[Mother-Hen]

Best year so far.....


Money maker   Flavour 8 Yield 9

Gardeners Delight Flavour 8 Yield 9

[Mikey]

Can you add date of first ripe tomato.

Strilo       yield  7       flavour   8    first ripe 3 Aug
Alicante   yield 7        flavour  9     first ripe 8 Aug

[LilacSandy]

Yellow Stuffer Yield 9 Flavour 5 - undercover
Money maker Yield 8 Flavour 7 - undercover
Gardeners Delight  Yield 5 Flavour 8 - undercover
Gardeners Delight  Yield 7 Flavour 8 - outside
Pomodoro Ciliegia  Yield 6 Flavour 7 - undercover
Pomodoro Ciliegia  Yield 9 Flavour 9 - Outside
Roma  Yield 9  Flavour 8 - outside
Tigerella Yield 6 Flavour 8 - undercover
Tigerella Yield 8 Flavour 8 - Outside
Sweet Baby Yield 9 Flavour 8 - undercover
Golden Sunrise Yield 7 Flavour 8 - outside

All my outside plants outperformed the plants undercover.  Plum tomatoes seemed to double in yield outside for me.

[bravemurphy]

I had Tigerella in the greenhouse and the were great, big and tasty.

Outside in pots after such a good year last year ( even though they got blighted) was Masakotta and fair play they just kept coming nice size cherry tom with a lovely taste.

[New shoot]

Some of these are old varieties that are a little obscure, but reporting anyway as some are well worth searching out 

In the greenhouse

Chocolate Cherokee - beefsteak - Yield 8 Flavour 10.  You don't get masses of fruit, but they are huge.  New to me and instantly became a favourite that will get grown again next year

German Orange Strawberry - beefsteak - Yield 5 Flavour 8.  2nd year of trying and low yields again 

Wladecks - beefsteak - Yield 7 Flavour 7 - OK, but got better varieties

Outside

Black Sea Man - bush beefsteak - Yield 9 Flavour 10 - was my favourite last year and same again this year.  This grows huge and needs some cane supports, but early maturing, you get loads off a single plant and they taste out of  this world 

Brook's Special - cordon, large fruits - Yield 8 Flavour 8 - new to me and another good 'un

Latah - bush cherry tom - Yield 10 Flavour 9 - can't beat Latah for early crops and lots of it, but they are sprawling plants that need room

Maskotka - trailing cherry tom - Yield 10 Flavour 8 - did this in a tall container rather than hanging baskest so they could have more soil and they loved it.  Loads of fruit and slightly larger and later than Latah 

[JayG]

No additional posts for 10 days now - I'll "unsticky" the thread and let it sink gracefully down the page, and when it gets demoted to page 2 I'll move it to join the previous surveys in the "Potato and Tomato popularity polls" (a "child" board of GYO.)

Unless there is a sudden rush of usable posts I shall just move it "as is" - there just aren't enough results posted to make it worthwhile collating them into a table.

Thanks to all who have contributed this year. 

[JayG]

Because there weren't enough results posted to produce a meaningful table this year I'll leave it unlocked for the time being in case anyone else wants to add their comments about their 2013 tomato-growing year.

[devonbarmygardener]

It's a shame that there is no more data, but I've found what's here really useful for picking the toms I want to grow next year as I'm after taste and flavour.
Thanks

[LilacSandy]

Just did a quick flick over the last 3 poles, only included those with at least 4 votes
                                                       3 years         
                                     Votes   Yield       Taste   overall
Sungold                              26             8.6       9.5   9.05
Sweet Milion                      16             8.9       8.9   8.9
Gardeners delight              30             7.7       8           7.85
Money maker                      17             8.5       7.1   7.8
Black Cherry                      9             6.9       8.4   7.65
Tigerella                             11             7       8.1   7.55
Golden Sunrise               9             7.8       7.1   7.45
Shirley                              9             7.1       7.3   7.2
Roma                              15             4.9       6.5   5.7

                                       Toms with 8 posts and under

100&1000s                       8             9.6       9.1   9.35
Pink Brandywine              4             8.5       9.1   8.8
Idli: Yield                               4             8.3       8           8.15
Alicante                               8             8.2       7.8   8
Red Alert                              8             8.5       7.4   7.95
Red Cherry                      4             7.3       8.5   7.9
Tumbling Tom                       7             8       7.6   7.8
Marmande                      7            7.8       7.5   7.65
Rio Grande                       5            7.3       7.8   7.55
Ailsa Craig                      4            7.3       7.8   7.55
Black Russian                       5            5.3       8.2   6.75
Brandywine                      4            5.3       7.6   6.45
San Marzano                        6            4.9       6.4   5.65
Super Marmande              4            4.3       7           5.65
garden pearl                      7            5.8       4.3   5.05

[jezza]

shirley yield 5 flavour 4 bad ripening green underskin          blackcherry yield 9 flavour 9  legend yield8    flavour 9 most fruit 8oz   ferline yield 7 flavour  8 most fruit 1lb     jezza                 

[JayG]

Just did a quick flick over the last 3 poles, only included those with at least 4 votes

Quick flick over? It took me hours to collate just one year's results! 

Thanks for taking the trouble LS. 

[lazza]

haha! I realise I'm very late to the party, but for what it's worth (to future readers), my 2013 results were:

So, as for the experiment with 5 new varieties, I think I've had mixed results:

Brown Berry (1 plant): yield - 7, taste - 6
Lemon Plum (2 plants): yield - 8, taste - 8
Tiny Tim (1 plant, bush variety): yield - 4, taste - 4
Garden Peach (2 plants): yield - 6, taste - 9 (and the nicest looking tomato I have grown!)
Currant Sweet Pea (4 plants): yield - 7, taste - 8 (but enormous plants)

This year, I have planted Garden Peach and Lemon Plum again, and added Vilma as my bush variety.