Topic: Tomatoes: What variety are you growing?

[Doris_Pinks]

Thanks mainly to Ruud,  :-* :-* :-*
I am growing far too many and have been giving them away to friends and neighbours to have a go with non moneymaker types! ;D

Ferline (6 for the plot to fight the blight!)
Black Seaman
Mamouth white
Roma
Picardy
Purple calabash
Pink Brandywine
Red Brandywine
Cream sausage
Red Horizon
Small yellow ones (no idea of the name!)

and many more!!!  Hubby nearly fell over when he saw how many I am attempting to grow! He will be smiling when they are his plate though! ;)

[Mrs Ava]

White beauty is delish!  ;D  I like my eating toms to have very thin skin and sweet juicy flesh.  I don't mind if they are full of pips or full of flesh, but I like them sweet, but tomato-ee, if you understand.

Sowed another 6 varities today...will add to the list later.  ;D

[supersprout]

Thank you emma jane, have added to the looooong list of 'must try next year' (but near the top ;))

[saddad]

About thirty, mostly from HDRA Heritage seed Library, when I get past twenty different varieties we usually have to have a cull. One Broad Ripple Yellow Currant will be growing itself, it is a great indicator of soil temp, when they show up it is OK to plant out Pumpkins,squash etc...
Just try to get rid of it!
 ;D

[CityChick]

Saddad - do you save your own tomato seed then?  Thinking about trying it myself this year. :-\  Any tips?

[saddad]

yes it is dead easy will answer properly when I get back, being dragged out shopping by OH now!
 :-X

[saddad]

I use the fermentation method, select some seeds from a ripe tomato, choose a mid season one: not the first plant or the last plant to come into flower (unless you want to encourage early/lateness) best to use half a dozen plants and take about ten seeds from each. Stick them in an egg cup with water for 3-4 days and a bit mouldy, the water not the seeds!, you can give it a swirl and strain each day if the thought of mould offends you, this gets the jelly off the seeds, wash and strain. You should then get clean seeds, put them on kitchen towel in a light airy warm dry sunny place (leave them lieing around to dry fully takes about a week. You can then pick them off put in a dry place in a small envelope......
If you don't remove the gel they may go mouldy and it does inhibit germination.... they are good for 3-5 years...

Really you should isolate the plants by about 3 meters as they do their own fertilisation but insects can mes it up, I don't bother but rogue out funny seedlings/plants and only save from good examples!

It is a lot easier than it sounds!

[Mothy]

Thanks to Wattapain for the info and Tim for the picture!!
They really are beef tomatoes.

Cheers

[bison1947]

Only the first full season on the Allotment but last year we did Alacante
Gardeners Delight and we were given a Ildi plant which are a yellow plum 
type and very sweet and produce about 75 fruits from each truss so saved
some seeds and are growing them also this year

http://www.tomatogrowers.com/yellows.htm

Bill.......

[saddad]

If that is an F1 Hybrid you will get all sorts of seedlings next year! Saving your own doesn't work from F1's.
 ;D

[bison1947]

If that is an F1 Hybrid you will get all sorts of seedlings next year! Saving your own doesn't work from F1's

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Hi Saddad

Not to sure weather that was about my post but not to sure what you mean?
I save the seeds from the Ildi we grew last year and sowed them this year
they came up ok and are now in the greenhouse in situe about a foot high.

Bill.......

[Mrs Ava]

I think what saddad means Bill is that although you will get lovely tomato plants from the seeds, the chances are the fruit will revert back to it's original parents, so whatever varieties were combined to come up with Ildi.

[vaca]

Im growing 8 varieties

these were given to me by my brother who got them in italy

Rio Grande
S. Marzano 2
Pomodoro d'inverno a Grappoli
Cuor di Bue


and these were from Real Seeds

Gigante Liscio
Gardeners Delight
Palla di Fuoco


Vaca

[misterphil]

Glad to see that I'm not the only one who got carried away this year!

I've planted:
red pear
yellow pear
clemantine
Ildi
jelly bean (My son thinks I'm god now that I can grow sweets as well as tomatoes!)
risentraube
green grape
white cherry
great white beefsteak
black plum
japanese triefle
black prince
black krim
hill billy
german johnson
purple calabash
jersey devil
eva purple ball
siberian red
lemon plum
chinese kavalero (?)
and 3 other varieties of which I can't remember the names.

The only thing that stopped me planting mre was the fact that I ran out of window/shelf/desk/table top space!

It was tomatoes that got me into gardening too: I didn't know anything about them at all, and so planted a sungold and a white cherry in mid July hoping for a crop at Christmas (plants were kept indoorsin the dining room next to the radiator). We got a few at Christmas, and more at easter. Pruned heavily (I didn't know any different) fed and watered, and they cropped prolifically throughout the summer. I brought them indoors again in september after pruning and feeding, and my wife made me get rid of them in October as they were too big. Anyway, no more flowers had set - I think that they might have been a bit root-bound by that stage!

We moved house last month, and cleared out the freezer - I found some white tomato sauce that I made from the last of them - Yum!

[weedgrower]

i am growing

gardners delight
tigerella
harlequin
moneymaker

i have grown the moneymaker and gardners delight before and both are very nice but i have never grown the tigerella or harlequin before so fingers crossed

[Rox]

Red Alert
Alisa Craig
Alicante
Golden Sunrise
Gardener's Delight
Tigerella
Italia

and several more had I had any space (and money left for compost!!)  ::)

one question: first time growing the 'Italia' plum tomato - anyone know if it's a determinate variety or not and what it tastes like? many thx!

[sallylockhart]

I have:

san marzano
black from tula
cuor di bue
orange bourgoin
maraziol gold
mexican midget
principe borghese

and more seeds germinated than I thought would, so my dining room table is covered with small 4 leaf plants in pots -  50 or so??! They are off to the greenhouse tonight though as OH is fed up with being relegated to the sofa for his tea!

This tomato variety growing is addictive - and I am only in my first year  ;D

[saddad]

One of my varieties is Tangella, an orange/tangerine coloured tom from the HDRA heritage seed library, now they have an extensive collection and you can get 5-6 packets for your annual membership and they all breed true if you save your own seeds, that's why we have over 30 varieties this year!
 ;D

[jennym]

...the 'Italia' plum tomato - anyone know if it's a determinate variety or not and what it tastes like? many thx!

It's a determinate type (bush), haven't tried it myself but understand that it is said to have a good flavour.

[Merry Tiller]

Anyone grown Cyril's Choice before? Very peculiar looking plants :o