Archive for Downsizer For an ethical approach to consumption
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cab
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Top tomatoes this yearFour real stars.
'big red ones'. What variety they used to be I don't know, I've been saving them for couple of years and don't remember more... Anyway, big harvests of that one, good as ever, good sized red toms. Edit: I think it used to be st. pierre...
'yellow pear', from Thomas Etty, excellent, sweet little yellow pear shaped cherry tomatoes. So many of them too.
'gardeners delight', supersweet strain from real seeds (saved for a couple of years from own grown). Excellent, still not the highest yielding tomato, but a real gardeners delight, small cherry tomatoes with amazing sweetness.
'san marzano' from seeds of italy. Best harvest of plum toms ever, and this variety seems to be about the most reliable.
A close runner up would be 'yellow pigmy', a hanging basket variety of yellow cherry tomato that always seems to perform well early on in the season.
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Jonnyboy
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Had a small punnet of my own gardeners delight for lunch today, very sweet but poor croppers.
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Behemoth
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Black Russian and Black from Tula are gorgeous but low yield, think they need a long season. Others have been good, mix of money maker and gadner's delight.
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mochyn
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Our San Marzano have done quite well but none of the toms have been brilliant. The old chap puts it down to too few pollinating insects about.
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colour it green
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sweet olive (which are spensive F1 seeds..) were the first to fruit and still fruiting away like made now.. and they are much tastier than the gardeners delight.
GD have done well though, and mostly made into roast tom sauce in the freezer
the fantasio - supposedly blight resistant.. were the first to go down with blight....but still a good crop first.
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bernie-woman
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We have had an excellent crop from outdoor Sungold toms, they are still cropping really well and were one of the first toms to ripen. Also outside, an excellent cropper has been the tumbling tom tomato - I have had one in a pot and one in a hanging basket and they have been laden with fruit. Only downside is that they are not the best tasting raw tomato but very good for cooking with.
Inside the greenhhouse - we have had good crops from Ailsa Craig and St Pierre and Tigerella
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ros
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The San Marzano are pretty good here, the Super Marmande were few but huge ( I had one at over 1lb in weight). The very best were
unfortunatley an unknown outdoor variety that mum aquired at a WI sale, will be saving seed for next year of those.
Tumbling Tom let me down this year, the last two they had been spectacular but this year fewer fruit and I really struggled to keep the plants alive
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