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How to grow: Tomatoes

25th June 2020 Shannon Butcher Fruit & Veg Growing Guides

Tomatoes are a popular greenhouse crop can also be grown outside on the patio or plot or even in a hanging basket if you get the right variety. There are hundreds of tomato varieties ranging from the tiny cherry tomatoes to the huge beefsteak types and all sizes in between. Tomatoes are great value for money because most home-grown fruit…

British Tomato Fortnight to celebrate a bumper crop

21st May 2020 Steve Ott Diary Dates

2020 has seen a bumper crop of British tomatoes and an abundance of varieties are hitting supermarket shelves Celebrating the moment Britain’s tomatoes are at their best is British Tomato Fortnight, May 25th – June 7th, when the British Tomato Growers’ Association encourages people to buy British and enjoy the humble British tomato. At the moment, four out of five…

Merrygold’ Tomato

14th May 2020 Steve Ott News

First blight resistant orange tomato naming competition – the result! The Burpee Seeds Europe team ran a competition last month together with Mr Fothergill’s which gave readers of the Pumpkin Beth site an exciting opportunity to name their first-ever blight-resistant orange tomato. It was hard to choose a winner but after much deliberation, the name ‘Merrygold’ from Ann Page was…

Video: On the Plot – September

24th September 2019 Steve Ott Video

In this video, we go through jobs you can be doing this month, harvesting sweetcorn and do a tomato taste testing…with a twist! For more videos, visit the Kitchen Garden YouTube channel at the link below: www.youtube.com/kitchengardenmagazine…

Video: Potting Tomatoes

8th April 2019 Tony Flanagan Video

Tony explains how to go about potting tomatoes and shares his best tips and advice on the subject. For more videos, visit the Kitchen Garden YouTube channel at the link below:…

Mudketeers diary-Aug 16th 2018

16th August 2018 Steve Ott Recipes

Sungold sensation I love this time of year when my ‘Sungold’ tomatoes are ripening. I have just gone outside and harvested some of these sweet orange cherry tomatoes. They went into the pan already warmed by the sun. To this I added a bit of butter, crushed clove of garlic, a sprinkle of chilli seeds, a chopped mushroom and some…