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glow777

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lime green toms
« on: August 27, 2006, 17:02:24 »
We have a table on our site where we put surplus items. (had quite a large courgette mountain there this year!)

Anyway I had o small plants labelled lime green toms, which seemed interesting so I potted them up and fed and watered them.

They grew well ;
but how do you know when they are ripe - as the are green :-\

anyone else grown these before?

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Re: lime green toms
« Reply #1 on: August 27, 2006, 18:42:14 »
glow, these are the ones that GLOW in the dark  ;D

they will be ripe when slightly soft to the squeeze - could be green sausage or green zebra - both really lovely tasting toms - am sure there will be other green ones as well

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Re: lime green toms
« Reply #2 on: August 28, 2006, 00:02:55 »
And they become almost transparent....you will see what I mean when they are ripe.  They take on a different hue - almost yellow green and you can see the flesh within.  Yum!

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Re: lime green toms
« Reply #3 on: August 28, 2006, 08:27:08 »
in that case they're not ready yet - but been as they're in pots and not toooo big I might have to bring them home so the kids can watch them

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Re: lime green toms
« Reply #4 on: August 28, 2006, 12:01:27 »
Green sausage is usually far more laid back/horizontal in my experience but great taste.. my sad tom. book also lists Green Grape, green Pineapple, green and gold, and green skin longkeeper with pics... it's sad and I am as it is in French, and I'm not bilingual!!!

 

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