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Poor tasting Tomatoes

DrMacDrMac Posts: 23
in Fruit & veg
A couple of year ago, using same varieties, compost, feed, water (? - used to be Ennerdale, now Thirlmere), and generally same care, my tomatoes were exceptionally tasty ones! This year, the small varieties are tasty, but not exceptionally so. Large varieties have enough taste, if doing a blind tasting test, to be recognisable as tomatoes but that is about it.
Why? The plants appear healthy, no white fly (which was a problem last year).
Generally I get the impression that this year there has been exceptional vegetative growth but not so good glower/fruit growth.
Or is just the micro climate of my garden/greenhouse?

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  • diggersjodiggersjo Posts: 172
    No sun...
    Yorkshire, ex Italy and North East coast. Growing too old for it!
  • CeresCeres Posts: 2,698
    It's not the nicest summer weather so far this year and I think that has an effect on a lot of fruit and veg. You are dealing with a natural product that is at the mercy of the sun and rain and that is bound to have an effect on the taste to some extent. I grow the same varieties each year and no two years are the same for growing conditions or the state of the crop. Providing my Sungold tomatoes don't taste of fish, I'm happy.
  • Allotment BoyAllotment Boy Posts: 6,774
    I agree,  not just daytime sun but night time temperatures are a big factor.  When I did my gardening course a few years ago me and another classmate,  noted that the first year sungold were fantastic, like taste bombs in the mouth, the following year though we had sunny days for some reason there was a succession of quite cold nights.  The sungold were an absolute disappointment,  insipid.
    Excess water can make all tomatoes taste bland, it's a balance between enough,  to avoid blossom end rot, and too much which makes them watery, and lack flavour. 
     
    AB Still learning

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Tomatoes need warmth and sunshine to give them flavour.  :/

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • philippasmith2philippasmith2 Posts: 3,742
    Excess water as @Allottment Boy says can make any tom taste bland.  It will also depend on the variety you grow - so many now seem to be bred simply for sweetness content rather than proper tomato flavour.  
    Like anything else you eat tho, it will depend on your sense of taste  :)
  • WaterbutWaterbut Posts: 344
    Sunshine. Even my plums do not have much flavour.
  • SkandiSkandi Posts: 1,723
    Same problem here, to much water, not enough sun and to low temperatures we were down at 6C last night when I drove home.
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