Tremendous tomatoes

Wow...

From the simple Tumbling Tom, the size of a large gobstopper, with soft skins and a sweet taste that explodes in your mouth with every tomato...

To the Pineapple beefsteak, an enormous 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 amazing flavour and the flesh melts in your mouth, they are stunning.

Our tunnels of tomatoes are certainly performing...

The salad tunnel is delivering delights such as the midnight snack...

Which are very tasty and as their name suggests great for snacking on. There is also by contrast Orange Fizz which is not only a good tasting tomato but beautiful as well, with lovely orange coloured fruits which have an excellent, sweet flavour.

However the Sweet Cassidy has to be the winner on shape and appearance, which is good for fresh consumption but also as a Roma variety is great for sauces.

A close second on shape and appearance has to be the Bells of Russia.

Which has very attractive pink fruits with a unique shape and a dense pink, sweet flesh.

The main tunnel is delivering some very exciting varieties, such as Aumoniere Orange, a beautiful shape and colour, with an orange skin and flesh, with fruits which are pear shaped that become ribbed as they mature.

Scoring 7 on the Brix scale of sweetness with 10 as the highest score their orange flesh is firm, but when ripe, melts in your mouth.

Of a more traditional shape, but still green when mature, the Milano Green has regular shaped yellow/green fruits which present very unusual dark green stripes, not only good looking fruits, they are perfect for delicious, colourful salads. 

Also with traditionally shaped fruits is Bacovia, which is a vigorous variety with nice looking, dark yellow, round fruits, that exude a good sweet flavour.

A little more novel variety, with bright, smaller elongated fruits, is the Firecracker...

This variety has red-orange tomatoes, stripped with yellow not only do they look good, they have a superb flavour and score on the Brix (sweetness) scale of 7.

A perk of the job, we have been enjoying Latah tomtoes (an early variety), since the 14th June, however now the our customers in the local village, together with our business customers such as The Sheppey Inn and the Old Tannery, Glastonbury are too.

From the beefy varieties, which look beautiful on the plate, such as Great White, Pineapple and Caro Rich, to the beautiful varieties...

Which are now just to numerous to name...