I am sure this has been answered many times before, but I have just found
this area.

A million years ago when I was a child we had great tasting tomatoes.

I lived then near Barmera, South Australia, and we grew our own.

I now live in the suburbs of Cairns in Far North Queensland, and the
commercially grown tomatoes have little or no taste.

Sure some of this can be attributed to my aging palate, but are there any
types of tomatoes that are full of taste that can be home grown these days?

My garden here is a garden full of tropical plants, for view not for eating,
and I decided to put in a few tomato plants, any pointers on tasty tomatoes
and their growning would be appreciated.

g'day ramrod,

i particularly like ox heart's

but:

beef steak's
prudence purple's
grosse lisse (must be heritage)

to name a few are very nice as well, there are lots there look in the
seed exchange sites wher they have heritage open pollinated seeds
ie.,. diggers or edens seeds, eden seeds sold in lots of health food
stores. they have a free catalogue.

i ahven't eaten a store boguht tomato now for a lot of years they just
don't even scratch the surface of flavour.



snipped
With peace and brightest of blessings,

len

--
"Be Content With What You Have And
May You Find Serenity and Tranquillity In
A World That You May Not Understand."

http://www.gardenlen.com

On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 03:50:18 +1000, "RamRod Sword of Baal" <RamRod [at] truthonly> wrote:

>
>
> I am sure this has been answered many times before, but I have just found
> this area.
>
> A million years ago when I was a child we had great tasting tomatoes.
>
> I lived then near Barmera, South Australia, and we grew our own.
>
> I now live in the suburbs of Cairns in Far North Queensland, and the
> commercially grown tomatoes have little or no taste.
>
> Sure some of this can be attributed to my aging palate, but are there any
> types of tomatoes that are full of taste that can be home grown these days?
>
> My garden here is a garden full of tropical plants, for view not for eating,
> and I decided to put in a few tomato plants, any pointers on tasty tomatoes
> and their growning would be appreciated.
>

It's not your palate. Good tasting tomatoes are soft and don't travel to markets well. So they
grow varieties that tend to be harder. They pick them green and apply gas to make the go red.

"RamRod Sword of Baal" <RamRod [at] truthonly> wrote in message
news:44a16fdf [at] quokka.wn.com.au...
>
>
> I am sure this has been answered many times before, but I have just found
> this area.
>
> A million years ago when I was a child we had great tasting tomatoes.
>
> I lived then near Barmera, South Australia, and we grew our own.
>
> I now live in the suburbs of Cairns in Far North Queensland, and the
> commercially grown tomatoes have little or no taste.
>
> Sure some of this can be attributed to my aging palate, but are there any
> types of tomatoes that are full of taste that can be home grown these
days?
>
> My garden here is a garden full of tropical plants, for view not for
eating,
> and I decided to put in a few tomato plants, any pointers on tasty
tomatoes
> and their growning would be appreciated.
>
>

Get heirlooms from the Diggers Club in Victoria

David

In article <44a16fdf [at] quokka.wn.com.au>,
"RamRod Sword of Baal" <RamRod [at] truthonly> wrote:

> I now live in the suburbs of Cairns in Far North Queensland, and the
> commercially grown tomatoes have little or no taste.
>
> Sure some of this can be attributed to my aging palate, but are there any
> types of tomatoes that are full of taste that can be home grown these days?

Pretty much any tomato from your own garden will taste better than the shop
ones, just because you pick them ripe and eat them fresh. You main problem is
gettting to them before the fruit flies do. I find that cherry-type tomatoes
are less prone to FF, and that dry weather keeps FF away -- unfortunately, it
doesn't do much for tomato pollination!

--
Chookie -- Sydney, Australia
(Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply)

"Parenthood is like the modern stone washing process for denim jeans. You may
start out crisp, neat and tough, but you end up pale, limp and wrinkled."
Kerry Cue

Well until 2 years ago I DID grow really flavourful toms, but the last 2
years nothing but disaster, & really can't eat those shop bought ones, even
the so called 'vine grown' taste awful:
Even though I used new soil, new plants, they all died of some type of
disease. The stalks went brown & the gradually the whole plants died off. I
believe it is some type of virus, but I did do all the recommended thing
like using fresh soil, not using the old stakes & even using brand new
garden tools that had never seen my garden before!
Oh well I have promised myself that I will try once more again this year.
BTW I live in Sydney


"RamRod Sword of Baal" <RamRod [at] truthonly> wrote in message
news:44a16fdf [at] quokka.wn.com.au...
>
>
> I am sure this has been answered many times before, but I have just found
> this area.
>
> A million years ago when I was a child we had great tasting tomatoes.
>
> I lived then near Barmera, South Australia, and we grew our own.
>
> I now live in the suburbs of Cairns in Far North Queensland, and the
> commercially grown tomatoes have little or no taste.
>
> Sure some of this can be attributed to my aging palate, but are there any
> types of tomatoes that are full of taste that can be home grown these
days?
>
> My garden here is a garden full of tropical plants, for view not for
eating,
> and I decided to put in a few tomato plants, any pointers on tasty
tomatoes
> and their growning would be appreciated.
>
>
>
>
>

I've got to agree with Len - Ox hearts if you can find them - this year I'm
trying Diggers Amish Paste, Siberian and Pink Brandy - but just in case will
also put in the regular Tommy Toes, Grosse Lissie and Romas.

Cheers
Geoff

"RamRod Sword of Baal" <RamRod [at] truthonly> wrote in message
news:44a16fdf [at] quokka.wn.com.au...
>
>
> I am sure this has been answered many times before, but I have just found
> this area.
>
> A million years ago when I was a child we had great tasting tomatoes.
>
> I lived then near Barmera, South Australia, and we grew our own.
>
> I now live in the suburbs of Cairns in Far North Queensland, and the
> commercially grown tomatoes have little or no taste.
>
> Sure some of this can be attributed to my aging palate, but are there any
> types of tomatoes that are full of taste that can be home grown these
> days?
>
> My garden here is a garden full of tropical plants, for view not for
> eating, and I decided to put in a few tomato plants, any pointers on tasty
> tomatoes and their growning would be appreciated.
>
>
>
>
>