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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: northener on May 22, 2007, 13:04:28

Title: Marmande Toms
Post by: northener on May 22, 2007, 13:04:28
I' m growing these for 1st time the flowers are massive, how bigs the fruit?
Title: Re: Marmande Toms
Post by: tim on May 22, 2007, 13:10:41
Quite big!
Title: Re: Marmande Toms
Post by: Rhubarb Thrasher on May 22, 2007, 13:48:35
maybe your big flowers can be explained by the "strange flowers on tomatoes " thread
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Title: Re: Marmande Toms
Post by: Debs on May 22, 2007, 16:05:10
i haven't got any flowers on my tomatoes yet  :-[
Title: Re: Marmande Toms
Post by: dandelion on May 22, 2007, 16:07:49
Noticed today that the first fruit has set on mine.
Title: Re: Marmande Toms
Post by: cleo on May 22, 2007, 16:30:58
Marmande has large fruit so give them good support-they are not the easiest to ripen but the flavour is very good
Title: Re: Marmande Toms
Post by: northener on May 22, 2007, 19:38:44
Whoo bring em on. What dyou mean Cleo not easist to ripen?
Title: Re: Marmande Toms
Post by: Rhubarb Thrasher on May 22, 2007, 20:25:43
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
Title: Re: Marmande Toms
Post by: cleo on May 22, 2007, 20:31:10
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
Title: Re: Marmande Toms
Post by: Jeannine on May 22, 2007, 20:57:28
Fried Green Tomatoes, these are ideal for that. Yumee XX Jeannine
Title: Re: Marmande Toms
Post by: Biscombe on May 23, 2007, 07:12:00
Not great for me in Spain, not heavy yielding
Title: Re: Marmande Toms
Post by: Debs on May 28, 2007, 07:54:50
jeannine,

Fried green tomatoes?

Do you have a recipe??

Debs