Wallasey (Cavendish Perfection Tomatoes) - 24th Apr 2011 5:49pm
Please can you help me. I'm trying to find a variety of tomato called Cavendish Perfection or Wallasey tomatoes.
I have an allotment in Wallasey and took over this plot last year from a 90year old man who couldn't cope with it any more. He was visiting us yesterday and asked me if I was growing any Wallasey Tomatoes. I had to tell him that I wasn't and he was very disappointed. He told me that they were grown en masse in the market gardens on Leasowe Rd when the transatlantic ships used to sail to America when Liverpool was a major port. Apparently they were prized for their flavour and how long they lasted onboard ship
I would love to grow these tomatoes not just to make an elderly man very happy but to keep up the tradition. One of the other plot holders told me that their real name was Cavendish Perfection tomatoes but were locally refered to as Wallasey tomatoes.
Any information you can find out will be very gratefully received.
Vicky
I have an allotment in Wallasey and took over this plot last year from a 90year old man who couldn't cope with it any more. He was visiting us yesterday and asked me if I was growing any Wallasey Tomatoes. I had to tell him that I wasn't and he was very disappointed. He told me that they were grown en masse in the market gardens on Leasowe Rd when the transatlantic ships used to sail to America when Liverpool was a major port. Apparently they were prized for their flavour and how long they lasted onboard ship
I would love to grow these tomatoes not just to make an elderly man very happy but to keep up the tradition. One of the other plot holders told me that their real name was Cavendish Perfection tomatoes but were locally refered to as Wallasey tomatoes.
Any information you can find out will be very gratefully received.
Vicky