Topic: Am I expecting too much?

[tim]

Gardener's Delight - heavily praised.
I call these piddlingly small?

9g the biggest.

[GRACELAND]

flavor good though                 :)

[Chrispy]

1 1/4 inch is what to expect, so a bit smaller then expected but twice the size as most of mine, but as graceland says, great flavour, could not believe how sweet the tiny ones were.

My outdoor ones were normal size, but then got blight  :'(

[hippydave]

they dont grow large but are heavy croppers and as graceland say they taste good :)

[BarriedaleNick]

I prefer Sungold over GD for taste and although I have never weighed them they are bigger than those in your pic  :)
Under cover or outdoors Tim?

[tim]

Under Glass, Nick!

[BarriedaleNick]

Under Glass, Nick!

I am really looking forward to next year - have promised myself a greenhouse for the garden. Until then I still have glass envy!

[northener]

Ditto not a patch on Sungold. My outdoor GD tasted best but not enough on them, put that down to a poor summer.

[Chrispy]

I was over in Wilkos in Aldershot today, they had Sungold seeds for 10p, so I'm trying sungold next year :D

[cleo]

Were the new seed Tim??

And others around the sites have sometimes mentioned that the flavour was less than hoped for.

I`m not into conspiracy theories but I do wonder if the strain has been messed around with??

GD should be bigger than a cherry but smaller than a standard and with a great flavour

[tim]

It was a plant given to me. If that's it, I won't be growing it again.

Such as NECTAR are very productive & are twice the size with excellent flavour.

[cleo]

Oh wel-GD off the list

That leaves only a couple of hundred yet to try not including more favourites than one can ever grow in one year.

Is there a help line for adddicts??

[Squash64]

Is there a help line for adddicts??

LOL, there should be!
All my family prefer the taste of Sungold to any other tomato.  So, knowing this, why do I keep growing other varieties? This year I read that Piccolo was fantastic so I had to grow it.  If I hadn't already tasted Sungold I might have thought Piccolo were nice, but I don't think they are a patch on Sungold.

[Barnowl]

Another vote for Sungold. Also Ravello and Rosada.

I don't grow them any more, but in the past grew them over three years and began to suspect that Gardeners Delight has actually several different varieties - has anyone tried parallel growing with seeds from different sources?

[tim]

Correct - Real Seeds' US variety is supposed to be the best.

[RobinOfTheHood]

Correct - Real Seeds' US variety is supposed to be the best.

Have the Irish variety growing alongside the Sungold - the first were very disappointing but as the season has progressed they have got tastier.

I usually take a bagful into work and both varieties are, by general consensus, much more flavoursome than supermarket varieties, one person has said that GD is better, most say Sungold.

Sungold is both earlier and more prolific. Sweeter too.

I really wish that it wasn't an F1 but IMO it's worth it.

Nothing has really, for me, ever come close to it.

Now if i could just get an equally tasty beefsteak...... :)