Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: simond9383 on August 15, 2007, 10:56
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I am taking advantage of the half price seed offers currently around and thinking of outdoor tomatoes for the first time next year.
Can anyone recommend tried and tested varieties for ripening outdoors and flavour? Ideally I'd like to grow some small cherry/plum types and if anyone can come up with a reliable variety, a continental beefsteak type.
I am in the South East and so hopefully the weather maybe on my side next year, if not this!
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Gardener's Delight is a favourite bush variety for small tomatoes. Can also be grown as a cordon
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My favourite plum tomato variety for outdoors is Inca and for a beefsteak Pink Brandywine. I must recommend Ferline which is a blight resistant variety and gives an excellent harvest. There is also a blight resistant beefsteak variety Fantastico (I think) from Suttons.
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if you plant em out in july then any tomato wil bear fruit :wink:
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When I used to grow them outdoors, I had a lot of success with a bush variety called 'Amateur'. I kept them under polythene tents (cheap cloche substitute) until they grew out of them and picke fruit ovwer a long period.
In the greenhouse I now grow nothing but G Delight. Never tried it outdoors.
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Totem is my favourite bush tomato, the fruits are gorgeous and it is really prolific - not done any good this year though.
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gardeners delight for me :wink: and alicante
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I was trying Tornado this year and think that if the blight had not got them we would have had a good crop.
Have also had sucess with Shirley and Alicante but I have found Moneymaker a better cropping plant.
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Red Alert (bush) for the earliest tomatoes and despite being F1 plants grown from saved seeds appear identical.
Brasero (bush) non-F1 for 2nd early crop of salad tomatoes (I've been saving seeds for about 10 yrs and they're still going strong, but it seems to have dissapeared from the shops.
Tornado (bush) heavier cropping.
Gardeners Delight & Sungold (cordons) cherry tomatoes for kids and roasting to make pasta sauce.
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Thanks for the help everyone - a few things to go at!
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Gardener's Delight is a favourite bush variety for small tomatoes. Can also be grown as a cordon
:D My Gardener's Delight are giving lots of delicious cherry toms -- after I protected them from neighbouring potato blight with several puffs of Bordeaux powder.
How do do the cordons WG :?:
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I love Gardener's Delight too. I have masses of fruit this year and I grow mine in chimney pots at home (not at the allotment).
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I have Ailsa Craig and Sweet Million. They have been pretty slow due to the weather but perked up a couple of weeks ago when the sun appeared. At least they didn't all die or get blight.
First tomato almost ripe :)
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I used to grow a variety called Sigmabush as my main outdoor bush variety about 15 years ago, then the seeds disappeared from the shops and catalogues.
Does anyone know if the seeds can still be obtained?
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I'm growing Red Berry they've done fantastic this year when crops of others has been poor to fair.
The trusses just keep going (on average about 2 foot long trusses)producing more and more juicy sweet little toms.
Also had ripening toms much earlier than anything else and are still going strong.
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I had good results with Totem last year. It is a bush tomato with salad size tomatoes, and I thought the flavour was good. This year I had them again outside along with Tumbler, a cherry tomato. Neither have done very well which I just put down to the poor summer as both are meant to be good outdoors. I wasn't overly impressed with the flavour of Tumbler.
I have grown Shirley in the greenhouse this yearand thought they were excellent but am not sure whether they would be ok outside.
I'm sure others will have their own opinions.
Brian
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I'm growing Red Berry they've done fantastic this year when crops of others has been poor to fair.
Who supplies the seeds?
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I got mine from Nickys Nursery as part of their best sellers collection: http://www.nickys-nursery.co.uk/seeds/pages/veg5aa.htm#VEG329.
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I have grown shed loads of plum roma, marmande, green grape, gardeners' delight and some Italian ones. Somehow I've lost the labels though.
They all taste blooming lovely.
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When I used to grow them outdoors, I had a lot of success with a bush variety called 'Amateur'. I kept them under polythene tents (cheap cloche substitute) until they grew out of them and picke fruit ovwer a long period.
In the greenhouse I now grow nothing but G Delight. Never tried it outdoors.
Where did you get the seeds for 'Amateur'? I want to try and do tomatoes next year, and they sound like they might be a good variety to try... but I can't find the seeds online anywhere!
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Where did you get the seeds for 'Amateur'? I want to try and do tomatoes next year, and they sound like they might be a good variety to try... but I can't find the seeds online anywhere!
Chiltern seeds do them...
The Amateur (http://www.edirectory.co.uk/chilternseeds/pages/moreinfo.asp?pe=DBFAACCJQ_+tomato+amateur&cid=211)
Welcome to the forum, BTW.
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Sweet. Thanks Dave :)