Favourite Toms

[Hazel at the Hill]

How interesting this is - I'll be taking all your advice for next year - I'll come back to this later, as although I actually have some ripe tommies this year, not all of the 6 varieties I have are ready.

[Flummery]

Sungold has definitely been good but better has been the Piccolo seeds that I saved from supermarket tomatoes and then grew up. Piccolo is supposed to be F1 but all the plants I grew were uniform and very like the original piccolo and tasted great to boot, better than my Sungolds really though not too much in it.
Definitely a keeper for next year.

I've got piccolo growing from supermarket toms and I agree. It doesn't seem to be an F1 in any discernable sense. When I was looking into this, I discovered that American growers treat them as open pollinated but there's one site here selling the seeds at �4 for 5 seeds - on the strength of them being F1 presumably. Take it from me (and DavidJP!) that if you like piccolo, save seeds!

[Cutecumber]

I've grown Piccolo too for the first time because I was so impressed by the ones I bought.

I'm not convinced that my home grown ones taste as good, interestingly, but I will try them again.

[Flummery]

So hard to tell, isn't it, being as growing conditions and the weather (ha ha!) can make a difference to flavour.