Hello and welcome back to my blog 🙂
Last weekend, I finally sowed the first fruit and vegetable seeds of 2025. This post shows you a run-through of that.
Tomatoes
I am growing three different varieties of tomatoes this year. Each will be trained in the usual way as cordons.
The varieties I am growing this year are:
‘Principe borghese’
This is a cherry tomato, similar to the ones I have grown in the last few years.
‘Costoluto di parma’
This is a large, salad tomato. It is described as: “[…] largish, meaty fruits, heavily scalloped with few seeds and excellent flavour.”
‘San marzano 2’
This is another type of smaller bell tomato. It is described as: “[…] meaty, dry tomatoes with thin skin and few seeds, traditionally renowned in Italy as one of the best paste/cooking tomatoes.”
This is exactly why I am growing this variety! I would like to try my hand at creating my own tomato sauce with these tomatoes. If I have more that I can store by jarring the tomato sauce, that would be ideal. I don’t have a huge space for growing though, so it will depend on the production of each plant!
Sweetcorn ‘zuccherino’
I have only grown sweetcorn once before, with moderate success, but I am giving it another go again this year! The seed packet states that these cobs should be picked before they are fully ripe.
Cucumber ‘sensation’
This is another new experiment for me, as I always assumed I would need a greenhouse for growing cucumbers, but apparently not for these. I plan on mainly harvesting these as baby cucumbers, as we regularly eat baby cucumbers, but they go off so quickly after purchase.
That’s all for today. I have other vegetable seeds to sow this year and my supports for the fruit cage arrived yesterday. Once the fruit supports have been installed, I will be able to start planting out in The Fruit Garden! Stay tuned for those updates 🙂
The Charming Nook 
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