Posted by Rhiannon Macfie Miller on October 22, 2006, 1:52 pm
Having been reasonably successful with Alicante tomatoes in my
greenhouse (bar the mould mentioned in another thread) over the past
couple of years, I am thinking of branching out to more exciting
varieties. In all the vegetables I grow I'm particularly fond of
unusual colours, while also looking for a decent taste. So I'm trying
to decide between the following (I don't think I'll have room to grow
them all, as I also plan to grow cape gooseberries and aubergines and
the greenhouse isn't that large):
Tigerella (red with yellow streaks)
Green Zebra (yellow with green streaks)
Black Russian (purple)
White Wonder (white)
Pepino (green with purple streaks, apparently tastes of melon)
Does anyone have experience of any of these? If so, I'd appreciate any
information you have on whether they taste any good, how productive they
are, and how well they are likely to cope with the short season and
lower temperatures engendered by being in Scotland and in a greenhouse
which gets shaded for half the day by a neighbour's tree.
Many thanks
Rhiannon
Posted by ®óñ© © ² * ¹°°³ on October 22, 2006, 3:04 pm
On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 17:52:43 GMT, Rhiannon Macfie Miller
>Tigerella (red with yellow streaks)
>Green Zebra (yellow with green streaks)
>Black Russian (purple)
>White Wonder (white)
>Pepino (green with purple streaks, apparently tastes of melon)
>Does anyone have experience of any of these? If so, I'd appreciate any
>information you have on whether they taste any good, how productive they
>are, and how well they are likely to cope with the short season and
>lower temperatures engendered by being in Scotland and in a greenhouse
>which gets shaded for half the day by a neighbour's tree.
Tigerella was reasonably productive in my experience but not
overly tasty. I wouldn't bother again.
Try Olivade, Pineapple, Aviro, Juliet, Dombito and Santa.
(Not all funny colours but successful for me)
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®óñ© © ² * ¹°°³
Posted by vulch on October 22, 2006, 5:32 pm
> So I'm trying
> to decide between the following
> Black Russian (purple)
I tried one of these this year, good sized fruit (it's a beefsteak
style), tasted nice, especially in bacon rolls.
Anthony
Posted by Andy on October 22, 2006, 7:42 pm
> Having been reasonably successful with Alicante tomatoes in my
> greenhouse (bar the mould mentioned in another thread) over the past
> couple of years, I am thinking of branching out to more exciting
> varieties. In all the vegetables I grow I'm particularly fond of
> unusual colours, while also looking for a decent taste. So I'm trying
> to decide between the following (I don't think I'll have room to grow
> them all, as I also plan to grow cape gooseberries and aubergines and
> the greenhouse isn't that large):
> Tigerella (red with yellow streaks)
> Green Zebra (yellow with green streaks)
> Black Russian (purple)
> White Wonder (white)
> Pepino (green with purple streaks, apparently tastes of melon)
> Does anyone have experience of any of these? If so, I'd appreciate any
> information you have on whether they taste any good, how productive they
> are, and how well they are likely to cope with the short season and
> lower temperatures engendered by being in Scotland and in a greenhouse
> which gets shaded for half the day by a neighbour's tree.
> Many thanks
> Rhiannon
My brother grew Tigerella. He said they had little flavour, and he won't be
growing them again. He also said the same about Moneymaker, but they aren't
fancy coloured anyway.
Andy.
Posted by Mike Lyle on October 23, 2006, 8:17 am
Andy wrote:
[...]
> My brother grew Tigerella. He said they had little flavour, and he won't be
> growing them again. He also said the same about Moneymaker, but they aren't
> fancy coloured anyway.
Same experience here with Tigerella. I read somewhere that Tigerella is
a "sub-variety" of Moneymaker; I don't know if it's true, though it's
credible from the taste. (A neighbour regularly grew Moneymaker for
sale on a small scale with lots of rotted fym, and let the tomatoes
ripen before offering them: they were better than the supermarket ones,
but I still wouldn't recommend them.)
--
Mike.
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>Green Zebra (yellow with green streaks)
>Black Russian (purple)
>White Wonder (white)
>Pepino (green with purple streaks, apparently tastes of melon)
>Does anyone have experience of any of these? If so, I'd appreciate any
>information you have on whether they taste any good, how productive they
>are, and how well they are likely to cope with the short season and
>lower temperatures engendered by being in Scotland and in a greenhouse
>which gets shaded for half the day by a neighbour's tree.