Best tasting Cherry tomato

[realfood]

Gardening Which has just published their results for the best tasting cherry tomato, based on the taste tests of 1000 people.
The best tasting red was Suncherry Premium F1 and the best tasting orange was Orange Paruche F1. As good tasting, but with a lower yield was Sungold F1. Gardeners Delight had poorer taste but much larger yield.
I grew Suncherry Premium and Sungold for several years to compare them and agree that they have a very similar taste, but Suncherry has a slightly higher yield and less likely to split than Sungold.

[solway cropper]

Interesting that you've got three F1 varieties in there. Who was on the tasting panel, seed developers?

I don't grow any F1 toms and yet I'm more than satisfied with the taste of most of them. Better still, my seeds don't cost a quid each!

[chris]

Well, the F1s are bred to taste sweet, amongst other traits, so it's not surprising that there's only 1 open pollinated variety there.

[Thelma Sanders]

It doesn't say what the others were that were tasted, and most of those cherries like Sungold are much too sweet for my taste. So I'm not sure that I would agree with them anyway

[RedThorn]

considering how many varieties of tomatoes exist, I think it's safe to say, that there's a tomato out there to suit everyones tastes The last time I checked, there were over 1500 registered varieties with the EU and that does not include the majority of the victorian varieties....

[Potstubsdustbins]

To me its all a matter of erm............................taste. I have grown Sungold for years and love them as a 'pick and eat tom'. Last year for the first time I grew Green Zebra and Ethiopean Black and whilst the taste is very different 'much sharper' they are hard to beat with cheese on toast.

Yep some F1s are expensive but 70p for a 100 toms can't be bad.

Potty

[mrbadexample]

Galina, from the Real Seed Co. Untouchable, as far as I'm concerned.

[Scarlet]

It doesn't say what the others were that were tasted, and most of those cherries like Sungold are much too sweet for my taste. So I'm not sure that I would agree with them anyway

Same here! I grew Sungold for the first time last year. I won't grow it again - to sweet.

[solway cropper]

Well, the F1s are bred to taste sweet, amongst other traits, so it's not surprising that there's only 1 open pollinated variety there.

Perhaps I'm in a minority here but I like my tomatoes to taste of...tomatoes. If I want sweets I'll buy a packet of dolly mixtures.

[Barking Postlethwaite]

I like Sungold; I don't find it tastes too sweet, but each to his own. Amongst the ragbag of varieties that get grown in our garden / allotment every year it is consistently the best cropper, however. Uniquely, I don't think we've ever had a failed season.

[smallblueplanet]

Sungold for me too, sweet but not too sweet, with a bit of bite. Isn't that what 'cherry' tomatoes are supposed to be?

Don't see that f1 varieties are the devils spawn - there's plenty of choice out there now. We also like gardeners delight too - but don't bother saving those seeds either, cos they're so cheap, lol.

[Urban]

grew 3 cherry type last year, sungold, gardeners delight and tumbling tom, sungold where nice but skins split very easily, gardeners delight I found them to be a horrible soft texture, best of the 3 I thought where the tumbling toms red, nice and sweet with a bit of bite, firm flesh and nice skins

[scorpius]

Sungold & Tumbling Toms here

[Newton]

Grew a grafted cupido from BQ.......lovely baby plum.....very tasty and quite prolific.......hope they stock them this year.....

[Potstubsdustbins]

If you can get tumbler instead of tumbling tom you will be in for a pleasant suprise IMO.

I tried TT when the original tumbler went of the market for some reason I sure was glad when it was brought back by popular demand.

Potty