[sunshineband]

Like others, lost a lot to blight at he plot. Home crop in greenhouse was fine though

Golden Sunrise            yield 8   flavour 10

Gardeners Delight       yield  6   flavour 8

Super Marmande         yield 1    flavour  6

Roma                           yield 1    flavour 4   (brilliant last year  )

Alicante                        yield 10  flavour 8

[Broadhaven]

I grew Rosada this year. Results are
Yield  9
Flavour 10

They took a while to ripen but once they did they were delicious. Definatley grow them next year. 

[cAnAry53]

yellow balcony(in hanging basket)yield 9 taste9                                                                                                                                                 

[Hobnails]

This year I grew the following in outside beds from seed sown in a
propagator at the end of March, pricked out into 6cm pots after germination
and grown on in a cold greenhouse in mid-april and planted out after last frost
(May15)

St. Pierre,  yield 6; flavour 8
Canestrino di Lucca. yield 9, flavour 10
Ryder's Midday Sun ( yellow fruit). yield 5; Flavour 5
Harbinger, yield 6, flavour 6
Christel Plum, yield 8, Flavour 9
Marmande, yield 4, flavour 4
Moneymaker, yield 6, flavour 4
Gardener's Delight, yield, 6, flavour 7
Sweet Million, yield 7, flavour 9

I shall drop Moneymaker, Harbinger and Marmande from next year's growing plan.
Keeping  Ryder's Midday Sun more out of nostalgia for the old St. Albans firm rather
than taste.

[engineer]

My own efforts for this year in an unheated greenhouse (homemade) are.

Sweet Million   yeild 10+ had to stop them at seven trusses

                        flavour 9, taste improves if left to age a little

Roma               yeild 7  flavour 7 generally a cooking tom brilliant in ommelates and curries.

The Sweet Million, if left to it's own devices will carry on producing flowers and fruit on any old truss that has been depleted, i found that i had to stop each truss at a reasonable number of toms, ie 50ish. otherwise the plant would carry on producing, as it states on the packet, millions.

Brilliant for children

[gobs]

We had an exceptionally good year for tomatoes here. Consequently, I have lost track, which one was who, in the forest of them... oodles.

Old stand-bys with me are: Gardeners Delight, Marmande, Tigerella, both for crop and flavour.

But the yield for everything this year was 20 out of ten.  

One of these San Marzanos stores extremely well, too, we still have a ballfull of them in the kitchen, just like that.

Not the usual year to be judgemental, here anyway.

I hope you guys are going to run these in years to come as these are very interesting and on-hands informative. That's inclusive of personal tastes, soils, etc. So I was told, tomatoes taste like what you feed them with and cherry types are just about always sweeter than others.

[JayG]

Thanks to everyone who has contributed their "scores" so far.

Up to now the survey has produced fewer usable posts than the previous year, and that was a bit borderline as to whether it was worth collating the results into a league table.

I will leave it open for another week, and if it doesn't attract more usable results I will just add the thread "as is" to the "Potato and Tomato Popularity Polls" board for future reference.

JayG

[drypulse]

Moneymaker, yield 9, taste 6

[maxyboo]

Moneymaker yield 9 taste 8
Marmande yield 5 Taste 6

[TheSpartacat]

Red Zebra- Yield 8 Flavour 8
Super Marmande- Yield 4 Flavour 6
Black Krim - Yield 9 Flavour 9
Cherokee Purple- Yield 9 Flavour 10
Pineapple -Yield 5 Flavour 8
Homestead - Yield 7 Flavour 8
Orange Banana - Yield 8 Flavour 5
Red Alert - Yield 2 Flavour 5 (most of the flowers didn't set, even though they were growing in the same conditions as the others)
Black Cherry - Yield 6 Flavour 9
'Red Beefsteak' - Yield 10 Flavour 9

(got "red beefsteak" from an american friend- they just call them 'red beefsteak' as the seeds been saved and passed down... Having looked into it, i think they are what the American's call 'Crimson Cushion'... will definitely be building up some seed from these next year. Only problem with them was adequate support- the yields were SO big)

[JayG]

Here are the results of the “Home-grown tomato survey 2011"; thanks again to all those who took the trouble to participate. 

A few points about the results:

1) Only those varieties which received 5 or more votes have been included in the “top ten”; these are shown in red and have been listed in descending order of the overall combined average scores for yield and flavour.
The rest of the table lists the varieties in alphabetical order to make it easier to find the one you may be interested in.

2) The number of votes received was too low to make these results statistically significant, but they do give at least some indication of some of the varieties being grown “out there” and what you think of them.

3) I have classified the top 10 varieties according to whether they are bush/cordon (determinate/indeterminate) and also an indication as to fruit size, shape and colour. I have not done that for all of them because frankly there were just too many "rare but interesting" varieties in the list. 

4) On the whole 2011 was quite a challenging year for tomato growers, even though many escaped the blight, but clearly several of 2010's favourites are still there in the top 10 (although strangely Gartenperle got no reports at all in the 2011 survey.)

I'll leave you to draw your own conclusions from the results - hope the survey has been of some interest and possibly help to visitors and members.

JayG  (Jon)

Variety             No.of votes Av yield Av flavour Overall (y/f)   bush/cordon   Fruit type

Sungold F1 Sweet Million F1 Alicante Moneymaker Gardeners Delight Tumbling Tom (various) Golden Sunrise Black Cherry Tigerella Roma Ailsa Craig Aurora Bambino Black Russian blooming butcher Brandywine Brown Berry Canestino di Lucca Carlton Cherokee Purple Cherry Cherry Cascade Christel plum Christmas Grapes Cosoluto Fiorentino Country Taste Fantasio Ferline Flamme Galina Garden Peach Green Sausage Green Zebra Harbinger Heinz Homestead Ildi Inca F1 Jamie Oliver Cherry Koralik Legend Limmony Marmande Minibelle Orange Banana Orange Berry Outdoor Girl Pear Pineapple Pink Brandywine Plum Red Alert Red Beefsteak Red Cherry Red Cluster Pear Red Zebra Rio Grande Rosada F1 Ryder's midday sun Sakura San Marzano San Marzano 2 Scarlatto Shirley F1 Snowberry St Pierre Striped Stuffer Stupice Sub Arctic Plenty Summer cider Super Marmande Sweet Baby Sweetie 100 Tamina Tiny Tim Vintage Wine Yellow balcony Yellow Centifor Yellow Pygmy

9 6 5 8 13 6 5 5 5 8 2 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 3 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 4 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 1 4 1 1 2 1 1 1 3 1 1 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

8.0        8.3        8.6        8.1        6.4        7.0        7.6        6.0        5.4        5.3        8.0        7.0        8.0        7.0        6.0        3.0        8.0        9.0        8.0        9.0        10.0        8.0        8.0        7.0        3.0        6.0        2.0        7.7        6.0        7.0        4.0        4.0        6.0        6.0        9.0        7.0        6.0        7.0        7.0        7.0        3.0        4.0        6.0        8.0        8.0        6.0        4.0        8.0        5.0        10.0        8.0        6.7        10.0        8.3        6.0        8.0        7.5        9.0        5.0        8.0        3.7        5.0        5.0        7.0        4.0        6.0        5.0        6.0        5.0        9.0        4.3        8.0        10.0        9.0        5.0        4.0        9.0        8.0        5.0

9.6        9        7.6        6.4        7.9        7.2        6        7.4        6.8        6        7.5        8        8        7.5        9        6        10        10        10        10        10        8        9        8        6        6.5        4        7.7        9        8        2        3        8        5.5        7        8        6        8        8        5.5        6        6        6        8        5        8        6        9        8        9        8        6.7        9        8.5        7        8        8.5        10        5        9        4.7        3        5        6        2        8        4        8        8        10        7        8        10        5        6        7        9        8        7

8.8             8.7             8.1             7.3             7.2             7.1             6.8             6.7             6.1             5.6             7.8             7.5             8             7.3             7.5             4.5             9             9.5             9             9.5             10             8             8.5             7.5             4.5             6.3             3             7.7             7.5             7.5             3             3.5             7             5.8             8             7.5             6             7.5             7.5             6.3             4.5             5             6             8             6.5             7             5             8.5             6.5             9.5             8             6.7             9.5             8.4             6.5             8             8             9.5             5             8.5             4.2             4             5             6.5             3             7             4.5             7             6.5             9.5             5.6             8             10             7             5.5             5.5             9             8             6

cordon               cordon               cordon               cordon               cordon               cordon               cordon               cordon               cordon               semi-bush

medium gold       cherry       medium round       medium round       medium round       cherry       medium yellow       cherry       medium round       plum

[mumofstig]

Thanks Jon for sorting the list
It's always weird, I think, that Moneymaker gets into the top 10 when it really is such a tasteless tomato! 
Is it simply because  newbies grow it every year as a first attempt?
There are many, further down the list, with higher taste ratings, aren't there? 

[DD.]

I utterly and totally agree with mum.

Once you've tried some of the others, you'll never go back to "Moneymaker".