not content with growing cherry tomatoes.

war garden 572 · May 2023

after looking through as few links I thought
this would help encouraging those who want
grow bigger tomatoes not just cherry ones
the article describes a uk giant tomato grower.
https://nypost.com/2020/08/31/man-uses-pair-of-sheer-tights-to-break-record-for-largest-tomato/

Jenny_Aster · May 2023

Blending down his compost! Think that's a step too far for me.

Can't imagine the slices of that tomato being tasty on a sandwich, I'm wondering how many cores it would have considering he talks about the tomatoes fusing. Is 'fusing' veg/fruit a 'thing', surely that's cheating?

fidgetbones · May 2023

The large tomatoes have the flowers fusing, a form of fasciation, not the plants fusing which would be grafting. Very poorly written article.

As for compost tea, my grandmother used to hang a hessian sack filled with fresh horse droppings in the water barrel she used to feed tomatoes with.

JennyJ · May 2023

I'd rather have lots of small tomatoes, which is fortunate because I don't think larger ones would have a long enough season to ripen well outdoors here. I don't have a greenhouse, and small/cherry types do fine started on the windowsill then grown outside.

BenCotto · May 2023

I can understand why that cove from Hertfordshire wants to win a record but why would the hobby vegetable grower for whom taste and visual appeal are paramount want to grow something grotesquely deformed?

Lyn · May 2023

I used to grow these, Jersey Devils, delicious, I loved them sliced on toast with pepper.
Good for cooking as all flesh and hardly any seed.
If I’d grown that monstrosity I wouldn’t have shown it.

Sheps · May 2023

My one and only freakishly large tomato.

It tasted alright too.

BenCotto · May 2023

I had a different outcome

not content with growing cherry tomatoes.

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