On Wed, 19 Sep 2018 17:30:55 +0100, Bob Hobden wrote:

This year we grew, amongst others, some Indigo Rose tomatoes out on our
allotment. What a waste of time and effort. Despite daily watering they
suffered badly from Blossom End Rot, a bit of rain and then they started
splitting, took ages to ripen too. Finally got to taste a decent one and
just no taste at all certainly compared to Ferline. A failed experiment.

Gave up on all but cherry tomatoes years ago because by the time they were
producing the shops had a glut.

This year I bought two Sungold Cherry tomatoes and potted them up on the
veranda under cover to avoid blight (but South facing so loads of sun) and
they are still going great guns.

Potted up two offshoots and gave them to friends, and those are producing
massively as well.

The tomatoes are acid but sweet with loads more flavour than anything from
the shops.

They do tend to split on picking if you aren't careful, but they cook well
if you can't eat them all the same day.

Growing lots of small tomatoes which fruit over an extended period means
that a short term blip in the weather has minimal effect, whereas it can
ruin a crop of large tomatoes where you grow a limited number of fruit.

Hopefully we will grow them again next year.

Cheers



Dave R


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