The giant pumpkin may not have been that giant, but we’ve had rather more success with giant tomatoes.  the cultivar that we’ve been trying is Gigantomo.

It became apparent quite early in the year that there was a good deal of promise and we had to support the larger fruit (using old seed potato bags).

Gigantomo 21 July 2016

By the time that the fruit had ripened we had experienced a bit of splitting, so that they weren’t the most aesthetic of specimens, but they were big. Early contenders started to weigh in at over a pound (almost 600 and 800 grammes), but the biggest managed to tip the scales at just over 2lb

“Gertie” the gert big tomato

Most importantly the fruit were delicious.  “Gertie” made a marvellous meal sliced with Mozarella, olive oil and our own basil and served up with crusty bread.