On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 23:11:50 +0100, Sacha wrote:

One of the nursery staff has been growing Marmande in one of our tunnels
and they're fabulous. Do you grow those, Bob - or indeed anyone?

Yes, I've grown them under glass - wonderful. Complete disaster outdoors
though. You'll be pleased (I hope) to hear that the Jersey Sunrise are
doing brilliantly in my allotment and I gave the spare plants to the
Rector and they are also doing very well outdoors. Can I just seed-save
from my (or his) outdoor crop or are they likely to have been cross-
pollinated?

On Aug 11, 11:10*pm, "Bob Hobden" wrote:
"Judith in France" *wrote
On Aug 11, 8:53 am, "Bob Hobden" *wrote:





From our experience a lot of those fruit will develop blight as they
ripen,
and rot.
An old trick was to place them in a drawer with a very ripe banana which
gives of a gas which ripens other fruit. It's why you shouldn't keep
bananas
in dish with other fruit.

Spray the plants with Bordeaux Mixture next year towards the end of July
and
keep them sprayed as the rain washes it off, needs doing about every two
or
three weeks IME.
There are also some blight resistant varieties available and they are
resistant (Fantasio, Ferline, Legend). We have proved it with Ferline when
a
few years ago they didn't get develop blight when everything around them
did. These may not be the varieties you want to grow but better some
home-grown tomatoes than none.

Interesting Bob, Edward is reading this over my shoulder, I guess next
year he will be growing Feline.

I seem to remember reading a few years ago that there are other resistant
varieties available in France.
Ferline (T & M), normal sized round tomato, looks just like the ones one
buys.
Fantasio is a little bigger.
Legend is a beefsteak variety, but strangely, on much smaller plants.

--
Regards
Bob Hobden
just W. of London

I'm saving this post for next year thanks. I have grafted beefsteak
growing outside, doing very well but not a hint of ripening yet.

Judith

On Aug 12, 10:07*am, Sacha wrote:
On 2009-08-12 09:26:44 +0100, Derek Turner said:

On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 23:11:50 +0100, Sacha wrote:

One of the nursery staff has been growing Marmande in one of our tunnels
and they're fabulous. *Do you grow those, Bob - or indeed anyone?

Yes, I've grown them under glass - wonderful. Complete disaster outdoors
though. You'll be pleased (I hope) to hear that the Jersey Sunrise are
doing brilliantly in my allotment and I gave the spare plants to the
Rector and they are also doing very well outdoors. Can I just seed-save
from my (or his) outdoor crop or are they likely to have been cross-
pollinated?

You can seed save but hold on a bit because I've got some fresher stock
of Jersey Sunrise which my son's gardener gave us in June. *They're 3
plants which are ripening now and we're going to save seed from those
this year, instead of our older stock. *I'm sure I can spare you one or
two! * If any ripen before next week, I'll post them from Jersey
because we're coming over for 2 nights next week. *My son is renovating
his garden and wants my husband and stepson's advice on it so they're
going to be 'consultants'. *;-) *If he decides to go ahead, a couple
from here will be working there next winter/spring. *I'll be the one
with the clipboard. *;-))
--
Sachawww.hillhousenursery.com
Shrubs & perennials. Tender & exotics.
South Devon

Can I have 2 seeds also please? Also regarding W's garden, can I be
there too, I can strut around in my gold wellies giving advice on how
to kill bind weed and ground elder? :-)

Judith

Judith