| Tomato List 2009 All our tomato plants are grown in limited quantities, so it is essential to order early. We will grow to order for you if we know your requirements by March 1st. |
| DESCRIPTION |
| | WE HAVE SPLIT THE VARIETIES INTO BEEFSTEAK, SALAD AND CHERRY SECTIONS THIS YEAR BUT WOULD ASK THAT YOU CONSIDER ALL OF THEM NOT JUST WHAT YOU'RE USED TO. I HOPE YOU ENJOY READING AND SELECTING! |
| | BEEFSTEAK TOMATOES - Please do not dismiss the enormous delights of beefsteak toms! The flavour is usually far richer and more complex than salad or cherry tomatoes and for my money they are better for making sauces and for cooking in general if you do not grow a specific cooking tom. |
| | Altajsky Urozajnij - early, big bush
Red, juicy beefsteak tomatoes, productive, compact, bushy. |
| | Azoychka Russian - mid-season, pinch.
Large citrus flavoured beefsteak tomatoes, good cropping tomato. |
| | Black from Tula - mid season
Considered on of the best of all the black tomatoes. Flattened round beefsteak tomatoes. |
| | Brandywine off the Vine - mid season
A red-orange beefsteak tomato from the famous brandywine range. Considered to have the best flavour of all, big and healthy. Needs a GOOD summer to ripen well |
| | Cherokee Purple - pinch Huge purple-pink fruit, sweet, fleshy and flavourful. Better in a greenhouse. |
| | Golden Sunray - late, pinch
Large, round golden fruits with wonderful flavour. Not strictly a beefsteak tom, but big enough to argue the point! |
| | Livingston's Beauty - late season, pinch Big pink-purple fruits which keep well. Very productive plants with dense foliage, good flavour. |
| | Marizol Gold - pinch
Gold beefsteak tomatoes, marbled red, sweet flavour |
| | Omar's Lebanese - mid season, pinch or sprawl
Exceptional flavour, large beefsteak, your hottest spot please . |
| | Purple Calabash - mid season, pinch
Wierd pleated and puckered beefsteak tomatoes with rich flavour and purple/burgundy colour This has proved to be one of the most popular and productive toms I sell. Good yield even in last years abysmal weather. |
| | Sasha Altai - early, pinch
Round red fruits, a small beefsteak, sweet and juicy. |
| | Silvery Fir - early, bush
Very decorative foliage, lots of orange red fruit, small beefsteak, delicious. Compact enough for the patio in a pot. |
| | Southern Nights - mid season
Compact plants with rich, sweet fruits in a blackish red colour |
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| SALAD TOMATOES - Frequently overlooked in favour of cherry toms but still with a place in the garden and on the plate! Not all salad toms are round - or red - but all my selection have that true tomato taste. |
| | Aurora - early, bush.
Small round red fruits, an excellent tomato. |
| | Black Ethiopian - mid season, big bush
One of my favourite tomatoes, beautiful plum romatoes with a rich flavour and not black but more mahogany red. |
| | Black Prince - mid season
Very sweet round fruits with pointed ends, dark purple/brown/red colour. |
| | Black Star - mid season
The usual rich fruity flavour one gets with most ‘black’ tomatoes, inside the flesh is green! What a contrast. Nice round tomatoes. |
| | De Barao Black - mid season, pinch
Actually it’s more purple/mahogany than black but very vigorous and productive, for eating and cooking, plum fruits. |
| | De Barao - mid season, pinch
Very vigorous growth, and great produtivity, big plum tomatoes with excellent flavour both eating and cooking. |
| | Gem State - early, bush
Vigorous plants with lots of small red tomatoes, easy, ideal for pots. |
| | Glacier - early, bush. Orange red fruits set well even in cold weather, sweet flavour. |
| | Green Zebra - late, pinch
When ripe the delicious salad tomatoes are yellow gold with dark green stripes. The only tomato I supply which needs to be in a greenhouse for best cropping. |
| | Kootenai - bush. Compact plants, long season, juicy, red salad tomatoes. |
| | Muscat - mid season, pinch
Magnificent fine flavoured salad tomatoes, long season. |
| | Miel de Mexique - late, pinch
Medium sized fruit, sweet and juicy, drought resistant. |
| | Moneymaker -mid season, pinch
Good traditional variety, productive, easy. |
| | Nectar - mid season, pinch
Excellent flavoured red salad tomatoes. |
| | Olirose de St Domingue - mid season, pinch
Lots of large oval deep pink tomatoes with sweet, rich flavour, vigorous |
| | Rose de Berne - mid season, pinch
Dark pink fruits, delicious, productive. |
| | Reinette Fruitee - mid season
Medium sized red fruits with excellent flavour. |
| | Roi Humbert - mid season
Sweet red pear-shaped fruit, ideal for drying or paste |
| | Salad Master - mid season, bush
Good crop of red salad tomatoes on a bush. |
| | Salt Spring Sunrise - mid season, bush
Good red salad tomatoes from high yielding bushes. |
| | Stupice - early, bush
Blight resistant, large bush with good red tomatoes with excellent flavour |
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| CHERRY TOMATOES - Frequently the easiest and definately the most popular tomatoes for any garden. The selection below aims to combine easy growth, loads of fruit and really good flavour, plus look out for the varieties to grow in hanging baskets! |
| Black Cherry Productive, vigorous cherry tomato with dark brown/purple fruits. |
| | Buissonante - bush & basket Lots of sweet red cherry toms over a long season. |
| Caro Rich - mid season, bush
Deep orange slightly flattened fruits, very high levels of vitamin A, productive |
| Gardener’s Delight - big bush, early
An old favourite with masses of sweet, cherry tomatoes, bright red, long season. |
| | Gartenperle - bush, pot or basket Masses of large cherry tomatoes over a long season. |
| | Jelly Bean - large bush Masses of those very popular small plum tomatoes but with a far better flavour than the ones you buy commercially. |
| | Maskotka - bush, pot or basket New to me but comes highly recommended for both yield and flavour. Strong chains probably best if in a basket! |
| Mirabella - mid season, bush
An orange cherry tomato with a good mild flavour, productive. |
| New Zealand Pear - pinch. Wonderful, productive cooking/preserving/paste tomato, large pear shape. |
| Pearly Pink Cherry - mid season, pinch
Sweet cherry tomatoes in abundance. One of last years most popular choices. |
| | Red Cherry - big bush Italian cherry tomatoes. Early, very productive and easy. |
| White Rabbit - mid season, bush
Very pale yellow cherry tomatoes on sprawling bush. |
| Whippersnapper - early, big bush or pinch
Likes to sprawl and produces masses of deep pink oval cherry tomatoes with excellent flavour. Very popular. |