Blogs on tomatoes

It's cold, wet and windy again!

By Weemamabell, 18 May, 2007, 0 comments

It's cold, wet and windy again! Its been okay working in the Greenhouse though, i've got loads done and its looking nice and tidy. I lifted out...

More gardening confessions

By Peter, 10 Jul, 2007, 6 comments

After visiting RHS Wisley and Hampton Court I was back in my own garden on Sunday. It was good to actually be gardening but the weather down...

*Parentless plants*

By Tussiemussie, 12 Jul, 2007, 2 comments

I am going to adopt a wee vegetable, a heritage tomato, Jersey Sunrise.Partly because I spent a very happy childhood in Jersey, and because I...

Sunshine and weeds

By Peter, 3 Aug, 2007, 5 comments

What a difference a few days of sun has made to my tomatoes! For weeks there's been a handful of orange-ish fruit dangling around the bottom...

Here we go again

By Weemamabell, 11 Aug, 2007, 2 comments

I got so fed up looking at the horrible, sad, sickly looking Tomato Plants so out they came , put out of their misery in one fast swoop with...

A happy garden

By Peter, 19 Aug, 2007, 2 comments

It's been a while since my last blog and to be honest I've not had to do anything in the garden other than enjoy it! Last weekend was glorious...

Beginning to garden

By Peter, 29 Aug, 2007, 0 comments

With two exceptions (my courgettes and watercress) everything in my garden has almost taken care of itself. It looks green and lush, flowers...

Taking Stock

By Hamish, 1 Sep, 2007, 1 comment

All of us seem to agree that its been a strange year for the garden. Outdoor Toms a write off due to blight, but most plants seem to have loved...

'Taking care' of my tomatoes with blight

By Peter, 2 Sep, 2007, 1 comment

Well they gave us a few good salads and I have two platefuls of unripe fruit on the window sill but today I got rid of my two tomato plants.
They...

maisymulcher introduces herself

By Maisymulcher, 4 Oct, 2007, 7 comments

hello fellow growers, I am new to computers so you will have to bear with me. But I am an old hand at growing veggies, and now have 5 raised...

Tomato Plants

By Graham, 18 Oct, 2007, 3 comments

This year I grew a variety of tomato plants called Vanessa. I have been growing these fruits for ever but Vanessa has proved to be the most...

Looking forward to gardening after a 2yr Hiatus

By Indybarnes, 7 Dec, 2007, 5 comments

Dec 7th 2007: -10C and LOTS of snow.We are in a new house with untouched grounds to play with. The snow is currently about a foot and a half...

Tomatoes!

By Andrearichter, 1 Feb, 2008, 6 comments

Well I've sown my first tomato seeds in a heated propatater this morning, I watered the soil and left it in the propagater overnight to get accustomed....

Trying something different this year.

By Marksbegonias, 23 Mar, 2008, 5 comments

I usually only concentrate on my Double Tuberous Begonias.Last year i grew some foilage Begonias for the first time, and will be doing so again...

Tomtoes have outgrown the house - Day of the Trifids???

By Andrearichter, 31 Mar, 2008, 3 comments

Well, I couldn't store the tomatoes any more in the house, I had to repot them last week as they were fast outgoring the pots I transferrred...

Tomatoes - flowering!!!

By Andrearichter, 25 Apr, 2008, 4 comments

How chuffed am I, from seed to flower and still going strong.My Tumbling Tom Vine Tomatoes are in flower and the buds on the other plants are...

Tomatoes fruiting!!!!

By Andrearichter, 15 Jun, 2008, 9 comments

Well, we started in January sowing the seed, pricking out and potting on, keeping warm indoors filling up every window sill. Then they were...

Whats Wrong With My Tomato's Mom?

By Lorrainenagle, 30 Aug, 2008, 6 comments

When my children were little they loved to help in the Garden. They always had their own little patch and learned early on the joys of gardening....

A green (and wet) garden

By Peter, 25 Sep, 2008, 15 comments

It's been a while since I wrote about my garden, partly because of being busy (more on that later) and partly because my little strip of brown...

finally out there sewing some seeds

By Juliano, 19 Feb, 2009, 3 comments

well with all your great advise and tips i started sewin my sweet peas i put 3 in a pot , got carried away must of done 30 pots i did sew other...

New greenhouse

By The_norfolk_shed, 28 Feb, 2009, 10 comments

Last weekend Paul was busy putting up my new 14ft greenhouse. The framework is all up and he hopes to fit all the glass this weekend, weather...

polytunnel veg

By Sandra, 18 Apr, 2009, 17 comments

we planted tomatoes in our polytunnel on the third of april. now two weeks later i am amazed at the difference two weeks have made.

We are...

tomato flowers

By Sandra, 14 May, 2009, 7 comments

i'm amazed at the different flowers on our tomatoe plants.

this huge one is german red strawberry. it says it will have one pound...

pot grown vegetables

By Maccrimmon, 4 Jul, 2009, 76 comments

Someone asked a question a while ago regarding what vegetables you can grow in pots , I have a few so here they are.
Courgettes are easy to grow...

Garden at the end of July

By Kmccue07, 31 Jul, 2009, 12 comments

My tomato plant is 6 ft. high

I harvested my first 2 tomatos yesterday...the first one a critter ate a hunk of it. (critters one...me one) the...

tomatoes needing help...

By Sandra, 31 Aug, 2009, 15 comments

today it was raining ..again...so i retreated to our polytunnel. and took on my husband Julians tomatoes....
they have been producing so much...

Toms on my balcony

By Balcony, 31 Aug, 2009, 9 comments

Just this evening I was out on my balcony checking my tomatoes. I finally cut out two plants that haven't set any fruit. It's too late now for...

First fall garden plants!

By N2organics, 20 Sep, 2009, 2 comments

My fall vegetable garden area is finally finished with its' soil preparation and received its' first two plants this afternoon:

Two very...