Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Chatting => Frugal Living => Topic started by: mumofstig on March 20, 2015, 22:28
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4 varieties of blight free tomatoes to try!
Link here
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/4JmB0hKPMNqNXqMKLctw1lf/tomato-seed-giveaway
I've claimed some, to try in pots on the plot..................
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me too :D
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Gardeners World are giving away tomato seeds to the first 1000 applications by filling in the online application, details are on the program website.
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Have tried for fandango and the as-yet-unnamed
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me too! :nowink: I rather suspect i am already too late - what with us lot applying n all! :nowink:
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Thanks for the link. I have sent for them too.
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Thanks for the link, although I'm growing loads of toms as usual I'm up for a trial.
The experimental ones sound interesting.
I will proabaly pass some of my seeds around as I expect we all have plenty of other tomato seeds already.
A few of each variety in a combined pack would have been better, rather than 10,8,7 and 5 from the 4 companies.
I thought about asking this on Beechgrove a while back to setup a trial with its viewers, but never got round to it. They love their trials. I might do now.
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I've applied for mine but (being a cynic) I assume its a cheap way for the seeds providers to get more names and addresses.
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I have applied too,just in the interests of science of course :D
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Always interested in free seeds. Thanks for the links. Fingers crossed x
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Thanks mum,I've requested Fandango, cos it's a great name &
Lizzano,cos my Dad called me Liz :lol:
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Has anyone received their 'goodies' yet?
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I've only just seen this, but its too late for me now, they've all gone! ;)
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In the words of Dave Lee Travis 'Quack! Quack! Ooops!
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Has anyone received their 'goodies' yet?
I was going to ask the same question ::)
I've not heard or received anything :dry:
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Nope. :nowink:
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Has anyone received their 'goodies' yet?
I've had an e-mail from Mr Fothergills to say I wasn't one of the first thousand to apply. They do however recommend that I buy some from them :(
It was worth a try and they already had my details so nothing lost.
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I got my seeds from thomson & morgan today
Along with their catalogue and £5 off next order with no strings attached it says, except you have to pay £4.95 p&p, unless you spend over £60.
All five seeds present in the pack.
They ask for feedback later in the season via the web or in the post.
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Mine arrived today as well from T&M I have just popped them in the propagator, I was giving up hope :)
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nuffing - boo :( - getting too late now. Then T&M have let me down horrendously in the past, so nothing new there.
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Mine came today "experimental tomato"
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Nope, nuffink.
I did send for some interesting breeds of tomato plants, free offer and pay nearly a fiver postage. When they came they were poor specimens. :(
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I received my 5 seeds of Experimental Tomato from T&M today. Hooray! I had assumed I was too late as I had received an email from Mr Fothergill saying I was too late and had heard nothing from the others. There is just enough space in the propagator. Here goes.
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Yes, mine came from T & M this morning. Must get em started soon.
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Nope, still nuffink. :( :(
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T and M arrived today!!!! Will peruse the catalogue later.
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All five of my Tomato Experimental are up.
Planted on April 12th.
First came up after 10 days, last this morning after 13 days.
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Looks to me that 1 out of 4 is my lot. Some nice yummy toms for spending a few mins on the key board.
Waiting now for Monty's sunflower seeds to arrive ( fingers crossed!!)
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Only 2 out of 5 of the un-named seeds from T & M have germinated for me. The seeds were tiny and the seedlings look a bit thin and weedy... so i will not keep my fingers crossed.
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My T&M's went in three days ago, but early days yet. Most of what I sowed at the same time is stirring though ....
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Only 2 out of 5 of the un-named seeds from T & M have germinated for me. The seeds were tiny and the seedlings look a bit thin and weedy... so i will not keep my fingers crossed.
One out of five for me, which I think is poor. Seedling looked a bit weedy at first, but is making good growth now.
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How are yours doing?
All five of my Experimental Tomato germinated, but only three survived.
Have planted one outside and the two in greenhouse are both similar to this.
Bit slower than all my other toms, but went in a bit later. Potting them on this weekend.
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They look a lot healthier than the ones Monty planted out last week on GW!
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2 out of 5 germinated for me. One is in the greenhouse and the other is outside. Both about 10 inch high.
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They look a lot healthier than the ones Monty planted out last week on GW!
Yes, his did look poor and his courgettes last night were not that great, yellowed and eaten.
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My experimental tomatoes have just turned red.
Not the greatest cropper compared to all my other toms this year.
Out of the five seeds, only two plants survived, three just wilted a few weeks ago.
So far about five toms on each plant, poor showing.
Grew all mine oustide in pots.
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I only had two germinate out of five seeds, and one of them snapped off at about two feet tall. It has at last grown another shoot from the base but no flowers yet.
The second plant looks pretty much like yours lettice. Other varieties are much stronger looking and fruiting very well, with several trusses set and ripening
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Oh dear we did a taste test and tried the one that was ripe and ready.
Not the tastiest tomato, pretty bland really.
It was up against my red cherry, tumbling toms, moneymaker, Roma, San Marzano, Garden Pearl and golden sunshine that I also picked today.
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Has anybody had any Blight on their tomatoes yet? I thought the idea with the free seeds was to grow things that were blight resistant but its a bit pointless if there's no blight.
I go some of the free Crimson Crush plants. They've grown (but not spectacularly) and they don't taste anything special either but none of my plants at the allotment have blight so I've no idea if the Crimson Crush are any better.
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Blight, never seen it in all the many years I've grown tomatoes in the greenhouse or garden.
Not sure we get it down here on the south coast, never heard of it down here from neighbouring gardeners.
Tomatoes are pretty hardy for me, but some are just slow to mature and I just ditch them as there are always too many to pot up anyway.
Did the same with these test ones, but had a couple that were just not growing fast enough or looking taht strong, so I just ditched them and just kept two for the test reporting.
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I was lucky and got 9 seeds which 7 germinated, I have grown 4 in the open on my plot and gave one away to another plot holder and the other 2 went in a friends greenhouse. I have to agree that they don't yield too many tomato's but one the 4 plants grown out side on my plot is covered in tomato's. they are still green at the moment so will have to wait and see. There is some tomato blight on the site at the moment.we always get it on our site.
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Well the blight has arrived on our site big time and I have had to pull up most of my tomato's But the trial blight residence tomot plants are still going strong !!!! there was a Shirley plant next to them that I had to take out as it was covered in blight. we will need to see how long they last and how they taste.
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Some things on the allotments looked a bit blighty last week, when I get up there tomorrow (fingers crossed) after all this wet weather, will see what's what!