Several varieties of strongly growing plants taken from side shoots rooted in water:
- Sungold
- Black Beauty
- Amir Tiger
- (maybe) Gardener's Delight
Variety "Sungold" is my absolute favourite - produces orange/yellow cherry tomato fruits freely and is really really sweet. Always very reliable for me outside (no greenhouse or polytunnel) and never fails to give me a good crop.
Black Beauty is a larger "heritage" tomato which the internet says goes really black. (Some "black" varieties are really just a muddy purplish brown, but I have high hopes for this one - never grown it before.) You can see it starting to colour up in the photo, but mine are not ripe yet, so it should go a better colour than that.
Amir Tiger is a stripy variety. No photo.
Gardener's Delight is a very well known typical red-fruited cherry tomatoe with a pretty good flavour and easy to grow.
These are from side shoots from established plants, which I rooted in water about a month ago and potted up once the made roots - and since they've established in their pots.
More plants available than those in the photo, so don't be shy, but not necessarily enough of each variety to satisfy everybody, so if you have a particular interest tell me and I'll try to satisfy everybody.
It's said that cuttings fruit much quicker than plants from seeds - about the same time as their parent plant - so these should be absolutely fine [it is too late to start from seed, so don't bother]. Some of them already have flowers. They should grow away fast if you keep them in a sunny place, water and pot them into bigger pots as they grow.
Tomatoes are not really troubled by any pests (slugs, squirrels, birds, aphids). They love a nice hot summer like we seem to have this year.
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