What is the best tomato to grow in NZ?

30+ of the best tomato varieties to grow this summer

  • Moonglow.
  • Hurma Ukrainian.
  • Golden Eye.
  • Golden Green.
  • Roma.
  • Beefsteak.
  • Cream Sausage.
  • Olga.

Which tomato is tastiest?

Brandywine Tomato The Brandywine is perhaps most commonly named as the best-tasting tomato variety. It has the perfect balance of sugar and acidity, with that superb old-fashioned tomato taste.

What is the sweetest tomato variety?

Rosada tomatoes are of the baby plum variety and are by far the sweetest tomato variety you can grow. With a Brix rating of 10.5, they are absolutely delectable.

What is the most productive cherry tomato plant?

‘Sun Gold’: Considered by many to be the gold standard of cherry tomatoes for it’s sweet, sugary taste, ‘Sun Gold’ is an early ripening variety that continues to produce prolifically until frost. A single ‘Sun Gold’ plant can produce over 1000 tomatoes!

What is the easiest tomato plant to grow?

Cherry Tomatoes
Cherry Tomatoes are the easiest tomatoes for beginners to grow. They produce crop after crop and have very few problems!

What type of tomato produces the most?

Because of the manner in which they develop, indeterminate tomato plants can grow 10- to 15-foot vines and, depending on the local climate, produce fruit well into November. For these reasons, indeterminate varieties tend to be the most prolific producers of tomatoes.

What is the rarest tomato?

Rare tomato variety. Green Zebra Tomato Plant : Developed in 1985 by tomato breeder Tom Wagner, this heirloom is an unusual and exquisite tomato chosen by Alice Waters for her restaurant, Chez Panisse, in Berkeley, California. The 2-inch round fruit ripens to a yellow-gold with dark-green zebra-like stripes.

What is the healthiest tomato?

1) Heirloom Tomatoes: “Heirloom tomatoes are typically the healthiest, because they’re not genetically modified and tend to retain the highest level of antioxidants of all the tomato varieties,” Hunnes says.

How does Epsom salt help tomatoes?

Late in the season use an Epsom salt spray to increase tomato and pepper yield and keep plants green and bushy; early in the season add Epsom salt to the soil to aid germination, early root and cell development, photosynthesis, plant growth, and to prevent blossom-end rot.

What is the tastiest cherry tomato?

1. ‘Golden Sweet’: Touted as the sweetest and best-tasting yellow grape tomato, the indeterminate vines produce lots of glossy gold fruits that are crack-resistant, firm and meaty. 2. ‘Isis Candy’: This is a very pretty cherry tomato with golden fruits streaked with red.

What is a Tomaccio tomato?

The Tomaccio™ (toe-MAH-chee-oh) is a cherry tomato claimed to be derived from wild Peruvian tomato species after 12 years of research by Histil, an Israeli nursery. The plant is an early producer (60 to 80 days) and forms a tall indeterminate plant, so use an extra-large tomato cage.

What is the growing temperature of Tomaccio?

These extremely sweet fruits can be consumed fresh or dried. Tomaccio TM plant is a robust grower and sets fruit early. Growing temperature: 14-17ºC (56-62F) at night, 23-30ºC (73-86F) at day.

Can you eat Tomaccio tomatoes off the vine?

You can, of course, eat the very sweet fruits fresh off the vine, but the whole idea with Tomaccio™ tomatoes is that they are designed for drying, giving extra-sweet dried tomatoes you can eat like raisins.

How far apart do you plant Tomaccio plants?

If planting in the ground, space Tomaccio™ plants 18” apart for best growth. Tomaccio™ has a very vigorous growth habit and reaches 12-14’ in height. Due to its fast growth, Tomaccio™ requires trellising or staking as soon as the first flower occurs.