which tomato varieties will you growing this season?
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?
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
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? :)
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
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
It's new to me as well Twoflower... I grow mine in greenhoses and polys... but I do have several to play with... :)
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.
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!! :)
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
not 2007 it was 2006!
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.
Gardener's Delight and Gartenperle. What about you TGG?
T&M Tomato Gold Nugget.......RHS award of garden merit.
Tomato Golden Sunrise
Tomato Gardeners delight
Tomato shirley F1 Hybrid.
Sungold, Red Alert, Sub Arctic Plenty and Moneymaker
latah, green zebra, gardeners delight, Galina and Millefleur
Guenovese costello cooking / beefsteak tomato
Shirley
Moneymaker
Tumbler
San marzona (for sauces)
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
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
Only 36 varieties Saddad what's up have you not got so much room this year. ;D ;D ;D
If this is the Grid Gardener from the past-I took your advice
none whatsoever-how could I compete with you oh one of wisdom??
You who knows all-we are just idiots before you.
Now just go away
I'm having a go at T&M Golden Sweet and they had better be as there are only 6 seeds in the packet. Supposedly 40 3/4oz fruit per truss.
At least they all germinated.
I'm also growing T&M Aviro (orange).Real Rio Grande. I say real as its a pack from Italy. Moneymaker cos the packet was free. I have T&M Legend still to go in and hope that the instructions are right.Sow April! Maybe Saddad can verify that for me.
Earlier on this site i questioned polytunnels and listened to others advice.Now that i have a 3.5MX2.5M polytunnel i'm going to have a bash at growing moneymaker inside and out. I've heard that they can be a mite tough skinned grown outside so its the year to experiment.
Really liked Black Cherry last year.
If you can start them in a propagator you can start them now... April isn't that far away!! ;D
sorry cleo but you have the wrong poster.
hope you enjoy the the pm i sent you.
I plan on staying. But you are welcome to leave when or if you wish.
ps i am sorry you consider yourself an idiot.
psps But maybe if you try real hard you will learn to grow veg from grown ups.
ttfn
Its him alright Cleo - no doubt! ::)
Lushy x
On Friday I sowed Alicante, Gardeners Delight and Moneymaker. This is the first year i have grown any from seed. I also have the '3 sisters and tom' swap coming to me next so hopefully there will be some different ones in there.
Becky
Only 2. Marmande and Gardeners Delight (in the greenhouse)
Have gone alittle mad on tomatoes this year. have money maker and gardener' delight roma, red robin, garten perle, totum,sun gold,and an ox heart one i have forgotten the name of. Haven't quiet worked out where i will put them yet ;D
gardenners delight and marmande
Hoping we dont get blight again
I think last year was the first time i've ever seen tomato blight.
the last two years i have lost everything to blight so im keeping my fingers crossed, i am growing, red and black cherry, ferline, golden sunrise and green grape that i can think of just now, i grow them in pots and on the patio
Everyone seems to be growing black cherry. Is it really that good, have i missed a trick?
Well after growing way too many varieties and plants last year, then losing them to blight, I'm only doing Roma, Sweet Millions and Moneymaker this year and I'm only doing 3 plants of each!
Quote from: sunloving on March 28, 2009, 18:34:39
not 2007 it was 2006!
2006 was great, just the most stupendous crops. In 2007 I lost the lot to blight in less than a week. Broke my heart. 2008 was mixed for me, the blight wasn't too bad in Maidstone, despite the ravages everyone else experienced, but the crop was not heavy, probably due to poor light and low temperatures.
I've got a good feeling about this year.
Yes Twoflower, it really is that good... do you want me to include some in the package.... :)
Fewer than Saddad but I'm trying...
Balconi Yellow - small cherry
Chocolate Cherry - 70 days
Dattelwein (Date Wine) yellow pear shaped
Santa Orange - small plum
Micro Tom - mini tomatoes
Fantasio F1 (standard) -blight tolerant (yeah right)
Ravello F1 - medium small plum
Incas F1 - medium paste bush
Siletz Round - 65 days - Early dwarf Bush
Royal Chico - Roma style Bush -paste
Amish Paste Tomato -v. large plum - early
Cuor Di Bue (Coeur de Boeuf) - large
Pantano Romanesco - large scalloped
Purple Ukraine - large plum -early
Red Zebra - Large round orange stripes
Valencia -Orange Red 10 oz good in cool 76 days
Balconi Red - basket / pot small cherry
Tiny Tim (Basket / Tumbler)
MilleFleur - Tiny yellow fruit Centiflor
Nectar F1 - small to medium round
Rosada F1 baby plum (replace Santa)
Rudolph/Rudolf F1 (replaces Juliet)
Santa F1 - small plum
Sungold F1 - small round yellow
Olivade F1 - Medium Plum
Shirley F1 - medium round red
Sungella - larger version of Sungold
Brandywine - Pink - Large
Japanese Black Trifele - Plants Of Distinction)
Long Keeper - Sow late
Super Marmande
I only grow one or two of most types for reasons of space. One day I'll grow up and get down to a sensible number.
QuoteI've got a good feeling about this year
ooooh I hope you're right ;)
Taxi, Clear Pink Early, Buckbee 40-Day, Stupice, Prima, Black Cherry.
Tigerella
Orange Banana
Lemon Tree
Super Marmande
Tumbling Tom Red
Tumbling Tom Yellow
Quote from: saddad on March 30, 2009, 07:54:37
Yes Twoflower, it really is that good... do you want me to include some in the package.... :)
Yes please ;D
Tigerella, urbikany, ailsa craig and betalux; the first three because I already had the
seed from last year and the last for no better reason than I haven't tried it before. I
also, on impulse, bought from Poundland something called sweetie. Being less than
optimistic I shoved all 50 - odd seeds in, and now every single one is romping away. I can't bear to chuck any away so I'm going to be short of room this year ::)
Well they say that tomatoes are good for stopping you getting sunburn. Lets hope for a good summer ;D
If you really end up with too many, I'm sure you can give them away to fellow plotholders or on freecycle.
i will be growing
snow white
sungold
delicious
big zac
beefsteak
san marzano
taxi
green grape
They are only good for sunburn because trying to grow them outside damns us to a bad (wet) summer... they don't protect you when you go to the Med do they... ;D
This year its
moneymaker
ailsa craig
shirley(my fave)
sungold
tigerella
No i don't mean you sit in the shade! It's the red pigment, can remember what it's called, really does help but you have to eat lots :)
Well that's a real hardship... does that mean the white/yellow/green ones don't work?? ;D
Twoflower:Lycopene
saddad that is exactly what it means.
Only two varieties this year F1 Bambino from Kings seeds & Moneymaker from Mr. Fothergill's
Wheatyman
Quote from: saddad on March 31, 2009, 08:22:26
Well that's a real hardship... does that mean the white/yellow/green ones don't work?? ;D
Nope just taste nice ;D I seem to have gone up in the world now have two stars!!! ;D
It only means you are wasting too much time on here and not enough on the lottie... (I have 5 :-X )
i have a good excuse went yesterday, today is cold and damp here and am doing the garden/greenhouse/housework today ;D