Author Topic: which tomato varieties will you growing this season? (Read 5598 times)

thegridgardener · « **on:** March 28, 2009, 17:22:39 »

which tomato varieties will you growing this season?

legless · « **Reply #1 on:** March 28, 2009, 17:45:34 »

I've just sown them this afternoon and my husband can't quite believe that i've limited myself to 3 :D but they are

San Marzano
Banana Cream (yellow heritage plum, really good yields last year and tasty)
Christmas Grapes (heritage cherry, again tasty and great yield last year)

what about you?

saddad · « **Reply #2 on:** March 28, 2009, 17:49:02 »

Welcome to A4A .....
About 40 varieties...
Tomato Varieties Sown 15/3/09

1.   Clear Pink Early
2.   Blaby
3.   Greek
4.   Black Mavr
5.   Garden Peach
6.   Striped Stuffer
7.   Auntie Madge
8.   Garten Pearle
9.   Giant Belgian
10.   Orange Banana
11.    Black Prince
12.    Market King
13.   Yellow Murden
14.   Fox Cherry
15.   Britain’s Breakfast
16.   Charlie Green
17.   Whippersnapper
18.   Gardener’s Delight
19.   Black Cherry
20.   Big White
21.   Silvery Fir Tree
22.   Euromoney
23.   Sungold
24.   Potato Leaf White
25.   Salt Spring Sunrise
26.   Peremoga
27.   Broad Ripple Yellow Currant
28.   Eristic Trial
29.   Super Marmande
30.   Tigerella
31.   Legend
32.   Sub Arctic Plenty
33.   Cuore Di Bue
34.   Marmande
35.   Giant Tree
36.   Tangella

But I have sown a few more since.... :-X

Twoflower · « **Reply #3 on:** March 28, 2009, 18:00:16 »

If you could only sow one, which one would it be? Are trying Cuore Di Bue this year are they as nice as they say? :)

sunloving · « **Reply #4 on:** March 28, 2009, 18:15:24 »

Hi
If i could only grow one it would be sungold every time. delicious easy and lovely colour yummy snack!

this year im growing marmande (a beef steak) for the first time
Tom gold (sungolds larger parent) and gardeners delight.
All will be both indoor and outdoor grown fingers crossed for a blight free summer this year!
x sunloving

Twoflower · « **Reply #5 on:** March 28, 2009, 18:25:44 »

In the past have always grown my tomatoes in the green house. This year i have a whole new allotment to fill. Is it worth putting some outside on my allotmet? :D

saddad · « **Reply #6 on:** March 28, 2009, 18:27:04 »

It's new to me as well Twoflower... I grow mine in greenhoses and polys... but I do have several to play with... :)

Squash64 · « **Reply #7 on:** March 28, 2009, 18:29:15 »

Quote from: sunloving on March 28, 2009, 18:15:24

Hi
If i could only grow one it would be sungold every time. delicious easy and lovely colour yummy snack!

That's my favourite too. I've grown many varieties (not as many as Saddad!) but I always grow Sungold. This year, I'm limiting myself to Sungold and Piccolo.

saddad · « **Reply #8 on:** March 28, 2009, 18:31:26 »

Black Cherry gives Sungold a run for it's money... but as Sungold is the only F1 I grow it must be doing something right!! :)

sunloving · « **Reply #9 on:** March 28, 2009, 18:32:25 »

Ive done both with sungold and gardeners delight. but the last two years they have suffered with blight. However the sungold always seem to manage to ripen but the crop is much lower.
However in the good year of 2007 the out door ones did just as well as indoor and in fact were easier becuase they didnt need such intensive watering and feeding.
So do it but be prepared for a bad year. Make a tunnel cloche outside this will help protect them from the wost of the ravages, also they grow well inside minigreenhouses outdoors.

x sunloving

sunloving · « **Reply #10 on:** March 28, 2009, 18:34:39 »

not 2007 it was 2006!

Twoflower · « **Reply #11 on:** March 28, 2009, 18:38:56 »

Oh yes remember it well, big and fat with my last child, and by the time i'd had her it started raining.
Where is the best place to get tomatoe seeds from? Most of the tomatoes peolpe are growing on this web site i've never heard of.

Flighty · « **Reply #12 on:** March 28, 2009, 18:46:40 »

Gardener's Delight and Gartenperle. What about you TGG?

betula · « **Reply #13 on:** March 28, 2009, 19:23:06 »

T&M Tomato Gold Nugget.......RHS award of garden merit.

Tomato Golden Sunrise

Tomato Gardeners delight

Tomato shirley F1 Hybrid.

labrat · « **Reply #14 on:** March 28, 2009, 19:33:02 »

Sungold, Red Alert, Sub Arctic Plenty and Moneymaker

cjb02 · « **Reply #15 on:** March 28, 2009, 22:41:25 »

latah, green zebra, gardeners delight, Galina and Millefleur

kt. · « **Reply #16 on:** March 29, 2009, 13:41:46 »

Guenovese costello cooking / beefsteak tomato
Shirley
Moneymaker
Tumbler
San marzona (for sauces)

tonybloke · « **Reply #17 on:** March 29, 2009, 13:47:00 »

Quote from: Twoflower on March 28, 2009, 18:38:56

Oh yes remember it well, big and fat with my last child, and by the time i'd had her it started raining.
Where is the best place to get tomatoe seeds from? Most of the tomatoes peolpe are growing on this web site i've never heard of.

send me a pm with your address, I'll send you a couple varieties for outdoors

Jeannine · « **Reply #18 on:** March 29, 2009, 14:01:11 »

Whatever I can find as plants in the Canadain garden centres as it will be too late for me to sow seeds when we get there in two weeks..probably some of the Brandywines with a couple of cherries.

We will see

XX KJeannine

RSJK · « **Reply #19 on:** March 29, 2009, 15:37:25 »

Only 36 varieties Saddad what's up have you not got so much room this year. ;D ;D ;D

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