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  • #1

    Outdoor tomato varieties?

    Hi all

    I am trying to save some space in the greenhouse this year for chillis and peppers but I'd like to still grow tomatoes, so I was thinking of putting some outside

    What varieties would be best suited outdoors

    Thanks very much
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    For me...
    the best outside is Kibitz, bushy and produces a good crop of medium size plum fruit for eating fresh or bottling - but the seed isn't easy to get.
    2nd is Shirley, yes it is f1 but it is a strong reliable cropper, a tall cordon plant.
    3rd is Red Alert a bush tomato with early crops of medium sized tomatoes.

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    • #3
      I always grow my Tumbler outside, hanging baskets on a south facing wall.
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      • #4
        Interesting, I find Shirley isn't great outside - its possibly too cold in Yorkshire or too shady in my garden or both. Sungold does well outdoors, as does Mountain Magic (blight resistant), which gave me huge crops last year. Ferline did quite well outdoors last year and the small bush variety Balconi (red or yellow) also did well outside.
        A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP. - Leonard Nimoy

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        • #5
          If I grow anything outside, it tends to be cherry determinate varieties, Garden Pearl, Tumbling Tom Red/Yellow, Yellow Pigmy. These are grown at home because there's too much blight at the allotment. Last year I grew Crimson Crush and Mountain Magic at the allotment. Neither ripened on the vine and most of the Crimson Crush succumbed to blight despite the fact its supposedly blight resistant.

          I'll try Kibits Ukranian outside, I grew them in the greenhouse for the first time last year and they did well.

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          • #6
            Yellow garden peach and jersey devil does me ok
            When you have a hammer in your hand everything around you starts looking like a nail.

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            • #7
              My favourite outdoor variety is crimson crush for its taste, earliness and blight resistance

              Sungold is good for a cherry.

              an heritage variety called outdoor girl is also easy

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              • #8
                I grow Sungold and Supersweet 100. Both cherry tomatos with a great taste. Last year my neighbour said that Sungold were the best tomatos she had ever tasted.

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                • #9
                  Totem is one that does well outside too..
                  I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives....


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                  • #10
                    Last year blight hit our allotment plots very early. I had 6 varieties of tomato planted and all succumbed except for Mountain Magic. It cropped well into September. I don't think it is the tastiest ever tomato but any home grown tomato is better than a shop bought one.

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                    • #11
                      Red Alert and Tumbling Tom (red and yellow) for us. Tumblers always do well in our stacking pot affair but having tried a few others outside we're back to Red Alert for the bush variety.

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                      • #12
                        Thinking of outdoor tomato variety sth not too big to give it a chance to rippen.I have nice sunny and warm plot and hopping for succes

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                        • #13
                          If only you could get an outside tomato for a windswept garden in the West of Scotland


                          I've tried

                          Red Cherry
                          Tigerella
                          Alicante
                          Red Pear
                          Cuor Bi Blu

                          no luck....

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                          • #14
                            Its not much better in sunshiny South Wales - in fact I don't try now. Either the weather or blight always gets the better of them.

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                            • #15
                              I haven't tried toms outside for years either. Blight always gets in first.
                              Though I will often grow a few in my porch...these will generally be a cherry tomato as they ripen faster.

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