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Advantages: Easy to grow, tasty and heavy cropping
Disadvantages: Prone to diseases, Requires heavy watering

Tomatoes are one of the easiest of the vegetables to grow at home fom seed and they are most certainly one of my favourites. In our country, they are grown as annuals, and if grown in the tropics, then they are grown as short lived perennials. Indeterminate types of tomatoes (mid-size, non bushy) has a very long trailing main stem, which may grow to as long as 8 feet and has vigorous side shoots. The shorter (semi-determinate) and bush (determinate) ... Read review

Advantages: Flavour of home grown tomatoes is out of this world
Disadvantages: Need daily attention & someone to look after holiday times

...Dad always grew his own tomatoes in his greenhouse, tending them with loving care. He showed me how to nip out the side shoots so that the plants did not grow straggly. I loved the smell in the greenhouse, and picking the ripe red fruit. He used to favour a variety which is still available today, and that was 'Moneymaker'. I try to grow Tomatoes every year now that I have my own little greenhouse, even though looking after them is quite time consuming ... Read review

Advantages: Sturdy plants which need no staking. Heavy croppers, good flavour and reasonably disease-resistant.
Disadvantages: Big plants!

...out of places to put tomatoes and things to do with them. Visitors to the house depart with a carrier bag full of tomatoes and frankly, people have stopped coming, or if they have to come they try and make arrangements to come when the tomatoes will not be multiplying themselves quite so rapidly. Double glazing salesmen give the house a miss, and no one has offered to tarmac the drive for weeks. I suppose I’d better explain how it happened, hadn’t ... Read review

Advantages: From plant to plate, you can't get fresher!
Disadvantages: Be prepared for a little work, but it's worth it.

...my part of the world, tomatoes grown outdoors are a gamble, a bit of fun, and if the weather gets ‘em, too bad, try again next year! If you have a greenhouse, or at a push, a conservatory, you have the option of a wide range of indoor varieties. And don’t be afraid to combine the two. I often grow outdoor varieties in my polytunnel, with good results. And with smaller, bush varieties you can move them out during the best of the summer, but bring them ... Read review

Advantages: Full of Vitamin C, Low In Calories.
Disadvantages: Tend To Attract Greenfly And Blackfly

...over 10,000 different varieties of Tomatoes which range in size from tiny marble sized "Cherry" varieties to giant "Beefeater" varieties. Their colour can range from yellow to purple but most of us will think of a tomato as being , bright orange-red in colour and round in shape. Some Facts - Tomatoes have the botanical name "'lycopersicon lycopersicum" which literally means wolf-peach. They are related to Aubergines, Red and Green Peppers, Ground ... Read review

Advantages: Delicious, high in nutrion, low calories, very versatile
Disadvantages: Not good for those with kindey disorders due to calcium

Tomatoes have always been thought of as a vegetable by most people, including the category managers of Ciao and Dooyoo. The tomato is technically a berry and therefore a fruit. Tomatoes are also delicious and healthy. They contain reasonably high levels of Vitamin A and C, aswell as Vit E when eaten raw. They also contain potassium and calcium, which are good for lowering blood pressure and important for health bones and teeth, respectively. They ... Read review

Advantages: The great taste.
Disadvantages: Plants need some attention.

...Summer season you can buy tomatoes extremely cheaply so why grow your own? Well the simple answer is for the taste! When you pick your own tomatoes from the garden, bring them inside, wash them and bite into them you will know straight away why you are growing these plants. The tomatoes are so full of taste compared to the mass produced tasteless red spheres that you get from the local supermarket. Each year (during May) I buy three or four ... Read review

Advantages: delicious organic tomatoes picked fresh from the garden
Disadvantages: plants are a bit smelly

...great crop of delicious tasting tomatoes and a new hobby for me – vegetable gardening. The variety he gave me and in fact still does is Gardener’s Delight. These are small cherry like tomatoes with an excellent flavour. I have since tried several other varieties but none has matched Gardeners’s Delight for yield and flavour. I tried a cherry plum tomato last year hoping it would be like M& S Santolini but all I got was a couple ... Read review

Advantages: Good for you and they're (apparently) easy to grow in your own backyard...
Disadvantages: Hmmm....I can't get them to grow in my own backyard?

...basil leaves. Mmmm. Delicious. Cherry tomatoes I could eat like they were sweeties, and invariably do! This week, in our fortnightly veg bag (we do an organic veg box scheme with a local farm) we got a little box filled with tiny, juicy, cherry tomatoes which are so sweet and full of flavour that you really can pop them in like sweets and feel the juicy sweetness explode. Not even Willy Winka could create a better taste sensation! Tomatoes have ... Read review

Advantages: Easy to grow
Disadvantages: Nothing if looked after

...a few good types of tomatoes which will bring you a good yield. I find that the Money-maker and the Histon Early, but there are other types too. The Amateur can be grown in a greenhouse, along with the Early Market and the Harbinger. Any are good but the money-maker will give you a good crop. Seeds are usually sown about an inch apart in something like John Innes compost and can then be transferred to the pots, beds or outdoor boxes when taller. ... Read review

Advantages: cheap seed , reliable
Disadvantages: none

I would like to say that the old tried and tested variety Moneymaker is tops in my book . I have over the last twenty years trialed and tested all sorts of different tomato varieties ranging from the highly rated Shirley an F1 hybrid to the likes of Moneymaker and Outdoor Girl. I like Shirley it's a reliable , tolerant variety but I have found that Moneymaker whose seeds are less than a price of them of Shirley due to the fact that they are not ... Read review

Advantages: beautiful shirley tomatoes no blossem end rot or dieback.
Disadvantages: expensive but you can save your own seed this is how

I have grown tomatoes for many years, both indoor & outdoor, the best tomatoe that seem to be the most resilient to greenhouse disease i have found is SHIRLY a beautiful perfectly formed round tomatoe,rich red in colour,and the taste superb...when i was young (some time ago)I used to look forward to the time when jersey tomatoes where in season (late spring in england)there taste was very sharp,you would bite into them with a sharp intake of breath,you ... Read review