Picked my first tomato of the year today.

Great! As a child I loved eating freshly picked tomatoes dipped in sugar. So delicious.

On 05/04/2015 20:06, Bigal wrote:
Picked my first tomato of the year today.




That's very early! Grown in a greenuse, presumably, but still early.
Where are you?
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Spider.
On high ground in SE London
gardening on heavy clay

"Bigal" wrote


Picked my first tomato of the year today.


Not even planted my seed yet but then I do grow them outside.
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Regards. Bob Hobden.
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30 miles north of Swansea. I mentioned last year that someone I knew managed to keep a strain of tomatoes going by taking cutting at the end of the growing season and keeping them in a windowsill. I gave it a try with gardeners delight. I put 6 in a five inch pot but left them in the heated greenhouse. They all put out flowering side shoots. I picked them off hoping that they would send out a more normal side shoot, but accidentally left one on. This produced 4 tiny (marble size) tomatoes. They had the gardeners delight taste. I tried a couple of other tomatoes later in the season but it seems as if it was too late for them to develop. I might try it again this year but a bit earlier to see if I can get the cuttings settled for the winter.