Tommie update

20 years ago

So how are all the Tommies going? Mine are almost all going great guns.
I have had fruit from the following and my comments are included:
Jaune Negib - Nice pale colour, nice consistency but a bit lacking in flavour for my liking
Jaune Flammee - beautiful orange gold fruit, very yummy, and enormously productive. I think my most productive so far.
Pale Perfect Purple - lovely perfect shaped fruit and nice tomato flavour, great texture. This one looks like a big yeilder too
Schimmeig Crag - nice looking red stripy tomato, flavour is OK but not outstanding
Rouge de Marmande - nice beefsteak, loads of fruit, some ripe but haven't done the tatse test on this one yet
Purple Cherokee - Great dark colour, hubbie ate the first fruit without saving me any so can't comment on taste yet :-(
Principe Borgese - yummy roma style in a cherry
Sweet bite cherry - dissapointing this year, was nice last year
Yellow Tommy Toe - nice big yellow cherry, not great taste but all the kids seem to love 'em.
Costoluto de marmande(volunteer from last years throwaway seed) - boring, fruit - similar to vine ripened shop tomato - firm and ordinary flavour. They are growing on the chooks enclosure and even they haven't eaten them! Lots of fruit though
Black early - one huge misformed fruit so far - still awaiting final stage of ripeness on kitchen bench - looks great.
My other plants are
Earl's Faux (one looks great - heaps of fruit set and the other is pretty sad)
Rose Quartz - first fruit just ripening - masses of fruit and flowers - huge current bunches - never seen anything like if for flowers or resulting fruit!
Yellow ripple currant - first fruit setting - late planting.
Brandywine - still struggling along - no real growth for some time and no sign of flowers
Cherokee Chocolate - stalled for a couple of months but finally looking better - first signs of flowers appearing.
Palmwood - died early
Husky gold - struggling but has set two fruit.
So far Pale perfect Purple and Jaune Flammee go on next years list along with Principe which is a fav of mine!

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Fin_
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20 years ago
Oh-no all my formatting got lost. That's never happened before. Anybody have any ideas why my paragraph breaks are getting removed?
Raymondo
20 years ago
No idea about the formatting but I like the list. The tommies here are just coming into thier own so too early for taste tests - except Galina's Yellow, a lovely tasting cherry. I inserted a break tag just before this sentence and italicised this sentence, as a test.
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Raymondo
20 years ago
It seems that HTML tags are not working.
Spatzbear
20 years ago
I've been having with formatting the last few weeks. No ida why. Thanks for the tommie update, Fin! Sounds good. Mine were all in the fruit setting stage a few days ago. Will be interesting to see how they are doing in a week's time. Extreme heat is forecast for the area, hopefully no bushfires will hit our place, and the tommies and all the other vegies will thrive. Fingers crossed.
The_Grub
20 years ago
Yeh, thanks for the update, Fin. I will just have to try your fave up there - PB. Mostly at fruitset stage too. Count mine as big fall crop. Best for 2006 Fin, Ray, Spatz, et al :)
Spatzbear
20 years ago
You too, Grub! Don't have too much of the bubbly, mate! ;) May your tommie crop be the best ever!
The_Grub
20 years ago
Spatz, I can't stop drinking the French fizz. As ever I do think this is going to be a great crop. Your Broad Ripple is beside Matt's Wild and Sungold. Talk about a jungle :) Sincere good wishes to you and your family. And best blishes agan with a slobber for no yars ave.
ozmantis
20 years ago
Cant post pics directly either. Great list Fin. I've got lots to pick but its 41 deg outside so they can stay there.
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20 years ago
and a happy New Year to y'all ! Very nice list Fin. I have some of the same and can definitely agree about the Jaune Flamme. Mine is loaded with fruit and I picked the first two ripe ones last night - the 44 degree heat here yesterday finished them for me, LOL. I've also picked about a dozen Broad Ripple Yellow Currant and they are lovely - and also loaded with fruit, I don't know what I'm going to do with them all :-) We found two Cherokee Purples about golf-ball size so they're off and running, the Principe Borghese as they were last year for us are amazingly prolific and in the past week our Roma San Marzano have burst into fruit too. The only ones we are yet to see fruit for are Brandywine Suddeth and Kelloggs Breakfast - lots of flowers but fruit not visible yet. I'm about to try my JF for breakfast. Will try to post pics in the Baby Pics thread, or at least a link to them. I had trouble last week posting pics direct as well, although formatting has been OK so far. But I had to log in this morning, which I don't normally have to do, so maybe the servers are having a little hiccup? hmmm on the preview of the message, my linebreaks have gone too. Tried a few HTML tags but no go either.

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