How many tomato plants are you growing and what varieties

[Scarlet]

I have tried a couple (few years ago) but I haven't really got anywhere to store them cool. Hmm, piqued my interest now..perhaps I'll have another go Where's VC???

[Scarlet]

Thank you. Real seeds are not accepting orders until Saturday now but I'll be ordering some at the weekend (I think that's either my third or fourth order from real seeds so far this year, must stop reading this forum, it's making me buy far too many seeds)

Try VC and perhaps we can do a storage review in Jan 16!!

[sparrow100]

Am going to try and sit on my hands and not order any....My FIL had loads of cherry tomato plants hanging upside down in the pantry when we were over at Christmas, I was mystified.

[Kristen]

It gets sent out with all the mags too - given the sheer variety of tomatoes I find it a bit frustrating. I wrote to Kitchen Garden's editor to ask why Moneymaker was picked and his answer was essentially that he grows it and likes it, plus they can get the bulk seed cheap.

"Cheapest seeds we can get" to encourage people to grow more is cart-before-horse surely ... not surprising though.

[seasprout]

Usually I grow around six varieties this year I think there is around 20. I will have a couple of plants of each and spares go to my Dad. Varieties include:-

Mortgage Lifter (viability testing)
Cheetham's Potato Leaf (viability testing)
Golden Queen (viability testing)
Atkin's Stuffing Tomato (viability testing)
black icicle
black cherry
northern delight
mariannas peace
lucky leprechaun
Anna Russian
Blue OSU
True Black Brandywine
Charlie Chaplin
German Orange Strawberry
Pantano
Peter Glazebrook's Giant Tomato
Rutgers
Striped Roman
Sub Artic Plenty
Sweet Baby
Tondino Di Barletta
Garden Peach
Dancing with Smurfs

Ok maybe there are a few more than 20 varieties but they have to grow as yet

Dancing with smurfs..?
Really..?
you have a Tomato called Dancing with Smurfs..???

[seasprout]

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.

Alison that's an impressive list.....

[seasprout]

Gentle bump.

[Guest]

Gentle bump.

Dancing with Smurfs and Kenilworth seeds are both available in the VSP There are a lot (doesn't do it justice) tomato seeds in the VSP so be prepared.

[veggiechicken]

Dancing with Smurfs and Kenilworth seeds are both available in the VSP There are a lot (doesn't do it justice) tomato seeds in the VSP so be prepared.

Sounds like I'm the one who needs to prepare.

[seasprout]

Thanks for that.... #I had better investigate what the VSp is then... :-)

[Guest]

http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...cel_83432.html

Oh and you have to talk nicely to VC or you face the pointy stick

[seasprout]

http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...cel_83432.html

Oh and you have to talk nicely to VC or you face the pointy stick

I will be very very nice to VC, i've printed off a big list of lovelys i want, just need to sort through my spare seeds when I get home and off works PC.

[Guest]

Sounds like I'm the one who needs to prepare.

I will be very very nice to VC, i've printed off a big list of lovelys i want, just need to sort through my spare seeds when I get home and off works PC.

Sorry VC you did say you like sending them off to new homes

[Sharpy]

Outside

10 Roma
5 Allicante
5 Ferline
4 Sweet million

Inside

1 of each above

Plan is to make sauces with garlic, onion and basil. Then split these into a sweet pepper and a chilli variety.

[bario1]

3 Sungold
2 Black Cherry
1 Tumbler
1 Peardrop