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Yeah, especially tomatoes. So many vintage varieties with usual colours/tastes, and you can let them ripen naturally. Tomatoes are difficult though, I've seen l
by MC27 16y ago
Yeah, especially tomatoes. So many vintage varieties with usual colours/tastes, and you can let them ripen naturally. Tomatoes are difficult though, I've seen lots of newbies have trouble - it's one of those plants that people need to read up about and follow the growing instructions carefully.
- jules 16y agoOne problem I have is that they get a kind of disease (don't know the English name) that makes the leafs dry up and the tomatoes rot before they turn red. The solution is to buy seeds of plants that can't get this disease. So when you plan on growing tomatoes ask for this, it's very common. And buy multiple different seeds so you don't put all eggs in one basket.
- billswift 16y agoTomatoes are vulnerable to a lot of diseases, it is particularly important that you rotate them; don't grow tomatoes in the same spot more than two years in a row, and wait at least two years before growing them there again. If growing them in pots sterilize the soil over the winter (there are several ways you can do this).
- billswift 16y ago"Green zebra" and "Green Grape" tomatoes have particularly different and interesting flavors. They have a faint touch of the taste of a wild relative of theirs called "Cape Gooseberry".