Tomato Costoluto Fiorentino

[stillmanz]

I got some seeds of Costoluto Fiorentino. Apparently a very hardy and good producing cooking type. Italian heirloom I believe. Anyone ever grown? I mainly grow chery and current tomatoes but am was given the seeds from my wifes grandmother so me and the kids planted a heap. (kind of a family activity)
they look interesting, I'm going to grow a few in cocco and see how many fruit I can get.
heres the general info from the net.
http://www.gonegardening.com/xq/ASP/dept_id.404111/pf_id.2201756/referer./qx/gg_shop/product.htm

 

[AlabamaJack]

I got some seeds of Costoluto Fiorentino. Apparently a very hardy and good producing cooking type. Italian heirloom I believe. Anyone ever grown? I mainly grow chery and current tomatoes but am was given the seeds from my wifes grandmother so me and the kids planted a heap. (kind of a family activity)
they look interesting, I'm going to grow a few in cocco and see how many fruit I can get.
heres the general info from the net.
http://www.gonegardening.com/xq/ASP/dept_id.404111/pf_id.2201756/referer./qx/gg_shop/product.htm

I haven't grown them Stillz, but I am growing some Costoluto Genovese this year and they are growing fine right now...planted them out in the cement farm last Friday...(scroll down to the costolutos...they have the Fiorentinos to)

http://www.tomatogrowers.com/midseason.htm

 

[Sorellina]

Ciao all-

Both the Costoluto Fiorentino and Genovese are excellent sauce tomatoes with very good Italian flavour for cooking. They're not usually used for fresh eating tomatoes, but they would do well with an assertive vinaigrette dressing. They're also not paste tomatoes, so they'll have some juice to them.

 

[stillmanz]

cool thanks, they have just sprouted.