Tomato Growing Thread 2022

That's a good price. I managed to talk myself out of getting one. Three is enough for what I need. Although... shiny!

 

I heard something like that, too. I think it may go under "Gartenfreude" in Germany, but that Zuchertraube may be a related strain. I love the nerdy stuff.

 

Sown my first tom seeds 1st March, used to allways sow in January but found sowing now they soon catch up.

 

@JWK If that's an open offer, I've read a lot about this 2005 seed bank you've created and I would love to try them? Something I was wondering about is whether tomatoes cross hybridise easily if we grow different varities next to each other? By far my best variety is I think Sungold, where I am now in year 3 or 4 of collecting my own seed. They aren't bad with blight - took much longer to take hold last year than others; taste pretty darned good; are more tolerant of my somewhat dodgy watering than others; and they germinate and grow more easily than any other variety I grow.

But are they still the same as the ones I bought a few years back???

 

I've been wondering about that...

 

All sown on 21.02. showed up. Plus I put seeds from tasty shop bought tomato.

 

I've recently gone over from Morrisons to Tesco for grocery deliveries.
They sent me some organic cherry toms as a substitute.
They went on the compost heap, absolutely disgusting, must be the worst toms I have ever tasted.

 

I sowed a couple of the Tomande a couple of days ago.

 

Ive sown mine today(Only cherry types) but i will have new 10ft potting shed hopefully delivered and erected after next week which really will help
Last yr i was having to drag 30ltr tubs from one side of house to other for light,im too old for that now

 

Regarding cross pollinated tomatoes. Obviously, unless you take cuttings you're not going to get exact genetic types, unless you do the emasculated of flowers etc. Years ago I kept bees in the garden. They were very useful and highly intelligent pollinators, and could be trained to do accurate 'crossing' for very little reward. Thus I never had 'poor' crosses of well known varieties. I just instructed my bees to do the 'correct' crosses and enjoyed the clever results.
Keep bees!!!

 

Bearing in mind you can pollenate a tomato flower just by tapping it when the temperature is right, I would suggest that unless you go through the process that hybidizers do you are mostly going to get self pollinated flowers.
I think we have all come across poor pollination at some point due to growing conditions.