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What tomato variety are you growing this year?

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  • februarysgirlfebruarysgirl Posts: 835
    I'm growing tomatoes for the first time this year and am going with Tumbling Tom so I can grow them in hanging baskets. I sowed my seeds way too early (despite what the packet said!) but did a second lot about a month ago and have just potted them on. The last couple of days I've put them out during the day and brought them in at night. We've had a few heavy rain showers and I figured that rain water plus direct sunlight would give them a boost.
  • purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 5,287
    It's the difference between day and night temperatures that halt their growth @februarysgirl so out in the day now is fine. They will be ok out at night once the temperature stays above 10-12° Hope you get lots of little toms all summer, they will taste better having been home grown.😁
  • februarysgirlfebruarysgirl Posts: 835
    @purplerallim I've still got a couple of seedlings in their original module trays that I meant to chuck away but are still sitting outside and thriving despite being out 24 hours for the past week. Not going to risk leaving the ones I'm keeping out there though, I'd be gutted to lose them at this stage. I'm really looking forward to having my first home grown veg this year, the leaves have now come through on both containers of potatoes and I'm dead excited!
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    This pm I planted out the toms that will live in the polytunnel this year and found 3 varieties of home sown I'd forgotten - orange banana, moonglow - both new- and red pear which i've grown and liked before.

    That leaves me with more home sown San Marzano, Ildi, Moonglow and Rosella to plant outside which shoulld be OK now we know none of our neighbours grows potatoes or outside toms.  Now to see what kind of summer we get as this has been a long, cool, damp spring after a cold, dry winter.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • SlumSlum Posts: 385
    Sweet aperitif as nothing else I’ve grown comes close for flavour, and trying Limoncito for the first time. 
  • parkgatemanparkgateman Posts: 50
    Outdoor Girl , Crimson Crush this year as I have decided to try some different types, the Outdoor Girl leaves do not look like Tomato leaves .
  • SkandiSkandi Posts: 1,723
    Victorian Dwarf (determinate beefsteak that only gets 50cm high)
    Moneymaker
    Outdoor Girl (fully expecting this one to start to set fruit and then die to blight)
    Tigrella
  • purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 5,287
    @parkgateman
    The change of leaf shape to , what I call potato leaf, is what we have been noticing on old standard types of tomatoes like Gardeners Delight,  Ailsa Craig and Alicante. We think the seed growers are trying to breed blight resistance into them,  but it is making them less vigorous and susceptible to other diseases. That is part of the reason why I am growing other varieties. 
  • purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 5,287
    @februarysgirl
    I have gone back to potato bags this year with Pentland Javlin,  they have just produced leaf this week.😁 
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Roma,  San Marzano and Craigella,  only because I already had the seeds in my stock. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

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