Fruitful greenhouse toms to grow in the North?

[jessmorris]

Hi folks, can anyone recommend some high yielding varieties for the north of England? I have enough room for around 10 toms in my greenhouse. This years yield has been around 3 toms per plant (Roma and Genovese) - very disappointing!

[redser]

Well I wouldn't be that far north but I think our climates are close enough
Maskotka and rosada have given me tens of pounds of toms. Great varieties.

[Penellype]

I've grown Sungold and Bajaja outside very successfully this year - both are cherry sized tomatoes. Bajaja is a bush variety and has produced hundreds of small tomatoes, Sungold is a tall variety with trusses of upto a dozen tomatoes on each. If you are growing them in a greenhouse you should easily get decent yields from both. The Sungold are vastly superior in flavour to the Bajaja in my opinion. I also grew Shirley outside this year, but yields were small, the tomatoes ripened much later and the plants have died earlier than the other 2 varieties. Shirley has a lovely flavour and I grow it on the windowsill in the kitchen.

[Chippy Minton]

In our greenhouse the Gardener's Delight have done really well, Ferline less so but started later. This is the first year anything has ripened to a red tom in this dark and dreary climate

[Penellype]

I find that really surprising Chippy Minton. Maybe we have more sun on the eastern side of the country, but the only year I've not had much ripe fruit from outdoor grown tomatoes in the 5 years I've been growing them was last year when the blight struck on 1st September. I don't have a greenhouse.

[solway cropper]

Golden sunrise have given me excellent crops this year, both in the greenhouse and outside. Trusses with up to 10 fruit and all of a good size. Gardeners Delight always do well as do Tumbler. With literally hundreds of varieties to choose from just pick a small selection each year and see what works for you. My 16 assorted plants have so far given me over 50 pounds of fruit and they're still going...just!

[Shadylane]

All of ours have done well this year, what with the unusual weather, but Black Cherry and Galina (yellow cherry) have been especially prolific.

[muddyfeet]

Gardeners Delight, black cherry, sungold, sweet million all in a greenhouse or a plastic growhouse with the door open all summer. It has been exceptionally good this year though, in normal years Gardeners delight usually crops well.
Black russian produced one tomato on four plants, so I wouldn't bother with that, but marmande gave about ten beef type fruits, and still going.

[Alison]

Don't take offence but you also need to look at how you're growing your toms as that can have a greater bearing on crops than variety. Perhaps you could explain if they're in grow bags, pots or border soil, when did you sow and plant out, how much did you water and with what did you feed? Thanks.

[rhonsal]

I'm in central Scotland and have done well with Tumbling Tom Red, Black Cherry and Gardeners delight - it is my first year of having a greenhouse and the sunny weather has helped a lot!

All mine were grown in pots, watered from underneath (something my uncle told me to do!) and feed once a week with a popular feed from an online shopping channel!

[jacob]

As Alison says, I'd be looking at the growing medium rather than the variety. Hungry things, tomatoes.

[Jimmy]

Don't take offence but you also need to look at how you're growing your toms as that can have a greater bearing on crops than variety. Perhaps you could explain if they're in grow bags, pots or border soil, when did you sow and plant out, how much did you water and with what did you feed? Thanks.

I agree. I don't think it's possible to grow toms with only 3 on, Especially in a Green House.
Jimmy

[Snadger]

Cedrico and Shirley for guaranteed large crops that stay fresh a long time on the vine. Both F1 hybrids, both expensive seed though!

[Bren In Pots]

They grow Shirley on Beechgrove so they must be fine for 'up north'

[BUFFS]

we have grown "Shirley" and it does what it says on the packet. I was told to try "olympe" as they were a good sized tasty tom, they were absolutely enormous, the biggest was 2lb 7oz,a monster. on the other end of the scale the "sun gold" and "chocolate cherry" were a real treat with their sweetness. our best this year was "black Russian", it was so tasty when cooked that our son in law, a confirmed sceptic, was so taken with them on a visit last month that he bought a greenhouse when they got back to the midlands. I change the soil in the g/house border every two years and disinfect the whole inside first or second week in oct, I then know I am getting a clean start...whatever you do , good luck and enjoy it..