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…… Continue reading Tomato Balconi Red
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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…… Continue reading Tomato Black and Brown Boar
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…… Continue reading Tomato Black Vernissage
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…… Continue reading Tomato German Red Strawberry
Tomato Giallo d’Iverno
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…… Continue reading Tomato Giallo d’Iverno
Tomato King George (Kennilworth)
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…… Continue reading Tomato King George (Kennilworth)
Tomato Livingston’s 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…… Continue reading Tomato Livingston’s Favourite
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)…… Continue reading Tomato Micro Tom
Tomato Moskowsi Ultra Skorospelyi
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…… Continue reading Tomato Moskowsi Ultra Skorospelyi
Tomato Pink Moineau/Petit Moineau
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…… Continue reading Tomato Pink Moineau/Petit Moineau