Not the best for fresh eating flavour but cook and freeze well.Ĭherry - Small, round fruits usually with excellent flavour. Plum - The traditional Italian for canning and making pasta sauce. Beefsteak are well worth growing if you have a polytunnel or greenhouse for their interesting and unusual variations and good flavour. Be aware large tomatoes need a long season to ripen so not suitable for growing outside in cooler climates. They are good all purpose tomatoes.īeefsteak - Large mediterranean style tomatoes excellent for sandwiches and salads (think tomatoes with mozzarella). Smooth, round tomatoes usually red or yellow skinned. Standard - Medium sized tomatoes of the size you are likely to see in the shops.
TRANSPLANT TOMATO SEEDLINGS HOW TO
Tomato Terms Explainedīefore we get into the details on how to grow tomatoes I would like to explain some of the terminology you are likely to hear, a little understanding here will be helpful in choosing the right variety for your garden. They are fun to grow and give such a great reward that they have to be one of stars of the home vegetable plot. A bit like the potato (they are, of course, close relations) there are a huge range of different types for very large ‘beefsteak’ varieties to small and sweet ‘cherry’ fruits. The other big bonus with growing your own tomatoes is the amazing variety of size, shape, colour and flavour there is available.
Lycopene has been shown to help unclog blocked arteries and is thought to be one of the reasons the Mediterranean diet is so healthy. Not only does chemistry equal a greater depth of flavour, it is also likely that homegrown tomatoes are healthier with higher levels of the pigment ‘Lycopene’. Research has also shown that organic, homegrown tomatoes have a much more complex chemistry than commercially produced fruits.
Many commercially produced tomatoes are also grown in soilless environments using an artificial fertilizer solution and are picked before they are ripe both of these practices result in tomatoes that look nice but don’t taste great. Tomatoes grown for the supermarket shelf have been bred to travel well and look good on the shelves for as long as possible tickling your taste buds is not their number one priority. Tomatoes are one of the most rewarding crops for the home gardener to grow simply because their flavour is so much better than their shop bought cousins. Also included is planting and transplanting, crop care, pests and diseases (including tomato blight and aphids), harvesting, and storage. A complete how to guide on growing tomatoes, including what are the best varieties to grow in our climate as well as when and where to grow.
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