Tomato questions
Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2014 5:05 pm
I've written before about the short growing season we have u here - due to light levels, rather than frosts etc that usually dictate the growing season.
We grow tomatoes, in the polytunnel, and they do OK but are never heavy cropping. So this last year we decided to try a short season variety called Tamina. In a nutshell it was cr4p - for three reasons.
1) Poor cropping - we got fewer off this variety than any of the others
2) It was fairly insipid - I've bought tastier toms out of season from T***o.
3) They were no quicker to produce fruit than the Marmande, Moneymaker, Black Cherry, Gardener's Delight, Lylia de Cerisette, Chadwick Cherry and a purple mini plum we'd saved seeds from (from that place mentioned before ). All (apart from the Marmande which was disapointing but was quite old seed) surpassed the Tamina. The Black Cherry, which were free off the front of a magazine, were best of the lot!
Has anyone tried Tamina with better results? If so any tips? Can you recommend any short season - we've already got Bloody Butcher and Silver Fern, as well as the usual, longer season, suspects. And any alternatives to Marmande - mainly for bottling. Or should we just buy new seed.
The search continues.
We grow tomatoes, in the polytunnel, and they do OK but are never heavy cropping. So this last year we decided to try a short season variety called Tamina. In a nutshell it was cr4p - for three reasons.
1) Poor cropping - we got fewer off this variety than any of the others
2) It was fairly insipid - I've bought tastier toms out of season from T***o.
3) They were no quicker to produce fruit than the Marmande, Moneymaker, Black Cherry, Gardener's Delight, Lylia de Cerisette, Chadwick Cherry and a purple mini plum we'd saved seeds from (from that place mentioned before ). All (apart from the Marmande which was disapointing but was quite old seed) surpassed the Tamina. The Black Cherry, which were free off the front of a magazine, were best of the lot!
Has anyone tried Tamina with better results? If so any tips? Can you recommend any short season - we've already got Bloody Butcher and Silver Fern, as well as the usual, longer season, suspects. And any alternatives to Marmande - mainly for bottling. Or should we just buy new seed.
The search continues.