Yesterday I went to the allotment to prune my Autumn Fruiting Raspberries. Raspberries are possibly one of the few reasons why I want to keep my allotment. This year we picked a total of 17kgs of fruit, about half of which are presently sat in the freezer, the rest having been eaten as they ripened.…… Continue reading Pruning Autumn Fruited Raspberries
Month: November 2017
Tomato Zhefen Short
Medium sized red heritage tomato on determinate plants. Description Zhefen Short is said to be a “tasty 3-inch slightly oval pink tomato that grows on 3ft – 4ft plants. Good juice, sweet/acid balance and great taste. Excellent for a short season or patio tomato”. We tried it in 2012 but unfortunately the seedlings were eaten…… Continue reading Tomato Zhefen Short
Tomato Yellow Stuffer
Yellow bell shaped open pollinated tomato on indeterminate plants. Description Yellow Stuffer has yellow, bell-pepper shaped tomatoes with a large cavity and few seeds.. The indeterminate, regular-leafed, plants produce a good crop of bell-pepper shaped yellow fruit, ideal for stuffing as they are strong walled and nearly empty of seeds midway through the tomato season.…… Continue reading Tomato Yellow Stuffer
Tomato Yellow Pigmy
Yellow cherry heritage tomato on compact determinate plants. Description Yellow Pigmy is a small yellow cherry tomato that grows on a small but sprawling determinate plant. Similar in some respects to Tumbling Tom Yellow. Its tasty and would be worth growing for the fact that it only takes up a limited space but the fruit…… Continue reading Tomato Yellow Pigmy
Tomato Yellow Brandywine
Yellow beefsteak heritage tomato on indeterminate plants. Description Yellow Brandywine is a beefsteak tomato with possibly the best flavour of all the yellow tomatoes. In 2012 we also grew Azoychka as a yellow beefsteak. Azoychka was slightly more productive but Yellow Brandywine was slightly later so we had a long season of yellow beefsteak tomatoes.…… Continue reading Tomato Yellow Brandywine
Tomato White Zebra
White striped medium sized open pollinated tomato on indeterminate plants. Description This is said to be a white striped tomato. However, when we grew it (in 2014) our plant (just one) produced standard red tomatoes so we assumed that the seeds had crossed with some other variety in the supplier (Heritage Harvested Seed) and our…… Continue reading Tomato White Zebra
Tomato White Queen
White beefsteak heritage tomato on indeterminate plants. Description White Queen is a “white” Beefsteak tomato. The Indeterminate regular leafed plant produces very sweet, very pale, beefsteak tomatoes of about 6-8ounces late in the season. It is very fragrant, smooth-skinned with slightly ribbed shoulders. It has a very sweet taste, one of the best white tomatoes.…… Continue reading Tomato White Queen
Tomato White Currant
Pea sized white open pollinated tomato on compact indeterminate plants. Description White Currant produces large numbers of tiny creamy white fruit on a sprawling plant which (whilst we have defined it as a “compact indeterminate”) can grow large under the right circumstances. In general, we grow this in a pot and it grows very similarly…… Continue reading Tomato White Currant
Tomato Vintage Wine
Pink/Yellow small beefsteak open pollinated tomato on potato leafed indeterminate plants. Description Vintage Wine is a medium sized pastel-hued golden striped beefsteak tomato with mild flavour. A mid-ripening, indeterminate, potato-leafed, medium sized (5 – 8 oz) tomato with unusual pale pink fruits with golden stripes. It is full of flavour and an ideal companion to…… Continue reading Tomato Vintage Wine
Tomato Vesennij Mieurinsky
Red Cherry Open Pollinated tomato on indeterminate plants. Description Red Indeterminate cherry tomato with compact trusses of small salad tomatoes. We grew this for the first time in 2017. It grows very similarly to Christmas Grapes and has a very sweet taste (need to grow both side by side to do a taste comparison). Produced…… Continue reading Tomato Vesennij Mieurinsky