Best tomatoes to grow
Growing your own tomatoes is simple, just a few plants will provide you with plenty of delicious tomatoes. You can try tomatoes in all sizes, from the smallest cherry tomatoes that are loved by children to wholesome beefsteak tomatoes.
Tomato varieties
Best tomatoes to grow – “Cherry” small-berry tomato
A strongly growing and propagating variety, flaccid, medium-early, fertile, resistant to late blight. It is perfect for amateur cultivation, it can be used as an ornamental plant on balconies and terraces.
The fruits are small, spherical, hard, red in color, of high nutritional value, gathered in a cluster of 30 to 40. Fruit harvest August to September, they keep well after harvest.
The bead is perfect for soil cultivation. We sow in March in a germinator, we transfer to the ground from mid-May, cultivation at a distance of 40 to 60 cm.
Best tomatoes to grow – Ground tomato “Oxheart”
Attractive variety for amateur cultivation, tall plant, growing up to 2 m, limpid. The fruit is large (200 to 600 g), heart-shaped, fleshy, with a pink-red flesh, sweet and tasty. Harvest from August to October.
You can prepare the seedlings in the germinator from mid-March, planting into the ground in the second half of May, spacing 50 cm in rows and about 70 to 80 cm between rows. Requires staking, cutting and leading into 2-3 shoots.
Best tomatoes to grow – Ground tomato “Alicante”
Stiff-stemmed, ending variety. The fruit is large, spherical, without a heel, fleshy and tasty, suitable for direct consumption or processing.
Field cultivation, sowing in a germinator at the turn of March and April, planting into the ground from mid-May to mid-June, spacing 40 to 60 cm between rows and 30 to 40 in rows
Best tomatoes to grow – “Roma” plum tomato
Delicious, vigorous and abundantly fertile tomato with fewer seeds than other tomatoes.
The fruit ripens at the same time, and the harder peel and thick flesh make them perfect for soups, sauces and pasta dishes.