Join a tomato trial EUROPE 2026

[Justin]

Hi everyone,

I’m very busy right now so I will try to update this later, but I am making a new tomato breeding trial this year, it’s a collaborative breeding trial. See my post from last year for a rough idea of what this is about:

Join a tomato trial EUROPE

Hi everyone! Would anyone be interested to join a tomato trial? Sorry for asking so late but there’s still time to plant seeds The main projects are: F2 grow out for Late Blight (hereafter ‘LB’), decent sized domestic tomatoes using the highest form of LB resistance from commercial tomatoes. Selection for highest LB resistance, dwarf trait, and good flavour. The flavour should be a good improvement over the commercial tomatoes. ⁠Small tomatoes all edible but ranging from 2…

Reply to this topic here if you are interested to join the trial this year. Seeds will mostly be from the work done last year.

Thanks!

[Patate]

I’m not in Europe and won’t be participating but I wanted to say thank you for doing this!

[malterod]

I would like to join. I will be growing tomatoes in open field. Thank you for organizing this Justin.

• Location: Denmark
• Categories: I’m primarily interested in promiscuous pollination or at least cross-pollination ability in tomatoes. I want tomatoes that can adapt and don’t want to rely on hand-pollination.
• Space: 400 plants
• LB pressure: Some or decent amount - I’ve only been at the site one season and they got hit late summer last year. Drought-prone and poor soil. I might fertilize with horse manure this year to not be as extreme.

[Christopher]

I would like to join. My interest is very similar to Maltes. Promiscuous pollination would be great but an increased tendency for cross-pollination is good enough.

Location : Southern Sweden.

Space: Open field, 50-100 plants. Depending on time.

LB usually appears early august. Good soil, no fertilizer except mulching with meadow grass, scythe cut, so long life mulch, compared to mower cut grass.

Long term I would like to combine an increased cross pollination land race with some of the healthiest tomato varieties. Are your tomato breeds related to Lofthouses or are they totaly unrelated?

[Christopher]

I’m wondering about the tomato trial. Will it take place? It’s good to start sowing the tomato seeds no later than 1st of april, at least were I live.

[Evelyne (Evelyne Antinoro)]

I would like to join.

Location north Italy

I will plant about 60 plants in greenhouse and polytunnel and 60 plants in open field.

Here late blight is not a big problem but early blight is a big big problem. Therefore I plant some tomatoes under cover.

I have seeds from cherry, salsa and salad tomatoes from 2023, 2024 and 2025. I did select for great taste and blight survival.

This year I will plant some wild tomato seeds, some crosses from a friend, 4 different San Marzano salsa tomatoes and my seeds. I have some tomatoes da serbo (for long storage) too. The taste is not really great, but I am happy to eat my own tomatoes in February so I will plant them too.

Soil is improving nicely with mulch, my own compost, EM, jadam, basalt, etc.

I’m not really babysitting the plants but I want really improve the soil. 5 years ago it was pure sand.