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Plants for mediterranean gardens => Fruit and Vegetables => Topic started by: Umbrian on August 27, 2013, 07:27:13 AM
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My husband is not much of a gardener but does grow a few vegetables, mainly summer crops so that we can enjoy fresh salads.
The unusual weather we have experienced this year, greatly fluctuating temperatures during planting season, has meant that quite a few things have been slow to mature especially the tomatoes. However now they are maturing well and yesterday he proudly presented me with the giant one pictured below. It weighed in at nearly 3 lbs and despite it enormous size was full of flavour.
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Pardon me for hi-jacking your original thread, Umbrian,
but the title suits what I want to post.
A friend gave me a couple of tomato seedings which he raised from seed that someone had given him as "from an island in the Adriatic"!
They were planted rather late so are only starting ripen now, but the fruit are the largest of this season's tomatoes!
And the plants are also very vigorous.
Does it sound like something that anyone in the MGS has grown before?
cheers
fermi
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It looks like an old (but still going strong) Italian variety called Costoluto Genovese, which we've grown and found huge.
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Hi Alisdair,
thanks for the suggestion.
It's not as regular in its ribbing as another "Costoluto Genovese" that we grew but I see on the web that some pics do look very similar.
I'll take it that it's a variation on this old variety and let my friend know.
I'm now waiting for some to ripen to harvest seeds for next year!
cheers
fermi