Tomatoes - Gardeners Delight imposters

[rustylady]

Grew two varieties of toms this year - Sungold and Gardeners Delight. Sungold producing well and live up to their name. However, Gardeners Delight are producing nice (smallish) red fruits which are deffo not Gardeners Delight. Anyone had the same problem?

[Matt.]

Are you sure? Gardeners delight are small and red.

[rustylady]

Are you sure? Gardeners delight are small and red.

Yes, I have grown them before and they have the same growth habit as Sungold (cherry tomatoes - lots of very small thin-skinned toms per truss - these are nothing like it!!

[zazen999]

Picture?????

[rustylady]

Picture?????

Sorry, new computer and wrong printer drivers at the mo. However, they look like a small version of Moneymaker.

[jacob]

I favourable conditions I tend to get some quite fat GDs, particularly from the the first couple of trusses.

[rustylady]

I favourable conditions I tend to get some quite fat GDs, particularly from the the first couple of trusses.

I know Jacob, I've had these in the past but the toms I'm growing this year are definitely not Gardener's Delight. Don't have the seed packet, but I'm pretty sure that they were either a giveaway or part of a mixed pack of tomato seeds (a few varieties packed separately in one outer envelope. Wish I could remember where I got them from.

[Florence Fennel]

Hi, something similar, but not a seed mix-up. I rescued 3 very sad looking tomato plants from Wilkinsons for 39p each which grew into incredibly healthy specimens. However, they were all in tubs that said "Italian Plum" and only one has turned out to be that variety, the other two are some other cherry type which I suspect are GD! Bit of a disappointment after all that effort coaxing the life back into them, the Italian Plum Proper looks delicious whilst the other 2 are just a weeny bit boring!

[Alison]

I sowed a couple of GD last year from a freeby pack of seeds (think it was from Grow Your Own mag) and one of those definitely wasn't a GD, nice toms though so it wasn't all bad!

[bigdog]

Off at a tangent, but you say that Gardener's Delight are similar to Sungold (small and thin skinned) Well, my Sungold were medium sized and thick-skinned. They were also sweet but otherwise very bland - and the seeds cost an arm and a leg!

[Storming Norman]

This has happened to me 3 years running now.

I grew from one pack of GD seeds for nearly 10 years - they were small tasty sweet and very tomato'y. Just as you'd expect.

Since then I have bought and thrown seeds away from 3 different suppliers, they are just not right. This years bunch are slow to produce and dimpled, with thicker skins than usual. But they have no real flavour -just not a GD at all.

It's really frustrating.

[rana]

Similarly my grown from seed Ailsa Craig tomatoes have turned out to be some kind of small beefsteak variety - defo not Ailsa Craig. And yes, it is very frustrating but at least the Gardeners Delight have turned out right.

[womble]

If anyone wants some proper home saved GD seed, then lmk, I have been growing from the same seed for a few years now. I like to think that it's really nice tomatoes.
I may have sent some to zazen (can't remember), so see what she thinks of them.

[zazen999]

I wondered how I had GD in my tomato collection

[womble]

If the the seeds are stuck to paper, or if the skins split quite easily, or if the trusses mutate and split or get really long, or if they taste really good and tangy.
Then there is a chance that they are my seeds, if it's yes to all the above, quite a good probability I sent them to you.
Don't tell me, you didn't bother growing them this year

Umm btw, I just ate some "black" sweetcorn and it wasn't, black that is, sooooo not sure what yours will look like.