What tomatoes do you grow?

Arthog

I have an unheated greenhouse and a veg garden, and also some leaky buckets.
I grow Gardener's Delight in both places, and need some new ideas for this year. I need a tasty medium-sized tomato, and fancy a giant one which will do well.
People recommend Red Alert as a good early one but I've had no luck at all with it.


Sub-Arctic Plenty did well in the greenhouse last year.
What tomatoes do you grow?

Sally_A

First in Field is a good reliable salad sized tom which does well in my unheated g/h. I've given up on the giant ones, as they take too long to ripen. I've only grown them for 2 years, they were a freebie from Dolmio - but have saved seed and they do well.

wallbash

Stick with Gardener's Delight.

Will grow 8 GD, 2 Money maker and for fun a couple of Artisian blush tiger.

Davesnave

Floridity.

It's expensive at £0.32 a seed, but it's like the difference between a Mercedes and a Vauxhall Zafira.:)

Scottish_Mike

We're trying Roma this year as they're apparently quite good for bottling/storage.

I can't decide on a yellow tomato (considering Sungold) or a type for hanging baskets.

A._Badger

sonnen wrote: »

are you sure it is possible to grow tomatoes in the british climate?

I always thought that british cuisine doesn't use many vegetables because the climate doesn't allow their cultivation

Of course it is possible to grow tomatoes here!. As for 'not using many vegetables' clearly you know very little about either Britain or what we grow and cook with here.

wallbash

I don't think we should take 'that' poster very seriously.

A._Badger

I'd ask, why change a winning formula? I've grown Gardener's Delight for many years. Every now and then I try something else but I always come back to GD.

One thing that not many realise, though (and I freely admit it didn't occur to me until a few years ago). GD isn't an F1 hybrid and different seedsmen may be selling GDs that are slightly different from one another.

REEN

I've grown Sungold in the past and they were very tasty, but last years' were disappointing. Not sure why.

Limara

Black Cherry, I also do gardeners delight, tried the black cherry a few years ago and they out preformed the GD and are so tasty, only the cherry ones, the black normal size are not as good.

trollopscarletwoman

Personal opinion-

In British conditions-

Grow indoors.

I've had no luck with outdoor toms

Greenhouse toms

tigerella-mid size tom reliable, flavour good
Yellow-Sungold-flavour, ex
moneymaker, size, s/m flavour very good.