Your top 3 tomatoes

[Biscombe]

Im sadly coming to the end of my tomatoes in Spain!! (the worst bit about gardening pulling up spent plants) been picking from May though shouldnt complain!!! I'm now looking at what varieties to grow next year so here's the question:

What's your top 3 tomatoes for flavour??

[Martin]

Ailsa Craig - an old strain - medium sized fruits with a lovely flavour and aroma!
My Dad used to grow greenhouses full of them when I was kid, so I'm a teensie bit prejudiced - I remember picking them and eating them warm off the vine!

[digiveg]

Clear Pink Early - a big, thin-skinned pink-ish tomato that I got through the HSL a few of years ago. Incredible flavour, and low acid.

[Wombat]

Grosse Lisse is the standard home garden variety, although I ma trying two early types this year - Stupice (that really is the name!) and Kotlas. Will see how good they are!

Nev

[Millymollymandy]

Only Gardener's Delight.

As I am incapable of growing anything else in the heat of France.

[red]

Only Gardener's Delight.

As I am incapable of growing anything else in the heat of France.

I'm a confirmed gardener's delight grower.

trying some plum tomatoes but the jury is still out so can only recommend GD at the mo

Red

[Biscombe]

Rio Grande plums are good, got a huge harvest and made loads of jars to see us through the winter! really easy to skin too. Got some spare seeds if you want them.

[Millymollymandy]

Only Gardener's Delight.

As I am incapable of growing anything else in the heat of France.

I'm a confirmed gardener's delight grower.

trying some plum tomatoes but the jury is still out so can only recommend GD at the mo

Red

I tried plums last year but they had green collar all the way through. This happens to anything that I try to grow that isn't a cherry.

It seems the only tomatoes I can grow in France are Gardeners Delight and some yellow bush cherries that I tried last year. Even Sweet F100 get hard skins!

[Han&Matt]

Costoluto Fiorentino (think I spelt that correctly) - Italian variety of beef tomato. Grew them as a bush tom as I wasn't sure whether they were bush or cordon. Had to stop after 8 trusses - only as they were sooo heavy. Huge red fruit, some bizarre shapes, great fun and delicious as a salad tom, or indeed as pasta sauce which happened to some of mine as I had a glut. Still going strong, causing much jealousy within family...

Need room, strong staking and sunshine. One plant gives more than enough fruit over 2 months for 2 greedy folks with thieving family.

[Cab]

1. St. Pierre. Tasty, easy to grow, moderate harvest of beautiful flavour and meaty textre. The perfec tomato as far as I'm concerned

2. Gardeners delight... but only if its a strain that produces tiny little toms, not all gardeners delight are equal!

3. Toss up between gigant limon, an excellent yellow beefsteak tom that sadly died of early blight this year, or yellow pygmy, a trailing yellow cherry tom.

[Luath]

Has to be Brandywine for me, everytime. Just the plain ordiary Brandywine, not the pink or yellow ones, the big fat juicy red ones. If you haven't tried them, get hold of a few seeds and give them a go.

Another good one is Garden Peach - very good flavour, and has soft velvety skin like a peach, pretty colour too.

Third choice would be Summersweet - very prolific, tiny very sweet tomatoes, quite early.

[Chickpea]

Anything but Moneymaker!

[Diana]

Just picked one of my faves - Apricot Brandywine.

It's currently still warm from the sun, in the salad I'm having for lunch

[digiveg]

Hi Luath and Diana - any chance of getting some Brandywine seeds from either of you? I'd love to give it a try...

[Martin]

I agree about blasted Moneymakers - horrid tasteless things with a really tough oversized "core"