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2026 tomato selection - Small chilli - 09-03-2026
Has everyone decided what varieties and how many they’re growing this year?
Do tell. Don’t be shy, we know how the tomato addicts are already
I have a short list. I have to reduce it to 11 varieties. One plant of each.
If anyone has advice on which 11 I should go with , I’d be grateful.
Tomato Black Russian ( not optional. Definitely growing)
Tomato rosella ( not optional. Definitely growing)
Tomato matts hornet
Tomato EM champion
Tomato northern lights
tomato oleron yellow
tomato orange banana
tomato orange jazz
tomato Oregon spring
tomato indigo pear drop
tomato sweet casaday
tomato santiam sunrise
tomato mountain princess
tomato gourmet bite size
tomato girl girl weird thing
tomato juaune flamme
tomato piglet Willie
tomato red zebra
tomato buffalo horn
RE: 2026 tomato selection - JJB - 09-03-2026
I have chosen, but its still fluid
NEW
Ormato - OP small orange plum, maybe a bit small
Adora - experimental saved from supermarket
Fraise - OP heart shaped cherry, split resistant, long shelf life after harvest
Bronzy - oval bronze chery
Lucid gem - OP yellow fleshed slicing tomato
St. Pierre - red beef
Black moon - large oval purple cherry
KNOWN
Orangeto in a pot - OP semi bush supposedly equivalent to sugold. It's sweet but not that sweet.
Honeymoon - unlikely as my last 2 seeds have failed
Green zebra
Orange Queen - orange large salad, i like it cooked
Black Russian
Garnet - dark cherry
Sungold - maybe
Honeycomb - orange very sweet cherry, I think I like it better than sungold
Santiam Sunrise - OP a good alternative to F1 sungold
Ruthje - small red salad
Crimson Crush - blight resistant salad
Primabella/Picobella
Crimson Blush - blight resistant beef
Oh Happy Day - red salad, outside, as blight resistant
RE: 2026 tomato selection - Bren - 10-03-2026
Only 3 varieties for me.
Black Cherry - my favourite
Gardeners Delight - MrB's fav red tom
Mini Bell - an early cropper small and tasty
RE: 2026 tomato selection - JJB - 10-03-2026
When it comes to tomatoes I find so difficult to decide what to grow, there's a lot of FOMO involved. I think my list might get reduced.
RE: 2026 tomato selection - Bren - 10-03-2026
My list’s short because I only have space for 9 tomatoes in my GH. I did used to squeeze more in but it’s just too crowded.
RE: 2026 tomato selection - Small chilli - 11-03-2026
I have chosen
Tomato Black Russian
Tomato rosella
Tomato matts hornet
Tomato northern lights
tomato orange banana
tomato indigo pear drop
tomato sweet casaday
tomato mountain princess
tomato girl girl weird thing
tomato piglet Willie
tomato buffalo horn
RE: 2026 tomato selection - toomanytommytoes - 11-03-2026
Greenhouse:
Some of these seeds are bit old or dodgy, so it's going to be a mixture of 8 plants from whatever germinates.
Black Beauty - I don't really like anthocyanin tomatoes, but the seed was given to me by a friend so I feel obliged to grow it
Big Daddy F1 - red beefsteak
Burlesque F1 - red beefsteak
Bountiful F1 - red, ribbed beefsteak
Honeymoon F1 - pink beefsteak
Rebel Yell - red beefsteak, Stump of The World x Bear Claw
Girl Girl's Weird Thing - dark, striped beefsteak, a mutation of Green Zebra
Big Cheef - dark beefsteak, though I think this didn't grow true to type the last time I tried it, Brandywine Sudduth x unknown
Daniel Burson - dark beefsteak, Indian Stripe (a strain of Cherokee Purple) x Daniels
Rosedale - dark pink beefsteak, from a cross of Cherokee Purple x Summerpink F1
Cowboy - dark beefsteak
Outside:
Tiny Temptations F1 - should be a mixture of red/yellow/orange blight resistant bush cherries, the advertising blurb says 300 tomatoes per plant
Endurance - a new open-pollinated blight resistant tomato
Morello - a dark cherry, one I bought on a whim from SimplySeed when buying the Endurance seed; there's not much information about it online but SimplySeed say it's good enough to replace Rosella in their catalogue
RE: 2026 tomato selection - Garrett - 15-03-2026
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Favourites:
3 x Gardener's Delight - red cherry
2 x Auntie Madge's - red mini plum
2 x Mango Lasso - red cherry
2 x Garnet - dark cherry
2 x Michael Pollan - green/yellow striped pear
2 x Green Zebra - green/yellow striped medium
New to me:
1 x Hayley's Purple Comet - purple cherry
1 x Pinky - pink cherry
1 x India Stripe - red/green plum
1 x Yellow Clementine - yellow cherry
RE: 2026 tomato selection - Veggie - 16-03-2026
I reduced my "short" list of 45 to 20 for sowing today. Some of my choices were based on G&G recommendations on my list of tomato seeds. Thank you for your help.
Many of the seeds are old so I've sown 3 of each in a 20 module tray. Depending on how they germinate, I may sow some of the others later.
Aurora
Auntie Madge
Belarussian Heart
Bitesize
Bloody Butcher
Chadwick Cherry
Ciliegia
Darby Striped
Gardener's Delight
Gardener's Ecstasy
Gardener's Sweetheart
Graham's Tom Thumb
Matt's Hornet
Mountain Princess
Muchamiel
Red Cherry
Rosella
Ruthje
Unknown Black
Whippersnapper
RE: 2026 tomato selection - Mark_Riga - 16-03-2026
Well seeds have germinated from all the varieties I sowed.
Roma vf
gardeners delight
alicante
orange banana
galina
Delicious
Branywine red
Omars
I'll probably grow 5 to 7 alicante, 3 gardeners delight just 1 or 2 galina, probably 4 Roma as they were very prolific last year and excellent to cook with and 2 each of the rest about 24 plants in all.