Morning everyone. I agree with Lentil, I love growing my own tomatoes, supermarket ones (even the ones on the vine they sell) have no taste whatsoever. Before I got my greenhouse I grew some outside and only had a small patch cultivated. They grew well the first year, not so well the 2nd year and the 3rd year (luckily I had a greenhouse as well by then) they got the blight on the outdoor ones so were useless. I didn't think about rotation at the time as I only had the one spot then. Last year, my 4th year, I grew them all in the greenhouse with my chillis and peppers. They did really well. I had Yellow Pear, Tigerella, Moneymaker, Gardeners Delight, and a green and an orange variety but I can't remember their names. I gave my step daughter in law one of each variety as she wanted to try out a little veg patch in her tiny garden, and during the growing process I asked her how they were doing? Oh okay she said, but I had to throw some plants away, they were all manky. Well, I couldn't understand what she'd done, as all mine were fine! Then after hers had all finished, we went down one day for lunch and I took her some Tigerella and yellow pear and she said, oh those are the ones I threw away because I thought they were going rotten!!!! She only ever buys things from Tesco, so had never seen a tomato that wasn't all red!!!! lol
This year I am fortunate enough to have bought a 30 foot polytunnel for £60, so I have stretched the budget and bought a packet of Big Boy, one of Floridity and another Yellow Pear. I have a friend who I met through a cross stitch club on the internet who recently moved to Spain, and she sent me a packet of Tomato Tres Cantos, so I'm looking forward to seeing how they do. I'm going to plant loads more than i need and when they are big enough, put them outside the house and see if I can sell them to rake back a bit of my expenditure. Also I have loads of runner beans that are going out on my little barrow too!
I also try to encourage my youngest daughter, but she's no good in the garden as she hates crawly things!!!! (she's only 32 bless her!!! lol) So when I can, I take a few tomatoes and runner beans down to her and plant them in her tiny garden and all she has to do is water them and then eat them!!! Last year They came here instead of me going to her in June, so they took their plants with them. Poor plants stayed in their 3in pots until they died. She never got round to planting them out!! So this year i'm going down at the end of May and taking my youngest granddaughter a couple of brussels sprout plants as well as she loves all veggies! I have to go on the coach, so I can't take too much with me, they get damaged in the travelling.
I'll let you know how they get on.