What tomatoes do you grow?

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I grew several varieties last year, including some heritage varieties, but wasn't really blown away by any of them. One of them was good, but the slugs just destroyed before they got close to ripening.

Any recommendations of your favourites very welcome!

Sungold every year as the tastiest little cherry/small tomato, quick cropping and keeps going for ages.
Shimmer which was a Which? Best buy a few years ago and is also delicious and looks really lovely.
This year I’m growing Burlesque as my beefsteak choice, another best buy although i find all beefsteaks a bit slower and less reliable.

Gardener's Delight. I've grown others but always come back to these. Sweet, small (I dislike floury large ones) and puts up with my erratic watering

Oooh I've found my tomato tribe. I'm a newbie but for the last 2 years grown cherry tomatoes in pots. Some were larger than others last summer, and it was my best crop. I think i have a lot to learn so will be be following with interest. Thank you for the thread x

Moneymaker for cordon tomatoes, and Tumbling Tom for cherry tomatoes. I love Tumbling Tom's, because they are so easy, I can move the pots around the patio to follow the sun and they keep going for ever. I had more tomatoes than I could eat last year, just off three pots.

A lot of my favourite varieties are no longer available since Brexit
but I will always seek out

• Black Russian
• Tigerella
• Golden Sunrise
• Yellow pear
• Marmande
• Gardeners delight
• Millefeuille

Gardeners. DElight and Sungold. Best for flavour I think.

yellow pearshape
black krim
green zebra
tigerella

red tomatos you can buy in shops

"Sungold every year as the tastiest little cherry/small tomato, quick cropping and keeps going for ages."

Agree with this - such a delicious, sweet little tomato. I've grown other types, but always come back to these.

https://premierseedsdirect.com/product/tomato-cherry-lizzano-f1/

I love these. They are low maintenance as they are semi determinate and you can grow in hanging baskets / with limited space.

Premier seeds direct do the Marmande (and an organic version) for a very reasonable price.

Cordon
Outdoor girl - did the best of all my tomatoes in last year's drought. Cherry.
Purple cherokee - taste amazing, don't store well. Beefstake.
Pink brandywine - need staking well, produce good, big tomatoes. Beefstake.

Bush
Tumbling Tom - prolific and the plant stays quite compact. Cherry.
Tumbling tiger - smaller bush version of tigerella and beautiful to look at. Large cherry.

I am currently being bombarded by she grows veg on facebook amd it is taking a lot of willpower to not buy more seeds. I have so many seeds.

Sweet million are my go to, true to their name they produce lots of sweet cherry tomatoes.

I’m interested in recommendations for a variety of baby plum tomato if anyone has one?

Black Russian did very well last year. Lovely tasty tomatoes, and very prolific.

yellow pearshape
principe borhese

Another vote for Tumbling Toms, very tasty, and Tesco usually have the plants in a hanging container in the spring so theyre easy all round really.

Gardener's Delight for me

also san marzano

Ooh, thank you all, interesting that the old favourites are still right up there. I think I might stick with those (Sungold and Gardeners Delight) as space will be limited this year.

I did grow Tumbling Toms one year and wasn't impressed, tasteless and woolly, I am fully prepared to accept that this may have been down to my poor horticultural skills.

Last year I grew a wonderful variety called Atomic Grape, but it took an age to ripen and the slugs had got to them well before that time. It must have been a good one as they didn't touch any of the other varieties.

San Marzano
Tumbling Tom
Gardener's Delight
Red Cherry
Sungold

Had success with decent San Marzano plum tomatoes last summer, planted in the garden but they became heavy and had to use several canes to hold them up.

Various success with the others, all in pots.

Growing tomatoes outside in Scotland, I mostly grow slightly obscure things – Gardner's Delight and Moneymaker just aren't reliable for me, although they did well when I lived further south.

I grow

• Red Alert (large cherry/small salad, very early)
• Latah (small salad, rambling plants, but keeps going later in the autumn than anything else)
• Galina (yellow cherry, prolific)
• Crokini (cherry, blight-resistant, prolific)
• Stupice (early salad)
• Orange Paruche (orange cherry, blight resistant)

I might try something other than Stupice this year, as I feel like the variety has evolved slightly and is not quite as good as it used to be.

San Marzano and Golden Cherry

I find the San Marzano need careful attention as they can be prone to blossom end rot.

Has anyone tried growing Limoncito toms? I thought they looked interesting

Last year I grew Lemon Gazzi from The Heritage Seed library and they were the best tomatoes I have ever eaten. Because we were having a big family gathering in April, I grew far too many tomato plants and gave them away to family members as goody bags! From Liverpool to London, family members harvested Lemon Gazzi as the summer progressed and also pronounced them marvellous. I collected seeds myself last year and have just sown them this morning, so fingers crossed.
Another vote for tumbling toms too, which I grow in hanging baskets

I grow a different assortment in a greenhouse (I have 3) every year but St Pierre from that ‘foreign’ variety in all good gardening centres is brilliant. I roast and freezer my surplus, it’s the best I’ve found.

Gardener’s Delight

We had a green house for the 1st time last summer. Some we grew last year or have tried in previous ones:

The top list are ones which look interesting/different in a mixed tomato salad, but have little to no taste:
-Cream sausage.
-Green tiger and red tiger
-Black tomato

Actually taste nice:
-Orange Wellington. Beef steak size, very meaty and great sliced on toast
-Roma
-Zlatava. Red skin but pink inside. I think these tasted ok?
-Sungold
-Golden crown- sweet, cherry variety
-Black opal, very sweet cherry variety
-Marmade- another beefsteak sized one

Over the years I've bought seeds from lidl, Suttons, Just seeds, Kings seeds and The real seed company.