As far as taste goes Ailsa Craig is one of the best. It has just the right balance of sweetness and sharpness to give it an amazing flavour. With a thinnish skin and deep colour, it is great in salads and just firm enough for slicing for sandwiches. It has a good disease resistance and is an early ripener and reasonably vigorous grower. (Cordon) ... Learn More

As its name suggests, this heavy-cropping variety of plum tomato was bred to mature in places where the growing season is short. The extremely uniform, juicy fruits have a truly attractive, two-tone plum appearance both in size and shape. (Bush) ... Learn More

Alicante is an early variety producing heavy crops of uniform, smooth, sweet tasting, medium size fruits. Succeeds well in soil or grow bags. An excellent variety for the UK climate, it can be grown very successfully outside but also will do well in the greenhouse. (Cordon). ... Learn More

These large, firm, orange, slightly oval, beefsteak fruits high in lycopene have a rich, fruity, superior sweet yet full bodied tomato flavour. This old heirloom from the Amana Colonies of Iowa is a good keeper. (Cordon) ... Learn More

Another absolutely superb GMO free, mid-season tomato, its skin ripening to the most incredible blue-violet colour. With strong, non-splitting skins holding the highly flavoured flesh, they are relatively late ripeners, but keep very well with an excellent shelf life. These have been bred to produce high levels of anthocyanins, a class of valuable pigments responsible for the blue and purple colours of many fruits, including blueberries and blackberries, which provide protection for the plant against insects, diseases, and ultraviolet radiation, and are thus a most important part of a first class healthy diet. ... Learn More

An impressive-cropping tomato giving an almost endless supply of big symmetrical trusses of baby, pear-shaped golden fruits. These grow on attractive and truly impressive heavy trusses of pendent fruits. They are lovely for eating, just like grapes, straight off the vine! A superb salad tomato. (Cordon) ... Learn More

A very productive easy-to-grow variety bred by The University of Missouri. The rosy red fruits have crisp flesh and a great taste, just tart enough to be interesting, and are particularly easy on the palate. (Cordon) ... Learn More

Large, bright golden yellow, round to slightly flattened juicy fruit, have attractively lobed and bulged sections, without splitting. With few seeds and a large core, it has a strong, tangy, slightly acidic-fruity flavour, with a hint of citrus. It is productive for a long time, and matures quite early for such a large tomato, this being one of the better large yellow varieties, and it comes highly recommended.(Cordon) ... Learn More

This tasty Swiss tomato is slightly larger than conventional cherry tomatoes and is rather blocky-ovaloid in shape. The fruit range in size from 10g to 50g and have a good a ratio of sweetness to acidity with the former prevailing. Bearing in mind their small size, the tomatoes also store very well indeed. (Cordon) ... Learn More

Somewhat flattened and "cat faced", these huge tomatoes, pink inside, have that great, old-timey, strong tomato taste with low acid, and make the best tomato sandwiches ever with just one slice of tomato needed! Large half kilo fruit appear fairly early in the season, and then the fruit keeps coming larger and larger. They finally get so large that the branches droop even with only one fruit on it! Grow this one to win a biggest tomato competition! (Cordon). ... Learn More

This huge classic beefsteak tomato is grown for its superstrong flavour as well as its generous size! For slicing and summer sandwiches, this variety produces large, meaty red fruit over a long season as it matures quite late compared with many other tomatoes, and will always provide a fresh harvest in the latter part of the season. Indeterminate ... Learn More

Compact plants produce beautiful, very meaty 8-12 ounce fruit with almost no juice and with a sweet, rich, dark, outstanding, assertive tomato flavour. When you cut it open, what a beautiful pink and green colour! Many tomato experts prefer this port wine coloured beefsteak, with metallic green stripes, to the tomato Cherokee Purple. (Cordon) ... Learn More

A regular-leaved, Russian beefsteak variety, producing attractive, deep reddish-brown fruit with darker shoulders, weighing between 4 and 8 oz. Strong-flavoured for such a large fruit! 'Aisberg', predictably, means 'Iceberg' in Russian. (Cordon) ... Learn More

This heavy cropping variety is everyone's favourite, producing seemingly endless bunches of smallish, ultra-sweet fruits, which resemble large, shiny, dark brown cherries and which have a very rich flavour. A current favourite in up-market shops, it is a very easy-to-grow gem. As long as you keep picking them, heavy hanging bunches of fruit are produced over a surprisingly long period from July right into late September (Cordon) ... Learn More

Whilst this deep reddish-brown Russian beefsteak variety is not as dark as some other "black" tomatoes, where it really scores is on taste which is really strong, rich and sweetly-sharp with a hint of smokiness. (Cordon) ... Learn More