FYI chickens love watermelons and cucumbers, nothing but the thinnest skins left after they are done eating. I love watching my girls devouring melons 🍉 🐓 / I love your channel and I love baker creek heirloom seeds.
I have planted Supersonic tomatoes for over 30 years. I love them. Also in the last 3 years I've also planted a few Pineapple tomatoes. They are huge slicers, and I've also canned them.
Oh, I also wanted to add, my Grandma had a system like yours for keeping track of foods made and consumed. It was on the freezer in her storage room with a pencil on a string right beside it. As she canned, froze, dried, or stored foods she used hash marks to keep track and then crossed them out as they were used so that she knew what they had and how much they used per year. Made sense to me because it was right there in her storage room with all of the foods and she could see with a glance what she had and what they needed to grow more of the next year.
My uncle raised and fed his family all his life from his garden and orchard. His favorite slicing tomato was called a beef steak. Large,solid and a great taste when included on a full sized hamburger ( it covered the whole patty). Keep up the good work, your success is a welcome diversion for us during these times. Thanks.
Have grown Brandywine (heritage) for more than a decade (N Georgia). It does require full sun and frequent watering. The hotter the weather the more care that is required. I’m 77 years old and still gardening. Love your channel although this my first comment. “God Bless You Also.” Buzzybruce
My favorite is big beef. Produces lots of big nicely shaped, good tasting, good for making sauce. We have been growing blond girl cherry yellow tomatoes for several years now, and they are good, and many, many on the plant.
Kevin, you are subtly hilarious! The kind that can just be really enjoyed and never feel like it takes away from the content or diverts attention in an annoying way. I love it! Y'all are definitely one of my few very favorites.
On notes for gardening. I end up hosing my notes at least once a season. My new phone has better features I can add text right to the photo and when I scroll up on the photo it has the time/date stamp. Its helping with my gardening this year a lot. Plus when fellow gardeners have issues I can send the photo to them with the notes and even arrows to point out issues.
I planted sweet 1,000s this year and they have been super productive, delicious and fairly blight resistant. They will succumb to the blight when the Pacific NW rains start up, but for now, they are the healthiest tomatoes we grew this year.
We are in a very hot climate so what works for us may not translate to you as well. We struggled for years to find tomato varieties that could handle the heat here. This year is our most successful so far! We are getting lovely slicing tomatoes from Aussie (really big red heirloom) and Carmello (medium red heirloom). Our best cherries are Mexican Midget and Cyril's Choice (red heirlooms). We are growing Amish Paste for the first time and it's doing great as well.
Big boy hybrid Bush. Absolutely great tasting, very little blight, and truly a great producer. My first year growing them and it will be a staple in the garden now
When I was growing up, my father always grew Rutgers tomatoes developed by Rutgers U in NJ and I believe that Jet Star was developed as a more disease resistant variety of it. Jet Star is always my choice for good eating on sandwiches and a good canner.
I buy my seeds from Baker Creek too. I grow Black Krim, Carbon and a couple others for fun, and have found that with any "black" tomato, its best to harvest a little underripe, and bring them inside. The heat causes some to rot on the vine rapidly. When I bring them in early, and let them ripen on the counter, I get deep rich tomato. I have never had luck with "San Marzano"...weak vines, poor fruit. I live in Virginia zone 6, hot humid summers. "Black cherry" does well here too.
Yea Mortgage Lifter ,Not very uniform in size or shape but the best tasting and processing tomato .My wife loves them so much and they are heirloom you can save the seeds.
Don’t know whether others have asked,but I wonder if you could - once in a while - more closely show the t-shirts Kevin wears. I find them intriguing, especially the tan one with the chick and the fried egg. Thanks for your great vids, gentle humor, thoughtful presentations, and love of Life.
For slicers Dr wyches yellow, Paul Robeson, climbing Triple crop, and Berkeley pink tie dye. For paste, Amish. For cherries, Brads blue gold berries , brads atomic grape, barrys crazy cherry. Super good!
A tip for the cherry type or grape tomatoes. I half or quarter them depending on size and I will very very lightly olive oil, white balsamic vinegar, salt, pepper and garlic powder, mix well then dehydrate them. They have a wonderful flavor and I eat them like potatoe chips! I store in a Mason jar and vacuum seal it. It's a bit time consuming cutting them up but the pay off is so very worth it. They store well also.
Slicer - Cherokee Purple & Brandywine Sudduth Strain Cherry - Christmas Grapes Dried mainly, but also for paste or pureé, and sauce: Principe Borghese (Prince Borghese)...a rather smallish, but very versatile tomato...superb dried and then preserved in oilive oil.
Opalka tomatoes are my favorite for canning and slicing. You MUST try Jelly Bean grape tomatoes. I can them whole as a pickled tomato and dehydrate them also. I put those in a ziploc with a bit of olive oil, some with seasonings, some plain. Store the ziploc in the freezer, pull them out to use in salads all winter.
If you want a yellow cherry, do the yellow pear! They are delicious and firm, For paste I like Romas. I don't grow the large varieties because I'm in a short growing season in the Pacific northwest.
That wall chart is an awesome idea! My cucumbers went nuts this year so I've been canning for a good 2 weeks straight but I've lost count as to how many jars I've done. I'll have to implement that next year. Thanks for the idea!
Do you ever make jam out of your tomatoes? What breed of quail are you raising? I love the poster board idea. I always forget where I wrote things down. It’s easier to keep track when it’s out in the open.
I always grow amish paste. Hands down the best paste tomato and prolific. Heirloom also. The spouse loves the brandywine for fresh eating. Also an heirloom variety.
i grow romas and rudgers for just canning they make an awesome taste together. brandywine or big beef is usually what i grow for slicing .this year i got very few tomatoes and they were so small plus blight basically took over my garden I was so disappointed. Tiller broke and I begin to use grass clippings and cardboard and leaves but it was too much to do in short time to help much but by next year I hope all Ive read does work with this kind of mulching keeping blight off everything.
I watched your summer garden harvest in the other video and. I was amazed at how beautiful your fruits and veggies are. We grew small cherry tomatoes 🍅 and some heirlooms this summer but here in South Carolina it was too hot and they got sunburned. I’m disappointed about that.
I really like Scotian for slicers, and Pink Tiger Stripe for a cheery/grape tomato, super pretty. They are hardy - I grow them on the east coast of Canada with no trouble.
I have grown Amish Paste from Baker Creek for the last couple years and am pretty happy with those. I also grow yellow pear tomatoes and love them (i think i got them from Baker Creek also). All my other varieties are new to me this year from Baker Creek. Haven't harvested anything yet. We had a bad hail storm a couple weeks ago and they are just limping now so we will see what we get.
Yellow “Jelly Bean” cherry tomatoes were the favorite in my garden last year. They were a largish grape shape. Great taste, sturdy plants and kept producing even after the wind folded them over their tomato cages. Kept for a long time on the plants, and tasted good at all stages of ripeness.
Greetings from the Mosaic Community Garden of Chula Vista, Calif (San Diego) we simple were excited this last season with the Yellow Jelly Bean TOO. We were so overwhelmed by the quality, and our harvest was incredible. We included these in our pints for produce sales and we had such a great response to continue and include them on our next season planting crop. best, CEO, Gloria
I have to grow in containers, too much caliche in soil...but yellow and red pear (heritage tomatoes) have always done well for me, whether in a container on ground or hanging! Only cherry tomatoe to be so prolific that some made it into house every morning! Usually got eaten off vine. Love tomatoes!
I’m in the uk 🇬🇧 - but I’m sure these varieties are classics - Roma as a paste, costoluto fiorentino as a slicer and sungold as a yellow cherry Love your vlogs xx
I agree. Mortgage lifter is a great heirloom slicing tomato. Amish paste is a great heirloom paste tomato as well. I don't think it gets as big as the paste tomoatoes in the video but it is still my favorite.
I got my Amish Paste tomato seeds from High Mowing Organic Seeds out of VT, somewhat local to us here in CT. I started these indoors, perhaps too early as they were pretty large before it was really warm enough to get them into the ground, but WOW. I now have plants nearly 7ft tall, loaded with tomatoes, most on par with larger paste tomatoes, and some even bigger. Great meaty flesh for sauce, and also my wife's new favorite for slicing and eating with fresh mozzarella. Definitely under estimated the yield and size of these plants, but truly a favorite with us
I absolutely love the super sweet 100s. only problem Is they are a hybrid and i can not collect seeds for years to come. but an amazing cherry Tomatoe none the less. I also love the black krim sandwich tomatoes
Hi Kevin and Sarah, you guys are my favorite and inspirational! Keep doing the good work you're doing! My favorite slicer of all time is the Cherokee Purple. I've attended the tomato festival at University of Missouri-Columbia's Bradford Farm several years - they always have taste testing of at least a hundred varieties. My favorite is always the Cherokee Purple! So huge, and the old-fashioned tomato flavor I'm looking for. Indeterminate variety, and large amounts of huge, early ripening fruits.
Red current tomatoes. They are tiny, yet flavourful. I use them as a tiny garnish on my devilled eggs. They are the best weeds, nothing bothers them. I plant them in an obscure area, and whatever falls seeds the next year (unless the winter was brutally cold). Not really a production tomato, but a great garnish.
Slicer - if you want red try boxcar willie. Orange try chefs choice. Purple try Cherokee purple Cherry - yellow: sun sugar F1 hybrid. Red: husky red cherry was yummy Paste: we tried Amish paste and has some decent success. I think pink oxheart would do well as a paste or slicer. We got 20# per plant and they did well vs disease. Pink oxheart we use for everything, but we are backyard gardeners... we were giving these things away constantly
I think you should try Tappys heritage. It’s a slicer and it’s amazing. So disease resistant, an absolutely beautiful shape- ALWAYS, easy to core, great taste, and never cracks. Even when so many other varieties do. Try it!
I actually grew Black vernissage which I also received first time free from Bakers Creek. Two years ago I used them in salsa because I had so many. They made great salsa. My family loves this variety.
We had really great luck with Green Zebra tomatoes this year. Wonderful flavor. A green tomato but blushes yellow on the crown when ripe. Hopefully that would take care of that issue of not knowing when they are ripe.
Mexico slicing tomatoes have been very nice, large, tasty, pretty, leaves stay greener in the greenhouse. Anna Russian for paste tomatoes, same with the leaves...grew several varieties of tomatoes both outside & inside. Sun sugar are our favorite sweet cherry tomato. Also doing better in the greenhouse than outside, probably bcz the leaves don't get wet.
Try "Sun Sugars" from Totally Tomato 😋 You can eat them yellow, or wait until they turn orange! We don't grow any other cherry tomatoes anymore! I wash & put them in a bowl on the counter, & before I know the bowl is empty! They also freeze well in a gallon bag so you can just pour them into meals :) Kevin Just eat them once, then Sarah will always find you in the garden 😉
Another vote for Cherokee Purple. I'll also second the vote on Abraham Lincoln. Good producer and it has done the best in my yard where I have always been battling blight. I had great success this year with Ultra Sweet. Tons of fruit and really tasty.
great vid guys! my all time top 3 are Black Prince, Chocolate Stripes, and Cherokee Purple...favorite cherries are Sunsugar, Rapunzel, and Chocolate Cherry!!! my channel is mostly fireworks vids but i do have two vids of tomato hauls that show some pretty maters if you get time to check them out!
We grow the chocolate cherry tomatoes just for garden snacks. We like the striped Roman's for stewed tomatoes. Amana Orange for tomato jam. For slicing, Cherokee purple, brandywine, costoluto genomes, green zebra. Well I guess we just love tomatoes. We often grow 20+ varieties in our garden.
You need Ca in your soil blight wont be as big of a problem. Hit them with a Ca fertilizer then till in a bag of oyster shells at the end of the season. Tomatoes rapidly deplete Ca from the soil(same oyster shells that you would feed chx)
My chickens love cherry tomatoes, they scramble for a handful of those thrown in for them. And the cherry tomatoes have gone WILD this year. They are Matt's Wild Cherry this year, small but excellent flavor. Also the yellow pear did well, nice treat, bright yellow, easy to see , don't over ripen fast, hold well. Some tomatoes have split for me this year as Pennsylvania is drowning in rain.
Amish paste is a good sauce and canning tomato, yellow pear and chocolate cherry are super delicious sweet and not as acidic. I had an evergreen tomato and a purple cherokee that I loved the flavor of and am going to try growing come spring. If you come across these through a farmers market I would recommend ya'll try one. I buy a couple of each to try and keep a list of my favorites for making my garden plans then do research to see if they are suited for my garden and also if they are heirlooms or hybrids for seed saving.
Yes, I got those same tomatoes for free from Baker's Creek. They did not survive seedling stage over here in TX. I am jealous that your san marzano's grew so well. They did not grow this time around over here. Prolly too hot for them here with the 116F Degree weather. I recommend the Cherokee Purples Tomatoes. They have a delicious smoky flavor and can have a high acidic taste sometimes. The yellow Dr. Wyches are delicious too.
In the middle of watching your video I realized I think I have the same garden hat. Mine is a slogger and I love it - though it looks much better on you. :) Love seeing what other people grow. Have to try some of your varieties. Thanks
We grow several varieties of cherry tomatoes. The one we plant every year is Sun Gold. They are good producers, with a good, sweet flavor. They have shown good blight resistance in our garden.
Try the Japanese Black Trifele tomato for paste next year. I got the seeds from Amazon this year. I have growmn them here in western Washington for over a decade. They are very meaty and nice cooking flesh. I have made green tomato relish with them from a recipe in my family for over 100 years. They grind up great and even green have a sweet flavor. Your pigs would like the extra juice from grinding.
Your garden videos are great! My favorite slicer is Brandywine. The flavor is unbeatable. I have yet to find a favorite paste tomato. Maybe I need to try the oplaca. Cherry tomato for me is Juliet hybred. Great flavor, unbelievably productive and blight resistant. Juice them by the handfuls through my trespade no cutting or coring. Brandywine is now available in a hybrid for better resistance.
Black Krim from baker creek is the best tasting tomatoes that we have ever grew. It is definitely a slicing tomato none have made it to the canner they are too good. We also like the black verni??? cherry tomatoes that you have from baker creek. And our canning tomato seeds came from seeds that we saved from a local u-pick. We tried a bunch of different ones this year too and these are the 3 that we will grow again next year.
The best cherry tomato is the orange Sun Sugar. An improvement over Sun Gold as it does not crack as easily. You can buy the seeds from Totally Tomatoes!
We get all of our seed from Rupps. They have so many varieties of everything it's mind boggling! They have short descriptions of them, so you can find what you're looking for a little easier. Only bad thing is the quantities you have to buy. We work with the neighbors around here and share them, so it's not as big of a deal. Thanks for all the info!
I'm a huge fan of the Cherokee purple and Kelloggs breakfast tomatoes I don't think I'm going to grow and cherry tomatoes next year I'm just tired of them but if I do happen to grow one it will be the black vernisage
We grow many types of tomatoes,sweet millions among them! We had volunteers in the compost pile and so we were over loaded! I ended up putting them through the tomato juicer and made tomato soup...it was delicious!
I love how you guys don't interrupt or talk over each other
FYI chickens love watermelons and cucumbers, nothing but the thinnest skins left after they are done eating. I love watching my girls devouring melons 🍉 🐓 / I love your channel and I love baker creek heirloom seeds.
“Sweet 100” cherry tomatoes🍅
I have planted Supersonic tomatoes for over 30 years. I love them. Also in the last 3 years I've also planted a few Pineapple tomatoes. They are huge slicers, and I've also canned them.
Oh, I also wanted to add, my Grandma had a system like yours for keeping track of foods made and consumed. It was on the freezer in her storage room with a pencil on a string right beside it. As she canned, froze, dried, or stored foods she used hash marks to keep track and then crossed them out as they were used so that she knew what they had and how much they used per year. Made sense to me because it was right there in her storage room with all of the foods and she could see with a glance what she had and what they needed to grow more of the next year.
My uncle raised and fed his family all his life from his garden and orchard. His favorite slicing tomato was called a beef steak. Large,solid and a great taste when included on a full sized hamburger ( it covered the whole patty). Keep up the good work, your success is a welcome diversion for us during these times. Thanks.
I like the sweet 100 cherry tomato. They have been very good tomato for my use
Have grown Brandywine (heritage) for more than a decade (N Georgia). It does require full sun and frequent watering. The hotter the weather the more care that is required. I’m 77 years old and still gardening. Love your channel although this my first comment. “God Bless You Also.” Buzzybruce
I remember when you discovered the veggie seeds the pigs "planted" grew into healthy plants! So neat
My favorite is big beef. Produces lots of big nicely shaped, good tasting, good for making sauce. We have been growing blond girl cherry yellow tomatoes for several years now, and they are good, and many, many on the plant.
Substitute Sungold for the eggyolk..Yum!
Kevin, you are subtly hilarious! The kind that can just be really enjoyed and never feel like it takes away from the content or diverts attention in an annoying way. I love it! Y'all are definitely one of my few very favorites.
Good point about the last ones that ripened later also extending the growing season.
You should watch the video about the pig farmer whose pigs would stop and wait to go to the trough until the farmer prayed. It’s awesome.
On notes for gardening. I end up hosing my notes at least once a season. My new phone has better features I can add text right to the photo and when I scroll up on the photo it has the time/date stamp. Its helping with my gardening this year a lot. Plus when fellow gardeners have issues I can send the photo to them with the notes and even arrows to point out issues.
Hi yall, its my first year gardening in NE Arkansas and I'm so excited I planted celebrity, big boy, and one called rainbow, and also beef steak
I planted sweet 1,000s this year and they have been super productive, delicious and fairly blight resistant. They will succumb to the blight when the Pacific NW rains start up, but for now, they are the healthiest tomatoes we grew this year.
... actually... maybe they were sweet million.
We are in a very hot climate so what works for us may not translate to you as well. We struggled for years to find tomato varieties that could handle the heat here. This year is our most successful so far! We are getting lovely slicing tomatoes from Aussie (really big red heirloom) and Carmello (medium red heirloom). Our best cherries are Mexican Midget and Cyril's Choice (red heirlooms). We are growing Amish Paste for the first time and it's doing great as well.
Feeding animals is very therapeutic. When they eat what you feed them it just feels good to see how very happy it makes them. Omg 😊💝😊💝😊💝😊
Big boy hybrid Bush. Absolutely great tasting, very little blight, and truly a great producer. My first year growing them and it will be a staple in the garden now
When I was growing up, my father always grew Rutgers tomatoes developed by Rutgers U in NJ and I believe that Jet Star was developed as a more disease resistant variety of it. Jet Star is always my choice for good eating on sandwiches and a good canner.
I'm with Kevin. To me it's a right of summer to pick the first tomato of the plant, warmed by the sun, wash it off and eat Right Now! 😁
I buy my seeds from Baker Creek too. I grow Black Krim, Carbon and a couple others for fun, and have found that with any "black" tomato, its best to harvest a little underripe, and bring them inside. The heat causes some to rot on the vine rapidly. When I bring them in early, and let them ripen on the counter, I get deep rich tomato. I have never had luck with "San Marzano"...weak vines, poor fruit. I live in Virginia zone 6, hot humid summers. "Black cherry" does well here too.
Zone 8b, we grow mortgage lifters for slicers.
I really like your poster idea vs the notebook. So much more efficient with that visibility of totals.
Yea Mortgage Lifter ,Not very uniform in size or shape but the best tasting and processing tomato .My wife loves them so much and they are heirloom you can save the seeds.
My favorites sweet million (cherry), Linguisia ( sauce) and big boy (slicer).
we moveing to Missouri in March next year from Alaska. your information helps so much. thankyou for all you do.
Don’t know whether others have asked,but I wonder if you could - once in a while - more closely show the t-shirts Kevin wears. I find them intriguing, especially the tan one with the chick and the fried egg. Thanks for your great vids, gentle humor, thoughtful presentations, and love of Life.
Big beef, Amish Paste, Grape cherry tomato
slicer - German Johnson for FLAVOR! paste - Amish, tried and true, sometimes reseeds. cherry - Yellow pear type - the reseed every year
I bought Jet Star tomato starts this year. I'll be canning for the very first time. I can't wait to see how they do.
For slicers Dr wyches yellow, Paul Robeson, climbing Triple crop, and Berkeley pink tie dye. For paste, Amish. For cherries, Brads blue gold berries , brads atomic grape, barrys crazy cherry. Super good!
A tip for the cherry type or grape tomatoes. I half or quarter them depending on size and I will very very lightly olive oil, white balsamic vinegar, salt, pepper and garlic powder, mix well then dehydrate them. They have a wonderful flavor and I eat them like potatoe chips! I store in a Mason jar and vacuum seal it. It's a bit time consuming cutting them up but the pay off is so very worth it. They store well also.
Nothing beats beefsteak for slicing. Yellow pear for cherry and I like bigger Romas too.
Slicer - Cherokee Purple & Brandywine Sudduth Strain
Cherry - Christmas Grapes
Dried mainly, but also for paste or pureé, and sauce: Principe Borghese (Prince Borghese)...a rather smallish, but very versatile tomato...superb dried and then preserved in oilive oil.
Opalka tomatoes are my favorite for canning and slicing. You MUST try Jelly Bean grape tomatoes. I can them whole as a pickled tomato and dehydrate them also. I put those in a ziploc with a bit of olive oil, some with seasonings, some plain. Store the ziploc in the freezer, pull them out to use in salads all winter.
If you want a yellow cherry, do the yellow pear! They are delicious and firm, For paste I like Romas. I don't grow the large varieties because I'm in a short growing season in the Pacific northwest.
Cherokee purple a delicious heirloom and the sweet 100 cherry tomatoes I also grow celebrity tomatoes which are very good.
More videos like this please. They are super helpful in planning next year's garden.
That wall chart is an awesome idea! My cucumbers went nuts this year so I've been canning for a good 2 weeks straight but I've lost count as to how many jars I've done. I'll have to implement that next year. Thanks for the idea!
We love growing sweet 100 for cherry tomatoes. Wonderful flavor and very prolific!
Katy C i'v grown sweet 100 several time both in the ground and straw bales. Very prolific and volunteer like crazy. Also extremely sweet and tasty.
I agree - my Sweet 100's even came back from a late hail storm that decimated the plant. It also does well every year, no matter the conditions.
Do you ever make jam out of your tomatoes? What breed of quail are you raising? I love the poster board idea. I always forget where I wrote things down. It’s easier to keep track when it’s out in the open.
I always grow amish paste. Hands down the best paste tomato and prolific. Heirloom also. The spouse loves the brandywine for fresh eating. Also an heirloom variety.
A really tasty tomato is Porter. Hard to find probably because it's an older type. Worth looking for. The color is closer to pink than red.
i grow romas and rudgers for just canning they make an awesome taste together. brandywine or big beef is usually what i grow for slicing .this year i got very few tomatoes and they were so small plus blight basically took over my garden I was so disappointed. Tiller broke and I begin to use grass clippings and cardboard and leaves but it was too much to do in short time to help much but by next year I hope all Ive read does work with this kind of mulching keeping blight off everything.
I watched your summer garden harvest in the other video and. I was amazed at how beautiful your fruits and veggies are. We grew small cherry tomatoes 🍅 and some heirlooms this summer but here in South Carolina it was too hot and they got sunburned. I’m disappointed about that.
Try Sweet 100 for a cherry, And for slicer ,,, park whopper , and big boy are my favorites.
I really like Scotian for slicers, and Pink Tiger Stripe for a cheery/grape tomato, super pretty. They are hardy - I grow them on the east coast of Canada with no trouble.
I have grown Amish Paste from Baker Creek for the last couple years and am pretty happy with those. I also grow yellow pear tomatoes and love them (i think i got them from Baker Creek also). All my other varieties are new to me this year from Baker Creek. Haven't harvested anything yet. We had a bad hail storm a couple weeks ago and they are just limping now so we will see what we get.
Yellow “Jelly Bean” cherry tomatoes were the favorite in my garden last year. They were a largish grape shape. Great taste, sturdy plants and kept producing even after the wind folded them over their tomato cages. Kept for a long time on the plants, and tasted good at all stages of ripeness.
Greetings from the Mosaic Community Garden of Chula Vista, Calif (San Diego) we simple were excited this last season with the Yellow Jelly Bean TOO. We were so overwhelmed by the quality, and our harvest was incredible. We included these in our pints for produce sales and we had such a great response to continue and include them on our next season planting crop. best, CEO, Gloria
Squash and pumpkin are a great wormer assistant too
I love LOVE the taste of the Cherokee Purple for slicers.
I have to grow in containers, too much caliche in soil...but yellow and red pear (heritage tomatoes) have always done well for me, whether in a container on ground or hanging! Only cherry tomatoe to be so prolific that some made it into house every morning! Usually got eaten off vine. Love tomatoes!
I’m in the uk 🇬🇧 - but I’m sure these varieties are classics - Roma as a paste, costoluto fiorentino as a slicer and sungold as a yellow cherry
Love your vlogs xx
Slicer, White Beauty. Paste, San Marzano. Cherry, Chocolate Cherry.
Cherry tomato=Sun Sugar. Canning and slicing tomato=jet star. Haven’t found a paste tomato I would recommend. Great though. Love your videos!
There eatable be glade you can grow them ..thank God for what you have ..
Mortgage Lifter for slicing Amish Paste for paste Yellow Pear or Blueberry (Indigo series) for cherry tomatoes
Thanks guys!!
Deep South Homestead I love your channel! You guys really know your stuff. As well as Living Traditions Homestead, of course! lol
I agree. Mortgage lifter is a great heirloom slicing tomato. Amish paste is a great heirloom paste tomato as well. I don't think it gets as big as the paste tomoatoes in the video but it is still my favorite.
I got my Amish Paste tomato seeds from High Mowing Organic Seeds out of VT, somewhat local to us here in CT. I started these indoors, perhaps too early as they were pretty large before it was really warm enough to get them into the ground, but WOW. I now have plants nearly 7ft tall, loaded with tomatoes, most on par with larger paste tomatoes, and some even bigger. Great meaty flesh for sauce, and also my wife's new favorite for slicing and eating with fresh mozzarella. Definitely under estimated the yield and size of these plants, but truly a favorite with us
I tried Amish paste last yr and it didn't do very well at all. I have grown Mortgage Lifter the in 2017 and I'm looking to try them again.
I absolutely love the super sweet 100s. only problem Is they are a hybrid and i can not collect seeds for years to come. but an amazing cherry Tomatoe none the less. I also love the black krim sandwich tomatoes
Hi Kevin and Sarah, you guys are my favorite and inspirational! Keep doing the good work you're doing! My favorite slicer of all time is the Cherokee Purple. I've attended the tomato festival at University of Missouri-Columbia's Bradford Farm several years - they always have taste testing of at least a hundred varieties. My favorite is always the Cherokee Purple! So huge, and the old-fashioned tomato flavor I'm looking for. Indeterminate variety, and large amounts of huge, early ripening fruits.
Lemon Boy yellow slicer tomato. Yellow Pear cherry tomato.
Red current tomatoes. They are tiny, yet flavourful. I use them as a tiny garnish on my devilled eggs. They are the best weeds, nothing bothers them. I plant them in an obscure area, and whatever falls seeds the next year (unless the winter was brutally cold). Not really a production tomato, but a great garnish.
Slicer - if you want red try boxcar willie. Orange try chefs choice. Purple try Cherokee purple
Cherry - yellow: sun sugar F1 hybrid. Red: husky red cherry was yummy
Paste: we tried Amish paste and has some decent success.
I think pink oxheart would do well as a paste or slicer. We got 20# per plant and they did well vs disease. Pink oxheart we use for everything, but we are backyard gardeners... we were giving these things away constantly
I think you should try Tappys heritage. It’s a slicer and it’s amazing. So disease resistant, an absolutely beautiful shape- ALWAYS, easy to core, great taste, and never cracks. Even when so many other varieties do. Try it!
Black krim and Cherokee purple are my favorite tomatoes.
Cherry tomatoes I always grow are sun gold (orange) pear (yellow) and sweet 100 (red). Slicing tomatoes are always early girl. :)
I actually grew Black vernissage which I also received first time free from Bakers Creek. Two years ago I used them in salsa because I had so many. They made great salsa. My family loves this variety.
Grace did a nice job decorating your board. I always grow the yellow pear tomato. Love them.
We had really great luck with Green Zebra tomatoes this year. Wonderful flavor. A green tomato but blushes yellow on the crown when ripe. Hopefully that would take care of that issue of not knowing when they are ripe.
Mexico slicing tomatoes have been very nice, large, tasty, pretty, leaves stay greener in the greenhouse. Anna Russian for paste tomatoes, same with the leaves...grew several varieties of tomatoes both outside & inside. Sun sugar are our favorite sweet cherry tomato. Also doing better in the greenhouse than outside, probably bcz the leaves don't get wet.
I tried a plum tomato called Cuori de Bue. An Italian plum. Very dense and large. Lovely for Sandwich. Will try tomorrow for canning
Try "Sun Sugars" from Totally Tomato 😋
You can eat them yellow, or wait until they turn orange!
We don't grow any other cherry tomatoes anymore! I wash & put them in a bowl on the counter, & before I know the bowl is empty! They also freeze well in a gallon bag so you can just pour them into meals :)
Kevin Just eat them once, then Sarah will always find you in the garden 😉
Another vote for Cherokee Purple. I'll also second the vote on Abraham Lincoln. Good producer and it has done the best in my yard where I have always been battling blight. I had great success this year with Ultra Sweet. Tons of fruit and really tasty.
great vid guys! my all time top 3 are Black Prince, Chocolate Stripes, and Cherokee Purple...favorite cherries are Sunsugar, Rapunzel, and Chocolate Cherry!!! my channel is mostly fireworks vids but i do have two vids of tomato hauls that show some pretty maters if you get time to check them out!
We grow the chocolate cherry tomatoes just for garden snacks. We like the striped Roman's for stewed tomatoes. Amana Orange for tomato jam. For slicing, Cherokee purple, brandywine, costoluto genomes, green zebra. Well I guess we just love tomatoes. We often grow 20+ varieties in our garden.
Kevin seems like a guy I could hang out with. Very cool video, thanks and keep 'em coming.
I LOVE the yellow pear it's wonderful in salsa and the yellow is a nice change for the salsa
You need Ca in your soil blight wont be as big of a problem. Hit them with a Ca fertilizer then till in a bag of oyster shells at the end of the season. Tomatoes rapidly deplete Ca from the soil(same oyster shells that you would feed chx)
My chickens love cherry tomatoes, they scramble for a handful of those thrown in for them. And the cherry tomatoes have gone WILD this year. They are Matt's Wild Cherry this year, small but excellent flavor. Also the yellow pear did well, nice treat, bright yellow, easy to see , don't over ripen fast, hold well. Some tomatoes have split for me this year as Pennsylvania is drowning in rain.
Amish paste is a good sauce and canning tomato, yellow pear and chocolate cherry are super delicious sweet and not as acidic. I had an evergreen tomato and a purple cherokee that I loved the flavor of and am going to try growing come spring. If you come across these through a farmers market I would recommend ya'll try one. I buy a couple of each to try and keep a list of my favorites for making my garden plans then do research to see if they are suited for my garden and also if they are heirlooms or hybrids for seed saving.
Yes, I got those same tomatoes for free from Baker's Creek. They did not survive seedling stage over here in TX. I am jealous that your san marzano's grew so well. They did not grow this time around over here. Prolly too hot for them here with the 116F Degree weather. I recommend the Cherokee Purples Tomatoes. They have a delicious smoky flavor and can have a high acidic taste sometimes. The yellow Dr. Wyches are delicious too.
In the middle of watching your video I realized I think I have the same garden hat. Mine is a slogger and I love it - though it looks much better on you. :) Love seeing what other people grow. Have to try some of your varieties. Thanks
If I could only pick one tomato to grow ,it would be the German Pink ,absolutely delicious
Chocolate Cherry & Matt Wild Cherry are 2 of my favs
We love the Sweet 100s for cherry tomatoes.
We grow several varieties of cherry tomatoes. The one we plant every year is Sun Gold. They are good producers, with a good, sweet flavor. They have shown good blight resistance in our garden.
very yummy mater! i like sun sugar too, they are very similar.
I had really good luck with the Husky Red Cherry tomatoes.
Sunburst orange cherry tomato is the best. Sweet not acidic. Makes all the rest taste like poison.
Try the Japanese Black Trifele tomato for paste next year. I got the seeds from Amazon this year. I have growmn them here in western Washington for over a decade. They are very meaty and nice cooking flesh. I have made green tomato relish with them from a recipe in my family for over 100 years. They grind up great and even green have a sweet flavor. Your pigs would like the extra juice from grinding.
Your garden videos are great! My favorite slicer is Brandywine. The flavor is unbeatable. I have yet to find a favorite paste tomato. Maybe I need to try the oplaca. Cherry tomato for me is Juliet hybred. Great flavor, unbelievably productive and blight resistant. Juice them by the handfuls through my trespade no cutting or coring. Brandywine is now available in a hybrid for better resistance.
Black Krim from baker creek is the best tasting tomatoes that we have ever grew. It is definitely a slicing tomato none have made it to the canner they are too good. We also like the black verni??? cherry tomatoes that you have from baker creek. And our canning tomato seeds came from seeds that we saved from a local u-pick. We tried a bunch of different ones this year too and these are the 3 that we will grow again next year.
The best cherry tomato is the orange Sun Sugar. An improvement over Sun Gold as it does not crack as easily. You can buy the seeds from Totally Tomatoes!
I love you guys and your videos! God bless you, your family and your lifestyle. This is how I grew up. Keep it up!
Burpee's Big Mama....paste..they are a hybred...some years they do not have seeds. Napa grape for cherry tomatoe. Both I have Grown in WY
We get all of our seed from Rupps. They have so many varieties of everything it's mind boggling! They have short descriptions of them, so you can find what you're looking for a little easier. Only bad thing is the quantities you have to buy. We work with the neighbors around here and share them, so it's not as big of a deal. Thanks for all the info!
I'm a huge fan of the Cherokee purple and Kelloggs breakfast tomatoes I don't think I'm going to grow and cherry tomatoes next year I'm just tired of them but if I do happen to grow one it will be the black vernisage
You all are so funny about the tomatoes! My father grew tomatoes in our small back yard. Love them. Cherry tomatoes, Roma, and beefsteak tomatoes.
Sweet 100s cherry and red duce for slicing
Oxheart is delicious different shape but great meaty sweet tomato. Best I've ever eaten
We grow many types of tomatoes,sweet millions among them! We had volunteers in the compost pile and so we were over loaded! I ended up putting them through the tomato juicer and made tomato soup...it was delicious!
I forgot my recommendations other than the cherry tomatoes, we like four ninety s for paste and Big Boys for slicers!