Tomato, White Rabbit

Indeterminate Cherry Tomato. Early-mid season: 65-80 days Description Small cherry sized tomatoes that mature from creamy white to yellow when fully ripe. Flavour A warm very unusual fruity flavour not really tomato like and not acid but delicious in its onwn right. Makes a wonderful cocktail with a mixture of coloured cherry tomatoes. Plants Huge [...]

Tomato, Caro Rich

I like to keep good records of my favourite varieties; the ones that I grow and save seeds for. It is full-on tomato season here so I thought I should catch up with the tomatoes and write up some of the best varieties. Indeterminate. Mid-early season: Said to be 80 days from transplant, though I [...]

Best Preserving Tomatoes

In 2008 I grew a selection of tomatoes for preserving because I wanted to see if there was anything better than my usual favourite, San Marzano.  Now that I am thinking about what varieties to grow this year it’s a good time to review my little trial. Tomatoes make some of the most useful and [...]

Tomato, Noir de Crimée

Mid season tomato Indeterminate. (70-80 days) Large fleshy tomatoes maturing to a dark red-brown, with green shoulders. Flavour is wonderful; rich, salty and slightly smoky one of my favourite tomatoes. Fruit are 6-10cm round, thin-skinned and juicy. Medium yields on compact bushy plants. Good all rounder for cooking, salads or eating straight from the vine. [...]

Tomato, Double Rich

A mid to early season beef tomato. Indeterminate. (65-70 days) A really lovely beef tomato, with smooth skin, clean firm flesh and few seeds, Fruit are big and beefy weighing up to 500g. Flavour is good; rich, sweet and slightly tart. Good for slicing, sauces, salsa and chutney. It has the distinction of having twice as [...]

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