Tomatoes are Ripe for Picking.
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Tomatoes are ripening and some gardeners have started to pick them. The
Alicante tomatoes do well in the greenhouse.
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The cherry tomatoes are so sweet when eaten straight from the vine.
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Try this recipe for balsamic tomatoes
Tomato Virus Diseases
Greenhouse tomatoes are suffering from virus diseases this year.
*The four most common virus diseases affecting tomatoes are:
* Tomato Mosaic Virus (TMV)
* Cucumber Mosaic Virus (CMV)
* Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus (TSWV)
* Pepino Mosaic (PM)
*Symptoms on leaves:
* light green or yellowish mosaic patches – caused by TMV or CMV
* poorly formed leaf blades, with prominent midribs, resembling
ferns – CMV
* leaves have long, brown streaks which shrivel – TMV
* young leaves curl downwards, turn bronze, & plant stops growing – TSWV
* leaves have a bubbly, mosaic surface, and plant growth is stunted
Gardener’s Delight Tomatoes, delivered on Friday, have been planted out. Gardener’s Delight is a Cordon type suitable for the greenhouse or outdoors. It bears lots of bite-size fruit, ideal for salads and sandwiches and full of vitamins.
There was room for two more growbags in the greenhouse. But the gardening budget prompted a compromise on the growpots , and we adapted some plastic ventilation brackets to fit in the growbag to:
* lift the plant out of the bag and provide extra growing space for roots
* provide a reservoir for water
* allow feeding close to the roots
The remaining plants have been put outside against a southfacing wall. The bricks absorb the heat and act like a night storage unit, keeping the temperature slightly up.
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