Thank you both for your comments and interest, I am in Gloucestershire near
the Welsh border a couple of fields away from the River Severn and all
things are very damp today.

kate...


is having Christmas toms as simple as planting some later than the
others,
sowing seeds in relays, would that work? goes off thinking and
muttering -----

kate


If I don't pull them up ours are always still there at Christmas in a
small unheated greenhouse, but the reason we give up before that is that
once the short dull days start, you get a lot of Botrytus and the taste
starts to alter and they are not as good toeat raw
--
Charlie Pridham, Gardening in Cornwall
www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of national collections of Clematis viticella cultivars and
Lapageria rosea