What tomato varieties will you be sowing this year?

[Mark_Riga]

First year growing tomatoes in my new greenhouse. Sowing Sungold and have ordered grafted plants of Gardeners Delight, Shirley and Orange Paruche. I'm interested to see how grafted and non-grafted compare, is it worth it, especially with the shorter growing season in Scotland.

I tried grafting tomatoes last year as I think I have several wilt diseases in my greenhouse soil (probably from strawberry plants) and don't like watering growbags or the thought of digging it all out and replacing it from somewhere else. I normally grew about 40 plants in a 20ft. greenhouse and ended up with enough toms for us. This year, out of 32 grafts, 22 survived. I planted out 20 allowing each plant to develop 2 vines so similar to 40 plants. I had a total of 120kg of toms off them with 9kg off 1 alicante and 7.8kg off a gardener delight. I was untroubled with botrytis either - but that might be because it was so dry.

If you are growing in soil for the first time or growbags, I would not bother with grafts. After a few years though, disease is likely to build up as it is difficult to rotate greenhouse crops adequately, then grafting is definitely worthwhile.

[Scarlet]

Im not sure you would need growlights for tomatoes? Lots of people manage without them. Perhaps just grow cherries or small salad toms.

I'm hoping to try grafted toms I may need handholding

[Mark_Riga]

I used these grafting clips which are 2mm diameter so quite small.
https://www.wholesale.molesseeds.co....ilicone-zsn310
and the submarine rootstock from the same supplier. Last year I sowed them about 20th March but will sow a bit earlier this year. Either end Feb or 1st week March depending on weather. The benefit of grafting small plants is that a lot can fit in a small heated propagator which I put in a darkish corner of the kitchen. Then looked at a few youtube videos.

Edit:The youtube clips I found useful were:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSwTCwlhFgo quite a few tips in
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhgsPkeZEbk

[Scarlet]

Thank you Mark...I need to get watching some video

[Guest]

Woo hoo, finally decided on my list. Not sure what will get grafted though.

Hahns Gelbe
Tiny Tim
Tom Minibel
Tom Micro
Sweet n Neat Yellow
venus
Bosque Bumblebee
Dancing with Smurfs
Black Vernissage
Beam's Yellow Pear
Brad's Atomic Grape
Buffalo Horn
Black Russian
Orange Favourite
Pantano
Supermarmande
Tres Cantos Tom
Atkin's Stuffing
White Queen
Moonglow
Garden Peach
kumato

[MarkPelican]

I tried grafting a few years ago and failed miserably so I wish anybody luck. The problem I had was having rootstock and scion the same diameter.

[Scarlet]

I tried grafting a few years ago and failed miserably so I wish anybody luck. The problem I had was having rootstock and scion the same diameter.

Did you start them off the same time? What variety did you try?