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juvenal
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Location: Dorset coast
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Big Tom
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September 10, 2022, 20:32 »
Big Tom was allotment grown in open ground and is of the
Crimson Blush
variety. He weighed in at 14 oz.
Is there a bigger boy out there?
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Last Edit: September 10, 2022, 22:43 by juvenal
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mumofstig
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Location: Kent
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Re: Big Tom
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September 10, 2022, 22:04 »
Granted not this year, but I raise you Reif Red Heart
https://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=129358.msg1541177#msg1541177
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Blewit
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Location: Nottinghamshire
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Re: Big Tom
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September 11, 2022, 06:39 »
We had a Buffalosun, also grown outside on the allotment - weighed in at 716g (25.25oz) - tasted good too, cooked in the lotty shed alongside smoked bacon and added to a BLT sandwich for a midday lotty snack
Edit - for ref, the scales are 7in wide
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AndyRVTR
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September 11, 2022, 08:28 »
I grew Gigantomo fir the first time.. Nice weight but not the prettiest.. 22oz!
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juvenal
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Location: Dorset coast
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September 11, 2022, 22:17 »
Having seen these monsters, 'Big Tom' is now known as Middling Sized Tom...
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jaydig
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Blewit
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Growster...
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Location: Hawkhurst, Kent
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September 12, 2022, 17:50 »
And there was a bewildered Growster, crowing ecstatically about several 3 and 3/4 oz volunteer 'Shirleys' being grown on vigin soil...
:0~
Well done everybody!
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September 13, 2022, 07:09 »
Also not this year, sadly the squirrels ate my potentially best specimen, but last year's Gigantomo weighing in at a tad over a kilo.
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Did it really tell you to do THAT on the packet?
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