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At last! A red tomato.
My grand daughter is thrilled to bits with her small garden and she has the
very first ripe outdoor tomato of the year. She is giving me advice, she says, next year. Seriously. In sons main garden the tomatoes are still very green even after nipping them out with only 2 trusses each. Baz |
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At last! A red tomato.
"Baz" wrote in message
... My grand daughter is thrilled to bits with her small garden and she has the very first ripe outdoor tomato of the year. She is giving me advice, she says, next year. Seriously. In sons main garden the tomatoes are still very green even after nipping them out with only 2 trusses each. Baz I'm getting lots of red ones, but some are only pea size! I know it's a cherry tom, but pea size? -- Kathy |
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At last! A red tomato.
Baz wrote:
My grand daughter is thrilled to bits with her small garden and she has the very first ripe outdoor tomato of the year. She is giving me advice, she says, next year. If it's any consolation, I have lots of green tomatoes in my colonial garden, but only a few a day ripening, so barely enough for salad and marinated ("Rotten") tomatoes. And that's with several dozen plants of various heirloom types. I'm still hoping for a late-summer rush so I can do juice and sauce. -- Gary Woods AKA K2AHC- PGP key on request, or at home.earthlink.net/~garygarlic Zone 5/4 in upstate New York, 1420' elevation. NY WO G |
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At last! A red tomato.
"Baz" wrote
My grand daughter is thrilled to bits with her small garden and she has the very first ripe outdoor tomato of the year. She is giving me advice, she says, next year. Seriously. In sons main garden the tomatoes are still very green even after nipping them out with only 2 trusses each. I think she/you have done well. We are the only gardeners on our allotment site still with tomatoes the rest have lost theirs to blight including the one that also grows blight resistant varieties and sprays. Despite using Bordeaux Mixture our tomatoes have suffered badly, over half of our Blight Resistant varieties have died**yet we still have some "Black Russian" and "Cherry" ones growing well with fruit slowly going red. Picked the first red cherry ones yesterday. ** Some died of Blight but three large plants just died, no sign of blight, one day OK, the next they had wilted. Perhaps it got the roots. -- Regards. Bob Hobden. Posted to this Newsgroup from the W of London, UK |
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At last! A red tomato.
"Baz" wrote in message
... My grand daughter is thrilled to bits with her small garden and she has the very first ripe outdoor tomato of the year. She is giving me advice, she says, next year. Seriously. In sons main garden the tomatoes are still very green even after nipping them out with only 2 trusses each. Baz _______________________ Mine in the greenhouse are still green, though of reasonable size. Just need a week or so of sunshine! Have even cut off some of the leaves to get more light on the toms, to no avail. I must confess that they did go in a bit late though. Our grand children unfortunately live 100 miles away, so we can not influence them much - they are still self confident and cheeky like yours tho' -- Roger T 700 ft up in Mid-Wales |
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At last! A red tomato.
I think she/you have done well. We are the only gardeners on our allotment site still with tomatoes the rest have lost theirs to blight including the one that also grows blight resistant varieties and sprays. Despite using Bordeaux Mixture our tomatoes have suffered badly, over half of our Blight Resistant varieties have died**yet we still have some "Black Russian" and "Cherry" ones growing well with fruit slowly going red. Picked the first red cherry ones yesterday. ** Some died of Blight but three large plants just died, no sign of blight, one day OK, the next they had wilted. Perhaps it got the roots. Location Cambridge. 2 or 3 different varieties planted (mostly from car boot, eg Moneymaker) ~4 months ago. Lots of small (~ 1/2 to 2/3 full size), but no sign of red. There's not been many bright sunny days. Shame, this year I did a better job vs last year when I just used earth in a 6" high concrete planter tray - and had great results. This year I actually put in ~50% compost. Is there still time to turn red ? Or should I cut them off (branches with say 6 toms) and leave in kitchen window ? How to identify blight ??? I keep cutting off a few bottom leaves which are a bit yellow with brown spots. I hope that's not blight. Thanks. |
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At last! A red tomato.
"Stewart" wrote
I think she/you have done well. We are the only gardeners on our allotment site still with tomatoes the rest have lost theirs to blight including the one that also grows blight resistant varieties and sprays. Despite using Bordeaux Mixture our tomatoes have suffered badly, over half of our Blight Resistant varieties have died**yet we still have some "Black Russian" and "Cherry" ones growing well with fruit slowly going red. Picked the first red cherry ones yesterday. ** Some died of Blight but three large plants just died, no sign of blight, one day OK, the next they had wilted. Perhaps it got the roots. Location Cambridge. 2 or 3 different varieties planted (mostly from car boot, eg Moneymaker) ~4 months ago. Lots of small (~ 1/2 to 2/3 full size), but no sign of red. There's not been many bright sunny days. Shame, this year I did a better job vs last year when I just used earth in a 6" high concrete planter tray - and had great results. This year I actually put in ~50% compost. Is there still time to turn red ? Or should I cut them off (branches with say 6 toms) and leave in kitchen window ? How to identify blight ??? I keep cutting off a few bottom leaves which are a bit yellow with brown spots. I hope that's not blight. They get distinct black patches on leaves and if you are really unlucky on stems. Sometimes you can cut these off into green stuff and it won't spread as I have been doing with the Cherry and Black Russian but normally it quickly takes over the whole plant and kills it. I spray with Bordeaux Mixture and think that is the reason why I still have some tomatoes. Looks like the reason the three blight resistant ones of ours simply wilted and died was because a mole undermined the roots, would you believe it! Spoke to another chap from a different allotment site and he said he was the only one left with tomatoes on his site so we are lucky to have got this far. -- Regards. Bob Hobden. Posted to this Newsgroup from the W of London, UK |
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At last! A red tomato.
Gary Woods wrote:
My grand daughter is thrilled to bits with her small garden and she has the very first ripe outdoor tomato of the year. She is giving me advice, she says, next year. If it's any consolation, I have lots of green tomatoes in my colonial garden, but only a few a day ripening, so barely enough for salad and marinated ("Rotten") tomatoes. And that's with several dozen plants of various heirloom types. I'm still hoping for a late-summer rush so I can do juice and sauce. If everyone's tomatoes are doing badly it makes me feel better about my lack of beans and courgettes. My tomatoes, at least the cherries, have been ripening up well in the greenhouse for over a month now! I think that this year is the earliest ever, as normally I'm banana-ing them for the club show the week before, which is mid-August, and this year I was spoilt for choice. |
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At last! A red tomato.
"Baz" wrote in message ... My grand daughter is thrilled to bits with her small garden and she has the very first ripe outdoor tomato of the year. She is giving me advice, she says, next year. Seriously. Do you think she might advise me too ... In sons main garden the tomatoes are still very green even after nipping them out with only 2 trusses each. As you probably know, we are often away from home for a good part of the year and I like to sow something and take it with us. This year I grew some courgettes (not doing too well now but they were sown late) but last year, I grew some wee tomatoes in a basket and while there were not very many, we did enjoy them -- -- http://www.shop.helpforheroes.org.uk/ |
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