Generated by All in One SEO v4.9.10, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # MyVegPatch Tomatoes, Gardening and Everything Else ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [Blog](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/blog/) - [June 2023 - How things are progressing](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/june-2023-how-things-are-progressing/) - Until now, June has been hot & dry meaning that the tomato plants in the greenhouses have got away well. Most plants have now got fruit set and, my guess is, we will start to see fruit ripening over the next few weeks (my records show that we get ripe fruit starting mid-July). The dry - [Tomato - Alice's Dream](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-alices-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 - [Tomato - Evil Olive](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/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 - [Tomato Zhefen Short](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/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 - [Recipe - Simple Tasty Tomato Soup - Deal with the Glut](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/recipe-simple-tasty-tomato-soup-deal-with-the-glut/) - In August and early September there is always a glut of tomatoes and whilst there are lots of ways of dealing with it, freezing, chutney, sauce, etc., this is another recipe which is also good in September when the days are getting a bit cooler, it makes an excellent lunch and freezes well if you - [Sparrowhawk Saga - Continued](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/sparrowhawk-saga-continued/) - Starting August 24th, we haven’t heard the Sparrowhawks and we have wondered if they have left the area. At the same time the small birds seem to have returned with bluetits, great tits, long-tailed tits and coal tits at the bird feeder and great spotted woodpeckers in the trees. It will be interesting to see - [Tomato Tigerella](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-tigerella/) - Medium sized red/yellow striped open pollinated/heritage tomato on indeterminate plants. Description Tigerella is a sweet flavoured, mid-sized (2 - 4oz) red and yellow striped tomato. Well established, it has nonetheless kept its place in our greenhouses because of its excellent taste and reliable, high cropping. It was developed in the UK by Dr Lewis Darby - [Tomato - Darby Striped](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-darby-striped/) - Medium Sized Red and Yellow striped tomato with a rich flavour. Description Grown for the first time in 2018 with seeds from a seed swap, we were interested to see how this grew. We were very pleased. A early/mid season red/yellow striped tomato with deep red flesh and a beautiful flavour which made us want to - [Tomato - Yellow Perfection](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-yellow-perfection/) - A small/medium Yellow Standard sized tomato on Potato 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 - [Sparrowhawk saga](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/sparrowhawk-saga/) - Those of you who follow us on twitter or facebook will have seen a number of posts about our local sparrowhawks. To summarise: Back in May we saw a pile of sticks in our oak tree and noticed a sparrowhawk sitting around and carrying twigs to (what we assumed was) its nest. We've seen sparrowhaks - [Recipe - Cucumber Relish](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/recipe-cucumber-relish/) - 2025 seems to be a good year for cucumbers. We've already made our usual cucumber pickle so we're making cucumber relish as well. The ingredients are very similar to the pickle but you end up with something that is a bit like piccalilli, thicker than a pickle and suitable for using on sandwiches and as - [Another Courgette Chutney](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/another-courgette-chutney/) - The courgette glut means that we have many meals with courgettes but, the glut doesn't last long and everybody needs to spread out their consumption of courgettes. Chutney is one way of storing courgettes and there are many different recipes. This is a very simple one with few ingredients which tastes fine and keeps well. - [Spinach Harvested](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/spinach-harvested/) - For many years I’ve tried to grow spinach but it always seems to bolt and go to seed before it’s ready to pick. So this year I chickened out and bought some plants from the local garden centre. I also put a good helping of garden compost on the vegetable bed which may have helped. - [Sowing Tomatoes 2025](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/sowing-tomatoes-2025/) - Slightly later sowing this year than usual, trying to see whether sowing later actually makes a difference (other than hopefully reducing the length of time I spend carting the seedlings in and out). I've also reduced the number of cultivars (we've still got lots of tomatoes in the freezer from last year). Only three new - [Tomatoes for 2025](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/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 - [Tomato - ACE 55](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/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. - [Northern Lights](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/northern-lights/) - [First Snow of the Year](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/first-snow-of-the-year/) - After weeks of dull weather, last week we saw the sun again. It didn't last long as this morning we woke up to a couple of inches of snow and overnight temperatures below freezing for the first time. Over the garden, it looks quite pretty but the roads are turning to slush already. - [Recipe - Courgette Pickle](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/recipe-courgette-pickle/) - Unlike 2022, 2023 was not a fantastic year for cucumbers, there were as many as we needed (around 10 over the summer months) but not enough to make pickle. However, the courgettes have done well, particularly the "Tromba d'Albenga". These are a climbing variety which grow fruit up to about one metre in length. The - [Tomato Homosa](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-homosa/) - Medium sized red heritage tomato on an indeterminate plant. Description From the 2018 Seed Swap. A cultivar maintained by the Heritage Seed Library, and that's all I can find on the web, no information as to where it comes from or anything. These started ripening in August 2019. My problem is that 2019 is being - [Tomato - Faworyt](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-faworyt/) - Red/Pink Late Harvesting Beefsteak on Indeterminate plants Description A Polish cultivar ( the name translates a "Favourite") its variously described as "Early" or "Late" (about 80 days?) and "virtually seedless" to "heavily seeded" so my guess is that its a fairly standard Beefsteak, similar to Mortgage Lifter or Pink Brandywine both of which grow well - [Tomato Summer Cider](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-summer-cider/) - Orange beefsteak open pollinated tomato on potato leafed indeterminate plants. Description Summer Cider is a creamy textured juicy tomato with a delicate citrus flavour. A late ripening, indeterminate, potato-leafed beefsteak tomato with apricot coloured, flattened fruits of 4-18 oz. (Every year we have fruit of between 200 and 600 grams). Slightly blander flavour than Pink - [Tomato - Azoychka](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-azoychka/) - A Yellow Beefsteak of good flavour on Regular Leafed Indeterminate plants. - [Sparrowhawks](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/sparrowhawks/) - As I've probably said before, we back onto a small woodland. This year we seem to have been lucky enough to have a family of Sparrowhawks take up residence. My guess is that the young have relatively recently fledged and they are swooping around, screaming to each other. I don't have the equipment (or patience) - [Collapsing Tomato Plants](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/collapsing-tomato-plants/) - A lesson learned. This year, I decided to reduce the use of plastics in the tomato greenhouse by using ordinary garden string to support the plants, rather than the plastic string I have used in previous years. What I do is to tie the string through the holes I have made in the bottom of - [Tomato Sandpoint](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-sandpoint/) - A red cherry/small standard open pollinated tomato on determinate plants. Description A regular leafed compact determinate (about 2ft high) plant with small (mostly round although some can be more strawberry shaped) red fruit. It was developed in 1978 by Dr. Art Boe of Idaho and released commercially in 1980. 2020 Update: We've grown quite a few - [Tomato Rosella](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-rosella/) - Dark brown cherry open pollinated tomato on strong indeterminate plants. Description Rosella is an extremely productive cherry tomato with brown/purple fruits. The fruit are smaller and browner than Black Cherry (but not as brown as Brown Berry) but the plant is extremely vigorous, producing large quantities of thin skinned, sweet tasting tomatoes which seem to - [Tomato - Sweet Million (F1)](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-sweet-million-f1/) - Red Cherry fruits on Indeterminate F1 Hybrid Plants Description Red Cherry tomato similar to many of the Open Pollinated/Heritage varieties such as Red Berry, Christmas Grapes, etc.. We've been given a number of packets of seeds many of which are F1 Hybrid. We might have a go at comparing F1 hybrid varieties with equivalent non-hybrid - [Tomato Chocolate Cherry](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-chocolate-cherry/) - Chocolate Cherry: A dark brown/black heritage cherry tomato on indeterminate plants. - [Tomato Black and Brown Boar](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-black-and-brown-boar/) - A stripy black standard sized open pollinated tomato on indeterminate plants. Description From the 2018 Seed Swap According to the web, this was found in a row of Green Zebra at Wild Boar Farms. Its interesting how many varieties have come from Green Zebra, it must be slightly unstable. Its available from a number of - [Tomato - Sweet Success (F1)](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-sweet-success-f1/) - Red Cherry F1 Hybrid tomato on Indeterminate plants. Description This cherry tomato is said to have a superb flavour, lots of heavy trusses and includes resistance to many diseases. When we get round to growing it we will compare it to other, non-hybrid varieties such as Red Berry and Christmas Grapes that we've grown in - [Tomato Oleron Yellow](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-oleron-yellow/) - A Yellow cherry open pollinated tomato on indeterminate plants. Description Oleron Yellow is a medium sized, pale yellow cherry tomato with an excellent sweet taste, one of the best yellow tomatoes we have tasted. Collected from the French island of Oleron where they have been grown for “hundreds of years”, they were put on one - [Recipe - Grilled Courgette with Parmesan Cheese](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/grilled-courgette-with-parmesan-cheese/) - This is one of the simplest recipes for using courgettes, getting some of the glut used up. It makes a tasty side-dish to accompany whatever you may be eating. Simply slice the courgettes into piece about 1/2cm thick and put in the oven/under the grill for 10-15 minutes to cook gently/soften. When soft(ish) cover with - [Recipe - Courgette, Ham & Cheese](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/recipe-courgette-ham-cheese-2/) - With the courgettes growing quickly, its easy to miss some so this is a recipe that uses the large ones you’ve missed. It also continues to use the tomato sauce you made last year when the tomato glut hit. Its also simple and quick. Ingredients (for one) Large Courgette (700 grams) Handful of grated cheese - [Recipe - Courgette and Apricot Chutney](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/recipe-courgette-and-apricot-chutney/) - The glut of courgettes is always difficult to deal with. They need to be picked often to encourage more to set but if you miss one it can rapidly get big. Chutney of any sort is always a good way to deal with a glut and it will keep for up to 12 months in - [Peacock Butterfly](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/peacock-butterfly/) - There seems to have been a shortage of butterflies so far this year (although the cabbage whites are keen to lay eggs on my broccoli). However I was pleased to see this in my garden the other day. Its interesting to see how the caterpillars can change into something so attractive. - [2024 - Preparing for a Glut of some vegetables](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/2024-preparing-for-a-glut-of-some-vegetables/) - As I've said before, this year has been strange. The cool start to the season meant that many things didn't germinate when I expected them to (in fact there's been poor germination throughout). The result was that I sowed some things again and I ended up with more plants than I expected. The second issue - [July 2024 - A Slow Year for Tomatoes](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/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 - [Tomato Moskovich (Moskvich)](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-moskovich-moskvich/) - An early red slightly flattened round tomato on Indeterminate vines. Description From the 2019 Seed Swap, again this is one of the cultivars we grew for the first time in 2021. The various sources on the web suggest that it was developed by the Vavilov institute in Moscow in the early 1970s (which if true - [Tomato Roma](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-roma/) - Elongated red medium sized heritage tomato on compact indeterminate plants. Description Roma is one of the most common and prolofic Italian cooking tomatoes. is fleshy, sweet plum tomato with few seeds. Shorter and stockier than San Marzano, the flesh is thinner and it has a strong, sweet and more acidic taste. Ideal for cooking or - [Tomato Mrs Rucks](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-mrs-rucks/) - A small/medium sized red open pollinated tomato on determinate plants. Description This variety comes from the Heritage Seed Library and was donated by Mrs Catherine Ruck at Audley End in 2004. A Determinate which produces small round red fruit, its therefore in competition with a whole load of similar tomatoes. In 2017 when we grew - [Tomato Red Buffalo Horn](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-red-buffalo-horn/) - Red elongated plum shaped open pollinated tomato on indeterminate plants. Description Elongated late ripening plum tomato trusses of four or five fruit of about 5-6 ounces. Really meaty and good for cooking and salads. This variety seems to appear from nowhere at the Heritage Seed Library where it was "acquired by chance" from Provence. Other - [Tomato Reisentraube](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-reisentraube/) - Red oval cherry heritage tomato on indeterminate plants. Description This indeterminate slightly oval cherry tomato originates from Germany (interestingly it is said that it was originally grown for wine making) but today is an extremely tasty red fruit similar in shape to Principe Borghese, but darker and richer in flavour. The fruit grow in clusters - [Tomato King George (Kennilworth)](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-king-george/) - Medium sized red heritage tomato on an indeterminate plant. Description From the 2018 Seed Swap. Described on the web as a 1930's cultivar grown extensively in Kenilworth Warwickshire. Now the problem that I have with Commercial Cultivars that fall out of fashion is that is usually a reason - poor flavour, growth, volume or such - [Crows & Moss](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/crows-moss/) - I mentioned the other day that the crows are having a go at the moss in our "lawn". Just to prove what they are doing here are a couple of photos and videos. Now, I don't know what they are after, nor whether I should be pleased (they're digging up the moss) or annoyed (they're - [2024 - Comma Butterfly](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/2024-comma-butterfly/) - We've seen a number of Brimstone Butterlies so far this year but this feels like the earliest I've even seen a Comma (as ever all that means is they've flitted away before I got sight of them). A brief video of it sat there in the breeze. - [2024 - More Flowers](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/2024-more-flowers/) - As spring continues, we're getting yet more flowers showing through. Fritillaria, epimedium, more hybridised primulas, hellebores. The crows are also having a go at our "lawn" again, pulling up the moss. It seems that they're looking for things to eat underneath rather than nest building. Sowed some lettuces today, hopefully they'l start to produce in - [2024 - Sown Tomatoes](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/2024-sown-tomatoes/) - OK, its a little late this year but I've at last got around to sowing my tomatoes for 2024. No new ones this year, I haven't found any local suppliers who have something different that isn't an F1 Hybrid. This means I've had to sort through my (200+) own varieties and sort out ones that - [Spring is Springing - at last](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/spring-is-springing-at-last/) - Although I haven't started looking at my tomato season yet this year, its pleasant to see that the garden is at last breaking into spring. Its still wet and soggy underfoot but the bulbs and plants are starting to show that they like the warmer weather. Spent some time this afternoon tidying and planting strawberry - [Tomato Brad's Atomic (aka Brad's Atomic Grape)](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-brads-atomic/) - A multi-coloured grape shaped cherry tomato on indeterminate vines. Description Another blue/multi-coloured tomato from the 2019 seed swap which we're growing in 2020 for the first time. According to the web it was developed by Brad Gates the owner of Wild Boar Farms in California. The descriptions seem to be of a tasty, grape shaped, - [Tomato Aunt Ruby’s German Green](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-aunt-rubys-german-green/) - Aunt Rubys German Green: A Green/Red, Beefsteak tomato on Regular Leafed Indeterminate plants - [Tomato Reisetomate Pocketbook](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-reisetomate-pocketbook/) - Unusual red multi-berried open pollinated tomato on straggly indeterminate plants. Description A very unusual tomato this one, heavily fluted to the point where it appears to be a bunch of grapes rather than a single tomato although the individual pieces can be easily separated. Originating from Guatemala, it has a reasonable flavour and is worthwhile - [Tomato White Zebra](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/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 - [Tomato White Currant](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/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 - [Tomato Sunsets Red Horizon](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-sunsets-red-horizon/) - A heart shaped beefsteak heritage tomato on indeterminate plants. Description Sunset’s Red Horizon is a medium/large beefsteak tomato with a good taste. A native of Southern Russia (where they are known as “Rostvskaya Krasno Ispolin” - literally “Red Giant of Rostov”). The leafy indeterminate plant grew to 6ft tall in 2012 with only three trusses - [Tomato Marizol Gold](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-marizol-gold/) - Orange, beefsteak, heritage tomato on indeterminate plants. Description Marizol Gold is another Orange, Round Beefsteak, similar in many aspects to Mandarin Cross but a little more red colour to the skin and red flecks in the flesh. We like the taste, its creamy and smooth. It is said to originate from Germany but has been - [Tomato Jaune Flamme](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-jaune-flamme/) - Bright Orange small/standard tomato on Indeterminate plants. Description Jaune Flamme (or Flamme) is named for its bright colouration (orange flame). Grown for the first time in 2018 with seeds from a seed swap, we were interested to see how this grew. It did well (once I'd sorted it out as I'd mixed it up with - [Tomato Hundreds and Thousands](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-hundreds-and-thousands/) - A red cherry heritage tomato on determinate plants. Description An excellent bite sized (perfect for snacking) cherry tomato from determinate plants that produce literally hundreds or thousands of small fruit from plants which cascade down from whatever you’re growing them in. We grew this for the only time in 2015 as a comparison to Sweet - [Tomato Henderson's Wins All](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-hendersons-wins-all/) - Pink, beefsteak, heritage tomato on indeterminate plants. Description This Pink Beefsteak tomato grows on a vigorous indeterminate plant with regular leaves. Its quite late fruiting (like most Beefsteak) and the fruit are very similar to Pink Brandywine and Mortgage Lifter. This Heritage tomato was introduced in 1924 by a Peter Henderson as an improvement on - [Tomato Gold Dust](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/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 - [Tomato German Red Strawberry](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-german-red-strawberry/) - Large oxheart red open pollinated tomato on indeterminate plants. Description From the 2018 Seedswap, I grew this for the first time in 2019. Its a bit like Sunset's Red Horizon although (in my experience) a bit less pointed (searching the web seems to indicate that their shape can be inconsistent). According to the web, its - [Tomato Father Frost](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-father-frost/) - A "standard" red tomato on short potato leafed indeterminate vines Description This tomato is from the 2019 seed swap so this page will be updated as we get more information As a potato leafed variety, it is a little different from the standard tomato. However, it is supposed to be early and (in our experience) - [Tomato Earliana](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/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 - [Tomato Black Zebra](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-black-zebra/) - Black Zebra: A stripy black standard sized open pollinated tomato on indeterminate plants. - [Tomato - Berkeley Tie Dye](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-berkeley-tie-dye/) - Berkeley Tie Dye: A Pink/Green striped small Beefsteak, Open Pollinated tomato on Indeterminate plants - [Tomato - Beams Yellow Pear](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/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 - [Tomato - Alicante](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-alicante/) - Description Alicante is a unevenly sized golfball, red tomato with a full-bodied taste. The quality of the tomato is shown by the fact that it has an RHS AGM (Award of Garden Merit). The early/mid ripening, indeterminate, regular-leafed plant is an old variety, greenback free, it produces heavy crops and is ideal for both greenhouse - [Tomato - Ailsa Craig](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-ailsa-craig/) - A medium sized red, regular leafed, indeterminate tomato - [Tomato Abraham Lincoln](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-abraham-lincoln/) - A Large Red Indeterminate Beefsteak tomato with Regular Leaves Description We have found a number of different names for Abraham Lincoln [Abe Lincoln; Abraham Lincoln Buckbee; Early Abraham Lincoln]. It is one of the many large, red/pink beefsteak varieties comparable to Red & Pink Brandywine cropping unevenly through the later season (for us it usually - [Tomato Yellow Stuffer](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/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. - [Tomato Yellow Pigmy](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/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 - [Tomato Yellow Brandywine](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/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. - [Tomato White Queen](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/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. - [Tomato White Cherry](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-white-cherry/) - Pale Yellow/White Cherry on Indeterminate plants Description Grown for the first time in 2018 with seeds from a seed swap, we were interested to see how this grew. To be honest it was "just another" white/pale yellow cherry tomato with no special flavour or behaviour. However, it performed reasonably well and gets added to the - [Tomato Violet Jasper](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-violet-jasper/) - A medium sized red & brown/green striped tomato Description We got this from the 2018 seed swap and grew it in 2019. A really dark, slightly smaller than average striped tomato it has a good taste and is excellent both as a salad tomato and for cooking (although because it was a bad year there - [Tomato Vintage Wine](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/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 - [Tomato Tumbling Tom Yellow](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-tumbling-tom-yellow/) - Small yellow cherry heritage tomato on determinate plants. Description Tumbling Tom Yellow is a yellow cherry tomato “just perfect” for container growing. The early/mid-ripening, determinate, regular leafed, plant is ideal for hanging baskets and containers. It has lots of small sized yellow juicy and sweet tomatoes and is an ideal companion for Tiny Tim and - [Tomato Tumbling Tom Red](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-tumbling-tom-red/) - Small red cherry heritage tomato on determinate plants. Description Tumbling Tom Red is a Red cherry tomato “just perfect” for container growing a partner to Tumbling Tom Yellow. The early/mid-ripening, determinate, regular leafed, plant is ideal for hanging baskets and containers. It has lots of small sized yellow juicy and sweet tomatoes and is an - [Tomato True Black Brandywine](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-true-black-brandywine/) - Black beefsteak heritage tomato on potato leafed indeterminate plants. Description There’s a little debate about this cultivar. Said to originate from a breeder in the late 1920’s, it pre-dates Black Brandywine and is a potato leafed variety (Black Brandywine is a regular leafed cultivar) and therefore is (in some ways) more like the rest of - [Tomato Tiny Tim](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-tiny-tim/) - Red Cherry heritage tomato on compact indeterminate plants. Description Tiny Tim produces masses of small tomatoes with excellent flavour. The early ripening, compact indeterminate, regular-leafed, round, plant with a compact habit is ideal for growing in pots on the window ledge or on the patio. Its compact habit means that it is best grown as - [Tomato Tim's Black Ruffles](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-tims-black-ruffles/) - Large purple/black beefsteak open pollinated tomato on indeterminate plants. Description Tim’s Black Ruffles is a large purple/black beefsteak tomato, a cross between Black Krim and Zapotek Pink Pleated. The large indeterminate, regular leafed plants are moderate producers of the 8-10oz fruit which are full of the sweet, well-balanced flavours you would expect of a black - [Tomato Thai Pink Egg](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-thai-pink-egg/) - Small grape shaped cherry open pollinated tomato on compact indeterminate plants. Description Thai Pink Egg is a small pink/red grape tomato originally from Thailand where it is very popular. There is some confusion as to whether this is a determinate or indeterminate plant. Our own experience is that it is a very short, dense, indeterminate - [Tomato Tamina](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-tamina/) - Tamina is the European name for what is known in the US as Matina, an originally German Heritage variety. Medium sized red heritage tomato on an indeterminate plant. Description Matina is a mid-sized, red, meaty tomato. The indeterminate, potato-leafed, plants bear medium/large sized, red round fruits early and for a long season. The fruit do - [Tomato Taiko](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-taiko/) - Small Yellow Plum shaped tomato on an Indeterminate vine. Description Grown for the first time in 2018 with seeds from a seed swap, we were interested to see how this grew. We probably didn't give it a very good chance as (for some unknown reason) we didn't bother to thin out the side shoots on - [Tomato Sweet Pea Currant](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-sweet-pea-currant/) - Pea sized red cherry tomato on determinate plants. Description Sweet Pea Currant produces hundreds of pea sized sweet tomatoes. The early ripening, indeterminate, fine regular-leafed plant can be grown as a cordon, its untidy habit means that we recommend that it be grown as a bush indoors or outdoors on the patio, one option is - [Tomato Sweet Gold](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-sweet-gold/) - Yellow Cherry F1 hybrid tomato on indeterminate plants. Description We bought these when we were on holiday in Vancouver and (I’ll admit) I didn’t look carefully enough at the packet before I paid my $3, I wouldn’t have bought them because they are F1. However, they were nice (but to be honest nothing exceptional) yellow, - [Tomato Sweet Baby](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-sweet-baby/) - Small cherry F1 hybrid tomato on indeterminate plants. Description Sweet Baby is a sweet tasting prolific cherry tomato. The indeterminate, regular leafed plant produces as very prolific crop of small (1/3 - 1/2 oz) fruit on trusses that hang down like grapes. Excellent sweet taste with some of the original tomato bite, superb for snacking. - [Tomato Sungold](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-sungold/) - Orange cherry F1 hybrid tomato on indeterminate plants. Description We only grew this in 2013, after which we decided that we would only grow F1 hybrids if there was a specific reason. However, Sungold is an outstanding orange cherry tomato. The regular leafed indeterminate plant grows large numbers of 1/2 oz fruit whose taste rivals - [Tomato Sungella](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-sungella/) - Orange small/medium sized round cherry open pollinated tomato on indeterminate plants. Description Sungella is a golfball sized orange tomato. Created by a cross between Sungold and an orange skinned heirloom, this regular leafed indeterminate plant has a large yield of tomato fruits on long trusses. The tomatoes are delicious with a sweet and juicy flavour. - [Tomato - Summerlast](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/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 - [Tomato - Summer Frolic](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-summer-frolic/) - Early, Red Standard Tomato on Indeterminate Plants Description Another of the packets of free seeds received in 2022. The description suggests that its "just another" small to medium standard red tomato, similar to Moneymaker, etc. (although it may be slightly smaller). The wording also suggests that it is "exceptionally early" although other places give "cropping - [Tomato Sub Arctic Plenty](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-sub-arctic-plenty/) - Medium sized red Open Pollinated tomato on Semi-determinate plants. Description Sub Arctic Plenty is a very early ripening medium sized tomato. The compact indeterminate (or determinate), regular-leafed plant produces round, mid-sized tomato between 4 - 6oz. The plants tend to sprawl and although they are indeterminate, they tend not to climb up stakes and a - [Tomato Stupice](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-stupice/) - Small/Medium sized red heritage tomato on potato leafed indeterminate plants. Description Stupice (also known as Stupicke Polni Rane) is an early standard sized red tomato with a wonderful taste. The potato-leaf, indeterminate plants bears large numbers of very sweet, 2 to 3-inch, deep red fruit. Originally from the Czech Republic, it does well both outdoors - [Tomato Striped Stuffer](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-striped-stuffer/) - Red/Yellow striped bell shaped heritage tomato on indeterminate plants. Description Striped Stuffer is a bell-pepper shaped red and yellow striped, hollow tomato, ideal for stuffing. The indeterminate, regular-leafed plant produces mid season fruit which range up to the size of a cricket ball. The lack of seeds, strong, thick walls and large internal space make - [Tomato Speckled Roman](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-speckled-roman/) - Red/Yellow striped long plum shaped open pollinated tomato on indeterminate plants. Description Speckled Roman (aka Striped Roman) is a long plum shaped red tomato with yellow stripes grows on strong but wispy leaved plants. Its an intentional cross of Antique Roman and Banana Legs stabilised in the early 2000s. We grew this for the first - [Tomato Snow White](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-snow-white/) - White cherry heritage tomato on indeterminate plants. Description Snow White is another white/pale yellow cherry tomato (see Snowberry). The indeterminate, regular-leaf tomato plants yield small ivory-colored cherry tomatoes that ripen to a pale yellow. The tomatoes are deliciously sweet without being over sweet, and are borne from very productive vines. A success with children, especially - [Tomato Snow Berry](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-snow-berry/) - Pale yellow/white cherry open pollinated tomato on indeterminate plants. Description Snow Berry (aka Snowberry) is a very pale yellow (almost white) European Cherry tomato which yields a reasonable quantity of 3/4 - 1 inch round tomatoes in the middle of the season (about 75 days from planting out). Fun tomato, very similar to Snow White - [Tomato - Shirley](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-shirley/) - 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 - [Tomato Sasha's Altai](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-sashas-altai/) - A medium sized red heritage tomato on determinate plants. Description Sasha’s Altai is an early cropping red tomato (after Bloody Butcher but before Alicante). The determinate (bush) plant produces very good yields of 2-6oz thin skinned, bright red, slightly flattened complex tasting fruit, very similar to Matina. The plants set well in cooler climates (it - [Tomato San Marzano](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-san-marzano/) - Medium sized red plum heritage tomato on indeterminate plants. Description San Marzano is fleshy, sweet plum tomato with few seeds. Longer and thinner than Roma, the flesh is thicker and the taste stronger, sweeter and less acidic. Ideal for cooking or canning. The indeterminate, regular-leafed plant can produce a heavy mid season crop. Needs to - [Tomato Sallisaw Cafe](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-sallisaw-cafe/) - Red, Cherry heritage tomato on indeterminate plants. Description From the 2018 Seed Swap and unsuccessfully grown in 2019. Looking on the web, it sounds similar to Red Berry or Christmas Grapes depending on the shape of the trusses of fruit so we'll update this page as we find out what its actually like. Now, that - [Tomato Saint Pierre](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-saint-pierre/) - Medium/large red heritage tomato on indeterminate plants. Description Saint Pierre is an indeterminate, red round tomato with slight ridges which we grew for the first time in 2016, having got the seeds from a seed swap. the fruit were reasonably large (about 2 - 2.5 inches) and had thick walls which made the good for - [Tomato - Rubylicious](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-rubylicious/) - Red Cherry tomato on disease resistant plants. Description This blight resistant Open Pollinated cherry tomato has small (15g) fruits and is supposed to have an excellent flavour, a mixture of sharp & sweet which is good in a cherry tomato. One of the free seeds we received in 2022, its unlikely that we can make - [Tomato Roughwood Golden Plum](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-roughwood-golden-plum/) - An Orange Plum tomato on Semi Determinate Plants Description From the 2019 Seed Swap, another of those grown for the first time in 2021.. Its described as a Orange Plum tomato with two inch fruits with few seeds which is good for cooking and sauces. It is said to be a cross between Yellow Brandywine - [Tomato Rio Grande](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-rio-grande/) - Medium sized pear shaped red heritage tomato on determinate plants. Description Rio Grande is a deep red large, pear shaped, tomato which produces good crops of fruit on vigorous determinate plants which can be grown indoors or outdoors. The fruit is similar in size and shape to Roma but grows on a determinate plant. The - [Tomato Red Zebra](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-red-zebra/) - Red/Yellow striped medium sized open pollinated tomato on indeterminate plants. Description Red Zebra is a medium sized sweet tomato. A red version of the better known Green Zebra, it is slightly more unusual, the fruits are sweet and full of flavour. The indeterminate, regular-leafed plant produces bright red fruit covered in yellow stripes (similar to - [Tomato Red Robin](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-red-robin/) - Red Cherry open pollinated tomato on compact determinate plants. Description This is another of the compact determinate red cherry tomatoes (similar to Tiny Tim). The seeds came to us via a seed swap and, when we grew them (2016) produced lots of small cherry tomatoes with an acceptable taste. They are early, extremely compact plants - [Tomato Red Brandywine](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-red-brandywine/) - Red Beefsteak heritage tomato on indeterminate plants. Description Red Brandywine is an excellent tasting and very productive beefsteak tomato. A mid-late ripening indeterminate, regular-leafed beefsteak with medium-large (4-14oz) red fruits. A heavy cropper (it needs to be staked), it is supposedly named after the Brandywine River in Pennsylvania where it was introduced around 1885. In - [Tomato - Red Berry](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-red-berry/) - Red, Cherry heritage tomato on indeterminate plants. Description Red Berry/Cherry are identical as fas as we can make out. The trusses of fruit look the same and the taste/size are again so similar that we have decided they are one and the same cultivar. Red Berry/Cherry is a lovely sweet cherry tomato. An early/mid ripening, - [Tomato Rapunzel](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-rapunzel/) - Red, Grape shaped Cherry heritage tomato on indeterminate plants. Description From the 2018 Seed Swap and therefore to be grown in 2018. It was similar to Red Berry or Christmas Grapes with a small (but not too small) grape shaped cherry tomato on trusses of 6-8 fruit. Its a reasonable flavour and so not a - [Tomato - Rainbow Blend](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/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 - [Tomato Quedlinberger Fruhe Liebe](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-quedlinberger-fruhe-liebe/) - Variable sized red heritage tomato on compact indeterminate potato leafed plants. Description A very early compact indeterminate, potato leafed red tomato of variable size. Very similar in both appearance and taste to Bloody Butcher and Stupice (in fact so similar that I wonder if they are actually the same cultivar from different sources), it certainly - [Tomato Purple Russian (Ukranian Purple)](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-purple-russian/) - Purple egg shaped heritage tomato on indeterminate plants. Description Purple Russian (also known as Ukranian Purple) is an unusual 6 ounce, oblong (egg shaped) tomato with an excellent sweet flavour perfect for salads, salsa and sauces. The indeterminate, regular leafed plant produces a large quantity of fruit which vary in shape quite considerably but which - [Tomato Principe Borghese](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-principe-borghese/) - Red/Pink cherry heritage tomato on determinate plants. Description Principe Borghese is an Italian small paste tomato full of flavour and ideal for sauces and salads. An early/mid-ripening, determinate, regular leafed plant, the cherry tomatoes are about 1-2 oz. The plant is very prolific the fruit is ideal for salads, drying and cooking. The tomatoes can - [Tomato Polish Linguisa](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-polish-linguisa/) - Red elongated plum shaped open pollinated tomato on indeterminate plants. Description From the 2018 Seed Swap, the description on the web sounds much like Red Buffalo Horn, a paste tomato. The first of these ripened in mid-September (but its been a funny year). As you can see, not particularly large (and this was the biggest - [Tomato Pink Tiger (Artisan Pink Tiger)](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-pink-tiger/) - A pointed, red and pink striped open pollinated tomato on indeterminate plants. Description We got this from the 2017 seed swap (possibly from the same source as Blush Tiger) and again it was a pleasant surprise (well, less of a surprise following Blush last year). I presume its part of the family of tomatoes bred - [Tomato Pink Moineau/Petit Moineau](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-petit-moineaux/) - Small Red Cherry tomato on Indeterminate plants. Description From the 2018 Seed Swap. This page will be updated as we find out more information. The web describes it as having small currant tomatoes on an indeterminate vine. This concerned me slightly in that it sounded very similar to Peacevine which we grew in 2018 for - [Tomato Peacevine](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-peacevine/) - Small Red Cherry tomato on Indeterminate plants. Description Grown for the first time in 2018 with seeds from a seed swap, we were interested to see how this grew. It cropped well and early. The small (1/2 inch) fruit appeared in quantity on a plant which was almost uncontrollable, ranging quite a distance in the - [Tomato Pantano](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-pantano/) - Red Beefsteak heritage tomato on indeterminate plants. Description An Italian Beefsteak (which for us introduces its own problems) Pantano has a number of names (Il Pantano Romanesco, Pantano Il Romansco, Pantano) which all seem to describe an moderate sized beefsteak with slightly fluted shoulders which, when we grew it in 2014, produced a somewhat spindly - [Tomato Orange Strawberry](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-orange-strawberry/) - Large oxheart orange open pollinated tomato on indeterminate plants. Description Orange Strawberry is well described by its name. Its Orange and shaped like a strawberry. An oxheart shaped fairly large tomato, we grew this in 2014 and got a small number of relatively large (8 ounce) tomatoes with a lot of flesh and not many - [Tomato Orange Berry](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-orange-berry/) - Orange cherry heritage tomato on indeterminate plants. Description Orange Berry is a bright orange cherry tomato with very sweet flavour with bite. An early/mid ripening, indeterminate, regular leafed plant, the long trusses of pale green tomatoes ripen to bright orange,are very tasty and crop well into the season. An excellent complement to the red and - [Tomato Orange Banana](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-orange-banana/) - Orange Plum shaped paste tomato. Description Grown for the first time in 2018 with seeds from a seed swap, we were interested to see how this grew. First of all for some reason, I managed to get them mixed up with the Jaune Flamme tomatoes but, as they were distinctive, managed to sort them out. - [Tomato Nikolayev Yellow Cherry](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-nikolayev-yellow-cherry/) - Yellow Cherry heritage tomato on indeterminate plants. Description Nikolayev Yellow Cherry (also written Nicholayev) is said to be a rare Russian golden-yellow cherry tomato that bursts with sweet/acid flavour (but there is no explanation of its name). The vigorous compact indeterminate, regular leafed plant produces large numbers of 1-2cm fruits on trusses of 8-12 fruits - [Tomato Nectar Rose](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-nectar-rose/) - Large pink/red cherry open pollinated tomato on strong indeterminate plants. Description Nectar Rose is a pretty cherry tomato just on the pink side of red with a slightly pointed shape. The large (for a cherry) tomatoes (they come in at about 2 ounces on average) hang in relatively small trusses (four or five fruit to - [Tomato Mountain Princess](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-mountain-princess/) - An early maturing red, medium sized heritage tomato on determinate plants. Description Early maturing determinate tomato of average size and taste. Sounds similar to many commercial varieties (e.g. Heinz 9219). The web suggests that its been grown for many generations in the West Virginian mountains. a cool climate so it ought to be suitable for - [Tomato Mountain Magic (F1 Hybrid)](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-mountain-magic/) - A large cherry, blight resistant red F1 Hybrid tomato on indeterminate plants. Description Mountain Magic is a "Blight Resistant" F1 Hybrid. Developed by North Carolina State University it has resistance to both Early and Late Blight. It is a "large cherry" (about 1 - 1.5 inches) and crops well. We have grown Mountain Magic in - [Tomato Mortgage Lifter](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-mortgage-lifter/) - A beefsteak heritage/open pollinated tomato with many different cultivars all of which are indeterminate. Description Mortgage Lifter is a very successful pink beefsteak tomato with a light flavour. A mid-ripening, indeterminate, regular-leafed, medium-large, red/pink tomato. The are at least 15 different cultivars all bearing the Mortgage Lifter title. (Mortgage Lifter, Mortgage Lifter Halladay's, Mortgage Lifter - [Tomato Moonglow](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-moonglow/) - Large Orange/Yellow round tomato on Indeterminate plants Description Grown for the first time in 2018 with seeds from a seed swap, we were interested to see how this grew. Wow, a heavy cropping large round tomato comparable to beefsteak tomatoes, our grew to about 8 ounces and there were lots of fruit on the vines - [Tomato Moneymaker](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-moneymaker/) - A medium sized red heritage tomato on short(ish) indeterminate plants. Description Moneymaker is a mid-sized, red tomato. The semi-bush/indeterminate, regular leafed plants bear medium sized fruits starting fairly early in the season (70+ days). The plants do need staking and are best treated as an indeterminate plant with the side-shoots removed. It’s a popular, old - [Tomato Micro Tom](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-micro-tom/) - Red Cherry heritage tomato on very compact plants. Description Received from the 2018 Seed Swap. I think I'd call this a "windowsill tomato". The plants (in 2019) were extremely small and whilst for its size it has a reasonable number of fruits, there really aren't very many. It was early (the first tomato in 2019) - [Tomato Matina](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-matina/) - Medium sized red heritage tomato on an indeterminate plant. Description Matina is a mid-sized, red, meaty tomato. The indeterminate, potato-leafed, plants bear medium/large sized, red round fruits early and for a long season. The fruit do not get green shoulders (being red all around the fruit). The flesh is meaty, more like a beefsteak tomato - [Tomato Maskotka](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-maskotka/) - A small red cherry open pollinated tomato on a compact determinate plant. Description Maskotka is a dwarf bush tomato developed to grow in tubs and hanging baskets. The small cherry sized fruit crop heavily on the bush. Suitable for indoor and outdoor growing where they will crop in an unheated greenhouse from mid-August onwards. Like - [Tomato Marvel Stripes](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-marvel-stripes/) - A large orange beefsteak heritage tomato on vigorous indeterminate plants. Description Marvel Stripes is an unusual bi-coloured tomato (yellow with red patches) growing on a strong indeterminate plant which (even so) can need extra support to deal with the weight of the late ripening, sweet and fruity tomatoes which can be up to 2lbs each. - [Tomato Marmande](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-marmande/) - Red, Beefsteak, heritage tomato on indeterminate plants. Description Super Marmande is a large, red, juicy beefsteak tomato. The tomatoes grow on a vigorous, strong semi-determinate plant which needs training as it best grown as an indeterminate with lots of support and a number of vines. The fruit is heavily fluted which we have found makes - [Tomato Mandarin Cross](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-mandarin-cross/) - Large orange/yellow round beefsteak heritage tomato on indeterminate plants. Description This Orange/Yellow relatively large (5-8 ounce) fairly round tomato has a sweet flavour and a smooth texture without getting to be mealy. We grew it in 2014 when it didn’t crop as well as Summer Cider although (in some respects) it was better (it doesn’t - [Tomato Limmony](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-limmony/) - Yellow, Beefsteak, heritage tomato on indeterminate plants. Description Limmony is a yellow Russian Heirloom Beefsteak tomato whose flavour has citrus undertones (hence its alternative name lemmony). A mid/late ripening, indeterminate, regular-leafed medium sized yellow beefsteak tomato with average (i.e. not high) production of fruits. The vines are large and need staking. Fruits are flattened, 6-8 - [Tomato Lemon Tree - Unusual shaped yellow fruit](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-lemon-tree-2/) - A medium sized yellow tomato shaped a bit like a lemon with pointy end. Description We got this from the Lost Gardens of Heligan when we visited in June 2019. Obviously too late to try in 2019 so we grew this for the first time in 2020. Looking around the web it seems a slightly - [Tomato Legend](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-legend/) - Red, large fruited open pollinated tomato on semi-determinate plants Description Semi-determinate, red meaty tomato with fruit 2-3 inches in diameter. Mainly seedless fruit on a plant that has some resistance to late blight. We grew this in 2017 for the first time as a Determinate, leaving it to do its worst. It produced a number - [Tomato Latah](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-latah/) - Medium sized red open pollinated tomato on determinate plants. Description Latah is one of the regular/small early tomatoes that grow on semi-determinate plants. This means that the plant doesn’t actually grow very tall and is usually quite sprawling and is best grown with a number of cordons rather than trying to grow it as a - [Tomato Koralik Red Cherry](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-koralik-red-cherry/) - Red, Cherry, heritage tomato on sprawling determinate plants. Description An relatively large, sprawling, Determinate plant with a heavy crop of small (1 inch) red cherry tomatoes. Its an early cropper and benefits from being grown indoors. The fruit have that combination of sweetness and mild tartness which makes them perfect for salads. We haven’t been - [Tomato Kibit's Ukranian](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-kibits-ukranian/) - A small(ish), plum shaped open pollinated tomato on determinate plants. Description Kibit’s Ukranian is a Plum shaped mid-season tomato on a relatively small Determinate plant (which makes it good for growing in containers). We grew it for the first time in 2016 using seed from a seeds swap in the UK so, we’ve looked around - [Tomato Kanner Hoell](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-kanner-hoell/) - Red, beefsteak heritage tomato on indeterminate plants. Description An Indeterminate, Regular Leafed, Red Beefsteak tomato from Seeds Savers Exchange (in the USA). The person who donated the original seeds (Reverend C Frank Morrow) said that the cultivar had originated in Germany and had been in his family since 1916. We grew this for the first - [Tomato Jubilee](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-jubilee/) - Golden Yellow, Beefsteak heritage tomato on indeterminate plants. Description Tomato Jubilee is a beefsteak tomato with 1-2 lb golden yellow/orange fruit with few seeds and a mild but complete flavour. The regular leafed indeterminate plants grow 4-6ft tall. There seems to be some debate as to where these have originated from as there are different - [Tomato - Jersey Devil](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-jersey-devil/) - Red, long shaped, cooking tomato on Indeterminate Plants Description An excellent cooking tomato which crops heavily and cooks well (provided you let it get really ripe). We grew it for the first time in 2021 from the 2019 seed swap. We would grow it again for cooking (as a salad tomato it lacks flavour). From - [Tomato Japanese Black Trifele](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-japanese-black-trifele/) - Black, plum shaped, medium/large heritage tomato on Indeterminate potato leafed plants. Description Japanese Black Trifele (also known as Black Truffle) is an unusual tear-drop shaped medium sized tomato. A mid/late ripening, indeterminate, potato-leafed plant, as well as being an unusual shape, the 4 - 8 oz fruits have chocolate, smokey and rich complex flavours and - [Tomato Ildi](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-ildi/) - Yellow, oval cherry heritage tomato on indeterminate plants. Description Ildi (also known as Yellow Grape) is a yellow oval/plum shaped cherry tomato with a zesty tomatoey flavour. A mid/late ripening, indeterminate, regular-leafed plant with masses of small pear shaped sweet and juicy tomatoes. Each truss supports about 60 individual fruits which can stay in good - [Tomato Heinz-9129](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-heinz-9129/) - Medium sized, red, open pollinated tomato on determinate plants. Description Heinz-9129 is a standard sized red tomato with a true tomato taste. It grown on a strong, leafy, determinate (bush) plant and we grew it in 2012. It was successful with a good crop of 2-3 inch fruit which ripened to bright red fruit good - [Tomato Harbinger](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-harbinger/) - Red, medium sized, heritage tomato on indeterminate plants. Description Harbinger is a bright red, sweet, medium sized tomato. The indeterminate, regular leafed, plant produces medium sized round tomatoes over a long period of time, ripening early in the right conditions. It does well indoors but is also suitable for outdoor growing but is not resistant - [Tomato Halms Gelbe (Hahms Gelbe)](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-halms-gelbe/) - I've called this Halms Gelbe, but there is a good chance it is actually Hahms Gelbe and I've just mis-read the label on the packet (since discarded so I can't check). Description One of the new 2018 cultivars and (in May) nothing to report on what the fruit look/taste like. However, the plant is stocky - [Tomato Green Zebra](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-green-zebra/) - Distinctive green striped medium sized open pollinated tomato on indeterminate plants. Description Green Zebra is a mid-sized tart tomato with distinctive green and yellow stripes. The indeterminate, regular-leafed plant produces good quantities of the round, distinctively green and yellow striped fruit. Another tomato bred by Tom Wagner and released in the early 1980s, its part - [Tomato Green Grapes](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-green-grapes/) - Green, cherry open pollinated tomatoes on compact indeterminate plants. Description Green Grapes (also known as Green Grape) is a green cherry tomato with a sweet-tart flavour. The mid-ripening, short indeterminate, regular-leafed, plant has long trusses of 8-14 well spaced slightly oblong green cherry tomatoes. Our experience in growing this tomato is that it can be - [Tomato Green Giant](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-green-giant/) - Green, beefsteak, open pollinated tomato on indeterminate plants. Description One of the Green Beefsteak varieties. However, it doesn’t seem to develop the red colouration of other varieties (such as Aunt Ruby’s German Green) so the colour stays more or less the same from unripe to ripe which makes it a bit more difficult to know - [Tomato Goldkrone](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-goldkrone/) - Dark Yellow/White Cherry on Indeterminate plants. Also known as Gold Crown. Description Grown for the first time in 2018 with seeds from a seed swap, we were interested to see how this grew and to compare it to other Yellow Cherry tomatoes such as our Oleron Yellow and Nikolayev Yellow Cherry. To be honest it - [Tomato Golden Sunrise](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/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 - [Tomato Golden Queen](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/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 - [Tomato Gold Rush Currant](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-gold-rush-currant/) - A Yellow currant/pea sized open pollinated tomato on compact indeterminate plants. Description A regular leafed untidy indeterminate yellow currant sized tomato (similar in size to Tumbling Tom Yellow). The best way to grow this is as a determinate (i.e. don't try to take off the sideshoots and accept the fact that it is messy, its - [Tomato German Gold](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-german-gold/) - A yellow/red bicolour beefsteak heritage tomato on indeterminate plants. Description We grew German Gold in 2013 and 2014 with very different results. In 2013 we had over 2kg of fruit but in 2014 it was under 1kg. The fruit are attractive. Yellow with quite heavy fluting but with attractive pink colouring from the flower end - [Tomato Garden Pearl (Gartenperle)](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-garden-pearl/) - Pink/Red Cherry heritage tomato on Determinate plants. Description Garden Pearl (also known as Gartenperle) is an unusual coloured cherry tomato. An early ripening, determinate, regular leafed tomato, one of the best varieties for hanging baskets and patio tubs. Pink to rosy red, small, bite sized fruits produced in cascades over a long cropping season. The - [Tomato Gardener's Delight](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-gardeners-delight/) - Red Medium/Large cherry heritage tomato on indeterminate plants. Description Gardener’s Delight is a cherry tomato with a flavour that is one of the best balances of sweet/acid. An early/mid ripening, indeterminate, regular leafed tomato with high yields of bite sized tomatoes make this probably one of the most popular tomatoes for the amateur to grow, - [Tomato Garden Peach](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/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 - [Tomato Fred Limbaugh Potato Top](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-fred-limbaugh/) - Pink Beefsteak heritage tomato on potato leafed indeterminate plants. Description Fred Limbaugh’s Potato Top (aka Limbaugh’s Legacy Potato Top) is one of the (fairly numerous) pink beefsteak tomato on indeterminate, potato leafed plants. They produce large numbers of large fruit (1-2lb) which are slightly flattened and fluted. Really tasty with fruity sweet flavours. The heirloom - [Tomato Essex Wonder](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/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 - [Tomato Emerald Green Cherry](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/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 - [Tomato Egyptian](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/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 - [Tomato - Divinity](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-divinity/) - Compact Semi-Determinate F1 Hybrid tomato with Red Fruit. Description UK bred F1 Hybrid Semi-Determinate tomato, ideal for container growing with reasonable sized fruit. A relatively long harvest season (July to late October depending on the weather), it needs to be compared with cultivars such as Zefen Short and Sandpoint which sound very similar from the - [Tomato Dark Galaxy](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/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 - [Tomato Cuore Di Bue](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/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 - [Tomato Crimson Crush](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/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 - [Tomato Cream Sausage](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/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 - [Tomato Country Taste](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/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 - [Tomato Costoluto Fiorentino](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-costoluto-fiorentino/) - Costoluto Fiorentino: Small heavily ridged red beefsteak heritage tomato on indeterminate plants. - [Tomato Christmas Grapes](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-christmas-grapes/) - A red Cherry open pollinated tomato on Indeterminate plants Description Christmas Grapes is a cherry tomato with an intense tomato flavour. An early/mid ripening, indeterminate, regular leafed plant, the scarlet, grape-like, sweet tasting tomatoes are up to 1 inch with closely packed trusses of 10-20 fruit yielding a steady stream of fruit through the season. - [Tomato Chiapis Wild Tom](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-chiapis-wild-tom/) - A Pea sized red heritage tomato on a short indeterminate plant. Description Indeterminate very early small red cherry tomato, resistant to many diseases. Cold resistant and therefore continues to produce fruits late in the season. This tomato originates from Chiapas state in Southern Mexico. Like all indeterminate tomatoes it is theoretically a perennial but grown - [Tomato Chianti Rose](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-chianti-rose/) - Chianti Rose: A Pink Beefsteak Open Pollinated tomato on potato leafed indeterminate plants. - [Tomato Cherokee Purple](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-cherokee-purple/) - Cherokee Purple: Brown medium sized beefsteak heritage tomato on indeterminate plants. - [Tomato Chadwick Cherry (Camp Joy)](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-chadwick-cherry/) - A red, large cherry heritage tomato on Indeterminate plants. Description Developed by Alan Chadwick (an English tomato breeder and founder of the CCOF - California and Organic Farming Organisation) in Santa Cruz California in the 1960s. This small to medium cherry tomato is similar to Gardener’s Delight and grows well under many conditions. Its supposedly - [Tomato Carotina/La Carotina](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-carotina/) - Large Orange tomato on Indeterminate vines. Description Grown for the first time in 2018 with seeds from a seed swap, we were interested to see how this grew. An excellent large orange tomato with a superb rich citrusy flavour. According to the web, its one of the parent of Caro Orange (a cultivar we haven't - [Tomato Brown Berry](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-brown-berry/) - A dark brown cherry heritage tomato on Indeterminate plants. Description Brown Berry is a cherry tomato with fantastic smokey/sweet flavoured juicy little fruits that hang in swathes on the vine. A mid-ripening, indeterminate, regular-leafed, round, brown tomato which doesn’t seem to split, whatever you do, Brown Berry adds colour and flavour to salads and is - [Tomato Britain's Breakfast](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-britains-breakfast/) - Britain's Breakfast: A cherry sized pointed plum tomato on indeterminate plants. - [Tomato Box Car Willie](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-box-car-willie/) - Boc Car Willie: A Red/Orange beefsteak open pollinated tomato on Indeterminate plants - [Tomato Blush (Blush Tiger)](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-blush/) - Blush: A pointed, red and yellow striped open pollinated tomato on indeterminate plants. - [Tomato Blue Ambrosia](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-blue-ambrosia/) - A dark/gold cherry tomato on an Indeterminate plant Description From the 2019 seed swap, we are growing this for the first time in 2020. As we get more details, this page will be updated. However, according to the web its a tasty, prolific cultivar producing golden cherry fruit that turn violet in strong sunlight. This - [Tomato Bloody Butcher](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-bloody-butcher/) - A variable sized, red open pollinated tomato with potato leafed indeterminate plants. Description Bloody Butcher is a medium sized tomato with a rich, sweet heirloom taste. The indeterminate, potato-leafed plant produces uneven sized tomatoes (2-5oz) early in the season (this was the first tomato to crop in 2011 and 2012 and each year continued through - [Tomato Black Vernissage](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-black-vernissage/) - A stripy black standard sized open pollinated tomato on indeterminate plants. Description From the 2018 Seed Swap According to the web, its a stripey black Russian cultivar, similar to Black Zebra. However, we'll have to see which we prefer. 2019 Update It is stripey and Black. However, much smaller than Black Zebra and more like - [Tomato Black Sea Man](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-black-sea-man/) - A Black small beefsteak tomato growing on a Determinate plant. Description We grew this for the first time in 2017. Our biggest problem was that we had originally assumed that it was Indeterminate and had so prepared to grow it as a standard cordon plant. It wasn’t until we were doing our final check that - [Tomato Black Russian](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-black-russian/) - Black Russian: Black Beefsteak heritage tomato on indeterminate plants - [Tomato Black Prince](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-black-prince/) - Black Price: Round, standard sized black heritage tomato on indeterminate plants. - [Tomato Black Plum](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-black-plum/) - Black Plum: Plum shaped black tomato on regular leafed indeterminate plants - [Tomato Black Krim (Czerno Krimski)](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-black-krim-czerno-krmski/) - Black Beefsteak heritage tomato on indeterminate plants. Description Black Krim is an outstanding beefsteak tomato with an intense, slightly salty taste. It is easy to grow but does require relative high temperatures to set fruit (probably less suitable for outdoor growing in the UK but they set easily in greenhouses). An indeterminate plant, the heavy - [Tomato Black Cherry](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-black-cherry/) - Black Cherry: A one inch black cherry tomato on regular leafed indeterminate plants - [Tomato Black Brandywine](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-black-brandywine/) - Black Brandywine: An unusual Brandywine tomato (its regular leafed) black/brown on regular leafed indeterminate plants. - [Tomato Big Rainbow](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-big-rainbow/) - Bicoloured Red and Orange beefsteak tomato on Indeterminate vines. Description Grown for the first time in 2018 with seeds from a seed swap, we were interested to see how this grew. A lovely bi-coloured fruit with a rich and somehow creamy taste which is very similar to Marvel Stripes so again its one of those - [Tomato - Baby Pink Plum (F1)](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-baby-pink-plum-f1/) - A pink cherry F1 Hybrid tomato on Indeterminate plants Description Along with a number of other F1 Hybrids, this is a free packet of seeds I've been given in 2022. The colour of this looks very similar to Garden Pearl but that is a determinate cultivar. If you look at the list you'll see that - [Tomato - Amber Coloured](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-amber-coloured/) - A small/medium sized yellow/amber coloured tomato on 2ft bushy Determinate plants. - [Tomato Balconi Red](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-balconi-red/) - Red Cherry heritage tomato on compact determinate plants. Description Acquired through the 2018 seed swap, this cultivar is common on the web. Its a short (12 inch) determinate cherry tomato, similar to Tiny Tim, Micro Tom, Red Robin and others. Our comparison in 2019 showed that this cultivar was a worthwhile competitor to Red Robin - [Tomato - Crimson Blush](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-crimson-blush/) - Red, Blight Resistant, Small Beefsteak F1 tomato on Indeterminate Plants Description One of the family of blight resistant tomatoes which include Crimson Crush. Our experience growing Crimson Crush at the allotment was that it wasn't particularly resistant to blight. However growing them outdoors at home where we're further away from sources of blight was that - [Tomato - Big League (F1)](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-big-league-f1/) - Red Beefsteak F1 Hybrid Tomato on Determinate plants. Description Another of the free seeds which might be tried in 2022. Large fruit (around 1 lb) on determinate plants makes this variety suitable for container growing, so we will grow it outdoors, rather than in the greenhouse. It looks as though it will need a lot - [Tomato - Garnet](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-garnet/) - A Reddish/Brown Cherry tomato on Indeterminate Plants Description This tasty cherry tomato is bred from Sweet Aperitif and so has a wonderful sharp taste. It supposedly has heavy yields over a long period of time in the summer, starting early and finishing late. It sounds similar to Brown Berry (a tomato we like a lot) - [Tomato - Gigantomo](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-gigantomo/) - A Large Red Beefsteak F1 Hybrid tomato on Indeterminate plants. Description This F1 Hybrid Beefsteak tomato is claimed to produce large fruit (up to 1kg), much larger than anything we've managed to grow (but nowhere near the record size) and yet be tasty. Other than its sheer size I'm not sure that anything in particular - [Tomato - Golden Grape](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-golden-grape/) - Small Yellow Plum Tomato on Indeterminate plants - [Tomato - Primabella](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-primabella/) - Blight Resistant open pollinated Red Cherry tomato on Indeterminate plants. Description This juicy cherry tomato produces large cherry fruit (~30g) on plants that seem to be resistant to late blight and so the plants can produce fruit over a long season, resistant to many of the problems associated with growing tomatoes outdoors in the UK. - [Tomato - Indigo Cherry Drops](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-indigo-cherry-drops/) - Purple Cherry tomato on Indeterminate plants Tomato Description An improvement on Indigo Rose, this purple cherry tomato was bred at Oregon State University by Dr Jim Myers. Its colour is derived from the parents which include wild tomatoes from Peru or the Galapagos Islands. Its a prolific cropper with up to 1000 30gram fruit in - [Tomato - Gourmandia (F1)](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-gourmandia-f1/) - Red Oxheart Beef tomato on F1 Hybrid Indeterminate plants. - [Tomato - Tsungshigo Chinese](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-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 - [Tomato Big Beef (aka Jack Hawkins)](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-big-beef-jack-hawkins/) - Jack Hawkins: A Pink/Red large beefsteak dehybridised variety Regular Leafed Indeterminate. - [Tomato - Ananas Noir (Black Pineapple)](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-ananas-noir-black-pineapple/) - A Purple/Green Striped, Beefsteak, Indeterminate, Open Pollinated tomato - [Tomato - Amateur](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-amateur/) - A Standard sized, Red tomato on a Determinate, Regular Leafed plant. - [What to do about Moles](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/what-to-do-about-moles/) - A couple of weeks ago, I noticed that I'd got some molehills in my vegetable bed. Our garden backs on to some fields and, in the past, we've had moles at the border between our garden and the fields and (occasionally) coming down the hedge between us and our next door neighbour. However, this is - [Physalis - Fruit for late in the year](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/physalis-fruit-for-late-in-the-year/) - Along with tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers, my greenhouses usually house a couple of physalis (cape gooseberry) plants. These aren't the ones with bright red lanterns but the ones that are served in restaurants with your desert. They are perennials but there's always the probability that they won't survive the winter so I grow new plants - [2023 - Last Tomatoes](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/2023-last-tomatoes/) - Today (5th November) I cleared out my greenhouse of the remaining tomato plants (and found a cucumber). I haven't been watering them for a couple of weeks and the plants were in a bad way with grey mould on many of them. This collection won't be added to the crop weight for the year, even - [A Damp Week in the Yorkshire Dales](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/a-damp-week-in-the-yorkshire-dales/) - We love the Yorkshire Dales, it's our go-to holiday destination. Lots of things to see and places to walk. This break was in Dentdale, somewhere that we've been near but not actually walked around before. Dent itself is a beautiful little village. The only proble is the narrow, cobbled high street which barely has room - [Assisted Natural Pest Control (Harlequin Ladybirds)](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/assisted-natural-pest-control-harlequin-ladybirds/) - I extended my vegetable bed a bit in July and took the opportunity of additional space to sow some more dwarf french beans. They've grown well and are extending my french bean season as they started cropping at the beginning of the month (September). However, they are becoming infested with blackfly. As you will know, - [Tomato Black Icicle](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-black-icicle/) - A 3-4 inch long pointed plum shaped tomato (similar in shape to Roma but black rather than red). Description A Russian/Ukrainian cultivar discovered as an accidental cross in a field of other tomatoes by Aleksey Kulik. It's been stabilised over a number of years but can still be variable. We grew this for the first - [Apple Harvest, Wildlife & Raspberry Pi](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/apple-harvest-wildlife-raspberry-pi/) - A mix of news in this post, some interesting and some not so interesting. Starting with the interesting. We've had (what seems like) an increase in the number of Red Admiral butterflies this year and, looking around the web, it seems this is a by-product of global warming (see its not all bad). Red Admiral - [2023: A Slower year for tomatoes](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/2023-a-slower-year-for-tomatoes/) - Every year, I try to keep a record of how my tomatoes (and other vegetable & fruit) are harvesting. Its interesting how each year is different. 2023 has been slow for tomatoes and, as I've said elsewhere, the tomatoes are ripening unevenly with greenback on many cultivars. So far (24th August) we've had around 12kg - [Recipe - Tomato & Courgette Risotto](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/recipe-tomato-courgette-risotto/) - This year (2023) we seem have a glut of Courgettes. We have grown five plants (the same as we did last year) but so far (mid August) we've had more courgettes than we did for the whole of 2022 and there are more growing quickly. The tomatoes are not going as quickly (we've currently harvested - [Creating a Headless Raspberry Pi System from an Apple Mac](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/creating-a-headless-raspberry-pi-system-from-an-apple-mac/) - I’ve a few Raspberry Pis which I run Headless (without their own screen and keyboard) from my Apple Mac using a combination of Finder, VNC and SSH to run the applications. I recently decided to upgrade one of them (a Pi3) to Stretch to see if it was any better (and to play with the - [Can a Waterbutt of water affect the temperature in a Polytunnel?](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/can-a-waterbutt-of-water-affect-the-temperature-in-a-polytunnel/) - I’ve seen a number of discussions as to whether putting a waterbutt filled with water in the polytunnel would help to avoid frosts and (possibly) encourage earlier growth by raising the average temperature in the polytunnel. Whilst there was a general opinion that it would help, I had a feeling that any improvement would be - [Tomato Bulgarian Pink](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-bulgarian-pink/) - Large Pink, pointy ended tomato on Indeterminate Vines. Description Grown for the first time in 2018 with seeds from a seed swap, we were interested to see how this grew. A vigorous plant with large round fruit with a pointy end (like Principe Borghese on steroids). They have a reasonable amount of flesh and seeds - [How Much is Growing Your Own Worth?](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/how-much-is-growing-your-own-worth/) - We grow our own. Not on a large scale and certainly not enough to be self sufficient. Its essentially something to keep me occupied and for fun. However, I've always kept a record of what we harvest and tried to assign a value to that. My better half (frequently) gets cross because when there's a - [Tomato Greenback](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-greenback/) - Greenback (as the name suggests) is a problem with the tomato fruit where the shoulders of the fruit fail to ripen properly leaving you with hard, tasteless parts of the fruit. Its causes are similar to whitewall, too much light and/or heat as the fruit are maturing or lack of potassium or feed whilst the - [Tomato Seed Collection (2023)](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-seed-collection-2023/) - Every year I collect tomato seeds for a number of reasons. Its simple to do and means that you only have to buy tomato seeds if you want to (my main reason to buy seeds is to increase the number of varieties I've grown in my effort to find the "best" range of tomatoes. Saving - [2023 - First Tomatoes](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/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, - [Tomatoes in Pots - 2023](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomatoes-in-pots-2023/) - A little early this year, I’ve potted up my tomatoes into their final pots. I grow my tomatoes in what’s known as “Morrison’s Flower Buckets (MFB’S)”. MFB’S are sold cheaply and, with holes punched through the bottom, they seem to be an ideal size. The benefit of growing them in individual pots is that there’s - [Apple Blossom Time 2023](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/apple-blossom-time-2023/) - This time of year I'm always pleased to see that the trees look like they'll produce a reasonable harvest (the optimist in me, the weather always makes a difference). Anyway, the eater is showing a good helping of blossom. The cooker is always a couple of weeks later so that is yet to come. Surprisingly, - [Starting to sow other vegetables](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/starting-to-sow-other-vegetables/) - The weather is certainly on the up with bright sunshine for the past couple of days. However, its still wet underfoot and the ground is quite soggy & cold. So, for that reason, I have decided not to plant out my potatoes yet, despite the fact that the tubers appear to be well chitted and - [Tomato Seedlings on the way](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-seedlings-on-the-way/) - Despite the relatively cold weather over the last two weeks, the seedlings are beginning to push their way forward. Of the seeds I sowed, only one variety failed to germinate at all, the seeds were really quite old but I think I might have another go. The peppers and physalis are slower to get going - [2023 - The Gardening Year Starts](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/2023-the-gardening-year-starts/) - Start of the Tomato Season - [The Role of Mushrooms in Gardening: Why Grow Your Own](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/the-role-of-mushrooms-in-gardening-why-grow-your-own/) - Mushrooms and slime mold growing in the garden? Some might think this spells bad news for their plants, but this isn’t the case. In fact, fungi play …The Role of Mushrooms in Gardening: Why Grow Your Own - [The Birds think spring is on the way](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/the-birds-think-spring-is-on-the-way/) - Despite the cold weather (heavy frosts for the last few days) the birds seem to think that spring isn’t that far away. The days are starting to get longer and the birds are starting to look for nesting sites with the blue tits and great tits taking a look inside the nestboxes. In the last - [Tomatoes for 2023 and other things](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomatoes-for-2023-and-other-things/) - I've been sorting through my tomato seeds and trying to work out what to grow in 2023. As ever, its a balancing act, trying to select a range of cultivars that meet the conflicting needs of an amateur grower with not a lot of space. I have seeds for around 200 different cultivars and (as - [Tomato Angelle](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-angelle/) - A red Cherry open pollinated tomato on Indeterminate plants Description From the 2018 Seed Swap saved from a supermarket purchase. Now, I don't entirely agree with doing this, partly because commercial tomatoes are usually F1 hybrids (the commercial growers need consistency which heritage and open pollinated varieties don't necessarily give) and I've also found that - [First signs of Spring 2023](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/first-signs-of-spring-2023/) - Although it’s been a mild winter with only a few days of frost and no snow (as yet), it’s still nice to see the first signs of spring. The evenings are light later, the birds are collecting around the feeders and the snowdrops and aconites are starting to show colour. We’ve managed to protect the - [2023 Gardening Decisions](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/2023-gardening-decisions/) - At this time of year when everything in the garden is quiet, thoughts turn to deciding what to grow next year. I’ve increased the space in the tunnel dedicated to strawberries which means there won’t be as much space for beans but it will be easier to separate them. There will still be space for - [Another Squirrel Bites the Dust](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/another-squirrel-bites-the-dust/) - I’ve written about my battles with the squirrels before. At the moment they are concentrating on collecting and burying acorns around the garden. It doesn’t really matter as most of the vegetables and fruit are picked and either eaten or stored for later. The only things that are left are carrots and lettuces. However, concentrating - [Magpies vandalising our Lawn](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/magpies-vandalising-our-lawn/) - Our lawn is in a bad state. The shading of the trees and the dry summer has encouraged the moss to grow. There’s not a lot we can do about it. But this year the magpies have had a real go pulling up the moss. I assume they’re after cranefly larva (leatherjackets). But it could - [Tomatoes starting to finish - 2022](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomatoes-starting-to-finish-2022/) - Ok, so the tomatoes are still producing a reasonable quantity (2.5 kg today) but it’s obvious that it won’t be going on for much longer. Unusually it’s the beefsteak that are turning off first. Today we picked the last of the Aunt Rubies German Green and Black Krim. It’s a few weeks sooner than other - [Airfix Lancaster Bomber: Part 1](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/airfix-lancaster-bomber-part-1/) - Watching the series about Hornby and their railway models took me back to my childhood when I used to make Airfix models and it made me want to build something to occupy my time. Now I haven't made an Airfix kit for over 50 years (the last thing I can remember building was Bismark when - [Elephant Hawkmoth](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/elephant-hawkmoth/) - Whilst described by my Field Guide as " one of the more common European hawkmoths", I don't remember ever seeing one before. This dead specimen was on the floor of one of our greenhouses. I'll have to keep a watch out for the caterpillars because they can be voracious eaters of both the plants and - [Tasty & Healthy Simple Vegetarian Lentil Loaf Recipe](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tasty-healthy-simple-vegetarian-lentil-loaf-recipe/) - This lentil loaf is something that we have reasonably frequently but only now have I decided to add it to the recipes on this website. The reason for doing this is that it today we made it using sieved juice from home grown tomatoes, rather than bought tomato juice. It seems to have worked well. - [Apple Harvest 2022](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/apple-harvest-2022/) - OK, I've complained long and hard about the squirrels and magpies eating our apples and wondering what to do about it. I've even tried netting the trees and just succeeded in trapping birds. Well, they've started cropping now and I don't know what to do with them all. The Eater is a Discovery which is - [Tomatoes Ripening Early (2022)](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomatoes-ripening-early-2022/) - The hot spell we had a few weeks ago seems to have brought everything earlier than other years. This is possibly good or bad. We are about 6kg of tomatoes ahead of what we would have expected to pick by this time in an average year and it seems to be mainly down to the - [Tomatoes & Carrot Thinnings for Soup](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomatoes-carrot-thinnings-for-soup/) - I keep on going on about how to try and deal with the glut of tomatoes, mainly freezing as tomatoes or sauce but this tomato soup recipe has two advantages. Firstly it uses a good quantity of fresh tomatoes and it also uses carrot thinnings to produce an excellent lunch. Regardless of how careful I - [Today’s Harvest (August 2022)](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/todays-harvest-august-2022/) - The family have been here for the past week so it’s been difficult to know exactly how things are going. We had a heavy thunderstorm which broke the hot dry weather and, hopefully, will mean that some of the beans and courgettes will set and grow. It doesn’t affect the tomatoes because I have been - [Tomato Lukullus](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-lukullus/) - A red standard sized heritage/open pollinated tomato on indeterminate vines. Description Another of the tomatoes from the 2019 seed swap that we didn't have space to grow in 2020 so the description comes from the web, not our own experience. Said to be a German commercial variety from the 1900s and a cross between Danish - [Tomato Aranyalma (Golden Apple)](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-aranyalma/) - A medium/large Yellow Cherry tomato on Regular Leafed Indeterminate plants - [Tomato Raspberry Oxheart](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-raspberry-oxheart/) - Theoretically, a large heart shaped red heritage tomato on indeterminate plants. Description A oxheart shaped beefsteak tomato from the 2018 seed swap. Possibly similar to Cuore di Bue or Sunset's Red Horizon but (according to the web) originates from Poland rather than Italy. We hoped that this would be a benefit to us as - - [Recipe: Simple, Tasty Tomato Sauce](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/recipe-simple-tasty-tomato-sauce/) - The tomato glut that you get through August and September can't be dealt with just by eating. On average from our plants we get around 40kg of tomatoes (more if its a good year). There's a balance to be made between cherry tomatoes which can be eaten with salads and larger tomatoes which are good - [Home Vegetable gardening in a Heatwave and Drought](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/home-vegetable-gardening-in-a-heatwave-and-drought/) - The last few weeks have been hot and dry. The waterbutts emptied a while ago and we’re likely to have a hosepipe ban soon. In the meantime we’re trying to be economical with the water but know that if we don’t water, thing will not crop as well as they could. The potatoes have already - [Flying Ant Day 2022](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/flying-ant-day-2022/) - This year has been a bad year for blackfly, made worse (in our garden at least) by the fact that they are moved around from one plant to another by ants. They started on the broad beans which they forced me to harvest earlier than usual so they were smaller and migrated to the dwarf - [First Tomato Harvest 2022](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/first-tomato-harvest-2022/) - Today I decided that the tomatoes were starting to get ripe enough to warrant picking a few. As usual the cherry tomatoes are the first with Oleron Yellow, Red Berry, Garnet, Koralik Red Cherry & Indigo Cherry Drops making up the majority of fruit by number. However, the weight was mainly from standard red tomatoes - [Effects of Dry Weather](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/effects-of-dry-weather/) - The weather this week has been hot, dry and windy. As a result, whilst the plants in the greenhouses are doing well and the tomatoes are starting to ripen in quantity, all the outside plants are suffering and need copious amounts of water. Even so, the runner beans have lost all their flowers and no - [Box Tree Moth - a relative newcomer](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/box-tree-moth-a-relative-newcomer/) - With the recent hot weather our windows and doors have been open in the evening and so more insects than usual have appeared. I’m not one who can identify insects (my grandfather was the entomologist) but this one looked pretty and I thought I would be able to identify it. Out came the Butterfly and - [Cucumbers - plenty & pickling](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/cucumbers-plenty-pickling/) - This year I’ve grown a different variety of cucumber. Normally I grow ”Burpless Tasty Green” which are an outdoor variety and are usually quite successful in the greenhouse and outdoors. This year, however, I had run out of seed (I know, I should have checked). Anyway, I had to go to the local garden centre - [Tomato Tar - Green Stains on your Towels](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-tar-green-stains-on-your-towels/) - How do I stop green stains on towels when handling tomatoes? The problem and the solution When you handle tomato plants, you're bound to get your hands coated with a yellow powder that causes stains on the towel even when you've washed your hands carefully with soap and water. The yellow powder is known as - [Tomatoes for 2019](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomatoes-for-2019/) - Now is the time of year when I seriously start thinking about what cultivars I'm going to grow. I have limited space and, over time, I've reduced the number of different varieties and plants I grow from a maximum of 70 down to 35 last year. These are my criteria for choosing: What new cultivars - [Green Shieldbug Eggs](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/green-shieldbug-eggs/) - Whilst harvesting swiss chard, found these. - [Growing Vegetables at Home - Growing for Value](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/growing-vegetables-at-home-growing-for-value/) - With the increasing cost of food, many people are writing about "growing your own food". In some instances, they describe situations which aren't representative of the average family with an average garden. Two Acre walled Gardens, the ability to keep livestock (usually chickens), etc. or they are growing things that aren't practical or useful (Asparagus, - [Planting out Tomatoes - 2022](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/planting-out-tomatoes-2022/) - So, the plants have got to the stage where they're large enough to plant out. I grow my tomatoes in a couple of small greenhouses (since my polytunnel failed last year) in "Morissons Flower Buckets (MFBs)". (For those of you who don't know about them, Morissons is a UK supermarket and one of the things - [Tomatoes Germinating -2022](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomatoes-germinating-2022/) - The tomatoes I sowed in the middle of March are (mainly) germinating and growing reasonably well. Of the 29 different cultivars, three have so far failed to show any sign of growth (which shows how old some of the seeds are so I'm unlikely to get Amber Coloured, Carotina, or Kibits Ukranian this year. I've - [Sowing Tomatoes - 2022](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/sowing-tomatoes-2022/) - I selected the tomato seeds I planned to sow this year and found that many of them are quite old. Nonetheless, I've given them a whirl and hope that they will germinate. I've sown 29 different varieties (30 pots because I've grown two different lots of my Oleron Yellow because I still seem to have - [Tomatoes - How many Trusses is the right number for Indeterminate Plants?](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomatoes-how-many-trusses-is-the-right-number-for-indeterminate-plants/) - A truss of tomatoes is the bunch of fruit growing off the stem. Different cultivars have different sorts of trusses, some are long with up to 40 tomatoes on a truss, others are much shorter with only a few (sometimes as few as five or six) tomatoes. We grow tomatoes to get as many ripe - [2022 - End of June Status](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/2022-end-of-june-status/) - So here we are approaching the end of June (which means we're past midsummer and on our way to Autumn) the garden and vegetables are beginning to be productive and I'm making the record of what we're harvesting. The tomatoes are all growing well and have small fruit growing on them. I have a feeling - [Blue Tits Successfully Fledged - 2022](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/blue-tits-successfully-fledged-2022/) - In my last post about the Blue Tits the parents were dashing backwards and forwards feeding their young. Well, now they've gone. A couple of days ago, it was apparent that the youngster (I never saw more than one) was preparing itself to depart and its parents were sitting some way away calling to it - [Busy Blue Tits - 2022](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/busy-blue-tits-2022/) - Sitting quietly in the garden I watched the Blue Tits dashing in and out of the birdbox. They were delivering food to their young family hopping in and out about every ten minutes (or less). Its virtually impossible to get a still picture as they hop around for a few moments before leaping into the - [Apple Blossom - 2022](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/apple-blossom-2022/) - We have two apple trees in our garden, a Discovery eater and an unknown cooker. In January this year we significantly pruned the Discovery, cutting out large amounts of crossing wood and opening up the tree. I was nervous that this would damage the tree or shock it into sulking. The opposite appears to be - [Airfix Wellington Bomber](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/airfix-wellington-bomber/) - I've added to my collection of models with the Wellington MKII bought from a local model shop. Its possibly the last model I will make for a while as the weather is improving which means I'll be spending more time gardening, growing the tomatoes and other vegetables. Anyway, here's a few more things I've learned - [2022 - Clocks Go Forward, lighter evenings](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/2022-clocks-go-forward-lighter-evenings/) - Our clocks went forward this morning making it lighter in the evenings and the days seem longer. The past few days have been warm and we've been out in the garden tidying things up and preparing for the summer. The tomatoes I sowed earlier in the month have mainly germinated, as I said at the - [Holiday in the Yorkshire Dales](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/holiday-in-the-yorkshire-dales/) - Its two years since we've been away on holiday. COVID-19 has made us uncomfortable about going into other accommodation or staying in an hotel. However, althouh the numbers are still high we decided to go away and see how we felt. We had a lovely time, despite the weather (which was cold and wet at - [Spring Flowers - 4](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/spring-flowers-4/) - Another little cluster of pictures as the garden continues to perk up. Despite the heavy rain and strong winds everything is brighter than it was lighter both earlier in the morning and later in the evening. - [Airfix Lancaster Bomber: Part 4](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/airfix-lancaster-bomber-part-4/) - All that’s really left to do is painting the outside of the bomber and fixing the remaining transfers. Many of the painting schemes assume the use of a spraygun but I don't have one. I started by "undercoating" the outside of the model so that the subsequent coats would stick properly. I used a mix - [Lancaster Bomber & Re-Supply](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/lancaster-bomber-re-supply/) - A few pictures of the final grouping of the Airfix kits. I'm wondering whether to buy a Diorama base to put it all together. The (unrealistic) scenario is the bomber being prepared for a sortie with some of the crew receiving a fnal briefing whilst the bombs are loaded and some of the chocks pulled - [Airfix - Bomber Resupply Set & RAF Personnel](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/airfix-bomber-resupply-set-raf-personnel/) - Having finished my Lancaster Bomber and found it wanting in some ways. I bought the Bomber Resupply Set and some RAF Personnel so that I could add to the Lancaster and make some form of display. Both arrived safely and seemed complete. The Personnel are of a different plastic to the other models, much softer - [Airfix - Bomber Resupply - 2](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/airfix-bomber-resupply-2/) - Having looked at the various options, I decided that the next thing to build was the Bedford Truck. Because there is an Oil Bowser, I decided that I would just make the truck, rather than the water carrier. This was the first model that I got significantly wrong. The rear axle has a hole in - [Spring Flowers - 3](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/spring-flowers-3/) - Every day when I go out into the garden. I'm surprised how quickly things are appearing. The clumps of snowdrops are getting bigger and the crocuses seem to be spreading still further and other flowers are showing themselves. Today's pictures: - [Growing at Home - Last of the Carrots](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/growing-at-home-last-of-the-carrots/) - Growing carrots is something that requires the soil to be of reasonable quality. We are clay and so our carrots never really grow very well, forking and stumpy. However, when I created the raised beds, I filled them with a mixture of garden compost, bought compost and well rotted farmyard manure. The result is a - [Airfix Lancaster Bomber: Part 2](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/airfix-lancaster-bomber-part-2/) - The next section of the build was to fit one side of the fuselage to the spars. This involved quite a lot of internal painting, painting some bits "cockpit green" and others "black". To be honest not a lot of this shows in the completed model so (perhaps) some of it could have been ignored - [Airfix Lancaster Bomber: Part 3](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/airfix-lancaster-bomber-part-3/) - The next part of the build was fitting the undercarriage. Obviously before doing this, you have to decide whether the undercarriage is going to be up or down. I was planning for it to be down so that the display (if I make one) will be the bomber on the ground with bombs being fitted - [Spring Flowers - 2](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/spring-flowers-2/) - Its amazing how quickly the flowers are popping their heads up now that the days are getting longer. Over the past few years we've tried splitting up the spring bulbs around the garden and we've bought naturalising crocus which are spresding themselves through the lawns (almost out of control). The real problem with that will - [Chitting Potatoes](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/chitting-potatoes/) - I haven’t grown potatoes since giving up the allotment. Even then, I really only grew them to fill space. However, this year I’ve decided to minimise the amount of time I spend growing vegetables but I still need to fill the various spaces. So, potatoes get a chance this year. I’ll plant a few in - [More spring flowers](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/more-spring-flowers/) - As spring approaches, more flowers are beginning to show, Aconites and the first of the crocuses. Yet more spring flowers We’ve still got lots of leaves to clear up but the weather isn’t perfect. - [Do you want to contribute?](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/do-you-want-to-contribute/) - This website is primarily about my experiences growing (mainly tomatoes). However, I'm thinking about widening the number of contributors. If you would be interested in making contributions on your experiences please contact me. If enough people are interested, then I'll find a way of making it work. - [2022 - Deciding what else to grow](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/2022-deciding-what-else-to-grow/) - Whilst most of what I write about is my tomatoes, there is also space for other vegetables and fruit, some of which are permanent and others which I have to decide about. I've already sown broadbeans which are growing well and will give us something in around May. The strawberry plants in the tunnel are - [2022 - Spring is Springing](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/2022-spring-is-springing/) - Our garden is a woodland garden, surrounded by trees in neighbouring gardens and a 100 year old oak in the middle of ours (see here to get the idea). Its not good for trying to grow fruit and vegetables as much of the garden is in partial shade through the summer months but its meant - [Recipe: Slow Cooker Leek & Potato Soup](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/recipe-slow-cooker-leek-potato-soup/) - This is an incredibly simple recipe and produces an acceptable soup. (Acceptable because like all soups with potato in them, it tends to be a little "gloopy". Its barely even worth a layout: The ingredients are (as you would expect): Leeks, potatoes, stock (vegetable or chicken- enough to cover the leeks & potatoes) and pepper - [2022 - Deciding which Tomatoes to Grow](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/2022-deciding-which-tomatoes-to-grow/) - At this time of year, I always have a problem deciding which tomato cultivars to grow. When I first started growing tomatoes and recording what I'd grown (a long time ago now it seems), I had plenty of space and an allotment so I grew lots of plants of lots of different cultivars (my record - [Tomato Sun Baby](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-sun-baby/) - Yellow Cherry Indeterminate tomato - similar to Oleron Yellow and others. Description This tomato comes to us from the 2019 seed swap. There were so many seeds swapped that we didn't have space to grow it in 2020 and grew it for the first time in 2021. Looking around the descriptions on the web, it - [Tomato Pink Brandywine](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-pink-brandywine/) - Pink/red beefsteak heritage tomato on Indeterminate potato leafed plants. Description Pink Brandywine is a pink-fleshed beefsteak tomato described as having “great tomatoey flavour” and “beautifully sweet, offset by a wonderful acidity”. A late-ripening indeterminate, potato-leafed beefsteak tomato, this is possibly our favourite tomato (competes with Summer Cider). The large blush-pink fruits are 4-12oz on a - [Tomato Moskowsi Ultra Skorospelyi](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-moskowsi-ultra-skorspelyi/) - A standard red tomato on indeterminate plants Description From the 2018 Seed Swap. There was no information that I could find on the web so it was a complete unknown at the start. It turns out it is a, more or less, typical red tomato which did better than many in the poor weather of - [Tomato Radio](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-radio/) - Red large cherry tomato on indeterminate regular leafed plants.. Description Trying to find any information about this cultivar from the web was impossible because of the large number of hits about "Tomato Radio". Regardless of what I tried to do to sort the wheat from the chaff I didn't get anywhere. So what's here is - [Tomato Blight](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-blight/) - Blight is one of the killers for anybody who wants to grow tomatoes. The problem is that many other problems (sunburn, windburn, magnesium deficiency) show similar symptoms to the early stages of blight so any grower has to make a decision whether to remove the infected plants to try and save the rest of the - [Tomato Dancing with Smurfs](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-dancing-with-smurfs/) - A blue cherry tomato on Indeterminate vines. Description Another blue cherry tomato from the 2019 seed swap. The web suggests that this was first created at the Oregon State University and further developed by Tom Wagner (a well know tomato breeder) and released in 2012. My guess is that its colour will depend upon the - [Tomato Urban's Delight](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-urbans-delight/) - From the 2019 seed swap something we are yet to know exactly what it is but probably something like Gardener's Delight. Description This is a slightly unusual activity. The allotment website that we visit had a "largest truss" competition and this was the winner (in fact it had such a large truss that nobody else - [Tomato Problems - Bacterial Canker](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-problems-bacterial-canker/) - This year (2020) as every year, my plants seem to wilt with the leaves dying back. This year it seems slightly worse than normal but I keep going through cutting off the affected leaves and hoping for the best. However, it seems to have infected some of the fruit as well and some of my - [Tomato Problems - Wilt](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-problems-wilt/) - With September with us, I was hoping that the tomato season would be extended through this month and into (at least) next. I usually get tomatoes all the way through until mid-November with the late beefsteak varieties providing something all the way through. However, this year (2020) I don't think its going to be like - [Tomato Megablooms](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-megablooms/) - Many cultivars exhibit megablooms Megablooms are when two or more flowers fuse together to create a single bloom from which larger fruit can form. As they are independent flowers, they have to be individually pollinated and the resulting fruit will normally be misshapen and may experience "catfacing" or "zippering". Our experience is that megablooms tend - [Tomato Craigella](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-craigella/) - A standard Red tomato on Indeteminate vines Description Another of the selection from the 2019 seed swap that we didn't have the space to grow, this heritage cultivar is said to be a selection from Ailsa Craig with very similar properties but without the greenback problems. If that's the case then (unfortunately) it goes on - [Tomato Black Mauri (Black Moor)](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/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 - [Tomato Problems - Botrytis](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-problems-botrytis/) - September is with us again and the warm/damp weather we've been having is encouraging disease in the greenhouses. Last year it was Bacterial Canker this year I seem to be having Botrytis (also known as Grey Mould). Its something I get every year but this year it seems even worse than usual. Its caused by - [Harvest - Mid October 2021](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/harvest-mid-october-2021/) - The days are drawing in, the evenings are darker and the weather is significantly cooler. However, there are still green tomatoes, some of which seem to be ripening others of which are succumbing to blight. Since the last harvest post we've picked another 9kg of tomatoes, four cucumbers, 2kg of carrots, half a kilo each - [Tomato Minibel](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-minibel/) - Small red cherry open pollinated tomato on short determinate plants. Description Minibel is a early/mid, bite-sized, cherry tomato with a sweet flavour. The determinate (bush) plants grow to about 12 inches and do not require staking. Similar in size to Maskotka, like all bush cherry tomatoes it gets raided as people walk around the garden. - [Tomato Jumbo Jim Orange](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-jumbo-jim-orange/) - Orange, Beefsteak, open pollinated tomato on indeterminate plants. Description An excellent large orange beefsteak, similar in appearance to Summer Cider. However, its a regular leafed plant and the flavour doesn’t (in my opinion) have the depth of sweetness of Summer Cider. We’re not sure of the history of this cultivar, like many varieties it appears - [Tomato Halina](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-halina/) - Medium sized pink beefsteak on indeterminate vines. Description Grown for the first time in 2018 with seeds from a seed swap, we were interested to see how this grew. Its hard to find any information on the web about Halina and the source seems to suggest that its a saved F1 Hybrid so I don't - [Harvest- End of September 2021](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/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 - [Harvest - Beginning of September 2021](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/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 - [Recipe - Tasty Cucumber Pickle](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/recipe-tasty-cucumber-pickle/) - For the first time in many years we have a glut of cucumbers. This isn't because we have particularly more than usual (although the plants are doing well) but because my better half is unable to eat salads at the moment and I can't get through the cucumbers. So we had to look for something - [Harvest - Mid August 2021](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/harvest-mid-august-2021/) - The year progresses and (at last) we're getting tomatoes with the total (as of today) at just about 4kg. What's interesting is how it varies from year to year. 2020 and 2018 by now had around 15kg but 2019 was only 1.5kg (that's all I've got weekly totals for). In a week or so, I'll - [Perhaps Tomatoes? - August 2021](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/perhaps-tomatoes-august-2021/) - With any luck we're just beginning to see the start of the season with a small quantity (350g) just beginning to ripen. The season is well behind last year (by now we'd picked around 8kg) but not far off what we picked by this time in 2019 so the season is obviously not with us. - [Recipe - Courgette Pakoras](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/recipe-courgette-pakoras/) - Throughout August if your courgettes are doing well, you'll be actively looking for recipes to use them up. This is a simple lunchtime snack which uses a few easily. Courgette & Onion Pakoras Ingredients 125g Gram Flour1/4 tsp Chilli Powder3/4 tsp curry powder1/4 tsp garlic powder1/4 tsp ground ginger1/4 tsp ground corriander1/4 tsp baking powdermint - [Recipe: Excellent Green Bean Relish](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/recipe-green-bean-relish/) - A relish to use the glut of beans early in the season. - [At Last! - Tomatoes starting to Ripen & other things](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/at-last-tomatoes-starting-to-ripen-other-things/) - First Fruit showing colour About two weeks later than normal, our tomatoes are beginning to show signs of ripening. Although we normally get a few tomatoes starting around 11th July, this year they seem late. I think its a combination of not growing the cultivars that are reliably early (Bloody Butcher and Maskotka and a - [Recipe: Basil Pesto](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/recipe-basil-pesto/) - Basil is one of those herbs which I grow more in hope than expectation. Sometimes it does well, others it’s not worth the space. 2021 is proving to be a good year with plenty of tasty plants. That introduces the problem of what to do with excess. Mixing it with salad leaves is good but - [Tomatoes - Heritage, Open Pollinated or Hybrid?](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomatoes-heritage-open-pollinated-or-hybrid/) - There are many (many) different varieties tomatoes. I have seen the figure 6,000 quoted and in some respects I feel this is possibly an underestimate. Tomatoes have two conflicting habits. On the one hand they cross easily (hence the large number of different varieties). On the other they are self-fertile and most varieties are unlikely - [Watering Tomatoes - How to get it Right](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/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 - [Update - Mid July 2021](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/update-mid-july-2021/) - Our veg patch & one greenhouse OK, whilst the tomatoes are yet to start ripening most of the rest of the garden seems to be doing OK. The strawberry plants are giving us enough for fruit most mornings with our cereal and we picked the first raspberries today. One of the difficulties that we haven't - [July 2021 summary](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/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 - [Home Gardening - June 2021 Update](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/home-gardening-june-2021-update/) - Despite the cold and wet May, the tomatoes are all planted up unto their final containers. I haven't done as many different varieties this year (not really sure why) nor have I as many plants as usual. However, a good mix of indeterminate (cordon) and determinate (bush) will see enough tomatoes for the year (unless - [Mid June Harvest (19th June 2021)](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/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 - [Weird Flowers and the Effect of a late spring](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/weird-flowers-and-the-effect-of-a-late-spring/) - I was wandering around the garden this morning when I saw this. I asked my "expert" what it was and was pointed at a page on the Kew Gardens website (kew.org) from January 2016. It turns out its an example of "terminal peloria" a well known but infrequent spontaneous genetic mutation that occurs in flowers - [June 2021: Garden Flowering](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/june-2021-garden-flowering/) - Whilst most of my posts are about the fruit and vegetables in the garden, at the moment the flowers are also doing well. Our garden is a “spring and early summer “ garden because the trees shade everything and dry out the clay soil during summer. So now is one of the best times with - [Grey Squirrel Wars begin for 2021](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/grey-squirrel-wars-begin-for-2021/) - I may have talked about this before but its something that gets to me regularly. Our garden backs on to a copse of trees and includes a large oak of its own (120+ years old according to the girth measurements). There are obvious advantages to this type of garden, lots of varied wildlife being one. - [Growing Fruit & Vegetables at Home - 7th May 2021](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/growing-fruit-vegetables-at-home-7th-may-2021/) - Although there are lots of things I have written about before, I’m going to treat this as a start-up. As I said I have a spreadsheet, it consists of three parts: Calendar:which lists what I’ve sown, transplanted, and harvested by date. All years are concatenated so I can see everything I’ve done in previous years;Harvest: - [Recipe: Simple Rhubarb Crumble](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/recipe-simple-rhubarb-crumble/) - To be honest, this is more about being pleased that the fruit and vegetable season is starting as it is a recipe. Rhubarb is the first of the fruits from our garden and (at least we find) comes twice, once in spring and then again in late summer. In neither case do we force the - [Growing my Tomatoes in lockdown](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/growing-my-tomatoes-in-lockdown/) - I'm not sure if I grow tomatoes in the same way as other people. My desire (usually) is to grow as many different varieties as I can fit into the available space and, because of the weather in the UK, this usually means growing them in the polytunnel or greenhouse. This year however, I think - [Split Apples](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/split-apples/) - I don't normally write about our apple trees (apart from the fight to stop magpies and squirrels eating them) but this is something new to me and shows how the weather has been somewhat strange this year. As you can see our apples have split. We have (what I think is) a Discovery Apple tree - [Big Garden Birdwatch 2021](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/big-garden-birdwatch-2021/) - Like many people in the UK I did the "Big Garden Birdwatch" last weekend watching out for birds in the garden. For whatever reason, this year was a "bad year" with the total list of birds being: Great TitWoodpigeonCrow I'm convinced that the birds know that its Garden Birdwatch weekend and hide away because in - [Tomato Sowing - 2021 & Cleaning the Greenhouses](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-sowing-2021-cleaning-the-greenhouses/) - Spring has sprung, the clocks have gone forward and the weather is warming up, my tomatoes have been sown and are beginning to show themselves. As usual, I have sown a mixture of ones I like, ones I haven't grown before, and some to refresh my seedbank. Selecting the seeds for this last group is - [Recipe: Fish Pie (with tomatoes & Vegetables)](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/recipe-fish-pie-with-tomatoes-vegetables/) - A simple to make, tasty fish pie recipe which links to our tomato and vegetable growing theme. As always, our recipes seem to be more Vegetables with ... as we add extra vegetables compared to the original source. Adding Creme Fraiche makes the pie moist without spoiling the flavour. Ingredients (for 2) 500g mashed potatoes1 - [Using the Raspberry Pi for Fantastic Video Communications with Zoom](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/using-the-raspberry-pi-for-video-communications/) - Moving slightly off-piste this time, not talking about tomatoes or any other garden related things. Lockdown has meant that we haven't physically seen our children/grandchildren much this year (in fact hardly at all) so we've got used to talking to them via Skype and Zoom. Some games work well (Uno, UnoFlip, Bingo, Go Fish) but - [The best place to get your seeds?](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/the-best-place-to-get-your-seeds/) - At this time of year, I look through my boxes of seeds wondering whether I stick to the ones I've got or whether I should try to buy some new, different ones. My database (well spreadsheet) of tomato seed cultivars is a list of 6,000+ names, most of which its impossible to find a commercial - [Tomato Gazzi Yellow Egg](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-gazzi-yellow-egg/) - Medium Sized Yellow Plum Tomato. Description Grown for the first time in 2018 with seeds from a seed swap, we were interested to see how this grew. It did quite well with a reasonable crop, probably one of the first to ripen in this peculiar year. A early/mid season yellow plum tomato very similar to - [Tomato Vesennij Mieurinsky](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/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 - [Tomato Transparent](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-transparent/) - Yellow large cherry open pollinated tomato on indeterminate plants. Description One of many yellow, round tomatoes (very similar to Oleron Yellow, Snow White, etc.). However, the skin doesn’t add colour to the tomato being almost completely transparent (hence the name I suppose). The flavour is a little too mild for us (we prefer something with - [Tomato Ottos Papa](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-ottos-papa/) - Medium sized red open pollinated tomato on indeterminate plants. Description A standard, red, indeterminate variety wth a reasonable taste (nothing really special), grown for the first time in 2017 when it started cropping in late August/ Early September (2017 was a late year so it may produce earlier in other years). Whether its better value - [Tomato Lima Korai](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-lima-korai/) - Red, Plum shaped paste/salad tomato on Indeterminate plants. Description Grown for the first time in 2018 with seeds from a seed swap, we were interested to see how this grew. These plum shaped tomatoes were halfway in size between King Humbert and Radana. My guess is that they are a small paste tomato because (although - [Tomato King Humbert](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-king-humbert/) - Red, Plum shaped paste tomato on Indeterminate plants. Description Grown for the first time in 2018 with seeds from a seed swap, we were interested to see how this grew. King Humbert (also Koenig Humbert) seems to be named after King Umberto I (Italy c 1878) whose consort Margherita inspired the pizza of that name. - [Tomato Green Velvet](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-green-velvet/) - Small Green/Yellow Beefsteak Tomato with green flesh. Description Grown for the first time in 2018 with seeds from a seed swap, we were interested to see how this grew. It did quite well with a reasonable flavour and unusual colouring. A small/medium sized beefsteak shaped tomato which, when ripe, has a yellow/green colour but the - [Tomato Gold Stripe](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/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 - [Tomato Giallo d'Iverno](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-giallo-diverno/) - A red Cherry open pollinated tomato on Indeterminate plants Description From the 2018 Seed Swap, we weren't sure what this was going to be as we couldn't find it described anywhere on the web (the nearest was Grappoli D'Inervo which is a grape shaped cultivar - it was in my database but without an associated - [Tomato Cyril's Choice](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-cyrils-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 - [Tomato Brown Sugar](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-brown-sugar/) - A brown/green striped standard sized open pollinated tomato on indeterminate plants. Description The web describes this as a Russian commercial variety introduced into North America in 2000. Whilst it sounds similar to Purple Russian, our experience is that it is very different. The mainly brown (but with green stripes) fruit are of medium size (3-4 - [Tomato Bedouin](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-bedouin/) - Brown pear shaped fruit on indeterminate potato leafed vines. Description Grown for the first time in 2018 with seeds from a seed swap, we were interested to see how this grew. Heavy cropping brown pear shaped fruit with the rich flavour and colour of brown tomatoes. The web suggests its a Russian variety and its - [Tomato Amish Mayberry](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-amish-mayberry/) - Pink fairly large cherry tomato on Indeterminate plants. - [Tomato Tiger](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-tiger/) - A medium sized red & brown/green striped tomato Description We got this from the 2018 seed swap and will plan to grow it in 2019. I can't find a lot about this cultivar on the web, (unless its Pink Tiger in which case I've grown it before). However, when we have more of our own - [Tomato Vince](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-vince/) - Yellow bell shaped open pollinated tomato on indeterminate plants. Description Vince has yellow, bell-pepper shaped tomatoes with a large cavity and seeds concentrated into a clump in the middle, very similar to Yellow Stuffer. The indeterminate, regular-leafed, plants produce bell-pepper shaped fruit, ideal for stuffing as they are strong walled and nearly empty of seeds. - [Tomato Radana](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-radana/) - Red, Small Plum shaped paste/salad tomato on Indeterminate plants. Description Grown for the first time in 2018 with seeds from a seed swap, we were interested to see how this grew. The small plum shaped tomatoes (about the same size as Principe Borghese) grew well on a relatively vigorous indeterminate vine. Smaller than most of - [Recipe - Tasty Carrot Soup](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/recipe-tasty-carrot-soup/) - Whilst there are many carrot soup recipes, this simple recipe is made tastier by the fact that they are roasted first to give that edge of caramelisation adding a touch of bitterness which is complemented by the bay and rosemary. Its simple to make, takes about an hour (including preparation) and is a good way - [End of the Tomato Season - 2020](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/end-of-the-tomato-season-2020/) - The season is over, all the plants are pulled up and the harvest processed, stored and ready for use over the winter. Its been a peculiar year for a number of (largely unrelated) reasons. I terms of the size of the crop, its been good (a total of just over 40kg of useable tomatoes of - [End September 2020 - Really coming to the end of the season](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/end-september-2020-really-coming-to-the-end-of-the-season/) - I seem to keep writing that the season is coming to an end, then it doesn't. More of the tomatoes have finished and the plants have been pulled up but there still seem to be some to come. The outdoor bush varieties are making their way into the greenhouses as plants in the greenhouse are - [2020 - Largest Tomato](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/2020-largest-tomato/) - Today we picked the largest tomato of the year. Marizol Gold always produces a few large fruit but this year it seems to have excelled itself. 846 grams (1lb 14 oz in old money) on a plant that has been looking "poorly" for a couple of weeks. As I've said a few times in recent - [Mid September 2020 - The beginning of the end](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/mid-september-2020-the-beginning-of-the-end/) - Whilst there are still quite a few tomatoes still to come, its obvious that the plants are well past their best and we can see that the end of the season is in sight. We pulled up the first of the plants today which (surprisingly) was Summer Cider. Our harvest so far has been much - [August 2020 - Report so far](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/august-2020-report-so-far/) - Most things are doing fine. The tomatoes are cropping well with much the same weight of tomatoes as the previous couple of years so far. The 2018 crop seemed to peak in a few weeks time so it will be interesting to see how they compare. 2019 wasn't a very good year overall, this year - [Recipe - Fantastic Simple Red Tomato Chutney](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/recipe-fantastic-simple-red-tomato-chutney/) - This year (as usual) we now have a glut of tomatoes. There are only so many one can chop up and freeze, or turn into tomato sauce or eat, so we're aways looking out for other things to do with them. This year (2020) our mix of colours is heavily biased to wards red tomatoes - [Recipe: Courgette & Sweet Potato Soup](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/recipe-courgette-sweet-potato-soup/) - A relish to use the glut of beans early in the season. - [Recipe: Warm Sausage Salad](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/recipe-warm-sausage-salad/) - At this time of year (July - August) we get a glut of salad items to the point where just eating them as a cold salad isn't enough. We've found a number of recipes for warm salads and have found this is one of the most versatile. The basic recipe can be extended by adding - [Cherry Tomatoes in July](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/cherry-tomatoes-in-july/) - As the tomatoes start ripening, I'm pleased to see that we've grown a range of different colours, particularly in the cherry varieties. The standard and beefsteak tomatoes are yet to really start doing anything but here's a picture of the varieties we picked today. The only new ones for this year are the Dancing with - [Guttation - Droplets on the Leaf Edges](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/guttation-droplets-on-the-leaf-edges/) - Sometimes, usually overnight or when the weather is cool and damp, droplets of liquid form along the edges of the leaves of plants. This is "Guttation". Not to be confused with the early morning dew, guttation is caused by the "water potential" in the roots of the plants. Because transpiration doesn't occur at night or - [End June 2020: The Tomato Journey so far](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/end-june-2020-the-tomato-journey-so-far/) - Surprisingly its now 106 days since I sowed most of my tomatoes. Fruit is now set on all but six of the thirty or so cultivars that I sowed but there's no reason to suspect that the rest won't set in the next few days. Based upon past experience, its still a couple of weeks - [July 2020: First Tomatoes ripening](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/july-2020-first-tomatoes-ripening/) - I'm not sure if its just because we are in partial lockdown (we were partially freed yesterday but that doesn't make me want to go out unnecessarily) but I think I'm watching the tomatoes more closely than usual. Whilst the weather hasn't been the best, there are signs that the crop will start soon. These - [Blight in my greenhouse?](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/blight-in-my-greenhouse/) - If there’s one word that strikes fear into tomato growers, it has to be “blight”. More people seem to be looking on the internet trying to see if they have blight than almost any other problem. The reason is simple, if you get late blight, it’s simple to spread throughout your whole crop, it will - [Tomato Progress & Selection](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-progress-selection/) - I'm always trying to think of different ways to compare the different cultivars. In the early days (when I was even keener) I weighed the harvest from each of the different cultivars to see whether there were significant differences that would influence my decisions as to what to grow. What I learned was that there - [Recipe: Sausage Casserole](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/recipe-sausage-casserole/) - This is a simple to make meal for two which is simple to double (or more) up, reheats in the microwave well and freezes. It also makes a good base for a soup. Ingredients 1 tblsp Oil250g Sausages1 Carrot2 Potatoes1 stick celery1 leek1 large OnionThyme300ml Vegetable Stock400g Tomatoes1 can Cannellini Beans Method Cut the sausages, - [2020 May 27th - First Tomatoes Set](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/2020-may-27th-first-tomatoes-set/) - Its always pleasing when you start to see that you might get some tomatoes this year. It feels earlier than normal but, looking back through the calendar, its neither the earliest (nor the latest). This year the first ones I've noticed are: Bloody Butcher, Kbits Ukranian and Mountain Magic. The Mountain Magic are an F2 - [Tomato Plants: Determinate, Indeterminate, Semi-Determinate - what do they mean?](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-plants-determinate-indeterminate-semi-determinate-what-do-they-mean/) - There are two (or three) different types of tomato plants: Determinate; Indeterminate; and Semi-Determinate. Determinate Determinate plants (also known as bush tomatoes) grow to a pre-determined sized and then flower and fruit over a short time (about two weeks or so). After this the plant will diminish in vigour and little new fruit will set. - [When is it going to get warm?](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/when-is-it-going-to-get-warm/) - I spent most of this morning transplanting my tomatoes from their seed pots up into individual pots. They need it to allow them to grow on faster but, I wondered when it was going to get warm. Those of you who have looked at the Raspberry Pi part of this site will know that I've - [2018 Update](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/2018-update/) - Simple announcement, I've now updated the list of tomato cultivars to include those I've grown in 2018. That brings to 161 the number listed. 2018 has been a somewhat peculiar year, the tomatoes are early because of the weather. Which is probably a good job because I didn't do much in the way of thinning - [2019-Sowing Tomatoes](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/2019-sowing-tomatoes/) - 2019 Tomato Sowing Despite the weather, I've sorted out the tomatoes to grow in 2019. Its a 50/50 split between new varieties acquired from a seed swap and seeds I've saved from previous years. The full list is: Angelle, Aunt Ruby's German Green, Balconi Red, Black and Brown Boar, Black Krim, Black Vernissage, Britain's Breakfast, - [End of October 2019 - Review](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/end-of-october-2019-review/) - Well, we've got to the end of October, the clocks have gone back and fireworks are beginning to sound in advance of Guy Fawkes Night. I tend to think about now as the end of the productive year and start to think about what should be done for next year. Its been a funny old - [Recipe: Carrot Cake](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/recipe-carrot-cake/) - In previous years, I've grown more beetroot than we've been able to eat, beetroot is good pickled, but as a vegetable its less useful. This year I decided to replace the beetroot bed with carrots so my guess is I'll get more carrots than we know what to do with so I've been looking for - [Polytunnel now a Netted cover](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/polytunnel-now-a-netted-cover/) - So, the polytunnel cover was ripped apart by storm Ciara, flapping around and squashing my broadbeans in the process. My original plan was to re-cover and extend it but this proved to be impossible because of reasons beyond my control. So I had to make another decision. Despite the rain and wind, I've managed to - [2020 Tomatoes Sown](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/2020-tomatoes-sown/) - After Tuesday's indecision as to what to sow, today (despite the wind and rain) I spent some time in the greenhouse sowing my tomatoes which are now on top of the cupboards in the kitchen (a warm place). My final set was: Ailsa Craig, Bloody Butcher, Blue Ambrosia, Brad's Atomic, Brown Berry, Crimson Crush (Cloudy - [2020 Tomato Decisions](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/2020-tomato-decisions/) - Deciding what to tomatoes to grow - [RSPB Garden Birdwatch 2020](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/rspb-garden-birdwatch-2020/) - Well, its that time of year again when we sit and watch the birds in the garden for an hour or so. As ever, the weather isn't the best and it makes one wonder why we do it now. However, whilst we didn't see all the variety of birds that regularly come to our garden, - [Tomato Livingston's Favourite](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-livingstons-favourite/) - Medium sized red heritage tomato on an indeterminate plant. Description From the 2018 Seed Swap. This is described across the web as a very old variety (introduced in 1883) in the Livingston Seed Catalogue. Said to have good flavour, etc. so we will see how it compares to others. Unfortunately, it didn't do anything. 2019 - [Recipe: Fish Tagine](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/recipe-fish-tagine-2/) - This recipe isn't really a Tagine but it has all the taste of a Moroccan dish. When we first made it we were nervous of the spice quantities and we reduced them from the recipe we started with and ended up with this version. We're looking for ways to reduce the number of pans (sauce, - [End of September 2019 Update](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/end-of-september-2019-update/) - So, we've reached the end of September and autumn is beginning to make itself felt. The days are already noticeably shorter and the temperatures are starting to drop. The polytunnel has certainly slowed down, french beans have produced less than 1kg of beans although some of the late sowings are still producing edible beans. We've - [Recipe: Tomato and Bean Soup](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/recipe-tomato-and-bean-soup/) - A relish to use the glut of beans early in the season. - [End of August 2019 Update](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/end-of-august-2019-update/) - (I forgot to publish this before the end of August but it still makes sense even two weeks later) We’re now at the end of August and the Polytunnel has continued to produce reasonable quantities of various things.But first the bad. The tomatoes are well behind normal August last year saw over 15kg of fruit. - [Recipe: Courgette, Ham & Cheese](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/recipe-courgette-ham-cheese/) - A relish to use the glut of beans early in the season. - [Recipe: Mackerel & Rhubarb](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/recipe-mackerel-and-rhubarb/) - A relish to use the glut of beans early in the season. - [End of July Update - 2019](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/end-of-july-update-2019/) - We've come to the end of July and the garden/polytunnel are both doing well with decent harvests of French Beans, Cucumbers and Courgettes adding to the Lettuce (which are still going well). However, the Radishes, Broad Beans and Peas have finished for the year. Whatever I do with Radishes, they never seem to be as - [End of June update](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/end-of-june-update/) - We're at the end of June and the garden is looking OK. The vegetables are beginning to deliver with Sugar Snap Peas, Broad Beans and French Beans adding to the Lettuce and Radishes that we've been harvesting for a while. Nothing in "glut" volumes yet but the courgettes, cucumbers & French Beans look like they're - [Recipe: Chicken Noodle & Vegetable Soup](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/recipe-chicken-noodle-vegetable-soup/) - This recipe really isn't about the chicken or the noodles but about making something simple that uses whatever vegetables are in season. As such its slightly difficult to identify what are the ingredients we've added from our garden as its "anything you want" that will cook quickly. The ingredients in italics are from our garden. - [How much food do you waste?](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/how-much-do-you-waste/) - The other day I was reading an online article (at theconversation.com) (it was raining) which finished with "people who grow their own waste less" and we should therefore replace the "farm to plate" production line with "garden to plate". As I had just thrown out some lettuces that had gone over, I had a debate - [First Tomato of the year set](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/first-tomato-of-the-year-set/) - I was just looking in the polytunnel to make sure that the slug hadn't been having another go at everything when I noticed we've got the first tomato set. Its Micro Tom, not one we've grown before which I decided we would grow to boost the number of small cherry tomatoes that can be put - [Polytunnel Activity, Planting Tomatoes, Garden Birdlife, etc..](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/polytunnel-activity-planting-tomatoes-garden-birdlife-etc/) - Last year I gave up my allotment. It was too far away and not doing what I wanted (unlike many allotments, despite the fact there are over 100 plots, rarely are there any people about. Everybody seems to go on a Sunday morning when I can't make it so there's nobody to see when I - [Cuckoo](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/cuckoo/) - We heard a cuckoo today, the first time for years - [Recipe: Couscous & Halloumi Salad](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/recipe-couscous-halloumi-salad/) - Whilst this calls itself a salad, its really roasted vegetables with couscous. Its simple to make and the Halloumi cheese adds flavour and texture. Being wheat intolerant, we used a gluten-free couscous and the quantity of couscous should be whatever the couscous reckons is the right quantity for the number of people you are cooking - [Blue Tits in the Bird Box](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/blue-tits-in-the-bird-box/) - Blue Tits setting up house. Hope their family survives - [MYHarvest Report](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/myharvest-report/) - A while ago, I posted a post that included a reference to MYHarvest. Well the group involved have published their first report and I think it makes interesting reading. You can find it here. They've taken some figures from us food gardeners (allotments and backgarden) to show what quantity of food we produce and it - [Recipe: Stir Fried Vegetables & Omelette](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/recipe-stir-fried-vegetables-and-omelette/) - A nutritious, tasty, quick to prepare omelette. As usual things from our garden are in italics. Ingredients (for 2) 4 eggs 100g baby sweetcorn 100g carrots 100g mushrooms 100g green or white cabbage 1 small red onion 1tbsp light soy sauce 2 garlic cloves 1 tsp fish sauce 2tsp sugar 3 tbsp oil (peanut or similar for - [Recipe: Pork & Cabbage Stir Fry](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/recipe-pork-and-cabbage-stir-fry/) - A quick and easy stir fry that goes well with brown rice or noodles. As usual things from our garden are in italics. Ingredients (for 4) 450g pork cut into small strips 1/2 tsp Chinese five spice 1 x Onion sliced finely garlic (according to taste) 1 x large carrot cut into batons 1/2 white cabbage shredded - [Garden Birds - RSPB Birdwatch](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/garden-birds-rspb-birdwatch/) - Every year I sit down for an hour or so at the end of January and do the Garden Birdwatch for the RSPB. This year I did it again and (as always seems to be the case) the weather was windy and cold. The number and varieties of birds in my garden always seem to - [Recipe: Vegetable & Pearl Barley Stew](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/recipe-vegetable-and-pearl-barley-stew/) - A quick to prepare tasty vegetable stew which can be modified by adding more vegetables as you like. Preparation is simple then it sits in the slow cooker until you're ready for it. As usual things from our garden are in italics. Ingredients (for 4) 200g of butternut squash and/or sweet potato diced; 10g dried mushrooms - [Recipe: Chicken Stir Fry with Szechuan Pepper](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/recipe-chicken-stir-fry-with-szechuan-pepper/) - This is a quick and easy to make stir fry which can easily be modified to suit your tastes. We served it with rice noodles and it took about 25 minutes altogether as we could prepare the vegetables at the same time as stir frying the various ingredients. As usual things from our garden are - [Recipe: Gluten Free Mincemeat Muffins](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/recipe-gluten-free-mincemeat-muffins/) - Gluten Free Mincemeat Muffins Having made my mincemeat and successfully converted some of it into mince pies, I have enough left (it made 2.5 jars) that I have to find other things to do. So I tried (successfully) these simple muffins. You'll need a muffin tray and 12 muffin cases. Put the cases into - [Recipe: Gluten Free Mince Pies](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/recipe-gluten-free-mince-pies/) - The other day, my better half was reading a book which said "if you're going to eat mince pies, they should be the best available" and that the best mincemeat did not come from a shop bought jar. So, I decided I would make my own mincemeat and gluten free pastry for the mince pies. - [Recipe: Stir Fried Duck with Oyster Sauce](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/recipe-stir-fried-duck-oyster-sauce/) - This recipe came from the Gressingham Duck website but we modified it adding more vegetables and making it more wheat free. We also think that the recipe can be used with other meats. As ever, items in italics are from our garden. Ingredients (for 2) 1 Duck Breast sliced into smaller fillets (we have also - [End of the Tomato Season](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/end-of-the-tomato-season/) - OK, so that's it, the season has ended. The last of the tomatoes were picked yesterday, the plants removed and today was spent tidying and sweeping to make sure that everything is neat and tidy for the winter. The total crop wasn't that large (about 40kg) from about 30 different cultivars. I didn't spend as - [Recipe: Pasta Free Lasagna](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/recipe-pasta-free-lasagna/) - This recipe replaces the lasagna sheets with sliced courgettes and beef tomatoes. The meat sauce can be used in lots of other recipes. Its our development of what started life as a much more "chefy" recipe which involved lots of other stages. As ever, items in italics are from our garden. Ingredients (for 2) 2 - [Recipe: Salmon, Leeks & Tomatoes](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/recipe-salmon-leeks-tomatoes/) - This is a quick cooked tasty serving of salmon. As ever, items in italics are from our garden. Ingredients (for 2) 200g cherry tomatoes 2x skinless salmon fillets (140g each) 350g finely sliced leeks 1-2 tbsp olive oil 1xtbsp wholegrain mustard 1xtbsp honey juice of 1/2 lemon Vegetables & Carbohydrates to serve Method Put the - [A Walk at Attenborough Nature Reserve - Fish](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/a-walk-at-attenborough-nature-reserve-fish/) - We went out on a walk this afternoon (we're trying to up our paces as part of our get fitter campaign). As well as the usual sightings of a collection of water birds, we saw something I've never seen before. As we went over the first of the bridges over the water on our way, - [Tomato Problems: Blossom End Rot](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-problems-blossom-end-rot/) - Blossom End Rot White Zebra with Blossom End Rot Orange Banana Kibits Ukranian If you've got tomatoes that look like the above pictures, you've got Blossom End Rot. Now, this isn't a disease or insect damage or anything terrible like that but its to do with the way you've been treating your plants and is - [Recipe: Sweet & Sour Vegetables with Turkey Balls](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/recipe-sweet-sour-vegetables-turkey-balls/) - Sweet & sour sauce will go with most things but we like to cook it with a lot of vegetables and have a little meat to go with it. These turkey mince balls are tasty and easy to make. As ever, items in italics are from our garden. Ingredients (for 2) 200g tomatoes 50g carrots - [Recipe: Hot Sausage Salad](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/recipe-hot-sausage-salad/) - During summer and early autumn, there's a lot of salad greens growing in the garden. Using them in "ordinary" salads eventually gets boring however, this warm salad is an easy delicious improvement. Ingredients (for 2) 10 (or more) cherry tomatoes Lettuce cucumber 200g sausages (we use gluten free) 1 x avocado 1tbsp wine vinegar (red - [2018 - Mid September Update](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/2018-mid-september-update/) - Greenhouse 1 Greenhouse 2 So, here we are in the middle of September, the days are beginning to get shorter and (this year at least) the tomatoes are starting to slow down. So far may greenhouses have produced about 26kg of tomatoes, a mixture of all sorts and colours and I've been reasonably pleased. Many - [Recipe: Roast Vegetables & Salmon](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/recipe-roast-vegetables-salmon/) - I love tray bakes, they're simple and (usually) just need you to put it all together and leave it alone. This recipe isn't quite that simple but takes about 40 minutes from start to finish. Ingredients (for 2) 100g (or more) cherry tomatoes 1 large courgette 60g (or more) french beans 2 peppers ( 1 - [Recipe: Spiced Butternut Squash Soup](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/recipe-spiced-butternut-soup/) - Whilst this recipe doesn't include tomatoes (or in fact anything we commonly grow) its extremely simple, filling and cheap. We make it and have it two days running although you can freeze it if you want. Ingredients Butternut Squash (1kg makes a generous four helpings) 2 Onions 2 cloves garlic 1tbs coriander seeds 2tsp cumin - [Recipe: Tomato & Corgette Risotto](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/recipe-tomato-and-courgette-risotto/) - This is a very flexible recipe to which you can add more or less any of the summer vegetables you have (french beans for example) Ingredients (for 2) 400g ripe tomatoes Additional Cherry tomatoes halved 1-2 courgettes 200g risotto rice 1/2 Onion Garlic to taste 1/2 tsp crushed coriander seeds 500ml vegetable (or chicken) stock - [Recipe: Fish Tagine](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/recipe-fish-tagine/) - A quick and easy risotto that uses plenty of tomatoes and so is good during August when there are plenty of ripe tomatoes coming from the garden. Ingredients (for 4) 400+g ripe tomatoes 150g carrots 1 Onion 3 small potatoes 2 celery stalks 100g mushrooms 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon 1/2 tsp chilli flakes (or less - [Recipe: Tomato Risotto](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/recipe-tomato-risotto/) - A quick and easy risotto that uses plenty of tomatoes and so is good during August when there are plenty of ripe tomatoes coming from the garden. Ingredients (for 2) 250g - 400g ripe tomatoes 200g Risotto Rice 1/2 Onion 500ml vegetable (or chicken) stock Oil for frying 1 sprig rosemary Grated Parmesan 50ml Red - [Recipe: Sweetcorn Chowder](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/recipe-sweetcorn-chowder/) - This is a fantastic recipe. A rich and creamy soup that's quick and easy to make, using fresh or frozen ingredients. Its so quick, it's not really worthwhile freezing, you can make it from scratch in the same time as it would take to defrost it. Ingredients (for 2) Sweetcorn Kernels from one sweetcorn cob - [Raspberry Pi as a Naturewatching Camera](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/raspberry-pi-as-a-naturewatching-camera/) - Those of you who watch Springwatch on the BBC are probably already ahead of me. I was interested to see that there was a short article in one of the programs on a "£25 Nature Watching Camera" from MyNaturewatch. It turns out that this is an (almost) perfect application for the Raspberry Pi so I - [Polytunnel Vegetables](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/polytunnel-vegetables/) - We're now into late May so the polytunnel is beginning to get planted up. Up until now, its been providing us with lettuces and swiss chard but the swiss chard is coming to an end so now the summer vegetables get added. I've decided to follow through with similar planting to last year, Dwarf - [The Weather is improving](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/the-weather-is-improving/) - The weather gods must have been listening when I last posted, the weather has improved (somewhat) and we're now back to what I would expect to be getting in April (showers and sunshine). So spring has come with a rush and we've got peculiar combinations of plants in flower in the garden at the same - [Bokashi Composting](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/bokashi-composting/) - I stumbled across this the other day. It's an informative podcast about Bokashi Composting and it reminded me that I need to start my Bokashi up again. For those (many) of you who haven't heard of Bokashi Composting, it's an Asian technique re-introduced in the early 1980s which uses a starter inoculated with microbes to start - [When should I sow my Tomato Seeds?](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/when-should-i-sow-my-tomato-seeds/) - I ask myself this question every year. The seed packets say "sow in late winter" (when’s that?) or "late January to March" (more understandable) and, in different years, I’ve tried sowing from early January through until early April. I think the answer depends upon a lot of variables some of which you can control and - [Waterbutt in the Polytunnel - A final conclusion](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/waterbutt-in-the-polytunnel-a-final-conclusion/) - As I've said more than once (here and other places) I've been intrigued by the question of whether putting waterbutts filled with water into the greenhouse/polytunnel can beneficially affect/improve the temperature in the polytunnel. To try and come to a conclusion, I built a Raspberry Pi temperature sensor with four sensors (see here). I put - [Recipe: Chicken, Swiss Chard & Noodles](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/recipe-chicken-swiss-chard-noodles/) - This recipe is a new one for us, because I'm wheat free(ish) and my better half isn't, we're always looking recipes that can be created as both. The original recipe called for spinach. Swiss Chard is easier to grow and available from early in the year and (in our opinion) better. Ingredients (for 2) Noodles - [Recipe: Hungarian Goulash](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/recipe-hungarian-goulash/) - This recipe is an old one that we’ve been cooking for 30 years or more and the recipe book is falling apart. Like many recipes, we use it for guidance, rather than following it slavishly (like rules, recipes are meant for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men). The recipe says stewing - [Starting the Year](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/starting-the-year/) - Right, first day this year when the weather seems to have been good enough to think about being out in the garden. The ground seems to have been so soggy this year that walking around will do the grass harm and there's no point in digging the ground as it will be in clods and - [Raspberry Pi: Integration with Dropbox](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/raspberry-pi-integration-with-dropbox/) - Dropbox is a Cloud Storage area that's free to use for private individuals for relatively large quantities of data. I like it for my Raspberry Pi network because it allows me to move files to devices that are not on my home network without having to open up either the home network or the distant - [Raspberry Pi: Moving Files in a Network](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/raspberry-pi-moving-files-in-a-network/) - I'm gradually building a network of Raspberry Pis for different things and, I suppose, its the way that an Internet of Things (IoT) would get built. At the moment, what I've got is a couple of Raspberry Pi Zeros with temperature sensors connected to them in different locations (one in the house and one in - [Tomatoes: Determinate, Indeterminate, Semi-Determinate, Cordon or Bush: Pruning & Harvesting](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomatoes-determinate-indeterminate-semi-determinate-cordon-or-bush-pruning-harvesting/) - Over the years I've been growing tomatoes, I have learned more and more about them and have a better understanding about how they behave so I thought I would write what I know about the three different growth habits of tomatoes and how to grow them. There are three different types of tomato plants: Determinate; - [Should you grow Multiple Stems on Indeterminate Tomatoes?](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/should-you-grow-multiple-stems-on-indeterminate-tomatoes/) - There are essentially three different types of tomatoes, Indeterminate, Semi-Determinate and Determinate. They are defined by their growth habits. In this article we are going to consider growing Indeterminate tomatoes on a non-commercial scale. Indeterminate tomatoes are usually grown in the UK as cordons. A single stem is trained vertically upwards, either up a cane or - [Recipe: Pork Vindaloo](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/recipe-pork-vindaloo/) - This recipe is an old one that we’ve been cooking for 30 years or more and the recipe book is falling apart. Like many recipes, we use it for guidance, rather than following it slavishly (like rules, recipes are meant for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men). The Turmeric and Tomato - [Recipe: Gluten Free Pork Pie](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/recipe-gluten-free-pork-pie/) - Having decided to be wheat free, pastry is one of the things I find most difficult to be without. Worst of all, I love pork pies and a gluten / wheat free pork pie is one thing I haven’t found anywhere. So, we decided to make one using a combination of a number of recipes. - [Recipe: Aubergine Rogan Josh](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/recipe-aubergine-rogan-josh/) - A simple to make supper which tastes (a lot) better than it looks. Its good to eat when aubergines are cheap and fresh in the supermarkets (we can't grow large enough aubergines) and uses frozen chopped tomatoes and tomato puree. Ingredients in italics we've grown ourselves (maybe from the freezer). Ingredients (for two) 2 Aubergines cut into - [Recipe: Butternut Squash & Potato Corn Chowder](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/recipe-butternut-squash-potato-corn-chowder/) - This is a simple to make rich soup, reheats in the microwave well and freezes. Ingredients in italics we've grown ourselves (maybe from the freezer). Ingredients Butter & Oil 3 Onions finely chopped 750g Potatoes cut onto small chunks 750g Butternut Squash 600g Sweetcorn blitzed to make creamed corn 600ml Chicken Stock Options: Worcestershire sauce to taste Creme Fraiche Method - [What Tomatoes to Grow in 2018?](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/what-tomatoes-to-grow-in-2018/) - I'm a member of an internet tomato seed swap. The simple idea is that a number of you collect your own seed, bag them up and send them to somebody who (very kindly) gathers them al up and sends them back out to all the members. Thus, for a bit of effort, you get a - [Pruning Autumn Fruited Raspberries](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/pruning-autumn-fruited-raspberries/) - 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. - [31st October 2017 - End of the Season](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/31st-october-2017-end-of-the-season/) - Its that time of year when I begin to wonder whether the allotment is worth it. There's no crops to pick (other than the occasional raspberry) and walking two miles each way to spend an hour or two digging the beds and preparing for next year somehow seems hard work. In addition, this coming Saturday - [Starting Website Again](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/starting-website-again/) - We are starting up this website again, the intention is to build something almost identical to our old website but also adding new stuff. It will take a while so bear with us. - [Tomato Season Finished](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tomato-season-finished/) - Well, it's all over. The last of our tomatoes picked and the plants consigned to the compost heap. 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[Amber Coloured](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/amber-coloured/) - [Yellow/Orange Tomato](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/yelloworange-tomato/) - [Amish Mayberry](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/amish-mayberry/) - [Cherry Tomato](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/cherry-tomato/) - [Ananas Noir](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/ananas-noir/) - [Black Pineapple](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/black-pineapple/) - [Green/Black](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/greenblack/) - [Yellow](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/yellow/) - [Aunt Ruby German Green](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/aunt-ruby-german-green/) - [Azoychka](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/azoychka/) - [Berkeley Tie Dye](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/berkeley-tie-dye/) - [Pink/Green Striped](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/pinkgreen-striped/) - [Jack Hawkins](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/jack-hawkins/) - [Big Beef](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/big-beef/) - [Black](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/black/) - [Black Brandywine](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/black-brandywine/) - [Long Plum Shaped](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/long-plum-shaped/) - [Black Krim](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/black-krim/) - [Czerno Krimski](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/czerno-krimski/) - [Plum Shaped](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/plum-shaped/) - [Round](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/round/) - [Small Beefsteak](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/small-beefsteak/) - [Striped](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/striped/) - [Standard](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/standard/) - [Bloody Butcher](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/bloody-butcher/) - [Blush](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/blush/) - [Yellow/Red Striped](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/yellowred-striped/) - [Grape Shaped](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/grape-shaped/) - [Orange/Red/Pink](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/orangeredpink/) - [Box Car Willie](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/box-car-willie/) - [Cherry](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/cherry/) - [Pointed](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/pointed/) - [Britains Breakfast](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/britains-breakfast/) - [Brown](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/brown/) - [Brown Berry](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/brown-berry/) - [Brown Sugar](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/brown-sugar/) - [Chadwick Cherry](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/chadwick-cherry/) - [Camp Joy](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/camp-joy/) - [Cherokee Purple](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/cherokee-purple/) - [Chianti Rose](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/chianti-rose/) - [pink](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/pink/) - [Chocolate Cherry](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/chocolate-cherry/) - [Chiapis Wild Tom](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/chiapis-wild-tom/) - [Pea Sized Tomato](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/pea-sized-tomato/) - [Allotment](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/allotment/) - [Broad beans](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/broad-beans/) - [Christmas Grapes](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/christmas-grapes/) - [Costoluto Fiorentino](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/costoluto-fiorentino/) - [Country Taste](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/country-taste/) - [Yellow/Cream](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/yellowcream/) - [Cream Sausage](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/cream-sausage/) - [Banana Cream](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/banana-cream/) - [Crimson Crush](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/crimson-crush/) - [Cloudy Days](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/cloudy-days/) - [Cuore di Bue](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/cuore-di-bue/) - [Cuore di Torro](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/cuore-di-torro/) - [Red/Pink](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/redpink/) - [Heart Shaped Tomato](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/heart-shaped-tomato/) - [Oxheart](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/oxheart/) - [Cyril's Choice](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/cyrils-choice/) - [Dark Galaxy](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/dark-galaxy/) - [Black/Speckled](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/blackspeckled/) - [Large Cherry](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/large-cherry/) - [Earliana](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/earliana/) - [Medium/Large](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/mediumlarge/) - [Plum](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/plum/) - [Egyptian](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/egyptian/) - [Red/Brown](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/redbrown/) - [Emerald Green Cherry](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/emerald-green-cherry/) - [Evergreen](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/evergreen/) - [Green Tomato](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/green-tomato/) - [Red Tomato](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/red-tomato/) - [Essex Wonder](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/essex-wonder/) - [Red/Pink Tomato](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/redpink-tomato/) - [Fred Limbaugh Potato Top](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/fred-limbaugh-potato-top/) - [Garden Peach](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/garden-peach/) - [Peach Tomato](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/peach-tomato/) - [Gardener's Delight](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/gardeners-delight/) - [Sugar Lump](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/sugar-lump/) - [Jung's Sugar Lump](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/jungs-sugar-lump/) - [Benary's Gartenfreude](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/benarys-gartenfreude/) - [Garden Pearl](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/garden-pearl/) - [Gartenperle](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/gartenperle/) - [Tumbling Garden Pearl](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/tumbling-garden-pearl/) - [German Gold](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/german-gold/) - [Yellow/Red Bicolour](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/yellowred-bicolour/) - [Gold Dust](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/gold-dust/) - [orange/yellow](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/orangeyellow/) - [Gold Rush Currant](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/gold-rush-currant/) - [Gold Stripe](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/gold-stripe/) - [Rambling Gold Stripe](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/rambling-gold-stripe/) - [Yellow/Green Stripe](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/yellowgreen-stripe/) - [elongated cherry tomato](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/elongated-cherry-tomato/) - [Golden Queen](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/golden-queen/) - [Livingston Golden Queen](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/livingston-golden-queen/) - [Golden Sunrise](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/golden-sunrise/) - [Green Giant](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/green-giant/) - [Green Grapes](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/green-grapes/) - [Green Grape](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/green-grape/) - [Green Zebra](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/green-zebra/) - [Harbinger](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/harbinger/) - [Heinz 9129](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/heinz-9129/) - [Hendersons Wins All](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/hendersons-wins-all/) - [Hendersons Winsall](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/hendersons-winsall/) - [Hundreds and Thousands](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/hundreds-and-thousands/) - [Yellow Tomato](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/yellow-tomato/) - [Ildi](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/ildi/) - [Brown Tomato](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/brown-tomato/) - [Plum Tomato](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/plum-tomato/) - [Japanese Black Trifele](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/japanese-black-trifele/) - [Black Truffle](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/black-truffle/) - [Orange Tomato](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/orange-tomato/) - [Jubilee](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/jubilee/) - [Jumbo Jim Orange](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/jumbo-jim-orange/) - [Kanner Hoell](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/kanner-hoell/) - [Kibits Ukranian](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/kibits-ukranian/) - [Kibit’s](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/kibits/) - [Kibic](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/kibic/) - [Chibis](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/chibis/) - [Elongated Plum](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/elongated-plum/) - [Koralik Red Cherry](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/koralik-red-cherry/) - [Legend](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/legend/) - [Latah](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/latah/) - [Limmony](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/limmony/) - [Lemmony](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/lemmony/) - [Mandarin Cross](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/mandarin-cross/) - [Heritage](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/heritage/) - [Heirloom](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/heirloom/) - [Hybrid](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/hybrid/) - [Open Pollinated](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/open-pollinated/) - [Tar](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/tar/) - [Stains](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/stains/) - [Determinate](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/determinate/) - [Bush](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/bush/) - [Indeterminate](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/indeterminate/) - [Cordon](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/cordon/) - [Semi-Determinate](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/semi-determinate/) - [Marizol Gold](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/marizol-gold/) - [Marmande](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/marmande/) - [Super Marmande](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/super-marmande/) - [Marvel Stripes](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/marvel-stripes/) - [Marvel Striped](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/marvel-striped/) - [Marvel Stripe](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/marvel-stripe/) - [Maskotka](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/maskotka/) - [Maskotca](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/maskotca/) - [Mascotka](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/mascotka/) - [Tamina](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/tamina/) - [Matina](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/matina/) - [Minibel](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/minibel/) - [Moneymaker](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/moneymaker/) - [Beefsteak Tomato](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/beefsteak-tomato/) - [Mortgage Lifter](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/mortgage-lifter/) - [Pink Tomato](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/pink-tomato/) - [Mortgage Lifter Halladay's](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/mortgage-lifter-halladays/) - [Mortgage Lifter Radiator Charlie's](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/mortgage-lifter-radiator-charlies/) - [Mortgage Lifter Mullen's](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/mortgage-lifter-mullens/) - [Mortgage Lifter Quisenberry's](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/mortgage-lifter-quisenberrys/) - [Mortgage Lifter Riegers](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/mortgage-lifter-riegers/) - [Mortgage Lifter Carter's](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/mortgage-lifter-carters/) - [Mortgage Lifter Pesta](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/mortgage-lifter-pesta/) - [Mortgage Lifter Cartwright's](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/mortgage-lifter-cartwrights/) - [Red and Yellow Mortgage Lifter](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/red-and-yellow-mortgage-lifter/) - [Mortgage Lifter Yellow](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/mortgage-lifter-yellow/) - [Mortgage Lifter Watson's](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/mortgage-lifter-watsons/) - [Mortgage Lifter O'Driscoll's](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/mortgage-lifter-odriscolls/) - [Mortgage Lifter McGarity’s.](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/mortgage-lifter-mcgaritys/) - [Mortgage Lifter German](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/mortgage-lifter-german/) - [Mountain Magic](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/mountain-magic/) - [Mountain Princess](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/mountain-princess/) - [Mrs Rucks](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/mrs-rucks/) - [Nectar Rose](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/nectar-rose/) - [Nikolayev Yellow Cherry](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/nikolayev-yellow-cherry/) - [Nicholayev](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/nicholayev/) - [Oleron Yellow](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/oleron-yellow/) - [Orange Berry](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/orange-berry/) - [Orange Strawberry](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/orange-strawberry/) - [Otto's Papa](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/ottos-papa/) - [Pantano](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/pantano/) - [Pink Brandywine](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/pink-brandywine/) - [Purple Russian](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/purple-russian/) - [Purple Tomato](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/purple-tomato/) - [Quedlinberger Fruhe Liebe](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/quedlinberger-fruhe-liebe/) - [Red Berry](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/red-berry/) - [Red Brandywine](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/red-brandywine/) - [Red Cherry](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/red-cherry/) - [Horn Shaped](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/horn-shaped/) - [Red Buffalo Horn](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/red-buffalo-horn/) - [Red Robin](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/red-robin/) - [Red Zebra](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/red-zebra/) - [Reisetomate Pocketbook](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/reisetomate-pocketbook/) - [Rio Grande](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/rio-grande/) - [Roma](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/roma/) - [Rosella](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/rosella/) - [Black Tomato](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/black-tomato/) - [Saint Pierre](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/saint-pierre/) - [St Pierre](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/st-pierre/) - [San Marzano](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/san-marzano/) - [Sandpoint](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/sandpoint/) - [Small Standard Tomato](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/small-standard-tomato/) - [Sasha's Altai](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/sashas-altai/) - [White Tomato](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/white-tomato/) - [Snow Berry](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/snow-berry/) - [Snowberry](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/snowberry/) - [Snow White](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/snow-white/) - [Red/Yellow Striped Tomato](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/redyellow-striped-tomato/) - [Speckled Roman](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/speckled-roman/) - [Striped Roman](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/striped-roman/) - [Striped Stuffer](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/striped-stuffer/) - [Bell Shaped Tomato](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/bell-shaped-tomato/) - [Stupice](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/stupice/) - [Sub Arctic Plenty](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/sub-arctic-plenty/) - [Stupicke Polni Rane](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/stupicke-polni-rane/) - [Summer Cider](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/summer-cider/) - [Sungella](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/sungella/) - [Sungold](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/sungold/) - [Sunsets Red Horizon](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/sunsets-red-horizon/) - [Sweet Baby](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/sweet-baby/) - [Sweet Gold](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/sweet-gold/) - [Sweet Pea Currant](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/sweet-pea-currant/) - [Thai Pink Egg](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/thai-pink-egg/) - [Egg shaped](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/egg-shaped/) - [Tim's Black Ruffles](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/tims-black-ruffles/) - [Tigerella](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/tigerella/) - [Transparent](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/transparent/) - [Tiny Tim](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/tiny-tim/) - [True Black Brandywine](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/true-black-brandywine/) - [Tumbling Tom Red](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/tumbling-tom-red/) - [Tumbling Tom Yellow](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/tumbling-tom-yellow/) - [Vesennij Mieurinsky](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/vesennij-mieurinsky/) - [Vintage Wine](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/vintage-wine/) - [Pink/Yellow Striped](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/pink-yellow-striped/) - [White Currant](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/white-currant/) - [White Queen](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/white-queen/) - [White Zebra](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/white-zebra/) - [Yellow Pigmy](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/yellow-pigmy/) - [Yellow Brandywine](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/yellow-brandywine/) - [Yellow Stuffer](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/yellow-stuffer/) - [Zhefen Short](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/zhefen-short/) - [Carrot](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/carrot/) - [Sausage](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/sausage/) - [Leek](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/leek/) - [Celery](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/celery/) - [Onion](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/onion/) - [Thyme](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/thyme/) - [French Beans](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/french-beans/) - [cannellini beans](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/cannellini-beans/) - [butternut squash](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/butternut-squash/) - [potato](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/potato/) - [sweetcorn](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/sweetcorn/) - [Tomato Puree](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/tomato-puree/) - [Aubergine](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/aubergine/) - [Rogan Josh](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/rogan-josh/) - [pork pie](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/pork-pie/) - [gluten free](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/gluten-free/) - [Pork](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/pork/) - [Sage](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/sage/) - [Pastry](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/pastry/) - [Pork Vindaloo](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/pork-vindaloo/) - [Hungarian Goulash](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/hungarian-goulash/) - [Headless](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/headless/) - [Configure](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/configure/) - [Apple Mac](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/apple-mac/) - [Raspberry Pi](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/raspberry-pi/) - [SSH](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/ssh/) - [File Synchronisation](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/file-synchronisation/) - [Networking](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/networking/) - [Internet of Things](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/internet-of-things/) - [IoT](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/iot/) - [Dropbox](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/dropbox/) - [Polytunnel](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/polytunnel/) - [Caterpillar](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/caterpillar/) - [Lettuces](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/lettuces/) - [Snowdrops](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/snowdrops/) - [Crocus](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/crocus/) - [Blue Tits](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/blue-tits/) - [Long Tailed Tits](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/long-tailed-tits/) - [Mantis Tiller](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/mantis-tiller/) - [Chicken](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/chicken/) - [Spinach](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/spinach/) - [Noodles](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/noodles/) - [Recipe](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/recipe/) - [Swiss Chard](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/swiss-chard/) - [courgette](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/courgette/) - [soup](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/soup/) - [Tomato Seeds](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/tomato-seeds/) - [Sowing Tomato Seeds](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/sowing-tomato-seeds/) - [Tomato Seedlings](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/tomato-seedlings/) - [Temperature](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/temperature/) - [Frogs](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/frogs/) - [Wildlife](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/wildlife/) - [Sparrowhawk](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/sparrowhawk/) - [raspberries](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/raspberries/) - [strawberries](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/strawberries/) - [raised bed](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/raised-bed/) - [composting](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/composting/) - [compost](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/compost/) - [microbes](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/microbes/) - [bokashi](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/bokashi/) - [asia](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/asia/) - [garden](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/garden/) - [gardening](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/gardening/) - [soil](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/soil/) - [fertiliser](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/fertiliser/) - [growing](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/growing/) - [growing plants](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/growing-plants/) - [vegetables](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/vegetables/) - [cucumber](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/cucumber/) - [Cherry Tomatoes](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/cherry-tomatoes/) - [Hahms Gelbe](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/hahms-gelbe/) - [Halms Gelbe](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/halms-gelbe/) - [Birds](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/birds/) - [Naturewatch](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/naturewatch/) - [Taiko](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/taiko/) - [Darby Striped](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/darby-striped/) - [Yellow Gazzi](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/yellow-gazzi/) - [Green Velvet](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/green-velvet/) - [Moonglow](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/moonglow/) - [Large Standard](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/large-standard/) - [White Cherry](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/white-cherry/) - [Goldkrone](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/goldkrone/) - [Tomato Gold Crown](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/tomato-gold-crown/) - [Jaune Flamme](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/jaune-flamme/) - [Flamme](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/flamme/) - [Peacevine](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/peacevine/) - [Orange Banana](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/orange-banana/) - [King Humbert](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/king-humbert/) - [Bulgarian Pink](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/bulgarian-pink/) - [Pear Shaped Tomato](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/pear-shaped-tomato/) - [Bedouin](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/bedouin/) - [Beduin](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/beduin/) - [Halina](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/halina/) - [Big Rainbow](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/big-rainbow/) - [Carotina](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/carotina/) - [La Carotina](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/la-carotina/) - [Vince](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/vince/) - [Radana](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/radana/) - [Small Plum Tomato](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/small-plum-tomato/) - [Lima Korai](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/lima-korai/) - [Pink Tiger](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/pink-tiger/) - [Artisan Pink Tiger](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/artisan-pink-tiger/) - [Growing Tomatoes](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/growing-tomatoes/) - [Standard Tomato](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/standard-tomato/) - [Striped Tomato](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/striped-tomato/) - [vegetable stock](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/vegetable-stock/) - [risotto rice](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/risotto-rice/) - [Risotto Recipe](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/risotto-recipe/) - [carrots](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/carrots/) - [potatoes](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/potatoes/) - [mushrooms](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/mushrooms/) - [cinnamon](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/cinnamon/) - [paprika](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/paprika/) - [chilli flakes](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/chilli-flakes/) - [coriander](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/coriander/) - [cumin](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/cumin/) - [bay](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/bay/) - [fish stock](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/fish-stock/) - [white fish](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/white-fish/) - [garlic](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/garlic/) - [corriander seeds](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/corriander-seeds/) - [cumin seeds](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/cumin-seeds/) - [dried chilli](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/dried-chilli/) - [bacon](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/bacon/) - [salmon](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/salmon/) - [pepper](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/pepper/) - [herbs de provence](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/herbs-de-provence/) - [oregano](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/oregano/) - [green beans](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/green-beans/) - [black olives](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/black-olives/) - [greenhouse](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/greenhouse/) - [sausages](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/sausages/) - [lettuce](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/lettuce/) - [avocado](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/avocado/) - [cucmber](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/cucmber/) - [wine vinegar](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/wine-vinegar/) - [turkey mince](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/turkey-mince/) - [ginger](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/ginger/) - [cornflour](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/cornflour/) - [cider vinegar](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/cider-vinegar/) - [pineapple slices](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/pineapple-slices/) - [sweet chilli sauce](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/sweet-chilli-sauce/) - [sugar](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/sugar/) - [peppers](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/peppers/) - [Attenborough Nature Reserve](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/attenborough-nature-reserve/) - [Swans](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/swans/) - [Great Crested Grebe](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/great-crested-grebe/) - [Fish](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/fish/) - [leeks](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/leeks/) - [lemon juice](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/lemon-juice/) - [wholegrain mustard](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/wholegrain-mustard/) - [Beef Tomatoes](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/beef-tomatoes/) - [Beef Mince](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/beef-mince/) - [caraway seeds](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/caraway-seeds/) - [rosemary](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/rosemary/) - [ricotta](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/ricotta/) - [mozzarella](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/mozzarella/) - [parmesan](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/parmesan/) - [duck](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/duck/) - [oyster sauce](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/oyster-sauce/) - [Mincemeat](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/mincemeat/) - [red/green striped](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/red-green-striped/) - [Violet Jasper](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/violet-jasper/) - [Tiger](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/tiger/) - [Sallisaw Cafe](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/sallisaw-cafe/) - [Raspberry Oxheart](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/raspberry-oxheart/) - [Heart Shaped](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/heart-shaped/) - [Rapunzel](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/rapunzel/) - [Polish Linguisa](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/polish-linguisa/) - [Petit Moineau](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/petit-moineau/) - [Pink Moineau](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/pink-moineau/) - [micro tom](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/micro-tom/) - [Livingstons Favourite](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/livingstons-favourite/) - [King George](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/king-george/) - [Kenilworth](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/kenilworth/) - [Giallo d'Iverno](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/giallo-diverno/) - [German Red Strawberry](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/german-red-strawberry/) - [Balconi Red](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/balconi-red/) - [Black and Brown Boar](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/black-and-brown-boar/) - [Angelle](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/angelle/) - [Homosa](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/homosa/) - [Radio](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/radio/) - [muffins](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/muffins/) - [quick cook vegetables](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/quick-cook-vegetables/) - [szechuan peppercorns](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/szechuan-peppercorns/) - [chilli pepper](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/chilli-pepper/) - [rice wine](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/rice-wine/) - [soy sauce](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/soy-sauce/) - [honey](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/honey/) - [sesame oil](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/sesame-oil/) - [Aunt Ruby's German Green](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/aunt-rubys-german-green/) - [Black Krim (Czerno Krimski)](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/black-krim-czerno-krimski/) - [Black Vernissage](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/black-vernissage/) - [Darby Striped Red/Yellow](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/darby-striped-red-yellow/) - [Gartenperle (Garden Pearl) (Tumbling Garden Pearl)](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/gartenperle-garden-pearl-tumbling-garden-pearl/) - [Giallo d'Inverno](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/giallo-dinverno/) - [Jaune Flamme (Flammee)](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/jaune-flamme-flammee/) - [Kenilworth/King George](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/kenilworth-king-george/) - [Koralik (Koralik Red Cherry)](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/koralik-koralik-red-cherry/) - [Livingston's Favorite](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/livingstons-favorite/) - [Marvel Stripes (Stripe](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/marvel-stripes-stripe/) - [Moskowsi Ultra Skorospelyi](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/moskowsi-ultra-skorospelyi/) - [Pink Moineau/Petit Moineau](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/pink-moineau-petit-moineau/) - [red pepper](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/red-pepper/) - [sweet potato](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/sweet-potato/) - [pearl barley](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/pearl-barley/) - [slow cooker](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/slow-cooker/) - [diseases](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/diseases/) - [blight](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/blight/) - [Great Tits](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/great-tits/) - [Green](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/green/) - [cabbage](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/cabbage/) - [five spice](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/five-spice/) - [eggs](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/eggs/) - [fish sauce](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/fish-sauce/) - [baby sweetcorn](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/baby-sweetcorn/) - [myharvest](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/myharvest/) - [backgarden](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/backgarden/) - [Halms Gelbe Toffomate](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/halms-gelbe-toffomate/) - [tomato cultivars](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/tomato-cultivars/) - [Greater Spotted Woodpecker](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/greater-spotted-woodpecker/) - [Indeterminate Tomato](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/indeterminate-tomato/) - [Determinate Tomato](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/determinate-tomato/) - [semi-determinate tomato](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/semi-determinate-tomato/) - [Grappoli D'iverno](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/grappoli-diverno/) - [chickpeas](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/chickpeas/) - [courgettes](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/courgettes/) - [halloumi cheese](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/halloumi-cheese/) - [lime](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/lime/) - [mint](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/mint/) - [Couscous](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/couscous/) - [cuckoo](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/cuckoo/) - [Insects](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/insects/) - [Green Shieldbug](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/green-shieldbug/) - [Ducks](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/ducks/) - [Tomato Tiny Tim](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/tomato-tiny-tim/) - [Early Tomato](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/early-tomato/) - [Food Waste](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/food-waste/) - [grow your own](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/grow-your-own/) - [Lemon Tree](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/lemon-tree/) - [peas](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/peas/) - [beetroot](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/beetroot/) - [square foot gardening](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/square-foot-gardening/) - [sugar snap peas](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/sugar-snap-peas/) - [radishes](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/radishes/) - [Green Bean Relish](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/green-bean-relish/) - [Relish](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/relish/) - [blueberries](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/blueberries/) - [alpine strawberries](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/alpine-strawberries/) - [mackerel](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/mackerel/) - [rhubarb](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/rhubarb/) - [ham](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/ham/) - [cheese](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/cheese/) - [august 2019](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/august-2019/) - [fruit](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/fruit/) - [crops](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/crops/) - [growing vegetables](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/growing-vegetables/) - [apples](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/apples/) - [Heritage Tomato](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/heritage-tomato/) - [Black Russian](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/black-russian/) - [Tagine](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/tagine/) - [RSPB Birdwatch](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/rspb-birdwatch/) - [Chaffinch](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/chaffinch/) - [Woodpigeon](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/woodpigeon/) - [robin](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/robin/) - [blackbird](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/blackbird/) - [dunnock](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/dunnock/) - [green woodpecker](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/green-woodpecker/) - [crow](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/crow/) - [magpie](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/magpie/) - [dancing with smurfs](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/dancing-with-smurfs/) - [blue ambrosia](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/blue-ambrosia/) - [brad's atomic](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/brads-atomic/) - [father frost](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/father-frost/) - [kbit's ukranian](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/kbits-ukranian/) - [principe borghese](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/principe-borghese/) - [gold/violet](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/gold-violet/) - [multi-coloured tomato](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/multi-coloured-tomato/) - [Blue Tomato](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/blue-tomato/) - [compact indeterminate](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/compact-indeterminate/) - [potato leafed tomato](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/potato-leafed-tomato/) - [Cake](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/cake/) - [Early Blight](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/early-blight/) - [Guttation](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/guttation/) - [Water Drops](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/water-drops/) - [leaf edges](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/leaf-edges/) - [tomato problems](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/tomato-problems/) - [red wine vinegar](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/red-wine-vinegar/) - [red onion](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/red-onion/) - [Tomato Chutney](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/tomato-chutney/) - [chilli](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/chilli/) - [physalis](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/physalis/) - [Tomato Wilt](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/tomato-wilt/) - [bacterial canker](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/bacterial-canker/) - [Tomato Soup](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/tomato-soup/) - [Tasty Tomato Soup](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/tasty-tomato-soup/) - [tomato diseases](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/tomato-diseases/) - [bay leves](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/bay-leves/) - [Tomato Megabloom](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/tomato-megabloom/) - [Megabloom](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/megabloom/) - [Tomato Catfacing](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/tomato-catfacing/) - [Tomato Zippering](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/tomato-zippering/) - [cooking tomato](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/cooking-tomato/) - [Lukullus](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/lukullus/) - [craigella](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/craigella/) - [Black Mauri](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/black-mauri/) - [Black Moor](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/black-moor/) - [Zoom](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/zoom/) - [Video](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/video/) - [Webcam](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/webcam/) - [Conference](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/conference/) - [cheddar cheese](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/cheddar-cheese/) - [creme fraiche](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/creme-fraiche/) - [smoked haddock](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/smoked-haddock/) - [Peacock butterfly](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/peacock-butterfly/) - [Beefly](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/beefly/) - [brimstone butterfly](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/brimstone-butterfly/) - [orange tip butterfly](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/orange-tip-butterfly/) - [Growing Fruit & Vegetables at Home](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/growing-fruit-vegetables-at-home/) - [grey squirrels](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/grey-squirrels/) - [Apple Trees](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/apple-trees/) - [runner beans](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/runner-beans/) - [Flowers](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/flowers/) - [Geranium](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/geranium/) - [geums](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/geums/) - [Foxglove](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/foxglove/) - [terminal peloria](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/terminal-peloria/) - [weird flowers](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/weird-flowers/) - [kew gardens](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/kew-gardens/) - [late spring](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/late-spring/) - [broadbeans](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/broadbeans/) - [ants](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/ants/) - [blackfly](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/blackfly/) - [radish](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/radish/) - [Overwatering tomatoes](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/overwatering-tomatoes/) - [watering tomatoes](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/watering-tomatoes/) - [ripening tomatoes](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/ripening-tomatoes/) - [Basil](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/basil/) - [Pesto](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/pesto/) - [Pakoras](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/pakoras/) - [moskovich](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/moskovich/) - [cucumber pickle recipe](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/cucumber-pickle-recipe/) - [burger pickle recipe](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/burger-pickle-recipe/) - [cucumber glut](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/cucumber-glut/) - [pickle recipe](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/pickle-recipe/) - [Beams Yellow Pear](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/beams-yellow-pear/) - [Botrytis](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/botrytis/) - [grey mould](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/grey-mould/) - [squirrels](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/squirrels/) - [End of season 2021](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/end-of-season-2021/) - [beans](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/beans/) - [gardenning](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/gardenning/) - [Shirley](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/shirley/) - [F1 Hybrid Tomat](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/f1-hybrid-tomat/) - [sweet million](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/sweet-million/) - [F1 Hybrid Tomato](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/f1-hybrid-tomato/) - [Divinity](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/divinity/) - [Jersey Devil Tomato](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/jersey-devil-tomato/) - [Crimson Blush](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/crimson-blush/) - [Blight Resistant](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/blight-resistant/) - [sweet success](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/sweet-success/) - [Baby Pink Plum](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/baby-pink-plum/) - [faworyt](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/faworyt/) - [Summer Frolic](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/summer-frolic/) - [Big League](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/big-league/) - [Garnet](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/garnet/) - [Gigantomo](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/gigantomo/) - [Primabella](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/primabella/) - [Blight Resistant Tomato](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/blight-resistant-tomato/) - [Indigo Cherry Drops](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/indigo-cherry-drops/) - [Gourmandia](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/gourmandia/) - [Golden Grape](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/golden-grape/) - [blog](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/blog/) - [oak leaves](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/oak-leaves/) - [aconite](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/aconite/) - [Airfix](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/airfix/) - [Lancaster Bomber](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/lancaster-bomber/) - [Lancaster Bomber Part 1](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/lancaster-bomber-part-1/) - [Lancaster Bomber Part 2](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/lancaster-bomber-part-2/) - [Lancaster Bomber Part 3](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/lancaster-bomber-part-3/) - [Lancaster Bomber Part 4](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/lancaster-bomber-part-4/) - [chitting potatoes](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/chitting-potatoes/) - [first early potatoes](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/first-early-potatoes/) - [growing vegetables at home](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/growing-vegetables-at-home/) - [home grown vegetables](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/home-grown-vegetables/) - [spring flowers](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/spring-flowers/) - [helibore](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/helibore/) - [cyclamen](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/cyclamen/) - [winterslaw](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/winterslaw/) - [red cabbage](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/red-cabbage/) - [iris](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/iris/) - [violet](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/violet/) - [camelia](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/camelia/) - [David Brown Tractor](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/david-brown-tractor/) - [Motorbike](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/motorbike/) - [Bomber Resupply Set](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/bomber-resupply-set/) - [Airfix RAF Personnel](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/airfix-raf-personnel/) - [Bedford Truck](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/bedford-truck/) - [diorama](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/diorama/) - [re-supply kit](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/re-supply-kit/) - [malham cove](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/malham-cove/) - [malham](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/malham/) - [gordale scar](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/gordale-scar/) - [yorkshire dales](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/yorkshire-dales/) - [aire](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/aire/) - [river aire](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/river-aire/) - [fritillaria](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/fritillaria/) - [daffodils](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/daffodils/) - [seedling tomatoes](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/seedling-tomatoes/) - [wellington bomber](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/wellington-bomber/) - [Discovery](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/discovery/) - [pruning](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/pruning/) - [summer pruning](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/summer-pruning/) - [apple blossom](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/apple-blossom/) - [Fledging](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/fledging/) - [trusses](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/trusses/) - [ripening](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/ripening/) - [indeterminate tomatoes](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/indeterminate-tomatoes/) - [cordon tomatoes](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/cordon-tomatoes/) - [Elephant Hawkmoth](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/elephant-hawkmoth/) - [Telepathy cucumber](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/telepathy-cucumber/) - [koralik](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/koralik/) - [flying ant day](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/flying-ant-day/) - [queen ants](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/queen-ants/) - [drone ants](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/drone-ants/) - [red kite](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/red-kite/) - [Discovery apples](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/discovery-apples/) - [Vegetarian Lentil Loaf](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/vegetarian-lentil-loaf/) - [Lentils](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/lentils/) - [Luchtime snack](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/luchtime-snack/) - [light dinner](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/light-dinner/) - [Discovery Apple](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/discovery-apple/) - [Eating Apples](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/eating-apples/) - [Cooking Apples](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/cooking-apples/) - [Apple Harvest](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/apple-harvest/) - [Dehydrating Apples](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/dehydrating-apples/) - [magpies](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/magpies/) - [cranefly](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/cranefly/) - [lawn damage](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/lawn-damage/) - [cats](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/cats/) - [acorns](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/acorns/) - [Garden Birds](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/garden-birds/) - [Aconites](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/aconites/) - [springtime](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/springtime/) - [readwing](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/readwing/) - [parakeets](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/parakeets/) - [nuthatch](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/nuthatch/) - [tree creeper](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/tree-creeper/) - [growiung at home](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/growiung-at-home/) - [weather breaking](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/weather-breaking/) - [thunderstorms](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/thunderstorms/) - [Rainbow Blend](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/rainbow-blend/) - [save seed](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/save-seed/) - [Greenback](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/greenback/) - [Tomato Harbinger](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/tomato-harbinger/) - [Tomato Sandpoint](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/tomato-sandpoint/) - [Tomato Fruit Problems](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/tomato-fruit-problems/) - [the value of grow your own](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/the-value-of-grow-your-own/) - [Risotto](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/risotto/) - [courgette and tomato risotton](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/courgette-and-tomato-risotton/) - [Courgette Pickle Recipe](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/courgette-pickle-recipe/) - [Pickle](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/pickle/) - [Ladybird](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/ladybird/) - [Harlequin Ladybird](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/harlequin-ladybird/) - [pest control](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/pest-control/) - [Walks](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/walks/) - [Holidays](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/holidays/) - [Dentdale](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/dentdale/) - [cape gooseberry](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/cape-gooseberry/) - [late fruit](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/late-fruit/) - [moles](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/moles/) - [hellebore](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/hellebore/) - [lettuce seeds](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/lettuce-seeds/) - [comma](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/comma/) - [butterfly](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/butterfly/) - [crows](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/crows/) - [moss](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/moss/) - [2024 summer](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/2024-summer/) - [Yellow Perfection](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/yellow-perfection/) - [vegetable glut](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/vegetable-glut/) - [caterpillars](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/caterpillars/) - [tomato sauce](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/tomato-sauce/) - [Chutney](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/chutney/) - [Courgette Chutney](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/courgette-chutney/) - [tomato harvest](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/tomato-harvest/) - [northern lights](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/northern-lights/) - [Alice's Dream. Black/Orange Striped Tomato](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/alices-dream-black-orange-striped-tomato/) - [Tomato Evil Olive](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/tomato-evil-olive/) - [Olive Shaped Tomato](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/olive-shaped-tomato/) - [Small Tomato](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/small-tomato/) - [onions](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/onions/) - [spices](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/spices/) - [courgette chutney recipe](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/courgette-chutney-recipe/) - [Cucumber Relish](https://myvegpatch.co.uk/tag/cucumber-relish/)