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Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: ytyynycefn on April 30, 2007, 14:57

Title: Tomato varieties
Post by: ytyynycefn on April 30, 2007, 14:57

I've just been given two each of tomato Goldstar, Money Maker and Gardener's Delight - can anyone tell me which of these are cordon, bu8sh etc?  Just so I know where to plant them!

Title: Tomato varieties
Post by: WG. on April 30, 2007, 15:06

Money Maker : cordon

Goldstar : can't find anything since seed is "no longer commercially available" according to some websites

Gardener's Delight : bush, I thought but cordon according to http://seeds.thompson-morgan.com/us/en/product/277/1

Title: Tomato varieties
Post by: GrannieAnnie on April 30, 2007, 15:56

I thought my gardeners Delight were supposed to be cordon, but when they started to grow, they never got very tall, then I realised that I'd mistaken the growing tip for a side shoot and so had OH, so between us we managed to nip out the growing tip on every GD plant!!!!   So ours never got higher than 3 ft, but I've just looked in my Edwin Tucker catalogue and it doesn't say.

But I've just done a search and someone on allotments4all in 2004 reckons his Gardeners dElight reched 5ft!!!  so I guess they are cordon!!!

Title: tomato growing
Post by: Gaynor on April 30, 2007, 16:28

all three vaieties are grown cordon style.goldstar was a top showing          variety for years  but has only just returned to the              growers.the other two are regular varieties.

Title: Tomato varieties
Post by: ytyynycefn on April 30, 2007, 17:32

Cheers, chaps & chapesses - that would explain the air of hushed reverence that accompanied the Goldstar!  They're all well into their show veg up here, some of the old boys save their seeds for generations  :shock:

Do I start taking out side shoots as soon as they appear?  The Goldstar have flowers already, and are 18" tall.