[Fleecewife]

If you absolutely love tomatoes and want to grow lots of different varieties have a look at:
www.plant-world-seeds.com

I only wanted their lettuce Waldmans dark green but found pages and pages of every kind of tomato you could ever want to grow!

[Q]

I do.

I did look at the site but got oddly irked by the random knife, fork or pair of scissors on the pictures.

[Fleecewife]

I do.

I did look at the site but got oddly irked by the random knife, fork or pair of scissors on the pictures.

  I think they're supposed to give a sense of scale, but as there's nothing to say if they're big knives or tiny scissors it doesn't hit the spot. It's worth persevering if you want some different tomatoes.  I shall just be growing Sakura and Cocktail Crush this year, both being resistant to blight and able to cope with our weird weather up here, whilst being delicious, but just thought I'd share the seed site.

[Q]

I may have a closer look at the blight resistant ones you mentioned.

Someone gave me a variety called bumble bee this year which I used for seed but they sprouted too soon.

Flavour wise my marmande were good this year and a pink pointy variety that I dont know the origin/name of.

What was your best flavour this year?

[Fleecewife]

That site doesn't have the ones I mentioned - too mainstream I suppose.
I grew 4 varieties this year: Sakura which I've grown for years.  It does get leaf blight but the fruits go on producing in spite of that; Mountain Magic which gives full sized blight resistant fruit and is tasty; Cocktail Crush which was new for me - very similar to MM but a little tastier and cleaner; Follia which is a plum and again was new to me.  The crop was huge and earlier than plum tomatoes usually are up here, but many of them had blossom end rot, which I've never had before anywhere, and was not on the other varieties.  I shan't grow that again, although the unaffected fruits were excellent for cooking.


Sakura and Cocktail Crush were the tastiest, but I found skins a bit thick this time around, perhaps because of all that heat and drought.  They are up there with the tasty varieties but perhaps not the tastiest available if you don't need blight resistant ones.

[Anke]

I am somewhat concerned that with that huge variety of seeds they are simply a re-packaging warehouse... I have never heard of them or seen them recommended at any of the websites/facebook groups that I am on (though that is very few...)


I shall find out more... but I have so far always found all I need from the reliable (and definitely homegrown) companies like Realseeds, Tamar, etc.

[Fleecewife]

I used to buy all my seeds from the Organic Gardening Catalogue, before it was taken over, but then they started selling mostly seeds sourced from Europe (because they are organic), so I stopped buying, as conditions in much of Europe do not match the ones I have here.  I too love all the small companies which grow their own seeds, such as Beans and Herbs, Real Seeds and Incredible vegetables.  Over the years I have found certain varieties do better here than others so I have to source those where I can, which often means Mr Fothergills or DT Brown.
I found the World Seeds site when I was tracking down a particular lettuce which did well in my particular microclimate, but when I saw all those tomatoes I thought I would share in case it was just what someone else needed.  It looks as if they source many of their seeds from N America.


I have not had success with saving my own seeds because of disease and poor growth - I would rather start the year with healthy seeds, tubers and plants.  We are in a fairly extreme area for growing veg successfully; even down in the valley conditions are better, but I love living up here so I do the best I can in the situation I find.

[Anke]

Real Seeds has just published this year's catalogue (online). If anyone is looking through their tomato lists - Urbikany is very prone to early blight and really doesn't like a slightly damp growing space. But I really like (and have grown) Stupice, Moskvich, Galina (yellow), Skykomish, their version of Gardener's Delight. I also really (and I mean really!) liked Trixi, which seems to have vanished this year. All of them are liable to blight, but if you keep up with taking off the leaves as soon as there is any sign, mine did all very well.


Of the sweet peppers Karkulka was disappointing, but Kaibi did well.

[Rupert the bear]

My tomato seeds for next year have arrived from Lithuania ,Promyk  intended for outdoor cultivation but I will grow them in the poly tunnel as I am further north  and Oxheart , a plum type fruit, and some Amish seeds from this years harvest that have just finished fermentation and drying and are doing a germination test this week.
Just hope the winter is kind on the poly tunnel this year !!

[arobwk]

My tomato seeds for next year have arrived from Lithuania ,Promyk  .......

Is that still permitted ??!

[naturelovingfarmer]

I have grown German Strawberry Tomatoes, Mortgage Lifter Tomatoes, and Abe Lincoln Tomatoes with great success in the Ohio River Valley. I got them from Baker Creek Heirlooms but they ship internationally.

[Alex_]

Real Seeds has just published this year's catalogue (online). If anyone is looking through their tomato lists - Urbikany is very prone to early blight and really doesn't like a slightly damp growing space. But I really like (and have grown) Stupice, Moskvich, Galina (yellow), Skykomish, their version of Gardener's Delight. I also really (and I mean really!) liked Trixi, which seems to have vanished this year. All of them are liable to blight, but if you keep up with taking off the leaves as soon as there is any sign, mine did all very well.


Of the sweet peppers Karkulka was disappointing, but Kaibi did well.

They are my favourite sellers too. Amish paste do well for me and the house tomato was fantastic. Their paprika peppers did well for me too

[arobwk]

How about best variety for growing outdoors - anyone?

[naturelovingfarmer]

How about best variety for growing outdoors - anyone?

Mortgage Lifter

[Fleecewife]

The only tomato I've ever grown outdoors was Gardener's Delight but that was 900 feet lower than here and more than 1/4 of a century ago.  They grew extremely well - I had kept the plants indoors for too long so had to dig a trench and lay the plants, stems overlapping, horizontally in the trench, tops poking up along the way.  I ended up with a wall of tomatoes which were wonderfully productive, having sent up side shoots everywhere    Very tasty grown outdoors - better than indoor crops any day