Tag: Standard Tomatoes

Tomato Golden Sunrise

Medium sized yellow heritage tomato on indeterminate plants. Description Golden Sunrise is a  golden-yellow medium sized tomato with a sweet, distinctive flavour. The indeterminate, regular-leafed plant produces a good crop of early/mid, round, golden-yellow medium sized fleshy tomatoes.  Whilst it is one of the best standard sized yellow tomatoes as it has a distinctive, good…… Continue reading Tomato Golden Sunrise

Tomato Golden Queen

A medium sized yellow heritage tomato on indeterminate plants. Description  This medium/large yellow tomato is historically important as it was introduced in 1882 by Livingston as a really good, highly flavoured yellow medium/large tomato on a regular leafed indeterminate plant. The original description says it is excellent for slicing and eating raw as well as…… Continue reading Tomato Golden Queen

Tomato Gold Dust

A orange/yellow standard sized open pollinated tomato on determinate plants. Description Gold Dust is an early deep orange/yellow, regular-leafed, standard sized tomato. The determinate/semi-determinate (Bush) plant produces quantities of round slightly flattened firm fleshed orange/yellow tomatoes of between 4 and 8 ounces (2-3 inches). Its an early ripening variety (with some fruit ripening at the…… Continue reading Tomato Gold Dust

Tomato Gold Stripe

A yellow/green striped cherry tomato on determinate plants. Description Gold Stripe (also known as Rambling Gold Stripe because of its growth habit) is a excellent yellow and green striped (ripening to pale orange) regular leafed, cherry tomato. The determinate (bush) tomato is ideal for hanging baskets and large containers. The small cherry tomatoes start green…… Continue reading Tomato Gold Stripe

Tomato Garden Peach

Peach coloured standard sized heritage tomato on indeterminate plants. Description Garden Peach is a standard tomato with delicate meaty flesh. The regular leafed indeterminate plant has relatively low yields. Whilst they are a novelty with the peachy coloured skin and a “fuzz” on the skin (hence the name Peach) and it does well in taste…… Continue reading Tomato Garden Peach

Tomato Essex Wonder

Standard sized red heritage tomato on indeterminate plants Description Essex Wonder was a commercial greenhouse tomato grown in the UK from the 1930’s to the 1950’s when it fell out of favour. It was re-introduced by Thompson and Morgan as part of their Heritage Collection in 2013/4. We grew it in 2014 and (to be…… Continue reading Tomato Essex Wonder

Tomato Cyril’s Choice

A red salad open pollinated tomato on very dwarf indeterminate/determinate plants. Description An English variety which was distributed through the Heritage Seed Library (although it seems to have disappeared from its list now), the stocky determinate plant has relatively small, regular sized deep red fruits and dark foliage. We grew this for the first time…… Continue reading Tomato Cyril’s Choice

Tomato Crimson Crush

A Blight Resistant red F1 hybrid tomato on Indeterminate plants. Description We have found that these were bred by Burpees Europe (and have a different name in the US – Cloudy Days). Following my diatribe against F1 Hybrid tomatoes in Country Taste you might be surprised to find another F1 Hybrid tomato in my list. Well…… Continue reading Tomato Crimson Crush