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Bungo



Joined: 21 Dec 2011
Posts: 354
Location: Wye Valley
PostPosted: Thu Apr 26, 12 8:55 am    Post subject: Tomatoes Reply with quote
    

Anybody planted tomatoes out in an unheated greenhouse yet?
I planted 6 money makers about 3 weeks ago , as an experiment , because I had more plants than I needed , we have had a few frosts since and the coldest in the greenhouse has been 0.9 C. A couple are doing ok,and are about 18" tall but I removed the other 4 yesterday as they have just stood still,at the same size I planted then out at 9".
According to the BBC it looks like the night temps could be improving
The plants in my conservatory , which are from the same batch are about 2 ft tall and flowering well, but it never drops below 10 C in there .
For the last 2 years I have suffered blight , so I am trying Ferline and Milla as they are ment to have some resistance, and will keep about 20 plants in the conservatory as its well away from the greenhouse and vegplot which had a lot of potatoes on last year.
I never had blight once in over 30 years in SE Essex(maybe I was just lucky) , but the damper climate and rubbish late summers we have had for the last 2 years here in SW Wales probably is not helping.
I am also growing Gardeners Delight. Chicco Rosso , and an Italian Cherry variety. What tomatoes are you growing?

Luath



Joined: 03 Dec 2009
Posts: 761

PostPosted: Thu Apr 26, 12 9:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Bit early for mine to get planted out, still in seedling stage. I held back this year again because of the conditions. I long ago gave up going by books/seed packets, and use my instinct and the weather now. It's only Apri, when the warmth comes they'll romp away. Growing a few different ones again this year - Bloody Butcher, Pink Brandywine, Wisponican Peach, Costeluto Fiorentino, 3 yellow varieties and a WW2 variety I can't remember the name of. I've only ever had blight once on potatoes in all my 25+years growing, never on tomatoes.

Bungo



Joined: 21 Dec 2011
Posts: 354
Location: Wye Valley
PostPosted: Thu Apr 26, 12 9:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

The year before last, the blight hit our tomatoes( i had no potatoes)mid august and within a fortnight they had all had it.
Last year I grew a lot of potatoes which appeared to go untouched by blight, but the tomatoes in the greenhouse nearby , started to get blight early September, but by drastic culling some made it into early October.

Luath



Joined: 03 Dec 2009
Posts: 761

PostPosted: Thu Apr 26, 12 9:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I don't grow any 'blight resistant' varieties of anything; maybe I have ust been lucky, but no near neighbours who grow and back on to farmland, so that helps. All my varieties are open pollinated old/heritage ones - and well talked to

Bungo



Joined: 21 Dec 2011
Posts: 354
Location: Wye Valley
PostPosted: Thu Apr 26, 12 9:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Maybe thats the problem , since I moved here I have been to busy to stop and spend some quality time with them

Shan



Joined: 13 Jan 2009
Posts: 9075
Location: South Wales
PostPosted: Thu Apr 26, 12 9:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

If you do get blight, spray with bordeaux mix - it's a copper spray and whilst it doesn't get rid of it, it halts it long enough to get ripe fruit.

Green Rosie



Joined: 13 May 2007
Posts: 10498
Location: Calvados, France
PostPosted: Thu Apr 26, 12 9:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I bought three yesterday and planted them out in the polytunnel this morning. It's a risk as last year we had a frost on May 28th but it's a risk I'm willing to take for early tomatoes. All the ones I sowed are still tiny but they have now been moved out of the cold frame in the polytunnel into border space as I need the cold frame for pumpkins etc! (with fleece at the ready if frost threatens)

Tavascarow



Joined: 06 Aug 2006
Posts: 8407
Location: South Cornwall
PostPosted: Thu Apr 26, 12 9:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I haven't planted them out yet but they are sitting in pots in the polytunnel waiting to be planted.
If I kept them on the windowsill they would only get leggy so figured hardening them off in the tunnel prior to planting was the best option.
If frost threatens I can always chuck some straw around them.

sueshells



Joined: 20 Jan 2009
Posts: 690
Location: North Bucks
PostPosted: Thu Apr 26, 12 11:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

My seedlings are in an unheated greenhouse waiting to be potted on. They are off the floor, however and away from the glass.

Like Tavascarow's my plants were in danger of getting too leggy on the windowsill. No frost forecast fro the next week so fingers crossed.

This year I am growing:-

Black Truffle (grew it last year and absolutely delicious)

German Orange Strawberry (again grew last year - huge beefsteak type and very tasty)

Garden Peach

Pineapple

White Cherry

Cherokee Purple


I buy most of my seeds from Premier Seeds Direct on eBay. Great value and a very good selection of varieties.

celestialspore



Joined: 27 Jul 2010
Posts: 26
Location: Aberdeenshire
PostPosted: Sat Apr 28, 12 6:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

My seedlings are out in an unheated greenhouse in northeast Scotland, and have been for 3 weeks now. I also stopped covering them up at night with bubblewrap shortly after they were put out there. There has been a few light frosts but they are doing fine. I have no idea what temperature inside the greenhouse has went down to, as I have no thermometer in there.

Varieties this year:
Wapsipinicon Peach
Pink Thai Egg
Snowberry
Chocolate Stripe
Red Brandywine
Black Cherry
Hillbilly Tom
Sub Arctic Plenty
Tigerella

The Cosmonaut Volkov and Romanian Red Dwarf sown had 0% germination.

sueshells



Joined: 20 Jan 2009
Posts: 690
Location: North Bucks
PostPosted: Sat Apr 28, 12 11:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Quote:
Varieties this year:
Wapsipinicon Peach
Pink Thai Egg
Snowberry
Chocolate Stripe
Red Brandywine
Black Cherry
Hillbilly Tom
Sub Arctic Plenty
Tigerella


Bum - those are much better names than mine! Wapsipinicon Peach? Pink Thai Egg? Will have to look out for those. I think half the attraction of tomato varieties is in their weird and wonderful names.

Bungo



Joined: 21 Dec 2011
Posts: 354
Location: Wye Valley
PostPosted: Sat Apr 28, 12 12:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Hope they all taste as good as they sound

Luath



Joined: 03 Dec 2009
Posts: 761

PostPosted: Sat Apr 28, 12 8:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

celestialspore wrote:
My seedlings are out in an unheated greenhouse in northeast Scotland, and have been for 3 weeks now. I also stopped covering them up at night with bubblewrap shortly after they were put out there. There has been a few light frosts but they are doing fine. I have no idea what temperature inside the greenhouse has went down to, as I have no thermometer in there.

Varieties this year:
Wapsipinicon Peach
Pink Thai Egg
Snowberry
Chocolate Stripe
Red Brandywine
Black Cherry
Hillbilly Tom
Sub Arctic Plenty
Tigerella

The Cosmonaut Volkov and Romanian Red Dwarf sown had 0% germination.


You've been in my seed box................... Hillbilly is highly recommended by me, as is the red Brandywine. Growing the W Peach here this year too.

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