Tomato favourites - and not so favourites
JJB Offline
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I've been musing again.

We all grown so many different types of toms,  for all sorts of different reasons - eating, snacking, salads, sauces, etc.

What's your favourite, for what purpose, and why.  Or put another way, which toms do you grow every year, come what may, and which ones would you never grow ever again.

Two of of my regulars are sungold and sweet aperatif, as I like a sweet tomato to snack on.
Shirley is a salad size I like.  
Black Russian is a beefsteak I seem to grow year on year.
Whilst I grow many other varieties it's probably because I just happen to have the seeds rather than a preference for their taste.
One I won't be growing again is Glacier, I found it tasteless.
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PyreneesPlot Offline
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Sungold for lunch, Prince Borghese for sun-drying, St Pierre for stuffing, San Marzano for bottling. Those are the must haves.
Green zebra, never again. Too sharp, sour & thick skinned!
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Scarlet Offline
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Black Icicle - fab taste, huge crops and very reliable.Tasty fresh but also very good for cooking.

Black cherry - lovely taste and great for snacking.

Gardeners delight - you have to grow a red cherry and I don't think you can eat it?

Latah - I often grow this as I like to grow some bush toms early - then the cordons take over later. This is early but also has a good taste.

Rambling redstripe - does have a thick skin but I like the taste and has a huge number on it.

Black Russian, orange banana, are a couple of others that I usually grow.
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Small chilli Offline
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Only have 2 on my permanent list.
Sungold - for everything because it’s awesome
Buffalo horn - for everything because it’s awesome

Everything else is new to me this year. So will have to wait a while for my verdict. There’s a couple that I’m impressed with how they’re growing. So if flavour is good as well they’ll be getting added to my permanent list.
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SarrissUK Offline
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Ukrainian purple is a favourite of mine, and any cherry tomato Smile
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JJB Offline
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I'm going to use this list for selecting seeds for next year. Thanks all. Let's hope there will be more.
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Veggie Offline
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Always grow:
Rambling Red Stripe and a few mini toms for early sowing.
I'm eating RRS this evening in a courgette, tomato and veggie sausage stirfry. Scraped the seed out first for saving!
Halina (seeds from nellie-m) - large toms, heavy cropping.
Gardener's Delight - as Scarlet says. To me its how a tomato should taste.
Usually grow Black Icicle - but not this year as I couldn't cope with the straggliness last year and it took over the GH

Don't grow Sungold (too sweet and F1) or Shirley (also F1).
Dont grow green or white toms as they're always a disappointment.

Stopped growing any currant sized toms - too fiddly for little return.
Don't grow anything described as beefsteak/giant/mammoth - wait too long for them to ripen and then they're split and difficult to slice.
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Small chilli Offline
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(14-07-2020, 09:09 PM)Veggie Wrote: Always grow:
Rambling Red Stripe and a few mini toms for early sowing.

Don't grow Sungold (too sweet and F1).
Dont grow green or white toms as they're always a disappointment.

Stopped growing any currant sized toms - too fiddly for little return.
I’m definitely going to try rambling red stripe after seeing your photos of them. And I usually don’t like growing rambling or bush types. 
As soon as I find a sungold replacement I’ll drop it. I’d like to avoid F1. 
quick agree with the not growing green ones. Really don’t fancy them at all & when do you know they’re ripe ?
also agree with the pointless currant size toms.
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Veggie Offline
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I'll put some RRS Tom seeds in our G&G seedbank. Smile
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JJB Offline
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(14-07-2020, 10:32 PM)Small chilli Wrote:
(14-07-2020, 09:09 PM)Veggie Wrote: Always grow:
Rambling Red Stripe and a few mini toms for early sowing.

Don't grow Sungold (too sweet and F1).
Dont grow green or white toms as they're always a disappointment.

Stopped growing any currant sized toms - too fiddly for little return.
I’m definitely going to try rambling red stripe after seeing your photos of them. And I usually don’t like growing rambling or bush types. 
As soon as I find a sungold replacement I’ll drop it. I’d like to avoid F1. 
quick agree with the not growing green ones. Really don’t fancy them at all & when do you know they’re ripe ?
also agree with the pointless currant size toms.

SC I'm on the same page as you, couldn't have put it better myself.
If you like a very sweet cordon  cherry Sweet Aperatif rivals sungold.
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