2017 Tomato Growing

Split Sungolds do make a very tastey roasted cherry tomato sauce. But many a time after heavy rain following a dry spell, when picking outdoor Sungolds we've used 2 carrier bags and carefully separated all the split ones for sauce making, then got back home to find loads more split ones in the bag of 'eaters', juice running all over the sound tomatoes.

What did you think of Suncherry? They've been my most reliable polytunnel tomato this year. I'm still growing Sungolds but a reduced number.

 

Think we got an id for @Angelina's Tomato

From a member on another forum...

 

My Angelina's Bulgarian tomatoes don't look at all like Costuluto Genovese.Mine are round, almost sperical, but

I'll post a pic.

 

Angelina's Bulgarian

 

Somethin gone wrong somewhere then

 

Where did you get seeds/plant from?

 

Some 'Bulgarian' pics from last year in these posts

Scroll down to 3rd image for 1st quote

This link might work better than one above 2015 Tomato Growing

 

Mr McHammocklashing

 

Ditto.

Were they 'originals' as sent by Angelina', like mine, or saved from Mr McHammocklashing's tomatoes grown using Angelina's seeds?

I sowed the last 'Bulgarian' seeds JMcHL sent me some years ago this year for a comparison against my saved seeds and those tomatoes are exactly the same.

I've compared them against various other GC members images and they have all grown spherical tomatoes @JWK how have yours turned out?

 

Just checked the letter, somethin about ye ginger hieded sasenach bampot

 

The seeds from me, were original as Angelina sent them to me

 

My second glut. Soup, passata and dry the tiddlers.. yum.

 

@Zigs I reckon the Angelina's Bulgarian tomato you posted a pic of is a rogue shape. This does occur occasionally with tomatoes, and produces either something new and original to cultivate into a new variety, or something inferior to discard/rogue out and not save seed from.

Another possibility is cross pollination, but unlike most beefsteak tomatoes I've never known this variety to produce megablooms/fused blossoms with defective anther cones that could permit cross pollination, but insect damage to the flower can permit this to happen.

As seeds have come from the same source Angelina>Jack McHL>Me/You, I suspect it's one of the above scenarios, and unless other tomatoes from your same plant all display the usual, sperical characteristics, don't save seeds from this plant and start again with fresh seeds.

P.S. I'll be at West Bex again next Wed morning if you want one of my Bulgarian toms before I head off to West Somerset to see the Flying Scotsman (got pub B&B booked there so numerous chances to see Wed/Thur) and do some more fishing.