Tomato Taste Test

[ceres]

Lots of great suggestions - keep 'em coming!

I got another 2 ripe varieties today, Red Cherry which I thought was nice until I tried Black Cherry which was fantastic.  Visually it's a bit odd though eating black tomatoes, they look like they have blight!

[ceres]

[Sparkly]

Balconi yellow are lovely.

[Barnowl]

The tomatoes mentioned so far in this thread have tended to the non-standard types.  I seem to have the most difficulty finding a conventional round medium size variety to become a 'tried and trusted.'

Hi Barnowl-try `St Pierre` much much better that Shirley which is really a money maker with posh clothes ;D

I grew Moneymaker in 2005. My notes say the taste was just ok but the texture was "Woolly/Sappy" and made a note not to grow them again  :)

I'll put St Pierre on the list. Has anyone tried Carmello?

[tim]

Do we not seem to get tempted by exotic names, rather than plain English ones like Shirley, Harbinger, Oxheart, John Hawkins?

[amphibian]

My favourites this year are black cherry and Japanese Black Trifele.

The JBT is delightful, as long as you don't eat it fully ripe, when it is mushy and bland.

Black Cherry is one of my all time favourites.

Green Moldovan is lovely too, but not overripe.

[Barnowl]

Do we not seem to get tempted by exotic names, rather than plain English ones like Shirley, Harbinger, Oxheart, John Hawkins?

Think there is a lot of truth in that, Tim. Tell you I'll make a note to try Harbinger next year and drop one of the foreign ones further down the shortlist - the binger bit sounds particularly appropriate  ;)