Why have Tom's not turned red on the vine this year??
Thanks eatenbyweasels for your kind offer and for remembering my Blighted season! Think I will 'wait and see' how yours grow this season if you...
All you need is ONE plant. On Facebook today was one plant growing in a special greenhouse which produced a 32,000 harvest which is a world...
Must order my seeds for this year so that I can plant in late January/March. I will search past posts to find favourites. Really not a big deal...
Thanks very much so far for 'must grow' varieties! Hope to have more before I order!!Regarding breeding-in frost proofing! BEWARE, In my...
Many members grow multiple varieties, perhaps relatively easy to choose, but can we do the harder choice and choose a hypothetical 5 varieties!!...
Blight is a problem if you grow tomatoes. It spreads so efficiently given what Fungi need to be efficient. In my case I predicted that I'd...
Re: Crimson Crush and its blight resistance. I had blight on my outdoor cordons, including CC, and decided to deal quickly with almost all the...
Fascinating stuff about folk's thoughts on growing, or at least dealing with problems, found on their Tom's. I suppose it's good to see that there...
My holiday home is so different to home re gardening. Masses of decking/balconies for pots and I can't remember long spells of frost in the area...
You lot have some wonderful trusses, well done!! Started a week's holiday literally on the banks of the Menai Strait so no Tom's for a week!! As...
Yesterday THE GARDENER brought in a couple of gone-over flowering stalks of the giant form of Salvia patens, GUANAJUATO!! What was interesting...
As mentioned, Beyond Blue from Raven's site.
Salvias doing well this year again. The hardy ones just sped up from the ground but as I've said earlier tend to be mainly reds and pinks and...
Thanks susishoe! Must be said i always take the slightest infection as being BLIGHT!!! I immediately uproot the whole plant and get rid of it!!...
You may remember that Blight hit my outdoor tomatoes. I lost all my cordon tomatoes, pulled up and sent to non biological dumping. I even had...
Thanks Baalmaiden! I've had, SO FAR, blight in all my cordon Tom's outside, and even in ONE of my previously blight resistant CRIMSON CRUSH a bush...
Cheers Pete I agree, infection has to come from the outside! Obvious really! So whichever part is infected it will show!! Cheers JWK This is...
Cheers!! But it's the possibility of fruit being affected by fungal spores rather than the plant I.e. the blight goes into the fruit from OUTSIDE...
Didn't explain fully above that Crimso Crush is or has been for me BLIGHT RESISTANT!
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