By Cammacbusby
South Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Poisonous tomato leaves???
My greenhouse blew over a week ago and my lettuce and tomato seedlings ended up on the floor mixed up and I put some back into the propogator and transplanted since. I have been nibbling a few leaves every day as they look like lettuce, but I am not sure as I had tall tomatoes and trailing/cherry ones. Photo attached, please tell me what these are. Thanks.
- 25 Mar, 2010
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Thanks. They are all the same, one behind just hasnt fallen over yet, that is why I was worried they were a trailing variety or something. Pretty sure they are lettuce, havent got tummy ache yet from about 5 leaves. Would like more opinions please.
25 Mar, 2010
Tomato leaves (after the initial 2) are very indented around the edges and dark green, also a bit hairy. Lettuce usually just a bit indented. Lettuce has white sap.
25 Mar, 2010
try gently rubbing the true not seed leaf before eating if its tomato it should smell of tomato :0)
25 Mar, 2010
Just checked packet they are the hundreds and thousands cherry tomatoes that hang in a basket. The leaves in the catalogue suggest they could be either. They are not supposed to be upright plants with dark green hairy leaves like normal tomatoes. This is why I am confused. The lettuve was 'all the year round', cut and come again type, so open leaved not a closed or round variety. So they could well be either.
25 Mar, 2010
As they are a 'hanging' variety of tomato they are obviously desparate to reach the floor!! LOL
25 Mar, 2010
The ones in the front are defo lettuces. ALL tomato seedlings look the same - doesn't matter if they're cherry, trailling or whatever, they'll look as Volunteer says - dark green with indented leaves, and theyll smell tomato-ey as mentioned above. Sorry to hear your g-house collapsed :-(
25 Mar, 2010
defo not hard, thick tomatoey leaves, dont taste of tomato or smell of tomato. in fact they taste like nothing, very thin, taste like herbs.
So if they were trailing toms they would still have spikey/serated looking leaves? these are nice and round, although elongated.
greenhouse was only light with plastic duvet type cover and cover just ripped right out of spikes, so I rushed out and just caught it before it blew away. So now I have two sets of tiered shelves against a wall next to each other and the roof struts and cover are put away. Thats what you get for living on top of a hill in Sheffield.
25 Mar, 2010
Oh dear. You need a nice wooden one like mine!!
The round elongated leaves are defo lettuce BTW.
25 Mar, 2010
thanks, havent gone to a & e yet and they are lovely to eat, next to my chair in lounge and nibbling all day long. (just thought they may be trailing toms that I havent grown before.
as for greenhouse you get what you paid for, will get wood and glass when I can.
26 Mar, 2010
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