Some of this years success stories out on our plot...

Tomatoes.. picked 18lbs of ripe Toms today 11th October, amazing.
We grew three varieties outside on our plot all of which are said to be
Blight resistant and the above comment confirms it, one spray of Bordeaux
Mixture early on is all I've given them.
Ferline and Fantasio are very similar large ordinary shaped Toms and only
show the odd sign of Blight on the odd leaf, it doesn't spread throughout
the plant and if the weather stays OK we expect to pick a lot more. Legend
is a short meaty beefsteak variety with some resistance to blight but a
couple of plants did succumb and some fruit has been affected but again,
with most plants, it doesn't spread throughout the plant and we are still
picking fruit.

Chillies.. As usual Thai Dragon has done wonderfully well with loads of hot
chillies on each plant and that is despite planting them late due to a trip
abroad. Also grown well is the Hungarian Hot Wax type called Inferno, lots
of large medium heat chillies and a lot have gone red despite the weather,
lovely taste too. Both still growing well with more fruit going red by the
day.

Garlic... Germidour and Thermidrome proved excellent, both produced large
clean heads (bigger than a supermarkets), despite having White Rot on the
plot, which is why we have just planted the same again. Marco was a
disaster!!

Shallots.. Jermor, as usual, produced superb shallots excellent in the
kitchen and good for pickling too. Pesandor also did well and is very
similar. We will plant the same next year.

Runner Beans..We grew Celebration as well as our usual White Lady and both
produced good crops of tender tasty beans. Celebration has an strikingly
unusual salmon coloured flower and would be an excellent choice for those
that grow in their back garden, behind flower borders, up fences etc.

So what successes has everyone else had?

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Regards
Bob Hobden
just W. of London