There were wrongly-labelled seed around a few years ago (I had some). For new packets of Gardeners' Delight I'd hope the suppliers have sorted out the problem by now.
I couldn't find the "yellow delight" variety mentioned in one of the posts further up, but I've ordered one called "yellow pear" to try - hopefully it will be similar, and if not the packet only cost 60p so no big deal.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
Ah! about 3-4 years ago I bought a couple of Sungold plants, the first time I'd grown them, and they produced yellow pear-shaped fruits. It was only when I posted a photo on this forum I was correctly informed they were not Sungold. They were still very nice indeed though and I always wondered what they might be - yellow pear maybe. I've still got loads of seed, but will make a note for another season. Hope yours turn out well!
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
I have always found Gardeners delight to be red and round, larger than a cherry but smaller than moneymaker. I love Sungold, a sweet yellow cherry tomato.
Ah! about 3-4 years ago I bought a couple of Sungold plants, the first time I'd grown them, and they produced yellow pear-shaped fruits. It was only when I posted a photo on this forum I was correctly informed they were not Sungold. They were still very nice indeed though and I always wondered what they might be - yellow pear maybe. I've still got loads of seed, but will make a note for another season. Hope yours turn out well!
I hope so too. I'll also be growing Gardeners' Delight (seed from last year's packet so I know they're what they should be - smallish round red fruit, really good flavour) and Rosella on the recommendation of the chap on Beechgrove Garden. But not just yet - I don't have a greenhouse so I don't sow my tomatoes until late March.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
I grew what I thought were Gardeners' Delight last year from a seed packet which came free with Kitchen Garden magazine, from Kings Seeds. They turned out to be yellow pear shaped tomatoes which I think may be called Yellow Delight. I didn't mind too much as they tasted nice and I had grown 4 other cherry varieties as well which came out as expected.
I have been growing these for a few years now after getting them instead of the true gardeners delight, I bought mine from Kings Seeds, after speaking to Les Day managing director he explained to me what happened. Seed companies get a large part of their seeds grown for them abroad from seeds they send over as the weather is more ideal for commercial seed growing and kings use growers in Italy and China, from their batch records they found out these seeds were grown in China, Les contacted the growers to inform them they sent the wrong seeds back, the growers reply was no we didn't, whereas they would not admit fault Kings couldn't find out what variety they are, he did say on my first conversation he was looking in to selling them for the following season as a lot of customers were pleased with them and we're interested in growing them again and called them yellow delight. However on my second conversation he informed me that due to not knowing what variety they are, the EU prohibits them from selling them, which is a shame as I would happily pay for them, but he did send me a packet free.
Once more EU regulations are correct...it's potentially unsafe to grow seeds of varieties that haven't be proven not to import new strains of viruses and other diseases. So until we can be certain those tomato plants have no averse impact to the existing polinators and other plants it's only reasonable to not make them available.
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There were wrongly-labelled seed around a few years ago (I had some). For new packets of Gardeners' Delight I'd hope the suppliers have sorted out the problem by now.
I couldn't find the "yellow delight" variety mentioned in one of the posts further up, but I've ordered one called "yellow pear" to try - hopefully it will be similar, and if not the packet only cost 60p so no big deal.
about 3-4 years ago I bought a couple of Sungold plants, the first time I'd grown them, and they produced yellow pear-shaped fruits. It was only when I posted a photo on this forum I was correctly informed they were not Sungold. They were still very nice indeed though and I always wondered what they might be - yellow pear maybe.
I've still got loads of seed, but will make a note for another season.
Hope yours turn out well!
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
It was Jim's enthusiasm on Beechgrove that encouraged me to try them a few years ago. I've grown them every year since.
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
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