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    Tomato Madness!

    Hi everyone **UPDATED LIST BASED ON ANSWERS** =)

    I have been carefully researching what tomato plants I could grow next year and have gathered this list to work with. If you have any experience with these plants please list some advice on if I should grow it or not?

    1. Stupice (Salad, Potato-leaf, Indeterminate, early)
    2. Bloody Butcher (Salad, Potato-leaf, 55-60 days, Indeterminate, early)
    3. Black Russian (Salad, Indeterminate, early medium)
    4. Black Cherry (Cherry, Indeterminate, 64 days)
    5. Gardeners Delight (Cherry, Indeterminate, early)
    6. Black Krim (Beefsteak, Indeterminate)
    7. Brandywine Pink-Sudduth (Beefsteak, Indeterminate,)
    8. Dolmio Challenge 'First in the Field' (Salad? Bush tomato, potato leaf, determinate)
    9. Matina (Salad, Indeterminate, Potato-leaf, early medium)
    10. Sunbaby (Cherry, Indeterminate)
    11. Tigerella (Early, Indeterminate)
    Last edited by soladragon; 29-07-2012, 02:38 AM.
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    erm the only ones that ive grown out of your list are:

    moneymaker - reliable toms, but bland in flavour!
    roma - found these floury in texture a few years ago, but have decide to grow the again this year!
    marmande - fairly big beef toms with little amount of seeds
    Gardeners delight (nan grows this every year) - relaible and heavy crops

    i noticed from your lists that you are wanting to grow a yellow cherry tom, if i where you i would look into sunbaby, ive grown these for the past few years and the are heavy croppers and they remind me of sungold both taste and appearance.

    I would also be interested in hearing if people have grown black cherry, as i bought a few hundred seeds last week (its all VC's fault!)
    Last edited by Matt94; 26-07-2012, 07:16 PM.

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    • #3
      I've got Black Cherry on the go at the moment Matt, but no fruit yet.

      I grew Hillbilly two years ago SD. Very large, but not much taste.
      Granny on the Game in Sheffield

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Florence Fennel View Post
        I've got Black Cherry on the go at the moment Matt, but no fruit yet.
        oh thats good to know, you will have to let me know how they get on later in the season

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        • #5
          I will definitely add Sunbaby as my yellow cherry tom then. Thank you Matt94. Also any idea where I can get the seed?
          Winter is coming

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          • #6
            Roma - growing for the first time this year along side San Marzano both for freezing etc. Can't say about flavour yet but the Roma are taller, healthier plants with a heavier crop so far.
            Marmande - lovely tomatoes for slicing or stuffing but always the first variety to get blight.
            Gardener's Delight - sweet and sharp flavour, productive over a long time, but mine get blight soon after the Marmande. But I will always grow these.
            I'm also growing Ola Polka a yellow large cherry. Sweeter and thicker fleshed than the GD with a thicker skin.
            Moneymaker - the name says it all! Dull but reliable.
            Le Sarramea https://jgsgardening.blogspot.com/

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            • #7
              Tigerella are by far my favourite, pretty to look at and very tasty. They're easy to grow too.
              Granny on the Game in Sheffield

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              • #8
                Oh no Florence! Hillbilly tastes bland? My heart is broken because it looks so yummy!

                Winter is coming

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                • #9
                  im saving some this year for the myself, the tomato seed circle and to swap - give us a pm at the end of the year and i may be able to send some your way (but i cant promice anything as my toms aren't doing great this year

                  Ive also replied to the thread you started on the seed swap page

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                  • #10
                    Aww thanks Matt94. I will try ask the circle if I can join but the only tomatoes I am growing is Gardeners Delight, Moneymaker and Roma I think. Would they want them?
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                    • #11
                      you can always ask davyburns (hes the one who's running it!)

                      Ive just had a look - and no-one is saving Gardeners delight, moneymaker for the circle, so i shouldn't see why you wouldn't be able to join.

                      However i think roma are an F1, so i wouldn't bother saving seed from them, as they wont come true !
                      Last edited by Matt94; 26-07-2012, 07:55 PM.

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                      • #12
                        black cherrry are gorgeous, but they're not a very heavycropper and the skins split easily, I still grow them every year though.

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by taff View Post
                          black cherrry are gorgeous, but they're not a very heavycropper and the skins split easily, I still grow them every year though.
                          well 100 seeds for 9p - i couldn't resist!

                          By the end of the year i will have collected hundreds of tom seeds - i bought 450 alone the other day, then theres the 100's from the seed circles - oh what have i done lol

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                          • #14
                            I am growing black cherry for the first time this year, so far have 4 trusses per plant first two have set fruit.

                            Money Maker awlful tomato bred for commercial production, without regard to taste.

                            Colin
                            Potty by name Potty by nature.

                            By appointment of VeggieChicken Member of the Nutters club.


                            We hang petty thieves and appoint great ones to public office.

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                            • #15
                              Well then how would I keep my gardeners delight from being contaminated with any other pollen?
                              Winter is coming

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