Early cropping Standard F1 Hybrid Red Tomato on Indeterminate plants. Description Shirley is a popular F1 Hybrid tomato which produces large trusses of fruit on strong, open plants. It has good resistance to a number of pests & diseases. We don’t in general grow it because its an F1 Hybrid. We’ll add pictures as they…… Continue reading Tomato – Shirley
Category: Tomato Cultivars
A list of all the cultivar of tomatoes on this site
Tomato – Summerlast
A red cherry on compact Determinate plants Description We don’t grow F1 hybrids in general but free seeds are always an exception to the rule. So this compact Determinate cultivar will get tried in 2022 (outside of course). It looks to be similar to Tiny Tim and Red Robin so it will have to be…… Continue reading Tomato – Summerlast
Tomato – ACE 55
A large , red, round tomato on Determinate Plants Description Whilst this seems to be a relatively common cultivar, we are growing it for the first time in 2022. It is described as a large, fleshy heritage variety developed at the University of California in the 1950’s with resistance to many common pests and diseases.…… Continue reading Tomato – ACE 55
Harvest- End of September 2021
The season is beginning to come to an end. We’re still getting tomatoes (another 9kg since our last post) but the plants are looking decidedly sickly with botrytis/grey mould killing off the ends of the plants, the leaves and (more frequently now) the fruit. It looks like the problem has affected even the fruit that…… Continue reading Harvest- End of September 2021
Harvest – Beginning of September 2021
So, two weeks ago when I made my last harvest post we had harvested 4kg of tomatoes. What a difference a fortnight makes. We’ve now picked 20kg of tomatoes, had a significant number of bowls of tomato soup, made tomato sauce and chopped up tomatoes for the freezer and given a reasonable quantity away. Looking…… Continue reading Harvest – Beginning of September 2021
Tomato – Beams Yellow Pear
Yellow – Pear shaped Cherry tomato on Indeterminate Plants From the 2019 Seed Swap, grown in 2021. A Yellow, pear shaped large cherry tomato, not much like anything we’ve grown before. Its a bit large to use as a salad tomato but its a good flavour and, being a slightly unusual shape, is fun to…… Continue reading Tomato – Beams Yellow Pear
Watering Tomatoes – How to get it Right
Correctly watering your tomatoes through their life can make a big difference to the overall crop. One thing to remember is the old adage “more plants are killed by overwatering than underwatering”. So, what is “overwatering” and how do you prevent yourself doing it? Watering Seeds & Seedlings If we start at the beginning, tomatoes…… Continue reading Watering Tomatoes – How to get it Right
July 2021 summary
Here we are at the beginning of July and our tomatoes are doing well. Most have fruit set and growing and the plants are well established. This year I am keeping the indeterminate varieties to a single cordon rather than as I did last year, letting all of the sideshoots grow. I’m also planning to…… Continue reading July 2021 summary
Mid June Harvest (19th June 2021)
Ignoring the tomatoes for a while (they’re growing strongly and beginning to set fruit), I’m looking at how everything else is doing. Lots of plants are in the process of strengthening, growing and beginning to set fruit & vegetables but the harvest is a bit slow. Some of the difficulty is down to the weather…… Continue reading Mid June Harvest (19th June 2021)
Tomato Black Mauri (Black Moor)
A black cherry tomato on indeterminate vines. Description Another cultivar from the 2019 seed swap that we grew for the first time in 2021. It sounded similar to brown berry or black cherry but the shape was very different and we ended up with something much more like Black Plum (although the colour was a…… Continue reading Tomato Black Mauri (Black Moor)