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Tomatoes

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  Posted by Rose Reynolds (U14948835) on Tuesday, 2nd August 2011

  Gardeners World last week showed the first tomatoes being picked. I live in the North East and picked my first tomato on 22nd June. As it is only a private garden/greenhouse I was able to grow tomatoes from seed indoors. I then put them in the greenhouse during the day and brought them indoors to prevent them from being damaged from overnight frosts. I have over a dozen plants all growing very healthily at the moment.
  I now have so many tomatoes I am giving them to family and friends regularly.

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  Posted by honestGreengrass (U11104227) on Wednesday, 3rd August 2011

  To be honest, if my tomatoes looked as bad as Monty's appeared on the show, I wouldn't have wanted to show the nation!

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  Posted by David K (U14115317) on Wednesday, 3rd August 2011

  To be honest, if my tomatoes looked as bad as Monty's appeared on the show, I wouldn't have wanted to show the nation!  
  
  
  ..not to mention his sweet peas or box hedges!
  
  One day the penny will drop.

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  Posted by Trillium (U2170869) on Wednesday, 3rd August 2011

  Since I moved to the north west my attitude towards getting things cropping as early as possible has completely changed. I now ignore earliest sowing dates and simply grow things in the quickest, simplest way possible.
  
  So my courgettes have just started cropping (sown in late May), my broad beans are still in full flow and the runner beans are barely half way up the canes. But I enjoy my crops just as much whether I get them in May or July - and I get the same or greater quantity of total crop in the year. And the crops I get now have taken almost no effort to grow, no fiddling about with fleeces, heaters, cloches, no fretting about late frosts, almost no indoor sowing with all that pricking out, planting out etc.
  
  It is of course completely commendable to do everything by the book at the earliest possible date - I've done it many times. But there is absolutely no shame - and much sense - in taking a slower, later and easier route to growing your own.

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  Posted by ArtemisH (U14261033) on Wednesday, 3rd August 2011

  I'm sure, Rose, that if you sow your tomato seed on Christmas Eve, you have ripe tomatoes by Good Friday.
  
  I live in the SE and none of my tomatoes turned red yet; not even pink!
  
  Late sowing...

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  Posted by Obelixx (U2157162) on Thursday, 4th August 2011

  Well said Trillium. I'm all for an easy life too when it comes to gardening and crops at a relaxed pace. My sweet peas, sown late after seeing Monty do it in spring, are now producing good stems of flowers. The last 3 times I'd sown them in autumn and lost the lot so had given up with them. Next year I'll try another, fancier variety though as these, supposedly dark blue, are all shades of purple.
  
  As for toms, I've been picking for a week or two but not many yet because July was so cold. Chillies are doing fine and I've been picking broccoli, red kale and salads for weeks and the red spinach has taken off.
  
  Veggies should be about taste, not competition for the first, biggest etc.
  
  

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