[devonbarmygardener]

You're all making me very jealous for space!!!

My greenhouse is a very busy place right now.
I'd show you if I could get the whole picture thing sorted out!

[CatherineC]

Way , way too many types, as always...usually think 'these won't all germinate'...

Faves: Sungold, Black Truffle, Black Krim, Black Cherry, Pink Brandywine, Tangella, Tigerella, Black Russian, Pineapple
New for 2012: Rosada, Goldcrest, Sweetie, Stonor, Darby Striped, Snow White Cherry
Standards:  Alicante, Principe Borghese, Gartenperle (in hanging baskets), Red Cherry, Christl's Plum, Gardener's Delight, Tamina, Shirley

and probably lots I have forgotton - helps to have five greenhouses on our allotments!

This year will be a big seed saving year

[davesellars]

Bit of a mix inside and outside.  Hoping for a good summer now with plenty of tomatoes!

25 x San Marzano
15 x Roma
15 x Marmande
10 x Beefmaster
10 x Shady Lady
10 x Golden Sunrise F1
6 x Red Alert
10 x Alisa Craig

[Casey76]

Wow!  that is a lot of tomatoes Dave!!!  What do you do with them all... do you own an Italian restaurant? lol

[davesellars]

Yeah I think I might have gone overboard on the tomatoes...

Anyway, I plan to cook the Marzano toms in sealed jars for use throughout the year and also make passata with the Roma plum tomatoes.   The beef tomatoes I think will all get used for eating / cooking with as they grow and any extra will get used for making plenty of tomato based chutney...  Although there's lots of plants I find beef tomatoes generally don't have many tomatoes on each one!

[Madame Cholet]

Yeah I think I might have gone overboard on the tomatoes...

Anyway, I plan to cook the Marzano toms in sealed jars for use throughout the year and also make passata with the Roma plum tomatoes.   The beef tomatoes I think will all get used for eating / cooking with as they grow and any extra will get used for making plenty of tomato based chutney...  Although there's lots of plants I find beef tomatoes generally don't have many tomatoes on each one!

though you might be opening an italian restaurant

[Raven50]

We have given up trying to grow too many varieties, as we invariably run out of room and our weather hasn't been good enough to grow them ouside for the last couple of years! So, we're just down to three this year, all grown from bought seed.

Moneymaker - a good, all-rounder that's reliable and flavourful, especially if you fertilise them with comfrey tea  Good with cheese on some crusty bread - yum 

Roma - the best plum tomato for our cold greenhouse, makes excellent roasted tomato puree for freezing and bringing a taste of summer in the gloomy february evenings  We use it for soups, meat sauces, ketchup, all sorts of things!

Garden Pearl - a variety from a local discount shop, £1 for a 'kit' (seeds, plastic container and a couple of hands-full of compost), they are the sweetest, most prolific cherry tomatoes I've ever come across. This will be the third year growing them, and I'm going to have a go at saving the seed this year in case they disappear and I can never find them again!

[mumofstig]

saving seed is easy-peasey but seed for Garden Pearl aka Gartenperle is always easy to find

[VegGirl7]

My first year on the plot and had no-idea which varieties would be tastiest and best to grow for me so decided to grow lots of different varieties this year and decide which to concentrate my efforts on in future years...

so I have:

gardeners delight
golden sunrise
orange banana
yellow pear (from veg seed pass parcel)
black truffle
black cherry
roma VF
purple russian plum
princpe borghese
banana leggs
white cherry
moneymaker
alicante
minibel (although none of the plants seem to be doing very well)
tigerrella
marmande
organic (another 'unknown' veg seed pass parcel)
riesentraube
currant sweet pea
sweet n neat red f1

60 plants in total, all getting very big and all still in the house    (trying to acclimatise them to the big wide world but the weather has not been kind!)  they are taking over!!

[CatherineC]

And then there are the mystery tomatoe sedlings that appeared in a pot of something else - huge numbers of them, (some growing out of the seeds drainage holes at the base, as if a tomato had fallen into an open pot and rotted, leaving the seeds behind.  The cucumber I had in there was rather surprised and on re-potting let the toms grow on.  have now potted them up and will wait and see what happens.

[Headgardener22]

I thought I grew a lot of tomatoes until I saw these lists. Last year I had a total of 70 plants and we're still eating them out of the freezer!

I like beefsteak so I'm growing:

Cherokee Purple
Summer Cider
Pink Brandywine
Red Brandywine
Yellow Brandywine
Vintage Wine
Black Brandywine
Marvel Stripes
Mortgage Lifter
Japanese Black Trifelle

[annie b]

well earlier I was growing roma,  cherry and various others but after a major disaster, I only have a few of them left.But after buying a few marmande last week and divine intervention from the lovely snowdrops, I'm now growing cougi blue, and various others!!

And it's lovely tomeet up with another forum member....great to see you snowdrops!

[lacaya]

Nothing on the allotment as I've just started, but in my garden I have half a dozen plants of each:

Black Russian - grew these last year and think they are delicious.

Cream Sausage
Christmas Cherry
Blood Butcher
Summer Cider

These four above came out of a packet that I purchased on eBay, might as well have got them out of a Christmas cracker I s'pose, but they are all up and looking healthy.


And a couple of unidentified varieties to see what will appear. I'm expecting something like Gardener's Delight.

[Countryman_uk]

Money maker, Alicante,Garderns delight,

[lazza]

More varieties this year than ever before....

from seed:
moneymaker
alicante
gardener's delight
sunbaby
striped stuffer

bought as plants:
summer cider
black russian
Roma
two bush-cherry varieties I can't remember the name of!