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Hi grapes, I'm sure we've done this before, but well I've a rotten memory!

What more unusual variety of outdoor tomato would you recommend growing?

This is of course just another excuse to buy more seeds!

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Manda.

"Wouldn't it be nice
For maybe an hour
To not have a care."

Marmande will do well outside this year (especially down south).

Simon you sound confident about Marmande doing well - have you had a weather premonition?

I've not tried marmande for a while, I think since Derbyshire which was probably too cold - well it was for us! (appeals to my Francophile nature too).

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Manda.

"Wouldn't it be nice
For maybe an hour
To not have a care."

Growing for the first time, on others' recommendations:

Big Beef
Halladay's Mortgage Lifter
White Beauty
Tomato Sungold F1
Tomato Black Seaman

Grew last year, and loved to bits:

For passata, industrial quantities of:

La Roma
San Marzano (bush)

For eating, a few of each:

White Beauty
Orange Banana
Black Cherry
Cream Sausage
Yellow Banana

and a very special tomato which I'll grow both in g'house and outdoors:

Dr Wyche's Yellow

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not every situation requires a big onion

Has anyone tried Brandywine outside? I've got a seed packet on order cos I liked the name and it said on the description it was suitable for outdoors.

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Dwell simply ~ love richly

Yes indeed Birdie Wife. Brandywine was great outdoors. The tomatoes were huge and tasted good.

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can any one recomend what they think is the best tasting medium sized tom for growing in a poly t or greenhouse.

It's going to be the hottest summer on record or atleast that's what I've read
... global mean 0.54C above the norm... Shades on!

i Grow a variety called MATINA they are only available from d t brown www.dtbrownseeds.co.uk
they are the best for any geenhouse or polytunnel i have found the taste is superb they also grow very well outside
the leaves look like potato leaves you really must try

I know it's quite common but Tigerella is so tasty, you've got to love it... Deep and mellow... Geoff Hamilton recommended it as the best on The Ornamental Kitchen Garden.
How about Yellow Perfection for one in cheese sandwiches? ... Nice and tangy. Is there a better yellow variety?

I would also recommend Matina - we grew it last year (along with lots of 'unusual' toms) and it was my fave. Just a real tomato flavour, yummy. Well actually not just, it also was prolific and long-cropping and looked very nice - a round, red tomato.

Don't think DT Brown is the only supplier, but we did get ours off ebay.

Not keen on tigerella, sorry. For more unusual try ananas noire (black pineapple) tremendous taste, grew well outside (although did split). Also outside, Black Krim, slight smokey taste.

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Manda.

"Wouldn't it be nice
For maybe an hour
To not have a care."

thanks for the recomendations all ,a friend has given me some golden sunrise seed and said they tasted very nice so i might try those as well as matina.