Tomato – Alice’s Dream

A medium sized Black/Orange tomato on Regular Leafed Indeterminate plants. Description New to us in 2025, also from a new source of seeds so we’ll see how they grow.Their described as Black with Orange stripes. Its of Polish origin from one of many accidental cross (we’ve all had them) between Blue Gold and an Indigo…… Continue reading Tomato – Alice’s Dream

Tomato – Evil Olive

Mid Season green olive shaped fruit on indeterminate, regular leafed plants. Fruit have dark green undertones but can be tri-coloured. Description A new one for us in 2025. We grow green tomatoes just to give a variety of colour but this one also sounded as though it would have a “zingy” sharp flavour. Its often…… Continue reading Tomato – Evil Olive

Tomatoes for 2025

It has got to that time of year again when making decisions about what to grow. My plan this year is to significantly reduce the number of cultivar’s, probably only around 10 different varieties. The main reason is that we’ve still got a lot of tomatoes left over from last year, we’re not eating anything…… Continue reading Tomatoes for 2025

Tomato – Yellow Perfection

A small/medium Yellow Cherry tomato on Regular Leafed Indeterminate plants. Description The description given on the packet is of a “Tasty, heirloom (heritage) cultivar with small golden-yellow fruit so it sounds a bit like one of the many yellow cherry varieties we have grown over the years. We bought the seeds from our local supermarket…… Continue reading Tomato – Yellow Perfection

July 2024 – A Slow Year for Tomatoes

The tomatoes have been sown (early March), potted on, molly coddled when they started and eventually planted out into their final spaces in the greenhouse (early April). However, the cold, dull weather seems to be making it hard work for them to grow on as strongly as I would like. All the indeterminate varieties are…… Continue reading July 2024 – A Slow Year for Tomatoes

Tomato – Tsungshigo Chinese

Tsungshigo Chinese

A brown plum shaped tomato on Indeterminate Plants Description A mid/late cropping brown plum shaped tomato very similar to Black Plum. The seeds were part of the 2019 swap but we didn’t get around to growing them for the first time until 2023. Fortunately the seeds seem to have kept and there was no issue…… Continue reading Tomato – Tsungshigo Chinese

Tomato – Rainbow Blend

Multiple colours of small plum tomatoes on an Indeterminate Plant Description This is an F1 Hybrid which comes in a packet of multiple colours (red, yellow, orange). However, it is possible that the open pollenated plant will run true to the original colour (or at least the selected yellow tomato first grown in 2022 grew…… Continue reading Tomato – Rainbow Blend

2023 – First Tomatoes

We were so excited when we finally harvested our very first batch of tomatoes this week. It was such a rewarding moment. There weren’t that many, just a handful, but it still felt like a significant accomplishment. Surprisingly, they ripened a bit earlier than we anticipated. It’s interesting how nature sometimes works in mysterious ways,…… Continue reading 2023 – First Tomatoes