For great tomatoes, save time, money and effort, and do your bit to stop urban decay; go to your local greengrocer, assuming you stil have one, and buy locally-grown ones.
yes i had a very bad dose of blight this year,mainly with out door ones.
my garden is in france ! but we travel there evry month and so grow all our veg etc there.monty said about 2 varietys that are blight resistant,RED PLUM and CRISTEL.can't find the cristel seeds yet anybody?
yes i had a very bad dose of blight this year,mainly with out door ones.
my garden is in france ! but we travel there evry month and so grow all our veg etc there.monty said about 2 varietys that are blight resistant,RED PLUM and CRISTEL.can't find the cristel seeds yet anybody?
Have had really bad blight on the allotment three years in a row on both potatoes and tomatoes. Have abandoned potatoes forever, but this year grew the tomatoes (Alicante in the greenhouse and Gardeners Delight outside in pots and in raised beds). Alicante got it late on and I have to say the flavour wasn't anything special - think perhaps lack of any sunshine until it was too late. Outside the GDs all got blight, however I literally hacked and burned anything that seemed even remotely suspect and got a pretty good crop - enough to freeze, sauce and chutney, but so late that really the fresh ones were not tremendous. Poss my fault for growing the 'old favourites'? Time I tried something new I guess. I did plant some Tumbling tom red in hanging baskets and they were not bad, although again got the dreaded lurgy mid summer. This is so tough on new gardeners - I so wish that there was a decent treatment short of moving to the mediterranean!
I get fungal problems here in Central Italy, cathy, though vastly less than I used to get back in humid old Sydney. It gets mighty hot here but it's mainly dry heat.
Absolutely, supporting your local greengrocer is so important but sadly very few stock more than two, sometimes three varieties, so I'll continue to buy tomatoes from the greengrocer for most of the year, and in the summer I'll grow a few plants of the varieties I can't buy in the shops.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
My local greengrocer grows a lot of his own - including some of my varieties now, too - but a lot of his stock are the dreaded hydroponic stuff. Incredible.
I truly wish you better luck with your tomatoes than I've ever had, people! This year, off six bush plants, I've got a total of less than 400gm of green marbles.
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For great tomatoes, save time, money and effort, and do your bit to stop urban decay; go to your local greengrocer, assuming you stil have one, and buy locally-grown ones.
hello,
yes i had a very bad dose of blight this year,mainly with out door ones.
my garden is in france ! but we travel there evry month and so grow all our veg etc there.monty said about 2 varietys that are blight resistant,RED PLUM and CRISTEL.can't find the cristel seeds yet anybody?
cheers norm.h
2 clicks and 5 seconds later
http://www.thompson-morgan.com/vegetables/vegetable-seeds/tomato-seeds/tomato-cristal-f1-hybrid/718TM
That is just one -try a google search
Hi Norm, T&M sell Cristal seeds - I think you probably just mis-spelt it?
Have had really bad blight on the allotment three years in a row on both potatoes and tomatoes. Have abandoned potatoes forever, but this year grew the tomatoes (Alicante in the greenhouse and Gardeners Delight outside in pots and in raised beds). Alicante got it late on and I have to say the flavour wasn't anything special - think perhaps lack of any sunshine until it was too late. Outside the GDs all got blight, however I literally hacked and burned anything that seemed even remotely suspect and got a pretty good crop - enough to freeze, sauce and chutney, but so late that really the fresh ones were not tremendous. Poss my fault for growing the 'old favourites'? Time I tried something new I guess. I did plant some Tumbling tom red in hanging baskets and they were not bad, although again got the dreaded lurgy mid summer. This is so tough on new gardeners - I so wish that there was a decent treatment short of moving to the mediterranean!
I get fungal problems here in Central Italy, cathy, though vastly less than I used to get back in humid old Sydney. It gets mighty hot here but it's mainly dry heat.
Oh well, the med would have been nice!
Absolutely, supporting your local greengrocer is so important but sadly very few stock more than two, sometimes three varieties, so I'll continue to buy tomatoes from the greengrocer for most of the year, and in the summer I'll grow a few plants of the varieties I can't buy in the shops.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
My local greengrocer grows a lot of his own - including some of my varieties now, too - but a lot of his stock are the dreaded hydroponic stuff. Incredible.
I truly wish you better luck with your tomatoes than I've ever had, people! This year, off six bush plants, I've got a total of less than 400gm of green marbles.