A variety of tomatoes this year but just a few plants of:
St Pierre - good cropper, tastes like a tomato, average size, makes good puree. San Marzano Mystère de la Nature Bloody Butcher Beef Master: Big, good for stuffing Noire de Crimée: Black average size, juicy and squidgy
Other different fun varieties such as: green striped, orange striped. Yellow, red, purple/yellow and blue/black cherry/cocktail tomatoes which are useless cooked but ok in a salad. I usually eat them when working in the garden ....watering, weeding, nipping and clipping ..... Most of them get given away.
I just like a tomato to taste (and look) like one - sweet but acidic with a drizzle of olive oil and a sprinkling of black pepper and fleur de sel.
Basil in amongst the tomato plants. Green, purple and lemon basil this year. No Thai.
Same with peppers. Black, yellow, red and green. Long, ordinary and one lot; mini. And of course my acres of Padron peppers!!
6 aubergines - petit Thai. 6 cucumbers now (3 short green and 3 telegraph) and 6 later on. 4 courgettes now and 4 later on i.e. for September. Seeds purchased in Lidl and have surfaced.
No lettuces as they go brown and slimy in the middle (too hot here) but a row of Mesclun last year proved to be successful.
PS: Sowing: Different climate down here but spring is cold again this year. You've had better weather than us on the Med.
Sowed around the 17th March in a conservatory (unheated) but very hot during the day and also in a corrugated plastic "hot" house. (unheated).
Hope to plant out first two weeks of May. First fruit - if I'm lucky after 20th July and they should last (but not taste as good) until late October/mid-November.
Last year I tried heritage variety Cream Susage. Loads of medium plum sized yellow tomatos that I harvested all at once at the start of September. I used the glut to make tomato sauce for pizza. I also tried F1 koralik a bush variety with lots of little sweet tomatoes that I harvested throughout summer for salads. The year before I grew an F1 variety that was a yellow pear shaped cherry called ildi that produced masses of fruit.
I like sweet cherry toms for snacking and eating raw - and to some extent I cook with them too. I must admit I do not like my toms to have a strong tang..
I have previously grown tumbling tom (tough skin and very tangy with little sweetness so not growing again - very prolific cropper though), Sungold and sweet aperitif.
I’ll be growing Sungold, sweet apperitif, sweet casaday (first time), indigo rose and Black Russian (the latter two purely for the instagrammable factor)
All of my outdoor ones got blight last year before they could ripen while my polytunnel ones were completely spotless.. needless to say I won’t bother growing mine outdoors again this year.
I’ll be growing Sungold, sweet apperitif, sweet casaday (first time), indigo rose and Black Russian (the latter two purely for the instagrammable factor)
I used to grow Black Russian; it was delicious but the yield was terrible so stopped growing it.
Based in Sussex, I garden to encourage as many birds to my garden as possible.
@purplerallim I’ll defo look into that one! Unfortunately with five varieties to grow (three plants of each) this year I’m not certain if I could squeeze any more into my polytunnel this year.. plus I have my aubergines too..
@Redwing I see.. I believe it’s a large fruiting variety so probably won’t get lots like the cherries?
@purplerallim oh I mustn’t! Nowadays I simply have to drag myself away from the seeds section in supermarkets just in case a few packets might find their way into my shopping basket!
By the way, how does pear drop compare to Sungold?
Same type of skin and juice content. In flavour I would say Sungold are slightly sweeter, with stronger tomato flavour, but I prefer the milder taste, but less sweet Peardrop @celcius_kkw 🙂
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St Pierre - good cropper, tastes like a tomato, average size, makes good puree.
San Marzano
Mystère de la Nature
Bloody Butcher
Beef Master: Big, good for stuffing
Noire de Crimée: Black average size, juicy and squidgy
Other different fun varieties such as: green striped, orange striped. Yellow, red, purple/yellow and blue/black cherry/cocktail tomatoes which are useless cooked but ok in a salad. I usually eat them when working in the garden ....watering, weeding, nipping and clipping ..... Most of them get given away.
I just like a tomato to taste (and look) like one - sweet but acidic with a drizzle of olive oil and a sprinkling of black pepper and fleur de sel.
Basil in amongst the tomato plants. Green, purple and lemon basil this year. No Thai.
Same with peppers. Black, yellow, red and green. Long, ordinary and one lot; mini.
And of course my acres of Padron peppers!!
6 aubergines - petit Thai. 6 cucumbers now (3 short green and 3 telegraph) and 6 later on. 4 courgettes now and 4 later on i.e. for September. Seeds purchased in Lidl and have surfaced.
No lettuces as they go brown and slimy in the middle (too hot here) but a row of Mesclun last year proved to be successful.
Butternut.
My summer crop - if all goes well.
Sowed around the 17th March in a conservatory (unheated) but very hot during the day and also in a corrugated plastic "hot" house. (unheated).
Hope to plant out first two weeks of May. First fruit - if I'm lucky after 20th July and they should last (but not taste as good) until late October/mid-November.
I have previously grown tumbling tom (tough skin and very tangy with little sweetness so not growing again - very prolific cropper though), Sungold and sweet aperitif.
All of my outdoor ones got blight last year before they could ripen while my polytunnel ones were completely spotless.. needless to say I won’t bother growing mine outdoors again this year.
@Redwing I see.. I believe it’s a large fruiting variety so probably won’t get lots like the cherries?
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P.S. 50 fruits per plant