Supermarket tomatoes

[whiffey]

Because of blossom drop tt looks like my normally huge crop of Gardener's Delight tomatoes will be reduced this year, so I have started investigating shop-bought tomatoes.

Yesterday I bought a punnet of Co-op Truly Irresistible cherry piccolo tomatoes, 'on the vine', Italian grown. They are absolutely superb, small, tender, sweet, easily the best tomatoes I have ever bought.

Do you have any particular recommendations ?

[hayley2956]

waitrose cherry tomatoes are especially sweet and ripe at the moment, very nice in salads or even on their own!

[amonty1144]

Lidl do some gorgeous ones on the vine but supply is a bit hit and miss.
Just as a side note my gardeners delight plane developed some sort of virus covering on the leaves, so I threw it on the compost heap. It's flowering away quite merrily and I'm hoping for a good crop.

[whiffey]

amonty I have 4 plants indoors in a very hot conservatory. Normally they go mad, up to the roof and produce several hundred tomatoes each, but this year the flowers are dropping off, on the low trusses anyway, and I thought I imagined some sort of odd marks on the leaves, which I cut off. Now I think it was just normal yellowing of the lower branches. I'm fingers crossed that I will get some fruit, because GD home-grown are the highlight of my every meal !

[ronnieblue]

i agree with answer about lidls
cherry vine toms 49p

[shaneystar2]

Me too....Lidls tomatoes are most delish ...... unfortunately the tomato plants in my garden have been decimated by the rain and ten force gales . After all my dedication. Sob !!

[WendyS]

My outdoor tomatoes are also looking very sickly this year so I have dim hopes of making enough tomato puree and sauce to freeze and last me through the winter. I also find Gardeners Delight one of the tastiest varieties but when I'm forced to buy commerial ones I usually opt for the cherry varieties, either round or plum shape. The problem is with commercially bought tomatoes, the supermarkets rarely tell you the name of the variety.