Just browsing next years seed catologue. Anyone any experience of Tomatoes
and/or Strawberries in hanging baskets?

Graham

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Just browsing next years seed catologue. Anyone any experience of Tomatoes
and/or Strawberries in hanging baskets?

Graham
Tumbling Toms - superb! Two plants per basket, still picking ripe fruit now
from the greenhouse ridge baskets. Outside baskets finished a couple of
weeks ago.

Graham
Tumbling Toms - superb! Two plants per basket, still picking ripe fruit now
from the greenhouse ridge baskets. Outside baskets finished a couple of
weeks ago.


Agreed, Tumbling toms in hanging baskets are brilliant, I `m picking
the last at the moment :-)
kate

Which medium do you grow your toms/strawberries in?
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On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 20:31:55 +0100, Kate Morgan
wrote:

Graham
Tumbling Toms - superb! Two plants per basket, still picking ripe fruit now
from the greenhouse ridge baskets. Outside baskets finished a couple of
weeks ago.


Agreed, Tumbling toms in hanging baskets are brilliant, I `m picking
the last at the moment :-)
kate

"Serendipity" wrote in message
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Which medium do you grow your toms/strawberries in?
Mine were grown in ordinary general purpose compost, two plants per basket
plus a few trailing lobelia for visual effect.
I lined the baskets with locally gathered moss and Tesco carrier bags! Four
pellets of slow release fertiliser per basket and alternate daily tomato
food once they started producing.
The baskets were split between a pergola outside and the greenhouse ridge
(inside!)
The outside crop was good but not outstanding. The greenhouse crop was
simply amazing- we could have eaten ripe tomaoes in abundance every day from
these plants alone. The flavour was only surpassed by Marshall's
experimental plum. Shirleys and gardeners delight were given away in
abundance - they just couldn't match the flavour..
The greenhouse baskets are still delivering good sized and fully ripened
fruit right now - although if last night's frost is repeated they will
probably succumb.

Which medium do you grow your toms/strawberries in?
Mine too were grown in plain old 3 bags for a tenner compost

I planted some in large terracotta pots but the rest went into hanging
baskets, I fed them a couple of times a week and I find that baskets dry
out very quickly so watering was done as and when needed. It was not
planned but a Bill McKenzie clematis decided to grow up and around the
baskets it is still looking very pretty.

kate

"Graham Dixon" drop the bomb to reply
wrote:

Just browsing next years seed catologue. Anyone any experience of Tomatoes
and/or Strawberries in hanging baskets?

Tumbler toms are fave, but any bush cherry will is worth a try..

Strawbs.. Bring on early in GH for early fruiting strawberry baskets..
Great!-) Use early cultivar if poss though for most impressive earliest
fruits.

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Jim

In article ,
(Kate Morgan) wrote:

Tumbling Toms

Please can I clarify if that's the complete full name of the variety-
"Tumbling Toms"? Is it the same as "Tumbler"? Who is the supplier?

Also, is it a bushy bush or does it sprawl?

Thanks!

Steve Harris - Cheltenham - Real address steve AT netservs DOT com

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In article ,
(Kate Morgan) wrote:

Tumbling Toms

Please can I clarify if that's the complete full name of the variety-
"Tumbling Toms"? Is it the same as "Tumbler"? Who is the supplier?

Most of the seed catalogues include a variety of Tumbling Tom under various
names. Yes, it is the same as "Tumbler" as supplied by Marshalls.

Also, is it a bushy bush or does it sprawl?

It sprawls, with masses of fruit cascading down around the basket. I put
blue and white Lobelia in with mine - very patriotic!

Thanks!
Steve Harris

In article , . (Sad
Sid) wrote:

Most of the seed catalogues include a variety of Tumbling Tom under
various names. Yes, it is the same as "Tumbler" as supplied by
Marshalls.

How confusing! Is there a "Vegetable varieties equivalence chart"
somewhere? I wouldn't like to buy (say) "Tumbling Thomas" and find it
had none of the flavour reported for "Tumbling Tom"

It sprawls, with masses of fruit cascading down around the basket

Oh Manure! I don't do hanging baskets - watering every day just isn't on
for me. Do you think the plant would still work if I tied it up a pole
or trellis?

If the flavour is really so much better than my fantastic GD, I really
want to try one before I die :-)

Steve Harris - Cheltenham - Real address steve AT netservs DOT com

In article , Steve
Harris writes
In article , . (Sad
Sid) wrote:

Most of the seed catalogues include a variety of Tumbling Tom under
various names. Yes, it is the same as "Tumbler" as supplied by
Marshalls.

How confusing! Is there a "Vegetable varieties equivalence chart"
somewhere? I wouldn't like to buy (say) "Tumbling Thomas" and find it
had none of the flavour reported for "Tumbling Tom"

Well, that, of course, was why the EC was trying to sort out varieties a
few years back.


--
Kay Easton

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http://www.scarboro.demon.co.uk/edward/index.htm

On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 08:19:53 +0100, "Sad Sid" .
wrote:

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~"Steve Harris" wrote in message
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~ In article ,
~ (Kate Morgan) wrote:
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~ Tumbling Toms
~
~ Please can I clarify if that's the complete full name of the variety-
~ "Tumbling Toms"? Is it the same as "Tumbler"? Who is the supplier?
~
~Most of the seed catalogues include a variety of Tumbling Tom under various
~names. Yes, it is the same as "Tumbler" as supplied by Marshalls.

Um, are you sure about that? Suttons sells *both* Tumbler and Tumbling
Tom, and when they launched Tumbling Tom about 2 years ago one of
their quotes was it was better than Tumbler. So they are definitely
two varieties.

I tried TT that first year, got a terrible crop and went back to
Tumbler. I also love the shape of these tomatoes - they have little
pointed ends so the cross section lengthways is heart-shaped. One of
my work colleague has been growing Tumblers for years, and she tried
some of the Tumbling Toms and had the same experience as me.

I now get Tumbler seed from DTBrown as you get 10 for £1.85 as against
Suttons' 7 for £1.99.

Suttons' Tumbling Tom (both red and yellow) are 22 seeds for £2.29.
They can keep 'em in my (limited) experience.

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~ Also, is it a bushy bush or does it sprawl?
~
~It sprawls, with masses of fruit cascading down around the basket. I put
~blue and white Lobelia in with mine - very patriotic!

I am a bit lax in watering my Tumblers, and still find I get a silly
crop. I've got them in baskets on the shed, one almost totally muffled
by a clematis tangutica which thinks it's a mile a minute. I have had
to excavate the tomatoes... :-) and yes, they were still going as of
last weekend before the frost.


--
jane

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone,
you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
Mark Twain

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Steve Harris wrote:

In article , . (Sad
Sid) wrote:

Most of the seed catalogues include a variety of Tumbling Tom under
various names. Yes, it is the same as "Tumbler" as supplied by
Marshalls.

How confusing! Is there a "Vegetable varieties equivalence chart"
somewhere? I wouldn't like to buy (say) "Tumbling Thomas" and find it
had none of the flavour reported for "Tumbling Tom"

It sprawls, with masses of fruit cascading down around the basket

Oh Manure! I don't do hanging baskets - watering every day just isn't on
for me. Do you think the plant would still work if I tied it up a pole
or trellis?

If the flavour is really so much better than my fantastic GD, I really
want to try one before I die :-)

Steve Harris - Cheltenham - Real address steve AT netservs DOT com


Why would one need to water every day? I certainly didn't water my
baskets every day for most of the summer.
Baskets have resorvoirs these days and of course there's gel or drip
systems as well.
//
Jim...

In article
1g3dq7z.km2q501hpxpfkN%00senetnospamtodayta@macun limited.net,
(Jim W) wrote:

Baskets have resorvoirs these days and of course there's gel or drip
systems as well.

So, id there a system that could maintain Toms if I was away for 10 days
mid-season?

Steve Harris - Cheltenham - Real address steve AT netservs DOT com

Steve Harris wrote:


Baskets have resorvoirs these days and of course there's gel or drip
systems as well.

So, id there a system that could maintain Toms if I was away for 10 days
mid-season?

Yep a dripper system (with timer) should do this pretty easily.
/
Jim