Sub-Arctic Plenty

[Comfreyfan]

I've just been out in a waterproof with a torch - because I can't remember seeing any SAP and I know I grew them amongst the other varieties, but I can't find a single plant, I must have given them all away and not kept one for myself - not at all disappointed now and won't bother using up the space with them next year either!

[bluemoon]

I've got very little green growth, loads of flowers, but no fruit set at all. I'm persevering, but only because there is nothing else ready to go in their place if I were to pull them up. Better a few dud toms than weeds I suppose. I'm really glad I didn't pay for them and I have been tempted to order them in the past. Still, I suppose one of the advantages of free seeds is that as well as finding varieties that we'd try again we also learn about the don't-touch-with-a barge-pole ones too.

[Little Lottie]

I thought it was just me. Just like you Flummery I have also given quite a lot of them to family and friends. I was persevering with them but after the comments made by other grapes I think I will get rid of the lot and free up some room in the greenhouse, not to mention time spent on watering.
As the saying goes........... "there is no such thing as a free lunch"

[Cloud]

I'M not impreesed either.All foliage and hardly any fruit!!!!

[Alison]

Totally unremarkable here too. Was expecting them to be early but they're way behind the others. Am now picking cherry toms out the hanging baskets and my Red Alert will be ready by the end of the week which is perhaps as well as the plants are sagging with the imense load - they're what I call a fab outdoor tomato which is why I've been growing them the past few years (Red Alert that is, not SAP!)

[JennieAtkinson]

Well given their history I thought they would be superb up here. I pulled one out of the tunnel yesterday and even though I searched through the mass of leaves, there wasn't one flower on it! I've left the other one, but it won't be long I think before it goes too.

[Gauckwin]

Same here,
Lots of foliage very little fruit and poor in taste, wont be growing them in the future.

MG

[Two_Sheds]

Mine sat in the ground sulking for ages, now they have green fruits on them. I'll have them as Fried Green Tomatoes I think.

PS. I haven't had much success with ANY free seeds: Purple sprouts were awful, winter lettuce were awful ... I guess that's the reason why seed companies offload them as "free offers"

[Cutecumber]

I chucked my SAP in May.

They were unhealthy plants, compared to the others, and very slow. They just weren't worth the effort.

I don't believe it's anything to do with them being free, however!

[Alison]

Mine sat in the ground sulking for ages, now they have green fruits on them. I'll have them as Fried Green Tomatoes I think.

PS. I haven't had much success with ANY free seeds: Purple sprouts were awful, winter lettuce were awful ... I guess that's the reason why seed companies offload them as "free offers"

It's a pity that seed manufacturers don't see it as an opportunity to try and get us hooked with some fab new type!