Baz wrote:
Tomatoes are abundant at this time of year and I have tasted other peoples
produce and none of them taste of much. Bland. They all grow GD as well.
I ought to have asked which variety if only to avoid, but I didn't much to
my annoyance, but I still can.

You could come and try mine and ask what variety they are, and I could
promise to let you know what I labelled them as once I dig the labels out.
;-) (I think about 50% are currently accessibly labelled)

I have my Roma and Rio Grand finally starting to ripen, and I hold out some
hope for them.

I've found that yellow tomatoes particularly taste bland and have little
texture, but Daniel likes them, so we try growing some each year. Black I
found terrible, and mushy. I think for large tomatoes I have found pink to
be the best.

In winter I buy cherry ones from supermarkets rather than the larger ones.
Admittedly it takes longer to make a sandwich and more skin but well worth
the effort.

For foreign imported tomatoes, I agree, the big ones tend to be very bland.
Probably cos they are picked under ripe and ripened en route. Cherry
tomatoes are better if they are ripened on the vine, which are now easy to
get in the supermarkets. Perhaps that is the key to your winter tomato
purchases.