Sounds interesting. Reminds me of last year's White Wonder tomatoes. Somewhat sweet, but no real tomato flavor. I'm not growing them again for that reason. I like a good tomato, nothing sissy. ;)

I'm with you. Even if it's sour, I want it to taste like a tomato should. If I wanted an apple, I woulda gone to the store. Lol.

I think I'll pick the rest when they're still green and tart so that at least that part of the fried green tomato taste will be there.

I'll skip these next year, but it was a fun experiment (plant is almost dead already because - well, I don't really know).

Granny Smith was a variety bred by Peto Seed to be used for fried green tomatoes, for salsa, etc. It is not a green when ripe type tomato and was not bred to be eaten fresh as one would a typical green when ripe variety such as Cherokee Green, Green Giant, and on and on for all the other GWR varieties.

Actually there are few places still selling seeds for Granny Smith b'c most folks prefer to use tomatillos for salsa and have green tomatoes to fry from any tomato variety they raise.

And that's why you see so few folks growing Granny Smith. Sigh.

Hope that helps.

Carolyn

Is that a sad sigh or an exasperated sigh, Carolyn? Lol. I actually picked it up at a local hardware store, and was excited to see that the tag mentioned that it was good for fried green tomatoes. I figured if I had one plant that I used specifically for that purpose, then I wouldn't have to break my heart every time I picked an unripe green tomato because I'm a newbie, and every ripe tomato is like a gift from the gods.

If I had to choose, I would pick tomatillos over these Granny Smiths for salsa verde any day of the week. My favorite is a fresh tomatillo salsa with onions, lime juice, jalapenos or serranos, cilantro, and some avocado all whirred up in a food processor.

But now I feel sort of bad that Granny isn't getting much love.

huh..interesting. I saw a recipe for green tomato pie, was supposed to taste like apple, in fact, the author guarenteed those who ate it would not be able to tell it wasnt apple. Bet these would work good for that.

If you want to try it spaghettina, the recipe is identical to that of apple pie, just substituting green tomatoes for apple slices.

Green tomato pie. I had no idea any such thing existed. If I had enough of the Granny Smiths I'd try it, but unfortunately, the whole plant is stunted and really sad looking. It has probably 10-15 tomatoes on it, but some are still very small, and I don't know if they'll ever beef up.