Topic: Which tomato varieties will you growing in 2010 and why.

[Borlotti]

I prefer Roses to Quality Street.

[Flighty]

Getting back on topic...

Red ones. Because I like the colour. The usual things. Yes.

[betula]

Do you mean the tomato flavoured Topic Tony?with the tomato nuts in it??

I thought about growing that one next year!!!

[Borlotti]

I have just looked at my seeds and the toms that I grew, and are still eating are
Tomato F1 Fantasio, outdoor variety with blight resistance by Suttons Seeds, packet cost me £3.30.  Still have some seeds left for next year, so put that in your pipe and smoke it, nasty person, whoever you are.  Obviously not you Flighty or Betula.  How can anyone argue about toms.  >:( >:(

[lushy86]

What has a hazelnut in every bite? .......................

Squirrel s**t

 do squirrels like tomatoes, if so what variety would you grow for them?  ;D

Lushy x

[angle shades]

 :)  back to tomatoes then,these all taste fantastic (well I think so!)

Black Krim,
Cherokee Purple,
Brown Berry,
First In the Field,
Harbinger,
Gardeners Delight,
Snow white Cherry,
Eva Purple Ball,
Black Cherry,
and loads more I haven't bought yet ;D/ shades x

[GrannieAnnie]

My apologies to all for mentioning the offending ergonomic off-topics of lifting of pots, babies and causes of back pain.

[saddad]

I'm not offended by you Annie...  :-X

[Flighty]

GrannieAnnie as far as I'm concerned there's no need to apologise for mentioning what you did, and as I said here earlier most of us don't mind off-topic comments!  :)

[lushy86]

Absolutely Grannieannie, yours was a nice post and not offensive in the least

Lushyx

[grawrc]

I've been going through the seeds I have and to be honest I don't think I'll buy any more until I've used up this lot.
I have Tumbler, a generic freebie cherry, sweet million and Gardener's delight. They never make it to the kitchen. They grow round the house and we eat them as and when, a bit like the sweets mentioned earlier in the off-topic asides.

Then I have Roma (inexplicably 3 packets) and San Marzano for cooking sauces etc.
The salady type ones are rose de berne (pretty name), Stupice,Latah, Buckbee New, Sub-arctic Plenty - all supposedly early and short season- and Sweet Olive (f1) and Moneymaker  :o :o :o Don't know where the moneymaker came from?? Freebie with a magazine probably.

I haven't grown many tomatoes this year except the snacking ones round the house but next season my new greenhouse should be finished and also my plot reorganisation so I hope to grow lots.

[1066]

My apologies to all for mentioning the offending ergonomic off-topics of lifting of pots, babies and causes of back pain.

 ;D  ;D  ;D


p.s I'll be growing red ones, yellow ones, small ones, trailing ones ........  ;)

[Robert_Brenchley]

After losing all my toms to blight three years running I don't see myself growing them again until I've got a greenhouse organised. There isn't a lot of awareness of the disease on the site - a lot of people every year think their potatoes are rotting due to floods - and I'm convinced that blight's overwintering on the site in accidentals. I'm wondering about how to raise awareness of this, but I'm not sure how successful I'm likely to be.

[Digeroo]

[Digeroo]

baby due march

Congratulations, look after yourself.

No apologies needed GrannieAnnie.   A bit of wandering is what makes this site great.  Its like a conversation.

Still not convinced Robert about the volunteers and accidentals.  Bad blight here on a pristine site for potatoes.  I believe blight must have come in with seed potatoes.

[flowerlady]

None of you have mentioned Principe Borghese  ... has this one fallen from grace ??

Request ...
If anyone has either Glacier and/or Stupice would they be willing to swap a couple of seeds ???

I am going to grow Santiam next year, could do a swap   :)

[w00dy]

Im going for

Gardeners delight - reliable and easy to grow
Outdoor girl - as an outdoor variety also my grandads fought of the blight very well this year
Roma VF for sauces
Money maker - to try out
Marmande - to have with my steaks and burgers on the barbie

I always sow way to many, pick out the strongest as give the "runts" to freinds and family.

Woody

[manicscousers]

Hiya, woody, welcome to a4a ;D
we will be mainly growing
golden sunrise, like the long season, early toms and taste, tigerella, ditto, red beefsteak, can't remember the variety, orange banana saved seed from one of debP's, brill for sauce with the san marzano, black krim and a black cherry, gardener's delight and garten perle for cherries, think that's it, so far  ;D

[Robert_Brenchley]

Still not convinced Robert about the volunteers and accidentals.  Bad blight here on a pristine site for potatoes.  I believe blight must have come in with seed potatoes.

This is definitely a problem in the States. Where do we find out what minimum standard is accepted for seed potatoes here? Meanwhile, the two that are always quoted - and make a lot of sense - are farmers' outgrade piles (definitely not the problem this year; we had a major outbreak when there was nothing reported within 15 miles) and volunteers. While it's possible blight is coming in via seed, we've definitely had volunteers all over neglected plots. Let's control what we can, and see if that deals with the problem!

[cleo]

Next year could be interesting.

I`m about ready to give up on `Smiling Cat Herbs`. It`s too much bother for the return and which ever way I go (folks coming into the garden or me putting plants out on the pavement ) I risk falling foul of the law(ers)

But there is a new `farm shop` just up the road and I did mention today that someone just a mile away could supply them next year.

Just a mention today but I did say  "if you want to sell  Money Maker,Alicante,Ailsa Craig and stuff like that go to Spalding Auction-but if you want quality and flavour let me know" ;D