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Aug 2021
6:01pm, 30 Aug 2021
22,231 posts
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Rosehip
(Your goose reminded me that it’s time to put my order in for C*****mas, thank you  )
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Aug 2021
6:10pm, 30 Aug 2021
3,338 posts
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jacdaw
Ssshhhh!
He's almost 20, by the way. He breathes a sigh of relief every Boxing Day.
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Aug 2021
6:13pm, 30 Aug 2021
22,233 posts
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Rosehip
He looks fun, good guard goose?
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Aug 2021
6:28pm, 30 Aug 2021
3,339 posts
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jacdaw
Certainly not to be messed with!
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Aug 2021
7:01pm, 30 Aug 2021
15,987 posts
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MarkyMarkMark (3M)
I have 2 only green tomatoes at the moment. That's on 12 plants, 4 different varieties and plenty of insects to fertilise them.
I don't know what's gone wrong this year. 😢
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Aug 2021
7:08pm, 30 Aug 2021
12,458 posts
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Mandymoo
Struggled with Tom's this year too
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Aug 2021
7:32pm, 30 Aug 2021
21,273 posts
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Columba
Not having a greenhouse I don't usually attempt tomatoes. My next-door neighbour gave me a mini tomato plant this year, assuring me the fruit would ripen out of doors. So far, it hasn't.
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Aug 2021
8:18pm, 30 Aug 2021
23,271 posts
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Dvorak
Conversely, tomatoes doing well here. Bought a Sunblush plant from a proper garden centre for decent money, instead of trying and failing to grow my own*, and it has run riot. The fruit is small, but super sweet, can just eat them like grapes, might end up with about 150.
Then I bought a couple of plants for 75p each from Asda, Gardener Delight and Roma, just setting fruit, but they may ripen. And there's a Bloody Butcher: that came from Morrisons and grew in the kitchen window. I bought it for my mother after a row over the Sunblush. It's now also in the greenhouse but has gone a bit directionally wonky. Just starting to flower, so hmm.
And there are also three of unknown variety which just appeared in trays amongst other stuff. So I potted them on. One is flowering, flowers are a bit odd, so who knows. I had recycled some compost, so I guess it was seeds of fallen unripe (so ignored) fruit. Possibly Russian Black then.
And there's an Alicante in the kitchen, also from Asda: nothing expected of it, but when the other one moved out, I missed having a plant there.
Oh, and a mini-bush of unspecified variety from Lidl, which has been consistently providing tiny, tasty, but tough-skinned fruit for couple of months.
I think that now concludes my tomato 🍅 round up
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Aug 2021
8:20pm, 30 Aug 2021
23,272 posts
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Dvorak
* they could work, but I'm lazy so they fall behind it every stage, which is no good in Scotland.
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Aug 2021
8:36pm, 30 Aug 2021
78,924 posts
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Hanneke
You bought a tomato.plant from every supermarket
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