A challenge........

[binley100]

Kirk's thread about gigantic toms made me think of a challenge .........how many toms can you get on a teaspoon . I'll start......with my sweetpea currant toms

[SarzWix]

I've mostly grown plums this year, I'd be lucky to get one balanced on a teaspoon

[binley100]

Luckily I've grown a lot of big toms as well else I'd only be making fairy portions of passata......

[Creemteez]

I've learned my lesson - I'm actually getting BORED picking my mini plum and cherry varieties! Too fiddley!!! Going to stick to "normal sizes" - except for Black Cherry....and the Yellow cherry is a lovely flavour, so perhaps one of them.....and the Orange Mini Plum is so pretty...Oh who am I kiddin'......????

[dim]

my best tasting toms this year (by far) have been sungold ...I will only plant sungold and the yellow cherry toms next year

gardeners delight and moneymaker are tasteless compared to sungold and the yellow cherry

[Nannysally99]

Amongst my good crop of tomatoes I also had sungold, smashing flavour. I had them planted in tub by the back door. Ate one or two every time I went out. Lovely


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[Bren In Pots]

I'll have to look out for sungold toms not grown them before.

[daviddevantnhisspiritwife]

Been impressed with my Sungold too. First time I grew them. Tasty. Not sure I'd stop trying other varieties though. Too much out there for a seed magpie to ignore. ;p

[veggiechicken]

I have some Sungold this year but I find them a bit too sweet - not enough tang.

[Mikey]

I've grown 11 different varieties this year, not all with success. I didn't realise one was bush forming not a cordon so it didn't really amount to much. I've really enjoyed beefsteaks on ciabatta, grilled with some strong cheddar a little balsamic and a few fresh greek oregano leaves for lunch. I had such a glut of one of my cherry toms that I had to cut and hang some of its branches cos it was taking over the floor space. They've made a really delicious sun dried toms too I'll wait until christmas and have a few more of them on some ciabatta. mmmmm. hungry now.

[binley100]

Those little ones are grown in hanging baskets ....I just pick a bowlful and leave them on the side in the kitchen to snack on like sweeties.....
Tbh most of my toms go in a pan to be roasted and then sieved for passata, big ones get halved and the cherry ones just burst open when cooking so no faff..

[Glutton4...]

I like Sungold too - not grown any for ages. Last time I had a Tommy glut, we roasted them lightly, then made soup - it was the best tomato soup i'd ever tasted!

[Penellype]

Sungold are my favourite by a long way. Curiously I tried to grow them in the house one year (not very successful as they are too tall for the windowsill even if you restrict them to 1 truss). The indoor plants produced fairly large yellow tomatoes which were watery and totally tasteless. The outdoor ones, which were clones (grown from the sideshoots of the indoor plants) produced the orange cherry sized fruit which taste so wonderful. Very strange.

Sungold get sweeter the more orange-red they become. If you like a tang to your tomatoes, pick them when they are still pale orange.

I got 3 on a teaspoon - for about 2 seconds, then one fell off. I had to eat it after that, of course, in case it was bruised