2024 Tomato Grow List

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.

I've got 80% germination from the Estamino so far, pretty happy with that.

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.

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.