Tomato Growing 2025

@Grandma Sue - Super Sauce is as its name suggests, good for cooking with. It has very few seeds and is quite ‘meaty’. If it has any drawbacks, it can be prone to BER, as is San Marzano in my garden. All my tomatoes are grown outside with short periods of neglect whilst I look after an elderly parent.

 

I will say that I found crimson plum unlike a plum variety in most ways apart from shape.
It's not fleshy like most plum types, it is more like non plum varieties when you cut it open.

 

All finished for the year. Green chutney time. Any good recipes?

 

I thank JKW again for the GD (2005 strain) he gifted me. In 2024, it was the first with ripe fruit and the last plant standing (still giving fruit) when chopped down in October. Again, in 2025, it was the first and last tomato to give fruit. I can verify that it tastes as GD used to taste up until around the turn of the Century. I stopped growing it then because the taste had gone/ was going. I can at last appreciate that fantastic taste again. Thoroughly recommended.

Sorry, no seeds available to give away or swap as they have already gone to a swap site.

 

Yesterday I removed all but 5 plants. Those 5 are in the greenhouse, and that is for this year.

 

My patio plants are still flowering like mad and even setting fruit. I gave them all a good cut back today, removing flowers and tiny fruits, and picked a punnet full of green ones that I'll try and ripen indoors.

 

I still have some outside, not sure if they will ripen.

 

So do I, but the slugs have been getting them since we had rain

 

Honeymoon F1 seems susceptible to blossom end rot, but only in the smaller pot I have one in, so it may be watering issues. Ill have to keep that in mind. Is this common for giant toms?

 

I think the extreme heat, caused more BER than usual this year. I reported problems earlier in the season. Even though my plants were in Quadgrow pots, and so had constant access to water , and the two part feed has added calcium. Once it cooled down the BER issue was resolved.

 

I did get some BER on the Black Krim ( beefsteak ) a couple of years ago. Never had it on Sungold, Tumbling Tom or Choc. cherry which is what I've grown this year.

 

Sun barely reaching the greenhouse now so this year's plants are now in the compost heap. Despite getting a constant heavy crop from our four Maskotka plants all summer I still got this lot when I cut them down this morning. They should still ripen in the house.

No BER at all, so maybe we were lucky.