Tomato Growing Thread 2023

I'm glad I decided last week not to sow my tomato seeds until March 21st! It seems that next week is going to be a very cold week & if I'd sown them earlier they would have suffered a great deal with the cold weather outside on the balcony or the poor light levels but higher temps inside the flat!
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Turning colder in March with snow after a very dry mild February 2023
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Mild February??
Not sure where they got that from.
I'm looking at temperature forecast for next week and they only seem slightly lower than this week, I think they have been forecasting at least 2c higher than its actually been.

 

Me too!! Im ridiculously excited

 

In the end I got them from Sutton’s. Medwyn wanted £3.00 with £3.50 P and P. Sutton’s supplied with a Dobies Ddraig Goch for 89p!
Tomato Seeds - Y Ddraig Goch F1 (Red Dragon) (Indeterminate) | Suttons

 

I miiiiiiight have just ordered some more tomato seeds. *nervous twitch*

 

Been tempted too but I've held off. Will sow next weekend I think

 

Five whole weeks from sowing, then just as I was about to discard the pot....

 

Sown all mine today, 15 varieties a mix of new ones and ones from last year from both bought and saved seeds.

Sungold F1, modern classic cherry
Barrys crazy cherry, OP yellow cherry with huge bunches, new to me
Cappuccino, OP a brown coloured cherry that was a freebie, new to me
Godort sibiri, OP early russian beefsteak
Sevryuga, OP pink oxheart
Azoychka, OP orange beefsteak
Banan Krasnyi, OP torpedo shaped red
Kardynal, OP oxheart
Bloody butcher, OP red salad
Crimson Crush, F1 blight resistant red salad for just outside in my wonderful scottish summer that will happen
Cherokee purple, OP purple beefsteak
Berner Rose, OP pink salad, new to me
Dwarf Melanie's Ballet, OP dwarf red sauce, new to me
Blue gold berries, OP interesting looking cherry, new to me
Skycomish, OP orange beefsteak with some blight resistance supposedly but I'll grow it inside, new to me.

 

I'll just be growing one each of most of them and maybe 4 crimson crush outside

 

I was up early this morning, so moved some of the tomato plants from the propagator house ready for purchasing.
Our varieties this year, Money Maker, Alicante, Red & Yellow tumblers, Sweet Million, Alisa Craig, Red Alert, Plum Roma, Black Cherry, Honey Combe & Super Marmande. Shirley always seems to be the best seller.

 

I bought some Honeycomb seeds and they are taking ages to germinate, I've got one tiny seedling up till now, they are T&M so I should have guessed.
I think I only had about 10 seeds in the packet.

 

They would be £3 at least down here.

 

And they would be leggy.