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Flavour and tomatoes
"Jonny" wrote in message ... On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 21:40:38 +0100, "Mary Fisher" wrote: "Jonny" wrote in message .. . snip stuff about slow germinating tomato seeds I,ve germinated seeds in the house and transferred plants to the greenhouse when the time was right. However, I've changed tack now. The hassle and wastage from a packet of seeds is not worth it. I now buy plants from garden centres. 79p may seem expensive compared to a packet of seed, but it's not compared to buying tasteless tomatoes. Jonny But you simply can't buy plants of the strain I've sown ... or if you can I've never seen them. Mary Good point Mary. I suppose I should qualify what I said. I'm not a tomatoe afficianado and I'm not trying to grow less widely available/unavailable varieties. Sungold, Gardeners Delight, Pixie (can't find that now), and a few others that I can't remember have all been so much nicer and tastier than anything bought. I suppose what I'm saying is I don't really care what it is because if it's home grown it'll knock spots off any bought tom:-) Well, that's true. It was my birthday a couple of weeks ago and No 1 grandson said he'd come round and make me a meal. With my ingredients, he likes eating here because the food's so good. He gave me a list of what he wanted, including tomatoes. I told him that they were out of season, we have none left. He said they were essential to his plans so I bought some 'small, sweet, cherry' tomatoes. They were wet and red and that's about it. I know that because we had to eat them later as salad toms, he hadn't looked for them in the right place but had found a tin of tomatoes in the pantry and used that ... But even in season I remember it being difficult to buy decent flavoured toms, which is why we started growing our own, in those days they were the ones I could find. I didn't really know there were different kinds. Yesterday it was sunny and warm and four cucumber seedlings were showing and two tomatoes. I have hope again. Mary Jonny |
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Flavour and tomatoes
"Jonny" wrote in message ... On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 21:40:38 +0100, "Mary Fisher" wrote: "Jonny" wrote in message .. . snip stuff about slow germinating tomato seeds I,ve germinated seeds in the house and transferred plants to the greenhouse when the time was right. However, I've changed tack now. The hassle and wastage from a packet of seeds is not worth it. I now buy plants from garden centres. 79p may seem expensive compared to a packet of seed, but it's not compared to buying tasteless tomatoes. Jonny But you simply can't buy plants of the strain I've sown ... or if you can I've never seen them. Mary Good point Mary. I suppose I should qualify what I said. I'm not a tomatoe afficianado and I'm not trying to grow less widely available/unavailable varieties. Sungold, Gardeners Delight, Pixie (can't find that now), and a few others that I can't remember have all been so much nicer and tastier than anything bought. I suppose what I'm saying is I don't really care what it is because if it's home grown it'll knock spots off any bought tom:-) Well, that's true. It was my birthday a couple of weeks ago and No 1 grandson said he'd come round and make me a meal. With my ingredients, he likes eating here because the food's so good. He gave me a list of what he wanted, including tomatoes. I told him that they were out of season, we have none left. He said they were essential to his plans so I bought some 'small, sweet, cherry' tomatoes. They were wet and red and that's about it. I know that because we had to eat them later as salad toms, he hadn't looked for them in the right place but had found a tin of tomatoes in the pantry and used that ... But even in season I remember it being difficult to buy decent flavoured toms, which is why we started growing our own, in those days they were the ones I could find. I didn't really know there were different kinds. Yesterday it was sunny and warm and four cucumber seedlings were showing and two tomatoes. I have hope again. Mary Jonny |
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Flavour and tomatoes
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from Jonny contains these words: Good point Mary. I suppose I should qualify what I said. I'm not a tomatoe afficianado and I'm not trying to grow less widely available/unavailable varieties. Sungold, Gardeners Delight, Pixie (can't find that now), and a few others that I can't remember have all been so much nicer and tastier than anything bought. I suppose what I'm saying is I don't really care what it is because if it's home grown it'll knock spots off any bought tom:-) I only tried Poxie once. I found the plants all needed supporting, contrary to the claims on the packet, and the 'well-flavoured' fruits were less attractive to the palate than Moneymaker. I sent a rather strong letter to Thompson & Morgan, and they sent me a complimentary packet of their next year's introduction (name of which I forget now - it was all of thirty years ago) which I planted the following year, and that was a really flavoursome tomato. -- Rusty Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar. http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/ |
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Flavour and tomatoes
The message
from Jonny contains these words: Good point Mary. I suppose I should qualify what I said. I'm not a tomatoe afficianado and I'm not trying to grow less widely available/unavailable varieties. Sungold, Gardeners Delight, Pixie (can't find that now), and a few others that I can't remember have all been so much nicer and tastier than anything bought. I suppose what I'm saying is I don't really care what it is because if it's home grown it'll knock spots off any bought tom:-) I only tried Poxie once. I found the plants all needed supporting, contrary to the claims on the packet, and the 'well-flavoured' fruits were less attractive to the palate than Moneymaker. I sent a rather strong letter to Thompson & Morgan, and they sent me a complimentary packet of their next year's introduction (name of which I forget now - it was all of thirty years ago) which I planted the following year, and that was a really flavoursome tomato. -- Rusty Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar. http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/ |
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Flavour and tomatoes
The message
from Jonny contains these words: Good point Mary. I suppose I should qualify what I said. I'm not a tomatoe afficianado and I'm not trying to grow less widely available/unavailable varieties. Sungold, Gardeners Delight, Pixie (can't find that now), and a few others that I can't remember have all been so much nicer and tastier than anything bought. I suppose what I'm saying is I don't really care what it is because if it's home grown it'll knock spots off any bought tom:-) I only tried Poxie once. I found the plants all needed supporting, contrary to the claims on the packet, and the 'well-flavoured' fruits were less attractive to the palate than Moneymaker. I sent a rather strong letter to Thompson & Morgan, and they sent me a complimentary packet of their next year's introduction (name of which I forget now - it was all of thirty years ago) which I planted the following year, and that was a really flavoursome tomato. -- Rusty Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar. http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/ |
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