Tomato Growing Thread 2012

That's not a bad harvest for free Loli,

 

After getting stem rot on tomatoes without any sign of leaf infection at my plot, I now have a tomato on one of my plants at home that appears to have blight but the plant doesn't have any sign of disease on it whatsoever:

 

Bit of a masacre in the blowaway today - the three Roma VF plants, which have grown well, taken over half the space & produced a total of three small green fruit are in the compost ; the remaining 6 plants have had a serious trim to increase the light & hopefully get some ripe fruit. Ive moved some pepper plants into the space.. its quite nice in there now - the bamboo thats invading from next door is loving it.

 

Today Tigerella, taste test The best so far to me, from Shirley, supersweet, totem,gardeners delight, Only Ailsa Craig, Money Maker and Moskatka to go

? All this year the skins are like apple skin, tough

Jack McH

 

Help please. There's a new member posted a thread in General Discussion called 'Peppers and Tomatoes' and I've not come across this method of growing, could somebody take a look please.

 

Had a Beefmaster sandwich earlier....it really was delicious....
I also stripped quite a few leaves off the toms more than i normally would this early but i think they'll be gratefull for some light....what i thought was going to be a dodgy year for my toms i think they're doing better than i expected

 

Cor Loli, been hiding those under a bushel haven't you ?. What a crop !! Well done you,

 

Blimey.

Moderator standards of behavior prevents me from making further comments.

 

That's a lot of tomatoes Loli! They look very healthy too.

 

Thanks folks....i'm as fussy as a fussy person on fussy persons daybecause 5 or 6wks ago i thought they were handing in their cheques

 

I think the recent sun has done all our tomatoes the power of good and brought them on, those of us that haven't lost them to blight or stem rot that is.

 

Wow Loli, that's an amazing crop!
I'm not lucky enough to have a greenhouse and am getting concerned that the very slow start we had to the summer is going to mean I end up with loads of green tomatoes and no ripe ones on my outdoor grown crops. This is my first real summer of growing toms so if anyone can offer me any advice on how to speed up fruiting and ripening I'd be very grateful. Or do I just have to accept that the poor summer has had an irreversible effect?
I picked my first 7-8 ripe cherries yesterday but my other plants (I have 6 plants of various varieties) are laden with a reasonable amount of fruits and lots of flowers...but time is running out now surely?!
Thanks, will try to post pics in future