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It’s British Tomato Fortnight!

30th May 2023 Alex Bestwick News

British Tomato Fortnight marks the height of tomato season with a two-week celebration of everything toms! Running from May 29 to June 11 this year, British Tomato Fortnight is an annual celebration of our delicious British tomatoes. In Britain, we eat around 500,000 tonnes of tomatoes every year. Around one fifth of those are British tomatoes. British tomatoes are great…

Grow your own: Tomatoes

3rd March 2023 Web Editor Fruit & Veg Growing Guides

With so many varieties and the versatility to grow in greenhouses, outside, or even in hanging baskets, when you grow your own tomatoes, there’s a world of possibilities. 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…

Join the national tomato grow-along

26th February 2021 Shannon Butcher Features

The Tomato Club national grow along starts on 6th March 2021. Tomato fever is set to take the UK by storm this spring, no it’s not another emerging virus, there’s a brand new virtual gardening community launching that aims to get more people growing their own tasty toms together. After being confined to our homes from spring 2020 many people…

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…

Podcast 37: Trouble-free tomatoes

17th July 2018 Rachel Atkins Podcast

The Kitchen Garden Magazine Podcast – packed full of hints, tips and advice from the team. From cracked or slow-ripening fruits to no fruits at all, blight-battered foliage or an outbreak of whitefly – a lot can go awry with your tomatoes. But forewarned is forearmed, says Benedict Vanheems. Understand the threats and take action now to ensure trouble-free toms.…

Mudketeers diary -April 25th 2018

25th April 2018 Steve Ott Blog

Tomatoes on the move The young ‘Sungold’ tomato seedlings are being split up and planted into individual 9cm pots filled with multi-purpose compost. I am keeping them in the greenhouse (unheated). It is a bit risky if we suddenly have some very cold temperatures but I think they will be okay. If we do get frosts I will have to…

Podcast 31: Top tomatoes

1st February 2018 Steve Ott Podcast

The Kitchen Garden Magazine Podcast – packed full of hints, tips and advice from the team. I always remember my granddad growing tomatoes in his old greenhouse when I was a child. The thought reminds me of summer with hours spent in the warm sun, picking the ripe fruit, and it brings a huge smile to my face even now.…

TOMATOES BLACK AND BLUE

31st July 2017 Steve Ott News

Highly exotic salads await visitors to the Eden Project this summer thanks to a new growing programme led by a former apprentice turned super food grower. Black, blue and orange tomatoes, cucamelons, tomatillos (also sometimes known as the Mexican husk tomato) and inca berries are among the strange and wonderful produce nurtured by 21-year-old Jake Hawke, now ready for the…

BBQ’D SWEET CHERRY

16th June 2017 Steve Ott Recipes

Nothing beats a home-grown tomato, right? Celebrate your harvest with these lovely BBQ’d cherry tomato skewers served on sour dough bread. MAKES 10-12 SKEWERS Preparation time: 10 minutes | Cooking time: 10 minutes • 400g/1lb of cherry tomatoes • 3 tbsp olive oil • 1 tsp Worcestershire sauce or dark soya sauce • 2 cloves of garlic, minced • Sea…

KG+Trouble-free tomatoes

20th February 2017 Steve Ott Features

Bonus material – Extra to your Kitchen Garden Magazine! To see the original features with even more information buy Kitchen Garden magazine today. Click on the Subscription box below to buy a specific month or subscribe so you never miss an issue. The trusty tomato is undoubtedly Britain’s home-grown crop. But pitfalls to success are never far away. Be aware…