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To: JerseyJohn61
This small fruited variety, also known as Sugar Lump, rates high with gardeners for its big yields of sugar sweet tomatoes. Crack resistant fruit is 3/4 to 1 1/2 inches across and arranged in clusters of 6 to 12. Indeterminate. 65 days.

I was thinking, unless you really love the taste of very sweet tomatoes, you may wish to blend some other tarter type variety(s) in with what ever sauce or salsa you may make.

This would give the sauce a fuller, richer Tom flavor, instead of a CANDY-LIKE paste that might result from all those very sweet cherries.

Can I chime in here?

I've grown lots of tomatoes, and you have just mentioned one of my favorites. It is sweet, yes, but has a full-bodied "old fashioned" tomato flavor.

I once brought some to a "tomato tasting" picnic. One older lady there was accompanied by her husband. He went from table to table, looking for that "old fashioned" tomato flavor, and when he tried Sugar Lump, he smiled and said "Yes, that's it."


167 posted on 07/11/2009 10:29:34 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: thecodont

Good to know TCD, and thanks for your input with experience.

Keep us updated if you would Chris on you take on these cherries.

Thanks to both of you,
JJ61


168 posted on 07/11/2009 10:46:30 PM PDT by JerseyJohn61 (Better Late Than Never.......sometimes over lapping is worth the effort....)
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