
So pleased I didn't take the advice to bin my first try at tomato plants last year - I ended up with 200+ fruits in the end and had 2 plants per pot too. I'm sure in the whole scheme of things 200+ isn't a huge crop and I could have had tons more had I done things differently .... but it was enough for me!

Not doing them again however ........ happy growing y'all

 

Just two varieties:-
Ddraig Goch - indoor cordon And outside - no blight and produced in any size container
Crimson Crush - outdoor variety guaranteed blight free, and it certainly was!
Bought them, amongst lots of gardening stuff from Medwyn Williams, try him! Very interesting even if you, like me, never show!

 

Why not again? It was a success

 

Was tempted for 1 more variety - ordered Hundreds and Thousands to grow in a large pot.

 

After a couple of years with the new greenhouse and the variable climate to work with, the plan of action is now down to focusing on Sweet Million cherry, and go-to-safe-as-greenhouses Gardener’s. Seeding in the first week of Feb and weekly for 5 weeks or so, and just potting on in the house till they’re a good 4ft and then outside in the greenhouse May-ish. Reaped rewards last year with a crop from late May through September, and a new found appreciation of tomato chutney. Ground planting is just a no-no, and even though last summer was pretty reasonable for us, the wind chill is always a killer of tender sorts.