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The free tomato seeds on the mag cover

Sandra 2Sandra 2 Posts: 31
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Hi Guys

Remember a couple of months ago there was a free packet of Mascotka tomato seeds on the front of the GW (twinned with some Sweet Pea seeds if memory serves)

Well, silly question, perhaps, but does anyone know if they are trailing, cordon or bush toms?

Mine have all germinated and I have loads of them, but they're sort of too upright for trailers and too floppy for cordons! I looked it up online and they seem to come as two sorts - so which sort were our freebies? 

For the moment I have them in pots but can't decide whether to stake them, pinch them out or let them hang!

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  • LoreaLorea Posts: 81

    Hi Sandra,

    I thought exactly the same thing, so I looked back at the mag and it says they're trailing 'ideal for pots'. I planted mine into a window box in the hope that they'll elegantly trail over the sides, but they're looking decidedly upright!  I also planted three into the veg patch just in case - unfortunately, two of those have disappeared.

     

     

  • Sandra 2Sandra 2 Posts: 31

    Thanks Lorea - clearly I should have kept the magazine! Mine are in pots, but thanks to your advice I won't plant some of them outside after all. Wonder when they'll start to trail - they're more upright than my cordons!

     

     

  • LeggiLeggi Posts: 489

    Damn, I didn't realise they were the trailing variety, and I have no idea now which ones they are in my propagator.

    Let the great tomato lottery commence! image

  • LoreaLorea Posts: 81

    Just imagine if they put the wrong seeds in the packets image

  • grannyjannygrannyjanny Posts: 34

    The wrong seeds in the packet wouldn't be a first but not freebies. I bought some 100s & 0000s seeds. They were not cheap. Lovely basket toms with lots of fruit. They grew into 4' plum tomatoes plants that tasted yucky.

  • Sandra 2Sandra 2 Posts: 31

    hah - I remember buying a bunch of 'dwarf' gladioli corms for the front garden - spectacular, but enormous!

  • Green MagpieGreen Magpie Posts: 806

    I grew Maskotka last year, outdoors,  and they were very good. They are a bush, trailing type, producing cherry-type tomatoes with a good flavour.

  • Sandra 2Sandra 2 Posts: 31

    Thanks - I've now put the pots up nice and high!

  • PlumPlum Posts: 3

    I planted my Maskotkas in big pots and have had to stake them as the stems are big and heavy, if they were allowed to trail I think they would break!  Now I have a problem - as they are beginning to ripen the fruits have tiny dark green spots all over them.  I picked one to try and find the skin much tougher than the piccolo variety from the supermarket which I adore .  They are also much larger than I expected a cherry tomato to be.  Does anyone know what has caused the spots?  I don't know if they will spread to blotches as the tomatoes are only just ripening. Oh, and are they ok to eat?

  • Green MagpieGreen Magpie Posts: 806

    Those don't sound anything like my Maskotka toms (which were not from the magazine, I think they were T&M or something). Mine are vigorous bush plants and now (at last!) they are producing cherry tomatoes, which are a normal tomato colour and very small. Mine don't have any blotches and the skin isn't particularly tough. It may be yours have some virsu or something, but if they're quite large, it doesn't even soudn as if they're Maskotka at all. Maybe someone else who got a free packet will confirm.

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