Tomato tasting 2021

[burnie]

I know you living further south are ahead of me, but I'd thought I'd pass on my comments, Craigella is not a variety I have grown before and as the seeds were free it would be rude not to try them. A heritage version of Ailsa Craig and to me similar in taste, nice on it's own with just a tiny sprinkle of ground pepper to lift the taste a tad.

[Bren In Pots]

I’ve grown my usual favourite Black Cherry they’re sweet tasting and it’s difficult to leave the GH without eating one.

[SimpleSimon]

I've not had too many ripe ones but of the ones I've had...

Honeycomb - tastes like sungold as advertised. Too early to say if they aren't as prone to splitting though. Fingers crossed.
Sweet million - Like these, not overly sweet, nice bit of acid. Huge trusses.
Tomatoberry - not keen. Thick skin and a bit bland.

[Babru]

A few of mine have just started to show colour...exciting! The sunny weather we've had should help things along.

[burnie]

We have the sea harr at the moment, still waiting for tommie number 2 lol.

[annie8]

Would love to join in with this, but not one red tomato yet. What a year this has been.

[burnie]

Had tomato number 2, a Moneymaker, old variety my dad always grew, one of the potato leaf ones he'd tell me, enjoyed with some lettuce, spring onions and an omelette, nice tea on a hot day. The tommie itself was slightly under, firm and very tasty, my wife insists on buying them out of season, I cannot see the point as the ones from the shop are usually flaccid and having little or no taste.

[Peteyd]

i have absolutely zero ripe tomatoes to date.

i seem to have really struggled this year, there seems to have been a bit of disease or something get in the greenhouse. all the tomato plants seem to be showing a different sign of faltering and I'm not sure what's going on. They are all different heirloom varieties so it might have something to do with that.

[burnie]

That must be tough Peteyd, I have grown in pots, in the border of the greenhouse and in those rings you get for use with growbags, but I put them on the soil in the border. Of the three the rings seem to produce the better and stronger plants, it might be because the watering and feeding regime is better controlled using the rings, I don't like buying plastice, but as they are not single use, I intend to buy a few more and do away with growing in pots.

[Snoop Puss]

My toms are now starting to ripen. Subjective tasting notes, obviously, but on the plate last night

Sungold - we love these. Managing to keep the watering regime just right so none are splitting.
Gardener's Delight (according to the seed packet) - a bit sharper than we're used to, though fully red. That said, I'm not convinced they really are GD. Will buy more seeds for next year.
Tomandine - an improved version of Marmande according to the supplier. Less than convinced it's improved in flavour. Maybe I picked it under-ripe, but a bit sharper than I was expecting and a lot more green inside. Possibly the improvement is productivity, but I'd rather have flavour to be honest. Maybe later ones will be better.
Rose de Berne - really lovely flavour. Needs picking when still quite green at the shoulder, apparently. Spoiled by pulpy texture in my view. Mr Snoop loves them, me I'm not so sure. Smaller than I was expecting (I also grow Rosado de Barbastro, which are big, juicy, flavoursome and easy to peel with a sharp knife). Unless they improve later in the season, I probably won't grow Rose de Berne again, even though the seeds were quite pricey.

Still to be tried this season: Big Daddy, Montserrat and Rosado de Barbastro.

[burnie]

I have two Black Russian to pick later, never had those before, not sure whether to pick them a bit younger or wait for them to ripen a bit more?

[Bren In Pots]

Picked the first of the seasons Gardeners Delight today they're rather behind seeing as I picked my first Black Cherry 13 days ago.

[burnie]

Tried the Black Russian, it wasn't quite ripe, but it was nice and tasty, more acid and not sweet, will be good in a salad, rather than just eaten in the greenhouse.

[FromYorkshiretoBucks]

No red toms to harvest they, but have maybe a dozen sweet million which hopefully will over the next couple of weeks.

beefmaster are only just starting to flower.

I was late getting them outside this year unfortunately.

[peanut]

I have only had a single ripe, rogue Sungold so far this year. I was really hoping for ripe tomatoes in July this year, looks like it's going to be August again