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    In late summer I joined the French equivalent of HDRA (sort of, bit more hippyfied in France) Kokopelli and as part of my subscription I was send 12 packets of seeds. Just as an experiment I set 4 different tomato types, all described as lates, on the offchance I would get a crop later this year, well along into mid/late November when we get the first frosts. And we also get lots of bright and fairly warm weather until the end of October.

    Set 3 of each of the plants out in large half barrels (defunct water butts cut across horizontally) about 3 weeks ago, watered every day and this morning two of the pots have plants setting fruit.

    Going to be intetresting to see whether I get any meaningful crop from them but to be honest, I'm more interested in seed retrieval this year than eating a lot of them.
    TonyF, Dordogne 24220

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    It's always worth a go Tony. I've just sown a dozen seeds of my purple mangetout from this year. I'm going to try them in big tubs that I can take into the greenhouse later. Problem might be that they need support so I'll have to woman-handle a tub with a wigwam through the greenhouse door. Life get's exciting, doesn't it? I'm after another generation of seed too.
    Whoever plants a garden believes in the future.

    www.vegheaven.blogspot.com Updated March 9th - Spring

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      You actually just made me jealous when I saw you live in France. That would be my dream to live in France and grow on my own little bit of land. If only I could afford it and also speak French

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      • #4
        I'll be interested to hear how you get on with later crops. I love the idea of a really LONG tomato season!

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