It's almost Show Day!
These are some of the varieties that you'll find on our Salamanca stall, site 204, out from Maldini, in the middle row, this weekend, with more to follow next weekend.
Please bring your baskets, and we love our pots back, we've used no new nursery plastic in 9 years thanks to you!
Violet Jasper
Chinese cultivar with delicious purple, red-striped,
cherry-sized fruit. Full-flavoured & productive. Staking variety.
Black
Cherry
Cherry tomato with dark purplish fruit to 3 cm
across, produced in trusses on tall vigorous plant.
Sweet, juicy flesh with a rich flavour.
Reliable with high yields. Really delicious!!
Staking variety.
Black Krim
Beautifully
rich-flavoured purple/black fruit.
Medium
to large, flattish shape. Staking variety.
Deutsche Fleiss
German heirloom, easily grown, high yielding
variety. Red, 3-5cm fruit that look deceptively like a supermarket tomato but
are one of the tastiest salad tomatoes I’ve grown. Fruit are firm and store
well. Semi determinate - short staking variety.
Evergreen
Juicy, green,
beefsteak-type fruit with clean, bright flavor. Skin gets a gold tone &
softens to the touch when ripe. Staking variety.
George
Fat,
richly flavoured field type, from George the market gardener near Margate.
Prolific bush variety, I use up-turned pots to keep the heavily fruiting
branches off the ground.
Golden Nugget
Super early,
with sweet, 2cm, yellow fruit. Prolific bush variety, always the first to ripen
in our garden, split resistant and a lovely size.
Japanese Black Trifele
Stunning,
medium/large pear-shaped ‘black’ fruit with rich flavour. Productive and
reliable.
Staking
variety.
Leicester Jones
Bred by a Tasmanian naturopath, perfect for our conditions. Delicious, large, pink/red, ridged fruit. Low acid and high flesh to seed ratio.
Bred by a Tasmanian naturopath, perfect for our conditions. Delicious, large, pink/red, ridged fruit. Low acid and high flesh to seed ratio.
Maltese
Black
A
staking type bought to Tasmania
from
Malta some years ago. It
produces terrific crops of beautifully curvaceous, large red fruit that are
great fresh, and make for delicious sauces.
Pêche Jaune
Gorgeous gold, French tomato with slightly furry
skin and a pink blush. Fruit to 4cm across - deliciously fruity bright, clean
flavour.
Red
Fig
American heirloom, originally
grown for drying & winter eating it is also delicious fresh and so
productive we often use it in our sauces. Staking variety.
Rouge de Marmande
French heirloom, sets fruit even in cool seasons. Medium size, irregular shape, rich flavor, perfect for salads or cooking. Short staking variety.
Stupice
Czechoslovakian heirloom, cold tolerant, with
abundant sweet 2-3 inch red fruit. Hardy, delicious and productive. Our
most productive here, early, delicious and cold tolerant.
Sweet Bite
Tasty, red cherry tomato. Produces heavy crops of small, sweet fruit on large
trusses. Disease resistant and fast growing, staking variety.
We also have Tommy Toe, Yellow Pear, Yellow Stuffer, Schmiegg Creg, Jaune Flamme - a favourite, and many, many more.
Some are in limited numbers so please be early, and there are yet more varieties, and second runs of some of these that will be ready in the coming weeks. There is still plenty of time to get your tomatoes in!