It's that 'tomato' time of year!

I bought a yellow tomato plant. I’ll probably grow it again next year. I will give cherry tomatoes a miss and see how I get on with just growing regular size toms. I grew some of the currant size ones a few years ago. Gave some spare plants to neighbours and we all agreed they were a faff to pick being so tiny.

Eating plenty currently!
Tomato rice is a favourite thing, brown basmati plenty of herbs and spices and tomatoes delicious with most things.

Not such a good year for my toms. I did seven varieties from seed: Golden Sunrise, Red Cherry, Maskotka, Marmande, Gardener's Delight, Roma and Tigrella. The Maskotka in two hanging baskets had masses of fruit but succumbed to blight and most had to be thrown away. Roma, Tigrella and Marmande were grown in peat free grow bags and were pretty pathetic. Gardener's Delight, grown in a raised bed along with my salad leaves and lettuces performed well, as they usually do, and managed to escape the early blight.

The best were the Red Cherry and Golden sunrise which were grown in pots with normal compost and I have loads of fruit waiting to be eaten/preserved/made into sauces.

I don't think I'd have the patience to pick tiny tomatoes but I might grow some next year as a novelty for the GC to pick!

I have, someone I know gave me some plants he’d grown from Piccolino cherry tomatoes he’d bought in the supermarket. They are delicious, but a low cropper, in my garden this year anyway - but sun has been in very short supply to be fair.

AskAlice I don't think I'd have the patience to pick tiny tomatoes but I might grow some next year as a novelty for the GC to pick!

They have been very useful for exactly that! Just the right height for the toddler, and kept the older ones busy for ages.

I have hanging baskets full of gorgeous baby tomatoes. They have done so well.

I've grown sungold, marmande, crimson crush and a new one to me, red pear which is a heritage variety. Sungold always performs well and is my favourite for flavour, marmande usually does well and has been excellent this year, I grow crimson crush because it's blight resistant but although it crops well I don't think the flavour is that good. Red pear is disappointing, huge pear shaped fruit but too mushy for my taste so I won't bother with that again. I'm rapidly filling the freezer, I just skin the big toms with hot water and pop in freezer bags, the sungold just get washed frozen.

Golden sunrise, Black Opal, Moneymaker, Black Russian (our favourite) and a pale yellow oval one, not sure of the name. All very successful, but we need more sun to ripen the rest off.

The plant I bought in a farmers market was supposed to produce tiny fruit…..they are massive! Don’t think that’s down to the weather.

Take all the credit midgey - must be down to your green thumbs and tender loving care. Hope they're tasty!

Our green zebra, Roma and Prince Borghese are the best this year. DH makes concasse and freezes it for the year. He also saves seed from heritage varieties that he has kept going for years.

We bought 8 grafted plants on special offer from Thompson & Morgan - Crimson Crush, Crimson Blush, Crimson Plum and Crimson Cherry. They are blight resistance and we planted them outdoors in a sunny spot. They are absolutely fantastic and very prolific. Other varieties growing in the greenhouse from seed don’t want to ripen and have tough skins that split.

The best I've ever tasted were Santini which were sold by M&S. The seed isn't readily available but if you buy some tomatoes you can easily save the seed and grow your own

We didn't plant any this year but seem to have some self-setters, a type of cherry tomato, but I've no idea what they they're called.
They taste good.

Im hoping local folk end up with lots of green tomatoes that they make into green tomato chutney to sell for charity (they did last year).

I had a massive crop of lovely outdoor tomatoes last year, This year has been terrible. Crimson crush tomatoes are massive and green and now have slug wounds on the biggest. I brought a couple inside to ripen with a banana. They weep because of the damage and the taste of the ripest is not at all nice. I won`t be growing those again

Cocktail crush are a bit smaller and are still green, I brought a few indoors to ripen. I can get locally grown tomatoes for far cheaper than it cost to grow these. In all my years, this has been the worst year ever

I tried the various Crimson Crush tomatoes over the past 5 years or so. I was very disappointed. They grew well enough but didn't have any flavour. We tried each size but the flavour was poor in all of them. this year has been a disaster. I am still waiting for mine to fruit properly we've had about 5 small cherry tomatoes, good flavour but disastrous harvest Worst year ever. Last year was really good but I have forgotten was sort I grew.

I haven't planted any tomato plants for 2 years. I have however a very good crop of tomatoes on a plant that has thrived from dropped seeds from a tomato on last year's crop. Last year's was also from a random dropped tomato. The current plant is about 6 feet tall.

My green zebra tomatoes are doing really well.

I have 12 varieties in my greenhouse, they were slow to get going but are now very prolific. My favourite is Rosella, a purple/dark red cherry type which is so sweet I’ve often eaten them straight off the plant before they ever get to the house. I grow about 150 plants every year for our village plant sale and any left over I sell to friends and send the proceeds to the local hospice.

I hadn't come across Rosella before but it looks like a good find. Is it really 'almost seedless' as claimed by Thompson and Morgan?

My tomatoes all have rather firm skins this year so I'm on the lookout for a tasty thin-skinned variety to try next year.

Had 4 plants this year and have had fruit coming out of my ears. Tomatoes with almost every meal, so fed up of them but at least they're coming to an end now. This must be the only year I haven't fed them or even watered them much and they've been so prolific.

We grown tomatoes every year, both small, sweet cherry tomatoes and larger ones.

They taste much better than those bought in the shops, and my DH makes lovely soup.

I think I'll try Rosella next year, can anyone recommend a really tasty beef tomato? I have grown Marmande it's OK but nothing special taste wise and my experiment with Red Pear is not going to repeated. I love the toms I buy in Spain and Italy, they often don't look much but taste wonderful. Ideas welcome.