Tomato taste test

[Tracey]

I've now tasted all my tomato plants and the results are:

Piccolo, Alicante and Gardeners Delight all taste lovely.

Lily of the Valley - bland
Green Grape - perished
Broad Ripple - mushy

Which ones would you recommend or not?

[Phreddy]

GD, of course, Sweet Millions is a mass of flower and we have had a few, lovely!
Black Krim, that Flummery slandered (But she tells me that others like it, waiting for her PUBLIC APOLOGY, I sent her the seed!)
My current absolute favourite is one I found here in Bulgaria: Bull's Heart.

[sallym]

Ildi- a yellow cherry Tomato. Masses of fruit and the taste is out of this world. Sooooo sweet. Not had one that has got as far as the kitchen yet. Bit disappointed with the taste of Marmande, but not a problem- making a batch of Green Tomato Chutney tomorrow and still plenty left for hubby who likes them.

[blue411]

Only had results with gardeners delight, and those are lovely and sweet, still waiting for my sub artics to turn red!

[afrench108]

I love GD and grow Tigerella, they really crop heavy and turn orange/light red, a sweet meaty tom like a beefstake..my sub artics not many large fruits and every year i try beefstakes but only ever get a couple of fruits..

[Rodley]

The disappointing taste of the Marmande tomato is probably due to the lack of sunshine this year. We live a few miles from Marmande in France - went to the tomato fiesta a few weeks ago in Marmande - the tomatoes have lots of taste but don't go completely red as well as having lots of funny shapes! The wine was good as well!

[kentvegplot]

Loved Piccolo this year - it's an F1 (and therefore relatively expensive seed) but wonderful sweet cherry tomatoes.

Love the 'Broad Ripple' too, but you have to catch it before it gets too ripe.

'Tiger Tom' nice - but takes longer to get fully ripe than you might imagine. Don't pick it until it nearly falls off

[Capsid]

My father grows sungold, but they turn mushy quite quickly and are not as sweet as gardener's delight which is what I always grow in the greenhouse. I've tried sub arctic plenty outside this year and they are very good too.

[markwcel]

love our alicantes...even the green ones that fall off and i ripen on the windowsill....freezer full for winter

[rustylady]

Sungold very good, GD likewise (both for eating fresh) Gartenperle cropping well but taste inferior to the previous two. Subarctic plenty not so keen, but good for cooking.

[pjh75]

I only grew one variety - Urbikany - and they were delicious both in salad and when I made a sauce with them. I had some tomatoes in a restaurant at the weekend and they tasted of nothing in comparison, although I guess that would be the case when any home grown tomatoes are compared.

[Flummery]

I like sungold for flavour - but not for the fact that they charge your two quid for 9 seeds! I'm growing F2s this year and they are shaping up well but I didn't get on with them particularly early so it will be late in the season before I can select out the good'uns.
Public apology here - are you watching Phreddy! I found the Black Krim very juicy but a bit bland but everyone who's had some has begged for seed - I'm saving my second lot! I am prepared to acknowledge on a public forum that I have strange taste in tomatoes! (But I know what I like!)

I'm hoping that some of my own breeds or selections might turn out to satisfy me - but will probably be detested by everyone else.

Still not had a ripe Tiger Tom or Black Sea Man but looking forward to tasting those. Black Cherry is good. I think it's Himself's favourite cherry tom.