Delicious Big Zac brandywine sudduth beefsteak porterhouse yellow brandywine As for pruning it is a great way to reduce production but has no other benefit. spraying is better then dead plants every day.
my favourite for flavour is Black Krim, a black beefsteak tomato (heritage variety), my other half like brandywine best. My sister likes yellow brandywine best, but this year was swayed by webbs white wonder. For freezing whole I grow gardeners delight and sweet million, and the taste of them warm on toast in the winter months is heavenly!
i was going to ask the same, i grew moneymakers and they had loads of dusty mildew on them, they were in a greenhouse, does anyone have any tips? My outside cherry toms were delicious, untidy and haywire but delicious! Couldnt believe how a plant so scruffy could give such lovely fruit!
Forthe last four years I have grown Marshall's Golden Cherry and the flavour is absolutely sublime as all my friends and acquaintances will verify. I have to buy more seed each year to satisfy their demand! Not only are they delicious but they are heavy croppers and I freeze any surplus for culinary use in the winter. I have grown a variety of other types at the same time but my husband won't eat them as he considers any other tomato tasteless. They grow very well in the greenhouse but I believe they can also be grown outside.
Good tip Magbeth, I want some! Am definitely going to try Golden Cherry on the strength of your recommendation. Agree that Gardener's Delight good but huge variations between seed companies.
Having lost two year's worth of toms - 07 & 08 - to blight I decided to try an idea I saw while on holiday in the Black Forest (a place whis is used to rainy summers). I noticed that everyone there grew tomatos under a sort of roof made of clear plastic (like a mini greenhouse without sides)to keep the rain off the foliage. I rigged up a similar thing out of bamboo canes and an old clear plastic sheet. It wasn't elegant, but I had almost no blight at all last year. Very cheap. Very easy. And it worked. It wasn't, it's true, quite as wet as the previous years here in Kent, but it seems to me that it is worth trying.
My choice of tomatoes all grown in a unheated greenhouse are, Alicante, Moneymaker, Ailsa Craig, Gdnrs Delight, and Bejbino (DT Brown). Bejbino is similar to Gdnrs Delight. My tip to prevent mildew is to ventilate well even leaving the greenhouse doors open 24 hrs a day when conditions allow,my other tip is to keep seedlings on the dry side
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As for pruning it is a great way to reduce production but has no other benefit.
spraying is better then dead plants every day.
5 g delight
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only seen cedrico at select seeds.com
Agree that Gardener's Delight good but huge variations between seed companies.