TOMATO GROWING THREAD 2020

I sowed on 29 February:
Orange Paruche - tasty and small
Golden Sunrise -mid size yellow and tasty which yielded well last year
Costoluta Fiorintino - Big Italian variety, very pretty
Rosella - small black variety
Gardeners Delight - Mr Fothergills new packet - thought I’d give it a go.

No Black Russian this year. I know I’ve advocated it in the past. It’s tasty but the yield is rubbish.

 

Today sown ...

Ailsa craig,Alicante and my all time favorite ..Beefmasters..cor I can't wait for a tomato sandwich

 

I'll get the seed sown when I can find where Carol has hidden all my pots!

Compost indoors and warmed up, propagator ready to go, I do need some more "Big Boy" seed though.

 

Floridity and sungold 2 of my favourite, have you tried Roma, a slightly larger plum tom has a great flavour, which I prefer to San mozano.

 

My tomato seed was sown a week ago and now I have Ailsa Craig, Sun Gold, Golden Sunrise, Wellington, San Marzano, Black Russian and Monte Carlo all germinated.

 

Gardeners Delight and Sungold will go in this week, I tried Orange Paruche but didn't think much of it. Might give Floridity as it seems popular here.

 

Sown today.

Peach Blow Suttons
Ailsa Craig
First in Field
Amateur
Britains' Breakfast
Harbinger
Golden Sunrise
Tangella
St Pierre

and for a friend

Essex Wonder
Outdoor Girl
Cavendish
Red Alert
Yellow Perfection
Stonors Exhibition

Fingers crossed

 

A shot in the dark perhaps but trying to track some seeds for these two old varieties.
Clibrans Victory, aka Victory, grew these many years ago but lost track of the seeds.
Blaby Special, just interesting history.
If any members has a couple of seeds for these to spare I'd be most grateful and will of course pay for postage.
Rob

 

Sowed some Floridity seeds yesterday, came from Premier Seeds, pack said 10, there were 28 seeds in it. Kept half for next year.

 

Sown mid January.



Next to the jade plant is Gigantomo from collected seed. On the right is Morrisons "grape" and, new for this year, is Piccolo in the foreground.

I've also got Tumbling Tom on another windowsill.

 

I've always grown my Toms in pots in the Greenhouse but this year seen as my compost is running low I'm going to prep one of the borders in the GH,It'll be interesting so see the difference.