As previously reported, John returned from one of his weekly trips north with a cache of heirloom tomato seeds, courtesy of Mr. Vodanovich of Dargaville. He's a veteran and enthusiastic tomato grower, and along with the seeds passed along a few tips. I was keen to have it all!
Weeks ago I planted his Oxheart, Big Yellow, Little Devils, Hook, Sweet 100, Mexican Pink, Red and Pied tomatoes into seed trays in the glasshouse. Mr. V suggested that we put the small plants, once sprouted, into recycled toilet paper tubes filled with compost before planting them out into the garden (he suggested using recycled ice cream containers to hold those too, which I've done). He also gave John a supply of copper wire for me to wrap around each plant once established (think this is meant to help with fungal disease?).
Here's where we are so far:
I had so many seeds and thus plants (and so relatively few toilet paper tubes!) that I transplanted some into peat pots.
Counting the days to Labour Weekend to plant these out.......
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