Tasty tomatoes...

Tomatoes are just one of the many things that we look forward to growing over the summer, but this year we are particularly excited as we have got some rather exceptional varieties, in both their appearance and taste.

With the traditionals - Alicante, Gardeners Delight and Tumbling Tom (below), already planted in the polytunnel and some starting to flower, we are now keenly potting on the less traditional species that will certainly make our customers smile and hopefully keen to try - as they are going to be amazzzzzzing.

From cherry to beef-stake, from lime green to those the colour of raspberries, from orange to chocolate, some shaped like pears, others like sausages. Here is a taster of what is to come...

Midnight Snack - 

 

A dark red, almost black/purple cherry tomato, just 4cm in diameter they are really tasty fruits and great for snacking at any time of the day. 

White Pink Stripes beefsteak -

Fabulously coloured, cream-peach with large, round, flattened and ribbed fruits, 400 to 900g in weight and 10/13cm diameter - huge! Peachy flesh with a sweet subtle flavour and aroma of melon.

Lime green salad - 

These are round fruits between 75g and 140g each, with a Chartreux lime green juicy flesh and an excellent spicy flavour.

Malinowy Retro -

This variety produces, very unusual large fleshy fruits  which are the colour of raspberries and the shape of Coeur de Boeuf (ox heart). Their flesh has an excellent flavour, which is soft and sweet.

Orange fizz -

A beautiful luminous San Marzano type, not only a good tomato but beautiful as well, with a lovely orange colour, ranged evenly on trusses. The fruits have an excellent, sweet flavour and a good yield.

Ananas ou Pineapple - 

Is an enormous pineapple beefsteak tomato, which has a skin and flesh which are yellow-orange, marbled with dark orange, weighing between 500 and 900g with a diameter of over 13cm. The fruits have an excellent flavour and the plants provide a good yield.

Green Sausage - 

A Roma type variety which is great for sauces and homemade ketchup, with clear green fruits, speckled with dark green, weighing at between 60 and 80g in trusses of 6/8 and 7/10 cm long. They have a thick green flesh with a pronounced delicious flavour. 

Aumoniere orange -

Very unusual pear shaped fruits which are ribbed with an orange skin and flesh, that are very even and attractively shaped, weighing approximately 100g, and typically 10cm in diameter. 

With over 20 varieties planned, these are just a sample of what local tomato lovers have to look forward to. We hope that there will be a tomato for all, whether they are a sauce maker, heatlhy snacker or salad lover, there will be a new variety to try - surely that is what summer food is all about - even in times like this.