Tomatoes 'Red Robin', 'Black Cherry', 'Alicante' 'Ukrainian Purple' just picked from balcony 25th August 2018

Enjoy

Thanks, Brian! First time I've picked all 4 varieties! I had a fifth, called 'Speckled Roma', but I haven't seen any speckled tomatoes yet!

Great crop mix there.

Amazing crop......

marvelous crop ,just goes to show what you can grow in a smaller space ...

Wow, congratulations! I've tried tomatoes on my balcony but it ended up covered by a white powder resulting from infestation. Unfortunately it spread to the other plants and ended up losing a Sakura cherry tree and a red acer palmatum.

Thank you all for you comments.

Brian, the 'Speckled Roma' have not put in an appearance! All my plants have now had ripe fruit & none of them look "speckled" at all! I don't understand what could have happened to them - unless they are the tomatoes that sprouted in the church gardens! In May I took lots of spent compost to put in the church gardens instead of throwing it away. There is one plant that I noticed today that has flowers on it!!!

Thank you 3d & DD!

Amy, I suppose most people think you need lots of space to grow 20 plants of tomato (+ 12 that are in hanging baskets so perhaps that doesn't count!😀)

Aleyna, perhaps what you had was powdery mildew. though I've never seen it on tomatoes. One year I grew tomato plants in the greenhouse on Gerry's allotment together with Cucumbers. The Cucumbers got powdery mildew very badly but not a single tomato plant suffered!

I'm sorry to hear about the loss of the Cherry tree & the Acer. It's always upsetting to lose trees you've had for a number of years.

Balcony,
Tahnk you for the tip. I researched the internet and found the treatment for the fungus (oídio). I'll try to save the other plants.

I hope the treatment you have found will help save the other plants!

:o) thanks

The 'Speckled Roma' tomatoes have now put in an appearance! They were difficult to distinguish from the 'Ukrainian Purple' as in the green stage they look very much alike! I will definitely know in a couple of weeks once they start to turn red (I hope!) but a few tomatoes now have paler green marking that I think correspond to 'Speckled Roma'.

You're welcome, Aleyna!

Over the last few days I've been harvesting many more tomatoes, in fact today I picked quite a few 'Black Cherry' & some 'Red Robins' from the hanging baskets. The day before yesterday I also picked some 'Alicante' & some 'Ukrainian Purple' as well.

I'm starting to pick them before they are ripe so as to give the remaining tomatoes time to develop &, hopefully, ripen before the weather becomes too cold.