Foreign seeds

[shirlton]

My daughter went to Majorca last year and bought me back some seeds. One packet is "Tomatiga de Ramallet". On the packet the tomato's look like they have been strung up like garlic or is that how they grow. On the reverse of the packet it says " Plant very appreciated for its beauty. Do not swallow seeds"
My question is are these an edible tomato or decorative. I really don't want to poison Tony after he has just recovered do I.

[shirlton]

[Digeroo]

Perhaps the seeds have been coated with something.  I  bought some in Italy which smelt very strongly of camphor.  Do you remember moth balls?

http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=ca&u=http://dbalears.cat/actualitat/etiqueta/Tom%25C3%25A0tiga%2Bde%2Bramallet&ei=2Rd5S-X7IpDw0gTBr6CzCQ&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CCMQ7gEwBw&prev=/search%3Fq%3DTomatiga%2Bde%2BRamallet%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1R2ADSA_enGB366%26sa%3DG

Looks like you may be shot for removing it from Majorca.  :o

I always love translated pages they are so hilarious to read.

[shirlton]

Have looked them up on google and they are a tomato used a lot in majorca. They did have red coating on. Time will tell eh!

[jennym]

When I bought some seeds while on holiday in Australia, they too were coated with a pinkish red stuff. I found out while I was there from the seed company, that it was a fungicide that they coated the seeds with, this was to keep the seeds from getting attacked by fungus. I'm thinking that maybe they do this in warmer countries as a standard.