What tomato varieties are you growing in 2017

[jackarmy]

Despite my recent decision to give san mazano its last shot and Roma the boot ive changed my mind, again .
Now giving both a go at the lottie greenhouse in the borders ( still confused with roma though bush/determinate , so many different views) .

Also gonna try both in 25l pots at home if i fail again though theire gone , also trying orange banana at the lottie in the ground( borders) following ber last season.

[Thelma Sanders]

Garden Pearl and Yellow Peardrops in pots on the staging

In the greenhouse borders -
Opalka
Black Cherry
Carlton
Jaune Flamme
Nectar rose
Cornue des Andes
Kibitz
+ a few others still to be decided

[hop-a-long]

I'm trying a few new varieties this year (to me anyway!)

Lover's lunch
Black pineapple / Ananas noir
Ozark sunset
Bosque blue bumblebee
Bing cherry
Gigantomo
Cristal f1
Latah
Mountain magic
Millefleur yellow centiflor
Reisetomate pocketbook

And two tomato plants I took pity on at the end of last year and brought inside from the greenhouse! They are doing well. One is a suncherry smile that resprouted from the base before I had time to chuck the grow bag away, and the other is a seedling from another cherry tomato. I felt mean leaving them when I was bringing all my chilli plants into the house!

My greenhouse is fairly small so I'm gonna have to try most of these outdoors and see how they cope with the conditions.

Anyone ever tried limiting outdoor tomatoes to only one truss? Sounds mad but I'm gonna try it (esp with side shoots) at the allotment this year

[maverick451]

I'm trying a few new varieties this year (to me anyway!)



Anyone ever tried limiting outdoor tomatoes to only one truss? Sounds mad but I'm gonna try it (esp with side shoots) at the allotment this year

I havent tried that but one thing I have noticed is often the first truss of toms are that great in terms of size or taste, im not sure if his its because it early season or they havent quite got in the full swing of fruiting yet but If I was doing one truss Id take the first one off and use the 2nd truss.

[vixylix]

Stupid question here Hop - but why would you limit to one truss?

[Jungle Jane]

I'm trying a few new varieties this year (to me anyway!)
Anyone ever tried limiting outdoor tomatoes to only one truss? Sounds mad but I'm gonna try it (esp with side shoots) at the allotment this year

I wouldn't stop at one truss because it would be a waste of plant but using side shoots sounds good

I still don't know what varieties I'm growing,I'm overwhelmed by seed choice,there's 17 varieties I'm definitely growing from previous growing & I've got 22 new varieties to try,so just 39 varieties to sow

[donksey]

I'm going for one tomato per plant.

[Teabag]

Tumbling tom and 100's and 1000's in baskets for definite.

Then I have a choice of Dancing with Smurfs, Latah, Super Marmande, Brown sugar, Black Russian, German Lunch Box, Black Icicle Fantastic, Money Maker, Striped Stuffer, Yellow Pear, Orange Banana, Heartbreaker Vita F1, Minibel, Roma and then San Marzano

Would love bit of help whats best for indoors/outdoors please!

Been told money maker is not worth the effort, roma and san marzano in a poly tunnel but thats it. Got a walk-in greenhouse and use of poly tunnel on the allotment. Also got gardeners delight and golden sunrise but didn't like them last year

[Jungle Jane]

Don't grow gardeners delight & golden sunrise if you didn't like them I'd grow all of them outside but I don't have a greenhouse. Last year outside in the ground black icicle were my tallest most excellent tomatoes,I also had Dancing with smurfs,Black Russian,German lunchbox,Orange banana (best in the ground,compost dries out too quickly in a pot compared to other varieties) all outside,Black Russian might prefer a greenhouse,I think larger tomatoes would?

[veggiechicken]

Already sown for the GH shelf and small pots :-
Tumbler
Rambling Red
Tumbling Tom Red
Garten Perle
Taxi (1997 seeds!) failed to germinate
Oregon Spring for GH

Sown today, 2 seeds of each in cotton wool



Banana legs
Black Icicle
Black Plum
Buffalo Horn
Cream Sausage
Cream Torpedo
Jersey Devil
Opalka
Orange banana
Purple Russian
Purple Ukraine
Speckled Roman (2005)
Striped Roman (2011)
Blush
Pink Tiger
German Orange Strawberry
Hillbilly
Perseviddny Rosovyy (Pink pepper)
Perseviddny (Red pepper)
Red pear (beef)
Big Rainbow (2012)
Mountain Princess
Vince
Pantano
Legend
Vesennij Mieurinsky
Halina
Summer Cider
Cyril's Choice
Berkeley Tie-dye
Gelbe Konigin
Ararat Flamed
Unknown Black (from nellie-m)
Zuckertraube (?2004)
Britain's breakfast (2004)
Pomme Rouge de Montpelier
Gold Krone (2011)
Yellow Centriflor (2011)
Burgess Mammoth?
Grappolo d'inverno
Snapper (2007)

I'm hoping for one plant of each, but doubt that the very old seeds will germinate.
There are still a few more I want to sow!

[lmayhow]

oh my goodness .... me with 4 different tomato seeds where do you all put your tomato plant??? So many varieties grown I certainly haven't looked around enough...

Just

Moneymaker
Alicante
Tumbling Tom
Rapunzel

[Teabag]

Thanks JJ, I won't be sowing them or money maker interesting about the orange banans drying out quicker! I've read they're a good paste tomato?

JEEZ Veggie chicken!! Tomato farm springs to mind!

[Chris11]

My first tomato variety has germinated, Roma
Old seeds, but still only took 6 days in basic heated propagator.

So that's one down and around another 29 to go.

Tomato growing season is now officially ON

[coreopsis]

The ones I had before and will be growing again:

Red Alert
Orange Banana
Black Cherry

new ones

Anna Russian
Flame
Sweet Casady
Pink Oxheart

Still undecided which beefsteak to try as it needs to be early variety and something not bland tasting (don't care about appearance)

[coreopsis]

Been told money maker is not worth the effort, roma and san marzano in a poly tunnel but thats it. Got a walk-in greenhouse and use of poly tunnel on the allotment. Also got gardeners delight and golden sunrise but didn't like them last year

I found Moneymaker very profilic but bland.Hardly any flavour. If you want some good flavour medium size tom Ailsa Craig is very good.

Roma and San Marzano are late varieties. I have to avoid any late maturing ones due to my location as the growing season is very short here. Anything that states 85+ days from transplanting is a no-go for me.