Tomato Growing Competition 2012

Welcome to one of this year's Competitions,

The Giant Tomato Challenge

The aim being to grow an Olympic sized Tomato for this Olympic year:D

In the interests of fair play, we'll have 2 categories, outside and under glass.

You may grow the variety of your choice, the suggestions so far have been :

Giant Delicious - Available from Tomato from Victoriana Nursery Gardens - For Home Delivery Of Quality Seeds, Plants, Aquatics, Hedging & Fruit Seeds

Big Boy - Big Boy Tomato Seeds | Growing Tomato Seeds | Marshalls Seeds

Thank You Vince

Phil's Fantastic and Monster - P and P Seed: Giant Tomato Selections

Thank You Scrungee

Big Zac - Exhibition Seeds Tomatoes European Greenhouse type

Thank You j.r.
Other Seed Suppliers are available.

Let the fun begin

 

Two more sources:

VEGETABLE SEED - Tomtoes - Giant Tomato P.G. Selection - Medwyns Prize Vegetable Seeds

Clive Bevan's Giant Vegetable Seed

Or I've got 300 saved Phil's Fantastic (non-F1) seeds as freebies.



EDIT: Those who've requested Phil's Fantasic seeds to date:

 

I wouldn`t mind given Phil`s Fantastic a try.

 

Kings seeds have Big Boy as well, ordered mine yesterday.

 

Some clarication please, is that started under glass (i.e. cannot be classed as outside if sown under glass?)/finished under glass/something in between, and is that heated glass greenhouses, un-heated polytunnels, glass/plastic cloches/mini-tunnels,' walls of water', etc.

And I regularly move pot grown toms outside outside when the weather permits, and then back inside again to ripen.

Some clarifaction is requied here.

 

Good points,

I'm assuming that given the length of growing season required that we will all be starting them either indoors or in a heated greenhouse. I wouldn't class a plant started off in that way and then planted out as greenhouse grown.

I don't think we need to get too technical after that. A simple grown under cover or not perhaps, after all, if you were exibiting at a show, there is no requirement to state how it was grown, I just wanted to even it out a bit for our non greenhouse/polytunnel members.

what do you think?

 

Wholeheartedly agree with ARMANDII, therefore I propose a secondary category, " Smallest/Lightest tomato" to run concurrently with the main event?

That's something we can all aspire to? :D

 

i wont join in, i think its cheating growing in sunny spain compared to rainy england. lol

if you want information on giant tomato growing look up

bigpumpkins.com

but will be growing red delicous, i think its called red delicous, not giant delicous- watch out for the mega flowers which will produce the big tomatoes

 

shouldny you grow tiny tim

 

i would like a few seeds of phils fantastic please

 

Sounds fun. I'm in . Big Zac for me!!

 

i will join in after all as actually in england could grow bigger because they take longer to mature than in spain which mature more quickly

 

Crikey. Big Zac £4 for the seeds & £3.50 P & P!! Perhaps not. How can I get hold of Phil's Fantastic?

 

Game ON. The first of my Big Boy has just germinated, still awaiting the other one and the Giant Delicious still to make an appearance.

Using the airing cupboard to speed things along, just what will we do when everyone goes "combi" boiler? :'(