Fair 'nuff. Which Marmandes are you growing? The modern Marmande isn't, unfortunately, much of a patch on the original French heirloom. Somewhere along the way I think some tweaking might have happened. The old Rouge de Marmande was a glorious tom.
Not the Heirloom ones , just Suttons' .... as you say not like the original but I do think the original probably needs more of a Provencal climate than we can provide here most years - as you say there's probably been some tweaking.
So far no signs of anything on the other three, or on any of the Red Alerts - fngers still crossed - which accoubts for typng errords
Thanks for your help
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Google reveals lots of sources in Australia - strange that they don't appear to be available over here - I wonder if my Tasmanian cousins can get their hands on some for me
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Never been there myself but the photos look good - I understand some attitudes are a little 'behind the times'? Perhaps they'll have heirloom tomatoes then?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Funny place, Tasmania. Progressive in some ways - it was the birthplace of the Greens in Australia and remains to the forefront in terms of conservation, etc - but certain parts of the island are best avoided. Very small, isolated communities without much in the way of, um, genetic input from outside. If you get my drift.
Ah, well my coz went there from South Wales around 1970 - no wonder he was grabbed swiftly by a local Tasmanian lass with whom he has gone on to found a dynasty
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Fair 'nuff. Which Marmandes are you growing? The modern Marmande isn't, unfortunately, much of a patch on the original French heirloom. Somewhere along the way I think some tweaking might have happened. The old Rouge de Marmande was a glorious tom.
Not the Heirloom ones
, just Suttons' .... as you say not like the original but I do think the original probably needs more of a Provencal climate than we can provide here most years - as you say there's probably been some tweaking.
So far no signs of anything on the other three, or on any of the Red Alerts - fngers still crossed - which accoubts for typng errords
Thanks for your help
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Update - one more blighted leaflet removed in last 24 hours - otherwise all appear healthy, albeit with three plants with black blotches on the stems
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
If you can grow the Suttons' version of Marmande you could grow the original Rouge de Marmande. The difficulty would be finding the genuine seeds.
Google reveals lots of sources in Australia - strange that they don't appear to be available over here - I wonder if my Tasmanian cousins can get their hands on some for me
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Tasmania? *shudders*
Never been there myself but the photos look good - I understand some attitudes are a little 'behind the times'? Perhaps they'll have heirloom tomatoes then?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Funny place, Tasmania. Progressive in some ways - it was the birthplace of the Greens in Australia and remains to the forefront in terms of conservation, etc - but certain parts of the island are best avoided. Very small, isolated communities without much in the way of, um, genetic input from outside. If you get my drift.
Ah, well my coz went there from South Wales around 1970 - no wonder he was grabbed swiftly by a local Tasmanian lass with whom he has gone on to found a dynasty
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Just what the place needed, an injection of Welsh genes.