Garden Organic's Heritage Tomato Collection

Exclusive offer – these plants are only available from Delfland Nurseries.

Garden Organic's Heritage Seed Library aims to conserve and make available vegetable varieties that are not widely available. The Heritage Seed Library maintains a rare collection of mainly European vegetable varieties. Over the decades many varieties have been dropped from popular seed catalogues. Garden Organic's heritage collection contains many of these, as well as some landraces and a large number of family heirloom varieties that have never been in a catalogue.

We have put together a special collection of tomatoes from the Heritage Seed Library for growing both in a greenhouse and outside. The plants will be grown and packed by Delfland Nurseries for Garden Organic.

£2.23 from every pack sold will go towards supporting Garden Organic's work.

Delivery for this collection will be ~ April and early May, next batch should be ready on 11th April.

TOTAL 6 ORGANIC PLANTS

1 plant of the following varieties:

• Tomato "Jubilee"
• Tomato "Darby Pink-Yellow"
• Tomato "Noir"
• Tomato "Pink Cherry"
• Tomato "Small Pear Shaped"
• Tomato "Wladeck's"
• + Free postage

More information available on these varieties towards the bottom of the page.

Types of tomato

The way tomato varieties grow can be divided into three groups: "determinate", "indeterminate", or "semi-determinate".

Determinate are short and bushy (they are also known as bush varieties). They are about three feet (90 cm) tall and usually don't require support. Determinates provide lots of ripe tomatoes at once. They do not require 'stopping'. None of the varieties we sell is determinate.

Indeterminates (also known as cordon varieties) provide a continuous harvest from about mid-June (cherries) or early July (others) until first frost. This type produces side-shoots, which must be removed, and needs to be 'stopped' (have the growing point pinched out) in the first week of September for cherry tomatoes or early August for other varieties. In a commercial greenhouse, each tomato plant produces over 30 trusses and grows for up to 50 weeks (including propagation). The stems grow up to 15m long.

Semi-determinates Semi-determinates are in between and do not need side-shooting or stopping.