recommendations for tomato varieties

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kingdhesiii

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Re: recommendations for tomato varieties
« Reply #15 on: September 01, 2010, 22:10 »
Black cherry superb
Sungold super sweet taste - splitting always seems to be a problem.
Gardners delight- super taste, always reliable
rosada - super tasteing plum
also growing
roma
roman
100/1000s
Vanessa
yellow perfection
red zibre
big boy
suncherry
alicante
banana tom
tigerella
sweet mellion
tangella
aunty madge
salt lake

WILL POST RESULTS when i try them all.
Woooooooooooooo

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johnfh

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Re: recommendations for tomato varieties
« Reply #16 on: September 01, 2010, 22:42 »
Gardeners Delight and Shirley have both done very well for me in the greenhouse and taste good.  Alicante looks good and is the largest of the three varieties but it is slower to ripen and the Alicante are still all green at present whilst the other two started to ripen at least two weeks ago.
John

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Foghorn-Leghorn

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Re: recommendations for tomato varieties
« Reply #17 on: September 02, 2010, 17:21 »
I found my Sungold split if left to get over ripe - if you get them picked at just the right time I found the taste superb.  They really sweeten up sauces, etc when cooking.  Only problem I found was figuring out when was just the right time to pick as obviously the colour is different to regular toms  :wub:

Money Maker was good - until it got a touch of the grey mold so had to cut all that out but the rest of the plants survived and have given a decent yield.

I'm growing a plum tomato (can't remember name if it even came with one) and the fruit are a nice size and are just beginning to ripen.  It's good for getting a staggered crop rather than all at once.  It's given a good amount of fruit too

Tumbling Tom in the greenhouse has been a revelation - nice firm fruit with a good flavour and a plant that's happy to take a bit of abuse.  I've been picking toms off it all summer and it's still going strong.

Wasn't impressed with the Marmande I grew (the only two decent tomatoes on the plant the bloomin' chickens managed to steal!) and the Gardener's Delight have had a massive crop but I think they're a bit too "watery" for my tastes.

I'm looking forward to trying some of the different varieties suggested on here next year.
"The chicken came first—God would look silly sitting on an egg."

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