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~ VINE TOMATO SEED part 2: - LARGE FRUITED TYPES ~
These are our large-fruited vine Tomatoes. See the index on the left for other types. 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.
This is a medium height vine with spherical, glowing round pink tomatoes about 2” in diameter. The flavour is fantastic and this is a special strain we have reselected ourselves for bigger, even tastier fruit. Order ToCa - 18-20 seed [OG2] £2.65
Gigante Liscio (Maincrop Salad type)This big round tomato from the 1920's comes from a cross of 'Ponderosa' & 'St Louis' in an effort to create the ultimate salad tomato. Constantly popular, since then it has been continually reselected for good flavour, strong plants, and large red fruit. Ben is rather fond of this one, as it is one of the better flavoured of the big-fruited tomatoes - it has a particularly good sweet-acid flavour. Maincrop red tomato, Medium Vine. Order ToGL - 30 seed £1.82
This is a rather unusual tomato from central Europe that grows what can only be described as a cluster of cherry tomatoes all fused together. They can be twisted off from the fruit bit by bit and eaten, or you can just use it to scare your children . . . . Order ToRE - 18 to 20 seed[OG2] £2.29
Tall, vigorous plants start to fruit early, and it's a steady producer, cropping over a long period. Gives a heavy yield of huge, juicy, ribbed red fruit over a long season. Brought to you from the gardeners of Florence in Italy, where they know a thing or two about tomatoes. Fat, red & gently ribbed fruit, tall vine. Order ToCF - 30 seed £1.89
The tall vines make glowing-pink tomatoes. The fruit are quite large, but not quite as big as a beefsteak type. It is a high yielding, juicy, and particularly tasty variety from the continent with very heavy trusses giving crops of several pounds per vine. Order ToRB - 25 seed £1.98 [CO1]
'Gold Medal' Multicolour Beefsteak Tomato This is a large, sweet, juicy beefsteak tomato that is mixed colours: golden yellow, pink, and orange. What is remarkable is that the colours are all swirled together - even inside. We think this is the prettiest tomato we've ever grown. And it tastes fantastic too. The vines are tall and require strong support to hold all the tomatoes. Order ToGM - 25 seed £2.20 'Purple Ukraine' Tomato It did really well in our trials, (despite endless grey weather!) , making tall plants that soon set trusses of really large, deep purple plum tomatoes the size and shape of a goose egg. The tomatoes are both beautiful and delicious in salads, but they are also tasty cooked. The foliage is very attractive too, with dark green leaves and an interesting 'feathery' appearance. Purple, great for cooking & salads. Order ToPU - 25 seed £1.89
These are nice tall vines, with juicy round red tomates that develop golden zebra stripes as they ripen. The original breeding work was by Tom Wagner of Tater Mater Seeds. A particularly good flavour as well as being very pretty. Order ToRZ - 20 seed [OG2] £1.99 This is a new one originally from the Amish community. It is HUGE - one of the largest plum-type tomatoes we have ever seen. After much tasting throughout the season, we are really impressed by this one - a new addition to our favourites. The tall vines set pretty early in the season, and make nice red fruit about the size of an apple which weigh up to 1lb each. Not only was it one of the first to flower, but it just kept on making tomatoes for month after month. The fruits are good. Very dense fleshed, with few seeds - but still a really good tart flavour, so ideal for cooking, ketchups and bottling. And they cook down to an incredibly rich and sweet sauce.
Large red plums, ideal for sauces , but actually, they're very nice fresh in salads and hamburgers too. Order ToAP - 20 seed £2.65 AlicanteThis is a well-known traditional variety, making pretty large red tomatoes that are very nice both in salads and cooked. This is a standard maincrop tomato; so it is not the first to ripen, but it keeps on producing long into the autumn, with really heavy yields from each plant. Seed carefully grown for us by Tony Haigh in Pembrokeshire, who always grows lots of Alicante each year. Last year, as well as our seed crop, he produced over 200 bottles of ketchup and tomato passata! Order ToAL - 20 seed £1.59 [OG2] Saving Tomato Seed:
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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