More on cherry tomatoes

On Mon 18 Jan, morty lipton wrote:
> Much agree with you about Sweet 100s. It is hard to conceive of a more
> trouble free, productive cherry tomato. I garden in the community garden
> of a cooperative community in Bucks County PA & some 30 other
> participant gardeners agree about Sweet 100s. The only reservation is
> that they are sometimes almost too sweet. I find that the taste varies a
> bit as the season progresses with the greatest sweetness at mid-season.
> Those who want a tomato with a bit more tang like the Sungold, also a
> great winner. 
>
To straighten up one point here, do you really mean Sweet 100 or
SUPERSWEET 100 because they are not the same by a long way. I did try
Sweet 100 and was not all that impressed, for reasons that I can't
recall now but I am sure that at that time Gardeners Delight was better.
Supersweet 100 is quite different and for real tomato flavour beats
Sungold, what's more it is a fantastic cropper and has a tidier habit.
I did find some red variants in Sungold which the supplier said they
knew about but had decided not to market but there were also other
inferior variants, it seems they had a problem.

I can't comment on the rest of the varieties that you name as I have
never found them in UK lists. I do keep trying new varieties each year
but I have to take into account quite a lot of factors for marketing
reasons other than flavour, nevertheless SS100 is still tops in the
cherries.

Funnily enough the worst tomatoes I know of are still widely sold as
seeds and plants. Moneymaker ripens a huge crop too late, Alicante is a
disgustingly poor flavour.




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Allan Day  Hereford HR2 7AU allan@crwys.demon.co.uk
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