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Tomatoes are one of the top crops you’ll find in any home garden. There’s good reason they are so popular—there isn’t much that beats the taste of a fresh homegrown tomato. Plus, tomatoes are relatively easy to grow.
This site is packed with information on growing tomatoes. If you need to know it about tomatoes, it’s here. In fact, they aren't going to beat around the “tomato” bush with this site. They’ll jump right in and start you out with 23 Tomato Growing Tips.
http://tomatogrowingtips.org/
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Genius
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Thanks for the information site. I will be growing toms in my greenhouse, as I did last year. They always do better than putting them outside.
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These are really very good tips.Here are mine:
1. Choose between determinate and indeterminate tomatoes according to the way you prefer to harvest.
2. For flexible-stemmed seedlings like tomatoes, a horizontal planting trench is better than a vertical one. It is warmer and better aerated than deeper soil, encouraging good root growth and fast development.
3. Tomatoes are very easily damaged by frost, so plant them after the danger of frost has passed. Since they are so susceptible to frost, they are usually planted as seedlings.If there is a late frost, be sure to cover them well, if they are still not too tall, you can use plastic milk jugs that have been cut off.
4. Tomatoes love heat Covering the plant with a red or black plastic couple of weeks before planting them will help to transfer the extra heat into early tomatoes.
5. If you smoke, wash your hands before touching tomato plants to keep from infecting them with tobacco mosaic virus.
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My toms are planted in the greenhouse now. I added some bonfire ash to decomposed goat bedding to grow them in. The greenhouse is lined inside with bubble wrap so it should hold on to some of the day warmth overnight.
Bought a large Victoria plum today and some new rhubarb sets.
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Hope you have more success with your Victoria Plum than I did Don. I kept it in the garden for approx. 10 years, it did fruit, but every year the leaves were covered with sooty mould, never did win that battle 
Kath
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I have another Victoria in production already Kath as well as a large black variety. Also a self set one of unknown origin which may become a bonsai. It's in a bucket.  I make a point of increasing the available potash for all my fruits and luckily have avoided your sooty mould. I'll keep a weather eye open. Thanks for the warning. =Don.
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Genius
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Good luck with the plum. Mine is flower for the second time - it's only a baby. Hope it's doesn't get the dreaded mould. I have three rhubarb clumps and they're all doing well. Just going to pick some for pudding.
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Back to the sooty mould prob. Maybe we should use a fungicide spray before it starts as a preventive measure.
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| I've got some cherry tomatoes growing this year. I'd like to grow some bigger ones next time as I do love fresh tomatoes. We usually put the cherry tomatoes on salads for a healthy meal.
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I have three plants of 'Tumbling Tomatoes' in a hanging pot and if the amount of flowers is anything to go by, I should have lots of fruits soon
Kath
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