Looking for tasty tomato for slicing

morg_monster

Hiya
I am trying to decide what tomatoes to grow this year. I want a variety and have decided on indeterminate/cordon cherry (sungold), bush cherry (red alert, hopefully for early fruit) and bush "normal sized" (amateur, or Tornado if I can find any seeds). (I do like bush tomatoes!)
But last of all i'd like a cordon tomato with good sized fruit for sandwiches, last year we had Alicante which were OK but didn't find they tasted of much. So something with similarly sized fruit (from memory they were about 5cm on average, maybe bigger), but better tasting. Drives me nuts slicing small tomatoes for sandwiches!

Also if anyone has seen any Tornado tomato seeds anywhere PLEASE let me know! They seem to have a really great writeup but cannot find them for sale anywhere (i think Suttons used to do them).

Mrs_Arcanum

Some of the varieties here are well worth considering. Far better flavours than the bog standard nursery varieties and the quality of the plants are excellent.

TonyMMM

I grew Harbinger last year - an old variety .... good yield and very good flavour even though they were outdoors. May have to search around a bit to find the seeds, but worth it.

morg_monster

Oh yes I ought to add, all our tomatoes are grown outdoors.

Thanks - Tony the website Mrs A suggested sells Harbinger seeds and I had just noted it down as a possible!

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Marmande are my favourite. But that could be because I bought them from a market stall in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower and then sat in the sunshine eating them with some bread and cheese

djohn2002uk

Try these for sandwiches.
http://www.burpee.com/vegetables/tomatoes/slicer/tomato-sweet-seedless-hybrid-prod001016.html

I got mine here delivered in about a week
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SWEETIE-SEEDLESS-HYBRID-TOMATO-SEEDS-SWEET-DELICIOUS-/200570336945?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2eb2ec76b1

Farway

morg_monster wrote: »

Also if anyone has seen any Tornado tomato seeds anywhere PLEASE let me know! They seem to have a really great writeup but cannot find them for sale anywhere (i think Suttons used to do them).

I know what you mean about Tornado, grew them for years, and it was Sutton's. It was always a goer, and just romped away and cropped with little effort. Seems a shame if it has vanished

Primrose

They're advertising Tornado tomato seeds on this website:
http://www.uk-garden-centre.co.uk/acatalog/Tomato-Seeds-cheapest.html

Unfortunately they seem to be an F1 variety which means that if you save seed from the plants, the subsequent crop will not necessarily grow 100% true. However, I have previously saved seed from Ferline F1 variety, which is a very good and prolific blight resistant tomato and found that last year when blight was around none of my outdoor plants suffered from it.

morg_monster

Thanks a lot primrose! Even if they are F1 that's fine with me at the mo.

Lotus-eater

Primrose wrote: »

However, I have previously saved seed from Ferline F1 variety, which is a very good and prolific blight resistant tomato and found that last year when blight was around none of my outdoor plants suffered from it.

Ah that's interesting, I've been meaning to do this for a while and actually saved the seeds last year.
Did they all turn out like the original Ferline?

Primrose

Lotus-eater wrote: »

Ah that's interesting, I've been meaning to do this for a while and actually saved the seeds last year.
Did they all turn out like the original Ferline?

Lotus-eater - Yes, interestingly they did in terms of appearance. I think the saved-seed plants (only grew two of them as I wanted to try other new varieties too, so not a very big trial) might not have had such big trusses of fruit as the originals. I can't vouch for the anti-blight tendency as blight did start appearing in our area and in the end I sprayed all my plants with Dilthane, rather than risk losing the entire outdoor crop of about 30 plants.

I think with these things it's worth experimenting on a small scale to see how things turn out.