Best outdoor tomato?

[kernowyon]

you're in the wrong forum hun hehehehehe

Rofl OH looking at me as if I'm mad.

[moggssue]

I tried a few varieties last year and they all did really well until the blight caught up with them. It seems there are plenty of tomatoes which will do well outside these days - weather wise if not disease wise.

[tiby]

I grew Tigerella outdoors last year, it was my first ever attempt at growing tomatoes and it went very well. I liked the taste and had a decent crop with no major problems at all, will definitely grow again this year.

[Tigerella]

Hi

Last year was my first year on the lottie, had a few Tigerella but they were either too late or got nocked over.

T

[PhantomVeg]

Seen as my mother has lowered the tone, I'm tempted to try 'Black Sea Man'.

You Grow Girlâ„¢ - » ‘Black Seaman’ Tomato

[SarzWix]

Seen as my mother has lowered the tone, I'm tempted to try 'Black Sea Man'.

Ooooooh, the double entendre possibilities...

I've got some Sub Arctic Plenty from the Hertage Seed Library people, I'm hoping they'll do well outdoors

[nemo]

tomatoes

i grow Russian black plum type outdoors they work out good every year
don't plant them near potatoes as they are from the same family if one of them get blight the other will too
regards nemo

[andrewo]

Basinga are good too, not eating tomatoes but good cookers, thicken up any sauce and very tomatoey. They also grow very big.

[gojiberry]

I grew black cherry toms last year but they succumbed to blight. I have just looked through my seed box and I don't have a suitable outdoor type so will have to have a troll through the seed catalogues. Are there any secrets to keeping the blight at bay. I tried a 3ft barrier of enviro mesh around them last year but didn't work. would I be better with some sort of roof as I believe the blight comes in the rain???

[Flummery]

Blight is all to do with the weather gojiberry. When it's particularly wet in the warm season you get a bad blight year. Early spuds usually miss it - I grew 3 kinds last year and did get any. I got none on tomatoes either - could be connected as they infect one another. The rain splashes up and spreads the (is it spores?) - infection anyway - but it's borne on the wind too. We can't escape it!

[Winged one]

Andrewo, where did you source the Basinga? I want to grow some cooking toms (as well as eating ones) and haven't found this or any variety particularly suited to cooking in my catalogues (T&M, suttons, Marshalls). Am I just not looking properly, or do I need to get some more specialist ones? (I will be growing all my toms outdoors, and all but a few bush cherry toms will be up on the plot).

[SarzWix]

Andrewo, where did you source the Basinga? I want to grow some cooking toms (as well as eating ones) and haven't found this or any variety particularly suited to cooking in my catalogues (T&M, suttons, Marshalls). Am I just not looking properly, or do I need to get some more specialist ones? (I will be growing all my toms outdoors, and all but a few bush cherry toms will be up on the plot).

I got San Marzano & Rio Grande from T&M last year, from their Italian section. Both are plum tomatoes (also called 'paste' tomatoes by some companies), San Marzano is a cordon type, & Rio Grande is a bush type. I've still got some of both left, if you'd like a few of each, PM me your address & I'll send some

[Nicos]

Red Alert for us!!!!

We also grow sungold in the greenhouse- didn't know they could be grown outdoors too! Will certainly do a few of each now.

[jeannine]

Years ago I planted some small yellow pear tomato seeds outside on my old allotment and they were incredibly prolific. I must have put the old plants on my compost heap because somehow some seeds got into my garden and now every year at least two or three self-seeded plants pop up, and I get a good crop. The taste is lovely and sharp but the texture is a bit mushy. Does anyone know what the variety might be? Sadly I don't remember, and i don't know if other yellow pear types are as easy to grow. I'd recommend them if you want a bumper harvest, but make sure you pick every one or they'll self-seed and play havoc with your crop rotation!

[veg4681]

Andrewo, where did you source the Basinga? I want to grow some cooking toms (as well as eating ones) and haven't found this or any variety particularly suited to cooking in my catalogues (T&M, suttons, Marshalls). Am I just not looking properly, or do I need to get some more specialist ones? (I will be growing all my toms outdoors, and all but a few bush cherry toms will be up on the plot).

I don't know if this is any better but Real Seeds does mention few as good ones for cooking or making sauce in their website.