I did my annual appraisal of my greenhouse toms this morning, just working out which ones have done well so I gather some overripe fruits to save the seeds, and deciding which n’er do wells will not be grown next year!
Pic is my latest bowlful of keepers….so next year I will mostly be growing…..
Rugby; fruits of varying size but mostly dark pink heart shaped fruit, look great in a mixed salad and cook down easily.
Dovenia; medium sized red salad type, good crops and flavour.
Manx Marvel; old variety but very good consistent cropper, medium red fruits
Lovely lush; Big purple/red striped cushions, ok flavour, few seeds
Artisan red and yellow striped; good indoors and outside, feathery foliage, good crops of clusters of striped fruits. My yellow ones outcropped the red by more than double this year, not sure why!
Bush varieties (outdoors)
Latah; heavy crops, varies in size and slightly oval cushion shaped, great flavour, my favourite reliable outdoor cropper.
Burmese sour; a less sweet variety most suited to cooking. They seem a bit fussy on my soil and the cushion shaped fruits seemed to rot quickly when subjected to the heavy rains we had so might do better in a very dry year but with another try!
Fat Jack; new to me this year, huge crop of big beefsteak fruits, very flavoursome
Your favourites this year?