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Tomato Taste Test - again!

Discussion in 'Edible Gardening' started by JWK, Sep 21, 2011.

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  1. Scrungee

    Scrungee Well known for it

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    I cut off a couple of blue plastic mushtroom boxes full of trusses of green Sungold tomatoes over a month ago (I did put some heating on a couple of frosty nights) and they're still ripening and being used, so it looks like I'll be eating my own cherry toms at Xmas. All the larger toms didn't last as well and either got fried or used in cooking weeks ago.

    Who else is still eating their own tomatoes?
     
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    I brought one plant indoors a few weeks back, still got a few on that.
     
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    We've got two left :heehee:
     
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    Home grown cherry toms (mainly Sungolds) for Boxing Day tea! I've never been eating my own stuff this late before, but having a polytunnel combined with the late, mild weather, using a small paraffin heater on a few cold nights and cutting the remaining trusses off before the first really hard frost seems to have done the trick:

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    And I'm still going to have some others left for New Year's Day.
     
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      Excelent Scrunge:dbgrtmb:

      Found a few that may yet ripen while clearing out the greenhouse. But apart from the indoor plant, they've gone over now.
       
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      My final offerings...

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        One of those tomatoes looks suspiciously like a cucumber to me.
         
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        The Devil has ways of hiding the fruits of his labours.
         
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          I've been sorting out seeds for 2012 and found the original instructions from Realseeds stating they'd need some supports, so something like this low apex - 'A' cradle type? - Poundland are selling packs of 20 strong canes suitable for the verticals at the moment.

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          I use the 'B' type system for my outdoor cordons;

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            This season I will be trying...

            Having spent a happy hour trawling through a ruck of taste tests from last few years, I will definitely try sung old this year, and Ferline for blight resistance, although it got a real thumbs down in one taste test.
            I'll also grow Amish paste again, it was very good for me last year for cooking, and Cherokee purple for frying on toast. Thought I would have trial of Sioux as well, and good old Gardeners delight never fails

            What varieties are coming up for you?

            Ari
             
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            With so much other things planned to grow in the garden I'll settle for growing Juliet, Rosada [which has always been the sweetest plum tomato for me], Shirley, and Orkado.:D:coffee:
             
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              I'll be growing:

              49 day Siberian
              Arnold F1 - Grafting rootstock (An experiment this year)
              Amish Paste
              Austin's Yellow Pear Beams
              Black Cherry
              Black Krim
              Delicious (for the GC biggest fruit competition)
              Ferline F1
              Floridity
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              New Girl F1
              Rosada
              Russian Black
              Sungold F1
               
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                Bl...............y Hell, John!!! You've just got to let us know how you fare this year:thumbsup::D
                 
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                Is that the length of a Siberian summer?
                 
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                  I've sown the Siberian, New Girl and Gardeners Delight already, and they germinated a week ago. I should have sown the rootstock 4 day earlier which I didn't. It's a learning experience, maybe I'll start a new thread when I get the hang of this grafting lark.
                   
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