2024 Tomatoes

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If you could only grow three varieties of tomato next year, what would they be and why?

Sungold, shimmer and something beefsteak. Flavour, flavour and flavour.

San Marzano Redorta (large plum) for cooking, huge fruits, excellent flavour, few seeds

Crimson Crush, excellent true tomato flavour, good size, sturdy robust plants, imho the best of the blight resistant varieties. Only problem is that it's slow to throw side shoots which means I end up growing all my plants from seed instead of growing just one and then taking off the side shoots and rooting them as they appear. I have the last few ripening in the kitchen right now.

Latah, good flavour, ridiculously sprawling plant, small fruits, and very, very early. I've had these for my birthday in early May in some years.

Chance of sticking to three varieties is vanishingly small though 😄

I spent hours one evening in the summer trawling lots of gardening forums for tomato favourites and three winners stuck out to me.

Sungold and Crimson Crush were two of them. No-one has yet said the third 😊

Agree with Sungold. Red cherry and either Country Taste or Brandy Wine.

I only did hanging basket ones this year but was very pleased so I'll be doing more and better varieties than 'red cherry' and 'yellow cherry' that I impulse bought 😂

I normally grow marmande for bigger tomatoes but I find they can be a bit prone to blossom end rot if I don't keep to a good watering schedule so I will follow this thread and maybe see about trying something else. In the old days it was Alicante and Moneymaker but I prefer tomatoes that taste of something now 😂

I got a greenhouse this summer and want to grow tomatoes next year. I am placemarking for good advice!

Sungold , San Marzano and St Pierre

Forgot to add why !
Sungold - best cherry tomato flavour , starts cropping early
San Marzano for cooking tomato sauces
St Pierre , lovely tasting French Heritage variety , nice size for slicing , thin skinned too

Ah ha! Brandywine was the third. So I'll be definitely trying all three of those next year and any other good suggestions that take my fancy from this thread!

Premier seeds direct have a 10% offer until the end of November so think I'll have a seed spree on pay day!

Following 😊 🍅

I really, really did not need to know about the Premier Seeds Direct sale....

This thread prompted me to trawl through my seeds box. I have some I won't be growing again (not necessarily because there's anything wrong with them, but now I'm only feeding one, I don't need so many). If anyone would like them to try, let me know.

Cocktail Crush - 4 seeds
Costuluto Fiorentino - lots
Gardener's Ecstacy from Real Seeds - 10 seeds (these are quite old but I think will be OK)
Cuoree di Bue - lots
Moneymaker - a whole unopened packet, I wonder why 😆

I really, really did not need to know about the Premier Seeds Direct sale....

Haha I couldn't suffer in silence

Garden Ecstasy ( fantastically tasty tomatobred from Dr.Carolyn and Irish Gardener's Delight - much closer to current iterations of GD))
Chadwick Cherry -I grow this every year.

F1 for blight resistant - Crimson Crush.
Sauces (an extra pick, I know but...) - Skykomish - huge orange beefsteak with terrific taste.

All from Real Seeds, my usual seed seller.

@rosaprimula I know this is pretty subjective but could you elaborate on the difference between Gardener's Ecstacy and Chadwick Cherry please?