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comparing tom varieties - quality, taste and yield

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  • Farway
    Farway Posts: 14,641 Forumite
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    edited 20 October 2010 at 2:42PM
    My success one was "Balconi [sic] yellow", a small trailing cherry suitable for pots

    Mine had loads of fruit, and very decorative. Seed saved fro next year

    http://www.thompson-morgan.com/vegetables/vegetable-seeds/tomato-seeds/tomato-balconi-yellow/390TM

    My Black Cherry were prolific, but later cropping than other varieties, very sweet & unusaul, seed saved for next year

    The orange ones I grew, Auriga, were a disaster, only had to say "blight" and they collapsed, plus fruit was watery

    GD of course was fine

    PS, scooped 50p packets of Venus, Matina & F1 Tomatoberry Garden for next years trials
    Eight out of ten owners who expressed a preference said their cats preferred other peoples gardens
  • rhiwfield
    rhiwfield Posts: 2,482 Forumite
    Rummaging thru the seed box, and the T&M catalogue, ready for Feb sowing of 2011 toms. Varieties for sowing so far:

    Seed box:
    Gardeners Delight (nuff said, though had to fight blight last year)
    Harbinger (good yield and taste)
    Tumbling Tom (havent grown before)
    San Marzano (good in 2010)

    T&M ordered:
    Ferline (blight resistant)
    Legend (blight resistant beefsteak)
    Losetto (blight resistant basket) at 6 seeds for £3.49 :eek: this qualified as the free packet

    Not regrowing
    Gartenperle, look lovely, poor taste, blighted
  • Primrose
    Primrose Posts: 10,701 Forumite
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    rhiwfield wrote: »
    Rummaging thru the seed box, and the T&M catalogue, ready for Feb sowing of 2011 toms. Varieties for sowing so far:

    Seed box:
    Gardeners Delight (nuff said, though had to fight blight last year)
    Harbinger (good yield and taste)
    Tumbling Tom (havent grown before)
    San Marzano (good in 2010)

    T&M ordered:
    Ferline (blight resistant)
    Legend (blight resistant beefsteak)
    Losetto (blight resistant basket) at 6 seeds for £3.49 :eek: this qualified as the free packet

    Not regrowing
    Gartenperle, look lovely, poor taste, blighted

    Last year my Tumbling Toms (both red & yellow proved quite resistant to blight. And interestingly, my saved seed from Ferline which is an F1 variety (which are not guaranteed to produce identical plants) also produced very satisfactory blight resistant plants. My plants are grown outdoors, so I'll have to discipline myself not to sow until early/mid April to avoid the leggy plants I've suffered in previous years.
  • mardatha
    mardatha Posts: 15,612 Forumite
    Looking for a bush plant that will grow indoors on a windowsill ... so quite compact. Any ideas ? TY ! Also who is a good seed supplier ?
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