Tomato Growing Thread 2022

Those ones are Sevryuga. I got them and a few others from tomato eden, unfortunately they have stopped selling online
Sevryuga - Heirloom Tomato Seeds - TomatoEden Site.
Can definitely recommend growing a range of tomatoes, they are all so different.

 

The last ten or so posts are very interesting regarding 'modern' tomatoe growing. Agree regarding varieties grown. I learnt from my dad in the forties and fifty but we only grew one or two varieties (could it have been Gardeners Delight? that early???) Otherwise it would have been Percy on tele!!

 

I think I probably grew moneymaker for the first few years the name meant most people grew that one.
After that I remember Alicante and Alisa Craig, frkm then on it's not been any thing special, apart from one year when I grew about 10 different varieties I'd never heard of and ended up with hardly any tomatoes, which kind of put me off.
Not tried any of the "new to us" varieties I'm just happy if they are edible.

 

Hi Jwk like you 50,years ago there was no such thing as pressing a button and get some info off internet all l had was books and by me there an attotment so sometime got some snippets from other gardeners it was more of trial and error but you know I learnt alot but today with so much info I prefer just this super forum and maybe look occasionally on internet
I grew money maker tomotoes for awhile there was nothing else but when different varieties came out I thought shall.I grow another variety?but decided to stick to one I always grown then I went to a freinds house and she was growing tomotoes in baskets I liked them and so now I just grow cherry tomatoes I prefer them

 

So hoorah, looks like we might get a bit of rain today.

So have to remove this garotte bicolour, it's heavy and it's blushing. I don't want a casualty if it pours down. Others are supported nicely and I am hoping their skin is more elastic as they are more green


So here it is, 507 g of tomato

 

So another new type ripening,

This is caspian pink. Quite uniform, yet to taste. The plant suffered with a little BER in the early fruiting. It threw out a lot of fruit and I don't think it could manage it. Other plants faired better, I removed the 4 or 5 fruit and it seemed to be alright and threw out replacements.

 

SMFL is now ripening too, quite large well formed fruit. Again no idea what this tastes like but the plant alone with all its flowers was fun enough.

 

This is the multiflora hanging tomato from the ballerics, de colgar, anyone know what to do when they ripen ?

 

Hi, so I am probably the newest into growing with any conviction and attention. I remember having a small veg patch in my parents garden when I was 10. But over the years, although I liked to grow stuff it was always with limited space available and I'd flit from one thing to another. One year onions, one year flowers, etc. Always a bit of a filler of the spare time, in short supply , I had. In the last few years I have expanded more now I have a little space but it is never enough. So I try to maximise as much as possible, pushing on space and any available slot. Then I realised I just like growing stuff. I don't always eat what I produce, I am fascinated by how it grows and environment. The last few years I have taken a huge interest in tomatoes and realised the one subject that I dropped from school, biology, is perhaps the one I really should have taken. I love reading about genetics and traits and the tomato is one plant that gives a good opportunity to look into. I love heirloom varieties and reproduce the seed diligently, bit I also love the newer varieties and combinations of taste and colour and love to do my own crosses. But it's not all about taste or looks, I love to see about growth habit, development of roots, the form of the fruit, it's reliability, it's resistance to disease. I stuff as many tomatoes in my gob, in the freezer,and now my instapot dehydrator but there will always be too many. Next year, some varieties will still be in and some will be out in favour of some other variety I've not yet heard of.
It's fun, and whether it's the tiniest grape/cherry or a big Fatboy beefsteak they are all great to grow.

 

@JWK the plastic hangers are from amazon. They are really good and cheap too. I reuse them from year to year. I use kinglake tomato support j hooks . He careful not to pick different brands on successive purchases as they might be slightly different in size and makes doubling up for a longer hook a slight problem.

 

Excellent account Sunny Gin! So much like my experience. Not Gardeners Delight, that was much more recent! Moneymaker was one of the older varieties I'm sure and always grown in the greenhouse with lots of well rotted manure (dad would get local farmer to bring in a lorryload for the 'terrace' to share, good old council houses!) and I'd collect a bucket full of stuff from the hens to scatter on the soil round the toms!
Then it was Amateur Gardner, I think (as well as the wartime gardening books) But it was Ring Culture that first made me think about Tomatoes in particular. In my case it was Biology (Botany and Zoology) that got me going, and I started teaching Rural Studies/Biology from college. So Oxfordshire, Somerset and Shropshire became where we lived and planted seeds. Somehow that's what gardening is, the movement from seed back to seed. After I'd retired I was tempted back, a morning a week, to get young children through those pointless SAT tests. Wasn't difficult and they planted lots of seeds as well as finding out how Physics fitted in!!!
Shirley was the other superb variety along with Ailsa Craig. All those seeds sown!!!