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a better grape tomato?
I am in the Dallas area and am quite pleased with sweet 100s. I have
grown Cherry but it had less taste and were less productive than Sweet 100s. Normal tomato cages kept them off the ground and I used 3-1-2 lawn fertilizer. Several good years in a row now. Sorry, Sweet 100s work for me and I just planted 2 more for 2006. |
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a better grape tomato?
"Warren" wrote:
DigitalVinyl wrote: That distinction makes sense, although I would think these are more marketing terms than scientific (tomatus cherrianus). Absolutely. Never seen a "grape" tomato offered as large as a typical cherry. Sweet 100's were significantly smaller than average cherry tomato I've grown-but are usually referred to in catalog as cherry, often with some adjective adjustment mini-, small, tiny, grape-sized. Until now I've thought of grape-sized as a multiple-in-the-mouth-at-once size where cherry is one-at-a-time. YRMV! The "grape" tomatoes at regular supermarkets around here are usually small. But so are the cherry tomatoes. I wonder if it's a NY thing? I'm a hundred miles or so north of Digital Vinyl and I see the tiny tomatoes sold as "Grape Tomatoes". Luckily when I bought the plants last spring I asked for "those tiny grape tomatoes" and my nurseryman pointed out the difference between what was a tiny tomato and what was a grape tomato. I grew a single Sweet 100 last year. We had a horridly wet [but hot] summer but my garden is a well mulched sand bed so I had a great year for tomatoes. I had some splitting, but my 8foot plant never had any disease/mold/mildew. I dried all the excess so I kept up with the yield all season. Jim |
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a better grape tomato?
Jim Elbrecht wrote:
I wonder if it's a NY thing? I'm a hundred miles or so north of Digital Vinyl and I see the tiny tomatoes sold as "Grape Tomatoes". Jim We see the same thing here in the midwest. It is just some marketing hype. I think that sellers ought to tell us EXACTLY what we are buying (the true name of the tomato). -- Bill R. (Ohio Valley, U.S.A) Gardening Since 1969 To see pictures from my garden visit http://members.iglou.com/brosen Remove NO_WEEDS_ in e-mail address to reply by e-mail |
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a better grape tomato?
Jim,
I am glad that you too had good luck with Sweet 100s like I did. From the sound of this thread, anyone reading it might think this sweet tasting prolific tomato was a bad choice. The "grape" tomato marketing is confusing. Mike |
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