In message , Pam Moore
writes
On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 22:57:12 +0100, Sacha
wrote:

I'm the least likely member of this group to discuss food growing but has
anyone else noticed that tomatoes are watery and flavourless this year? Our
are grown in large pots in a mix of soil and compost, in a large glass
house. Each year, until this one, they have tasted sublime. This year they
ripened late, cropped poorly and taste of nothing much at all. ;-(

Mine are delicious!! Grown in the open on my allotment, but this year
I am cuttiing them green, and ripening them on trays at home because I
am so worried about blight, which has not yet srrived! As soon as a
truss begins to colour I pick them. Today I even picked some quite
green.
The skins are slightly tough, but this is because they have been grown
hard, and not had as mucn water as previous years,9 because I can no
longer drive and rely on lifts). The flavour is excellent. (assorted
varieties)
Cannot compare with those grown under glass as I have no greenhouse.

Pam in Bristol

I've not grown toms before this year, and am quite happy to treat this
as a learning year and not get much crop. As part of that I think I may
have lost a couple of plants due to blight. Are the symptoms blackening
leaves and the fruits go black from the bottom upwards? I also lost a
couple of plants, but that was my fault for using too small pots :-(
Live and learn. Next year growbags. :-)

--
Mike Buckley
RD350LC2
http://www.toastyhamster.freeserve.co.uk
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