Yesterday, when I made a bunch of gazpacho, I trimmed the bad spots off a bunch of tomatoes, and tossed the good parts into the VM. This was the first time that I had this many tomatoes ripe at the same time, so I did a taste test on a bunch of them. This isn't all of what I grew, but it's a good number to have at once! A few I didn't get any now, but I made notes, anyway, more about how they grew, rather than flavor. Here's a few of them, though I got more later:
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The constant wetness was a major disease problem this season, with tomatoes, as well as many other plants.
Green Tiger - still one of my favorite small tomatoes, with great flavor, and incredible production. Was killed by heat several years ago, when we had the record hot summer, but it wasn't bothered at all by the heat or wetness.
Sweet Treats cherry - not what it was the last two years. One of the plants was more of a grape tomato, and the fruits would turn bad quickly in the bowl. And it seems that they are not disease resistant, and I didn't see a hint of problems the last two years. Won't grow again.
Sunset Falls - the only determinate type I have grown for years, and it's done with now. But it was delicious, while it was producing! Tasting it next to the other smaller fruited ones, it had the strongest flavor, though I don't have any to compare it to the larger ones. I may grow it again, but start another one a month and a half later.
Here are the dwarf varieties:
Barossa Fest Dwarf - Not bad flavor, but the skin had a "roughness" to it, on almost
all of the tomatoes. Not a keeper.
Coorong Pink - Almost every fruit was split. Mild flavor. Not a keeper.
Kelly Green Dwarf - most disease prone of the bunch. Hardly any usable fruits, which seemed to be yellow, not green.
Summer Sunrise Dwarf - One of the two best dwarfs, producing a large number of good sized fruits, some over 1 lb. A few split, but seems to heal itself well. Good flavor balance, though milder than big beef, and the better ones.
Sweet Sue Dwarf - similar to Summer Sunrise, producing some over 1 lb, and a similar color - yellow, with the hint of a blush on the bottom. Good flavor, though milder than the reds. Produces a little more than Summer Sunrise, though both do well (and are still flowering).
The larger varieties:
Burracker's Favorite - a new one this season for me, and it's doing well, producing decent numbers of large (many over 1 lb.) tomatoes. Good, balanced flavor, though not in the strongest group. More disease resistant than a hybrid in the same SIP. The one bad thing was the radiating splits from the stem, as in the larger tomato in the following photo.
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Pretty in Pink - OK, with a decent number of tomatoes, with good flavor, but not very disease resistant for a hybrid.
Amish Gold Slicer - This one and Big Beef scored tops in the tasting again. I had trouble with one pair of these, but one plant did well, so I saved seeds from the largest tomato I found on that one.
Arkansas Traveler (grew years ago) - This plant grew huge! One of the largest of the season. Some tomatoes got up to maybe 12 oz, but most were around 6 oz. Good flavor, though nothing spectacular. But the plant was not disease resistant - blights seemed to be in the upper reaches of the plant.
Big Beef - One of the best two tasting tomatoes, as well as one of the best producers, as usual. However, septoria seemed to get into the upper branches, though it is still producing.