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Bodger

Joined: 23 May 2006
Posts: 13524

Posted: Wed Feb 19, 14 6:01 pm Post subject: Tomatoes?

I've had my orders as to what I've got to grow in the 'poly' for house use this year and high up on my list, are tomatoes. Most of the Hairy Bikers cookery books use loads of them.
Like most people, we grow them every year but obviously, some varieties are tastier than others. We've been disappointed in the past, because some of them that we've grown have been pretty bland and tasteless but Karen has definitely ordered the tasty sort.
Which ones do you grow and would recommend as being flavoursome? What are your favourites?

mousjoos

Joined: 05 Jun 2006
Posts: 1986
Location: VERY Sunny SW France

Posted: Wed Feb 19, 14 6:05 pm Post subject:
I liked Green Zebra, but was difficult to get them at the point of ripeness Also like Andine Rouge, & the eternal favourite Coeur de Boeuf

VM

Joined: 23 Nov 2007
Posts: 1748
Location: Lincolnshire

Posted: Wed Feb 19, 14 7:41 pm Post subject:
I've liked Costuluto Fiorentino when we've grown them, plus Black Russian.

Bungo

Joined: 21 Dec 2011
Posts: 354
Location: Wye Valley

Posted: Wed Feb 19, 14 7:59 pm Post subject:
The variety they sell in Lidl, Chico Rosso ,are a very tasty cherry , and crop pretty early.

gythagirl

Joined: 18 Feb 2010
Posts: 1467
Location: Somerset

Posted: Wed Feb 19, 14 11:00 pm Post subject:
Always Sungold, every year!

Nicky cigreen

Joined: 25 Jun 2007
Posts: 9717
Location: Devon, uk

Posted: Wed Feb 19, 14 11:17 pm Post subject:
sweet olive - they are small cherry - tasty, and loads of them. We roast them and blend into a sauce that we then use to make soup, pasta sauce, pizza topping and so on.

Shan

Joined: 13 Jan 2009
Posts: 9075
Location: South Wales

Posted: Thu Feb 20, 14 10:00 am Post subject:
I always grow Galina Cherry. It is very flavourful and extremely bountiful. Another really good flavoured one that produces very well is Tigerella.

magicmaker

Joined: 04 Oct 2012
Posts: 16

Posted: Thu Feb 20, 14 12:37 pm Post subject: Tomatoes

I grow many different varieties of tomatoes and tend to have a mix of those to eat fresh and to cook with.
My favorite for soup, sauce, cooking and freezing are Moskovich, Orange Banana or Jugo. All are large tomatoes and easy to skin.

For eating, the earliest tomato by far is Latah (Real Seeds). Smallish red tom and a fantastic flavour.

One of the sweetest is Ildi and I have grown that for years mainly because the toms do not drop off the vines. They produce huge amounts of smallish yellow fruit and the advantage is I can normally keep them up to Christmas. Before the frosts come I cut the stem and hang them in a cool place.

I love the heirloom varieties but some of the more modern Gardeners Delight and Ailsa Craig are excellent tomatoes. I could go on and on as tomatoes are a joy to grow !

gregotyn

Joined: 24 Jun 2010
Posts: 2201
Location: Llanfyllin area

Posted: Thu Feb 20, 14 3:01 pm Post subject:

Sungold for me too this year. I'm fed up of growing what I've been given in the past to find no taste, (probably why I have been given them in the first place) so I'm doing my own this time as we are late up here I'm in no hurry.I did grow Ildi one year but couldn't get them to ripen so had to take litterally hundreds of flower heads off to encourage them to ripen what was already there before the frost got them. I cut whole trusses off-very prolific.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 45487
Location: yes

Posted: Thu Feb 20, 14 4:10 pm Post subject:
sweet million is the only ones i have ever had any real success with intercropped with chillies

madcat

Joined: 24 May 2008
Posts: 1265
Location: worcester

Posted: Fri Feb 21, 14 12:27 am Post subject:
Striped Stuffer are ace, my Green Zebras ripened to a sort of reddish colour but tasted good. Tigerella. Did well and also vintage wine which is a big beefy one

dan1

Joined: 23 Jun 2010
Posts: 102
Location: Bristolish

Posted: Fri Feb 21, 14 5:30 pm Post subject:
Gardeners delight is a reliable tasty one. Golden thing (cant remember 2nd name, sunrise?) nice yellow one. Pommodoro roma nano for oven drying. Marmande as a beefy one, though they take ages to ripen. Gonna try some bush varieties this year to see if not pinching out is a big boon

Tavascarow

Joined: 06 Aug 2006
Posts: 8407
Location: South Cornwall

Posted: Fri Feb 21, 14 10:53 pm Post subject: Re: Tomatoes?

Bodger wrote:

How are you growing them?
IMHO flavour is as much affected by growing conditions as variety choice.

Bodger

Joined: 23 May 2006
Posts: 13524

Posted: Sun Feb 23, 14 6:51 am Post subject:
In the polytunnels in a well manured bed.

mochyn

Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 24585
Location: mid-Wales

Posted: Sun Feb 23, 14 1:00 pm Post subject:
We grow Ferline (amongst others) eery year. Reliable, decent size, tasty: a sort of all-rounder.

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