My first trial of Maskotka this year - in the greenhouse. Brilliant. Best variety I've ever grown. I let them trail at will, even when the stems were bent double, and they still performed. Next year I think I'll stake them better and spread them out a bit more.
Clay soil - Cheshire/Derbyshire border. I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
I've had good results with Moneymaker this year. It seems to be a heavy cropper, robust and fairly easy to grow. They taste much better than anything from a supermarket, but how they'd fair against an even tastier homegrown heirloom I don't know. Will put it up against something else next year. I also did some Sungold which have done ok, not such a heavy cropper and prone to splitting quite easily.
I have also tried different varieties to replace Gardener's Delight. I was extremely late sowing the seed due to seedling failure with my first sowing in April.
1. Big Mama. A large, pasta sauce, type. It is looking promising, large fruit, not ripening yet.
2. Indigo Cherry Drops. I am not impressed. Lots of fruit coming but not a brilliant flavour. Small fruit. Difficult to tell when they are ripe due to purple green colour.
3. Cocktail Crush. My favourite so far. A good replacement for Gardeners Delight. Similar growth and flavour. Medium-sized fruit. Has not carried as many fruit per truss as Gardener's Delight. Will grow it again.
Will try Sweet Aperitife next year to compare with Cocktail Crush.
All of my plants are growing in a greenhouse. Blight is endemic down here in Cornwall so gave up trying to grow tomatoes outdoors years ago.
Gardeners' delight - still good to me even though other people seem to have gone off it. Maybe I've been lucky with the seed.
Rosella - still my favourite, lovely flavour and interesting colour.
Yellow pear - OK flavour, adds a bit of visual variety.
Blue Bayou - new for me this year. The fruits are larger than I expected (I had it in my mind that it was cherry-sized, obviously didn't read the blurb properly) so they take a while to ripen (outside). Tastes good when ripe though, with quite a firm fleshy texture.
Sungold - nice colour and reliable but still not to my taste - too sweet and bland despite trying them with less feed and less water this year. Once the current packet of seed is used up I won't bother growing them again.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
Starting to look at seeds to buy ready for the spring and was after some recommendations for a hanging basket; I tried tumbling tom yellow and red tumbler last year but found both rather bland.
For the garden beds I have Beefsteak marmande Honeycomb cherry San Marzano plum
You could try a black cherry variety, as they have nice flavour. Most of mine are grown cordon Golden sunrise cherry, Roma , and Tigerella ( which is slow to start but has good salad sized fruit, and the plants have plenty) If I can get hold of the seed I will be planting Yellow Pear as well, love the flavour.
I tried Maskotka for the first time last year (recommended by several people on here) and both me & OH loved them. They are a bush variety and tumble well but this year I'll be growing them well staked and upright. They have cherry fruits with a bit more taste than most, although someone on here said they didn't like that taste so...
Clay soil - Cheshire/Derbyshire border. I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
Nice to see the revival of this thread! I started this thread to find a replacement for Gardeners Delight which which had gone off and lost it's AGM status as a result. Looking at the Premier Seeds tomato varieties I saw a strain of GD that stated, "A well known German bred reliable variety producing excellent yields of sweet flavourful 1 ¼” size large red cherry tomatoes continuously until the first frost on vigorous plants. The tomatoes are very sweet and grow in clusters of 6 to 12" so I have ordered some and will be trying them this year. Let's hope they live up to the description and are like this variety used to be.
I will also be growing Limoncito F1, a new one for me, Costoluto Fiorentino, Brandywine, Stupice and maybe one or two others.
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I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
I also did some Sungold which have done ok, not such a heavy cropper and prone to splitting quite easily.
1. Big Mama. A large, pasta sauce, type. It is looking promising, large fruit, not ripening yet.
2. Indigo Cherry Drops. I am not impressed. Lots of fruit coming but not a brilliant flavour. Small fruit. Difficult to tell when they are ripe due to purple green colour.
3. Cocktail Crush. My favourite so far. A good replacement for Gardeners Delight. Similar growth and flavour. Medium-sized fruit. Has not carried as many fruit per truss as Gardener's Delight. Will grow it again.
Will try Sweet Aperitife next year to compare with Cocktail Crush.
All of my plants are growing in a greenhouse. Blight is endemic down here in Cornwall so gave up trying to grow tomatoes outdoors years ago.
Black or Chocolate Cherry - slightly larger than Sungold but a good flavour and cropper
Maskotka - first time growing it - very prolific but not sure I'm fully convinced re flavour
Bloody Butcher - very juicy and a good flavour but can be a bit slow to ripen
Black Krim - another good beefsteak type.
Bit short of space this time but I have always found Roma good too.
it never has any relation.
For the garden beds I have
Beefsteak marmande
Honeycomb cherry
San Marzano plum
Most of mine are grown cordon Golden sunrise cherry, Roma , and Tigerella ( which is slow to start but has good salad sized fruit, and the plants have plenty)
If I can get hold of the seed I will be planting Yellow Pear as well, love the flavour.
I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
I will also be growing Limoncito F1, a new one for me, Costoluto Fiorentino, Brandywine, Stupice and maybe one or two others.