2022 Tomato Grow List

Where does everyone go to for buying tomato seeds?

Depends what sort of tomatoes you're looking for. More well known varieties I go with Premier Seed Direct or any of the other cheaper seed shops. SimplySeed, Pennard Plants, MoreVeg and Victoriana Nursery also have an interesting range. 

More obscure varieties I usually have to buy from Europe:

https://www.vertiloom.com/en/
https://badskinsgarden.be/
https://cultivetarue.fr/boutique/?lang=en
https://tomatoeden.com/
https://www.tomatofifou.com/boutique/tomates
https://pomidorlandia.pl/en/
https://www.bobby-seeds.com/
https://croatianseeds-store.com/index.php/online-store

TMTT - Do have any problems getting seed from Europe now we've gone through Brexit?

I've had orders from TomatoFifou (France), TomatoEden (Poland), Cultive ta Rue (France) and Vertiloom (Belgium) come through with no problems. The others I haven't ordered from since Brexit.

Having soil in my main greenhouse that must be quite diseased, my main focus is getting a good crop. This year I'm going to try grafting using Roma VF as the rootstock. I've still got some submarine seeds left so will do some on those as well. I'm not going to be very adventurous and grow:

Alicante as my main variety for cooking and bottling. The skins come off easily, it has plenty of juice and has very little greenback.
Gardeners delight gives  heavy crop of what I consider very tasty tomatoes
Orange Banana crops well and goes to a paste on cooking that helps thicken dishes well.
Galina I like the lemony smell  of the ripe fruit on the plant and they keep for a long time. Just have to keep off the ground away from any mice.

I tried Black Russian last year but wasn't particularly impressed. I should probably grow a beefsteak as well.

Have you tried black icicle? It's a huge cropper- has quite thick vines. May do well in your situation?

My list gets changed every time I sort through the seeds but at the moment it's:

CHERRY
Sungold - always good for snacking on
Blush - orange oval, grew last year and liked the taste, eventually. It was a bit late season.
Oleron yellow - new - yellow cherry
Rubylicious - new - red cherry supposedly blight resistant
Matts hornet maybe if I find room
Atomic grape ditto

SALAD
Orange banana - did well for me last year - orange plum
Crimson crush - survived the blight outside last year
Mountain magic - new - for outside, supposedly blight resistant
Green zebra - new - just because
Alicante - new - recommended on here
Zlatava - new - just to experiment

LARGE
Buffalo Horn- did well for me last year
Mat su express - new
Orange jazz - new - maybe
Northern lights - new - maybe

Then I think about the old favourites I've left out and wonder if I should change it all over again. Just call me wavy Mavis.

My list gets changed every time I sort through the seeds but at the moment it's:

CHERRY
Sungold - always good for snacking on
Blush - orange oval, grew last year and liked the taste, eventually.  It was a bit late season. X decided not to bother matts hornet instead
Oleron yellow - new - yellow cherry
Rubylicious  - new - red cherry supposedly blight resistant going to try this outside
Matts hornet
Atomic grape 
Piccolo (saved supermarket seed  experiment)
Galina - thanks Garrett
Datlo - an F1
Gardener's Ecstacy - thanks Veggie


SALAD
Orange banana - did well for me last year - orange plum
Crimson crush - survived the  blight outside last year
Mountain magic - new - for outside, supposedly blight resistant - for some reason didn't bother ¿
Green zebra - new - just because - sown but not yet popped quite old seed
Alicante - new - recommended on here
Zlatava -  new - just to experiment
Jen's Tangerine new - thanks Veggie
San Marzano - giving it another try but in GH - sown but not yet popped


LARGE
Buffalo Horn- did well for me last year
Mat su express  - new - haven't yet sown can't think why
Orange jazz - new - maybe
Northern lights - new -  maybe
Genuwine - new
Steak sandwich- new
Indigo blue beauty - new
Caspian pink - new
Spanish big globe - new

Then I think about the old favourites I've left out and wonder if I should change it all over again. Just call me wavy Mavis.

I've amended my list to reflect reality but I still sad at missing some out but can't in all honesty squeeze in any more

I've made a few changes too. This is my amended list -
(Indeterminates)
Sungold - orange cherry
Goldkrone - yellow cherry
Golden Sunrise - yellow cherry
Auntie Madge's - red small plum
Blush - striped elongated cherry
Jen's Tangerine - orange large cherry
Chadwick Cherry - red cherry
Brad's Atomic Grape - multicoloured elongated cherry
Matt's Hornet - striped elongated cherry
Green Zebra - green and yellow striped medium
Orange Jazz - orange beefsteak
Northern Lights - bicolour beefsteak

(Determinates)
Tumbling Tom Red - red cherry
Tumbling Tom Yellow - yellow cherry
Golden Grape - yellow grape
Ciliegia Cerise - red cherry
Veranda Red - red cherry dwarf

I also have a mystery seed which has been described to me as a yellow cherry and that's all I know about it so I'm curious to see what I get.

WOW! The green zebra 2015 seedswap seeds - one has germinated, with maybe more on the way.

I'm hoping for a better year this year after harvesting no more than half a dozen fruit in 2021: a combination of fungus gnats and damping off set the plants back and I had to re-sow but catastrophic blight wiped out all 40 plants!

This year I'm growing :-
Roma & San Marzano for bottling as usual, 6 plants of each
Mount Vesuvius for drying, 6 plants (New)
1 or 2 plants of all these
Brandywine Black
Black Cherry
Pineapple
Cherry Roma
Omar’s Lebanese (My favourite)
Tiny Tim
Golden Sunrise
Raspberry Oxheart
Gardener’s Delight

Then from Kokopelli I have two mixed sachets, one of cherry tomatoes and one of the rest, each containing 35 seeds made up from 13 different varieties; I’ve sown six from each packet this year, although only five have germinated so far, but I won’t know what’s what until they fruit!   I imagine I'll be posting lots of pictures asking, "What do you think this one is ..?"

The packets include –

Imur Prior beta
Wolly Green Zebra
White Bush
Pastel Sleeves
Black Roma
Black Shadow
Moravsky Div
Gregori Altai
Skyreacher
Coeur de Pigeon
Russian Persimon
Banana Legs
Rose de Berne

Cherry Tomatoes -
Washington Cherry
Farenheit Blues
Rancho Solito
Podland Pink
Raisen Vert
Abracazebra
Isis Candy Cherry
Luckenbach Zebra
Poire jaune
Saucy Green
Black Centiflor Hypertress
Prize of the Trials
White Queen

I love the sound of coeur de Pigeon!