Tomato Decolgar

£0.90

Decolgar isa very unusual Spanish variety with full bodied flavour (heirloom). Enjoy in your salad however “De Colgar” in English means “to hang” and at the end of the season you can pull up the whole plant and hang it upside down or pick the trusses and string them together to hang in a cool place.  This gives you handy tomatoes for many months – very useful variety if finding freezer space is difficult – they keep because they are less juicy and have thicker skins.  Halve and grill, fry or roast and the skins will slip off before eating.  Indeterminate

Price for 12 seeds

In the UK a hanging variety usually means one that will grow in a hanging basket and cascade over the edge.  Decolgar is very different, probably there were more varieties dotted about that could be stored like this but our world has moved on… thinner skinned varieties were considered more of a delicacy, then breeder wanted crack resistance so the thin skins didn’t split so easily.  We learnt other ways to preserve tomatoes…bottling, canning & freezing.  Then the super-markets and consumers wanted fresh at anytime of the year so we see tomatoes shipped, airfreighted and delivered.  Decolgar is the last survivor of a lost history that you can grow and enjoy yourself.

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