Green Sausage Tomato

[cReAtIoN gRoAnS]

Anyone else grow this this year???

I was pretty excited about the fruit but the plant sure does not make it worth it in my opinion. The plants seemed weak....flemsy, thin, wispy, and small. Looked like it was sick the whole time. (Tried to sell some at the spring show and noone wanted them because of how they grew...and they looked like that from the moment they came out of the ground!) I grew 6 or 7 of them and they were all the same....none of the other 160 tomatoes I grew had this problem. This one seemed really susceptable to bugs as well...more than the others.

Was wondering if anyone else has had this problem on the green sausage....or how they liked it. If I don't hear back good stuff from ya'll I probably will not grow this one again. Nor would I reccomend it.

Pretty disapointing for such a cool looking fruit.

Later,

Chad

Hey Chad;Try Spears Tn.Green.BakerCreek has these and are really robust with huge double flowers.The only novelty that I am growing this year is Curl/Stick.-

[cReAtIoN gRoAnS]

Will have to try it....have you ever gown the sausages??? I like new cool looking stuff but man...don't like to have to deal with a bad plant to get it. Course it may have been me....that is why I wanted to know if anyone else had the same issues with it. Just didn't seem like a very robust pant.

[goldpearl]

I am growing Green Sausage for the first time this year. It has loads of branches. I'll have to report again in a few weeks, once it starts setting fruit.
It does tend to want to sprawl on the ground, not as upright as some of the other tomatoes. I am tying it as it grows to keep it off the ground. I would almost describe it as limp, but the stems are strong and it is growing like crazy.

[jtcm05]

I've never grown it, but from everything I've read from people who have they've said they would not grow it again. It's more of a novelty than plant worth taking up valuable growing space.

[cReAtIoN gRoAnS]

So far that has been my report as well....limp is a very good way to describe it . Mine was really suceptable to bugs as well. The rest of my tomatoes were not that bad.

So far I would not reccomend this plant except for like a novelty fruit...not a novelty plant...in fact hide the plant in the back and bring the fruit to show everybody in the front. The plant kind of makes you look like a bad gardener!

Any more comments???

Chad

Hey Creation Groans;I grew Sausage,Banana Legs and Striped Roman last year.I did Not save seeds because I knew I would not ever want to grow them again.I am growing DePinto this year and will be saving a lot of seed from this one.-

[Helen Wong-Joe]

Wow, I guess I won't be growing them next year. Did you guys buy the seeds from Baker Creek Heirloom???

[tashak]

I did a couple plants of the yellow (cream) sausage tomato this year for the first time; the tot matoes taste okay but the plants are not robust (no observed bug problems though).
Don't know if it is just me, or the new plot I put them in,the soil, or the high heat spell we had in July.
I may try a few again next year as the taste is okay, but right now I'm really not sure if they are worth the water.

[sunmad strawgirl]

Originally Posted by cReAtIoN gRoAnS

Anyone else grow this this year???
Was wondering if anyone else has had this problem on the green sausage....or how they liked it.

It certainly is not only you. I'm growing the green sausage for the first time this year as well. It has certainly been my buggiest tomato, it is super short and it was so sickly seeming at first that I almost sacrificed it in fears of it infecting my other tomatoes with whatever it had. It recovered well, though, and also seems to be less susceptible to the various fungi that are the plague of my tomatoes in the damp and slightly cold northern CA climate. I re-read the description in the bakers creek catalogue and realized that it had accurately described it as being a short/small plant. The branches are now pretty healthy looking but yes, long and thin and love draping over everything and laying all of the copious fruit on the ground. If I grow it next year, I'll isolate it from my other tomatoes and perhaps grow it in a container. I'll have to spend some time thinking about how I can support all that dense but weak growth to keep the fruit off the dirt (where here it just automatically rots). It has tons of fruit on it - but they are taking forever and a day to ripen (as the green zebra does here as well - is it the climate or do they just take forever?). I'll base next years to grow or not to on the taste. If I like them as much as I like the green zebra, I might be willing to do all sorts of special things just to get them.