29-03-2004, 08:14 AM
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Flavour and tomatoes
In article ,
(Steve Harris) writes:
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| (Nick Maclaren) wrote:
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| However, only about a third of the flavour is due to the variety.
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| I would put it at 75%. Last year, I grew Gardeners Delight, Red Alert
| and Ailsa Craig on the same small plot with identical treatment.
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| The Red Alert was Ok to eat, very early and little work
| The Ailsa Craig gave pleasant medium sized fruit and was rather a thug.
| The Gardeners Delight were packed with that real tomato flavour form a
| golden age when tomatoes were real tomatoes ...
Your method of comparison has the effect of excluding two of the
three factors I mentioned, so it is not surprising that you didn't
notice them!
Grown where? I am comparing them with the taste when grown in a
country which suits tomatoes. While the only 'tasty' tomato I have
grown is Texas Wild, I have tried the tomatoes that other gardeners
enthused over. I didn't, and the Texas Wild was disappointing.
The reason being, of course, that it isn't practical to emulate the
light levels of the tropics here, though it is possible to grow
tomatoes 'dry' if under cover.
Regards,
Nick Maclaren.
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