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    Heirloom Tomatoes

    I'm having the following seeds sent from America (a bit too late for this year, but ready for next). Has anyone else grown these? any pitfalls other than usual tomato stuff to be wary of?

    Heinz VF
    Greater Baltimore
    Pineapple
    JTD (campbells soup tomato)
    Delicious
    Burgess Mammoth Wonder
    Acme, De Giorgi

    Thanks in advance
    Alun
    "We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses."-- Abraham Lincoln
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  • #2
    Hi Alun

    Im growing Pineapple for the first time this year, so cannot offer much advice at this stage, but germination was 100% so signs look good :-)

    Good luck with them, for either this year or next.

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    • #3
      Thanks Jilly, I'll be interested to see how yours turn out. I'll leave mine until next season to give them as long a growing season as possible, this year I'm only growing one heirloom, wapsipinicon peach, which are going great guns at the moment.
      "We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses."-- Abraham Lincoln

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      • #4
        I have a couple of Wapsipinicon Peach on the go too, again first year with these ones too.

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        • #5
          Sounds as if you like the big tomato's T8Ter?? I'm growing "China Half Moon" & "Monkeys ass" for the first time this year, so I'm on a bit of a learning curve as well. I haven't grown any off your list before so I can't say what there like.

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          • #6
            Pineapple grew as a very good bicolour for me in Oz a few years ago. I love bicolours but I can rattle off dozens of other bicoloured varieties that I like equally as much or more. Grow it out and enjoy it!
            Happiness is being with the love of your life. If you can't have that, then an unlimited supply of well-rotted manure is a pretty close second!

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            • #7
              I have some American heirlooms on the go. Cherokee Purple is one. I find that they are generally beefsteak type and need a long growing season. My heirlooms are the ones I sow in late January.
              Whoever plants a garden believes in the future.

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              • #8
                Yes GN, I thought I'd try some of the beefsteak toms to see how they go, I thought they'd need a long growing season Flum so that's why I thought I'd keep them until next season, Janek presumably you're a lot warmer there than us, so as you say, I'll grow them out and see what results I can get. I'd grown a few of the black varieties previously but since joining here and seeing the tomato parcel started by Enrich it's given me a bit more food for thought.
                "We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses."-- Abraham Lincoln

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                • #9
                  T8Ter

                  You might want to join us here, sounds like you fit the bill :-)

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