Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: Elm street on January 17, 2015, 08:31
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Can anyone recommend a good, small fruiting (cherry type) outdoor tomatoe?
It looks like I will not get a greenhouse this season, so I have an unheated conservatory to start them off in and a south facing fence to cordon them up. They will be in the ground rather than containers and will be watered with rainwater from a butt.
Thanks in anticipation!
Mel.
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Black Cherry/ Gardener's Delight are my staple cherry varieties.
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Another vote for Black Cherry and also Sweet Million F1, which I got from cadalot last year. Both were slow to get blight and gave a good amount of fruit. I dot my tomatoes around so there's a chance that some will hold out longer than others.
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Blight is always a problem on outdoor tomatoes in this part of the world, but last year was the most successful I have known.
I grew Tropical Ruby and they were superb. They are definitely an "adult" variety in that they have a strong tomato flavour, if you like the taste of "Tigerella" you will like this bush variety. . Mine came from Marshalls.
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I'm guessing that Gardener's Delight is the most commonly grown cherry tomato in the UK?
It starts fruiting early (always earlier than any other regular Tomato that I grow), which helps if the crop is unfortunate to catch blight later.
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I made a note of Floridity which was recommended by someone on here. You can get them from Suttons or Simply Seeds and can be grown outdoors if planted a bit later in the season.
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'Twas me. A fantastic sweet profuse cherry plum that fruits for ever. Seemed far more resistant to blight and/or botrytis than the others, but apparently is more suited to indoor growing, so planting out later is good advice if growing out of doors. It's an F1 unfortunately. I think it's been produced by Simply seeds, hence their cheaper price than other seed companies. For those into health dividends, it has a higher level of lycoprene than many toms, but all fruit needs to be cooked to get that particular benefit apparently.
I also grow the gardeners' delight, not quite so tasty, but very reliable and a decent crop. Doesn't like blight, but then who does.
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I did very well with Tumbling tomatoes if you want to consider growing them in hanging baskets.
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I grew Nova last year and was impressed by its short bushy no cane required nature and tay fruits. I will be trying to grow these from saved seeds this year. Not going to bother with tall varieties again
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I have also ordered Floridity based on a rec on here. I think Stupice was another one as I have it written down as well but not ordered any yet. Did we not have a 'best of' survey in 2014 ? Cant see one
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No there wasn't one
several here to view though
http://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?board=51.0