Tomato Growing Thread 2021

When I grew them they were much more pink than in illustrations, and I don't find pink tomatoes appetising so didn't grow again.

 

I found garden pearl very prolific and a normal red. I wonder if it's soil difference?

 

I'll let you know about August

The thing that has crossed my mind, I picked all small ones, even red alert are not that big, are they.

 

beautiful!

 

167 paper tube pots and 12 varieties of seedlings pricked out. Deserve my glass of wine : )

 

I put those seeds straight into Jack's Magic.

I normally sow in Westland Gro-Sure Seed and Cutting Compost, but as some other stuff that went in earlier seemed to be getting off to a very slow start and the bag of Jacks Magic I had open was lovely and fine I tried sone of my early tomatoes in that and they romped away, so my main sowing was all in Hacks Magic.

 

The Westland The Gardeners Multi-Purpose Compost i recieved from Marshals is absolute rubbish , i have had to mix it with other compost and coco coir to use it, it is woody and will not hold moisture at all. I only ordered it as the compost i normally use is so expensive on the internet. (Levington M2) I will avoid westland like the plague in the future it looks like sweepings from under pine trees
regards Sandy

 

@JWK have just potted up your Gardeners Delight seedlings using Jacks Magic for both sowing and potting up, looking good .

Also started off some Tumbling Tom in Jacks but potted some up in Jacks and some in a Westland low peat mp compost, so will be interesting to see how the two compare.

 

I haven't got many tomatoes in but I think they are doing ok, I think

 

Our Tom's are coming on lovely, growing more this year, butView attachment 155585View attachment 155586 when there gone, there gone.

 

They look grand, but 95p seems a bargain price, just bought a single Shirley from one of our better garden centers at £1.99

 

We basically operate a cash and carry service, plus we are mainly a plant centre.
We are also out in the sticks with only a narrow road access to our premises, so we offer good plants and compost at a fair price. We don't have a fancy set up, just set up the business that customers always return.

 

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