Gardeners delight toms
 

Last year I was too late to sow so bought 6 plants, fruits were large and
with poor taste, definitely not GD so this year bought seed and raised some
plants (Unwins I think) and guess what, again large fruits hopefully they
taste better than last years. Anyone else got these large GD and is there
any reason for the change?
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Charlie, gardening in Cornwall.
http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of National Plant Collection of Clematis viticella (cvs)

Could depend what you ae feeding them on
Gardeners delight should be cherry tomatoes.
a lot about growing tomatoes at this site
http://www.gardenaction.co.uk/fruit_...y_1_tomato.asp

Also including amongst the pages is a recipe for bolognaise sauce
not tried it tho.
regards
Cineman



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Last year I was too late to sow so bought 6 plants, fruits were large and
with poor taste, definitely not GD so this year bought seed and raised
some
plants (Unwins I think) and guess what, again large fruits hopefully they
taste better than last years. Anyone else got these large GD and is there
any reason for the change?
--
Charlie, gardening in Cornwall.
http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of National Plant Collection of Clematis viticella (cvs)

Another site for gardeners delight tromatoes plus other stuff and its
organic I can say there is a difference in taste as i grow organic G.D. Toms
http://www.theorganicfarmersmarket.c...s&prodid=73 0

cineman



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Last year I was too late to sow so bought 6 plants, fruits were large and
with poor taste, definitely not GD so this year bought seed and raised
some
plants (Unwins I think) and guess what, again large fruits hopefully they
taste better than last years. Anyone else got these large GD and is there
any reason for the change?
--
Charlie, gardening in Cornwall.
http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of National Plant Collection of Clematis viticella (cvs)

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Last year I was too late to sow so bought 6 plants, fruits were large
and
with poor taste, definitely not GD so this year bought seed and raised
some
plants (Unwins I think) and guess what, again large fruits hopefully
they
taste better than last years. Anyone else got these large GD and is
there
any reason for the change?
--
Charlie, gardening in Cornwall.
http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of National Plant Collection of Clematis viticella (cvs)



Could depend what you ae feeding them on
Gardeners delight should be cherry tomatoes.
a lot about growing tomatoes at this site

http://www.gardenaction.co.uk/fruit_...y_1_tomato.asp

Also including amongst the pages is a recipe for bolognaise sauce
not tried it tho.
regards
Cineman

I know they are supposed to be cherry toms, that's what I am whingeing
about, they are not (second year running) as for feeding, I don't give them
anything.
I was really trying to discover whether it's a problem others have had or
whether I have been unlucky and got contaminated seed two years running.

--
Charlie, gardening in Cornwall.
http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of National Plant Collection of Clematis viticella (cvs)

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"Charlie Pridham" wrote in message
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Last year I was too late to sow so bought 6 plants, fruits were large
and
with poor taste, definitely not GD so this year bought seed and raised
some
plants (Unwins I think) and guess what, again large fruits hopefully
they
taste better than last years. Anyone else got these large GD and is
there
any reason for the change?
--
Charlie, gardening in Cornwall.

Could depend what you ae feeding them on
Gardeners delight should be cherry tomatoes.
a lot about growing tomatoes at this site

http://www.gardenaction.co.uk/fruit_...y_1_tomato.asp


I know they are supposed to be cherry toms, that's what I am whingeing
about, they are not (second year running) as for feeding, I don't give them
anything.
I was really trying to discover whether it's a problem others have had or
whether I have been unlucky and got contaminated seed two years running.

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The Gardeners' Delight I've grown for the last six or seven years have
been very big for cherry tomatoes. They have been much larger than
Sungold, for example, but quite a lot smaller than a non-cherry tomato
like Shirley.
I'm just wondering exactly what size they're supposed to be. I assume
you mean that the two lots you've had recently have been really big.
Janet

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Last year I was too late to sow so bought 6 plants, fruits were large and
with poor taste, definitely not GD so this year bought seed and raised
some
plants (Unwins I think) and guess what, again large fruits hopefully they
taste better than last years. Anyone else got these large GD and is there
any reason for the change?
--
Charlie, gardening in Cornwall.
http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of National Plant Collection of Clematis viticella (cvs)


I find GD very variable in size but they still taste great.

Mine look ok, not Unwins though, one of the 69p value packs from the
local hardware store. Perhaps you could email Unwins and see whether
they got mixed up?

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The Gardeners' Delight I've grown for the last six or seven years have
been very big for cherry tomatoes. They have been much larger than
Sungold, for example, but quite a lot smaller than a non-cherry tomato
like Shirley.
I'm just wondering exactly what size they're supposed to be. I assume
you mean that the two lots you've had recently have been really big.
Janet

Sort of size I used to get growing money-maker, but interesting about the
variable size, it may be last year was a bad year for toms and this year
will be ok :~)

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Charlie, gardening in Cornwall.
http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of National Plant Collection of Clematis viticella (cvs)

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Last year I was too late to sow so bought 6 plants, fruits were large
and
with poor taste, definitely not GD so this year bought seed and raised
some
plants (Unwins I think) and guess what, again large fruits hopefully
they
taste better than last years. Anyone else got these large GD and is
there
any reason for the change?
--
Charlie, gardening in Cornwall.
http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of National Plant Collection of Clematis viticella (cvs)


I find GD very variable in size but they still taste great.

My last years didn't but I now live in hope that this year will be better!
thanks for the info re size.

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Charlie, gardening in Cornwall.
http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of National Plant Collection of Clematis viticella (cvs)

Charlie Pridham wrote:
Last year I was too late to sow so bought 6 plants, fruits were large and
with poor taste, definitely not GD so this year bought seed and raised some
plants (Unwins I think) and guess what, again large fruits hopefully they
taste better than last years. Anyone else got these large GD and is there
any reason for the change?

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The Gardeners' Delight I've grown for the last six or seven years have
been very big for cherry tomatoes. They have been much larger than
Sungold, for example, but quite a lot smaller than a non-cherry tomato
like Shirley.
I'm just wondering exactly what size they're supposed to be. I assume
you mean that the two lots you've had recently have been really big.
Janet


Same here janet, I have always found gardeners delight to be larger than
those little tiny sweet ones you get with sweet 100 for example.

Janet
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Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraph
http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk