Failing Ferline tomatoes

[hilary]

Hi,
I was just wondering if anyone else is having problems with Ferline tomatoes this year. The others I grow in the cold greenhouse are doing fine but the Ferline are sulking and the lower leaves turning yellow. I feed them with comfrey tea and earlier in the year gave them a seaweed drench and a few Epsom Salts. I was wondering if they are slightly less hardy since we have had some cold nights recently, or have they succumbed to a virus?

Hilary

[Nature's Babe]

Hilary, all the glowing reports I have read on the net are by seed companies. I did try them last year with disappointing results, and others have said the same. Here is a link to a previous topic on ferline here.

viewtopic.php?f=4&t=6710

[Compo]

I have grown them alongside Marmande for a few years as a blight resistant choice. Of all the tomatoes I grow Ferline are the hardest to get going, but when they do, they get going fine and are a decent cropper too.

CoMpO

[Primrose]

I only recently planted my Ferline outside under cloche bottles and they are still quite tiny. When I consider that they were sown on the same day as Gardeners Delight and other varieties, they are still about half the size and height of some of the others, so maybe they just grow at a different rate.

[hilary]

THanks all,
I think I will give up on them in future years - one year I had a fantastic crop from them but it was when they were introduced but it was a long hot summer and nothing that good since.
Maybe the early Latah is the answer alongside the usual GD and Sungold etc.

Regards
Hilary