Pam Moore wrote:
:: On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 22:57:12 +0100, Sacha
:: wrote:
::
::: I'm the least likely member of this group to discuss food growing
::: but has anyone else noticed that tomatoes are watery and
::: flavourless this year? Our are grown in large pots in a mix of
::: soil and compost, in a large glass house. Each year, until this
::: one, they have tasted sublime. This year they ripened late,
::: cropped poorly and taste of nothing much at all. ;-(
::
:: Mine are delicious!! Grown in the open on my allotment, but this
:: year I am cuttiing them green, and ripening them on trays at home
:: because I am so worried about blight, which has not yet srrived!
:: As soon as a truss begins to colour I pick them. Today I even
:: picked some quite green.
:: The skins are slightly tough, but this is because they have been
:: grown hard, and not had as mucn water as previous years,9 because
:: I can no longer drive and rely on lifts). The flavour is
:: excellent. (assorted varieties)
:: Cannot compare with those grown under glass as I have no
:: greenhouse.
::
:: Pam in Bristol

This was my favourite way of eating them, still a bit green around the seeds
so that they were *very* tangy! - excellent with cheese...droooool.
Also we used to get tiny ones ripening, Ive seen cherry tomatoes and they
were about this size but reeeaaally sweet...the other toms on the same plant
would grow to full size, just the odd one or two here and there.