You cannot beat the taste of home grown tomatoes

joef55


Joined: 12/09/2009
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Message Posted:
27/05/2011 12:42

We have been growing tomatoes for 20 odd years in the UK and every year we cannot wait for our crop to start producing so we can stop buying those supermarket ones. Luckily here in Cyprus we are now starting to get our first ones



http://cyprusgardener.blogspot.com/2011 … grown.html



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nurseawful



Joined: 06/02/2009
Posts: 5934

Message Posted:
27/05/2011 12:49

Yusuf your link is not working.



On the other hand the best UK tomatoes I ever had came from the Clyde Valley in Scotland.



Chris

joef55


Joined: 12/09/2009
Posts: 198

Message Posted:
27/05/2011 12:54

http://cyprusgardener.blogspot.com/2011/05/you-cannot-beat-taste-of-home-grown.html



try again

joef55


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Posts: 198

Message Posted:
27/05/2011 17:23

If you like a sweet tomato try growing some the Gold Medal variety

suehowlittle


Joined: 31/10/2010
Posts: 1202

Message Posted:
27/05/2011 20:51

Should we bring our seeds from England?



What about the little plants we see in the markets = are they any good, I can never find out from the seller whether they will be little tomatoes or the huge beef ones.

canada


Joined: 17/05/2011
Posts: 195

Message Posted:
27/05/2011 23:42

im growing watermellons,corn ,sweet peppers ,beans ,cucumbers as well as tomatoes

Ralph96



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Message Posted:
28/05/2011 05:43

See you when the dews dripping of the rhubarb.......

AlsancakJack



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Posts: 5762

Message Posted:
28/05/2011 07:06

We are growing cherry tomatoes from seeds bought from the UK and we cannot believe how quick they are growing. Another week and we shall be picking them.

Last year we had four plants that appeared to have been seeded by birds. This year we (with neighbours) are developing a communal garden along side our approach road (goats willing) and yet again we have just discovered 2 tomato plants that have sprung out of nowhere and already have one set of flowers on them.

joef55


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Posts: 198

Message Posted:
28/05/2011 12:23

Hi Alsanjack



The plants that just spring up are brilliant, no effort in growing them. We currently have coriander and potatoes which has just sprung up

martinD41


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Message Posted:
28/05/2011 12:27

AJ do you use tomato Feed and if so how often ?

AlsancakJack



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Message Posted:
28/05/2011 14:25

Joel

The two wild tomato plants we are leaving (apart from watering) just to see how they do by themselves.



Martin

We feed our cherry tomatoes (now they are in fruit) once a week with a general purpose plant food called Fertisol.

If you want a bespoke tomato feed then Mr Pound do a specific product that of course only costs 4Tl.

AJ