Tastiest Toms for 2024

[Bren In Pots]

A place share your tastiest and most disappointing tomatoes grown this season.

Link to last years thread.

Tastiest Toms for 2023. - The Grapevine (growfruitandveg.co.uk)

[It never rains..it pours]

So far only had to eat
Sukura been cropping for weeks and a mainstay here for its earliness but has a sweeter than normal flavour this year
Sparta new this year as a hoped for Shirley improvement. So far well forward of the Shirleys and not suffering the truss branch split issues however taste a little bland, wonder if maybe its the lack of sun so far this year
Gardeners Delight normal good flavour but size bit smaller than normal

[Containergardener]

Mine are quite slow but
Sweet aperitif are doing well, grown before and are reliable for me.
Black cherry first time growing , not that many on the plants but would do those again or other black varieties as we like the taste.

[Bren In Pots]

CG Black Cherry are my all time favourite I grow the mostly those along with one Gardeners delight and two Mini Bells.

[Containergardener]

Picked a Tigerella , I like those too. Get plenty on the plant and seem to do well for me.

[peanut]

After a rubbish summer, I will give the new varieties one more try again next year.

New this year

Limoncito - slightly tangy, quite nice flavour

Ildi - finally started to ripen mid September, bland

Crokini - nice light tomatoey taste, not overly sweet

Honeycomb - delicous

Rose de berne - finally ripened in mid september, overrated bland

Black Beauty - raved about online - didn't ripen, not a single one!

Christmas grape - began to ripen mid September, average.


My regular favs

Sweet baby - delicious dinky little toms, sweet and juicy

Sugargloss - sweet and juicy

Supersweet - sweet and juicy

Sweet million - tasty, sweet

Sungold - always good, early to ripen

Shimmer - savoury tom, didn't do well this year

Suncherry - sweet juicy

Sweet aperitif - yummy. Early to ripen, a firm fav

Ananas - Didn't do well, didn't fully ripen. Last year is was fab.

[Snoop Puss]

Crumbs, peanut. I'm really surprised your Rose of Berne were unsatisfactory. They amazed me. The very first to ripen (a good couple of weeks before Sungold) and very flavoursome. Plus they were quite prolific and carried on well past some of my other tomato plants. I'm sorry if it was me that gave them such a good write-up that I encouraged you to try them.

[Penellype]

I think a lot depends on where and how you grow them. I tried Sweet Aperitif years ago because of rave reviews online and found it bland and a poor producer. My first experience of Sungold, grown as a windowsill plant (which was a mistake) was that it produced tasteless yellow fruit. If I hadn't already grown and planted some sideshoots outside I would have ditched it, but the outdoor plants (genetically identical because they were cuttings) were completely different, and Sungold has been a firm favourite ever since.

Agree about Honeycomb, which is new to me this year. The fruit have been rather small, but that could be the weather and the position I have grown them in, where tree roots can pinch water and nutrients. I have no ideal tomato growing places in my garden and I will try them at the allotment next year.

[peanut]

Snoop Puss no, it wasn't anyone on here, it was a few growers on instagram and lots of people agreed with them so I think as Penellype says, growing conditions have a lot to answer for too. I will definitely grow all of them again next year, as I've already got the seeds, and just hope for a better summer.

[smallblueplanet]

Snoop Puss no, it wasn't anyone on here, it was a few growers on instagram and lots of people agreed with them so I think as Penellype says, growing conditions have a lot to answer for too. I will definitely grow all of them again next year, as I've already got the seeds, and just hope for a better summer.

Agree with the comments about terroir being important for the toms, we tried Rose de Berne ages ago and though nothing of it. A bigs thumbs up for Sungold also, now a long time dependable grower/taster for us.

[smallblueplanet]

Didn't know where to put this video from Simpsons Seeds. They grow lots of tomatoes, chillies, peppers and aubergines and lots of other veggies and flowers. Unfortunately it's a FaceBook video, but it's about growing tomatoes by using homemade hydroponics.

https://fb.watch/uWFGPJ32p1/

https://www.simpsonsseeds.co.uk/index.html

[Nicos]

^^^ I can’t open that first link smallblueplanet

[Snoop Puss]

Video link works OK for me. I have a FB account. Might that make a difference?

[Nicos]

Mine just says Safari can’t open it because of too many redirects occurred.
( whatever that means?)

[Florence Fennel]

Video link works OK for me. I have a FB account. Might that make a difference?

Me too, so that's probably the case.