Looking good.

Looks like you'll have a great crop of tomatoes. :)

Hi Linda

those tomatoes are great. I am totally jealous and want a green house, but it is a lower priority than building the house!

Helen

Great pics Linda. Looking good and at about the same stage as those here.

And not a spore of Early Blight to be seen. Remind me to send you some Kimberly and Sophie's Choice seeds next year. Both earlies and both with very good taste indeed. I'm jealous too.

I'm pleased (touch wood) we've had no blight or any other disease. For those interested in bio-dynamics; I sowed seed under a Capricorn Moon, transplanted, potted up, leaf pruned and feed (minute calc/potassium) under the same moon which occurs every 29 days-ish. (feed seaweed solution every day for a month during the Capricorn Sun which is now). No proof it helps - how would you know for sure, but it is fun and helps to plan activities.

Grub, I'd love some seeds of Kimberley and Sophie's choice when you have some. Got several other different ones to try next year. I'd be delighted if I could get tomatoes in November.

I had another look at Quickpick this morning. There are multiple trusses with lots of tomatoes, very prolific in fact - just should be called latepick! I haven't discarded them altogether though,will taste them first. Thinking of doing an cross with La Casa which is the same type - just because I need to get a life.

I think I'm becoming my father who spent his entire life in the greenhouse talking to his tomatoes and avoiding my Mother.So long as I don't become my mother who spent her entire life in Motherhood Martyrdom.

Helen, we threw that greenhouse up for $400 - will probably replace the plastic with laserlight or something solid because it is in the windiest spot in the entire garden.

Have a good weekend
Linda

Aren't greenhouses wonderful :-)

Linda,
I think you would love Kimberly and Sophie's Choice on the Apple Isle. If you can email me with your address I'll send you some seeds. Easy that!
Good growing, Grub :)

Thanks - will do.

Linda

Grub,

I tried to email you but the link says error, there is no such email. Tried in your journal section and the same thing. Maybe you can email me and I can reply?

Linda

Cos,
I can't mail you either! GW has an obvious problem. I'll try again.

Psssst.... I can act as matchmaker, if you like. :)

I wondered what the email was about- thought I'd got lucky in my dotage.

Thanks

Linda

Spatz,

That would be great if you could put us in touch.

Ta :)

Linda, I have grubs email and yours. I'll send his to you off GWeb.

Ray, we already have a happy couple. ;)

Thanks for your help.
BTW: How are your tomatoes going in SA and Armidale?
I've had one of the most humid and wet summers in recent times, but the least amount of disease and no fruitfly yet. Go figure!
:)Grub, craving enough tomatoes to make insalada caprese every night.

Armidale crop just beginning to ripen - a few coloured fruit here and there. One bed is sadly blighted so I'm not expecting great things from there. The rest though look great.

Grub, the buggers are clinging on to their green colour! I've had a few cherry tomatoes, but nothing else yet.

The patch looks fantastic! Most plants are laden with green fruit. Flowering madly, too.

Can't wait, can't wait, can't wait....

Mine were going great until our mega hot day (45 degrees). Most of my fruit that was close to ripe got cooked on the plants (so i peeled and froze them - the peels just came straight off they were cooked so well). About half my unripe fruit got badly sunburnt and in the subsequent warm wet and humid weather all got moldy, and the other half of the unripe fruit ripened all at once last week (so i have toms coming out my ears).

Only a couple of plants still have any fruit (those that had some shelter from the blistering sun), but some of the plants that have finished fruiting seem to be getting new shoots from the base of the plants, so I pruned them all back and am hoping for the best.

I hope I have some fruit to bring to Tomato Fest :-)

It was a very sad day for me after the new years day walking around my garden and seeing seedling trees with all their leaves burnt to a crisp (literally the leaves were toasted and crumbled when touched), and even some of my established fruit trees didn't look great. I have been watching everthing carefully and so far nothing has completely died and some are getting new shoots from the bare trunks so there's hope yet, but on the day I almost cried :-(

poor fin

I hope you fruit trees recover fully. It is so sad to see them devastated like that. But it sounds that they are on the way to recovery. And that you will have some tomatoes for the Tomato Fest. I am still waiting for the larger tomatoes to ripen. I need a green house!

Helen