Tomato success

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  1. davygfuchsia

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    First of my tomatoes ,small but very sweet.. grew these two in 10in pots but have some others in growbags but not as advanced ..

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      Nice one!! Mine aren't coming on as well and we have only had a few off of them so far. Tasty though!! What sort are those??
       
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      Wow. Far more advanced than any of mine - today (if I'm lucky) there will be the ceremonial picking of the first ripe tomato.
       
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      Nice one Davy, only got 3 red ones so far, but did lob a bananana skin in the greenhouse yesterday to speed things up.
       
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      These two plants I bought in March from a small nursery nearbye and all the label said was 'Vine tomato' asked the guy if he knew what variety and he said he had just bought them in from a wholesale market..Would like to get them again..

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      :wow: I'm impressed, Dave, but not jealous, well, not really, well, maybe just a little bit, Oh, Okay I'M JEALOUS:D
       
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      found this while looking for something else -

      http://www.tomatogrowing.co.uk/TomatoWhichReport.pdf

      is Chempak really that good or is it better at complimenting the growbag stuff that was used?

      :scratch:
       
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      These two were potted in B&Q own compost and after 6 weeks I use phostrogen weekly.. I generally use Phostrogen on most plants ,,Works for me ..

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      Nowt like yours, but I started the 05 June and yesterday had my first two reds
      plenty of greens only 1800 to ripen OMG what will I do with them all ? IF they are OK
      I started with six plants, but due to a disaster someone gave me twelve others, now they have all come good
      Along with six peppers that are now all in flower

      I am a virgin grower, and am not into eating peppers, so I think if they come good I will have to offer them for free to peoples at work, then be more in control next year when I am retired :-)

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      It does make life easier when you retired Jack .I retired last year, hence the extra time on the garden .Now enjoying the sun her in Northants ..
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        Jack, I sell all my surplus produce for charity and raised £500 last year (I have a lot of surplus :heehee:). People are always happy to buy good, home grown produce at prices lower than the supermarkets - especially when you tell them it's for charity. Our charity is a local one that provides clubs for mentally handicapped children and helps them with speech therapy.

        I've been picking tomatoes for nearly two months. Although I can't claim the credit for the very early ones as they were from a couple of plants that Kristen brought along for me for our open day at the end of May. They were 4ft high then - and covered in tomatoes :rolleyespink:. We've been picking our outside Koralik (blight resistant cherry toms) for about three weeks.

        With your surplus toms, if you don't sell them, you can make soup (and freeze the soup) or you can freeze the tomatoes to use for cooking. We just chuck them in small bags and straight into the freezer - no washing, no blanching (we don't spray them with chemicals so don't see any point in washing them as they will be cooked anyway).
         
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          Shiney, well done:thumbsup::D
           
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          Picking your brain here davy - what Phostrogen is that - ?

          all purpose or the liquid tom feed?

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          Jack Mcstrap , u r a star! - just the 18 tom plants then ? !!! I think the tax man is going to be becoming curious about your unofficial market gardening operation!! : ) U need some onions and cougettes on the go and u can go into large scale ratattoilly production !!!
          There truly is nothing better than the first tom of the year,eh - except maybe the first strawberry but I reckon level pegging : )
           
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            Eer I am the taxman :-)

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