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Best tomatoes

jayne10bjayne10b Posts: 105
in Fruit & veg
Can anyone recommend what they think are the best (sweetest) variety of tomatoes please?  We have grown some pretty successfully this year (although maybe everyone has because it's been so hot) - but they don't taste amazing despite being perfectly ripe. 

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  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Sungold is excellent  :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • FlinsterFlinster Posts: 883
    Du gold are lovely yellow orange cherry toms.
    i also grew Maskotka, a Bush, which are absolutely laden and been lovely.
    I also grew
    Jens Tangerine- ok but not best flavour
    Stupice- not tried yet
    Moskvich- not tried yet
    Sakura- ok but nothing to write home about

    Will let you know when I try the others!

  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,385
    Assume you mean cherry toms?  If so, another vote for Sungold.  For a red type, Suncherry Premium F1 is superb and for other colours, google 'sun series tomatoes' which are from the same breeder.  All of them are exceptionally sweet cherry types.
    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    I've been growing toms. for so many years.
    Most years I often try a new variety, some are nice others less so.
    But a couple of years ago I grew Rose de Berne for the first time and WOW they really stand head and shoulders above the rest.
    The fruits can be big - I picked one yesterday at nearly 500g, most are smaller.
    When ripe, the fruits feel like a balloon filled with water and when picking the core often comes out and stays on the plant.
    There are few seeds inside and the meaty flesh just melts in the mouth - almost like a tomato sorbet and the skins are paper thin.
    The taste and aroma are exceptional.

    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    I did grow Sungold for a few years and did find them very sweet and with a good acid balance, but I find they don't really have much flavour or aroma. Sun Cherry even less so.
    My fave cherry tom is Rosella.

    @Flinster I really like Stupice.
    I picked my first on 22nd June and they are still producing well.

    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • FlinsterFlinster Posts: 883
    that’s that’s good to know @Pete.8. I’ve got one outside and one in a blowaway and neither ripe yet, but good fruit set, so fingers crossed!
  • raizasuhanaraizasuhana Posts: 2
    Sungold is good.
  • purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 5,287
    Black cherry is good for flavour too.
  • strelitzia32strelitzia32 Posts: 758
    edited August 2020
    Pete.8 said:
    I've been growing toms. for so many years.
    Most years I often try a new variety, some are nice others less so.
    But a couple of years ago I grew Rose de Berne for the first time and WOW they really stand head and shoulders above the rest.
    The fruits can be big - I picked one yesterday at nearly 500g, most are smaller.
    When ripe, the fruits feel like a balloon filled with water and when picking the core often comes out and stays on the plant.
    There are few seeds inside and the meaty flesh just melts in the mouth - almost like a tomato sorbet and the skins are paper thin.
    The taste and aroma are exceptional.


    @Pete.8 where did you get the seeds  for it? After that glowing review I'm curious to try it next year, but a quick Google didn't find any suppliers I'd heard of...
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    Just between you and me - 
    https://www.simpsonsseeds.co.uk/acatalog/Rose-de-Berne-S_TOM077.html#SID=85
    :)

    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
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