[JayG]

Don't think anyone is going to be reporting a record crop this year, but I was wondering just how well or badly others were getting on with them so far this year.

Mine:

Indoors (greenhouse)

Sungold, Sweet Million and Inca (plum) - all recovering their colour after growing quite strongly but with very pale leaves. My guess is that the compost (two types of MP including the much-criticised Wickes "straw" compost) is lower in nutrients than "proper" tomato growbags as they picked up considerably after feeding with a mixture of Miracle Grow, tomato fertiliser and Epsom salts.

Sungold is the first to set fruits, but I'm a long way away from eating any of them yet!

Outdoors (sort of!)

Old faithful "Red Alert" are in their usual place (the cold frame with the covers half open to give them room) and although not quite as rampant as in previous years are setting lots of fruit and are well ahead of the greenhouse tomatoes despite being planted out 2 weeks later.

[mumofstig]

Outdoors I have 6 overflow toms and they are pants. The plants look as if they're dying tbh  

"Thank goodness for the greenhouse ones", say I

The early sown Gartenperle have been brilliant, maybe not the tastiest but better than Trashco and they were early to ripen They're just finishing so I wish the others would get a shift on now!
San Marzano and Maja Bush seem to be the only varieties not fazed by the low lightlevels, they're growing and cropping well, but still green.
Scotland yellow is laden with fruit but no sign of ripening.
Lemon Drop and Black Cherry no ripening, and these 2 have more nodes between fruit trusses than is normal, so although they're up to the roof, there's not much fruit
Coure di Bue, Cherokee Purple, Cuban Black, Rio Grande and Purple Ukraine only a few have set on each plant.
Carlton, my favourite beefsteak from last year, has no fruits set at all yet!
I hope there's still time, but beginning to doubt it..........

At least I know which ones to grow if the weather is like this in the future  

[Willow_Warren]

All mine are outside (not greenhouse!)

I picked my first Sungold at the weekend (I have 9 plants!), started off at the beginning of march!  The plants themself do look a little sorry for themselves, leaves dark green in colour but rather curled!  The tomatoes tasted yummy though, wasn't sure if they were ready to pick as I wasn't sure how orange they would go so I picked on to find out!

Plum tomatoes (3 plants) 1 of which is just setting fruit (I did knock off a truss as I transplanted!), started later April.

Beef tomato (1 plant) just setting fruit on a number of stusses, lot of growin to do now sure if I'll actually get to pick any, started late April.

Hannah

[spuriousmonkey]

I have 4 varieties; sweet100, stupice, Siberian, subarctic plenty.

Sweet 100 and stupice are doing really fine on my semi-protected terras at home. Lots of trusses, and on one plant some tomatoes now started to change colour.

Siberian and stupice are also doing quite fine outside, carrying also a decent amount of fruits, but the plants are smaller than the ones at home. I was really surprised about how well they are actually doing outside. It hasn't been the greatest summer here. Temperatures are quite low compared to last year.

Sub-arctic plenty is lagging behind all other varieties. They started to flower really late and only a few plants now show some tiny fruits. I'm a bit worried that they won't produce much at all at the end of the season, which is approaching quickly here in finland.

[Mrs Bee]

The quick answer is rubbish

Don't have a green house.

All the varieties planted much of a muchness. Gardeners delight, tiny toms from seed saved from supermarket toms, roma, and another old favourite whose name escapes me at the moment.

Most are in pots and a few I stuck in the ground in the garden long before I should have.
There are flowers on all of them and some are setting fruit but no sign of any ripening.

Thank goodness for the Turkish Food Centre and their boxes of toms at £3.50.
This year is really dispiriting.

[Babstreefern]

Vanessas are doing well - still green, but hey, through in a banana skin and watch them ripen.  Have also got a crop of Tigeralla - not so hot

[Lawrence]

I had a flower, but the slugs ate it.

[AnneB]

Outside toms only here.  I have 1 tomato still green on my Golden Sunrise.  The remaining 14 plants are as follows:
Aranyalma, 2 of these look quite sturdy, several flower trusses, no fruit yet
Cuban Flower, 2 sturdy plants, not so tall as Aranyalma, with flowers, no fruit
Essex Wonder, 2 plants, around 15" high with 1 truss of flowers each.
Principe Borghese. 2 plants, 1 a lot better tha the other, flowers no fruit.
Golden Sunrise, 2 plants, quite small and just getting first flowers.
Aurora, 2 plants, pathetically tiny with no flowers yet.
Stupice, 1 plant, battling bravely despite being attacked by slugs, 1 flower truss.
Super Marmande, 1 plant, has decided to have 2 main stems for some reason, lots of flowers and quite sturdy and tall, but no fruit.

Have sprayed against blight, just hoping this will be successful, given I have had no crop at all yet.
I need a greenhouse.

[mickbrov]

ive not had 1 tomato inside or outside for 3 years,and i use gardners delight .and alicante.

all my soils and raised beds have got a ph of 2 so  im gonna lime the whole lot if my toms dont come again

[Yorkie]

all my soils and raised beds have got a ph of 2 so  im gonna lime the whole lot if my toms dont come again

Did you read the comments on your other thread about your pH, mickbrov?

A pH of 2 is almost pure acid.  It has to be an inaccurate reading (not your fault, but the test kit).

[azubah]

all my soils and raised beds have got a ph of 2 so  im gonna lime the whole lot if my toms dont come again

Did you read the comments on your other thread about your pH, mickbrov?

A pH of 2 is almost pure acid.  It has to be an inaccurate reading (not your fault, but the test kit).

I agree with Yorkie. If weeds don't grow there is something wrong, but if you are getting healthy weeds, the ph figure you quote is nowhere near accurate.

[Bodmass]

Sowed some Sungold far too early (mid feb), and with only a couple of hours direct sunlight each day.  Sure enough they grew spindly and have been generally sickly since I put them in the greenhouse in late April. They've been producing for a while now but even for cherrys they're small!

Nonetheless I've been eating tomatoes for two weeks now whilst I wait for the later sown ones to catch up

[LilacSandy]

The only ones I can rely on this year is my saved Roma and Golden Sunrise. I have a couple of Gardeners Delight but that is about all.

[plum crumble]

Grrrrrrrr
grrrrrr
grr

 

[JayG]

Grrrrrrrr
grrrrrr
grr

 

So, have I got this right - Great (but not that great?!)