Home grown tomato survey 2016

The most recent survey I could find was 2011 (http://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=88130.msg977240#msg977240)  so I thought it would be nice to get your up to date experiences. 

I've plagarised much of the following the preamble from JayG's excellent one in the link above. 

Include as many varieties as you like. I would like to compare yields, flavour, how early they crop and your view on how blight resistant they have been. I appreciate that the blight resistance is very dependent on outbreaks but I would be interested in this nonetheless.

Against each choice, please give a rating out of 10 for yield, flavour, earliness (10=earliest) and blight resistance (10=no sign of blight) so that they can be included in the final list. Please also include whether they are grown outdoors or indoors.

Your entry should therefore look something like:

Sungold; yield 10, flavour 10, earliness 10, blight resistance 6 (outdoors)
Jen's tangerine; yield 7, flavour 6, earliness 7, blight resistance 7 (outdoors)


I will collate the results into a table in a few weeks.

Outdoor Girl; yield 7, flavour 7, earliness 8, blight resistance 5 (outdoor)  A real disappointment
Roma; yield 8, flavour 8, earliness 7, blight resistance 8 (outdoor) Did well once sprayed with aspirin!
Gardeners Delight; yield 8, flavour 8, earliness 7, blight resistance 7 (outdoor) Poor germination tho'
Tigerella; yield 7, flavour 7, earliness 7, blight resistance 8 (outdoor)

My toms all but finished now. Just grow cherry and mini plum or grape toms now as much prefer them.

Sungold F1:      Yield 9 Flavour 9 Earliness 8 Blight resistance 8 (outdoors)
Sun Sugar F1:   Yield 8 Flavour 9 Earliness 8 Blight resistance 9 (greenhouse)
Sweet Aperitif:   Yield 9 Flavour 10 Earliness 7 Blight resistance 9 (outdoors)
Angelle:             Yield 9 Flavour 10 Earliness 8 Blight resistance 8 (greenhouse)
Golden Sweet F1: Yield 7 Flavour 9 Earliness 7 Blight resistance 8 (outdoors)
Sun Grape F1:     Yield 8 Flavour 8 Earliness 7 Blight resistance 7 (outdoors)
Suncherry Premium F1: Yield 8 Flavour 10 Earliness 8 Blight resistance 7 (greenhouse)
Orange Santa F1:  Yield 8 Flavour 10 Earliness 7 Blight resistance 8 (outdoors)
Orange Fizz F1:     Yield 7 Flavour 9 Earliness 7 Blight resistance 8 (outdoors)

Will definitely grow Angelle, Sweet Aperitif, Suncherry Premium and Orange Santa next year, delicious!

Red Alert:     Yield 10 Flavour 6 Earliness 10 Blight resistance 8 (outdoors)
Gardener's Delight:   Yield 10 Flavour 9 Earliness 8 (greenhouse)
Inca (plum):   Yield 4 Flavour 5 Earliness 7 (greenhouse)
Sweet Million:   Yield 10 Flavour 7 Earliness 7 (greenhouse)
Marmande: Yield 7 Flavour 5 Earliness 7 (greenhouse)

Not a very adventurous collection, mostly tried and tested, with Marmande being disappointing in flavour for the second year running, although it's possible there is more than one 'Marmande' variety being sold given a comment in an earlier thread.

Can't really comment about blight resistance, because I've never had blight inside the GH, whereas I've grown Red Alert with only the partial protection of an open cold frame for at least 10 years and only seen blight once or twice, which could be just down to luck rather than blight resistance. 

Had to give Gardener's Delight and Sweet Million 10 out of 10 for yield, because it's been an exceptional year for tomatoes here (except Inca which usually do much better), so I didn't try to restrict them to a particular number of trusses, which is why I've still got dozens of the things hanging off the slowly dying plants!

Please make the effort to make a contribution to this thread - the table of results which Potty Plotty Lotty has volunteered to do will be much less useful if there aren't a good number of your reviews to fill it. 

Have never suffered from from blight on my plot, so will mark them all as 10.
I've judged earliness as early, mid or late crop (June,July/August,September/October). Was not sure what the term earliness meant. All behaved as they normally do for the ones I normally grow. 
Will base late crop on what I see growing on the plants today, as my late crop plants normally die naturally in the first two weeks of October. Its more just a ripen finish than any more growing over the next two weeks.

Outside
Grown in 12 and 15 litre pots. Some of the Tigrella and Nectar Rose were grown in a few potato bags.

F1 Sweet 'n' neat Yellow (Veg Seed Pass-the-parcel 2016 - Suttons) 9,9,(early, mid and late crop),10 
F1 Sweet 'n' Neat Red (Veg Seed Pass-the-parcel 2016 - Suttons) 6,6,(early and mid crop),10
Nectar Rose (Veg Seed Pass-the-parcel 2016 - momofstig) 10,10,(mid and late crop),10

Garden pearl (Mr Fothergills Seed Collections Tomatoes pack)
- pot grown 9,7,(early, mid and late crop),10
- hanging basket 8,7,(mid and late crop),10
Golden Sunrise (Mr Fothergills Seed Collections Tomatoes pack) 10,10,(early crop),10
Marmande (Mr Fothergills Seed Collections Tomatoes pack) 10,9,(mid season crop),10
- Had a 25% increase in crop on previous years, put down to warmer summer.
San Marzano (Mr Fothergills Seed Collections Tomatoes pack) 10,7,(mid season crop),10
- Had a 25% increase in crop on previous years, put down to warmer summer.
Tigrella (Mr Fothergills Seed Collections Tomatoes pack) 10,10,early and mid crop),10
Red Cherry (Mr Fothergills Seed Collections Tomatoes pack) 7,6,(mid crop),10

Gardener's Delight (My saved) 10,8,(mid season crop),10
Marmande (My saved) 10,9,(mid season crop),10
- Had a 25% increase in crop on previous years, put down to warmer summer.
San marzano (My Saved) 10,7,(mid season crop),10
- Had a 25% increase in crop on previous years, put down to warmer summer

Cerise Cherry Tomato (De Ree) 9,8,(mid and late crop),10

In greenhouse
Gardeners Delight (My saved) 9,8,(mid season crop),10
Golden Sunrise (Mr Fothergills Seed Collections Tomatoes pack) 8,10,(early crop),10
Red Cherry (Mr Fothergills Seed Collections Tomatoes pack) 6,6,(mid crop),10
Tigrella ((Mr Fothergills Seed Collections Tomatoes pack) 8,10,(mid crop),10

San Marzano are grown solely for making frozen tomato paste for the next year,  so not really a flavourful  tomato to eat. So flavour is based on the paste flavour it produces. For eating it would get a 6.

Gardener's delight: yield 8, flavour 9, Earliness 8, blight resistance 8
San Marzano: yield 8, flavour 8, Earliness 8, blight resistance 8
Marmande: yield 4, flavour 5, Earliness 4, blight resistance 6

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