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    Hi all.
    I live in Lincolnshire. Does anyone have any expirence of growing tomatoes outside. If so have you any tips.
    Regards.
    Simon.

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    Don't plant them out until after the last frost. I grow mine to a reasonable size until then in a cold greenhouse and pot them up gradually into about 7" pots so that they are about 6" or more high. Then I grow them as cordons (pinching the side shoots out) tied to stakes. They usually get to around 3-4 foot tall and after about 4 or 5 trusses I pinch the top out. I have grown Tigerella variety and sub arctic plenty this way. I use these to make a passata rather than in a salad since my greenhouse grown Gardener's delight are sooooo much sweeter.
    Mark

    Vegetable Kingdom blog

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    • #3
      I grow Tumbler (a sweet cherry) outside in hanging baskets. But they don't go outside until the end of May and only then after a thorough harding off.

      Colin
      Potty by name Potty by nature.

      By appointment of VeggieChicken Member of the Nutters club.


      We hang petty thieves and appoint great ones to public office.

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      • #4
        There was a similar thread to this a couple of weeks ago with quite a discussion about blight etc. I don't grow outside anymore but that's more because I can grow enough in my polytunnel now I have it and like to use the outside space for other things. When I did grow outside I used to get good crops from various types, Red Alert were particularly good and the likes of Gardeners' Delight are always reliable. The worst I ever grew were Sub Arctic Plenty, supposed to be early but were later than other types and had zero taste, would never grow them again.

        Some of us live in the past, always talking about back then. Some of us live in the future, always planning what we are going to do. And, then there are those, who neither look behind or ahead, but just enjoy the moment of right now.

        Which one are you and is it how you want to be?

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        • #5
          What exactly do you want to know?

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          • #6
            Originally posted by zazen999 View Post
            What exactly do you want to know?
            I've just completed a bottle of wine....do you really want to know? x
            the fates lead him who will;him who won't they drag.

            Happiness is not having what you want,but wanting what you have.xx

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            • #7
              I do!

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              • #8
                OK, what is the meaning of life?
                Mark

                Vegetable Kingdom blog

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                • #9
                  42

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Capsid View Post
                    OK, what is the meaning of life?
                    I believe it's 42
                    Location - Leicestershire - Chisit-land
                    Endless wonder.

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                    • #11
                      I was going to say, ask the mice....

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                      • #12
                        Yet another TV/radio programme that has entered UK culture. Everyone of a certain age knows the answer as 42! Much the same with four candles and "Don't tell him Pike".
                        Mark

                        Vegetable Kingdom blog

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                        • #13
                          ?
                          It's not a radio program, it's the hitchhikers guide.....

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by taff View Post
                            ?
                            It's not a radio program, it's the hitchhikers guide.....
                            The Hitchhiker's guide started out as a radio programme.
                            Mark

                            Vegetable Kingdom blog

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Capsid View Post
                              The Hitchhiker's guide started out as a radio programme.
                              Didn't it start out as a book?

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