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Tomatoes

Posted in: Salad, Vegetables | April 7, 2016 at 12:31 , by Downside Nurseries

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There have been several warnings in the press recently about the tomato variety “Gardeners’ Delight” having broken down. As far as we can tell, this is due to just one batch of bad seed from a generally rather unreliable supplier. So far we have had no trouble with our tomatoes....

Tomato Trials

Posted in: Season Plants | April 28, 2013 at 12:06 , by Downside Nurseries

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We are trialling the basket tomato Losetto which is blight resistant at the Nursery this year. Nice image of it in Noel Kingsbury’s article in The Telegraph last year: We’re also trialling the tomato Black Russian as part of a “Gardening Which” trial....