Today I held a tomato try contest with some of my admirer . I have to say I was very defeated . Not with my friends but with my Lycopersicon esculentum . I move last to taste them and could not believe how many of the tomatoes were either savourless or watery . Some seemed rickety in flavour . I ’ve eaten them all summer and could n’t remember them like this . They were not at all like the sweet flavorous Lycopersicon esculentum I eat last calendar month .
Then it bump off me - the3 inches of rain we had this past weekreally weakened the flavour . I have had many split their skins this week from taking on so much water and that explain why so many of my favorite were rather insipid vs a month ago they were very flavorful . They say if you want the flavors more acute , cut back on watering during harvest clip which I did . Usually we do n’t have an over - abundance of rainfall , but we have this year . I have n’t had the drip organization on in 2 hebdomad but female parent nature take to give us more rain than I can ever think back beget at this time of twelvemonth .
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Never the less there were some outstanding tomato . Below is the ranking of the I we tasted . There were many ties . I find it astonishing that 7 of the tomatoes in the top ten were dark or purple tomato . 6 were chicken and only 1 scarlet tomato in the top ten . ( recall there were some ties which is why we have more then 10 )
Many of the respite of the tomatoes were red which is interesting as most of us like to practice red love apple for sauce where preparation brings out the flavor but do n’t like to use other colors for sauce .
I retrieve if I had had the contest 2 weeks ago before the rain , the consequence may have been very different but still feel the black tomatoes would have outshine the ease . Can you recite I ’m partial ? !
Thanks to all for helping out with the tasting and scaling !
2013 TOMATO savoring CONTEST
TOP TEN
1stplace - Paul Robeson - black tomato
2ndplace - Indigo Apple - fatal love apple
3rdplace - Brandy Boy - black-market Lycopersicon esculentum
4thplace - black-market and Brown Boar - black tomato
4thplace - boastful Sungold Select - yellow cherry tomato
5thplace - Cherokee Purple - black tomato
5thplace - southerly Nites - black tomato
6thplace - Sungold - chickenhearted cherry tree tomato
7thplace - Juane Flamme - orange tomato
8thplace - Ananas Noire - greenish / black tomato plant
8thplace - Virginia Sweet - yellow tomato plant
8thplace- Porkchop - yellow tomato
9thplace - Galon De Melon - scandalmongering cherry tree tomato
10thplace - Bloody Butcher - red tomato plant
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11thplace - Marmande - blood-red Lycopersicon esculentum
12thplace - large Zac - red tomato
13thplace - Costoluto Genevese - red Lycopersicon esculentum
14thplace - Pantano Romanesco - red tomato plant
14thplace - Green Grape - green cerise tomato
15thplace - Cour Di Bue - red tomato
15thplace - Gold Medal - yellow tomato
16thplace - Orange Wellington - orange love apple
