Just deciding what to grow next year. Last year i grew Alicante [not enough] Idyll[not bad] and Dombito [largish and tastey] of these i will just grow the Dombito again. YOurselves?
Tigerella (GH), and San Marzano (outside), and GD as a banker. Got loads of green san marzano last year, which made a superb curry sauce.
Derek :)
tigerella, poly , lovely taste, good crop, gartenperle outside, pinky cherries, not as nice as some, lots though, gardener's delight, outside, lovely as always and supersteak, poly, brilliant, lots tasty, also grew golden sunrise in the poly, not as nice tasting as tigerella so won't bother again :)
This is my list for this year;
Tomato Lyn's plum*
Tomato Keiths plum*
Tomato Ailsa Craig
Tomato Alicante
Tomato Eddies*
Tomato Feurtaventura(2 varieties)*
Tomato Mammoth
Tomato Moneymaker
Tomato Calahonda*
Tomato San Marzano
Tomato San Pedro
Tomato Spanish Moneymaker
The ones marked thus * are all saved seed from tomatoes I liked the flavour of.
When I don't know the variety I named them after their source.
As far as commercial varieties are concerned 'Moneymaker' takes a lot of beating for ease of growing, cropping & flavour so I will never be without this variety.
Repeating Santa F1, Shirley, Cerise, Idyll and a large Italian beefsteak variety I think is called 'Antico' (- can't work out the name on the seed packet neighbour brought back from Italy).
Lots of new varieties. including some supposedly early east european bush types.
"Grushovka" from Realseeds...
pink and a luscious flavour....bush variety that I grew outdoors
with no sign at all of blight....
definite winner for me ;D
I'll be growing Dombito again outside together with Harzfeuer (Lidl seeds originally, now I save my own) and three I received from Biscombe in Spain - Muchamiel, Marglobe and Rio Grande. GH varieties - still not sure. I have so many different seed packets it's difficult to choose.
Tricia
Let's see, this year it'll probably be
In Pots
Cyril's Choice
In the polytunnel
Italian Giant Pear
Kenilworth
Mei Zao
Peremoga
Red Oxheart
Rutgers
San Marzano Redorta
Stupice
Thessaloniki
Tigerella
Zapotec Pleated
Hillbilly
Northern Lights
Orange Strawberry
Persimmon
Black Brandywine
Black Cherry
Aunt Ruby's Green
Fantome du Laos
White Queen
Snow White
Georgia Peach
Marizol Majic
Mr Stripey
Mortgage Lifter
Omar's Pink Lebanese
And thanks to Biscombe
Japanese Black Truffle
Monkey Ass
We grew Shirley last year andloved them of course. also gardeners delight .which I didn't go much on apart from eating them straight from the plant whilst gardening. This year am growing Shirley again and some that I've ordered from Real Seeds called Gigante Liscio. can't wait to see what they are like
Never having grown one before I the black tomato I got to try out is Black Russian (from AlanRomans), but "Japanese Black Truffle" ?
- with a name like that I've got to get me some!
Oh I likes the sound of Monkey Ass !! The mind boggles. ;D
thanks to swaps i have to plant this year
Tomato - Black Mavr
Tomato - Black Prince
Tomato - gardeners delight
Tomato - Muchamiel ( lots of honey )
Tomato - Rio Grande
Tomato - roma
Tomato - super marmande
Tomato - Tres Contos ( 3 songs )
Tomato Margicbe
Tomatoes - SIBERIAN EARLY
Tomato - Garden Pearl
Cant wait!
Cambourne7
Last year was Totem and Gartenperle (both of which I quite liked but wouldn't rave over but then it was my first year).
Largely due to the generosity of Lishka, Biscombe, Rosyred and my mum, this year:
Legend
Muchamiel
Tres Cantos
Tigerella
Golden Sunrise
Harbinger
Marmande
Gardener's Delight
Cream Sausage (we think)
Gartenperle
Ferline
Pineapple
Black Cherry
No idea where I'm putting any of them. Suggestions gratefully received. ;D
Oh and Biscombe, are Muchamiel and Tres Cantos Bush or Indeterminate ? Blowed if I can find out ! :o
mmm. Monkeys ass and cream sausage sounds frightening.
I have a long list of Toms 30+ at last count. Sungold, the only F1 allowed. Whippersnapper, pink and sprawling, and Red Peach with the furry skin are winners with me!
;D
Mrs KP they are Indeterminate :) Cant wait to grow them myself!!
More canes required !!! ;D Thanks Biscombe. :D
For those of you with multiple varieties ( :o ) how many of each type do you grow for heavens sake :D? That sounds like a lot of tomatoes to me lol x
i'm sowing six of each, hoping to get two plants out of each variety, even then i'll have trouble fitting them all in. i had 7 plants last year, this year by my basic maths i'll have 26 and that's before i even start on the chillis, cucumbers and aubs. Really must get that g/h fixed !
;D
Tigerela seems to be a popular choice. For me then its going to be Dombito, Black Russian and Tigeralla. I'm tempted not to bother growing outside this year yields have been poor and birds get more than we do.
we usually do 6 of each variety , expect ot get 4, usually all of them do o.k. so plant some outside :)
Thanks MrsKP, that gives me an idea why some people seem to have enough left to make so much chutney! (I'm envious by the way, not being flippant :-X ). x
Quote from: kitten on January 23, 2007, 20:48:33
For those of you with multiple varieties ( :o ) how many of each type do you grow for heavens sake :D? That sounds like a lot of tomatoes to me lol x
For passata, two bedsfull of paste tomatoes (about 50 plants)
For the rest, two of each.
I got a bit carried away last year. I had 17 plants in the conservatory, 6 in growbags and 5 in the flower beds. The problem is, I never get many cherry tomatoes for the kitchen, as I munch through them every morning as I do the watering!!!!!
Appart from the cherries, Tigrella was the best producer. The best plant I had was one that got eaten to a stump the night after I planted it out. I was told it would come back, but wasnt confident. Eventually, I had to stake the branches as it was so heavy with fruit :o Just goes to show....what do I know :-[
cj :)
Managed to squeeze about 45 plants onto a bed last year, grew Marmande for the first time, and was impressed. Grew Roma, good plum tomato, also tried Incas which was fantastic and will grow that again for certain. Will also grow a half a dozen of yellow tomato plants (saved seed) one a plum shaped one but not a plum, the other a round juicy one.
(sorry, just realised this is in "Under Glass" - all mine were outdoors :-[ )