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What Is a Marmande Tomato?
What Is a Marmande Tomato?. Marmande is an heirloom tomato. You can grow it from purchased seed or transplants, then harvest the seeds to plant for the next season. Because they are heirloom, the plants from the next generation will provide the same flavor and quality as the original plants.
Marmande is an heirloom tomato. You can grow it from purchased seed or transplants, then harvest the seeds to plant for the next season. Because they are heirloom, the plants from the next generation will provide the same flavor and quality as the original plants.
Physical Characteristics
Marmande tomatoes grow about 4 feet tall, though they are vining tomatoes and so they may grow taller given the right conditions and a good support system. This narrow-leaved plant produces flat, firm, lobed fruit with dark red skin that weigh in at about 6 oz. once fully mature. This is a highly prolific plant so blooms and fruit should be plentiful if you grow them in a low-stress environment.
Growing Characteristics
Vining tomatoes such as marmande are referred to as indeterminate, since they will grow taller throughout the season so long as they have a support system to climb. This means they need to be grown in a tomato cage or up a trellis. Tomatoes don't have great means of attaching themselves to supports, so growers tie them to their supports. Marmande mature in 65 to 68 days, and are resistant to common tomato diseases such as verticillium wilt, fusarium wilt and alternaria fungus.
Culinary Uses
Marmande tomatoes have a strong flavor and can be eaten fresh with little to no other flavorings or ingredients. "The French Market: More Recipes from a French Kitchen" by Joanne Harris and Fran Warde recommends a Marmande tomato salad in which these tomatoes have only a drizzle of olive oil and a few herbs to accompany it.
Related Variety
Super Marmande tomatoes are prolific like the original, but produce fruits from 5 to 8 oz. in weight. They are semi-determinate in growth habit, so the plant is more compact (though it still needs staking to support those large fruits). It is also resistant to fusarium and verticillium, and the flavor is lively in fresh tomato recipes. However, Super Marmande tomatoes are not heirloom tomatoes.
