Tomato Taste Test - again!

At an average summer temperature in Siberia of 3c, they would have to be

No wonder they moved the plants to Texas.

 

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Jack McHammocklashing

 

Obviously a graduate on an accelerated promotion path. :D

 

I'll still have more cherry and salad size toms than beefsteaks next year (got those 30 pkts of Sungold from T&M for 20p each last month, etc.), but as I'll have 3 poly tunnels up by next Spring it will enable me grow lots of different stuff, including more varieties of beefsteak, some of them long season ones.

If they are a resounding success and we can't cope with them all, I can always give the excess to my daughter to sell and raise some money towards the £4,000 she needs to go on a World Challenge trip to SE Asia in 2013.

 

Good luck with that Scrunge, looks exciting.

 

Another reason for wanting to try so many different varieties of toms in one year is that I'm now getting to the stage where trying just say 2 new ones each year (plus a 2nd year if they fail just to be sure) isn't going to enable me do everything I want to achieve from my early retirement in this area - and there's absolutely loads of other gardening stuff I want to do, skills to acquire, etc.

I did a similar thing with homebrew wine, and found making 100 galls p.a. enabled me to find the brews we liked a lot quicker than making a few gallons p.a. and leaving to mature for a year before sampling, adjusting and attempting again. That saved many wasted years of trying rubbish recipes.