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Just when I thought I was winning…

Saturday, May 23, 2015 2:04
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I thought I had potted-up my last tomato plant for this year… Well, two actually.

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Maskotka

Including those two, I now have 18 plants potted-up. After giving away a few I still have 8 spares (just in case…).

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Correction: I have 19, because in the post on Thursday arrived two samples of a new tomato variety called “Crimson Crush”.

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I had signed-up to receive these some weeks ago, and to be honest I had completely forgotten about them. Dobies very kindly sent me two little plug-plants like this:

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Crimson Crush

Crimson Crush is a newly developed variety, alleged to be completely resistant to Late Blight. If this is true, it is going to be a very popular variety, because lots of gardeners here in the UK (and presumably elsewhere too) had all but given up growing outdoor tomatoes since blight has become almost inevitable.

Following this year’s policy of growing only one of each tomato variety (the Maskotka is a special case!), I have potted-up one of the Crimson Crush ones and I will give away the other once I see that the first one has established OK.

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Crimson Crush

You will notice that I used the new cane-support system I described yesterday. I hope it works well.

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Source: http://marksvegplot.blogspot.com/2015/05/just-when-i-thought-i-was-winning.html

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