TASTE THE SEASONS FROM OUR EDIBLE GARDEN

The 2025 Tomato Gift Box is here.

A seasonal taste from our garden.

Perfect for tomato lovers, this box celebrates the 100+ heritage varieties we grow - wild and wonderful in every shape, colour, and personality. Some are best enjoyed fresh with flaky Irish sea salt and a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil; others shine when transformed into small-batch creations we’ve bottled and jarred to savour all year round.

Inside this gift box, you’ll find a selection of our tomato favourites:

• Bloody Mary Salt - our savoury tomato-and-spice seasoning; delicious on popcorn, sprinkled over eggs, finishing wilted greens or roasted vegetables, or rimming a Bloody Mary glass

• Golden or Wild Tomato Jam - a savoury-sweet, sticky jam that’s delicious with your morning eggs or in a grilled cheese toastie. We also love tossing it through Asian-style noodles for instant depth and brightness

• Bottled Heritage Tomatoes - tastes like summer in a bottle. Stir through pasta, toss with grains, or roast with meaty white fish or organic chicken and plenty of green olives

• Green Tomato Chutney - made from the late-2024 harvest and left to gently mature; perfect with cheeses, cold meats, or a Full Irish breakfast

• Illustrated sticker - a little keepsake featuring the tomato artwork from this gift box

Each gift box is presented in a beautiful black box, lined with illustrated paper and wrapped in a cornpaper sleeve that tells the Fat Tomato story.

If you’re sending this as a gift, we can include a handwritten note on a Fat Tomato postcard – just leave your message at checkout.

Grown and made naturally, rooted in biodiversity, and always for flavour, not yield.

One of the very first fruit trees planted in our garden was a Merryweather Damson - a variety once widely grown across Ireland and the UK. Some think of it as more plum than damson due to its generous size, but for us, it’s the flavour that matters: a true damson, with its distinctive astringent bite. The fruit has a blue-black skin with a powdery bloom, greenish-yellow flesh, is juicy and firm, has a clinging stone, and that unmistakable damson character.

Our Merryweather tree had its best year yet this season, yielding heavy crops and intense flavour. We preserved the fruit in every way we could - jams, cordials, syrups, even an umeboshi-style pickle - and discovered this cordial almost by chance.

The idea came when Anthony baked damsons in a local raw honey for breakfast, leaving behind a pool of golden, perfumed syrup. Mixed with lemon juice and sparkling water, it was an instant hit. That flavour combination became the inspiration for this cordial: damsons paired with raw honey and lifted with organic Verna lemons sourced through the CrowdFarming platform. CrowdFarming connects us directly with small-scale Mediterranean citrus farmers - many second- and third-generation growers committed to organic cultivation.

The result is a fragrant, deeply flavoured cordial with the tang of damson, the richness of raw Irish honey, and the brightness of lemon. Unlike syrups, cordials contain both citrus and a pinch of sea salt to heighten flavour and balance sweetness. Over time, this cordial may gently ferment, creating tiny natural bubbles. Simply shake the bottle before pouring.

Presented in a glass cork bottle, on its own or wrapped in illustrated paper that tells the Wexford and Irish food story, and elegantly packaged in our signature black box.

Solanum lycopersicum

Brad’s Atomic Grape is a striking indeterminate (vining) variety producing clusters of elongated, plum-sized tomatoes with distinctive pointed tips. The thick-skinned fruits ripen through an extraordinary range of colours, from olive green and purple to orange-red with dramatic brown-blue striping.

Beneath the bold exterior is a rich, sweet, deeply tomatoey flavour with great bite, making this variety as good in the kitchen as it is beautiful on the vine. Excellent for fresh eating, salads, roasting, and adding visual impact to summer dishes.

Average number of seeds: 14

Open-pollinated, chemical-free seeds. Grown and saved in Wexford, Ireland. We only grow and save seeds from plants that were started from certified organic seeds.

Each seed packet includes growing tips and cooking suggestions inside.

At Fat Tomato, we grow over 100 heritage tomato varieties each year, in every imaginable colour, size, and shape. Some are best eaten fresh with a pinch of flaky sea salt and a drizzle of good extra virgin olive oil, while others - with their rich, fleshy texture - are perfect for preserving.

After months of nurturing them from seed in February, tomato season is pure joy in our garden. We eat them night, noon, and morning, and always make sure to bottle the best-tasting ones for the year ahead.

This Golden Tomato Jam is made from a selection of our yellow and orange heritage varieties, chosen for their bright, fruity sweetness and naturally low acidity. The tomatoes are cooked slowly with Tara Hill blossom raw Irish honey, our own heritage apple cider vinegar, organic lemons, and gentle layers of spice - fresh organic ginger and turmeric, wild Alexander seeds, a touch of our chilli pepper flakes, and some Morado garlic for savoury depth.

The result is a sticky, aromatic jam that sits beautifully between sweet and savoury - golden in colour, bright in flavour, with a bit of warmth and just the right amount of tang.

Delicious with roast chicken, grilled halloumi, oily fish, or charred vegetables. Spread on sourdough with soft goat’s cheese, pair with cured meats, or stir into dressings, marinades, and noodle dishes for a golden kick.

Presented in a glass-bulb jar, available on its own or wrapped in illustrated paper that tells the Wexford and Irish food story, and elegantly packaged in our signature black box.