Spoilt for choice with Tomato 'Marmande'!

Those MARMANDE tomatoes look as if they do really well...I might give them a try next year.

I grew a few marmalade but gave them all away in error.I thought I'd kept some for myself.my mum's husband came round last night and told me how well his were doing!
But my Gardener's Delight, a small Cherry variety called Cerise and Big Red(F1 Beef tomato ) have been superb and, like yours have now been ripening for a few weeks!

never grown any of these but i like to eat them... if i get a chance next year may try to grow the MARMANDE tomatoes... because i like the taste of those the most....

thank you for blog...

from Jane!!!

Thanks everyone for your comments. :-))

Waddy, this is the first time I've grown them but they haven't impressed me enough to recommend them to anyone - not yet at least but I haven't eaten any of them yet. As you will have seen from the blog I have 4 kinds of tomatoes this year & 'Garden Pearl' is by far the smallest & I'm trying to eat as many as I can before I have to throw them away.

Paul, did you try & grow oranges? I far as I know MARMALADE only comes from oranges! LOL! :D) The TOMATOES are called 'MARMANDE'! I understand your confusion though as the first few photos when I went to put the names on them I could only remember their correct name by thinking of Marmalade!

It has turned out to be a bumper year for all kinds of fruit this year! The only thing that has really spoilt it for me was the Lettuces bolting! The Sweet Peppers & the Cucumbers haven't done very well this year either. Though the 3 weeks of hot weather we had in July helped them catch up!

Thank you, Jane, for your comments - on many of my blogs! I have read that there is a new & improved form of the tomato 'Marmande', perhaps you might like to give that one a go. You will have read about the BER problem I had with these toms but which didn't affect any of the other 3 kinds I've grown this year.

I bought a packet of 5 different varieties in the 99p shop in town. Even though I lost a lot of plants I still got many more than I can use! I even gave away a carrier bag full of them last Sunday at the Harvest Festival service we had at our church!

:) thank you....

No, I know Marmande tomatoes Balcony....grown them many times but it's my IPad...always changing my text and I don't always notice!!!

Be interesting when you do the taste test garden V greenhouse

The old saying The proof of the pudding is in the tasting, I suspect from what you are saying you need to taste your lovely Marmande then you can recommend or not them to us all, Looks like you have had a bumper year down on your allotment Well Done;0)

Just picked some more today from my plot, from the greenhouse & from the balcony! There are still a few more on each of the plants!

This variety seems to suffer from BER (Blossom End Rot) much more than the other 3 varieties I have growing on the allotments

I don't like the plants very much either as they have grown rather stunted, quite unlike any of the other varieties. They may be better off in a greenhouse than growing outdoors as that one plant looks much better than all the others of the same variety. Yet it is no higher than 5ft or so, it hasn't reached my height yet, (nor will it as I took out the growing tip a couple of weeks ago!), it has only 3 trusses with fruit, no better than the plants outside! Being an unheated greenhouse the interior temps don't vary greatly from those outside - except of course when the sun is blazing down on it! The plants inside really only benefit from the absence of wind & rain. They do however get much more water & fertilizer than the ones outside!

Paul, I was only kidding you! But I have to think of "marmalade" before the proper name 'Marmande' come to me! I'm not kidding either!

As I'm still eating mostly 'Garden Pearl(s)' I still haven't got around to doing a taste test!