2014 Tomato Growing

Wise, a stunning tomato!

We eat so few purple and blue foods that those will bring the table to life - Do show a personal picture when ripe. I grow purple carrots and purple potatoes and they are so pretty - imagine all those in a meal, purple cabbage coleslaw too, beetroot, - then a blueberry pie - lets see... and then red and blue food coloring into the whipping cream.............. A very deep red wine, then something with creme de cassis to finish.

then 14 pints of larger, wow

 

Let us know how they progress please Woo.

 

Hi Woo,
if they come good would you be up for putting a few seeds in the Tomato Seed Swap for next year please?
I'd like to grow one out of interest,
Jenny namaste
ps - is it a bush or a cordon variety?

 

@Jenny namaste - the Cara Rich have germinated and the Harbinger are starting to peek through

 

do they sell double glazing as well?
Seriously, GC may turn out to be the fittest band of people in the UK - if we all grow them. Thanks for the info and the offer,
Jenny

 

Put some red food colouring in the cream of course!

I'm growing these too but as I don't like cream it's not a problem for me.

 

Where is this weird colour fruit and veg going to end up? I have red yard long beans growing, to name just one more thing

(picture from web) The yard long beans do really well here so giving this a shot.

 

Hmmm, Indigo Rose Tomatoes Did you just pick the packet up by mistake?

 

My biggest tomato is golf ball sized and the bed of determinate tomatoes I planted last week for canning have exploded in size and the tallest are one foot.

I am always looking for egg recipes but this year I will be after tomato recipes if some blight does not happen (which has a couple times lately - this year I have them scattered)

 

Has anyone grown supermarket varieties Piccolo, Piccolini, Santini, Tomalini or Red Choice?

(Pete has grown Santini)

Googling I turned up this article from the Independent:

"Marks & Spencer is finding that our taste in tomatoes is getting "sweeter". We tend to use the larger varieties for cooking, and the smaller ones with a more intense flavour in salads. Its biggest seller is a small plum tomato called "Santini", which has a delicate thin skin and lovely just-picked aroma, while its "Piccolini", a large on-the-vine cherry tomato is deliciously sharp and a little firmer. But it is the "Tomalini", a fabulously juicy and fragrant midi plum, that caught my attention, a variety the store says is "walking off the shelves", unsurprisingly. I also loved Waitrose's "Piccolo" Sicilian cherry vine tomatoes that come in a pleasing array of miniature sizes and look as though you grew them yourself, and its "Red Choice", which puts my faith back in the potential for a good "classic" tomato, perfect for that weekend brunch with bacon and eggs."
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...arieties-of-tomatoes-on-the-vine-2257683.html
and found that several people have grown Santini (maybe the others too) and raved about them

Maybe they are just well-known-varieties marketed under a different name (like Jersey Royals / International Kidney), but I didn't manage to find any info, nor seed companies that sell those varieties, but I did find people who had grown saved-seed from M&S etc. who raved about the flavour of what they grew.

 

Eeerrmm and there are one or two in the mini GH as well. It's all your fault - sending me all those different tomatoes:


Have I gone a bit OTT?
Jenny

 

Depends.

What do you plan to do with 30+ Tomatoes? :D