Solanum lycopersicum 'Maskotka'

Finally I have some of my first ever #grown-from-seed tomatoes A slug ate the first one. I had some on my salad for dinner. Not exactly a glut but it's a start.

Well done! They look 👌 Ours are only just flowering 🙄 Never get started early enough…

Thank you @awomanonabike yours are ahead of my beefsteak ones which haven't flowered yet. Next year I'll be earlier 😁

I bet they tasted delicious

Don’t tell anyone but I quite like how everything slows down in winter and it takes me a while to get going again 😂

After supermarket tomatoes it always amazes me the taste @charlotte

I say to Mr F - I don't like tomatoes. So he says - why do you grow them. I say - because they are delicious

Your secret is safe with me 😁 @awomanonabike

I seem to have been waiting an age for these. Finally I can see one riping. Is anyone else finding them slow going this year?

I am, mine aren't doing very well at all 😥🤔

Not just me then. I think more sunshine is needed @pelly not that today is helping 💨☔️

It’s sunny here but I’m sick to death of the wind too 💨

Yep.. very slow Deborah!

Impatiently waiting of ripening #gyo

Yay! #grownfromseed #bushtomato my first ever me grown tomato 🍅

🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳 congratulations there’s nothing like them….😋

Yay.

Good morning from a wet and windy Cumbria. Seems like a good day to catalogue my #seedling . My first ever tomatoes 🍅 only 3 germinated but I'm learning. Don't use the heated propagator nexr year.

They look great 🙂

Oh thank you @charlotte that's really kind. I don't normally do the veg, and my seed growing skills need lots of work

I find it all hit and miss. Last year my peppers were great. This year they are a struggle. Last year my aubergines were a failure. This year had 100% germination.

It's strange isn't it? I must admit we usually cheat and buy plants from the GC, but it's time to be a bit braver for us I think @charlotte

@deborahBanks well done with your seeds Deborah, l was helpless last year, so lm buying plants this year. 👍

I’ve never had any heating on in my gh at all but we did have a good start with the weather…I’ve just brought the tomatoes in doors because of the cold nights

My greenhouse is not heated Elaine but it’s north facing so sun only really starts to get to it in March. I’m reliant on 2 upstairs windowsills this early on to start seeds off. The heated propagator is because I can’t stand any heating in our bedroom 😁 @wagsmomthompsonbtinternetcom

Thank you @gwenniemom I've got my Learner plates on

I suck at growing seeds Deborah! A friend has started some tomato and herb seeds for me because, I suck at growing seeds! I am planting more veg this year than last tho and I've purchased a dehydrator. Food prices are getting so high I think I need to start sticking up on things I can grow