Marmande Garnier - Tomato
This wide-growing variety produces very large, fleshy, juicy red "beef-flesh" fruits with a balanced, fruity, slightly acidic flavor.
Sow in pots at a temperature of between 16 and 20°C, under a well-lit shelter, 5 weeks before planting. After the last frosts, transplant the whole clump into the ground at a minimum distance of 50 cm, burying the stem up to the first leaves. Water abundantly at the time of planting.
annual
Solanum lycopersicum
From 400 to 700 g
35 seeds
From 5 to 15 cm
France
The variety was found in the 1960s on the Savigny-sur-Orge market in Essonne by Madame Garnier, who gave it her name and grows it with Patrick Saint Aubin, a collector in Montlhéry, in the Paris Basin, and was the subject of an article in the British magazine "The Garden".