Tomatos That I Grow

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

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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

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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

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

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Notice the grape vine growing on the right hand side

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

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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

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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

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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

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

The Blue Bell Hendon

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Notice the new houses on the right of the Blue Bell these where built in the 1970s and are privately owned

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The roof of The Blue Bell was once a beautiful tiled structure but over many years of neglect sadly it is now nothing like it was in its hey day notice the attic window and the chimney pots and the TV mast

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The Blue Bell was situated in Zion Street Hendon Sunderland which was a street in the Jewish quarter of Hendon

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The Blue Bell looks very sad in its derelict condition and was pulled down shortly after I took these images

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My white Berlingo van can be seen on the left of the image

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Holy Trinity church can be seen in the background the church was opened in 1719 for the growing population of Sunderland as the ship building industry grew

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The attic window of The Blue Bell I wonder what history it can tell us about the pub

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Close up of the Blue Bells attic window now sadly looking very delapitdated after the pub closed shortly after the Blue Bell was pulled down and made into a car park

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Notice the broken windows the drain pipes and the Sky antenna on the wall

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Close up of the broken windows and the drain pipes and the size of the bricks these were the old style a lot smaller than the ones used for building these days

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This was the main door of The Blue Bell the windows are now sadly boarded up with chip board

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Grass and weeds are now growing freely around The Blue Bells main door and on the pavement

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The licence sign of The Blue Bell sadly now looking rather tired and old

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The front of The Blue Bell you can see Holy Trinity Church clock tower on the right of the image

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Notice the broken windows and the curtains hanging out they look vey old

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There is even an original Sky mast next to the drain pipe

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Me and my father Billy Bell often had a drink in The Blue Bell on an afternoon

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The windows of the attic and the first floor are all broken now and the pub now looks a shadow of its former self

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The Zion Street sign looks tattered and weary now is as if to say I have had enough

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In this image you can see nearly all of the boarded up front of The Blue Bell

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The chimney and the attic window can be seen clearly in this image and notice the seagull perched on the attic window

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This image shows The Blue Bells rear extension in Moor Street not quite sure what the function of the extension was but it has been suggested that it could have been the pubs kitchen

Asparagus That I Grow

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This image is of an asparagus plantlet called Sweet Purple I purchased about a dozen of these plantlets of a guy called Keith Wheeler in May 2018
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The roots of the asparagus plantlets can be seen just before I repotted them into larger plant pots

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I use different size pots when transplanting the asparagus seedlings and always mix perlite with the compost I use for transplanting the asparagus

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These images of are of asparagus UC 157 F2 the one of the most popular varieties grown in the world and was developed in the early eighties

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A view of the asparagus plantlets ferns they are looking very healthy and green all these plantlets were grown from seed in my unheated conservatory

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More images of the asparagus plantlets after they had been repotted by me in the conservatory on the allotment

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Image of the ferns of asparagus Sweet Purple planlets which are about seven months old I grew the plantlets from seed in my unheated conservatory

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Tomato Season 2018

  • Category: Tomatos
  • Published: Friday, 03 August 2018 13:36
  • Written by Dave Bell
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I grow mainly gardeners delight as the main stay of my tomatos the reason been everone seems to like them and they dont get many diseases I always grow what I call guest varieties as well I try some of these new varieties every year but so far I have never seen nothing to beat gardeners delight but looking today at tomato Shirley I was really impressed they are quite large and are a re very uniform in size I will wait till they ripen and then see what my family of testers think about there taste

Gardeners delight seedlings  growing at different stages in their lives I grow my tomato seeds in Humax compost which gives excellent results it costs more but seems to grow healthy seedlings I use Humax to sow most of my seeds through out the year
Gardeners Delight seedlings   These tomato seedlings are growing very well
 		 The tomato seedlings have just been transplanted into their grow pots for season 2018


 		    
Image over the top of the healthy seedlings  Image over the top of the healthy seedlings  Close up image of the tomato seedlings
 		  
 
Starting to plant out the tomatos for the 2018 season 
I had just planted the plants into their own pots  I always grow the tomatos in grow bags and special tomato grow pots  The green house floor is totally made up of concrete to stop weeds and garden pests     
Just been planted in their tomato grow pots  The tomatos are grown in grow bags   The tomatos are grown in grow bags and in grow pots     
         
The tomatos are grown in a eight foot by twelve foot greenhouse which is quite old but does the job very well as you can see
The start  Gardeners Delight one of the oldest cherry tomatos and still one of the best   The tomatos are grown in grow pots     
Its all go at the beginning of the tomato planting season  The compost I use for the seedlings is Humax
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Tomatos are really looking good and very healthy for season 2018 the images are all taken by my self on my smart phone each year I take images of the vegtables that I grow to compare them with the previous year and the 2018 growing season for the tomatos is one of the best lots of hot weather and plenty of water also this year I have been feeding the tomatos with epsom saults two tea spoon fulls per watering can once a week this is an old fashioned idea but one I will be using next year epsom salts is also recomended for the use on other vegtables more information later 
The tomatos are grown in grow bags and grow pots  The green house floor is is all concrete   Very healthy leaves
 		  
 I have not taken the leaves off the tomatos yet as this makes the fruit all come at once you must do it gradually so you can crop the fruit over many weeks  The growing season in 2018 for tomatos has been exceptional what with the heat and the sun  The fruits are very healthy and just starting to turn and start to ripen
 
 The tomato leaves are looking very healthy  I use epsom salts once a week as a general fertilizer  Notice the grow bags which the tomatos are grown in
 
       
     
 
       
       
 
         
         

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