Gigante Liscio (Maincrop Salad type)

Named ‘Giant Delicious’ by its creators, this big round tomato comes from a cross of ‘Ponderosa’ & ‘St Louis’ in the 1920’s , to create the ultimate salad tomato. Constantly popular, since then it has been continually reselected for good flavour, strong plants, and large red fruit. Sadly now it is getting harder to find and it is not always available.

We really like this one, as it is one of the best flavoured of the big-fruited tomatoes – it has a particularly good balance of sweetness and acid.

A good maincrop red tomato, on a medium-tall vine.