[Fat Hen]

Hi my red berry toms have been a real success this year when everything else has been rather poor.  Started with ripe toms late June and are still producing sweet little toms. In fact they are still flowering & setting fruit, the trusses just keep growing & growing.

Also just taken off a good crop of Roma - brill all ripened together - made into a rather nice tom sauce & frozen.

Black Russian now finnished - a lovely tom in mediteranean salads.

Pink Brandywine - dodo crop of beautiful toms (texture & taste georgous) - will try next year & hope they do better.

Ailsa craig - tasteless

Gardeners delight - good late crop, used mostly for tom sauce.

Yellow Pigmy - suffered with wind (given gaviscon), no seriously in hanging baskets thus exposed to a lot of unseasonal wind - also affected were cougettes & numex twighlight chillis in hanging baskets.

[Annie]

Re gardeners delight,this is the first year I `ve tried them (free seeds)and I have loads but can anyone tell me why the fruits are so variable in size with most being very small(marble size).This is the first time I will have no tom.sauce in the freezer!

[Sally A]

they are a charry variety, but should be larger than marble. Did you pinch out the sideshoots? as too many branches would lead to smaller sized toms.

[Annie]

I thought cherry too and good for tomsauce but they are miniscule..not too many branches although I understood that you could leave them to grow as bush type,had some outside along with the larger fruit types but all got blighted.

[Fat Hen]

My gardeners del' are about 1.5" diameter, sideshoots pinched out early on but then a bit neglected, seemed to limit themselves to between 4 - 6 trusses.  Another good tom plant where trusses seemed to ripen together, instead of a few ripe toms here & there.

[crowndale]

My toms didn't do too well this year but better than last when they didn't ripen at all.  This year they got blight but a few were edible but certainly not cherry sized, they were more a small normal size.  But hopefully will have better luck next year if I keep them in the greenhouse (differnt variety though)