Best Bush type tomato

[jollyroger123]

Can i have your opinions please on the best Bush variety of tomato - also if i get some would it be too late to sow this year.

Thanks

[jollyroger123]

[saddad]

I don't tend to grow these but we had some Roma in the sale last year and they were dead on their feet, having been in plastic cups for about a month too long, but a newbie bought a dozen and slammed them in and got a great crop..

If you like tiny small fruit on huge plants Broad Ripple Yellow Currant grows huge around 6' in all directions and had over 1000 fruit on at one point..
::)

[jollyroger123]

They sound good.

I would probably be looking to plant in the garden.  I live East Scotland so they would need to be fairly hardy,

[saddad]

Try Sub Arctic Plenty... if you can find it... apparently it can be grown in Greenland..
:-X

[potterfanpete]

My dad's growing tumbling tom....I think that's a trailing one though. I never knew you could get bush tomatoes!

[Biscombe]

I think taxi is bush and would look pretty with its yellow tomatoes  :)

[Chris Graham]

I'm growing Garten Perle and heard they produce loads of toms.  But i did hear the flavour isnt the best.

Grew yellow Tumbling Toms last year and they were very good tho a tad on the sour side.

[potterfanpete]

Thanks for that biscombe - I've got some taxi tomato seeds planted and coming up! I though they were cordon...also got some garten perle, but have no growing instructions! Will have to do a little research :)

[Jeannine]

My best bush  without a doubt is LA ROMA ..not to be confused with Roma.

It is a plum shape, great as a cooking tom but has a good flavour for eating too.

It is the yield that makes it remarkable, it is claimed to have 7 times for fruit than Roma and I can vouch for that, I have grown it for 5 years now and is a have to  for me now. The friut are large, unblemished and the bush is loaded.It does need a lot of support however.

This is one tom that I could not be without,and  with a collection of almost 200 now,I have only 2 others I am this passionate about but they are not bush types.

I cannot recommend it high enough

XX Jeannine

[Jeannine]

If you want a less vigourous one than La Roma,  try Super Bush.It requires no staking or caging grows to only 38inches but produces large fruit not cherry sized does well in containers.

Oregon Spring os cold tolerant and bush,very early too so should do well in short season areas,Grushovka also cold tolerant, short season bush.

If you get stuck, I can give a few seeds of any I have mentioned, but my Oregon Spring are older , I have them up but germination was not good.

XX Jeannine

[the_snail]

I am growing 'The Amature' this year.

They are a outdoor bush type.

Just sown some alicante and they are just germinating. A little late this year but better late than never.

The_Snail

[sutton girl]

Hi Jeannine please would you save me some of your tomatoe seed from your LAROMA toms for next year as i think it's to late this year to put them in.

[Curryandchips]

I am growing 'Amateur' too ... my neighbour rates them poorly, so I will have to wait and see ...

[Larkshall]

Don't know about rating them poorly, I grew them when they first came out (about 1950's) and got 2.25 cwt off 24 plants plus green ones at the end of the season. Finished up making stacks of Chutney, much of which we had to throw away because we could not eat it all.

[Barnowl]

The only bush I've grown before is Totem which are ok but not great.

I'm trying the following for the first  time:

Gartenperle  (for hanging basket)
Grushovka Tomato
Latah Tomato
San Marzano Astro F1
Urbikany Tomato

but I've killed my first sowing by putting the propagator in too hot a spot so will have to start again ( :'(

[markfield rover]

We have always treated' Red Alert' as a bush tom
brilliant taste, sown monday  . Off to find La Roma
another veg I did not realize I really have to have!

[lancelotment]

I've grown Tornado for the last two years and had bumper crops both years.  The bush tends to be very short but quite sprawling.  I've had a problem keeping the fruit off the ground and a couple of the stems have split under the weight of the crop.  I'm growing them again this year but will be using extra support and a good straw mulch underneath.  Germination has always been good (I tend to start them in Jiffy 7's in April) and plant out the first week in June.  Lance

[Jeannine]

Hi Suttongirl, La Roma is a hybrid so I am sorry I cann ot save seeds from It XX Jeannine

[Robert_Brenchley]

Clear Pink Early, Prima and Taxi did really well for me last year, and all taste good. I forget who sent me the seeds, but I'll be trying a couple of Subarctic Plenty, and also one called 'Alaskan Fancy' which sounds as though it's likely to cope with short summers. I'll report back at the end of the season.

[jollyroger123]

Thanks

I didn't realise their were so many and as i thought so many different opinions - I like the sound of La Roma and maybe super bush.

If the offer of seeds is there thanks jeannine.

I'll PM you