Grow your own bumper crops of classic beefsteak tomatoes with 'Marmande’! Its richly flavoured fruits makes a delicious salad tomato – better that anything you will find in the supermarket. Tomato ‘Marmande’ boasts big, gently ribbed, deep red fruits with almost seedless flesh, so it is excellent in cooked dishes. 'Marmande’ is a late cropping cordon variety but its fruits are well worth waiting for. Provide plenty of support for the heavy tomatoes of this RHS Award of Garden Merit winning variety. Pot up and grow tomato plants on in warm frost-free conditions until large enough to plant outdoors. When all risk of frost has passed, gradually acclimatise them to outdoor conditions over a period of 7 to 10 days. Choose a sheltered position in full sun on fertile, reliably moist, well-drained soil, and transplant at a distance of 60cm (24") apart. Alternatively grow tomatoes in patio bags and containers in good quality compost such as John Innes No. 2. Drive a (5&