Marmande Toms

[northener]

I' m growing these for 1st time the flowers are massive, how bigs the fruit?

[northener]

[tim]

Quite big!

[Rhubarb Thrasher]

maybe your big flowers can be explained by the "strange flowers on tomatoes " thread
http://www.allotments4all.co.uk/joomla/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,91/topic,31278.0

[Debs]

i haven't got any flowers on my tomatoes yet  :-[

[dandelion]

Noticed today that the first fruit has set on mine.

[cleo]

Marmande has large fruit so give them good support-they are not the easiest to ripen but the flavour is very good

[northener]

Whoo bring em on. What dyou mean Cleo not easist to ripen?

[Rhubarb Thrasher]

Last year was a good year for Marmande ripening, tho I did get some blossom end rot. Maybe be prepared for making lots of Green Tomato Chutney

[cleo]

Well only my experience from growing them outside but big fruited types need a longer season to get properly ripe-when I lived in Leeds it was very much down to the year

[Jeannine]

Fried Green Tomatoes, these are ideal for that. Yumee XX Jeannine

[Biscombe]

Not great for me in Spain, not heavy yielding

[Debs]

jeannine,

Fried green tomatoes?

Do you have a recipe??

Debs