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Newsletters 2011 |
Contents |
| Plotting for Success – 4th Feb. | Getting Started Sterilisation Tips Compost & Pots Varieties for Success Determinate – Indeterminate |
| A Variety of Varieties – 11th Feb. | Heirloom & Open Pollinated F1 Hybrids Advantages of Hybrids Reliable Varieties Varieties are Sometimes Regional |
| Make Mine a Large One! – 18th Feb. | Recommended Large Varieties Tomato Taste Why Too Much Water Affects Taste One Lump or Two? |
| Where There’s Muck There’s Brass – 25th Feb. | John Innes Compost Multi-Purpose Compost Feeding Seedlings |
| Ready, Steady, Sow! – 4th March | Sow a Few Seeds this Weekend! Terms, Glossary and Tomato Jargon |
| First Past the Post – 11th March | Latah – The Race Is On! Early Varieties Advantage of Sowing Late It’s In The Name |
| Tomato Plants are Like People – 18th March | When It’s too Sunny and Hot When It’s Too Cold and Wet Tomato Seeds – Service and Value Breed Your Own Variety – What Would You Name It? |
| A Leaf out of the Hydroponic Book – 25th March | Growing Without Soil Aeration – (did I mention that plant roots need air?) Nutrients – Feeding |
| Tomato Seedlings at Four Weeks – 1st April | Sow-a-long Update Why Tomato Seedlings become leggy April is the Last Chance for SowingTomato Plug Plants – Pot Ready Plants |
| Going Potty! – 8th April | Potting-on Why we use different pot sizes as tomato plants grow. Sow-a-long Update Too much sun causes wilting in young plants |
| Alice, Brian, Charlie, Daisy and Eric! – 15th April | Pot Sizes Sow-a-Long Time-Line Three Stages of Growth |
| Tips for Easter Week – 22nd April | Garden fleece for cold and hot weather. Over-crowding Happy Easter! |
| Sow Far Sow Good – 29th April | Plants Make Progress Prevention rather than cure – Avoiding problems before they happen! Keeping plants in top condition |
| Going Out Soon – 6th May | Tall Varieties Hardening Off Garden Fleece Grow Pots |
| British Tomato Week – 13th May | British Tomato Week Home-Grown Advantage The Sow-a-long Slow and Quick Movers! |
| Tumbling Tom Tomatoes Feeding Plan – 20th May | Wet Leaves, Wet Soil, Cold Night! Removing Lower Leaves Preparing Hanging Baskets Feeding Plan |
| Tumbling Tom Final Position – 27th May | It’s Not Always Good Being a Famous Tomato Plant! This Week’s Leaf Problem Small or Large? Both is Good! |
| A Sucker Saves The Day! – 3rd June | Advanced Pruning Technique Flower/Fruit Set & Pollination Five Tumbling Tom Update Leaf Curl |
| Tending The Tomatoes – 10th June | Tidying The Toms Removing Leaf Branches Curly Top Leaves Five Toms Update |
| Good Vibrations – 17th June | Help with Pollinating Flowers This Week’s Leaf Problem – Sun Scorch The Story Behind Mortgage Lifter |
| Red Alert – 24th June | Holiday Watering System Red Alert – In The Lead Why Are My Beefsteakes a Funny Shape? |
| Topical Tips – 1st July | Taking Tomato Cuttings Tips For This Time Of The Season |
| More Tomato Tips – 8th July | More Tomato Tips Stupice and Latah overtake Red Alert Foliar Feeding |
| First Generation – 15th July | Seed Reliability F1 to F6 Update on Tumbling Toms |
| Saving Tomato Seeds – 22nd July | Saving Seeds Pollination Problems Cuttings Set Fruit Before Planting |
| Growing Tips July – 29th July | How do your leaves look? Avoid watery tasting tomatoes Premature ripening |
| August Newsletter 1 – 5th August | Tomato Split A Few Observations Premature ripening |
| August Newsletter 2 – 12th August | Rain water Ghost Spot Slugs and Snails Trusses and Clusters |
| August Newsletter 3 – 19th August | August Jobs Encouraging Toms to Ripen Tidy up plant leaves Is it really in bad taste? |
| August Newsletter 4 – 26th August | A Room Full of Tomato Growers You Like Tomato I Like Tomato! |
| The Biggest Challenge – 2nd September |
More Food Large Varieties Sowing Early |
| Growing Tomatoes In Short Season Areas 9th September |
Choosing The Right Varieties Keeping Plants In Top Condition Aeration – Airflow |
| On A Curious Note 16th September |
Diagnosing Problems All Shapes and Sizes Tomatoes Split! |
| Why Tomatoes Split 23th September |
Tomato Plants are Similar to Humans – in Some Ways! |
| Last of the Summer Tomatoes 30th September |
Helping Fruit to Mature The Last Newsletter of the Season |
October to January, tomato discussion continues at Tomato Daily.