Growing some early toms 2018

[Small pumpkin]

Little Bartholomew has one flowering truss. I think he's doing OK. Not surprisingly he has slowed his growth since he moved into the tunnel.

[jackarmy]

Wow indeed, i have flowers forming on a few but jeez Jane, yours look like beasts, nice.

[Scarlet]

.... but jeez Jane, yours look like beasts, nice.

My thoughts exactly

[Ms-T]

Pics of my early toms



Bean's yellow pear.


and minibel.

one of the Bean's yellow pear is going into the greenhouse as its getting to big .

[Ms-T]

Oops have just snapped the Bean's yellow pear in half...so have planted the top ..if it lives great...if not i,ve still got 3 left .

[Dead Dogs]

It seams I joined this thread and didn’t know there was one
1st sown toms on 19 Feb, Sungold and Crimson Crush. Then a 2nd sowing on 16 March. This time Red Cherry and Red Pear.



Can just see one of the bottom of the photo.
Largest Tom at the back has flowers forming (Sungold)



Sown even earlier were the Chillis and old Courgette seeds. Only 1 courgette germinated from 2.



All grown in greenhouse.
1st in heated propagator under LED floodlights. Then, when to tall to but the lid on the prop, just on the staging. By that time I had found my Inkbird and was using it to control a fan heater.

[Small pumpkin]

Little Bartholomew had his first feed today.

[bramble]

From the sow early tomato challenge, some of my plants now have flower buds.
Salisaw Cafe.
Burstyn.
Peace Vine.
Minibel.
Sweet Millions.
I have to say, it was hard to keep them protected from the very cold weather we had for weeks on end but they seem to have made it.

[Thelma Sanders]

Yes, my Garden Pearl and Peardrops both have flowers on, as well.
Looks set for June tomatoes as usual, despite the horrible weather

[Small pumpkin]

Little Bartholomew isn't setting fruit .

[jackarmy]

Noticed some ickle green ones on my cherry falls today before I potted him on.

[Small pumpkin]

Look Bartholomew has babies



He's growing well. Even though he seems to have a lean ( hadn't noticed that, till I saw the photo )

[IainM]

Oooh. Nice thread. I sowed some toms on the 15th Feb, and yesterday put four of them out into the raised beds, from left to right: sugar gloss, apricot dreams, sungold and shirley.


I also put a couple of corgettes and a squash in behind them.

Another seven sown at the same time, catching the evening sun. They'll go back into the GH until I find the time to pot them up into their final 25L containers. They are the same varieties, with the exception of a cherry falls at the back in the 15L pot. I'll leave that in there from now on. Also have some more apricot dreams and some outdoor girls that were sown in march.


Most of them have flowers or flower buds coming through. Can't wait to see some fruit!

[Small pumpkin]

Little Bartholomew is being weird!

I have 2 trusses that have set fruit so far . The fruit are a different shape on each truss .

Truss 1


Truss 2


Both trusses on the same plant ( just so you know I'm not winding you up )



Anyone had experience of this before?
I did notice they were different, when they were still really small and assumed they would change shape to be more like each other as they grew. This doesn't seem to be the case.
It's very exciting.

[annie8]

Have got 28 tomatoes growing of 4 varieties - Shirley, San Marzano, Red Cherry and Gardeners Delight. Did a really stupid thing (don't ask) which now means that i only know for about half of them which of the 4 varieties they are. Am just waiting to see how they grow. If we get bored we could always play Guess the Tomato plant. From what i can tell the Shirley's are growing best so far and Gardeners Delight strangely slow.