Tomato Taste Test 2013

Please post your experiences

If you want to refer back to earlier years we had a similar thread:

2012 http://gardenerscorner.co.uk/forum/threads/rate-your-tomato-varieties.46207/
2011 http://gardenerscorner.co.uk/forum/threads/tomato-taste-test-again.37163/
2010 http://gardenerscorner.co.uk/forum/threads/tomato-taste-test.1748/
2008 http://gardenerscorner.co.uk/forum/threads/tomato-variety-taste-test.13239/

 

I'm going to post my experiences a bit prematurely just so that I do it while I have it to mind and then update and revise when back from hols in Oct. All marks out of 10.

Crop Ripening Taste


Alicante 8 1 ?

Marmande 6 5 7

Ailsa Craig 8 7 5

Sun Baby 8 9 9



Cheers
GG

p.s. Humph! I made that look all nice and laid out well and it's all gone squish to one side, but hope that it is obvious what I mean.

 

I have understood the tables GG. So, Alicante has had a very poor ripening this year for you.
Like you, I wish that GC could leave the layout as it was input but it seems it cannot,
Jenny

 

Web pages, in general, will display multiple spaces as a single space. Selecting a fixed spacing font, such as Courier, which would normally work, doesn't display in the chosen font because of an error in the styling (its an issue that has been raised in the Bugs forum, so may be fixed in the future).

Dunno if using the CODE button will help? I'll try:

Code:

Alicante     8 1 ?

Marmande  6 5 7

Ailsa Craig  8 7 5

Sun Baby   8 9 9

 

Sort of ... but still rather hit & miss.

 

Yes, perhaps yield is a bit more obvious.

 

Wow, thank you for that graphic and very useful report John.
Invaluable,
Jenny

 

No mention of 'juicyness'? (apart from JWK's gardeners delight) - I've found some varieties rather 'dry' tasting and that's an important factor for me.

 

I'm wanting to grow toms for the first time next year and that's so helpful John. Thanks for taking the time to do that.

 

Sugar contents of juice in Brix. N.B. this is just of the juice so it's different to w/w % sugar content of whole tomatoes as it excludes the solids, but is useful for comparative purposes.

Sungold 9.5
Sweet Million 9
Mystery cordon 8.5 (one I'm growing out/stabilising)
Ildi 7.5
Koralik 7
Brasero 6.5
Minibel 6.5
Red Robin 6.5
Gardeners Delight 6
Red Alert 6
Ferline 6
Maskotka 6
German Red Strawberry 6
Phil's Fantasic 6
Omar's Lebanese 5
Sungella 5
Brandywine 5
Vilma 5

P.S. I'll do the yield/earlyness/taste notes stuff later.

 

I've now finished checking the sugar levels for everything I've grown harvested this year and edited the post above.

 

My 'Sungella' from T&M looks different to yours, being a bland tasting, yellow tomato and I'm getting rather fed up with T&M's stuff not turning out how it's supposed to: