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Baz wrote:
Lucky you didn't get blighted! Although I've found GD seem to hold
up better than some - especially the bigger tomatoes.

I have not yet found the larger tom as tasty as the cherry type. For
me there is no comparison. GD and Sweet Million are to me and my
family the best by far.

I agree for eating, even for sandwiches, but for cooking it's nice to
have some larger ones. Although tbh, I'm loathe to cook with
homegrown tomatoes, it just feels wasteful. :-)

I agree that cooking them seems wasteful, espescially this dire year when
they are scarce, but I think the satisfaction of using them when homegrown
is enough. Normally I grow far too many and have in the past years taken
advice from this NG and whizzed them up into juice and frozen to use in
cooking, or even a nice drink! (sometimes with tabasco and vodka)

Our cherries are GD (which can go a bit squishy when they are left too
long) and rosada (baby pear shape, bit firmer, tend to stay chewier),
we got harbinger (medium round, slightly blight tolerant, iirc) and
rio grande and roma (Italian plum shape, not at all blight
resistant!), plus one mysteriously ridged tomato that should have been
a Roma or RG, but very definitely isn't! It's fruiting loads but not
ripening well, and is very very unhappy with the blight so it looks
like I've only had the one fruit that survived, despite the loads
produced


Rosada are very, very nice but, again, this year has not been good for the
outdoor tomato grower:-[ Next year I will give them another bash.

Best of luck.
Baz