Tomato Growing Thread 2022

Yes an amazingly tidy greenhouse! Think I'd be careful entering? Is there somewhere to put my shoes/welly's? Seriously though, ALL our greenhouses should be as tidy! We'll done!
Not sure I'd be so particular as to put the leaf- minered plant outside? The plant's been infected by the adult and the maggot will stay in its plant until it emerges as adult. If its not its appearance that the cause of it being ostracised, perhaps a search and pin would allow you to kill it?
Actually going to pot up my Tom's this afternoon with or without the Micorhyza (still havent found the package!) Going to try some outdoors in some black polythene potato 'bags' as there are holes in the base to allow roots to utilise basal soil, pity to waste it, and them!!

 

Glynne, I've not had to deal with leaf miners before so it's going to be trial and error. Thanks for your suggestions.

 

I fear my Ukrainian seed order is floating in a bomb crater somewhere.

 

Missed something here? What did you order? Ah! Have I taken this post too literally?

 

Probably sunflower seeds.

 

Didn't mean to cause confusion. A (mainly tomato) seed company in Ukraine has been declaring that it will not let the war stop them and asking for support from their customers. I obliged by sending them an order. Sadly, the parcel tracking hasn't been updated in almost a month, so I must assume my seeds are lost to the conflict. At least the company has the money.

 

I ordered something, not seeds, from Ukraine about 3 yrs ago if I remember rightly it took months even then.

I don't think postal services was ever a priority out there ever.

Even stuff to and from Europe seems to take ages, and it probably has to travel through Europe from Ukraine.

We might have come second in the Eurovision song contest but I think we have a long way to go before we get forgiven for Brexit.

 

From experience, it used to take about three weeks for orders to arrive here from that company, so not to be left until last minute. (If you want your seeds in a hurry, go for Vertiloom in Belgium.)

(And I'll never forgive this country for Brexit but that's for another thread.)

 

As you say best in another thread.
But kind of proves my point.

 

Hovering around 15c daytime and 8c nightime temps here, not the best for outside toms but the inside ones are at least making some progress. Got flower buds forming on all but the late season dwarf ones.

 

One of my Bloody Butchers has decided it's a dwarf. It's stuck at about 30cm tall but is chucking out fruit like nobody's business.

 

Meanwhile, in my friend's garden, Maskotka is just starting to show signs of ripening.

 

Hi everyone...this image was posted on another forum but didn't receive any feedback as to what the problem might be, so on behalf of that member I thought I would post it on here to see if anyone can help, hope you don't mind.




Cheers

Sheps...

 

Thanks very much, John...the quick response is very much appreciated.

I will pass on the information.