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Lardman

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Coming Soon
« on: July 13, 2011, 16:00 »
... to a cheese sandwich near you.

Im getting all excited - Its nearly tomato time! oh how I've missed them.  :blush:
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Re: Coming Soon
« Reply #1 on: July 13, 2011, 16:06 »
mmmm cheese and tomato sandwiches, yummy  :D
Staffies are softer than you think.

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Re: Coming Soon
« Reply #2 on: July 13, 2011, 16:09 »
We've come home after a week away to find the first ones ready.

Having an heirloom variety "Cyril's Choice" tonight, hope he had good taste!

Yes, they've been sadly missed, Tesc*'s "Vine ripened with Ethylene Gas" is no substitute.
Did it really tell you to do THAT on the packet?

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Re: Coming Soon
« Reply #3 on: July 13, 2011, 16:32 »
We found our first fruit today on the most sheltered of the basket plants. You lot down south really didn't believe how cold the weather has been....  :tongue2: ..... except today, where I understand we may be warmer. :)
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Re: Coming Soon
« Reply #4 on: July 13, 2011, 17:34 »
I trust you'll let us know if you agree with Cyril  :D

Mainly just Shirley here as I had complaints about the "small ones" I grew last year.  :nowink:

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Re: Coming Soon
« Reply #5 on: July 13, 2011, 17:44 »
Cyril's got good taste, but obviously not too bothered about quantity. Toms are medium size,  but not a lot of them.

I always grow Shirley & they're coming on nicely outside.

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Re: Coming Soon
« Reply #6 on: July 13, 2011, 17:49 »
Apart from 3 Black Cherries from the g/house, the next to ripen will be the Shirleys outside..that's a bit weird, considering they were all planted at the same time  :wacko:

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Re: Coming Soon
« Reply #7 on: July 13, 2011, 22:14 »
My Gartenperle in baskets are cropping now, but none of the other (20) tomato plants are even close. A few of them have small and very green fruit on them, but that's it.

And I can't believe my courgettes still have yet to produce a single pickable fruit.

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Re: Coming Soon
« Reply #8 on: July 14, 2011, 03:20 »
Lucky DD. I have loads of small toms but nothing close to ripe yet, and I'm desperate for a real, fresh tomato.

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Re: Coming Soon
« Reply #9 on: July 14, 2011, 09:20 »
One Shirley tomato so far, but I did enjoy it. Lots of flowers and a few very green toms, so I'll just have to wait for the sandwich.... :lol:

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Re: Coming Soon
« Reply #10 on: July 14, 2011, 11:53 »
had one or two plums out of the polytunnel in a salad already

i have some gardeners delight in a sarnie today though

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Re: Coming Soon
« Reply #11 on: July 14, 2011, 12:20 »
found the first fruit the other day on a garden pearl...seems to be so long since these were planted, I hate waiting  :(
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Re: Coming Soon
« Reply #12 on: July 14, 2011, 21:09 »
Ate the first of the ripening tumblers this week on a beef sandwich for work.

Also spotted the very first of the Reise tomates forming... talk about alien mutations :)

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Re: Coming Soon
« Reply #13 on: July 14, 2011, 23:16 »
 I actually cheered today to find 2 red cherry toms were starting to ripen  :lol:. I think my golden sunrise are going paler green, compared to the other green toms, hard to say yet tho'  :unsure:

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Re: Coming Soon
« Reply #14 on: July 14, 2011, 23:22 »
I had a ham butty today, with cheese slices.  I wanted to pick my first tom..but a wee bit far off yet.

Still... I got my first handful of peas!
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