hard tomatoes

 
Has anyone had the same trouble as I have this season I am talking about
the greenhouse tomatoes having a tougher skin than normal the crop has
been good except for the skins being tough




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Billit

 
Billit;936520 Wrote:

Mine have been quite tough. It hasn't worried me, but my son complained
that if he tried to bite the end off, the contents ejected at high speed
from the stalk end!

Since I've not grown this variety before (unknown random seedlings from
supermarket tom) I've no idea whetehr it's normal or not. Presumably the
parent wasn't thick skinned, since supermarket tomatoes usually are not.




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kay

 

This prompted me to remember that, in my childhood, I recall my mother
skinning tomatoes by quartering them and running a knife between flesh
and skin - none of that dipping them in boiling water stuff.  My
favourite picnic sandwiches of egg and tomato will always be associated
with that mental picture!  I have no idea which variety they were,
except that, as we lived then in Guernsey, I expect they were the then
famous 'Guernsey Toms'  ;-)   But this makes me wonder if 'old'
varieties had these tougher skins that would allow such treatment and
if they didn't, why bother to skin them?  And was that because they
were locally grown in glass houses in a British climate (even the
warmer one of the CIs) rather than the more exotic origins of tomatoes
sold now in supermarkets?  This would have been in the late 1950s,
early 1960s.
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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon

 

Parhaps it's a matter of taste and convenience as I have no greenhouse as
such but there is nothing better in the tomato world than the outdoor
variety of cherry tomatoes IME. Gardeners Delight is popular.
They are small enough to eat whole or cut up in a salad, even fried or
juiced. The taste is out of this world.
True they have tough skins but both ends of the thing will be in the mouth
when they eject the contents.
I wonder how cherry toms would do in a greenhouse? Earlier than normal and
with softer skins?

Baz

 

We grow Tumbler in hanging baskets for ourselves and for customers who
buy the baskets but we prefer 'real' tomatoes, on the whole.  They're
grown in a greenhouse and I wouldn't say the skins are at all tough but
as we only grow them under glass, I have no comparison point.
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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon