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Fat Tomato is a tiny hillside edible garden in North Wexford, home to over 500 organic heritage seeds and plants. Driven by curiosity, biodiversity and flavour.

Fat Tomato is Anthony O’Toole’s horticulture project, where the seasons are celebrated through both old and new Irish flavours. It is more than just an edible garden—it’s a living pantry, a shop, and, later, a new place for sharing and community. Driven by curiosity, biodiversity, and flavour, the garden is home to over 500 varieties of organic heritage seeds and plants, along with a few feathered

friends and an abundance of wildlife. Here, the focus is on diversity—not just in appearance, but in taste. Imagine a garden filled with heirloom figs, tomatoes, herbs, apples, chillies, pears, squashes, currants, and more—each variety offering something unique and exciting to discover.

07/06/2026

A memorable gift should feel personal. Thoughtful. Unexpected.

At Fat Tomato, our gift boxes bring together memorable flavours from our biodiverse edible garden in North Wexford — preserves, cordials, salts, ferments, teas, seasonal creations, and one-of-a-kind products you will not find elsewhere.

Everything is grown, sourced, and made with care.

No mass production. No chemicals. No filler. Just carefully chosen ingredients, slow processes, and lots of attention to detail.

Perfect for food lovers, friends, family, cooks, hosts, clients, thank you gifts, or people who are simply difficult to buy for.

Each spoonful, drop, or pinch is designed to bring flavour, conversation, and a little sense of discovery.

28/05/2026

Some lovely news to share 🌿

Fat Tomato has been shortlisted for the 2026 Evokedotie Wellness Awards in two categories:

🌱 Sustainable Wellness Brand
🍵 Best Wellness Drink

The awards celebrate excellence in wellness, healing, and human potential, recognising the individuals, brands, and organisations that help people live healthier, more connected lives through areas such as nutrition, mental well-being, mindfulness, movement, and sustainable living.

While Fat Tomato may not be a traditional wellness brand, we've always believed that wellness begins long before food reaches the kitchen. It starts with organic seeds, healthy soil, biodiversity, seasonality, and a deeper connection to nature.

From our edible garden in North Wexford, we grow over 500 varieties of fruits, vegetables, herbs, flowers, and heritage crops using organic principles, transforming the harvest into small-batch products that celebrate flavour, nutrition, biodiversity, and the rhythms of the seasons.

We're especially delighted to see Gardener's Tea shortlisted in the Best Wellness Drink category. Inspired by those quiet moments when the tools are down and the boots are off, it's a little taste of the garden in a cup.

A huge thank you to everyone who has supported Fat Tomato so far. 🫶🫶

26/05/2026

500 varieties. One garden. Endless flavour. 🌱

People are often surprised when they visit Fat Tomato and discover just how much is growing here, in such a small space on a hillside in North Wexford.

Our edible garden is home to over 500 varieties of heritage, open-pollinated seeds and plants, carefully selected for flavour, diversity, resilience, and curiosity rather than uniformity or commercial yield.

From rare tomatoes, pumpkins, beans, tomatillos, potatoes, and chillies to forgotten perennial vegetables, unusual herbs, edible flowers, fruits, and grains, every season is an opportunity to grow something new, preserve something old, and learn something along the way.

Many of these varieties are difficult to find elsewhere and carry generations of history, stories, and culinary traditions with them.

Growing such diversity doesn't just create more interesting food. It helps support biodiversity, strengthen resilience in the garden, and keep older varieties alive for future generations.

It's a lot of work, but we wouldn't have it any other way.

What we grow shapes everything we do, from the seeds we save to the preserves, ferments, drinks, and pantry creations that leave the garden throughout the year.

23/05/2026

Tomato season is finally starting to properly arrive at the Edible Garden Honesty Shop 🍅🌿

After a very dull and cold spring, nighttime temperatures are finally staying above 10°C, which makes a huge difference for tomatoes and other heat-loving plants.

We’ve now added more potted tomato plants to the shelves, including a mix of heritage varieties, compact bush tomatoes, dwarf types for pots and windowsills, and taller vining varieties for greenhouses and sunny sheltered spots.

All of our tomato plants are grown from heritage open-pollinated seeds — no hybrids F1 plants. They are grown slowly in peat-free organic compost, without forcing, and adapted as naturally as possible to Irish growing conditions.

As always, everything we grow is selected for flavour rather than uniformity, with lots of interesting colours, shapes, textures, and old varieties you won’t normally find in garden centres.

We’ll continue adding more plants over the coming weeks as they are ready, along with cucumbers, chillies, herbs, squash, and other summer crops 🌱

If you’re looking for something particular, just send us a message — we have lots of delicious things growing in pots around the garden that haven’t made it onto the shelves yet.

Open daily 10am to 8pm Y21 RD60

22/05/2026

Why we don’t grow F1 plants in our garden 🍅🌿

At Fat Tomato, we grow exclusively heritage open-pollinated organic varieties rather than modern F1 hybrids.

Not because hybrids are bad — many are bred for consistency, shelf life, transport, heavy yields and commercial production — but we are looking for something very different.

We grow for flavour and nutrition first.

That means old varieties with longer growing times, strange shapes, unusual colours, softer skins, shorter shelf life, richer textures, and flavours that often do not fit neatly into modern commercial systems.

Open-pollinated varieties also allow seeds to be saved year after year, helping preserve biodiversity and older food cultures that would otherwise quietly disappear.

Many of these varieties have adapted slowly over generations to different climates, soils, growers, and seasons. Many are disease-resistant, too, because of this.

They carry stories with them.

We also grow our plants slowly, without forcing, in peat-free organic compost, allowing them to adapt naturally to Irish conditions rather than racing them forward under intensive heat, watering and feeding.

The result is rarely perfect uniformity. It also requires a lot more time in the garden looking after them. Working with pests by using companion planting,
air flow, and seasonal crop rotations.

The point of Fat Tomato is to produce flavour, nutrition, resilience, curiosity, and growing food with character.

Every day is a new day here, as we constantly learn and work with whatever the weather throws at us.

18/05/2026

Damson Umami Sauce has arrived, and our waiting list subscribers got first dibs 🍂

One of the most complex things we’ve made at Fat Tomato so far. Rich, savoury, sweet, sharp, fermented, and deeply layered.

Inspired by traditional hoisin, this highly concentrated sauce begins with Merryweather damsons that we turn into umeboshi, a traditional Japanese-style condiment in which fruit is slowly aged with salt, developing incredible depth, salinity, and intensity.

From there, we build layers slowly.

Fermented garlic from our garden. Organic gingerroot. Toasted sesame. Organic star anise, cinnamon, fennel seed, black pepper, and our own garden-grown Sichuan peppercorns. Tara Hill raw blossom honey and Highbank Orchards organic apple treacle for orchard sweetness. Organic barley miso, Wild Irish Seaweed kombu & dillisk seaweed, and Wexford Sea Salt for deep natural umami and a subtle coastal edge.

Everything is slow-cooked until glossy, velvety, and spoonable.

The result is a damson-forward sauce with real depth, savoury-sweet, gently spiced, and designed to bring balance and richness to cooking.

A little goes a long way.

Use it with roast pork, duck, mushrooms, aubergines, noodles, bao buns, sticky BBQ skewers, sharp cheddar toasties, or brushed onto roasted vegetables towards the end of cooking. It also makes an incredible base for dressings and dipping sauces when loosened with citrus, water, or stock.

Available now through our online shop.

11/05/2026

Pumpkin and squash sowing has officially begun at Fat Tomato. 🎃🌱

One of the real turning points in the growing season. Trays are starting to fill with pumpkins, squash and gourds — each seed carrying the promise of autumn abundance, tangled vines, oversized leaves, strange shapes, and storage shelves full of colour for the winter months ahead.

We grow a wide mix every season, from deeply ribbed Italian squash and giant pumpkins to tiny ornamental gourds and old heritage varieties chosen for flavour rather than yield.

We start sowing them now and plant out in June, once the nights warm up a little more. After that, they move fast — hungry feeders that need plenty of water, homemade compost, and regular seaweed feed to really thrive.

We have lots of pumpkin and squash seeds available online and in the honesty shop at the moment, with potted plants arriving in June.

09/05/2026

A forgotten kitchen garden classic making a quiet return 🌿

Once commonly found in Irish cottage gardens, Good King Henry, also known as Lincolnshire spinach, is a traditional perennial vegetable that has slowly faded from everyday growing.

Now, more gardeners and cooks are rediscovering it for what it is: a deeply useful, nutrient-rich edible plant with real flavour, history and character.

In spring, it sends up tender shoots and spinach-like leaves, followed by small flower buds often referred to as “poor man’s asparagus.” The flavour is earthy, rich and savoury, beautiful simply wilted in butter or extra virgin olive oil.

Unlike fast-growing annual greens, Good King Henry asks for a little patience. It can be slow to establish but once settled, it returns year after year, becoming part of the rhythm of the garden.

This is the kind of plant we love at Fat Tomato. One connected to older ways of growing and cooking. A reminder that some of the most interesting flavours are the ones we nearly lost.

Good King Henry seeds are now available online and at the honesty shop. We’ll also have a small number of potted plants appearing on the plant shelves at the shop soon for those wanting a head start.

03/05/2026

You asked, we listened.

A few of you got in touch asking if you could secure your Christmas pudding early this year — so we’ve opened a small number of pre-orders for our Damson Whiskey Pudding for Christmas 2026.

One very special pudding. One very delicious Christmas.

This is a mature Christmas pudding — a process that began back in early 2025, when we first steeped our Merryweather damsons in Tara Hill raw blossom honey and Boann Distillery Single Pot Still PX Cask Irish Whiskey.

From there, it was built slowly over time.

Layers added with care — lots of fresh organic spices, St. Brigid’s Ale from Two Sisters Brewing for warmth and depth, cultured butter from Dairy, heritage sourdough crumbs from , Highbank Orchards apple treacle, orchard and vine fruits, organic pecans and almonds, Wexford Sea Salt, and our own candied organic citrus from fruit grown on our adopted trees in Spain.

Then steamed low and slow — soaked again with Boann whiskey and left to rest in a quiet, dark place. The way puddings were made years ago.

This is not something made in a week. It’s a pudding shaped by time, patience, and the season.

Each one is wrapped, paired, and presented as a full Christmas moment — including farmhouse brandy butter, Irish cheese, and everything you need to bring it to the table.

Pre-order now to secure yours. Shipping in early December. https://www.fattomato.ie/shop/p/plum-pudding

Please note: pre-orders must be placed separately, as all items will ship together in December.

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Ballymore
Camolin
Y21RD60

Opening Hours

Monday	10am - 8pm
Tuesday	10am - 8pm
Wednesday	10am - 8pm
Thursday	10am - 8pm
Friday	10am - 8pm
Saturday	10am - 8pm
Sunday	10am - 8pm

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+353862212217

Website

http://www.fattomato.ie/

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