First in the field tomato advise please

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has anyone grown these?,I've got four little chunky seedlings, seed from Suffolk herbs who say they are dwarf tomatoes.

I've googled but nothing comes up for these toms.

going by the name i assume they are early toms,

my lottie neighbour says they are an old variety,

any advise would be appreciated, thank you / shades x

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[tim]

Suffolk Herbs? Great! Read the book?

Old potato leafed variety, early into use for outdoor use.

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yes i have !! /shades x

[Jeannine]

Hi Shades, I have grown these once or twice. They are  dwarf plants, they are determinate so don't prune them,flavour is very good,but I would not say very productive compared to others. Medium  sized round tom, the leaf will be different, it is a potato leaf variety,quite an old  tomato, you can save the seeds, and it is very early, came at the same time as my Tumbler last year, which is classified as 55 days after transplanting to it's final spot on the US scale, I am sorry I don't know of a UK one, I would expect we are a couple of weeks after, as most of my toms fruit later than they did in North America when we lived there.

Hope this helps XX Jeannine

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Jeannine, you are a star!!

thats the sort of reply I wanted,

thanks very much for replying

I don't feel like a naughty schoolgirl now who hasn't done her homework! ;) :P

shades x

[Jeannine]

You are very welcome, anytime on squash, toms or melons, even beans and corn but  not much good with rest !!!! XX Jeannine

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jeannine,

my toms haven't got potato leaves :o/shades x

[Jeannine]

I can't explain that as they are supposed to. I will see if I can find some info on the net, maybe one of us is growing the wrong seed XX Jeannine

[Jeannine]

Hi Shades.  Daves Garden describes them as potato leaf and if you go to eseeds.com they are described as having a distinctive potato shaped leaf

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thanks Jeannine, will get in touch with Suffolk herbs

oh well, my blue ridge mountain have potato leaves so one out of twos not bad ::)

thanks for your time/ shades  :-*

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:) forgot to say thanks for the link ;D /shades x

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Suffolk herbs replied to my e-mail, saying First in the Field toms get potato leaves after the plant has several pairs of leaves.

my plants have several pairs of leaves unfortunately none of them are potato!

Jeannine,you've grown them, do I have to wait a bit longer and be more patient?/ shades x

[Jeannine]

No, I think you have the wrong ones lovey,it happens sadly, all you can do is hope you have something good. I would ask for a refund though if they have sent you the wrong thing.

I don't understand  what they say about the leaves are potato after several leaves???  If this is the case I have never noticed, I can recognise potato leaves as soon as the true leaves come through.Maybe this one is different .Weird.

I could well be wrong, they are the experts so I will keep an open mind...Really weird.

XX Jeannine

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I thought so to (weird that is!)

apparently Suffolk herbs have checked with there lab,the seed is good, no one else has complained, so there is no problem, so says Sue Graves of Suffolk herbs >:(/shades x

[Jeannine]

I have no answer,do you have a picture? XX Jeannine