Your favourite tomato!

[Sara]

Cherry tomatoes, plum tomatoes, beefsteaks and more – here at GYO we love our toms and we're guessing that you do, too. Trying to agree on the best-ever variety has been the cause of big debates in the GYO office more than once. Now that the sowing season's just around the corner, we'd love to get your input, too!

What's your favourite tomato variety to grow and why? We'd can't wait to hear which tom is always at the top of your must-grow list.




Your answers may be edited and published in the April issue of GYO.

[Thelma Sanders]

Black cherry for salad and Rio Grande for cooking.
To narrow it down to one...............eeny meeny miny mo..............


Why? - simply because they taste best to me

[VirginVegGrower]

Ha ha ha...just one? For eating straight from the vine - Gardeners Delight; for cooking - San Marzano, for slicing - Cyril's Choice, an HSL variety!

[nellie-m]

Cyril's Delight, an HSL variety!

I agree, it is a delight - even if I got it under the name of "Cyril's Choice"

PS.
Grew it for the first time last year but it instantly achieved Favourite Status! Great taste, high yield, and what a healthy, sturdy plant! Delightful all round!

[VirginVegGrower]

I agree, it is a delight - even if I got it under the name of "Cyril's Choice"

She's right Cyril's Choice but still a delight!

[Llamas]

Black sea man (no, look. They're real:
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=bl...ient=firefox-a).

Delicious but grandma looked faintly shocked when she asked what the tomatoes I'd given her were called.

[Bren In Pots]

Black cherry because they taste and store very well.

[SarzWix]

Of the tomatoes I grow which are readily available, our favourite is Amish Paste, available from The Real Seed Co. It's a huge red plum, great for cooking but also lovely eaten fresh, it's a vigorous vine type, very productive, and standsa fair amount of abuse from the weather and/or neglectful gardeners...

[MartinRSharpe]

San Marzano - I primarily use tomatoes for sauce so its great.

Always try a couple a new variety each year when I get the chance.

[Scarlet]

I'm with Thelma and Bren in Pots - Black Cherry for eating fresh, I just love the taste and they produce a huge crop on a very tall plants. Pantano comes in as a close second,great for slicing.

[WendyC]

It's Gardeners' Delight for me! Not very adventurous I know but reliable, tasty and a good size for munching straight from the vine. Some of the cherries are too small and fiddly and the bigger ones just too big! I did grow Tigerella for the first time last year, which was not the best test, given the conditions, so will give it another go this year. The weather will be much better this year as I have decided just to grow them in the greenhouse and not outside. After three years with no outdoor tomatoes ripening, I'm going to give them a miss. Fantastic summer guaranteed!

[veggiechicken]

I agree with Gardener's Delight. Its the first tomato I grew and I've grown it ever since. Small enough to ripen while the larger toms are still thinking about it. Perfect for browsing on as you pass by and they last well into the winter. Cut in half and oven roasted, then covered in olive oil and oregano - delicious! Now where are my seeds........

[binley100]

probably easiest for me to say what is my least favourite (out of those that I've grown) but I won't cos it may cause an argument .........

Amish have always done themselves proud ......and last season even with the rubbish weather they and blue osu performed and tasted good even from outside.
For munching like sweeties whilst in the gh the millefleur toms were good as well ...

[PyreneesPlot]

San Marzano for sauces - cooking, freezing and bottling
Gardeners Delight for lunch
Prince Borghese for sun drying, which I'm lucky enough to do this far south.
Marmande for stuffing (basil, chilli and goats cheese was last years most cooked stuffing)

And then I grow many others each year looking for the next favourite.

[marcofez]

Marmande for eating and salads. San Marzano for pasta sauce, lovely!
Gonna try a few different varieties this year.