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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? -- Charlie, gardening in Cornwall. http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk Holders of National Plant Collection of Clematis viticella (cvs) |
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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 "Charlie Pridham" wrote in message ... 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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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 "Charlie Pridham" wrote in message ... 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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"cineman" wrote in message o.uk... "Charlie Pridham" wrote in message ... 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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from "Charlie Pridham" contains these words: "cineman" wrote in message o.uk... "Charlie Pridham" wrote in message ... 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. -- 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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"Charlie Pridham" wrote in message ... 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. |
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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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"Janet Galpin" wrote in message ... The message from "Charlie Pridham" contains these words: "cineman" wrote in message o.uk... "Charlie Pridham" wrote in message ... -- 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 :~) -- Charlie, gardening in Cornwall. http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk Holders of National Plant Collection of Clematis viticella (cvs) |
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"Draven" wrote in message . uk... "Charlie Pridham" wrote in message ... 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. -- 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:
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? Global warming? |
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In article , Janet Galpin
writes 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 -- Janet Tweedy Dalmatian Telegraph http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk |
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