"sarah" wrote in message
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Noises Off wrote:

sarah wrote:

Noises Off wrote:


Alan Holmes wrote:


'Vine' tomatoes are becomming fairly common in the
shops, but:-

What, exactly, are 'Vine' tomatoes?

Isn't the main point of the 'vine' so that the check-out
person can distinguish them from ordinary tomatoes? And
charge you more.


nah, the plastic packaging and bar code do that :-)

Err, well, in the nicest possible way, err, no. In this
piece of paradise I call my own (south/central London) I
have seen loose 'vine' tomatoes in Marks & Sparks and
Costcutter.

I guess Waitrose doesn't trust its staff to recognise them :-)

regards
sarah
Think of it as evolution in action.

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30-odd answers to a simple question and all wrong.
Vine. -- Climbing or trailing plant with a woody stem, - esp. bearing
grapes.
Grapes grow on a stem and immediately divide into a close cluster.
"Vine tomatoes" is a misnomer because those called vine tomatoes grow
alongside each other in pairs down a *single stem*. Therefore they are not
growing in a cluster like a bunch of grapes.
Now hear this.
I always grow "some" of my tomatoes in such a fashion. i.e.Five stems up a
single trunk , each tomato alongside each other hanging down on a single
stem.
The other tomatoes I grow have a different habit. They don't grow hanging
down a single stem. They grow hanging down in a single cluster, all clusters
separate from each other and growing up a single trunk which bear five
trusses,each truss separate form each other by reason of different height on
the main trunk of the tomato plant..
It's all due to the breed of the tomato.
BTW, The single stemmed "in-line" tomatoes which we import at high prices
take a long time to properly ripen even though when you buy them they are
red coloured, but when you cut them open they are whitish inside and taste
horrible.
Doug.
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