Trial with tomatoes

[rary]

I now have some flowers showing on some of my plants

[Mark Rand]

Likewise. I really have got to put them in their big pots tomorrow. Having to water them three times a day in the current heat with their little pots!

[Peanut]

I haven't even pricked mine out yet!

[ameno]

My greenhouse tomatoes are ready to go in the greenhouse border. I plan to dig the border today, and plant them out tomorrow, probably.

My outdoor ones are still pretty small (only pricked them out 4 days ago).

[rary]

Picked my first tomatoes towards the end of June, (thought I had recorded the date, but cant find it) then things were a bit slow, but now getting them thick and fast, interestingly, to me anyway, I had been feeding them with a mixed weed tea, taste of the first ones were quite acidic, so changed back to a comfrey tea and the taste has changed that is the tomatoes are less acidic, the mixed weed tea worked well witb my potatoes, so diffrent feed for diffrent things

[rary]

Tomatoes coming thick and fast now, most of them are Alicanti, not as good a flavour as Ailsa Craig, really need to keep an eye out for A.C. especially if the price is reduced

[Snoop Puss]

Out of interest, did the ones you planted out in April do OK in the end?

[rary]

Yes those are the ones I am harvesting now, as I posted earlier I picked the smaller tomato variety toward the end of June, there's too much vegetation around the base of them to see the name, once I plant the tomatoes, I then plant a lot of French marigolds around them

[Snoop Puss]

Great news, then. An experiment that paid off.