My Cedrico tomatoes have all germinated so these will be potted on in the next few days into cell trays for now. We still have night-time temperatures just above freezing so these will stay indoors for a long while yet.
Whilst I was stocking up on calcified seaweed and superphosphates at the garden centre yesterday I bought a packet of beefsteak tomato seed. I don't ordinarily bother with beefsteak tommies but the schedule for the North of England Horticultural Society Championships popped through my door last week which is run in conjunction with the NVS Northern Branch Championships held at Harrogate in September. A class which caught my eye calls for 3 dishes of tomatoes, 3 beefsteak, 5 medium (e.g. Cedrico) and 6 small fruited. With first prize money being 40 quid I thought it might be worth entering hence the need to acquire the beefsteak type, although I'll only grow two plants of it at most.
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hi simon what type are the toms ive chosen country taste from t&m
It's one i've never seen before called 'Faworyt'....strange name. Liked the look of the photo!
Just a quick serious question for once.
When you prick out the toms and also when you repot, do you, as some suggest plant them deeper each time to encourage more roots from the stem or just repot at the same depth ?
At this early stage the tom seedlings do get quite leggy so tonight I have pricked them out into cell trays and buried them to a slightly deeper depth, leaving them about an inch high.
I'll pot on into 3" pots in a few weeks, then that should be it until planting out during late April. When planting out I do try and bury them so that the seed leaves are just sitting above the compost surface.
In GN this week Medwyn advocates burying them up to the first true leaves at planting time .....but (ahem!) he's never beaten me so i'll leave it up to you to decide!!! ;o)
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