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Old 19-09-2017, 05:25 PM posted to rec.gardens.edible
Ecnerwal Ecnerwal is offline
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Default Why can't I grow a regular tomato?

In article , T wrote:

I have seven cherry tomato plants. For the
forth week in a row now, I have harvested what
I estimate to be 100 cherries (each time).
My legs are actually sore from stooping!
(I would say "make it stop!", but I'd
be lying.)

But I can't grow a regular tomato for my life


I switched to all cherries years ago. I don't even trial anything bigger
than "plum" any more - too much wastage, not enough yield. If you have
Sancho Panza to aid you and want huge tomatoes, go on dreaming the
impossible dream. I'll be eating cherry tomatoes. When a cherry cracks
and becomes a slimy mess, it's a small fraction of the overall crop.
When that happens to a 2 lb. tomato, it might be a third of the crop on
that plant. I don't even want to try anymore - the windmills kept
bending my lance, and Sancho wasn't around to help, anyway.

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