Category: Gardener’s Delight
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Dealing with tomato blight
I thought I’d gotten from getting a touch of tomato blight this year, but it turns out that in the end I wasn’t so lucky. I visited the allotment this week and I found that my Gardener’s Delight tomato plants were showing the early signs of blight – something I’ve…
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Planting Tomato plants: Gardeners Delight
We’re on the cusp of the summer months and I finally get to plant out my Gardener’s Delight tomato plants. Gardener’s Delight is a Cordon/Indeterminate variety which means they grow as single stemmed plants. Shoots that grow between branches (otherwise known as side shoots) are nipped out so that most of the…
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Separating Gardeners Delight seedlings
Since sowing my Gardeners Delight seeds they’ve come up a treat – however, I do think they’ve gone a little bit on the leggy side. Seedlings go leggy because they’re stretching towards the light (meaning that they may have some light restrictions) and the result is a slightly over tall,…
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Sowing Tomatoes: Gardener’s Delight
Gardener’s Delight! My favourite variety of tomato to grow. They produce tomatoes that are plentiful and sweet from the summer all the way through to the early autumn. Gardener’s Delight is a cordon variety, which means the plant will perform better when pruned. This means cutting the tops out when…