"furlow" wrote
I've been trying to search around on google to find any information on
how other peoples crops in the uk (I'm the east to be more specific)
have done this year. My first year of growing marrow has been great
they obviously seam to do great even at temperatures bellow 20C. My
problem has been with my tomatoes and peppers, I know they both fully
into two different speed growing catagories with the peppers going to
take longer to get a crop. The thing is though on my tomatoes I have
quite a few Trusses, although I only pinched out the growing tip only
a week ago after I decided to give up on getting any more than 3-4
trusses. My tomatoes just seam to be growing very slowly, I have them
outside and not in any poly tunnel or greenhouse, but they just
haven't produced this year, I'm usually not so good at getting my
plants out very early (around mid june), but I usually would have
gotten some tomatoes at least by now. I'm blaming the cold rainy
summer we have had this year. Although its actually quite nice today,
about 25C in the sun. Rant over, How has everybody else's Tomatoes
done?

Excellent. Planted out the first week in June onto our allotment, lots of
seaweed extract as feed in the copious watering needed here due to the
exceptionally dry summer (until the kids broke up!) then after the first
fruit set tomato feed was used. As usual it's Ferline and Fantasio (large
toms but not beefsteak) that have done excellently with this years other
variety Harbinger also cropping well.
We don't grow peppers out on the plot, never been able to get a worthwhile
crop, but we do grow chillies and this year looks like an exceptional year
for them, if they would just go red. Thai Dragon (V hot), Inferno (mild but
tasty), Punjabi (hot). Looks like our Asian neighbours will get lots for
their freezers after we take what we want for ours.

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Regards
Bob Hobden
W.of London. UK