Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: cc on October 07, 2020, 13:57
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Can't remember name s beef tomato. Some will ripen most probably won't. Should I remove some, would that help to ripen?
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Not really a disease, the fruit is imperfectly formed - not that unusual with beefsteak tomatoes which sometimes forget the script!
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It is very common on the larger fruited varieties, as already said. It's called catfacing, if you want to find out more about it ;)
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I regularly grow beesteak tom's and have seen brown grooves across the surface. It doesn't detract on the flavour. Nothing as distinctive as yours though.
Cheers, Tony.
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I’ve got loads like that! They still taste good. I just cut out any of the ‘rougher’ bits ;)
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I lived in Spain for a good few years and I'd see the Spanish housewives carefully choosing the imperfect ones. I soon learnt that when it comes to big tomatoes, the rougher looking they were, and still with patches of green, the more delicious they were.