Top tomatoes for containers
Cultivar Size Fruit and uses Time to ripen‘Yellow Roma’ Naturally disease resistant. Smaller
growing than red-fruited Roma.Small-to-medium fleshy fruit with
few seeds. Perfect for sauces,
drying or bottling.75–80 days‘Silver Fir’ or ‘Silvery
Fir Tree’Small-growing plant to 60cm high
with attractive, finely divided leaves.Medium red fruit is rather tart so
best cooked.55–65 days‘Tatura Dwarf Globe’ Developed for the local canning and
sauce industries. Grows to about
80cm tall.Small-to-medium sized red fruits.
Good for salads, drying, sauces
and cooking.60–70 days‘Tiny Tim’ or ‘Tiny
Tom’Very small plant, reaching only
30cm high. Grow in hanging
basket or small pot. Happy in
cold to tropics.Small, red cherry tomatoes.
Perfect for salads.Ripens very early,
from 45–55 days‘Uluru Ochre’ An indeterminate plant to 1.2m tall.
Provide stake or support cage.Large beefsteak style yellow/
orange/green fruit with rich,
slightly smoky taste.Ripens early,
from 65–75 days‘Barossa Fest’ A larger plant, growing to 1.5m,
so needs a large pot and staking
or a cage.Small, sweet yellow fruits.90–100 days (so plant
early, needs long season)‘Rosella Purple’ A determinate plant to 1.2m tall. Plentiful, medium-to-large fruit
with a rich, sweet, yet tangy taste.Slow to ripen,
from 75–80 days‘Yellow Roma’ ‘Silver Fir’ ‘Uluru Ochre’‘Early Annie’ ‘Rosella Purple’Moreshorties:
Other smaller growing
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containersinclude:
‘Arcadia’ ‘BanksiaQueen’
‘BurnleyGem’ ‘Earlof
Edgecombe’ ‘EarlyAnnie’
‘GoldDust’ ‘LecaseDiApulia’
‘MammaMia’ ‘Olomovic’
‘Strobelle’ ‘Whippersnapper’PHOTOS: YELLOW ROMA & EARLY ANNIE: PENNY WOODWARD/ULURU OCHRE & SILVER FIR: KAREN SUTHERLAND/ROSELLA PURPLE: PATRINA NUSKE-SMALL.