love apples

I bought a chicken to plant. I need lots of chicken soup.

tips on how to grow please?

I have cherokee tomato plants..

no flowers yet..

Cherokee is a good heirloom. Try and find a big yellow beefsteak called Kellogg's (I grow them from seed) and Sungolds are by far the best sweet cherry tomatoes. I grew Mortgage Lifter last year and was very happy with the quantity and quality. I think Brandywine is over rated.
You can get seed from Pinetree Seeds, Totally Tomatoes, Fedco and Territorial Seeds (all on Google).

Tomatoes are easy to grow in a patio pot or in the ground. They like a rich compost for soil, mulch to keep the roots warm and hold moisture, plus full sun. Water the roots regularly, but try not to get the leaves wet as they are prone to fungus. Rotate growing locations so soil fungus' cannot establish. Good rotation: 1st year tomatoes/nightshades, 2nd year peas/beans, 3rd year cabbage/broccoli 4th year tomatoes/nighshades etc. If growing in a pot, use new compost each year.

I planted some tofu so I can grow my own soy milk.

I put some hersey bars with a few of them so I can have chocolate milk.

I know fresh is best but are tinned tomatoes frowned upon?

Frowning upon a tomato tends to make it sour.

There are some very good brands of canned (tinned) tomatoes. Look for the whole Italian plum (san martino) or organic varieties. Just stay away from the crushed tomatoes, they are literally the bottom of barrel.

Good canned tomatoes are - to me - much better than the cardboard-like miserable fresh tomatoes often available in supermarkets. Home grown tomatoes or those found in farmer's markets are usually the best.

Perhaps one of the silver linings of Global Warming is that tomatoes will flourish in England?

They do and did so (since 1590) before global warming was invented :wink:

Walter--

In the early 60's I lived in both London and Cornwall. Tomatoes came from Spain. I'll be kind and say that they travelled like....non-perishables?

Well, I've been to Dorset since ... 1963 until 1974 every year: my hosts grew there own tomotoes in the garden, early tomotoes come from the Channel Islands ("Tom Jerry" or similar was a big advertising campaign).

Walter--

I didn't know any Cornish gardeners.

We're a little early to be thinking about love apples here (still snowing in the mountains tonight) but I have seen a fair number of road apples lately.

I would like to grow some damaters, but we have so many tall pines here that vegetable gardens don't do well.