This is true, which is why I never sow until about 1 March. Mine are now at the stage where I move them out to the cold frame in the mornings and bring them back to the house in the late afternoon; it's tedious but it works for me. They will move to the unheated greenhouse at night usually in late April.
Yep that's more-or-less what I'm doing. They've gone into the unheated greenhouse this morning and they'll come back in this evening. The temperature in the greenhouse was about 10C when they went in. But the strong vertical light makes all the difference I think.
Clay soil - Cheshire/Derbyshire border. I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
Wouldn't work for me taking to the greenhouse, they wouldn't make it as its blowing a gale and raining. Next few nights are predicted to be down to 1° , so no outside for mine yet. Still they are pottering along nicely in the conservatory.
It's been too cold to do my usual sowings in the polytunnel and I only have a small heat mat for indoors and that's about to have chillies started on it so on Sunday I visited Heritage Tomato Man at a local plant fair and bought 2 each of:-
Black Brandywine Black Cherry Black Crimean Brown Berry Caspian Rose Coeur de Pigeon Early Quimper Indigo Cherry Montmaurin (1920) Nuit Australe - Oz southern nights, not the Russian one Rose de Berne
We have our own Vendée garden club plant fair on the 16th and I hope to pick up a couple of San Marzano and Red Pear.
We'll enjoy lots in salads or baked, grilled or roasted and some of the cherry ones will be semi-dried for bruschetta and a lot will end up as passata. I only have 3 jars left of last year's batch!
No green tomatoes this year as I find they go too quickly form just right to over-ripe and squishy. All the others except Rose de Berne are first timers for me. Experimenting.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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@Redwing hi, I’m south coast Devon, in a warm little spot. This little seedling has me wondering as it’s from the packet of sungold, but looking at the colour-of the leaves I’m not sure what it is. It looks darker, blackish in real life. What does anyone think? Valerie
I've just sown my tomatoes. Gardeners' Delight (same packet as last year - they were OK not the rubbish ones that seem to be common), Rosella (my favourite to date), Yellow Pear (nice and a bit different), Blue Bayou (new to me, we'll see how it goes) and Sungold (last chance saloon, the last of the seed in the packet and I won't buy it again unless it's better than it has been before. I'll try it with less watering and feeding).
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
@Redwing hi, I’m south coast Devon, in a warm little spot. This little seedling has me wondering as it’s from the packet of sungold, but looking at the colour-of the leaves I’m not sure what it is. It looks darker, blackish in real life. What does anyone think? Valerie
Hard to tell, maybe a blacker variety as has been suggested, though at this stage I notice no difference in colour of the leaves of the ultimate tomato colour. More likely to be a little more nitrogen in the compost in this particular pot.....a case of wait and see, I think.
Based in Sussex, I garden to encourage as many birds to my garden as possible.
I've got Gardeners Delight, Moneymaker, Beefmaster and a new Cream Sausage sown this year. Hopefully getting some heirloom varieties off a lady in the village when they're a bit taller as she's sown loads and is offering them for charity (though realistically I don't have space for more than 4 plants... I'll figure that out when I get there!). I think the ones I asked for were Golden Sunrise, Black Icicle, Cherry Cerise and San Marzano to make pasta sauce out of. I've heard the Cherry Cerise is a really nice mini 'button' variety? I'm hoping that's a good mix of unusual, salad/sauce/soup toms!
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Yep that's more-or-less what I'm doing. They've gone into the unheated greenhouse this morning and they'll come back in this evening. The temperature in the greenhouse was about 10C when they went in. But the strong vertical light makes all the difference I think.
I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
Black Brandywine
Black Cherry
Black Crimean
Brown Berry
Caspian Rose
Coeur de Pigeon
Early Quimper
Indigo Cherry
Montmaurin (1920)
Nuit Australe - Oz southern nights, not the Russian one
Rose de Berne
We have our own Vendée garden club plant fair on the 16th and I hope to pick up a couple of San Marzano and Red Pear.
We'll enjoy lots in salads or baked, grilled or roasted and some of the cherry ones will be semi-dried for bruschetta and a lot will end up as passata. I only have 3 jars left of last year's batch!
No green tomatoes this year as I find they go too quickly form just right to over-ripe and squishy. All the others except Rose de Berne are first timers for me. Experimenting.
These are two of mine at the moment: Maskotka at the back and Piccolo at the front.
I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful