Primabella

We’ve been trialling a range of tomatoes outdoors, to find out which will produce well and withstand the inevitable late blight which is the main barrier to outdoors tomato growing in the UK climate. 

We’re always sceptical about blight resistance, before now we’ve not found any supposedly resistant varieties that we’ve felt worth recommending. Primabella though has done extremely well for us, with the plants still growing through into November, even if a bit battered by gales and rain. 

Photo below taken outdoors on our Pembrokeshire field November 16th, still ripening a last few fruit. We find the flavour excellent, they are quite fleshy for a cherry tomato and as a result are also very resistant to splitting even in wet weather.

Be sure to keep pinching out the sideshoots on this one, as it is very vigorous.