Tips for growing disease free Toms

 Please
any advice please - see earlier replies to other posts

 PatC wrote:

Try googling for "growing disease free Tomatoes"
I found a few sites that were aussie and had long lists of the same
problems and resistant types.


Here one huge list of Tomatoes.
http://www.greenfingers.com.au/services/digging_deeper/tomatoes_want_to_grow/4.htm

Somewhere I read, if you have white fly and thrips the chances of
growing succesful tomatoes are low, due to transmission of diseases by
them. We may also have to thank the tabacco virus for problems. Lime of
sulphur will help somewhat. But the trouble with tomatoes has never been
greater in Melbourne than the last ten years (in my area anyway)

 Thanks Jonno
I've printed this list of Toms out & will drive my local nursery nuts if I
can't get a reasonable answer.
I was thinking of putting in some seeds right now that I have, 'Rouge de
Marmande', any idea if it is too early BTW I live in Sydney.
I really do want to get some nice Toms this year, but must admit I have
almost given up after the last two years...getting really vigorous plants
only to have them die as the fruit starts to set... Very depressing!!!
Pat




http://www.greenfingers.com.au/services/digging_deeper/tomatoes_want_to_grow
/4.htm

 In article


You can start tomato seeds this month, but not in open ground; it's too cold
for them to grow properly.  You'll have to plant them up in punnets and cosset
them for a couple of months.

Last time I tried early tomatoes (to avoid the post-Christmas fruit fly
problem), the later-planted seedlings overtook the earlier ones.  This year
I'm going to plant some cherry tomatoes early as well as the bigger types.

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Chookie -- Sydney, Australia
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"Parenthood is like the modern stone washing process for denim jeans. You may
start out crisp, neat and tough, but you end up pale, limp and wrinkled."
Kerry Cue

 Chookie wrote:


I used to be an avid tomato grower (in canberra that's always an adventure).
Up here on this hill though the wind and stuff upsets them (and I'm gone in
late spring anyway). If i'm here for a summer, I'd be back into it though,
it's a lot of fun.

What I used to do, to get them going while the ground was too cold, was to
plant them up in pots you could put in the ground. Was those peat-pots, and
I believe now there's some more teckernological ones with holes.  so I'd get
them going, feed them up with nitrogen to get them big and leafy, then soak
them in water and plant them when the soil was warm enough, water the crap
out of them until they seemed happy, and then start with the potassium to
get the flowers going.

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ant