@JWK to have own grown tomatoes for longer and because they are different.
Has anyone any experience of ramellet tomatkes, otherwise known as Spanish hanging tomatoes. I have a few varieties growing now and wondered...
It's a Super Muliflora , I'll ask my source from spain. It has surprised me, no idea what is produced. He once called it a broccoli tomato, it...
@Balc It's still growing! I'm going to need to pay close attention to feeding this one I think...If there is anyone out there who has experience...
Anyone fancy a bit of hand pollination ? :-)
@Palustris See I said they were tricky, using the double bluff of hiding in a different plant :stirpot:
@flounder I can say provado works well, although I try not to use it. This year I had no need as I only saw a couple of beetles and they were...
@landimad Way to go, you can have a great holiday AND come back to healthy plants.
@ricky101 cool wouldn't mind one of those myself. Any experience of them and how good they are ?
@landimad I would not leave them unwatered in pots for a week. You might get lucky, but do you want to come back to dead plants if you are not....
@doubleudee Hi, you should only use wood ash or paper in your soil, and you need to make sure that the wood has not been treated or painted....
@Longarmedmonkey Welcome from another newbie. How exciting moving to your new home. I bet you are bristling full of all the potential projects...
@Hanglow Fused blossoms can sometimes produce the biggest fruits but also they can produce the ugliest ones too.
@Victoria let's hope the tomato bears fruit then we might be able to hazard a guess of what it is :-)
I've had good success with red rigglers in a sunken bucket in my beds. I just load em up with veg , spent coffee grinds, cardboard and away the...
@Sheps You can also apply it as a root drench too. The way it works, as the theory goes, is the salicylic acid which aspirin breaks down into with...
If you want to be appraised of conditions conducive to blight lookup hutton criteria and pop your email address into blightwatch.co.uk to get...
Hi @Sheps EB is different from late blight, it doesn't generally kill the plant but does set you back depending on how severe. Cutting off the...
@JWK Stupice for me last year was a very strong plant. It withstood blight and must have been over 14ft in length and still kicking out fruit...
Last year we had an abundance of cinnabar caterpillars and moth.This year the house is no longer empty and the neighbours have been keen...
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