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Originally Posted by habitat_gardener
Here and there I've noticed some tomato descriptions include a tag line "voted best at [name of regional gathering] [year]." Has anyone compiled best-of lists from all the regional gatherings? It'd be interesting to see if there are regional trends.
In my garden, the "best" tomato is different every year because of weather, high proportion of new-to-me varieties each year, placement in garden, attractiveness to squirrels, etc.
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Your last paragraph to me is the most important one.
And I don't put too much on what any tasting results are in terms of "best" varieties b'c you have to know what the competition was in order to make any sense of it and when there are a large number of varieties present for tasting not everyone tastes everything, and finally, not everyone bothers to fill out the forms to rate the various varieties.
Been there, done that, used to hold lots of tomato tastings in the past.
