I'm planning on having at least one bed outside again this year but covered with a mini poly tunnel to start with, next year I'd like to create a couple of beds in the front garden where's there's a bit of a micro climate, I think they'd do well there and if I created a few beds I could rotate some veggies that like it slightly hotter (grow food not lawns and all that).
I have got far too many tomato plants though so when I pricking them out I did pot a few into root trainers with the idea of selling them online later on. I've just added a couple of listings to my Etsy shop which contains two lots of four open pollinated tomato plants.
They are all heritage varieties:
Four varieties of non hybrid tomato:
Amish Paste - From the Amish Community in America, huge plum tomatoes, one slice can cover a piece of bread! Apple sized fruit, dense flesh.
Abraham Lincoln - Large, meaty, flavourful tomatoes,
Harbinger - An old English variety, produces heavy yields of good flavoured medium size fruit. Tolerates cool weather well so good for outside growing.
Millefleur - Centiflor type tomato. Hundreds of flowers on each truss, produces hundreds of little yellow fruits.
Abraham Lincoln - Large, meaty, flavourful tomatoes,
Best Of All - Great Heirloom variety
Jersey Sunrise - Heavy cropper, very sweet, great all rounder
Legend - Outdoor tomato with good blight resistance, slightly flatter shape than normal, and very few seeds.
Hopefully this will give someone else the chance to grow some of these interesting varieties of tomatoes!
