Final Tomato crop numbers, might be a help in selection?

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I've just harvested the final tomato fruits for this year.
I grew five different variety's all in similar pots and all had the same feed and watering etc.
Tumbler - 290
Totem -123
Gardiners delight - 192
'A Yellow small variety' - 226
Shirly - 64
Tumbler started fruiting earlier than all the others and was by far the best.
fantastic crop for a £1-20p plant
Hope you all had a good bumper year too.
I grew five different variety's all in similar pots and all had the same feed and watering etc.
Tumbler - 290
Totem -123
Gardiners delight - 192
'A Yellow small variety' - 226
Shirly - 64
Tumbler started fruiting earlier than all the others and was by far the best.
fantastic crop for a £1-20p plant
Hope you all had a good bumper year too.
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It's been a terrible year though with temps in 40/50s then rain that split them.
A sunny autumn though has seen them grow and fruit out of season so I'm still picking.
The small yellow has done the best though through everything the weather has thrown at it. Sunburst or something
The only normal people you know are the ones you don’t know very well
As quoted 'Tumbler ' superb!
The only normal people you know are the ones you don’t know very well
Before I retired I used to take spare seedlings - flowers as well as toms - into work for my colleagues. One lady decided to try a tomato, and wrote down my very clear care instructions. A few weeks later, she said that her plant was really healthy, but she hadn't had a single tomato. I asked her tell me exactly what she done, and she insisted that she had done everything I told her and more.... watered, fed, staked, dead-headed.......Oops, perhaps my clear instructions weren't as clear as I thought!