Cheapest seeds for blight resistant tomatoes

Jake'sGran · 4 September 2009 at 5:55PM

I have never had blight but I suppose this is because I grow them all in a very small greenhouse. Last year one of the best plants I had was grown from a seed from a Morrisons tomato (on the vine). It was excellent. This year was disappointing as the cherry ones were far too sweet for me and I got end rot on the Ailsa Craig (inconsistent watering).

Did anyone see the cooking programme with four uni students the other night on the BBC? It was all about cheap but good food.. They were shown how to make a basic tomato sauce which would do for four meals and the cook pointed out that mushy tomatoes are fine to use as they are pushed through a sieve after being peeled.
NB I always use Marigolds to keep greenfly away.

foxgloves · 4 September 2009 at 7:36PM

I've posted about Ferline tomatoes before, but yes, I agree with Primrose, you get a very good crop. I like the flavour but I like the quantity even more. Have made loads of Carluccio's tomato pasta sauce for the freezer....cooked some meatballs in some of that the other night and they were lovely. Have also been making passata so I can buy less tinned ones in the winter (Co-op value tinned tomatoes have gone up by 4p this week...) and will soon be resorting to just bagging them whole and freezing. They go mushy on thawing but the skins come off dead easily & they are fine for cooking & tomato soup. Loads of rain here (north midlands) & still no sign of blight. A welcome change after the last couple of years!

kippers · 5 September 2009 at 5:40PM

I've just looked them up on Thompson & morgan and it says they are indoor toms...are you sure the can be grown outside?...if so these could be great.

Primrose · 6 September 2009 at 10:29AM

Kippers - yes, Ferline CAN DEFINITELY be grown outdoors. Can't post a photograph of mine, but they're planted in a south facing border up against a fence and have been so laden with fruit that the stakes supporting them are now bending over under the weight of them. They are by far the heaviest cropping tomatoes I've grown so if you grow them next year, put some heavy duty stakes in to support them. Bamboo canes may not be strong enough unless they're a really stout thickness.