Which Tomato Variety do you like?

Right ... I'll grow the yellow ones next year (although I have to say my copper bangle takes care of my Arthritis, I took all those fancy, expensive, pills for 2 or 3 years, and the bangle has lasted 4 at least, with no significant trouble).

So I'll be round for some of your Yellow Toms John, and if you could spray them with Copper whatnot against blight, just before I get there, that would be a bonus!!!

 

Kirsten,I have found Devils claw the best thing for Arthritis.I was reccomended it by a friend when I first developed it in my fingers.It is a natural anti inflamortory and i find it does the trick for me

 

Thanks for that, I'll keep it in mind. For now mine is controlled by just the copper bangle, and unless I happen to knock my hand against something I don't really notice it. Mind you, prolonged planting out with a trowel plays hell with the joints, as does lots of detailed finger work - twisting things and the like.

I must get one of those special trowels to try ...

 

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Some years ago I got to know a very old gardner, who always won the prize with his plate/plates of tomatoes, in the local village show!

There was mutterings from some other showmen that he should be barred as he "always" won!

He told me that he had been winning for more years than he liked to remember.

And the tomatoes, they were always a yellow variety that he won with.

Sadly he has now passed on!

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I've got 18 Tom plants in the Greenhouse. 6 x Shirley, 6 x G.Delight and 6 x Ailsa Craig.

That's really rather too many Tom plants for us, but it does cover the odd weekends when we have a house full. And I don't think I could grow anything else in the greenhouse that would/should take their place.

I liked Shirley. Nice fruits, tasted fine.

I'd like to try your Golden Sunrise next year.

I guess I should stick to the Gardeners Delight against next year - but maybe I will source seed from "carefully selected mother plants" that I have read about.

I have convinced myself for years that I can't be bothered to grow them outside as well - such a short cropping season. But now you've gone and eaten them side by side. Sweeter you say? Blast!

So may be I should switch to 4 varieties next year? "Floridity" perhaps?

 

Which company markets seeds for New Girl, John? I'm not good with growing toms lately, so I'd like to be ready for the next season.

 

"Are you using your drier?"

Haven't done for Toms (well, not as yet). We've been boiling them down to reduce them into something useful for the freezer. Dried they would take up less space, and be easier to keep (zero energy involved in keeping them, once they have been dried, of course).

Beer destroys taste buds? Nope, I'm going to pretend I didn't hear that ...

 

Thanks, John. I've bookmarked the site and will order soon quite soon.

 

These are my favourite varieties too.