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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: GrannieAnnie on July 19, 2009, 21:29:50
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I keep trying to beat my previous year's success for an early tom.
Two years in a row now it has been "Polfast", a Polish tomato which produces in June and now followed by "Black Krim" a Russian tomato that tastes much sweeter than Polfast.
My Pruden's Purple is still green as is Tigerella. Brandywine is a late variety so am not expecting it.
Has anyone tried toms created for the cold in Ontario Canada? Am thinking maybe next year to try one.
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Mine is nearly always Latah.
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Mine is nearly always Latah.
Is that a joke? 8)
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Mine is nearly always Latah.
LOL!!! :D Good one!
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I see the unintentional joke.
However, my earliest tomato is nearly always the variety called Latah, quickly followed by Washington Cherry.
My third place this year went to Black Cherry, but too put it all in perspective I have eaten just six tomatoes off twenty plants and I have already had two ripe, outdoor grown, sweet peppers and two tomatillos.
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I see the unintentional joke.
However, my earliest tomato is nearly always the variety called Latah, quickly followed by Washington Cherry.
My third place this year went to Black Cherry, but too put it all in perspective I have eaten just six tomatoes off twenty plants and I have already had two ripe, outdoor grown, sweet peppers and two tomatillos.
Isn't that funny, when you think of all the thought people put into naming plants, that they'd choose a word easily confused with just what one does not want in their tomatoes?
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Whippersnapper and Gartenpearle, but only because I can keep the baskets in the big greenhouse... ;D
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Bloody Butcher is always the earliest - mid/late June in an unheated greenhouse - followed by Ildi. Shirley has only just started.
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Harbinger and Sungold for the last few years but managed to kill them this year! So Cherrolla.
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tigerella, then golden sunrise followed closely by sundance and all the cherries I was given so, no name ;D
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Gardners Delight for me not over impressed with the taste though.
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whippersnapper for me! followed closely by gardeners delight, which, if grown organically with extra seaweed and comfrey juice, have a superb flavour IMHO ;)
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Just been and picked another dozen for salad with tea... :)
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Red Alert, have been picking them for a couple of weeks now.
Grown outside.
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:) red tumbling tom, picked some last week and yesterday, grown in hanging baskets outside on my lottie shed / shades x
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Always sungold.
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Still no red ones yet, Sweet Olive looks the most likely, I'm not sure my new policy of letting the sideshoots grow after the first truss is helping! ::)
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tigerella, then golden sunrise followed closely by sundance and all the cherries I was given so, no name ;D
Is that outdoors? My Tigerella is loaded with fruit, but no sign of turning at all.
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no, it's indoors, sowed end of january, planted in march under a glass cloche in the poly :)
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two of the new varieties i have grown this year have been 'Galina' and 'Broad Ripple Yellow Current' two yellow cherry tomatoes they have both been the first to set fruit and ripen, we enjoyed them yesterday, both grown outside.
i have never had outdoor tomatoes ready in July before so will definitely repeat them next year.
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Allmine grown outside. Just going red at the moment is gartenperle. keep looking at green grape on the basis that it doesn't have to do much in terms of colour change but still hard as a rock. Hoping to beat the blight this year.
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Sungold again, closely followed by Rosada and Suncherry, with Purple Ukraine a few days later. Yum yum :)
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With BR Yellow Currant you won't have a choice.... the fruit split and self seed everywhere... in the mid 90's I had a plant with over 2000 fruit on it... I got fed up after counting 200 trusses of @10... and it was still fruiting on bonfire night!!
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I find this thread very heartening. I've never had tomatoes before late summer, and sometimes online you see people posting pictures with captions like 'look at this for my dinner - a ton of juicy ripe tomatoes and it's only February! Yummy lucky me!'
There seems to be a lot of variety in the times when different people's tomatoes ripen.
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Still nothing remotely coloured here. Watching the rain very carefully. Been very dry so still hoping for something. Not even Sungold is putting in an appearance. I have put a truss in a plastic bag with a ripe tomato with a view to giving it the hint.
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With BR Yellow Currant you won't have a choice.... the fruit split and self seed everywhere... in the mid 90's I had a plant with over 2000 fruit on it... I got fed up after counting 200 trusses of @10... and it was still fruiting on bonfire night!!
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nice to know do you generally pinch out side shoots or let them grow as bush types, and yes out of the three we got off of the plant two were split.
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We had our first 2 Shirley yesterday with our sandwiches at the plot.
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BR yellow Currant... you can try nipping it out... but it will win... one got to over 6'cube... :o
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Never seen such late ripening - INDOORS. And tough skins!!
'Cherry' type. ROSADA - certainly good.
Small standard. NECTAR always a winner.
Standard. STUPICE is recommended. Potato leafed.
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Balconi red (tumbler) has come second (to sungold).
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tigerella, then golden sunrise followed closely by sundance and all the cherries I was given so, no name ;D
Is that outdoors? My Tigerella is loaded with fruit, but no sign of turning at all.
Same here!
Yet another Sungold as the winner...
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I've got some green gardener's delight, and green carbon. We had two tiny ripe gardener's delight the other day - but that's it!
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gardener's delight have started ;D
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First to ripen this year was` Matina`-then a load came about the same time.
Tim-Stupice is well worth growing
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Gardners Delight for me not over impressed with the taste though.
Sorry to hear that, GD is usually tasty enough if not outstanding.
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Stupice, Stephan? As said earlier, 90 flowers to a truss. And not just a Cherry.
If only it was a pollinating year!!
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2 'Sweet Olive' toms ready yesterday, all the others green green green....... :-\
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:D picked three rather large Alicante from the greenhouse today/ shades x
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Grrrrr .... I have tomato envy ofyou all .... my outdoor ones are still VERY VERY green .... biggest ones are about 3cm now so I'm hoping they are the gardeners delight and they get on with it ;)!
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Stupice is a great tomato, though one I am not growing this year.
I was surprised to discover it is not pronounced Stew-piss, as I have always said, but seemingly stew-peach-ka
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Stupice is a great tomato, though one I am not growing this year.
I was surprised to discover it is not pronounced Stew-piss, as I have always said, but seemingly stew-peach-ka
Stew-peach-ka sounds much cuter somehow. Thanks for straightening a few of us out!
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Should I trim the foliage back that is causing shade on my trusses/developing toms?
(I'm growing MoneyMaker, btw)
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Stew-peach-ka sounds much cuter somehow. Thanks for straightening a few of us out!
My Czech is very limited-but one could say `dobry den` to them ??
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Should I trim the foliage back that is causing shade on my trusses/developing toms?
It will not do any harm-pruning them to about one inch above soil level might be an idea??
Sorry-me and MM just don`t get on :)
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here's a few i picked on tuesday
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(in case you lot forget what tomatoes look like)
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I harvested a few today, having eaten them I can only conclude that I have underwatered this year, skins were tough and the fruit were tasty but a little on the dry side. The plants themselves show no sign of being thirsty.
I will gradually increase my watering regime, so as not to split the fruit that has already set.