Category: Vegetables

Tomato Emerald Green Cherry

A green cherry heritage or open pollinated tomato on indeterminate plants. Description This is a large cherry tomato, light green with pinkish tinges. Now, there is (in my mind) some confusion. The packet says it was bred by Burpee but looking through Burpees website, there aren’t any Emerald Green Cherry tomatoes, the only green cherry…… Continue reading Tomato Emerald Green Cherry

Tomato Egyptian

A black/brown plum shaped heritage tomato on indeterminate plants. Description In our experience, this is a deep red/brown plum shaped fruit with green shoulders which we grew in 2015 getting a reasonable crop of variable sized fruit with a good colour and reasonable taste. Their history includes an impossible story, that seeds were found in…… Continue reading Tomato Egyptian

Tomato Earliana

A large round red tomato on shortish indeterminate plants Description A compact indeterminate (about 3-4ft), regular leafed red standard sized tomato developed in about 1900 by George Sparks of Salem, New Jersey and released by Johnson and Stokes. It was developed as growers tried to bring the earliest tomato to market. We grew this for…… Continue reading Tomato Earliana

Tomato Dark Galaxy

Large cherry open pollinated tomato on indeterminate plants. Description  A large cherry tomato with blue/black skin colouration with yellow speckles. The flesh is red. We grew this for the first time in 2017, from seeds from a seed swap and, whilst its flavour was nothing out of the ordinary, we were pleasantly surprised at the…… Continue reading Tomato Dark Galaxy

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 Cuore Di Bue

A large heart shaped red heritage tomato on indeterminate plants. Description Cuore di Bue (Italian for Oxheart but not to be confused with Cuor di Bue despite the similarity in name but similar to Cuore di Torro) is a pinkish red, sweet tasting, meaty, ox-heart beef tomato which is excellent for slicing and cooking because…… Continue reading Tomato Cuore Di Bue

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

Tomato Cream Sausage

A cream/white elongated plum tomato on determinate plants. Description Also known as Banana Cream, this is one of many tomatoes bred by Tom Wagner, a cross with Yellow Banana in 1998 which was commercially released in 2004. This determinate regular leafed plant is productive and the paste tomato is an elongated plum and a creamy…… Continue reading Tomato Cream Sausage

Tomato Country Taste

Round Red Beefsteak F1 Hybrid tomato on Indeterminate plants. Description This was a mistake. I don’t (in general) grow F1 hybrids (except for attempts to defeat blight). I picked this up in a garden centre and didn’t read the packet properly. My reason for not growing F1 hybrid tomatoes is because I have yet to…… Continue reading Tomato Country Taste