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What tomato variety are you growing this year?

alexryzawlskiqBU-X4OFalexryzawlskiqBU-X4OF Posts: 163
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I have tigerella, bloody butcher and super sweet 1000 F1 all growing steadily on my windowsill. Any experience growing these? Also share your varieties. 
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  • DevrimDevrim Posts: 13
    No experience with any of them I'm afraid. I've got Stupice, Alicante, Sweet Million, Rose de Berne and Chadwick Cherry. My first time growing these varieties so would also appreciate any thoughts! 
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    Rose de Berne - my all time favourite - superb flavour and texture.
    Some fruits have almost no seeds, others are of about average 'seediness' :)
    Some fruits grow quite big others not as much. The colour of the skin is rose coloured rather than red/orange. They have BIG leaves
    I always save seed too as it's a heirloom variety that will come true.

    Also growing Rosella and Shirley
    Stupice is good - I didn't get heavy yields but it was the first to ripen and I'd pick the last one in October, so a long season and good flavour.

    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    Rosella (my favourite), Blue Bayou, Yellow Pear and Gardeners' Delight (although only two of the latter germinated), plus a mystery one that germinated in one of my houseplants, probably from the compost (which had a bit of homemade stuff mixed in).
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • ShepsSheps Posts: 2,236
    In the greenhouse...

    Shirley
    Ailsa Craig x2
    Sungold
    Golden Sunrise
    Amish Gold

            ________________________________


    Outside...

    Red Alert x2
    Amish Gold 



  • butlerjonnybutlerjonny Posts: 23
    Sungold F1, Firebird F1, and Iris. Couldn’t get hold of any Rosella seeds this year
  • JacquimcmahonJacquimcmahon Posts: 1,039
    Tigerella, gardeners delight and sweet baby. Fingers crossed our weather allows for them this summer as all outside.
    Marne la vallée, basically just outside Paris 🇫🇷, but definitely Scottish at heart.
  • Jenny_AsterJenny_Aster Posts: 945
    Honeycomb - smallish but bigger than a cherry tom

    Burlesque - beefy tom

    Black Cherry

    Sweet Million - cherry

    Still trying to find 'The One'.







    Trying to be the person my dog thinks I am! 

    Cambridgeshire/Norfolk border.
  • 2000GTV2000GTV Posts: 112
    Planted out San Marzano, Ferline, Supersweet 100, Cuor di Bue, Ola Polka, Black Cherry and one simply named "cherry tomato". Have successfully grown San Marzano and the "cherry tomato" before so hopefully they will perform well again this year and as for the rest, time will tell. 
    Martina Franca, Puglia, southern Italy
    Love living in Italy but a Loiner at heart 
  • war garden 572war garden 572 Posts: 664
    in past i grown  tigerella, bloody butcher and super sweet 100 f1
    sun gold is bit of beast since it topped out my 10 ft tomato cages.
    cherry tomato sound like one grew when started out called large red cherry.
    i grew ox heart aka ( Cuor di Bue)

    as for yellow pear it puts out a lot of fruit and can survive
    blight but the taste profile more suited to women and girls. 
    no i am not joking there some in profile that favors women's taste. 
     several farmer I know notice that women seem attracted to yellow
    pear. A friend who holds several tasting has noticed this too. 



    I am growing:
    bulls heart,big zac, thunder creek and delicious for size.
    lemon boy for friend with lycopene sensitivity
    san marzano for sauce and salads. 

     except for sun gold and ones for size i don't grow the weird ones or hybrids. 
  • purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 5,287
    The last two years I have bought Tigerella plants to test it before buying seed this year @alexryzawlskiqBU-X4OF .
    It is a slow growing one, fruit ripe August rather than July, but has a decent amount of tomatoes,  and didn't suffer from any diseases. The seed has come up well and the plants are now in the greenhouse. We will see what the weather has in store for us this year. Will probably try one outside this year to see how it does, I have spares.
    As for the others I again have grown from seed Sunchocola cherry, Golden Sunrise a large cherry, and new to me this year Pomodoro. 

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