Here are the results of the “Home-grown tomato survey"; thanks to all those who took the trouble to participate.
A few points about the results:
1) Only those varieties which received more than 2 votes have been included in the “top ten”; these are shown in red and have been listed in order of the overall combined average scores for yield and flavour. I was unable to find any information for “Italian plum” (generic?) or Lucibell.
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.
I’ll leave you all to draw your own conclusions!

3) I have done my best to classify the varieties according to whether they are bush/cordon (determinate/indeterminate) and also an indication as to fruit size, shape and colour. I will gladly correct any major errors, but please don’t split hairs when it comes to “pear-shape” versus “plum-shape”, or semi-bush versus semi-cordon (these terms are often used quite loosely by different websites!)
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
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Sungold F1 100's and 1000's Sweet Million F1 Moneymaker Shirley F1 Red Alert Black Cherry Gartenperle Brandywine Gardeners Delight Rio Grande Golden Sunrise Golden Cherry Russian Black Sprite Tommy Toe Tigerella Ildi Marmande Bambino Costoluto Fiorentino Costoluto Genovese Giant Belgium Matina Rosada F1 Saint Pierre Canestino di Lucca Sweet Olive Alicante Sioux Ailsa Craig San Marzano Gold nugget Purple Ukraine Roma Italian plum Lucibell
| 10 4 5 3 4 3 4 4 3 6 1 2 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
| 9.8 10.0 9.6 10.0 9.0 9.0 7.8 9.0 7.7 8.5 10.0 9.5 9.0 9.0 9.0 10.0 8.5 10.0 9.5 8.0 8.0 9.0 8.0 8.0 9.0 8.0 7.0 8.0 8.0 7.0 7.0 6.0 5.0 3.0 3.0
| 9.9 9.0 8.8 8.3 9.0 8.7 9.5 8.3 9.3 8.3 10.0 10.0 10.0 10.0 10.0 9.0 10.0 8.0 8.5 10.0 10.0 9.0 10.0 10.0 9.0 10.0 10.0 9.0 8.0 9.0 8.0 9.0 8.0 10.0 7.0
| 9.9 9.5 9.2 9.2 9.0 8.8 8.6 8.6 8.5 8.4 10.0 9.8 9.5 9.5 9.5 9.5 9.3 9.0 9.0 9.0 9.0 9.0 9.0 9.0 9.0 9.0 8.5 8.5 8.0 8.0 7.5 7.5 6.5 6.5 5.0
| cordon bush cordon cordon cordon bush cordon bush cordon cordon bush cordon cordon cordon bush cordon cordon cordon semi-bush bush cordon cordon cordon cordon cordon bush cordon cordon cordon semi-bush cordon cordon cordon cordon semi-bush
| medium gold cherry cherry medium round medium round small round cherry cherry beefsteak medium round pear medium yellow cherry golden medium round cherry cherry medium round mini pear yellow beefsteak cherry beefsteak beefsteak beefsteak medium round plum medium round pear medium round medium round medium round medium round plum cherry golden plum plum
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