{"id":2267,"date":"2007-07-04T02:56:16","date_gmt":"2007-07-04T07:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.5\/gardens\/gardenlog\/?p=2267"},"modified":"2017-07-19T14:50:27","modified_gmt":"2017-07-19T19:50:27","slug":"tomato-persimmon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/plant-highlights\/tomato-persimmon\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomato ‘Persimmon’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hands down ‘Persimmon’ is the best tomato I’ve ever eaten. And I will absolutely grow it again. However, it is the most challenging tomato I’ve ever grown. So far, we’ve gotten two tomatoes, each tipping the scales at over a pound.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, we’ve mostly gotten misshapen tomatoes that develop rot.<\/p>\n

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Twining Vine Garden<\/a> says that ‘Persimmon’ requires “heavily fertile evenly moist well draining soil”.<\/p>\n

I agree that it’s a heavy feeder. Although ‘Persimmon’ was planted in a newly dug bed filled with compost, it produced a giant deep-green vine (over 6 feet tall) with no flowers until I gave it some tomato food. It wasn’t that I’d filled the bed with high-nitrogen fertilizer or anything, just sifted compost from my pile out back. The other plants in the same bed flowered just fine.<\/p>\n

The same site says that without calcium it will develop blossom-end rot. It did…not just at the blossom end but along the ridges and cracks.<\/p>\n

Thomas Jefferson is said to have grown ‘Persimmon’. I’m amazed that it’s been around so long. The flavor and texture takes the tomato to a new level. It seems like some mysterious cross of tomato and mango (or perhaps persimmon)…almost something dreamed up in a laboratory. In short, ‘Persimmon’ is almost too good to be true.<\/p>\n

Am I the only person who has trouble growing it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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The first ‘Persimmon’ tomato we harvested tipped the scale at 1 pound 3 ounces.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[228],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2267"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5474,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267\/revisions\/5474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}