Gardener's Delight Tomato Seed Germination and Growing Thread

Hi JWK
Sungold great as always Flamme and tigrella realy good
GD, suncherry and suncherry premium are all ok very much the same nothing to write home about will not grow these three again

 

Just a note
Thinking back and looking at old photo's gardeners delight when viewed from above were not round but oval in shape slightly reduced in circumference in the middle, ( difficult to describe) I notice my so called old gardeners delight from the GC are round, however the Sun cherry and Sun cherry premium are shaped like the old GD. Not the best example in the photo. Can I ask the growers of the old GD toms the shape of their fruits.
Regards Sandy

 

Very good @JWK, really looking forward to the taste testing results.All I want atm is for anyof my millions of tomatoes to ripen! It's been so incredibly hot (greenhouse has no shading...well I do live in Scotland so not normally needed) I think it is too hot for them most of the time and it is slowing the ripening but that's a guess, I'd have thought they would have loved the massive heat but maybe not. We are also having to be a bit careful of our private water supply so loathed to dampen the greenhouse down,. Some have had the decency to start to look vaguely less green but reckon it will be another week before full production is on. The Cucumbers on the other hand....wonder if Tescos would like to buy my surplus

 

I have got 4 x 200 odd litre butts which get filled by god. However those conked out months ago but I fill them from the Spring water (don't tell my neighbouring farmer!). Your idea is really a good 1 re IBC's I'll ask daughter's BF if he could get 1 in his long wheel based van. Isn't it bonkers, usually we are well catered for in the water dept. I'll have a wee bet with you if I do get 1 or more IBCs I'll never need them. Another alternative would be to get 1 of those solar panel pumps and take water out of the burn which runs along past our property. It's low atm but still running I could maybe attach a hose to the pump and keep filling the butts I have. If I get an IBC now all I will do is swipe water from the farm which is also on the spring supply. Think Mr farmer might be a bit cross. I don't know if I can take water from the burn but the farmer does further down the road and pumps it into a IBC. If he can can't see why I can't!

 

lets hope it has the good old fashioned taste

 

No ripe ones yet, but the 2005 is twice the height of the 2012.