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Outdoor tomatoes
CPH
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Grew tomatoes outdoors this year. Standard varieties Shirley, Gardeners Delight and Genovese. All fruiting nicely with no sign of blight so far.
Anyone else enjoying such good fortune??
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Shhhhhhhhhh! Whisper ... mine are looking good so far, but I don't want to tempt fate, particularly with the muggy weather we have here today
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I was observing earlier this morning how healthy my mum's tomato plants were. Still, they're on a first floor balcony in NW London - I don't suppose there are any blight spores for miles
. Haven't seen any other outdoor ones this year, but the spuds on the allotment/garden (SW Lancs) seem OK as well.
I'm a bit concerned about potato blight this weather is just what it likes, I’ve only got three rows of maincrop still in the ground so I will have to keep an eye on them.
My O/D ones don't have (whisper) blight but they are pathetic this year. Think it's down to me for putting them in their pots outside too early but we went away at the beginning of June and they wouldn't have liked GH conditions.
Verdun I've turned into a courgette
soon to be an aubergine 
Our outdoor tomatoes Shirley and Gardeners Delight in South Wales, looking good they hopefully will ripen as the glasshouse ones are finishing, and no sign of potato blight, I finished lifting ours day before yesterday, a good crop of Wilja earlies, then maincrop King Edward and Maris Piper, foliage was healthy but dying back nicely.
Signs of colour turning on my indoor tomatoes last night, after weeks of cold weather all day last night ws still 21 deg at 10pm and very muggy - vents left open all night! (never got below 18).
Amazing how much variation there is from one part of the country to another....
I am near the coast may be windy but temperatures here pretty good, been picking glasshouse tomatoes for a few weeks, have side vents on our wooden glasshouse, prefer them to roof vents, they are rarely fully closed, its a twelve month glasshouse, other plants grown.
Hi up in the north east no blight arrived yet!! But keeping a watchful eye out.
growing Roma picked seeds up in lanzarote and their are hundreds in the packet Left.
there is lots of green toms on the plants so just need some good sun to ripen them and some good sauce making to calendar time for
happy gardening