Tomato Mon Plaisir (Solanum lycopersicum)
Plants producing long clusters of red cherry tomatoes. Sweet, juicy flesh!
In 2016, a lady approached me at a Seed Festival, telling me that her mother-in-law had a tomato called Mon Plaisir which had long since ceased to be available in the catalogues, but whose seeds she kept and cultivated years later. years. We exchange contact details, then I forget the discussion until a few months later, when I receive a letter in the mail. Inside, a beautiful card with a paper on which were pasted about fifteen seeds. Those of the Mon Plaisir lost tomato. Here is what Ms. Frappier told me when I contacted her following her letter: "We used to order our seeds through the catalogs of WHPerron, and another company. I believe it was called Norseco. We produced tomatoes in greenhouses in Abitibi, in Matamic, near Lasarre. It was the Frappier greenhouses, in 1976. We made a few plants to sell, but it was mostly market gardening. I really liked these tomatoes- there they were making long bunches of beautiful cherry tomatoes. We stopped production in the early 2000s, and I would say I had been saving my seeds for 20-25 years already, because the variety didn't appear. no longer in any catalogue. I couldn't find it anywhere. I think it was replaced by the Sweet 100 variety, or Sweet mignon. I tried it, but I much preferred the Mon Plaisir.";So we the pleasure of making it available in our turn. Thanks to the Frappier family for saving this variety. Thanks to René Paquet for providing us with a vintage photo from the 1987 Semences Laval catalogue.
| Quantity: Envelope of about 30 seeds |
| Plant type: Annual |
| Family: Solanaceae |
| Color: Red |
| Plantation: In the garden after the risk of frost |
| Sowing: In spring |
| Row spacing: 70 cm |
| Days to maturity: 60 to 65 days |
| Germination: 7 to 10 days |
| Plant spacing: 45 cm |
| Depth: 5 mm |
| Exposure: Full sun |
| Watering: Regular |
| Soil: Light |
| Shape: Herbaceous |
| Type of growth: Indeterminate growth |
| Width: 45 cm |
![[279] Black Cherry Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum)](/web/image/product.product/524/image_128/%5B279%5D%20Black%20Cherry%20Tomato%20%28Solanum%20lycopersicum%29?unique=79f5133)
![[800] Cheeseman's Cherry Tomato (Solanum Cheesmani)](/web/image/product.product/808/image_128/%5B800%5D%20Cheeseman%27s%20Cherry%20Tomato%20%28Solanum%20Cheesmani%29?unique=ae1d54e)
![[292-1] Gold Nugget Cherry Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum)](/web/image/product.product/1170/image_128/%5B292-1%5D%20Gold%20Nugget%20Cherry%20Tomato%20%28Solanum%20lycopersicum%29?unique=6118b9e)
![[306] Mixture of "Je Capote" Cherry Tomatoe (Solanum lycopersicum et/ou pimpinellifolium)](/web/image/product.product/670/image_128/%5B306%5D%20Mixture%20of%20%22Je%20Capote%22%20Cherry%20Tomatoe%20%28Solanum%20lycopersicum%20et-ou%20pimpinellifolium%29?unique=33dbb92)
![[334] Sun Drop Cherry Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum)](/web/image/product.product/526/image_128/%5B334%5D%20Sun%20Drop%20Cherry%20Tomato%20%28Solanum%20lycopersicum%29?unique=c16b199)