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Hi all. For the first time this summer I visited my allotment after 3 days of absence and there were no tomatoes ready to pick. All good things ...

Like most of you, I enjoy Gardeners Delight and so do our friends. This year they seem to have been much softer than I seem to remember from before, or have quickly gone soft. Is this anyone else's experience? Is there something I'm not doing right? My Outdoor Girl tomatoes, raised from saved seed, have been much firmer, and of a good size as well in the latter part of the summer.

All the best

mike

You may have a point there. Certainly we have a great problem with the late pickings splitting just as they approach ripeness and it isn't over-watering as we have turned that off. Even those picked berore ripe are going soft whereas Sungold are lasting. It must be that the skin is on the thin side. It wouldn't happen to Vanessa but I would never grow those, a tomato tailored to the wrong formula.
Allan