Topic: Heirloom Tomatoes

[thifasmom]

I'll send you some "Charlie-Green" if you want... Rekellah. It is a cordon, mid to large fruit, lovely...
Sometimes especially through swaps you get different toms under the same name.. all the "Green-Sausage" I've seen are prostrate...  :-\

Forgot to say I'd agree with Tangella as a choice...

that's very kind of you saddad and i would be happy to try some of 'Charlie-Green' as its growing habits are more in keeping with how i grow my toms, I'll pm you.

but i was wondering some more about the prostrate growing habits of 'Green Sausage', have you tried prostrate but over a low mesh tunnel of sorts to help keep the fruits off the ground and therefore less out of reach of the slugs?

now that you have jogged my memory i think i do remember they didn't get much higher than about 2ft, when grown prostrate do they grow longer or are they generally small plants?? oh and do you prick out side shoots or is the plant just left to get on with it??

sorry jo9919 for hijacking your thread but saddad really peaked my interest again in growing green toms :).

[saddad]

They are just small and sprawling like whippersnapper..  :)

[saddad]

Here's a few we prepared earlier... (last Summer)
There's a "Charlie-Green" top right by the vase...

[thifasmom]

Oh i see it :), do i also spy black trifle and vintage wine?

[amphibian]

Some of the American/Canadian seed companies have truly awesome collections and are great to deal with. I'd recommend:

Sand Hill Preservation Center (Sic)

Tatiana's Tomato Base

Territorial Seed Company

Blue Ribbon

Baker Creek

[saddad]

I didn't have trifel last year... so it's Black Prince in the foreground, Mavr ( plum shaped) and some black cherry..
The blocky one on the right is striped stuffer but the stripes were lost in the pic...  :)

[amphibian]

Here's a few we prepared earlier... (last Summer)
There's a "Charlie-Green" top right by the vase...

Orange Banana in there?

[saddad]

yep... and Garden Peach in the tub on the left...  ;D

[amphibian]

yep... and Garden Peach in the tub on the left...  ;D

My daughter loves peach tomatoes.

[saddad]

I had "red peach" from HSL which was great but after about 15 years it lost it's furriness... when it comes up again I will get it... it's probably the finest tomato in the world.... (IMHO)  ;D

[thifasmom]

I didn't have trifel last year... so it's Black Prince in the foreground, Mavr ( plum shaped) and some black cherry..
The blocky one on the right is striped stuffer but the stripes were lost in the pic...  :)

i got those two wrong then :-\. what's the pink ones i'm seeing?

how do you have a tendency to use all these toms, eg specific eaters such as salad toms for salads, cookers for cookers or do you just use as they ripen and  are they all turned into sauce when you have hit large harvest proportions like in the picture.

[angle shades]

Tomato porn...... stop it Saddad...  ;D/ shades x

[jo9919]

PM me and I can send you some Tangella...  :)

Many thanks. PM sent.  :)

[saddad]

Clear Pink Early... which in my experience is non of those things...  :-X

We have some favourites for salad use... but don't grow any we don't eat raw... and they all go in slop!  :)

[thifasmom]

Clear Pink Early... which in my experience is non of those things...  :-X

We have some favourites for salad use... but don't grow any we don't eat raw... and they all go in slop!  :)

thanks for answering my numerous questions :)