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    After all these months of stress with rubbish weather and my tomato plants growing so slowly and seeming to be way beind everyone else's, I almost have a ripe tomato! That might not seem like much, but this is the first year I've grown anything at all and I don't have ideal conditions for growing anything (no garden of my own and a huge horse chestnut tree outside my flat that blocks out a lot of sunlight). I've been watching them daily (and have discovered that a watched tomato never ripens) and a couple of days ago I felt this particular tomato was a yellowish green rather than totally green, but that could have just been the way the light was catching it. Well today there is no mistaking it - the top third of the tomato is orange After all these months, a poor choice of variety (I didn't really make a conscious choice - just picked up a tomato growing kit in B&Q) and crap weather I almost have my first ever tomato ready for picking. I have had some tomatoes from the plants I bought at the garden centre, but this will be the first from a plant I've grown from seed. I am so ridiculously excited!! Is it normal to be this excited about your first tomato? I can't believe I've grown tomatoes - I've not even succumbed to blight (yet). I also have loads of alicante that look ready to ripen. If only the promised forecast for this next week is true, I just might get some tomatoes! There have been so many occasions when I really thought these plants were dead but they have come good in the end.

    Far from being discouraged by the weather this summer, I'm actually encouraged. Heck, if I can grow anything at all this year there'll be no stopping me in a good year

    Apologies if anyone thought this thread was going to be about something really exciting! This is exciting to me.
    Last edited by Tomato Head; 16-09-2012, 06:36 PM.

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    Yup. It's a totally slippery slope mind. I started off with a tomato, chilli and cucumber I think - now I've beds in my garden, an allotment, various containers all over the shop.

    It never gets old (well, to me anyway). Nothing beats harvesting your crops, especially after all the care and attention that you give them - the best reward I felt like a kid opening pressies yesterday was I was prepping the corn I grew for the freezer!

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    • #3
      Congratulations, TH!! I'm excited for you
      I've been growing tomatoes for donkey's ears but I still have the same thrill when the first tomato starts to ripen. I can just about remember the excitement of the very first one grown from seed. They are all my little babies, growing up - its just a shame that you'll have to turn cannibal soon. Enjoy it

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      • #4
        Brilliant, isn't it?! My chap and I are reasonably experienced growers of a few years standing but we were still delighted to go into the garden and pick our own carrots and beetroot for todays dinner
        I was feeling part of the scenery
        I walked right out of the machinery
        My heart going boom boom boom
        "Hey" he said "Grab your things
        I've come to take you home."

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        • #5
          Well done TH. enjoy your first. Then I am sure you will keep enjoying growing. Have you got a heated propagator ready for new year?

          It all starts again in January!

          Loving my allotment!

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          • #6
            That's proper, genuine enthusiasm for you. Fantastic feeling, isn't it. There'll be no stopping you now. From little acorns mighty oaks... no... wait a minute... tomato seeds.. well, you get the gist.

            Well done and welcome to the fold.
            Where there's muck, there's brassicas

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            • #7
              Well done TH, enjoy your harvest!
              Granny on the Game in Sheffield

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              • #8
                They're well worth waiting for you just can't beat the taste of home grown tomatoes.
                Location....East Midlands.

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                • #9
                  Lol, I know that feeling so well! "Oh look, a bean! I don't care that you don't like beans, it's OUR bean, and you WILL eat it for dinner (well half of it, I want the other half), and you WILL enjoy it!" It's so special isn't it, picking your own? All my toms got blight this year, so I'm really quite jealous of your success! Enjoy
                  sigpicGardening in France rocks!

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                  • #10
                    Not so excited today. One of my plants has blight Its one of the bought plants - the golden peardrop. patches on the stem but the fruit is fine. I'm not taking any chances so I've removed the green tomatoes that are full size and the rest has gone. The other plants are showing no sign of it so fingers crossed they either won't get it or I will get some ripe tomatoes before they show signs of it.

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                    • #11
                      You never forget your first
                      The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.

                      Gertrude Jekyll

                      ************NUTTERS' CLUB MEMBER************

                      The Mad Hatter: Have I gone mad?
                      Alice Kingsley: I'm afraid so. You're entirely bonkers. But I'll
                      tell you a secret. All the best people are.

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Dusty Rhodes View Post
                        You never forget your first
                        Your first tomato, attack of blight, or anything else you care to think about

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                        • #13
                          I can remember doing a little dance when we got a tomato! It was small, green, the size of a peas but it was OURS! WE GREW IT! All by ourselves! You should've seen me last year when i grew a pear! One very small, very lonely pear, on a very small tree in a pot, but God, how I admired that pear every day! This year we have 9!!! Practically a glut! hahaha! Don't think i'll ever get over the thrill of planting a seed and amazingly something grows out of it
                          You may say I'm a dreamer... But I'm not the only one...


                          I'm an official nutter - an official 'cropper' of a nutter! I am sooooo pleased to be a cropper! Hurrah!

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                          • #14
                            Congrats TH, hope the blight hasn't took hold, I remember that feeling well, like it was only a cpl of yrs ago, oh wait, it was only a cpl of yrs ago lol... I'm come the conclusion this yr, my house and doin stuff in there is a chore whereas my garden is a pleasure however hard work it is... Are you going to try different types of tomatoes next year?
                            If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. Marcus Tullius Cicero


                            my memories of my garden http://lisamcflisagarden.blogspot.co.uk/

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                            • #15
                              It's raining so heavily today that I don't hold out much hope for avoiding blight on my other plants but there are no visible signs yet so if I can just get a few ripened on the plant I'll be happy to pick the rest and try to ripen them indoors. Just one red tomato is all I want!

                              Originally posted by Lisamcflisa View Post
                              Are you going to try different types of tomatoes next year?
                              Definitely. I only grew the ones I did this year because they were in the tomato growing kit I bought. Nothing wrong with them but I didn't put any thought into choosing them. My current short list for next year is gardener's delight, ildi, orange berry, tigerella, black russian, tomatoberry and quadro. That's being brutal as I have lots more seeds, plus it's only September and I haven't done the browse through all the seed catalogues yet......

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