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Originally posted by Moomin:
I'm in Lincolnshire, and my tomatoes have been rubbish this year - some outside and some inside.

Ta moomin I am the same! I have about twenty vines and have felt lucky to have a couple of pounds only. Some outside plants have some kind of blight... I am not the only one.!
[ I love Lincs]
Anyone notice the chemtrails a bit earlier?

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Originally posted by pigeonpie:
My tomato plants all eight of them ended up with green fruit, then they started dying from the root up, leaves wilting and going brown, it was a virus in the soil, lost them all.Picked most of the tomatoes off but only a couple ripened. Very disappointing.

Don't give up... time for testing patience I'm afraid!

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Originally posted by EDWARDIAN LIL:

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Originally posted by figtree:

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Originally posted by machel:

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Originally posted by figtree:
Some things are doing well this year while some aint... tommyartoes are not so good this year so it is not just you.They are taking much longer to ripen than they usually do!

you must be in a different area to me, i am over run with toms, beautiful, red and delicious. sorry lil

Lincolnshire is a very large county! Several people I know have had some trouble this year,even someone who usually helps to supply a green grocer has not done as well!
I have stuffed courgette coming out my ears now! mind you I love them ! Perhaps you are in the Boston area?

Well are you?Just wondered? I am not!

Well I'm in Glasgow,a lot further North.You cannot grow a lot of the stuff that you grow outdoors in Kent,Tomatoes etc.WE have rain,rain,and more rain.This was a bad year all round,one lot of carrots failed,one lot of parsley failed.Onion sets were so so.Well I bought them from the pound shop this year so I still have over 70 onions for a quid!

However my late flowers are doing great,dahlias,nasturtiums,sunlowers etc...full of hover flies and bees in the late september sun.Even butterflies in the buddleja.

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Originally posted by figtree:

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Originally posted by machel:

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Originally posted by figtree:
Some things are doing well this year while some aint... tommyartoes are not so good this year so it is not just you.They are taking much longer to ripen than they usually do!

you must be in a different area to me, i am over run with toms, beautiful, red and delicious. sorry lil

Lincolnshire is a very large county! Several people I know have had some trouble this year,even someone who usually helps to supply a green grocer has not done as well!
I have stuffed courgette coming out my ears now! mind you I love them ! Perhaps you are in the Boston area?

not too far, just up along the coast near skeggy, and you?

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Originally posted by machel:

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Originally posted by figtree:

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Originally posted by machel:

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Originally posted by figtree:
Some things are doing well this year while some aint... tommyartoes are not so good this year so it is not just you.They are taking much longer to ripen than they usually do!

you must be in a different area to me, i am over run with toms, beautiful, red and delicious. sorry lil

Lincolnshire is a very large county! Several people I know have had some trouble this year,even someone who usually helps to supply a green grocer has not done as well!
I have stuffed courgette coming out my ears now! mind you I love them ! Perhaps you are in the Boston area?

not too far, just up along the coast near skeggy, and you?

On the coast near Somercotes!
Haven't been to Skeggy for yonks! Nice place though!

We've had enough sunshine this week to have ripened the tomatoes a bit more, you'd have thought - but no such luck here.

Our apples on the other hand - I've never known a year like it - even our Bramley tree, which normally produces very few has a lot on it.

Apples 1 - Love Apples 0

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Originally posted by Moomin:
We've had enough sunshine this week to have ripened the tomatoes a bit more, you'd have thought - but no such luck here.

Our apples on the other hand - I've never known a year like it - even our Bramley tree, which normally produces very few has a lot on it.

Apples 1 - Love Apples 0

which part of lincs are you in?

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Originally posted by machel:

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Originally posted by Moomin:
We've had enough sunshine this week to have ripened the tomatoes a bit more, you'd have thought - but no such luck here.

Our apples on the other hand - I've never known a year like it - even our Bramley tree, which normally produces very few has a lot on it.

Apples 1 - Love Apples 0

which part of lincs are you in?

a village a few
miles outside Lincoln

My mate's tomatoes are turning out great. But his guinea pigs get them all.

My tomatoes were useless this year - one of the plants has so far yielded 3 tomatoes and they are still green

My chillis, however, are amazing