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Hi, as many of you know I garden on a postage stamp sized |Canadaian lottie now and am very restricted for space, but on the gadens we have a fenvced off compound that is used for growing food for the food bank and for seed sharing.

I have just received news that the big greenhouse that we used for  wee while in the fall..(actually due to wasps we never actually grew anything, we just cleared it, repaired it and got it ready for the Spring in the hope we would be offered it.)

Well we got it!!.. So it is now ours to use on an ongoing basis.


The plan is to use it to start seeds for sharing plants in the garden in the beginning but  I can also use it for my toms, peppers etc, what ever I like for my own needs.. but I want to grow some toms specifically for the food bank  .

I need help with deciding a tomato variety that gives really good yeild, so I can grow just this type down one side. Yeild has never been a big factor for choice for me so I am undecided as what to choose.  Not a cherry type, I don't think,not a beefsteak either but a mid size tom with a decent flavour.

I could really use your help with this one please. I have a good stash of seeds so choice should be OK.

Thank you

XX Jeannine

Orange banana and Black Mavr are high yeilding for me...  :)

got to be 'moneymaker'  ::) for yield

but, if you also want taste, try 'gemini'

Good croppers for me last year were bloody butcher, stupice, alaskan fancy, nebraska wedding and lime green salad. Part from cherries that always do well those were the 'standard' size type that really did stand out. Bloody butcher particularly..it was first and last to yield, non-stop once it started.

Very standard, but we were up to the ears in 'Ailsa Craig' last year.

Thank you, I suspect I may go for a very basic tom on this one, round and red, with high yeild.

It would be a giggle but I may even do Moneymaker just for old times sake, it is advertised here as a good English oldie.

PUT THE HATCHET DOWN CLEO!! I agree with you.

Tomatoes here in the shops are ten times worse than UK shop ones so Moneymaker probably tastes better than the food bank folks get anyway.Dittto for Ailsa Craig.. or Shirley maybe.

Still looking for more suggestions.

XX Jeannine

I love golden sunrise, lots of fruit, nice taste, tigerella always do well for us, I love the taste but some think the stripes are weird. The green zebra tasted nice but are even weirder. Gardener's delight had loads of fruit, reasonable taste and went on for ages

I loved red pear last year

I haven't tried many types, but yes Tigerella did well for me too, a lot of fruit and very early. Nice taste.

Nice to see you back, Jeannine! How's things?

Hi Jeannine,
Tania at Tomatoville, www.tomatoville.com lives in Anmore, BC -- not far from you? -- and might have a good idea of which varieties from your seed stash would produce well in your climate.

She also has a website at http://tatianastomatobase.com with photos and descriptions of hundreds of varieties sorted by color, size, shape, and other characteristics: http://t.tatianastomatobase.com:88/wiki/Category:Tomatoes

One that produced well for me was Irma, a determinate/bush type which gave a very heavy yield of firm red blemish-free tomatoes averaging about 6 oz.each, is that the size you had in mind?

Hi, yes something very basic with a good yield. Something maybe a bit more commercial than the heirlooms I usually grow.

Tatiana is about 6 minutes from me actually, I visited last season and took her a few toms to add to here collection that she was unfamiliar with and she kindly gave me a few of hers that I didn't have. She is a very nice lady with a very interesting set up .It was a really good visit.

I was thinking more indeterminate varieties to prolong the season a bit more

My stash is pretty extensive but usually I am not thinking too  much about yeild but as this would be for the food bank it becomes a consideration.

Irma sounds a great tom though,one I have never  personally grown.

Thank you for the help.

XX Jeannine