Pennard Plants – address – The Walled Gardens, East Pennard, Somerset…I can just hear the sounds and scents of summer whilst cloistered behind those walls. I am sure the romance is all in my head – and like any garden or nursery, a peek will reveal lots of hard work, the kind which makes bees glad just to have bumbling to be getting along with…
One thing for sure, there must be lots of tomatoes – the A-Z catalogue lists at my count – 69. Somewhere around the Cs I found my mouth starting to water – I think I must be suffering from a tad of the TADs ( Tomato Affective Disorder).
Postage for seeds is free – or on the website is a list of events they’ll be attending through the year – as well as dates when the nursery itself is open – for vegetables, this year’s dates are 22/23rd April.
The Tomato Roll-Call:
- Alaskan Fancy/ Amateur/ Black Cherry/ Black from Tula/ Black Krim/ Black Prince/ Black Russian/ Black Seaman/ Brandy Wine -Black , Red or Yellow/Britain’s Breakfast
- Chadwick Cherry/ Cherokee Purple/ Christmas Grape/ Coeur-de-Boeuf/ Cosmonaut Volkov/ Cream Sausage/ Currant, Goldrush/ Currant, Mexican Midget/ Currant, Sweet Pea.
- Father Frost/ First in the Field/ Gardeners Delight/ German Orange Strawberry/ Golden Grape/ Green Grape/ Green Sausage/ Green Zebra/ Greenwich/Hillbilly Tom/Ildi/ Japanese Black Triefele/ Koralik
- Marglobe/ Marmande/ Mereville des Marches/ Mortgage Lifter/ Old Brooks/ Orange Banana/ Outdoor Girl/ Pineapple/ Pink Accordian/ Pink Oxheart/ Prize of the Trials/ Purple Russian
- Red Fig/ Red Zebra/ Reise-Riesetomate/ Roman Candle/ Ruth’s Perfect/ San Marzano/ Siletz/ Silvery Fir Tree/ Southern Nights/ St. Pierre/ Stonor’s Exhibition/ Striped Roman/ Sub Artic Plenty/ Tigerella/ Tiny Tim/ Tommy Toe/ Tumbling Garden Pearl
- Wasipinicon Peach/ White Wonder/ Yellow Pear “Beams”/ Yellow Perfection Cherry/ Zapotec Pleated
There are lots of lovely sounding tomatoes – and although I’d come across the concept of currant tomatoes (described as being half the size of a cherry tomato) I hadn’t heard them described as “teaspoon” tomatoes before – which somehow makes them into even more of a must-try.
