My dad sows GD from seed each year and always gives me six of his plants. I grow mine on the patio and he grows his in the greenhouse. They both produce crops at the same time and the fruit tastes the same but my plants always look happier. It is quite sunny where I live and the patio gets a lot of sunshine.
Wintersong-I have non-gardening neighbours -one side is just grass that gets cut for 3 hours every 4 weeks-the other side is a numskull,who allows his cat to mess everywhere and doesn't know a dandelion from a rose-I fail too see the point of buying a house with a biggish garden if you don't use the garden.
I do belt and braces - each year I grow some in the gh, and some outdoors. Last year I grew 3 GD in a border, 2 San Marino in pots next to a sunny wall, 2 Brandywine in 1 gh, 2 GD and 1 Alicante in the other. For the first time in years the outdoor ones didn't get blight (hurrah), but given the choice and the weather, I do think that outdoor ones taste best. As my ghouses are on hard standing, I grow them in pots filled with a mixture of growbag and home made compost, and stand them on a long tray filled with gravel - just seems to make it easier to water them. I also didn't pinch out the outdoor ones, as I read that it makes them more prone to blight, and the GD got enormous. THis year I've got 6 GD on the go, and 3 Alicante. I'm also trying to get some rather elderly moneymaker seed going for a tetraplegic friend - MM certainly wouldn't be my first choice.Right, off to get in bath (got soaked in hailstorm bringing in the washing). Bloke and I off to the seaside as fish 'n' chip shop there just been voted second best in the country. Somehow think we won't be eating it outside...
I cannot believe it another sunny morning, I have moved some plants around and transplanted some seedlings. I am nervous to do too much in case the weather does get a lot colder.
I am a tomato growing failure
I had a nice chat with some men about the watchtower mag, they liked my views on the afterlife.
Kate-you could rig up a temporary structure to protect your tomatoes and bring them on a bit with canes and some clear polythene-in a square -does that make sense?
It is no good talking to the watchtower people -they are so set in their ways you cannot convince them about anything different-I have tried
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My dad sows GD from seed each year and always gives me six of his plants. I grow mine on the patio and he grows his in the greenhouse. They both produce crops at the same time and the fruit tastes the same but my plants always look happier. It is quite sunny where I live and the patio gets a lot of sunshine.
Wintersong-I have non-gardening neighbours -one side is just grass that gets cut for 3 hours every 4 weeks-the other side is a numskull,who allows his cat to mess everywhere and doesn't know a dandelion from a rose-I fail too see the point of buying a house with a biggish garden if you don't use the garden.
I do belt and braces - each year I grow some in the gh, and some outdoors. Last year I grew 3 GD in a border, 2 San Marino in pots next to a sunny wall, 2 Brandywine in 1 gh, 2 GD and 1 Alicante in the other. For the first time in years the outdoor ones didn't get blight (hurrah), but given the choice and the weather, I do think that outdoor ones taste best. As my ghouses are on hard standing, I grow them in pots filled with a mixture of growbag and home made compost, and stand them on a long tray filled with gravel - just seems to make it easier to water them. I also didn't pinch out the outdoor ones, as I read that it makes them more prone to blight, and the GD got enormous. THis year I've got 6 GD on the go, and 3 Alicante. I'm also trying to get some rather elderly moneymaker seed going for a tetraplegic friend - MM certainly wouldn't be my first choice.Right, off to get in bath (got soaked in hailstorm bringing in the washing). Bloke and I off to the seaside as fish 'n' chip shop there just been voted second best in the country. Somehow think we won't be eating it outside...
I cannot believe it another sunny morning, I have moved some plants around and transplanted some seedlings. I am nervous to do too much in case the weather does get a lot colder.
I am a tomato growing failure
I had a nice chat with some men about the watchtower mag, they liked my views on the afterlife.
Chips are yummy
Kate-you could rig up a temporary structure to protect your tomatoes and bring them on a bit with canes and some clear polythene-in a square -does that make sense?
It is no good talking to the watchtower people -they are so set in their ways you cannot convince them about anything different-I have tried
Fancy chips now
Just stumbled across this
http://www.gardenersworld.com/galleries/
dahlias
Or this
http://helengazeley.typepad.co.uk/gardenwriter/2010/08/how-stop-tomato-potato-blight.html
That is a bit mean taunting me with Dahlias in April.
I know but I thought it might be nice to look ahead-some of those varieties look strangely familiar.
So how about a tomato shelter?
I had a tomato house but it did not work that well, difficult to water, difficult to access. I may need a rethink, I could try the spare room