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RE: 2024 Tomato Grow List - JJB - 12-03-2024 I'm a member of Tomato Sowing Anonymous my name is JJB and I have an addiction to sowing tomato seeds. I have a confession to make: Notwithstanding the resolution to grow less tomatoes in 2024, which to be fair, I have stuck to so far. I have sown yet another variety, even though I had 'finished' tomato sowing. Last year's variety count was 34 different varieties and until this morning the count was 28. Last year was 4 gh borders of 5 plants each, this year will be probably 4 borders with 4 plants each with others growing outside. Then I found some scribbled wishlist of tomatoes from some time earlier in the year and on it was Derby Striped (Veggie seed swap). I googled it and thought it would be a good addition. So now it's a total of 29, still less that 2023 but not as much less as I had planned. I consider I have falllen off the wagon and need forgiveness. RE: 2024 Tomato Grow List - Small chilli - 12-03-2024 Your tomato growing rehab is doing ok JJB. You’re still 5 varieties less than last year. Baby steps, you’ll get there. RE: 2024 Tomato Grow List - Garrett - 16-03-2024 New Quote:After trying but mostly failing with beefsteaks, I'm growing mostly cherry or medium size as they'll all be grown outside: RE: 2024 Tomato Grow List - Mark_Riga - 17-03-2024 (07-03-2024, 12:32 PM)Mark_Riga Wrote: I've had good results with submarine rootstock from Mole seeds since 2018. Germination not brilliant, 18 out of about 33 seeds this year so far but last year had 100% success with the grafts and would have been a bumper crop except that the season was cut short due to leaf mould. Spoke too soon, 30 submarine have now germinated and only a couple look too weedy to graft onto. Last year I grafted 27/03 but will beaway for the weekend so will be 1st or 2nd of April this year. RE: 2024 Tomato Grow List - Veggie - 19-03-2024 Just been through my tomato seed box and pulled out:- Aurora Gardeners Ecstasy Gardeners Sweetheart Black Icicle Paul Robeson Darby Striped Irish Gardeners Delight Mountain Princess Resi Primabella Primavera Legend Eva's ball Reisetomate Rosella Ruby Falls Yellow Stuffer Tutti Frutti F1 Pertsevidnyy Artisan Pink Tiger Rapunzel Reinhart's Purple Sugar Radio (one very old seed) I lost the only seed somewhere on the work surface!! Not sure that all of these will make the final cut but its a start! RE: 2024 Tomato Grow List - toomanytommytoes - 24-03-2024 (17-03-2024, 10:37 AM)Mark_Riga Wrote:I've got 80% germination from the Estamino so far, pretty happy with that.(07-03-2024, 12:32 PM)Mark_Riga Wrote: I've had good results with submarine rootstock from Mole seeds since 2018. Germination not brilliant, 18 out of about 33 seeds this year so far but last year had 100% success with the grafts and would have been a bumper crop except that the season was cut short due to leaf mould. RE: 2024 Tomato Grow List - toomanytommytoes - 08-05-2024 (24-03-2024, 05:41 PM)toomanytommytoes Wrote:Here are the two surviving grafting experiments. I obviously got the timing of the sowings wrong because the Estamino romped away and many of the stems were too thick to top graft with the clips I had. To be honest, I found this method of grafting quite fiddly because it was difficult to match the angle precisely and the clips weren't easy to use.(17-03-2024, 10:37 AM)Mark_Riga Wrote:I've got 80% germination from the Estamino so far, pretty happy with that.(07-03-2024, 12:32 PM)Mark_Riga Wrote: I've had good results with submarine rootstock from Mole seeds since 2018. Germination not brilliant, 18 out of about 33 seeds this year so far but last year had 100% success with the grafts and would have been a bumper crop except that the season was cut short due to leaf mould. After all of the top grafts failed, I tried some cleft grafting with the remaining rootstocks. I wrapped the graft with tape and pinched it together with a clothes peg. This method was easier and seems more forgiving, and I think I will try side-grafting next time too. |