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    Recommend unusual outdoor tomatoes

    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!
    To see a world in a grain of sand
    And a heaven in a wild flower
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  • #2
    Marmande will do well outside this year (especially down south).

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    • #3
      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).
      To see a world in a grain of sand
      And a heaven in a wild flower

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      • #4
        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

        SSx
        not every situation requires a big onion

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        • #5
          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.

          Dwell simply ~ love richly

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          • #6
            Yes indeed Birdie Wife. Brandywine was great outdoors. The tomatoes were huge and tasted good.
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            • #7
              can any one recomend what they think is the best tasting medium sized tom for growing in a poly t or greenhouse.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by smallblueplanet View Post
                Simon you sound confident about Marmande doing well - have you had a weather premonition?
                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!

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                • #9
                  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

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                  • #10
                    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?

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                    • #11
                      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.
                      Last edited by smallblueplanet; 18-01-2007, 05:09 PM.
                      To see a world in a grain of sand
                      And a heaven in a wild flower

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                      • #12
                        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.

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