Topic: Tomato folk lore and facts.

[Jeannine]

I think this might prove interesting.

I'll ma ke a wee start.

More than 5000 varieties.

Sizes from the size of a black currant to over 7 pounds.Guiness book of records and I am probably out of date)

Bathing your dog in tomato juice will get rid of the smell of a skunk

Native to the Andes

Come in most colours, red,pink,orange,purple,black,white ,peach,cream,green and blue.

Tomato ( as in potato) or Tomarwto ( old spelling)

People are very protective about their favourites.

Tomato seeds have been in space,the seeds were then given to school children

In 1995 ,2000 year old seeds were discovered in a bamboo tube in a tomb in Western China. Some grew and fruited, they had the same tsate but looked very different.

Tomato seeds under more usual conditions remain viable  for ten years.

Were once considered aphrodisiac.

Tomato ketchup was originally Chinese.

It takes 300 cherry tomatoes to equal the calories in one choc ice.

There are  genetically engineered tomatoes. I know the name of only one Favr Savr and no I don't have any seeds.

There is a good start,

XX Jeannine

[cleo]

One can grow 1000 varieties and still not find one as boring as Moneymaker ;D

Growing tomatoes is addictive-I gave up cannabis aged 18

To describe a tomato is as hard as describing a dog-you just know

[Hyacinth]

tomato seeds grow in your gut and make you explode

(and swallowed chewing gum will twist round your heart and strangle you)

 ::)

[cleo]

tomato seeds grow in your gut and make you explode


The only cure is to fart in rainwater-makes a great liquid feed :)

[Robert_Brenchley]

At last, we've proved ancient contact between the Old World and the New!

[Jeannine]

Cleo thats disgusting!!!

[redimp]

Growing tomatoes is addictive-I gave up cannabis aged 18

And that was an accident cos the tomato plants were only in the greenhouse to hide the others. ;D

[Amazin]

Were once considered aphrodisiac.

Weren't they called Love Apples by the Elizabethans?


Anyway, I know for a FACT that tomato seeds grow in your gut and the ensuing tree chokes you.

[Emagggie]

Bathing your dog in tomato juice will get rid of the smell of a skunk[/quot

Tried and tested, not for skunk but fox poo-and it works. ;D

[Si]

The first tomatoes grown in the UK were yellow. The Victorians developed the red colour.

[Robert_Brenchley]

The bit about love apples as an aphrodisiac is true.

[Jeannine]

Robert are you telling us it works or confirming that is what they were called mmm

[Robert_Brenchley]

It's what they were called, and people thought it worked. If you believe it has an effect, it probably will.

[ruud]

Tomatoes are dangerous they kill,just like in that movie.Another fact tomatoes are a drug and i am hooked for ever,just passed the fact that i have more than 500 variaties in seed.

[Doris_Pinks]

If you give your female dog some tomato juice in her food daily, her urine wont leave dead patches on your lawn.
(or so someone told a mate!)
EMaggie have heard that one works too!
Stephan  ;D ;D

[Jeannine]

Just remembered tomato ketchup makes a good silver polish XX Jeannine

[theothermarg]

does anybody think it,s true that tomatoes cause mouth ulcers? i think i might
suffer more in the summer but then i love all kinds of fruit and don,t want to give any up especially tomatoes straight from the vine so why am i asking  i dunno
hoppalong marg with deathtrap bobcat

[Hyacinth]

hiya hoppy 8)

I don't know if they actually cause mouth ulcers but they'll certainly exacerbate any predisposition to them because of their acidic content.....they certainly do that in peeps who suffer from arthritis & make it flare up. Now that would be terrible  :(  what a horrible tomato-less life to look forward to :'( :'(

[Marymary]

Tomatoes are dangerous they kill,just like in that movie.Another fact tomatoes are a drug and i am hooked for ever,just passed the fact that i have more than 500 variaties in seed.

Five HUNDRED  :o :o :o

[saddad]

I thought I was mad sowing out over thirty varieties this year!
 ;D