2025 Tomato Grow List

Today I side-grafted my tomatoes. Still found it quite fiddly, but the spring grafting clips are much easier to use than the silicone type, and the plants haven't wilted yet, a benefit of the stems not being completely severed so the scion remains attached to its root system. I did cut too deep on a few occasions and minced up two stems when a grafting clip snapped shut, meaning I had to do some dodgy cleft grafts. Hopefully the survival rate is higher than last year's 20%. If it doesn't work then I have some backup plants which I potted up, and I will make some wicking containers instead of growing in the greenhouse soil. I still have 9 rootstock plants left, they were too small to graft with since the open pollinated varieties outgrew them, which seems unusual.