Purchased the growbag from B&Ms at Grangetown in Sunderland

Daves Rav 4 the delivery motor is very well used on a daily basis to get me from home to my garden and around Silksworth and to local areas

Next week I will be starting to plant the tomatos into the old greenhouse I am a little bit late but by planting the tomatos a little bit later one gets a longer season out of the tomato crop many  of the gardeners on the allotment have planted there tomatos but the cropping time will be short by planting later one gets a better crop and the tomatoes keep cropping right into the September and even the beginning of October      

Planting out the Tomato Shirley into their grow pots and growbags I must admit I am very impressed with this variety of tomatos which I grew in season 2018 for the first time

I had to stop planting out the tomatos because we had a lot of rain turning to sleet so I thought it would be better to keep the tomato planlets in their pots for the time been today after the rain and cold weather I managed to plant out another three Shirley tomato plantlets and started planting out our favourite tomato Gardeners Delight one of the old trusted cherry tomato

Gardener's Delight is the most widely grown tomato variety as far as the amateur gardener is concerned. It's also very popular in supermarkets

There are two key reasons  for the popularity of this variety, and the first is how easy it is to grow. Not only does it tolerate a wide variety of soil and weather conditions but it regularly produces a heavy crop. The second reason is taste - most people like the taste and the texture.

Continued planting out after the bad weather I plant about three tomatos in their pots and growbags each day this gives a staggered crop ensuing the tomatos ripening over a long period many gardeners plant out in one go but this means you get all the tomatos cropping over the same period  which I dont want I want a long cropping season for my tomatos the plants are starting to grow from the centre which means they are very happy with their growing conditions finished planting the tomatos out today there are approximately 47 tomatos to look after and to look forward to them growing into healthy plants

Latest images of the tomatos growing in their grow pots and growbags and they are looking very healthy 

Have been on holiday to Whitby over the bank holiday weekend so my friends have been looking  after my allotment going up to the garden on the Tuesday morning I was very pleased how the tomatos were growing and the asparagus also impressed me I gave the first feed of maxicrop tomato fertilizer today

The tomato plants in their grow bags and grow pots

I started tying up the tomatos up today as they are becoming rather large and need support I finished the task three days later and there are now forty seven tomatos plants to look after 

Gardeners Delght seedlngs sown on the 23-02-18 seed bought from Wilkos

Image of the aluminium greenhouse where I grow my tomato’s the greenhouse is very old and I have been using it for about fifteen years

I was preparing the tomato’s for the coming season and you can see I have got about half of the greenhouse planted out the seedling are in the background amongst the chaos I have created

The tomato’s in this image have been planted in their grow pots for about two weeks

Notice the grape vine growing on the right hand side

Close up of the tomato’s which have been planted in their grow pots for about two weeks

The tomato variety shown in this image are my favourite Gardeners Delight which to grow very well and are not suspetable to many growing problems or diseases

The tomatos look happy enough and seem to be growing well in their grow pots I always use grow bags as the base component for gowing them in

Notice the grape vine which is a strawbery tasting type in the back ground its looking really healthy and the main thing it tastes great and there are no pips

It normally takes about a week to get all the tomato plants into their grow pots and the other containers I use

Images of the grafted plants which were purchased from Dobies a well known and respected UK seed and plant company before I planted them out into the greenhouse

When I planted out these grafted melons and peppers and a new variety of tomato called Summerlast a new dwarf variety I was very disappointed with them they looked so unhealthy but three weeks later and I say what a change they are growing very well

Images of the tomatos growing well and looking healthy I have started to feed them with Maxi Crop tomato feed I have also purhased some epsom salts to use as another feed for the tomatos checking the epsom salts out I found that many gardeners use them as a foliar and a general purpose feed for fruit trees and many other vegetables and flowers 

Latest images of the tomatos growing well and looking very healthy the Shirley variety are really looking good