Hi Rebekah, Thank you for another very, very clear, focused and informative video. Before I got my poly tunnel, I grew around 120 tomato plants outdoors on my allotment for about 15 years, growing around 12 different varieties each year; a few favourites were grown often but I’d be trying lots of different varieties each year and have grown about 160 different varieties outdoors. Red Alert (determinate) is an excellent variety to grow outdoors, being specifically bred to grow outdoors in the UK. It would fruit for me, in north Nottinghamshire, from the last week in July hopefully before blight arrives, but it is not blight resistant. Of all the varieties I’ve grown Sungold F1 has been consistently the most blight resistant variety, (I’ve been able to compare it with other varieties growing along side). Sungold resists the infection for longer, and if infected I have seen plants recover and continue to produce and ripen fruit which is unaffected by blight, it does require a period of sustained dry and fine weather to allow this recovery to happen. It also fruit outdoors from late July for me, (Red Alert and Sungold were always the earliest varieties to ripen outdoors for me). Of course in a continuous wet period there is no prospect of recovery. Hope you find this of interest and helpful. With very best wishes, take care, Darren
Thank you Darren, that's really interesting to hear. I have bought Sungold F1 myself this year so I'm looking forward to seeing how they grow! I found that the wet summer last year was particularly bad for blight, best wishes, Rebekah 🌸
Hi Rebekah, I hope they grow well for you! I don’t know if you will be growing them outdoors or under cover, but you might also be interested to know that for me growing Sungold in my poly tunnel they are always the first variety to to ripen at the end of June and the last variety to be continued to harvest well into November and sometimes into December, conditions permitting. Under cover I grow them as a cordon, but in August I let them ramp ahead at the top of the plant and tie them across the roof to get fruit into late autumn - they are very vigours growers. Hope you find this useful. With best wishes, take care, Darren@@rebekahtheukplantdoctor
@@DarrenPoole-x1f Thanks Darren, that's great to know. My plan is to grow them as cordons in a greenhouse, but I will put a few plants outdoors as well. Nothing beats the flavour of homegrown tomatoes! best wishes Rebekah 💮
Have you grown a good blight-resistant tomato variety? 🍅 Please do tell me which variety you used! I've suggested some resistant varieties in the video, at 09:27, but I'm sure there are many great varieties out there! 😊
I use mycorrhizae and trichoderma in soil when I planting tomatos. If the phatogene strike, I spray water with a 5% sulution of water, bacterial species and tricoderma on whole olant. Works well.
Beneficial microbes are amazing aren’t they. There’s so much we still don’t fully know about how microbes interact with each other, and so much potential for prevention and treatment of diseases. It’s great to hear that this works for you, thanks for sharing! Happy gardening 🌸
Hi Rebekah, Thank you for another very, very clear, focused and informative video. Before I got my poly tunnel, I grew around 120 tomato plants outdoors on my allotment for about 15 years, growing around 12 different varieties each year; a few favourites were grown often but I’d be trying lots of different varieties each year and have grown about 160 different varieties outdoors. Red Alert (determinate) is an excellent variety to grow outdoors, being specifically bred to grow outdoors in the UK. It would fruit for me, in north Nottinghamshire, from the last week in July hopefully before blight arrives, but it is not blight resistant. Of all the varieties I’ve grown Sungold F1 has been consistently the most blight resistant variety, (I’ve been able to compare it with other varieties growing along side). Sungold resists the infection for longer, and if infected I have seen plants recover and continue to produce and ripen fruit which is unaffected by blight, it does require a period of sustained dry and fine weather to allow this recovery to happen. It also fruit outdoors from late July for me, (Red Alert and Sungold were always the earliest varieties to ripen outdoors for me). Of course in a continuous wet period there is no prospect of recovery. Hope you find this of interest and helpful. With very best wishes, take care, Darren
Thank you Darren, that's really interesting to hear. I have bought Sungold F1 myself this year so I'm looking forward to seeing how they grow! I found that the wet summer last year was particularly bad for blight, best wishes, Rebekah 🌸
Hi Rebekah, I hope they grow well for you! I don’t know if you will be growing them outdoors or under cover, but you might also be interested to know that for me growing Sungold in my poly tunnel they are always the first variety to to ripen at the end of June and the last variety to be continued to harvest well into November and sometimes into December, conditions permitting. Under cover I grow them as a cordon, but in August I let them ramp ahead at the top of the plant and tie them across the roof to get fruit into late autumn - they are very vigours growers. Hope you find this useful. With best wishes, take care, Darren@@rebekahtheukplantdoctor
@@DarrenPoole-x1f Thanks Darren, that's great to know. My plan is to grow them as cordons in a greenhouse, but I will put a few plants outdoors as well. Nothing beats the flavour of homegrown tomatoes! best wishes Rebekah 💮
Have you grown a good blight-resistant tomato variety? 🍅 Please do tell me which variety you used! I've suggested some resistant varieties in the video, at 09:27, but I'm sure there are many great varieties out there! 😊
I use mycorrhizae and trichoderma in soil when I planting tomatos. If the phatogene strike, I spray water with a 5% sulution of water, bacterial species and tricoderma on whole olant. Works well.
Beneficial microbes are amazing aren’t they. There’s so much we still don’t fully know about how microbes interact with each other, and so much potential for prevention and treatment of diseases. It’s great to hear that this works for you, thanks for sharing! Happy gardening 🌸