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Tomato variety tigerella

JacquimcmahonJacquimcmahon Posts: 1,039
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This one is new for me this year. Anyone know if it crops well? As usual I have too many as the germination rate was high. I want to know if I keep about 6 plants will I be swamped with toms?

Thanks.
Marne la vallée, basically just outside Paris 🇫🇷, but definitely Scottish at heart.
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  • tui34tui34 Posts: 3,493
    Bonjour Jacqui

    I grew the Green Zebra and the Tigerella last year.  They weren't good croppers, but then last summer was not a good year for tomatoes down here.  I didn't find the taste particularly spectacular (tangy sweet) and when cut up for a tomato salad you didn't really notice the stripes on them - only the fact that some of them were green.

    This year, I am going for the tomato tomato - red, round and tasty!!

    Bonne journée!!
    A good hoeing is worth two waterings.

  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I grew some quite a few years ago @Jacquimcmahon, as the girls gave me a present of some little packs of unusual seeds. They cropped reasonably well, but like @tui34 , I didn't think they were that exciting, or prolific enough to bother trying again. I tend to grow the little cherry toms.
    Need plenty of bang for our buck, us Scots eh?    ;)

    I didn't have any problem growing them, but I remember someone saying later on the forum that they can be tricky. Can't recall exactly what the problem was though.
    Mine were grown undercover, so perhaps they're a bit blight prone or something?
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • JacquimcmahonJacquimcmahon Posts: 1,039
    Ok, so keep a couple but not too many. I also have Gardeners Delight and one of the really tiny varieties ( can’t remember off the top of my head and it’s too wet to go check!), both of which I have done before so am sure I want to keep a few. 

    All of the extra plants will find homes I’m sure, I usually take them into the office and I know they are always appreciated. We do a mini plant swap as a couple of other colleagues have big greenhouse and start off cucumbers and courgettes which I struggle with in my unheated one.
    Marne la vallée, basically just outside Paris 🇫🇷, but definitely Scottish at heart.
  • Joyce GoldenlilyJoyce Goldenlily Posts: 2,933
    I have also grown Tigarella in the past and was not over impressed. There was no problem growing it under glass. I have given up growing Gardeners Delight as it seems to have lost its flavour.
  • JacquimcmahonJacquimcmahon Posts: 1,039
    The Gardeners delight I grew last year were really nice, that’s why I bought them again. I wonder if the seeds I get are different as I am in France and buying from a French supplier.
    Marne la vallée, basically just outside Paris 🇫🇷, but definitely Scottish at heart.
  • mattychinmattychin Posts: 11
    I've had ok results with them. Last year I even got some unintentional self seeded ones that grew along with some plum tomatoes from discarded tomatoes in the compost patch from the previous year...they even fruited! The intentionally grown ones were quite nice but I thing the novelty factor of the tiger stripes may have helped the taste 😂
  • purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 5,287
    I have seeds of Tigerella that have just germinated @Jacquimcmahon
    I decided to grow from seed this year after trialing them as bought plants last two years. 
    I find them fine to grow, but later to crop than the usual varieties. They are fine as salad toms, as they are one of the few varieties I have found readily available in GC and not too expensive per seed to buy.
    I too moved away from the original ones like Gardeners delight or Alicante as they are much more likely to suffer from diseases,  and have suddenly potato leaf instead of tomato leaf shape, showing they are not the same plants as they used to be.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    There's been a lot of discussion about the consistency of Gardener's Delight toms in the past few years. I can't remember the reasons, but the general consensus seemed to be that they were getting very hit and miss with almost everything. 
    As @pansyface mentions, that will be why they've lost their badge of honour. 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 5,287
    I think the seed producers have tried to improve them @Fairygirl @pansyface which has changed them considerably,  don't you think? The old varieties have lost something.
  • SkandiSkandi Posts: 1,723

    This was last time I grew them, I found them very prolific but as others have said, pretty tasteless. 6 plants will almost certainly be to many.
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