On 2 Aug, 23:28, Sacha wrote:
On 2009-08-02 17:51:34 +0100, Dave Hill said:
On 2 Aug, 13:25, Sacha wrote:
On 2009-08-02 11:51:33 +0100, "Pete Stockdale"
said:
Taking it that you are not growing a small variety then the problem is
due to the flowers not being polinated, this produces what we used to
call "chats". When you gut them open there is no pulp and no seed
inside.
David Hill
Well I never !
Never had a "chat" in all my years of growing many different tomato
varieties.
My pollination systems must be OK then.
I wonder if this possible with other fruits and vegetables.
Regards
Pete
www.thecanalshop.com
My husband (former commercial salad crops grower) also calls tiny
tomatoes 'chats' and potato farmers call little, marble-size potatoes
'chats', too. *No idea if it has anything to do with pollination for
potatoes, though.
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Ray will remember grading tomatoes into Pinks, Pink and Whites, Whites
and Blues
David Hill
He recalls Blues as being kidney shaped, Pinks were the largest, Pink &
White *were the best i.e. golf ball size, Pink & White Crosses were one
size down and then there were Chats. *He says the colour definition
comes from the colour of the tissue paper that lined the baskets in
which the different sizes were packed, pink paper, pink & white paper
etc. etc. *This showed the grade of tomato without having to write it
onto a basket or labe. *The baskets held 12lbs of toms and he recalls
that plums and potatoes were packed in them at one time. *The salesmen
in the markets had their names stamped on the outside of the baskets
and they charged the Nurseryman x for the use of the basket and the
baskets carried the name of the salesmen, *e.g. *Monro's, T.J. Poupart
if his spelling and his memory are accurate!
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Yes, Pinks were the largest, Pink and whites were the most expensive
and the most wanted in market, whites were more a salad tomato and
blues were the mis shapes and sometimes dry splits.
We used to send out in 1/4 bushel boxes that held 12 lbs of fruit, the
boxes were lined with 2 sheets of tisue paper in the apropriate colour
and it was folded over the top of the box when full.
As you say the wholsaler provided the boxes and charged for their use
as well as charging commision, in those days most feuit and veg was
sold on a commission basis.
Cabbage, caulies sold in bushel boxes, lettuce. beans, in half
bushels.
blackberries, strawberries etc were picked into punnets and sold on
flat trays that held 12 punnets.
Those were the days.