Just a few packets from our trials keep your own seed for future use if you like it.Īn ancient variety, long thought lost, this was bred by Henri Vilmorin of the famous Andrieux-Vilmorin Seedhouse in France. A short vine to about 5-6ft, medium sized red fruit, with an excellent flavour & juicy flesh. We really like this one, as it is one of the best flavoured of the big-fruited tomatoes - it has a particularly good balance of sweetness and acid.īred at Wild Garden Seeds to combine the best properties of Stupice, Homestead and Peron.
Sadly now it is getting harder to find and This big round tomato from the 1920's comes from a cross of 'Ponderosa' & 'St Louis' in an effort to create the ultimate salad tomato.Ĭonstantly popular, since then it has been continually reselected for good flavour, strong plants, and large red fruit. We also find it much less prone to blossom end rot than many plum varieties. We got crates and crates of fruit from just 12 plants this year. It makes great ketchup and sauces, and is one of the highest yielding plum tomatoes we have grown. Unusual and tasty, this has been a favourite of ours for many years – ideal for both salads and cooking. An incredibly productive plum tomato, it makes loads of large orange-coloured fruit. This variety is one that we would really recommend. Not the highest-yielding tomato, but the flavour when ripe is very good indeed. Interestingly, several years after we chose this in our taste trials, we discovered that it was in fact bred from our other very good flavoured tomato, Galina. The flavour is fantastic and this is a special strain we have reselected ourselves for bigger, fruit. This is a medium height vine with spherical, glowing round pink tomatoes about 2” in diameter. You can also check out some of the many articles and plant profiles we have focused on tomatoes.We’re pleased to offer what may well be the best tasting tomato there is, named after tomato breeder Dr Carolyn Mayle. Of course we all have our favorite tomatoes, but we've put together a varied selection of excellent tomatoes you can grow in your own garden, with details about their qualities, best uses and some tips on growing. Tomatoes are not cold hardy plants, and need hot weather to really flourish, but some varieties may reseed themselves in spring, particularly cherry tomatoes. If you have a sunny spot, and a bit of space, you can grow tomatoes! Be aware that cherry tomatoes, despite their small size, grow on plants that can get very big, and most tomato plants will need staking or support of some kind. Tomatoes requires extra care but once you develop a system, they aren't difficult to grow, either in the garden or in a container (we have tips to help you with that, too). Fresh tomatoes can also be cooked and preserved easily by canning or freezing, for making healthy and delicious dishes in winter.
Tomatoes are the ultimate summer treat, Tomato lovers anticipate the first fruit, ripe on the vine, because there's nothing better than a fresh local tomato sliced on a sandwich, tossed in a salad, or made into a fresh salsa.
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