Tomato Growing Thread 2023

I've had so many on my outdoor plants that I haven't wanted to eat them yet. I've had a glut of cherry tomatoes this year. The other ones are not so good..

 

Oh yes with a nice strong Cheese.

 

I look forward to the day when I can take a picture of my ripening tomatoes! At the way things are going I'll have to wait till next year!

 

Blight?

 

Ho, hum. To the brown bin with them.

 

I've binned the plant, plus the one next to it which had a couple of spots, plus the one next to that. The blight only appeared overnight so I hope I'm in with a chance of nipping it in the bud. Showered, fresh clothes, secateurs sitting in a pool of spray bleach. Fingers crossed.

 

Mine keep splitting, just as they start to ripen, it's even happening on the greenhouse ones, the Honey delight, the Honeycomb are not.
Crimson crush seem to be getting lumps chewed out of them just before they are ripe, I think it's snails.

 

Yes, outside. I really thought I'd escaped it, with the weather change.

 

Just sprayed my non blight resistant ones with copper.
And a few potatoes in big pots.

My outside ones are pretty poor this year, not that I have many.

 

At last. A harvest of some sort! Someone gave me a few ‘Sungold’. OMG! Sungold…where have you been all my life! (Most have been eaten before they got to the kitchen…)

 

That's a shame, I have so many I can hardly keep up with eating them. I've got three plants.
The greenhouse ones are not so good though.

 

I looks more like grey mold. It doesn't kill instantly. Phytophtora is the one that does.
When I had plants with grey mold, they still managed to go when only half a stem was affected.


.... Looking again at pics... maybe phytophtora too striking.

 

I planted my outdoor ones usual time late May, but we were getting cold NE winds and cloudy days with cold nights.
They stood still for about a month after that and have struggled to get going well.

I think Michael you were getting more sunshine around that time than we were.

Probably the lesson is, if the weather is not right, wait.