Can any grapes recommend a yellow bush type cherry tom?

**poly** · 03-02-2015, 12:51 PM

If you like Tumbler, Tumbling Tom Yellow is quite good and has a similar habit but a bit more relaxed. Balconi Yellow is quite fun, although it is a bit more upright in growth but flops over when it gets larger. Also ok for taste is Halms Gelbe Topftomate, an early and cute looking small dwarf type. Another good tumbling down type is Rambling Gold Stripe, fruit is large cherry size, definitely more than one bite,not the sweetest fruit but good tomato taste. I've likely got some saved seed for Halms Gelbe Topftomato and Rambling GS if you fancy them, I'm in the middle of sorting some seeds for the Virtual Seed Parcel so could pop some of these in.

**bario1** · 03-02-2015, 01:28 PM

Thanks Poly, I had thought about yellow Tumbling Tom, but I know some on here don't rate the flavour. Last year anything bigger than a cherry flat refused to ripen, so I'm loath to grow bigger types again... Rambling Gold Stripe might just work though. I'll keep my eye on the VSP in case you put send some in.
I might grow a couple of the dwarf bush types in buckets rather than baskets as well. I told myself I would stick to two varieties this year (Tumbler and Sungold), but I can feel my resolve disintegrating...

**Thelma Sanders** · 03-02-2015, 02:22 PM

Ildi - little yellow pear-shaped toms

https://www.seedparade.co.uk/tomato-...-25-seeds.html

**poly** · 03-02-2015, 02:41 PM

I think there is nearly always a compromise of some taste in bush/basket types when compared to indeterminate cherry types.
Rambling Gold stripes does well grown outdoors here in SW Wales and is quite early to set a crop.
Although not what you asked about, I wonder if Black Opal would do well for you, they are an excellent tasting cordon black cherry tomato, British bred for both indoor and outdoor? They would look gorgeous in a bowl with Sungold. One of their sister lines, Sweet Aperitif is pretty special tasting too, well loaded with long trusses, fruits ripen red.

**veggiechicken** · 03-02-2015, 02:52 PM

Like the sound of Rambling Gold Stripe, poly.

May grow a few of those myself!
I grew Rambling Red Stripe this year, 3 to a �1 growbag, on the high level shelf in the GH. Fantastic crop and I still have a few ripening in the kitchen!

This was taken 13th June.

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**Thelma Sanders** · 03-02-2015, 03:00 PM

VC sorry that it's off topic - but love the look of your high shelf, just what I'm after!

Was it home bodged, sorry home made, or shop bought?

**veggiechicken** · 03-02-2015, 03:13 PM

I've had the shelves as long as I've had the GH. Something like this

4 growbags fit on the 8' shelf but they were a bit saggy at the front, so I stuffed a bit of wood between the growbag and the lip of the shelf. Worked well and I'll be doing the same this year.

**Thelma Sanders** · 03-02-2015, 04:04 PM

Ta v much............ now off to look for some

**FlawlessVictory** · 03-02-2015, 06:24 PM

I've also heard good things about Ildi

**GreaterMarrow** · 03-02-2015, 06:31 PM

Originally posted by bario1 View Post

Hi All,

I'm looking to grow a yellow cherry tomato in a hanging basket to compliment my (red) Tumblers. Can anyone recommend a heavy cropping, tasty variety?

Thanks!

I grew yellow "Sweet n Neat" (bought from B&Q) last year and they were very tasty and I got a heavy crop; however, the growth was definitely upright so I guess not really suitable for a hanging basket! They were great because they didn't need pinching out...or any real looking after at all actually!

If anyone could recommend other similar varieties to try for red cherry tomatoes that would be good, thanks

**Philthy** · 09-02-2015, 08:24 PM

Sorry, no suggestions on a yellow cherry tomato... or red for that matter; not grown hanging-basket-suitable before.

I wanted to add my approval for your shelf / growbag concept, VC.
Reckon I'll be pinching that set-up for my own scheme this year (and growing a few new types of tomatoes that I hadn't considered feasible up to now)

**Fleurisa** · 10-02-2015, 02:46 PM

I grew Ildi last year they are a complete waste of time. If you were given one to eat blindfolded, you would struggle to identify it as a tomato

**Thelma Sanders** · 10-02-2015, 02:54 PM

I wish everybody's taste buds were the same so we could agree which tomatoes tasted the best

It would make things so much easier

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