How many tomato plants are you growing and what varieties

[Dorothy rouse]

Have sown 4 different ones, but so far not one has germinated! So bit worried, may have to re sow!

Dancing with Smurfs
Yellow tumbling
Tumbler
Large Italian, ( name escapes me)


So maybe none for me!

[Valleyman]

You lot are crazy with these amounts. I need to step up my game!

This year I am growing:
4x Marmande
3x Garden Pearl
4x Gardeners Delight
2x Chicco Rosso (An F1 I found in Lidl and have no knowledge of... anyone have any ideas?)
2x Roma Plum
2x Sunbaby

And the last one... my own special F1 I created last year. It's Gardeners Delight crossed with Sunbaby.

[skeggijon]

Too early to say - haven't finished sowing yet. Not even decided what ones to try this year. Ask me again in a month or two.

Me too - got to keep your options open.
So far though, have got a minimum of 6 each of:
Alicante
Orange Pear
Super Cherry
Couer de Beauf
African Queen
Moneymaker
Tigerella
Black Cherry
Cuor di Bue
German Lunchbox
Tiger
Sweetie
Yellow Stuffer

Don't get me started on my Chilli collection

[muddled]

Like skeggijon and veggiechicken, final decisions have yet to be made here and I'm doing a little viability check of my own....lots of decade old seeds floating about

So far sown 6 each of

Tigerella
Gold medal (orange swirly beefsteak)
Venus (small orange)
Black Russian (murky grey rather than black but the best taste bar none!)

On my possible list though are;
Pink ping pong
costoluto genovest
sweet million
Irish supersweet
and various unnamed saved varieties with handscrawled packets saying 'long yellow lovely' or 'ugly but tasty' and 'fat, juicy, few seeds'

[bario1]

2 x Sungold
2 x Black Cherry
2 x Tumbler

That's plenty for me!

[meteor]

This thread is brilliant, it now proves to friends and family that I am not a nut case ( although the jury may still be out on that) because I normally have 20 -30 types with about 150-160 plants. These are the varieties I have sown this year , as they appear on my propagator in the polytunnel:
Red Pear
Rosella
Hillbilly
Rambling Red Stripe
Lemon Tree (first time)
Beam's Yellow Pear (first time)
Gardener's Delight
Opalka (a favourite)
Noire De Crimée
Porterhouse
Super Marmande
White Queen ( first time , a big thank you to Norfolkgrey for the seeds)
Indigo Rose
Federle (my personal favourite of all )
Zapotec Pleated (first time)
Rosada (a bit hit with my family last year)
Tigerella
Blue Bayou
Osu Blue
Totem
Tumbling Tom Yellow
Tumbling Tom Red
Black Sea Man
Tumbler
yet to be sown as I grow them outdoors
Moneymaker ( mainly for green chutneys)
Ailsa Craig ( same as moneymaker)

[Scarlet]

I usually do about 70/80.
Kenilworth St George
Stupice
Black cherry
Black icicle
Black Russian
Black Krim
Yellow pear cocktail
Rough wood golden plum
Principe B
Pantano
White ox heart - old seed these haven't shown their heads
Cheethams potato leaf
Latah
Orange banana
Lucky leprechaun
Dancing with smurfs
Golden queen
Peace vine
New Yorker
Boxcar willie
Gardeners delight
Sungold
Alisa Craig
Tumbling Tom Red
German Lunchbox
Orange Favourite
Maskotka
Japanese Black Triefele
Tigerella

[Penellype]

There was me thinking I was crackers with my 40 odd plants and 7 varieties!!!

[Tomatoe]

I thought I was going over board with 3....I feel sane now!

[Alison]

Actually checked which ones I've sown and it's the following this year:

Amish Paste
Purple Ukraine (large purple vine plum tomato)
Darby Striped (HSL)
French Black
Gardeners' Delight (supersweet Irish)
Kenilworth / King George (HSL)
Maskotka (basket)
Millefleur
Peardrop
Tomate de Colgar (storage tom)

Have various other varieties in the tin but that's enough for this year.

the Tomate de Colgar are especially good as they store really well. Only used the last one a few days ago which had been harvested back in October. Bit thicker skinned than the summer ones but full of taste and much better than supermarket ones.

[Scoot]

I'm growing 2 types, Money maker and gardeners delight.

Have 15 all together. 7 of one 8 of the other but I can't remember which way around.

15 is more than enough for me.

[Scoot]

Can't believe the amount some people grow hahaha!!!

[Lumpy]

18 - 6 Moneymaker, 6 Gardeners Delight, 6 Tumblin Ton

[Veggieman]

I'm growing an unnamed variety that I saved a few years ago from an F1. The F1 was pretty good (can't remember it's name) so I saved a few seeds to see if I could get something quite close. Well I grew about 20 seeds from the parents, all different, but one stood out by a long way. Long trusses, amazing fruit, and they took ages to split, which was a big problem with the parent.
So it's got no name, but it's my current favourite. Got about 15 plants.

[Knight of Albion]

None. Simply not cost effective. Can get them in town far better and cheaper than any I could grow.
Using the precious greenhouse space for something else.