Tommy Toes – Arguably known as Australia's favourite tomato, Tommy Toes have apricot sized, excellent tasting bright red fruit. It's a tall grower that must be staked and is best grown in a well-drained veggie patch in full sun, and can be ready in as little as ten weeks after seeding.
RAF is supposed to be the most expensive tomato in the world. RAF means resistance to fusarium. These are an heirloom tomato that was developed back in 1961.
Perino. Packed full of flavour and naturally sweeter than other tomatoes with a firm texture. As the sweetest tomato, they are perfect for snacking and kids' lunch boxes.
Candyland Cherry Tomato produces loads of tiny, tasty treats, perfect for popping in your mouth straight from the vine. A currant-type tomato, the fruit is smaller than a typical cherry tomato, but the super-sweet flavor makes a big impression, especially for people who think they don't like tomatoes.
Red Beefsteak Tomatoes
The king of tomatoes, THE salsa tomato. Red Beefsteak tomatoes are large and meaty with lots of juice, making them ideal to use as a base for fresh sauces and dips.
Global Tomatoes Consumption
With nearly X thousand tons, China became the world's leading tomato consuming country, mixed up X% of global consumption.
Photo found on Flickr, courtesy of observing life. Beefsteak tomatoes are some of the largest and meatiest tomatoes.
Baking soda does not make your tomato sweeter, but it does prevent blight. Spraying a baking soda solution on your plants. will make the surface more alkaline, killing and preventing the spread of any further blight. It also keeps those pesky freeloaders. from eating your crops.
Reggae Roma
This Roma type is well known for being the highest yielding variety, growing tall and producing sweet, thick-skinned tomatoes. Due to their thick skin, these heavy tomatoes are well suited for drying and saucing.
'Sun Sugar': The tangerine-orange fruits of 'Sun Sugar' are some of the sweetest, tartest, and best tasting around. The disease-resistant, indeterminate vines will stand up to fusarium wilt and tobacco mosaic virus, and they produce long trusses of crack-resistant fruits.
If you want a genuinely Italian flavor experience, you'll want to use San Marzano tomatoes when making your pizza sauce. The mild acidity and sweet flavor of these tomatoes are what make them so popular and prized.
The large pink tomatoes offer up what most of us think of as the sweetest tomato flavor — a balance of acid and sweetness., but favoring the sweeter side.
Chocolate Cherry Tomatoes are a notably tasty, crack-resistant, but cold-sensitive variety. With proper care, you will see a bumper harvest that can be enjoyed in plenty of ways or stored for future use.
One of the best tomato varieties that you can grow in Australia is the Grosse Lisse. This variety produces nice large fruit that is ideal for salads and sandwiches. Tommy Toe tomatoes are also a good choice as they crop prolifically right throughout the season.
Plum tomatoes
These elegant, elongated tomatoes are the variety of choice for cooking and sauce making. They have a robust tomato flavour, deep red colour and thin skin that in easy to remove. They're also much softer than round tomatoes, which can make them tricky for slicing or using in sandwiches.
''U.S. No. 1'' consists of tomatoes which meet the following requirements: (a) Basic requirements: (1) Similar varietal characteristics; Page 3 2 (2) Mature; (3) Not overripe or soft; (4) Clean; (5) Well developed; (6) Fairly well formed; and, (7) Fairly smooth.
Black Beauty tomatoes are indeterminate heirloom tomatoes, meaning they continue producing fruits until the arrival of colder climates in the fall. What is this? The Black Beauty is an abundant beefsteak variety and the world's darkest tomato with their trademark black (deep purple) flesh.
Cherry tomatoes not only look adorable on top of your lunch salad, but they are also easy to grow. Known for being hardy, if kept watered, you should have cherry tomatoes within 50 to 60 days of planting. Popular cherry tomatoes to plant are Sun Gold, Edox, and Sungreen.