The Gardener Magazine

Tomato UPDATE

Most compact varieties are available as patio vegetables or as seed ordered online from https://gropak.co.za, while seed packet varieties of traditional garden and heirloom tomatoes are available from Kirchhoffs, RAW, Garden Master, MayFord, Starke Ayres and Livingseeds.

When heirloom tomatoes came into fashion, adding flavour, variety and colour, they made growing tomatoes a lot more fun. Now there is a new generation of tomatoes that are as tasty as the heirlooms but easier to grow successfully. They are more disease resistant and very productive, and the variety is huge.

In the category of cherry tomatoes alone there is a rainbow

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