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…… Continue reading Tomato Moneymaker
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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.…… Continue reading Tomato Minibel
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…… Continue reading Tomato Matina
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…… Continue reading Tomato Maskotka
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…… Continue reading Tomato Marmande
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…… Continue reading Tomato Legend
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…… Continue reading Tomato Latah
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…… Continue reading Tomato Koralik Red Cherry
Tomato Kibit’s 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…… Continue reading Tomato Kibit’s Ukranian
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…… Continue reading Tomato Kanner Hoell