Tomato Taste Test 2024

Only grown 4 varieties this year.............
Sungold - after a late start , this did well and the flavour was good as usual.
Black Krim - prolific enough and juicy but the flavour was on the poor side.
Chocolate Cherry - prolific again, later to ripen and the flavour debateable - some loved it but others weren't overly impressed.
Tumbling Tom ( red ) - average in both yield and flavour.

All grown in unheated GH and no disease.

 

Taste was down this year due to the terrible weather, only a few sunny days above 20c through the whole of June July august

Sungold: Taste: 8 Earliness: 8 Yield: 8
Most reliable although one plant got pretty poorly

Sevryuga: Taste: 7 Earliness: 7 Yield: 8
One of my favourites, large pink ox heart with meaty flesh, sweet, almost no gel or seeds. Plant always looks weedy and weak but puts out a lot of fruit.

Nangina F1: Taste: 5 Earliness: 6 Yield: 9
Blight resistant, still producing even outside, firm and consistent fruit that I'd describe as commercial. Not the best tasting.

Fantasio F1:Taste: 5 Earliness: 5 Yield: 3
Blight resistant, only grown outside, wouldn't grow again due to poor yield

Banan Krasnyi: Taste: 6 Earliness: 5 Yield: 8
Very productive and vigorous torpedo shaped fruit.

Purple Cherokee: Taste: 9 Earliness: 3 Yield: 4
Best tasting tomato, normally produces more earlier for me but this year put paid to that.

Purple Cherokee tiger striped: Taste: 6 Earliness: 6 Yield:5
Dwarf, great looking early ones were a bit mushy but improved. Not nearly as tasty as its parent

Ruthje: Taste: 4 Earliness: 4 Yield: 2
Rubbish small fruits on a weak plant

Rote murmel: Taste: 3 Earliness: 6 Yield: 1
Outside only, vigorous and blight resistant, I ate about three of these currant sized toms the rest either didn't form or were eaten by wildlife.

Roll on next year!

 

Sungold - taste 9, earliness 6, yield 2, for some reason my plant did far worse than the other varieties in the greenhouse. Outside yield was slightly better - then it got blight.
Purple Cherokee - taste 5, earliness 3, yield 5 - yield would rate higher but lots still green and snails keep attacking them overnight! I found the taste a bit watery (lack of sun)
Chocolate pear - taste 5, earliness 6, yield 7 - again I think taste affected by the lousy weather