Author Topic: anyone have red tomatoes?  (Read 5596 times)

BarriedaleNick

  • Global Moderator
  • Hectare
  • *****
  • Posts: 4,133
  • Cartaxo, Portugal
    • Barriedale Allotments
Re: anyone have red tomatoes?
« Reply #20 on: August 07, 2021, 08:26:58 »
Yes and yes!  There is a canning factory a few miles away and they are all going to be canned - every last one.  Sometimes the lorries ooze juice which contributes to the road hazard.  Yesterday on my ride I must have seen at least 30 of these lorries, the amount of toms here is staggering.
Moved to Portugal - ain't going back!

pumkinlover

  • Guest
Re: anyone have red tomatoes?
« Reply #21 on: August 07, 2021, 13:25:16 »
I never expected them to ramble about like that, just my UK assumption that they are trained like ours. Well actually sort of trained, they have a mind of their own.

BarriedaleNick

  • Global Moderator
  • Hectare
  • *****
  • Posts: 4,133
  • Cartaxo, Portugal
    • Barriedale Allotments
Re: anyone have red tomatoes?
« Reply #22 on: August 08, 2021, 18:07:38 »
They are all determinate varieties which are bred specifically for growing in this style and for pasting.  They plant them in rows about 3-4ft apart but they are spaced about 4 inches apart so they sort of form a long bush that supports itself.  When it harvest time they die back little and collapse a bit like in the pic.  There is no way they could train indeterminate varieties as there are thousands of acres of the things..
Moved to Portugal - ain't going back!

gray1720

  • Hectare
  • *****
  • Posts: 658
Re: anyone have red tomatoes?
« Reply #23 on: August 08, 2021, 19:08:19 »
I never expected them to ramble about like that, just my UK assumption that they are trained like ours. Well actually sort of trained, they have a mind of their own.

Gods, yes, my greenhouse is like Day of the Triffids!
My garden is smaller than your Rome, but my pilum is harder than your sternum!

BarriedaleNick

  • Global Moderator
  • Hectare
  • *****
  • Posts: 4,133
  • Cartaxo, Portugal
    • Barriedale Allotments
Re: anyone have red tomatoes?
« Reply #24 on: August 11, 2021, 19:22:30 »
This is the corner near my house on the way to the cannery!

Moved to Portugal - ain't going back!

pumkinlover

  • Guest
Re: anyone have red tomatoes?
« Reply #25 on: August 12, 2021, 08:13:59 »
Does any of the wildlife take advantage of this free food?

BarriedaleNick

  • Global Moderator
  • Hectare
  • *****
  • Posts: 4,133
  • Cartaxo, Portugal
    • Barriedale Allotments
Re: anyone have red tomatoes?
« Reply #26 on: August 12, 2021, 08:38:51 »
Does any of the wildlife take advantage of this free food?

Yes me!  I haven't seen any wildlife have at them yet but the local foxes, birds etc will come out when the roads are quiet..
Moved to Portugal - ain't going back!

 

anything
SimplePortal 2.3.5 © 2008-2012, SimplePortal