A tomato fetish!

OK, I know that I have a thing about tomatoes, always have, and now even more.  As a child I loved eating all things tomato.  Now as a gardener, I also love growing tomatoes.

September 2022

This year I have planted quite a few varieties (see the list below).  I decided to chance it and plant just three seeds of each, which I did over a few days.  Fortunately germination has gone well, with just one variety failing.  There was one where I only managed one plant, a few where there were just two, but the majority have given me three.  So I am really happy with the progress and looking forward to sharing my tomato plantings and hopefully the colours and flavours of the crop and what I do with it all.

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• Tomatoes
  • Amish Paste – 4 September 2022 (germinated 10 September)
  • Ananas Noir – 4 Septebmer 2022 (germinated 10 September)
  • Andy (seed saved by our neighbours of a home ago.  Andy had a fabulous garden and every season I was gifted beautiful baskets of tomatoes which I made into sauce, and we ate in salads.  Andy’s wife, Lucy, saved the seeds for me, and I have been growing them now for some years – we didn’t know the exact variety, so I chose to call them ‘Andy’) – 4 September 2022 (1 seed germinated 11 September)
  • Big Beryl – 4 September 2022 (germinated 10 September)
  • Big Rainbow – 4 September 2022 (germinated 12 September)
  • Black Cherry (old seed) – 4 September 2022 (germinated 12 September)
  • Black Plum – 5 September 2022 (germinated 11 September)
  • Cherry Roma (old seed) – 5 September 2022 (germinated 11 September)
  • Costoluto Fiorentino – 5 September 2022 (germinated 11 September)
  • Cuor di Bue (old seed) – 5 September 2022 (germinated 12 September)
  • Eden (seeds saved from locally grown tomatoes purchased when in Eden, from memory, it is a smallish tomato 5-7 cm across, red skin and orange flesh, delicious) – 5 September 2022 (germinated 12 September)
  • Green Zebra (old seed) – 6 September 2022 (germinated)
  • Koenig Humbert (seed saved and passed on by a local gardener earlier this year – 6 September 2022 (germinated 12 September)
  • Lecase Di Apulia (old seed) – 6 September 2022 (germinated 13 September)
  • Oxheart (Eden) – (seeds saved from locally grown tomatoes purchased when in Eden, from memory, it is a smallish tomato 5-7 cm across, red skin and orange flesh, delicious) – 6 September 2022 (germinated 12 September)
  • Palmwoods (old seed) – 7 September 2022 (did not germinate)
  • Periforme Abruzzese – 7 September 2022 (germinated 12 September)
  • Pineapple – 7 September 2022 (germinated 14 September)
  • Purple Cherokee – 5 September 2022 (germinated 12 September)
  • Red & Black – 7 September 2022 (germinated 13 September)
  • Roma (old seed) – 7 September 2022 (germinated)
  • Rouge de Marmande (old seed) – 7 September 2022 (germinated)
  • San Marzano (old seed) – 8 September 2022 (germinated)
  • Sweet Berry Truss /Strabena – 8 September 2022 (germinated)
  • Yellow Pear (old seed) – 8 September 2022 (germinated)
  • Yellow Stuffer (old seed) – 8 September 2022 (germinated)