Tomato variety for hanging baskets?
 

Can anyone recommend any varieties of really small sweet tomatoes
suitable for growing in hanging baskets?

I've just set some seeds that I thought were suitable "Sweet Baby" as
the seed packet describes them as small and sweet but the packet didn't
mention where they are to be grown. A little web search tells me they
grow 3 to 5 feet high! Not at all suitable for hanging baskets.

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Tomato variety for hanging baskets?
 

On 14/3/09 13:48, in article ,
"David in Normandy" wrote:

Can anyone recommend any varieties of really small sweet tomatoes
suitable for growing in hanging baskets?

I've just set some seeds that I thought were suitable "Sweet Baby" as
the seed packet describes them as small and sweet but the packet didn't
mention where they are to be grown. A little web search tells me they
grow 3 to 5 feet high! Not at all suitable for hanging baskets.

We use Tumbler here and people eat them like sweeties!
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Tomato variety for hanging baskets?
 

Sacha wrote:
On 14/3/09 13:48, in article ,
"David in Normandy" wrote:

Can anyone recommend any varieties of really small sweet tomatoes
suitable for growing in hanging baskets?

I've just set some seeds that I thought were suitable "Sweet Baby" as
the seed packet describes them as small and sweet but the packet
didn't mention where they are to be grown. A little web search tells
me they grow 3 to 5 feet high! Not at all suitable for hanging
baskets.

We use Tumbler here and people eat them like sweeties!

Noted:)

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Can anyone recommend any varieties of really small sweet tomatoes
suitable for growing in hanging baskets?

Tumbling Tom, Tumbler and - er - forgotten the one I grew last year -
I'll post if I can remember...

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On Sat, 14 Mar 2009 14:48:38 +0100, David in Normandy
wrote:

Can anyone recommend any varieties of really small sweet tomatoes
suitable for growing in hanging baskets?

I've just set some seeds that I thought were suitable "Sweet Baby" as
the seed packet describes them as small and sweet but the packet didn't
mention where they are to be grown. A little web search tells me they
grow 3 to 5 feet high! Not at all suitable for hanging baskets.

Tumbler are probably the best choice but I have found that unsupported
Gardeners Delight to be OK in baskets.

Steve

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On 14/3/09 14:55, in article
, "Rusty_Hinge"
wrote:

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from David in Normandy contains these words:

Can anyone recommend any varieties of really small sweet tomatoes
suitable for growing in hanging baskets?

Tumbling Tom, Tumbler and - er - forgotten the one I grew last year -
I'll post if I can remember...

We're doing Tumbling Tom as well this year but obviously, I can't comment on
it yet.
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Tomato variety for hanging baskets?
 

Stephen Wolstenholme wrote:
On Sat, 14 Mar 2009 14:48:38 +0100, David in Normandy
wrote:

Can anyone recommend any varieties of really small sweet tomatoes
suitable for growing in hanging baskets?

I've just set some seeds that I thought were suitable "Sweet Baby" as
the seed packet describes them as small and sweet but the packet didn't
mention where they are to be grown. A little web search tells me they
grow 3 to 5 feet high! Not at all suitable for hanging baskets.

Tumbler are probably the best choice but I have found that unsupported
Gardeners Delight to be OK in baskets.

Steve


Hmmm. If Gardeners Delight work unsupported, I wonder if the Sweet Baby
ones I've already bought would work unsupported or if they would have a
tendency to snap?

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Sacha wrote:
On 14/3/09 13:48, in article ,
"David in Normandy" wrote:

Can anyone recommend any varieties of really small sweet tomatoes
suitable for growing in hanging baskets?

I've just set some seeds that I thought were suitable "Sweet Baby" as
the seed packet describes them as small and sweet but the packet didn't
mention where they are to be grown. A little web search tells me they
grow 3 to 5 feet high! Not at all suitable for hanging baskets.

We use Tumbler here and people eat them like sweeties!

I'll have a look for Tumbler in the garden centre. From the other posts
mentioning the variety, it seems popular.

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On Sat, 14 Mar 2009 17:55:18 +0100, David in Normandy
wrote:

Stephen Wolstenholme wrote:
On Sat, 14 Mar 2009 14:48:38 +0100, David in Normandy
wrote:

Can anyone recommend any varieties of really small sweet tomatoes
suitable for growing in hanging baskets?

I've just set some seeds that I thought were suitable "Sweet Baby" as
the seed packet describes them as small and sweet but the packet didn't
mention where they are to be grown. A little web search tells me they
grow 3 to 5 feet high! Not at all suitable for hanging baskets.

Tumbler are probably the best choice but I have found that unsupported
Gardeners Delight to be OK in baskets.

Steve


Hmmm. If Gardeners Delight work unsupported, I wonder if the Sweet Baby
ones I've already bought would work unsupported or if they would have a
tendency to snap?

I don't know about Sweet Baby. The Gardeners Delight were hanging from
a wooden window box and two large plastic baskets. They may snap on
the sharp edges of wire baskets.

Steve

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"David in Normandy" wrote
Can anyone recommend any varieties of really small sweet tomatoes suitable
for growing in hanging baskets?

Garden Pearl (aka Gartenperle) and Sub Arctic Plenty. I didn't have any
success last year with Sub Arctic, but the Garden Pearl were okay, producing
lots of tiny little toms.

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On Sat, 14 Mar 2009 14:48:38 +0100, David in Normandy
wrote:

Can anyone recommend any varieties of really small sweet tomatoes
suitable for growing in hanging baskets?

I've just set some seeds that I thought were suitable "Sweet Baby" as
the seed packet describes them as small and sweet but the packet didn't
mention where they are to be grown. A little web search tells me they
grow 3 to 5 feet high! Not at all suitable for hanging baskets.

Tumbler are probably the best choice but I have found that unsupported
Gardeners Delight to be OK in baskets.

I've heard that Pixie work, as well, but I'd never recommend them for flavour.

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I'll have a look for Tumbler in the garden centre. From the other posts
mentioning the variety, it seems popular.

They're pretty OK.

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Poundland has 'gro-bags' with Tumbling Tom seeds.

OK, not for someone who can source a packet, compost, pots &c and then
plant them, but for someone who wants a few tomato plants - ideal.

Bag contains growing medium and *FIVE* whole "hand-picked" seeds.

Just snip off the top of the bag and add water...

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"Rusty_Hinge" wrote in message
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Poundland has 'gro-bags' with Tumbling Tom seeds.

OK, not for someone who can source a packet, compost, pots &c and then
plant them, but for someone who wants a few tomato plants - ideal.

Bag contains growing medium and *FIVE* whole "hand-picked" seeds.

Just snip off the top of the bag and add water...

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Going off topic a little:

Did you know that British Sugar is the largest grower of round tomatoes in
the UK and it happens in Norfolk?
http://www.britishsugar.co.uk/RVEcb3...7e8e268,,.aspx

mark

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Did you know that British Sugar is the largest grower of round tomatoes in
the UK and it happens in Norfolk?
http://www.britishsugar.co.uk/RVEcb3...7e8e268,,.aspx

Yes, and I regularly buy big bags of them for very little.

Without visiting the URL I can state that they are excellent, and
actually have flavour, and if you have ever driven by settlement lagoons
by a (beet) sugar factory, you'll understand how they are so productive.

Waste heat and waste materials combine to help the plants grow to a
height (I am informed) of around sixteen feet.

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"Rusty_Hinge" wrote in message
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The message
from "mark" contains these words:

Did you know that British Sugar is the largest grower of round tomatoes
in
the UK and it happens in Norfolk?
http://www.britishsugar.co.uk/RVEcb3...7e8e268,,.aspx

Yes, and I regularly buy big bags of them for very little.

Without visiting the URL I can state that they are excellent, and
actually have flavour, and if you have ever driven by settlement lagoons
by a (beet) sugar factory, you'll understand how they are so productive.

Waste heat and waste materials combine to help the plants grow to a
height (I am informed) of around sixteen feet.

--



I didn't see anything about the height of the tomato plants but found this:
mark

British Sugar's award-winning horticulture business produces between 70 - 80
million 'eco-friendly' tomatoes each year at Cornerways Nursery.

The tomatoes are grown in the UK's largest single tomato glasshouse which
covers an area of 11 hectares and they are harvested between April and
November.

All the produce is packed on-site in a modern packhouse, minimising handling
and transport and allowing produce to be despatched for supermarket shelves
less than 12 hours after being picked.

Over 5000 bumblebees, living in 100 bee hives, pollinate the crop and are
part of the nursery's integrated approach to crop management using natural
agents and predators in preference to agro-chemicals.

Cornerways Nursery benefits from its location close to the Wissington sugar
factory. More than seventy miles of piping carry hot water from the
factory's combined heat and power (CHP) plant to the glasshouse to maintain
the balmy temperatures which suit tomato plants. This hot water would
otherwise be destined for cooling towers, so the scheme ensures that the
heat is used productively.

A major benefit is the productive use of waste carbon dioxide. Tomatoes use
a large volume of the gas in photosynthesis so at Cornerways, carbon dioxide
produced as a by-product from the CHP boiler is now pumped into the enormous
glasshouse rather than vented to the atmosphere as waste emissions. Water
used primarily to wash the sugar beet delivered to the factory carries vital
nutrients from Norfolk's soils and is re-used to irrigate the tomato plants.

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from "mark" contains these words:

All the produce is packed on-site in a modern packhouse, minimising
handling
and transport and allowing produce to be despatched for supermarket shelves
less than 12 hours after being picked.

This isn't true - while *MOST* of them may be, my supplier collects them
(effectively) loose, and carried in whatever boxes he has to hand.

I gather that the ones he gets are either surplus, or rejects because of
imperfect shape, or non-compliant sizes.

Fried giant tomato, mushrooms, bacon, sossidj, black pudden, white
pudden, On!on, etc...

Must get myself a sugar plant. I'll get some seeds.

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"Rusty_Hinge" wrote in message
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The message
from "mark" contains these words:

All the produce is packed on-site in a modern packhouse, minimising
handling
and transport and allowing produce to be despatched for supermarket
shelves
less than 12 hours after being picked.

This isn't true - while *MOST* of them may be, my supplier collects them
(effectively) loose, and carried in whatever boxes he has to hand.

I gather that the ones he gets are either surplus, or rejects because of
imperfect shape, or non-compliant sizes.

Fried giant tomato, mushrooms, bacon, sossidj, black pudden, white
pudden, On!on, etc...

Must get myself a sugar plant. I'll get some seeds.



I think you'd be better off with tomato plants for tomatoes. Not that I'm
an expert in these matters. :-)

mark

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"Rusty_Hinge" wrote in message
. uk...
The message
from "mark" contains these words:

Did you know that British Sugar is the largest grower of round tomatoes
in
the UK and it happens in Norfolk?
http://www.britishsugar.co.uk/RVEcb3...7e8e268,,.aspx

Yes, and I regularly buy big bags of them for very little.

Without visiting the URL I can state that they are excellent, and
actually have flavour, and if you have ever driven by settlement lagoons
by a (beet) sugar factory, you'll understand how they are so productive.

Waste heat and waste materials combine to help the plants grow to a
height (I am informed) of around sixteen feet.

The biggest tomatos I ever saw were growing at the Becton sewage works in
east London. Saw the biggest rats I've ever seen there as well :-}

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The biggest tomatos I ever saw were growing at the Becton sewage works in
east London. Saw the biggest rats I've ever seen there as well :-}

I used to teach a stone's throw from there. In those days (Late 50s,
early 60s) when the wind was easterly, you got Becton Gasworks too.

Quel bouquet!

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