2015 Tomato Growing

Getting a bowl of Red Alerts every few days, despite them getting blight (a few are a bit blotchy) and having their leaves removed. Despite being grown using seeds saved from F1 plants there's no difference whatsoever between them and using bought F1 seeds

 

My beefsteaks are still ripening well but they don't get any less ugly. This one comes in at one pound eleven ounces, or 750 grams. I was hoping for a two pounder this year but its starting to look unlikely.

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Which variety are they?

 

Giant Delicious.


https://www.victoriananursery.co.uk/Tomato_Seed_Giant_Delicious/

 

Mine *aren't* ripening quickly. My neighbours block out some of the sun, which is a pain.

I chopped off all the leaves at the bottom to help prevent blight and other diseases, and also took out the tops off all of them and remove some leaves that were stopping the sun reaching large trusses.

 

Hate it when the neighbours are that fat

 

More again today from the 6 Red Alerts planted in Morrisons ex-flower buckets and hit by blight

I sowed some of those, but as I don't have any planted they must have been amongst the plants I rejected for not being vigorous enough.

 

So my outside tomtoms are all coming ripe now, but they taste like water.
I feed them the same as the ones in my conservatory but they taste 10 times better than the watery ones outside. What is causing the ones in the conservatory to taste so much better?

 

WOW - just read the entire thread from start to finish.

I am starting with fruit. Mainly gardeners delight and some tumbling toms. Some are outside and others are in plastic grow homes.

None are ripening. Cold up in Newcastle upon Tyne. When they do - can you feel when they are ready to crop?

 

Are you sure it's blight? Seems a bit early?

 

All the leaves went yellow, blotchy and then started turning brown and crispy, the whole lot died (now stripped and burnt) and it was the right time after getting blight alerts, also wiped out the top growth on a patch of spuds.

 

Whenever I've been hit by blight, there wasn't any yellowing. The first sign I had was brown/black patches on the stems. Maybe there's more than one form?

 

Yep, early and late blight, different fungus.