Best and Worst Tomatoes you have grown ?

[Nature's Babe]

I thought it might be interesting to share our experiences, which have been most productive best tasting? Which were sweet or good balance of sweet sour? Which were more underwhelming for productivity /taste?

[PLUMPUDDING]

This year the best flavour are:- Kennilworth King George, salad tomato, producing a very good crop of medium sized fruits with a well balanced flavour,
Double Rich a large fleshy good tasting one with plenty of fruits for a beefsteak type,
Cornu des Andes for a paste tomato, and also good in salads and sandwiches,
and a new one I've tried this year with a wonderful zingy rich flavour - Green Zebra and one I will definately be growing again.

Ones I won't be growing again, mainly because they don't have much flavour are: Early Cascade, Cream Sausage, Sub Arctic Plenty (although it is a very pretty little plant with lots of fruits). Purple Calabash as it has a poor crop of horrible shaped fruits, and Cherokee Green which although it has a good flavour is not very productive.

A novelty I've grown this year is Estonian Yellow Mini Cherry from the Heritage Seed Library. This took ages for fruit to set, but now has huge trusses of small fruits which are very tasty when allowed to ripen fully.

I've grown about 13 varieties this year out of the 40 or so in my seed collection. I accumulated a lot of these when I joined an American tomato seed swap so I'm trying to grow a few of these each year and just keeping the ones that taste good.

[Nature's Babe]

Hi Plumpudding, I agree, I have just had my first ripe kenilworth king george and production has been good and it's a nice balance of sweet and a bit tangy too. I have tried green zebra before and agree it was very tasty and quite productive. I also planted a yellow heritage variety that was saved from a mixed punnet of Jersey heritage tomatoes so I don't know the name, but they were very productive, largish, and also very tasty, this year they grew even larger than last year, I saved seed from last years best plant, so maybe it pays to try a variety for more than one year. I planted marmande which was a really good flavour but it was not quite as productive as the others. I also have some backyard and tastey bought at our local church sale they are coming along nicely but not ripe yet. I grew sungold as a cherry tomato in containers in the greenhouse, they were sweet but very thin skinned and split easily, maybe it was the watering but they had similar watering to other tomatoes that didn't split, I have some sungold outdoors in a raised bed so they might fare better. Last year I grew choc cherry which were large cherry size and a lovely flavour, they did not split so easily, so can recomend them.
I did try venus, it's not the right one for my garden, as being so low to the ground a few slugs found the fruits, but for someone gardening in a windowbox they might suit as they are very compact