2016 Tomato Growing

All 28 varieties I'm growing this year now sown.

 

I did have @Loofah , but sods law it fell of the ledge yesterday & beheaded one of my newly transferred tomato plants
But, i just potted up the severed bit & hopefully it will take

I ended up transferring them all to the greenhouse yesterday. Ive got a fleece ready & will keep an eye on the temps

28?!?! I've got 4 on the go & going to try for a few more!

 

Weather was so bad last year that there were frosts right up to June and I couldn't plant outside until the 3rd week in June, that's why plants from my first sowings having only just been pricked out into cell trays and are only 30mm high. Some seeds have only been sown today as there's minimum of 9 weeks before planting out time for me.

If I sow anything early, it's only small amounts and to be grown in pots so they can be easily grown/moved back under cover, If I lose them nothing's lost as I will sow a full amount later on, and if the earlies survive I'll have some extra plants to give to a plant sale.

 

I've got most of my tomatoes in my cold and exposed greenhouse. I've planted a few hardier ones into a raised bed, but have erected a wind-screen around them as they don't like the cold wind. (Have also got a fleece+polythene 2 layered blanket I stictched to chuck over them if there's a frost risk.) Too many of mine are outgrowing 7cm pots.
My toms don't mind colder temps (I deliberately don't grow Mediterranean varieties that prob prefer hotter weather), but other stuff like aubergines can't cope.

 

My Manx Marvels are loving it in the unheated greenhouse

 

My first tomato has set. It's on a Surprise Siberia in a 9cm pot!

 

My tomatoes seem ill

Now some leaves became these

 

not all, but the old leaves are showing like this

 

And by this morning, approx. 4 days later, every single one of them has now germinated and are showing.

 

Coming to this thread a little late...

So far I've sown
Yellow Pear (saved seed from last year's plants, an old fashioned indeterminate plant. We grew them zig-zag up trellis work on the south-west patio, and they were probably about 10' long at the end. First picked in July, last in October, picked fruit kept indoors until February!) 100% germination rate, so I have 10 plants, looking quite even in growth. Pricked out last week.
Gardeners delight, not such a good germination, so just 8 plants - pricked out yesterday.
Tumbling Tom red - worst germination rate, just 6 plants - will be pricked out this coming week.

Still to soW, I think I have a packet of Moneymaker lurking in the seed box...

...and I'm not sure what to do with what greeted me this morning in my bowl of supermarket tomatoes!

 

Thanks very much. I thought it is a disease, so keep remove the unhealthy leaves.
Now i am not worried. My Latah already have flowers. Will upload photos later.