What a fabulous monster...A very large, even enormous, slightly flattened beefsteak fruit which can grow up to 2lb or more in weight, and with a good robust taste that scored highly in our tasting trials. Oh dear me! What an unfortunate name though...but it is ideal for use on sandwiches. This heirloom originated in Spain and was brought into France with the refugees from the Spanish Civil War. (Cordon) ... Learn More

Generous, dense and heavy trusses of bright yellow cherry fruits have a sweet, strong and very slightly sharp taste, stronger than many cherry varieties. It is early, but also very long fruiting, bearing its last crops by autumn, and is also an ideal plant to get some really early fruit. ... Learn More

Bushy, productive plants produce unbelievably-heavy trusses of crisp-fleshed, creamy-coloured, elongated sausage-like fruits. The sweet, juicy, golden flesh, with a hint of lemon flavour, makes them an ideal choice for creating unusual sauces. This plant can produce more than you can eat, as we have discovered here in trials! (Bush) ... Learn More

Tasty red fruits cascade in an abundance of delicious sweet cherry tomatoes which are full of flavour. Heavy crops of gorgeous, non-splitting tomatoes have good resistance to mildew and many diseases and are ideal either cooked, or raw for snacking. They originated in Provence in the south of France, in the small town of Saint-Rémy de Provence. ... Learn More

This extremely productive tomato produces heavy clusters of fruit on a short, stocky, sturdy bush and usually needs extra support because of the sheer weight of the crop! It is a perfect slicer or salad tomato. It ripens early and constantly with a final burst at the end! It is excellent for those short on space or planting on the patio. The 1-3 oz red fruits are round-oblate and perfectly shaped, with no blemishes or core, and a delicious flavour and yield. Originating from Milan Sodomka of Czechoslovakia. (Bush) ... Learn More

Surprisingly heavy yields of 2-4 oz, egg-sized, plum-shaped, golden yellow tomatoes have very good sweet flavours, with strong, thick flesh and skin, so that they never split. Related to the popular Russian commercial variety, this is a golden strain of the popular De Barao tomato, a form of the "Zolotoy" or "Gold Reserve" tomato in Russian. It is therefore very productive in low temperatures, where this Russian favourite can make impressively tall 3 m plants, and is usually used for soups, salads, conserves and sauces. Cordon ... Learn More

A really huge red beefsteak fruit which is smooth, nearly solid and often weighs more than 2 lbs. This famous variety holds the world record for the largest tomato ever grown and has excellent flavour, and very little cracking. Very few and unusually tiny seeds,(Cordon) ... Learn More

These large Amish-type heirloom tomatoes have been grown since at least the 1930s and are large lemon-yellow beefsteak sometimes growing up to 1 kilo in weight, with some blushing at the blossom end. The flavour is unusually sweet for a large tomato, and they keep cropping and cropping all summer long as long as they are constantly picked. (Cordon) ... Learn More

This is undoubtedly one of the best tasting yellow beefsteak tomatoes to be found, combining luscious sweetness with plenty of tangy tomato flavour. The beautiful golden-yellow fruits, which have very few seeds, are unblemished and smooth, and vary from 10 ounces to 1 lb (400g). The huge, vigorous plants produce many meaty fruits. The breeder, Dr Wyche, was a Cherokee dentist who also part-owned a circus, and used Elephant manure to fertilise his tomatoes in Oklahoma. We do not recommend this practice at home though....(Cordon) ... Learn More

This mid-season Bulgarian heirloom (the name means 'friendship') is more resistant to disease, pests and adverse weather conditions than most other varieties making it an ideal choice for the novice tomato grower. It produces heavy crops of sizeable, uniform, blemish-free 8-10 oz salad tomatoes. (Cordon) ... Learn More

Sweet, green-when-ripe fruits are smooth and round, ranging from three to five ounces, and barely change color upon ripening, although a pale pink blossom end blush develops on some of the fruit. The flavour of this mid-season variety is balanced, full and delicious. It originated from a cross between 'Golden Dwarf Champion', a medium fruited yellow dwarf, with 'Green Giant', made in 2006 by Patrina Nuske Small in Australia and was named after the gemstone Beryl, which exhibits colouring similar to the fruit. Now past its ninth generation, it is a quite stable open-pollinated variety althoug ... Learn More

These gorgeous medium size tomatoes are a deep orange color, with dark green shoulders on un-ripe fruits. The taste is excellent, well balanced, not too sweet and not too tart with 4-6 fruits per cluster. When the New Zealand heir to the title of 7th Earl of Edgecombe travelled to England to claim the title, he brought this tomato with him and gave the seed to the Henry Doubleday Foundation. ... Learn More

Sizeable fruits are an attractive pink-grapefruit colour and our tasters said that they have a really different 'tomatoey' taste. An old favourite of more than 100 years old and still a brilliant producer of early and tasty 3-4 ounce fruits. Heavy cropping and reliable. (Cordon) ... Learn More

This unusually heavy-bearing variety grows quite amazing fruits which are indeed just the shape and colour of the yolk of an egg. They have a sweet, strong-flavoured, runny middle just bursting with rich fruity flavour. (Cordon) ... Learn More

As black as the proverbial snooker ball, these consistently medium-sized fruits ripen make impressive shining trusses. The strongly-flavoured, exceedingly healthy fruits, red inside, are packed with valuable xanthocyanins, and can stay on the vines right up to the first frosts of autumn, especially in a greenhouse, protected from bad weather and cracking by their perfect spheres of strong skin! Very rarely, the occasional one has the odd bizarre protuberance! We pick the last crop here in late October and even through November. New, and extremely attractive when sliced, when they reveal thei ... Learn More