We really like tomatoes - and grow loads of them every year - but only the very best make it into the catalogue!

For an explanation of the differences between bush & vine plant types, click here.

Emerald Cherry SWEET AND RIPE WHEN GREEN!
This is a most unusual cherry tomato that ripens to emerald green instead of red (!) - making lots of fruit about 1 inch across.

They are sweet - they really are perfectly ripe with a proper ripe-tomato taste while still green, and are very pretty sliced.

Chocolate Cherry
This is a new variety we are intoducing for you to try in 2013. A very sweet cherry tomato, with lots of purple-brown fruit about 1 inch across. You should get about 6 to 8 fruit per truss, and they keep well after picking.

White Cherry
This new addition to the catalogue is possibly the best tasting and best performing ‘white’ strain of tomato that is available - this one is sweet & fruity, with a real tomato flavor.

The fruits ripen to a very pale yellow, almost pure white. The amount of exposure to the sun effects the amount of yellow. If there is good leaf cover, then you can get almost snow white fruits.

This is a fantastic new tomato we're really pleased to be able to offer. It was actually found by Ben in his salad while on holiday with friends in the Ariege in France, and it was so good he knew straight away that we had to add it to the catalogue. It turned out that it had been grown by a neighbour who we also knew, and so we got together and arranged to have some of her polytunnel devoted to seed production for us.

It is a brilliant orange, with a great balance of sweet and acid, and is quite large for a cherry tomato - about one and a half inches across. The vines grow to a decent height and produce large numbers of fruit over a really long season.

This variety has been selected over the years by Jen Boncyk, a market gardener high in the mountains, so it is used to cold nights and short seasons. The seed we have here has been grown for us by Jen herself. Enjoy!

Stupice EARLY VINE
This fantastic 1954 variety from Eastern Europe is the earliest of all our vine tomatoes.

We tried lots of new varieties in 2010 and this one was noticeably earlier than the others; we got a great crop simply in large pots on our patio, despite the rainy summer.

The plants are vigorous and produce red fruit with an excellent flavour. Ideal for outdoors, but also good in a greenhouse for early crops.

Larger than a cherry tomato, but not as big as a beefsteak type, the fruit are about two inches across.

Hi and thank you so much for the Stupice tomato seeds. In one of the grayest, wettest summers on record when our greenhouse flooded at least four times, to our amazement and envy of our neighbours the Stupice plants grew, thrived and produced pound after pound of beautiful red tomatoes. I have just picked the very last of them and saved seed ready for next year. Many thanks for all your brilliant seeds and super newsletter. - Janet

plant picture 'Gardener's Delight'

We have the genuine Gardeners Delight variety, which is known so well there's hardly a need to describe it. After all these years, it is one of the most reliable of the cherry tomatoes in the UK. This is standard seed direct from the offical registered maintainer of the variety.

Much-loved red cherry.

Order ToGD - 25 seed £1.53

plant picture Galina SUPER- EARLY SWEET YELLOW CHERRY
A hugely productive cherry from Siberia, and we are really impressed by it - very sweet flavour balanced by good acidity.

The bright yellow cherry fruit are in neat bunches, and don't fall off when ripe, which makes picking easier.

It is early to get going (not surprising given where it comes from!), but just as importantly, it fruits over a long period – it just keeps on going forever , long after most other plants have stopped fruiting.

Early yellow cherry. Grow as a vine but let a couple of shoots develop for highest production

Makes amazing yellow tomato soup or even yellow ketchup, too!

Order ToGA - 20 seed £2.31

plant picture Our old supposedly 'Gardener's Delight' - Small but Supersweet Irish Version

This version which we have offered in the past was originally from a small seed collection in USA, labelled 'Irish Gardeners Delight'. It has definitely got smaller fruit than what we would normally expect, and we're pretty sure now that it's not really 'Gardeners' Delight' at all, being more in the style of the smaller cherry types such as 'Sweet 100'.

BUT , and it's a big 'but', the flavour is great. This is the sweetest cherry tomato we've ever tried. And the fruit, although small, are produced in huge numbers on enormously long trusses.

We weren't going to list it any more, but many visitors to the gardens pointed out that it was one of the best cherries they'd ever tasted, so we thought we ought to leave it in the catalogue! And it is now one of our most popular. Get your seed now, you won't be disappointed.

This variety slows down if we have a cool spell in late spring/early summer, but it starts growing again once temperatures rise again.

Order ToGi - 20 seed £1.94

Chadwick Cherry
Our new introduction for 2013, this is a wonderful cherry tomato. A mid sized bright red cherry, it is really, really good, quite possibly one of the tastiest we have, and is the one we always pick out for eating at lunch during our tomato-deseeding sessions.

The plants make long trusses with large numbers of really attractive, bright red tomatoes that are right at the top end of the size range for a cherry type. It has become a new favourite of ours.

Bred by eccentric and visionary horticultural genius Alan Chadwick, who in 1967, and at the age of 58, gave up being a Shakespearian actor in South Africa and instead joined the University of Santa Cruz in California - to create and run their new on-site Farm & Garden project, run on egalitarian biodynamic principles. And as well as in inspiring a whole generation of market gardeners, he created this wonderful cherry tomato.

Sweet and firm cherry, great flavour and high yield. Picture show a fantastic crop of them in the tunnel of our seed grower Ian Hearn, near Cardigan in Wales.

Order ToCC - 18 seed £1.94

~ WILD TOMATOES ~

a more experimental offering for the adventurous gardener

Tomatillo de Jalapo Wild Currant Tomatoes

This is a wild tomato species that is truly resistant to late blight. It has very small red cherry fruits which are very soft.

Unfortunately the problem with this wild tomato is that they do tend to come apart when picked, so it is one to eat straight from the bush or pick just before meal times, but it could be a useful variety if you are struggling with blight and other tomatoes won't grow for you.

Order ToJA - 20 seed £1.69

Solanum Sponteneum Small Currant Tomatoes
This is a wild tomato that makes orange currant-sized fruit. It's from our blight-resistance trials in 2010, and it was one of the few that did fend off the blight for a long time, even when grown next to a 100ft row of potatoes (now that's a proper blight test!)

It isn't completely resistant, because it does eventually get the blight. We would call it a partially blight-tolerant vine. Like all currant tomatoes, the overall yield is not huge in terms of weight because the fruit are small (1cm), but they do look very pretty in a salad.

The fruit start out yellow but are only nice when properly ripe to orange, so don’t pick too soon.

Order ToSS - 20 seed £1.59

Saving Tomato Seed:

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Here you can seed the seed and juice squeezed into a jar & let ferment for 3 days (no more, no less!)

Good seeds sink and bad ones float.

(And, yes, it is supposed to be mouldy & smelly)

Water is added and poured off several times to clean them, the seed is rinsed in a sieve and put on a plate to dry.

Detailed seed-saving instructions are included with your seeds, so you can do this yourself.

And of course this is only possible because these are all real, non-hybrid varieties.

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Saving Tomato Seed:

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CHERRY AND OTHER SMALL- to MEDIUM- SIZED VARIETIES