You are correct about being able to import Baker Creek seeds, they are incredibly quick to deliver to UK, this is the 2nd year that I have ordered some. Take care x.
It's always interesting hearing other people's opinions on tomatoes. I've been growing Golden Sunset for a couple of years and really enjoyed it. I think my fave this year was the Sweet Million Cherry. They're like sweets!
Tomato Delicious was my favorite this year. I live in North Carolina and it was not a great planting season as we had 5 weeks of drought and then extreme heat. Definitely going to try the Paul Robeson next year. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.🍅🍅🍅
Great video! I really appreciate how honest you are with your picks. I've heard great things about Paul Robeson as well but haven't grown it yet. Going to add that to my list next year. I really like berry's crazy cherry due to its productivity and grapelike taste.
Sweet Aperitif, a delicious and prolific cherry. Black moon definitely but takes ages to ripen. Golden bumblebee, a small orange yellow striped oval cherry. San Marzano for bottling, sauce and soups, very prolific and grows well outside in the East midlands.
We loved the rosella, too! They were prolific. Loved the taste and when sliced in a cherry tomato salad sometimes the inside of a few were still a bit green but still delicious and made for a great contrast with the riper sweeter ones.
You get a lot more varieties than what we possibly can have in New Zealand, and if we try to find new ones on the internet we aren’t allowed to import the tomato seeds, so thankyou for trying them out and telling us how they’re doing.
To be honest, it was the same in the UK until the last 4-5 years. Once we got access to the American seeds and their wonderful breeders, tomato growing has really become fun. Can you look for countries that do import to you? That's how I started to find my more unusual seeds.
Great video JB, I love sweet toms too. For sauces I’ve grown Super Paste this year huge!! Bought some Black Moon for next year but looking for a green one, Green Dr maybe? I love Rosella / Garnet / Honeycomb for my cherries & my new one Riesling is a prolific mini plum good taste.
I'm with you on the Rosella, every year for me but as cherries go it takes 2nd place to Nectar which has been fantastic for the last 2 years in relatively poor summers. I would urge trying with Brads atomic grape, with a good summer behind it for me it's my best tasting tomato without compare.
My Alice's dream tasted delicious. I'd recommend trying them again JB. I grew honeycomb F1 it's an orange cherry & very sweet. Also bite size. Again a cherry but delicious. 😊
Since I don't have a greenhouse or polytunnel, so my tomatoes are all grown outdoors, I mainly choose blight-resistant varieties. This year I had Galahad, Mountain Magic, Mountain Rouge, Damsel and Fantastico. Damsel is my favourite, hugely productive and blissfully delicious, very large dark pink tomatoes. Among the non-resistant varieties, Homestead is highly recommended if you want huge and very tasty tomatoes. My biggest one weighed 1112 grams! Despite the bad weather, I had a record harvest. There are 60 jars of passata in my storage cellar😃
Rosella sounds quite interesting - I have never grown them so might try them next year. I don't really grow that many varieties but I think I can add one new one. Great to see all the different tomatoes - you have grown them so I don't have to. 😄
Green giant is one you should try! Was one of my favs this year, perfect amount of sweet to tomato flavour! And if you want a pow of sweet and tangy try plan 9 from outer space! Lufichoise was a yummy cherry size. And Cowboy a rich brown beefsteak! All grown outdoors in UK I was pleasantly surprised with the flavours. 🍅
I managed to find a Paul Robeson Plant at a garden centre so I will be saving the seeds😊 It’s now in the ground , hopefully it will deliver lots of fruit !
Hey JB, Very nice video about the tomato production and taste. The darker tomatoes have anthocyanins which causes the blue, purple or black colors. It also has a flavor that folks seem to like or not so much. I started growing some Ukrainian Purple Roma shaped tomato and the Cherokee purple to add to the roma and San Marzano's for making sauce. It is only myself and my wife and we like it that way so there you have it. Now I do however prefer red slicer tomatoes for sandwiches and salads. Not too picky 'eh? I like your idea of not growing the ones you do not eat or like and focus on those I heard Tony say the same thing this morning about chilis. I have adopted this idea starting last year and it is all about production for tomatoes to go into jars on the shelf and leaving the tomato sauce at the grocery shops. I picked maybe 20 to 25 pounds of green tomatoes today all for making Green Tomato Curry I will get about 12 quarts for the pantry. These are all tomato plants started mid June to be picked green right before the first frost. Take care bye for now, Steven
I agree with you that rosella cherry are an interesting looking & depth of flavour Tomato (tastier last year with more heat)Its all about the weather here in the uk. I find heat or lack of it affects the taste so much.
Over the decades I found what I like and tend to grow them every year, often saving seeds. Nothing I grow is red and round. Ox heart, Black Krim, Yellow banana and Kilo tomatoes, with some sort of cherry tomato to eat in the morning on the way back from feeding the ponies. A handful of fresh warm, sweet juicy tomatoes, eaten as I walk about checking the livestock is my idea of a great start to a summer morning. My friends love to get a gift of a bag of tomatoes of varying sizes, shapes and colours.
Here in eastern Canada people seem to like Sungold, Sweet million and Golden cherry the best and find them by far the sweetest. Golden cherry seeds, are the ultimate in sweetness and sell out too, are available from Vesey's seeds Prince Edward ilsand and you can mail seeds to the UK and vice versa but not the USA. though they can mail to Canada. I can't tell when black tomatoes are ripe, and find they just taste black and mushy ditto Paul Robeson which wasn't a good performer for me, very little fruit and small plants. Full size tomatoes can get late tomato blight too which is why so many blight resistent cherries are grown I also find the striped tomatoes not very robust or plentiful. I sometimes wonder if there is an overlap in seed naming in different areas?
Nice review JB! Another vote for Cherokee Purple! 🙌🏼 then Thorburns Terracotta and finally a very little known Gerald’s Mystery which is one I had seeds from USA for but I will not be without! Beautiful bicolour! Would be happy to send a few seeds over if ever you wanted to try it! I have sent seeds and pleaded with Eli to include it in her grow for next year too! 🤣🙌🏼
Yes! Thorburns Terracotta, I was sent them as a bonus packet from Baker Creek. Took me 3 years to get around to growing them, oh wow! Beautiful, amazing taste, early and productive.What a winner. Never going to be without this gem ❤.
Also Jb - fight your fears!! A GREAT tasting yellow heirloom - Lillian’s Yellow! Or Hugh’s!! (Again happy to share!) but there ARE some beautiful yellow toms!! Let’s conquer that dislike! 🤣🙌🏼
LOL! Do you have so many tomatoes you can just throw them on the ground?! 😄Too bad I didn't have your this video 2 days ago. I actually had a work friend whose dad lives in Florida order some milder peppers (Anaheim, Jimmy Nardello, Sweet Banana Pepper and one more that I forgot) from Baker Creek. She's going there on vacation in a week. Love that you wrote PAUL ROBESON in caps haha 😄I found seeds for that and Lithium Sunset from a place called Tomato Revolution in the UK. Do you know anything about them? And my standout tomatoes this year would be the TWO tomatoes that ripened 🤪
You mentioned you don't like yellow tomatoes- try White Beauty- I've had so many growing on a plant and the TASTE! Same with Pineapple/Ananas tomatoes- they are stripey/colour layered and wonderful :)
Good show JB. My favorite this yr was Berkley Tie Dye, mine were huge beefsteak size, best cropper even beat my money maker standard, amazing flavour, my wife didn't stop going on about them for weeks, made all our visitors taste them lol I got some Alices Dream seeds for next yr as there seems to be a bit of YT hype on them so interesting they dint perform for you.
Going to agree with Paul Robeson. It's a very special tomato. Unfortunately, I grow 30+ varieties a year, and my 2 Paul Robeson died early 😢. Never mind, next year!!
I have always grown Black Beauty and that has a great deep flavour and i have had good success and good crops off it although it is susceptible to blight so best grown indoors. Mine were better last year and this summer was not good for ripening them. I grew amazing Alice's Dream last year the flavour was yummy. This year it faired really poorly in my greenhouse. Another one that likes a hot summer. I love the Black Cherry to but I didn't grow any this year, I don't know why 🤔 I always grow Honeycomb F1 Cherry. I love that better than Sungold, similar tomato but has a sweet tart flavour rather than just all sugar like Sungold. I want to grow a green one and have grown Green Zebra again this year, but they were very bleurgh took ages to ripen and split badly (grown outdoors) although last year super tasty. Not sure whether to bother again. Also grew Black Moon for the first time this year, definitely going to be growing again.
You are correct about being able to import Baker Creek seeds, they are incredibly quick to deliver to UK, this is the 2nd year that I have ordered some. Take care x.
It's always interesting hearing other people's opinions on tomatoes. I've been growing Golden Sunset for a couple of years and really enjoyed it. I think my fave this year was the Sweet Million Cherry. They're like sweets!
Tomato Delicious was my favorite this year. I live in North Carolina and it was not a great planting season as we had 5 weeks of drought and then extreme heat. Definitely going to try the Paul Robeson next year. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.🍅🍅🍅
Great video! I really appreciate how honest you are with your picks. I've heard great things about Paul Robeson as well but haven't grown it yet. Going to add that to my list next year. I really like berry's crazy cherry due to its productivity and grapelike taste.
Sweet Aperitif, a delicious and prolific cherry. Black moon definitely but takes ages to ripen. Golden bumblebee, a small orange yellow striped oval cherry. San Marzano for bottling, sauce and soups, very prolific and grows well outside in the East midlands.
We loved the rosella, too! They were prolific. Loved the taste and when sliced in a cherry tomato salad sometimes the inside of a few were still a bit green but still delicious and made for a great contrast with the riper sweeter ones.
You get a lot more varieties than what we possibly can have in New Zealand, and if we try to find new ones on the internet we aren’t allowed to import the tomato seeds, so thankyou for trying them out and telling us how they’re doing.
To be honest, it was the same in the UK until the last 4-5 years. Once we got access to the American seeds and their wonderful breeders, tomato growing has really become fun. Can you look for countries that do import to you? That's how I started to find my more unusual seeds.
@@magpie1492 I think it’s more down to Australia and New Zealand’s strict phytosanitary controls 😣
Great video JB, I love sweet toms too. For sauces I’ve grown Super Paste this year huge!! Bought some Black Moon for next year but looking for a green one, Green Dr maybe? I love Rosella / Garnet / Honeycomb for my cherries & my new one Riesling is a prolific mini plum good taste.
I'm with you on the Rosella, every year for me but as cherries go it takes 2nd place to Nectar which has been fantastic for the last 2 years in relatively poor summers. I would urge trying with Brads atomic grape, with a good summer behind it for me it's my best tasting tomato without compare.
Tomato season is just starting here. Im trying out dwarf tomatoes as they are easier to net, i envy you not having to worry about fruit fly
Great video JB. Crokini cherry Tomatoe for me Great taste. Done them every year 👍
My Alice's dream tasted delicious. I'd recommend trying them again JB.
I grew honeycomb F1 it's an orange cherry & very sweet. Also bite size. Again a cherry but delicious. 😊
Since I don't have a greenhouse or polytunnel, so my tomatoes are all grown outdoors, I mainly choose blight-resistant varieties. This year I had Galahad, Mountain Magic, Mountain Rouge, Damsel and Fantastico. Damsel is my favourite, hugely productive and blissfully delicious, very large dark pink tomatoes. Among the non-resistant varieties, Homestead is highly recommended if you want huge and very tasty tomatoes. My biggest one weighed 1112 grams! Despite the bad weather, I had a record harvest. There are 60 jars of passata in my storage cellar😃
I think Damsel is sold as (Pink) Honeymoon in the UK. It's probably the best hybrid tomato I've tasted.
I think the best I grew this year were San Marzano II’s, Supersweet 100s, and Sun Golds, all from Johnny’s
I would recommend two tomatoes that I grew this year, Cherokee Purple and Sungold.
Rosella sounds quite interesting - I have never grown them so might try them next year. I don't really grow that many varieties but I think I can add one new one. Great to see all the different tomatoes - you have grown them so I don't have to. 😄
Green giant is one you should try! Was one of my favs this year, perfect amount of sweet to tomato flavour! And if you want a pow of sweet and tangy try plan 9 from outer space! Lufichoise was a yummy cherry size. And Cowboy a rich brown beefsteak! All grown outdoors in UK I was pleasantly surprised with the flavours. 🍅
Ok, so I've found Paul Robeson seeds in Australia...now I'm going to have to wait until Christmas 2025 to taste them...better be worth the wait 😂
Where??
from a fellow Aussie 🇦🇺 🌱🍅
@@ErraticPerfectionist Seeds of Plenty 😉
@@Tamsins_Potager Thank you!! 😁
@@ErraticPerfectionist Just between us 🍅😄
I managed to find a Paul Robeson Plant at a garden centre so I will be saving the seeds😊 It’s now in the ground , hopefully it will deliver lots of fruit !
I’ve bought some Paul Robeson seeds already because you raved about it and wanted to make sure I got some😂
Hey JB, Very nice video about the tomato production and taste. The darker tomatoes have anthocyanins which causes the blue, purple or black colors. It also has a flavor that folks seem to like or not so much. I started growing some Ukrainian Purple Roma shaped tomato and the Cherokee purple to add to the roma and San Marzano's for making sauce. It is only myself and my wife and we like it that way so there you have it. Now I do however prefer red slicer tomatoes for sandwiches and salads. Not too picky 'eh?
I like your idea of not growing the ones you do not eat or like and focus on those I heard Tony say the same thing this morning about chilis. I have adopted this idea starting last year and it is all about production for tomatoes to go into jars on the shelf and leaving the tomato sauce at the grocery shops. I picked maybe 20 to 25 pounds of green tomatoes today all for making Green Tomato Curry I will get about 12 quarts for the pantry. These are all tomato plants started mid June to be picked green right before the first frost. Take care bye for now, Steven
I agree with you that rosella cherry are an interesting looking & depth of flavour Tomato (tastier last year with more heat)Its all about the weather here in the uk. I find heat or lack of it affects the taste so much.
Over the decades I found what I like and tend to grow them every year, often saving seeds. Nothing I grow is red and round. Ox heart, Black Krim, Yellow banana and Kilo tomatoes, with some sort of cherry tomato to eat in the morning on the way back from feeding the ponies. A handful of fresh warm, sweet juicy tomatoes, eaten as I walk about checking the livestock is my idea of a great start to a summer morning.
My friends love to get a gift of a bag of tomatoes of varying sizes, shapes and colours.
Oh this comment is just poetry, it speaks to me!!
Here in eastern Canada people seem to like Sungold, Sweet million and Golden cherry the best and find them by far the sweetest. Golden cherry seeds, are the ultimate in sweetness and sell out too, are available from Vesey's seeds Prince Edward ilsand and you can mail seeds to the UK and vice versa but not the USA. though they can mail to Canada. I can't tell when black tomatoes are ripe, and find they just taste black and mushy ditto Paul Robeson which wasn't a good performer for me, very little fruit and small plants. Full size tomatoes can get late tomato blight too which is why so many blight resistent cherries are grown I also find the striped tomatoes not very robust or plentiful. I sometimes wonder if there is an overlap in seed naming in different areas?
Nice review JB! Another vote for Cherokee Purple! 🙌🏼 then Thorburns Terracotta and finally a very little known Gerald’s Mystery which is one I had seeds from USA for but I will not be without! Beautiful bicolour! Would be happy to send a few seeds over if ever you wanted to try it! I have sent seeds and pleaded with Eli to include it in her grow for next year too! 🤣🙌🏼
Yes! Thorburns Terracotta, I was sent them as a bonus packet from Baker Creek. Took me 3 years to get around to growing them, oh wow! Beautiful, amazing taste, early and productive.What a winner. Never going to be without this gem ❤.
@@magpie1492 precisely!! Such a wonderful tomato!! Staple in my garden past few years and forever going forward too!! 🙌🏼
If you like Paul Robeson try Vintage Wine and Black Krim.
Also Jb - fight your fears!! A GREAT tasting yellow heirloom - Lillian’s Yellow! Or Hugh’s!! (Again happy to share!) but there ARE some beautiful yellow toms!! Let’s conquer that dislike! 🤣🙌🏼
Top tomatoes, give honeycomb variety a bash next year
LOL! Do you have so many tomatoes you can just throw them on the ground?! 😄Too bad I didn't have your this video 2 days ago. I actually had a work friend whose dad lives in Florida order some milder peppers (Anaheim, Jimmy Nardello, Sweet Banana Pepper and one more that I forgot) from Baker Creek. She's going there on vacation in a week. Love that you wrote PAUL ROBESON in caps haha 😄I found seeds for that and Lithium Sunset from a place called Tomato Revolution in the UK. Do you know anything about them? And my standout tomatoes this year would be the TWO tomatoes that ripened 🤪
Yes tomato revs are meant to be brilliant!
@@JBNat Cool! Then I think I'll get those two and give tomatoes another shot 👍
You mentioned you don't like yellow tomatoes- try White Beauty- I've had so many growing on a plant and the TASTE! Same with Pineapple/Ananas tomatoes- they are stripey/colour layered and wonderful :)
Carbon and Cherokee Purple among my best this year.
I know it's orange/yellow tomato but sungold are nice and sweet cherry tomatoes
Good show JB. My favorite this yr was Berkley Tie Dye, mine were huge beefsteak size, best cropper even beat my money maker standard, amazing flavour, my wife didn't stop going on about them for weeks, made all our visitors taste them lol I got some Alices Dream seeds for next yr as there seems to be a bit of YT hype on them so interesting they dint perform for you.
Which Berkeley tie dye? There are 3, red, pink and green. I have grown all 3. I think the pink is the best.
@@magpie1492 Pink
Going to agree with Paul Robeson. It's a very special tomato. Unfortunately, I grow 30+ varieties a year, and my 2 Paul Robeson died early 😢. Never mind, next year!!
Cherokee Purple and any Beefsteak are about the best tomatoes you can get.
I have always grown Black Beauty and that has a great deep flavour and i have had good success and good crops off it although it is susceptible to blight so best grown indoors. Mine were better last year and this summer was not good for ripening them. I grew amazing Alice's Dream last year the flavour was yummy. This year it faired really poorly in my greenhouse. Another one that likes a hot summer.
I love the Black Cherry to but I didn't grow any this year, I don't know why 🤔
I always grow Honeycomb F1 Cherry. I love that better than Sungold, similar tomato but has a sweet tart flavour rather than just all sugar like Sungold.
I want to grow a green one and have grown Green Zebra again this year, but they were very bleurgh took ages to ripen and split badly (grown outdoors) although last year super tasty. Not sure whether to bother again.
Also grew Black Moon for the first time this year, definitely going to be growing again.
Paul Robeson - is it determinate or indeterminate? Thanks
its indeterminate, it also grows quite happily outdoors in the UK. I grow it every year and it is definitely a reliable cropper and taste favourite.
Thinking outside the box for a moment why not consider rebuilding it using breeze blocks instead of wood. It should be much stronger and last longer
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Oooh they sound lovely Robin, thanks for stopping by! Love it when I catch you on Audrey's streams 💚
@@JBNat How kind.
She's the bomb...we have a lot in common. We end up talking for another hour after the chats LOL.
Supersweet 100 f1
What was your #3 Choice?
Rosella! Really really good.
@@JBNat I thought Rosella was #2
@@paulwilliams200#1 - Paul Robeson
#2 - Lithium Sunset
#3 - Rosella
#4 - Black Cherry
#5 - Black Moon
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@@JBNat Thanks.
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