Every August people ask me what strawberries to plant and every March, people ask me what tomatoes to grow…

Well: you grow the tomatoes you prefer of course!

The next best answer is: you grow the seeds you can find in the shops… Some shops have really limited choices, so … that’s why you have no choice…

Myself I just take a day to drive around all the seed and garden shops nearby to see what’s on offer. If there is a new tomato variety, I buy and try.

I also try to harvest seeds from the tomatoes I grow, but when it comes to seeds of Hybrid tomatoes: it mostly doesn’t give good results the next crop.

Because my garden is big, I love to have variety: the Italian tomatoes, yellow tomatoes and the dwarf tomatoes: those that give tomatoes when the plant doesn’t even reach your knee! Ideal for under glass:

Cherry Tomato "greenhouse"

Then there are people that love to pick tomatoes with the stalk… personally I cannot be bothered because I eat the tomato, not the little stalk attached to it!

In my greenhouse I use "indeterminate varieties" that keep on growing until it freezes, which due to very mild winters can go deep until December. The opposite are the determinate tomatoes: they grow more or less as high as a 10 year old child, so you don’t have to invent big constructions to support the plant.

And of course there are tomatoes in between the 2 mentioned above: they grow a bit higher than myself but do stop growing eventually. Read the tomato seed package before buying.

Anyway, back to work, oops… gardening fun