currant tomatos

[Jim]

I was talking to my grandma the other day and she cracked me up. She screamed at me in a polish/english/german mix to not give her any of the tiny tomato plants next year. They did so well they took over her garden. But she hates how small the fruit is. I was laughing. I agreed to not give her any more of those plants, but damn that woman can grow tomatoes.

[Alan]

LOL, currants always do well here and sell terrific but they are indeed a pain to pick. However I've got a strain of "Shattering" currents which drop their fruit when they are ripe which I obtained from the Long Island Seed Project. I'm going to follow Ken Ettlingers advice and put down some material around the plants which I will "hill" up to catch the ripe fruit for easier harvest.


Your grandmother is really going to love you once she sees just how invasive and determined those little buggers are next summer in her tomato patch.

[flowerpower]

Wanna guess whose going to be weeding out the 1000's of volunteers in your GM's garden? lol I like the currants, cute and tasty. Looking foward to growing out some gold currant next season.

[Alan]

I haven't even grown them the past two years and I'm still getting them growing amongst the corn and cabbages which now grow where they used to, the good thing about it is that occasionally I do find one that has crossed with another tomato and has some merit so I save seeds for futher research, the bad news is they are definetly taking up nutrients from my other crops and are a pain to have to weed out along with all the other invasive weeds in my fields.

[Jim]

You're both right, I'm going to be pulling volunteers like crazy probably.

[flowerpower]

I couldn't believe how small they really were. I will also be pullling volunteers like a madwoman.

[Jim]

it's a lot of plant for tiny toms.