![]() They're good raw, but really come into their own as a variety to use cooked.Īnother excellent ex-USSR variety from Andrei Barawovski in the Ukraine, this was one of the best tasting in our 2018 trials.Ī delicious Italian variety ideal for salads or cooking. This is a very sweet, tasty and early-fruiting oxheart tomato the fruits are medium-large, and have a delicious, complex flavour. In an unheated conservatory we have picked the last tomatoes on Christmas Day. This variety is consistently one of the longest-cropping ripening fruit long after others have given up. The flavour is really good both raw and cooked. The tomatoes are a beautiful translucent pale yellow, with a hint of orange blush depending on temperature. Very, very large red tomato, recommended for a greenhouse or polytunnel.Ī wonderful tomato from Belarus,this is a tall vine that starts to fruit early, tastes great, and carries on long after the others have given up. The name translates as 'ugly, from the wide river' - well they may not be the prettiest of tomatoes, but in this case looks definitely aren't everything! ![]() This variety proved to be a real stand-out both in terms of earliness (only the super-early varieties ripened before it) and flavour. Kate came by a selection of interesting tomatoes from a small local seed company on a visit to Seville a few years back. This is a really massive tomato - we've included a picture of it next to a (rather large) mug here to try to give you an idea of the scale. They ripen from the orangey colour in the photos to a deeper red-pink, and make large number of fruit over a long season. Passed to us via Owen Bridge of Annapolis Seeds. This unusual variety has a large hollow seed cavity - ideal for stuffing like a pepper, or just use as normal - and is one of the prettiest tomatoes we have grown, with a true peach-blush on the skin. Henri was the author of the invaluable reference book 'The Vegetable Garden' that was published in English in 1885 - and it's been in print ever since. Just a few packets available each year 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.Ī good maincrop red tomato, on a medium-tall vine.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. We’re pleased to offer what may well be the best tasting tomato there is, named after tomato breeder Dr Carolyn Mayle.
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