Tomato Legend: support or not?

I am growing the T&M "blight resistant duo" Ferline and Legend. The instructions for Legend describe them as "bush" and "determinate", but fall short of actually saying that they can be grown without support. Anyone got any experience of these?

 

I reckon you need to support Determinate / Bush Tomatoes in most cases. I don't grow them, so I don;t know if a cane works with a bush? but presumably some sort of mesh for them to grow through, that will then support the arching branches, will do the job?

I read that Tomato Legend has heavy fruits (some sources refer to it as a Beefsteak variety) so I reckon the fruit will break the branches if not supported :thumb:

 

Thanks for that. I've just put them out, and contrived a sort of wire mesh hoop over them that hopefully will support them as they grow through. Now to see just how blight resistant they are. Or not.

 

Thanks for the advice Shiney. That technique looks very interesting and I'm always up for new ideas.

Can't say I'm entirely surprised that you feel the theorists fall short of the experience. :lollol:

Last year I grew Super Roma determinates sans support, and..........they flopped on the ground something chronic. It was a race to get some fruit in before the dreaded blight took over, but on the other hand, we're still eating the chutney!

 

IF grown in a green house they certainly need caned, tying in and the side shoots taken out regularly!

I grow Legend and they over the season, grow up over the roof.

And they taste good as well!

At the moment they are 4foot6inches high with golf ball sized fruit on them.


I used to grow Dombito also from T&M, but they no longer offer it and no one else has it!

Hope this helps!

cheers