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New to tomato seed buying, I have written previously about how I chose which tomatoes I should grow by looking at what other home gardeners had chosen to buy and grow.
In a series of forthcoming posts I’ll review what I learnt about their Top 5 Tomato seeds.
Gardeners Delight was the most readily available tomato seed for the home grower to buy.
Of the 23 sites I looked at it was available from 16.
So what is it about Gardeners Delight?
This is what the seed suppliers had to say:
To eat, Gardeners Delight is:
• Sweet but tangy, rich sweet, very sweet, outstanding, exceptionally sweet
• Cherry, small, bite sized , 2.5 cm fruit
• Red
• Thin skinned
To grow, Gardeners Delight is:
• A Cordon Interderminate
Or
• Bush
• Glasshouse or outdoors
• Heavy crops, consistently prolific, large crop, exceptional cropper
• Crack resistant
• Very reliable
• Long Trusses
• Habit compact,vigorous
• Ideal for hanging baskets and patio pot
To buy Gardeners Delight:
There is a wide range in price and number of seeds per packet (anything between 20 and 200 seeds). Average seed priced worked out at .017 pence per seed. But with wide variations. For example from one supplier you can buy 35 seeds for £1.10 and from another 200 seeds for £1.15
Do you grow Gardeners Delight? Is it your top tomato and is it as easy to grow and as delicious to eat as described?
Photo by Lucy Crosbie
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can someone tell me how high i should let my plants grow they are about 3 foot at the moment is it time to remove the growing tip any advice would be appreciated thanks wayne
Hello
The growing tip will stop the tomato growing in terms of height – but it will also stop the development of any more trusses ( the side branches that have the flowers followed by the tomatoes) .
So how many of those to have per plant is the biggie in terms of decision making. In the UK, outdoors, with an average summer – maybe 5 or 6 as that’s the maximum its likely that a plant can produce and get to ripen in our all too short summer !
Good Luck and I hope you get lots of great tomatoes !
thanks for your help sally