Tomato Varieties

[JazzDuke]

San Marzano is a fine plum tomato but my single experience of growing it outdoors two summers ago suggests that it needs a long hot summer to crop well outdoors.

[pigletwillie]

Like Superdoupersprout I use three types: paste tomatoes for passata; a few for taste and general use; and cherries to eat like sweeties.

This year I am growing the following.

GOLD STANDARD VARIETIES
These are varieties to which I trail all others against.

Tropical Ruby - a fabulous cherry plum variety, prolific and very tasty.
Sungold F1 - great taste and prolific, can split if left on the vine too long.
Gardeners Delight - very prolific, slightly bigger than cherry size with a good
Shirley - prolific easy to grow fruit with a good reliable flavour
Roma meaty passata tomato, ideal for drying or pulp
San Marzano - again a passata tomato, better grown outside for me.
Marmande - The sandwich tomato, big, juicy and oozing sunshine

TRIAL VARIETIES

Berry - a new berry shaped chery tomato
Temptation - a general use variety
Tumbling Tom - a hanging type cherry
Big boy - a large slicing tomato

Hopefully I will get enough dried and pulped for the winter as I generally have about 80 plants in the tunnel, some in the greenhouse at home and about 40 outside.

[shirlthegirl43]

Goodness me PW - you obviously love tomatoes!!!

[pigletwillie]

Its amazing Shirl how many you get through if you process them. I make pasta sauce, passata, tomato relish, tomato soup, meat sauces such as bolognese, sundried tomatoes and then there are the ones you eat fresh. Suprisingly if I get to bottle and can everything that I want to this year, there wont be many spare, even though over a 140 plants sounds alot.