We Tried. They Failed. Not Growing THESE Again!
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- Опубліковано 18 вер 2024
- Today we are having an honest discussion about all the tomato varieties we grew this year.
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Been growing tomatoes for 40 years in our backyard in NJ. This year was absolutely amazing. We only grow from our saved seeds which are all heirloom. This summer and past summers the stars where our German Pink Beefsteak. Each plant produced well over 50 to 60 tomatoes weighing in at just under or over 2lbs each. The tomatoes are all pulp with little water and seeds. We gave out a bunch to the neighbors and they where blown away by the taste of them. Our second favorite tomato is our striped Roma tomato, it by far surpasses the San Marzano tomato in taste and size. We allow any of our tomatoes to volunteer around the yard and this year as well as last year the cherry tomatoes where very prolific and huge. So far this year alone we have harvest well over 900lbs of tomatoes and have made all our ketchup, salsa, sauce, chili sauce, enchilada sauce, tomato soup for a years supply or more just from this years tomatoes. We also grow Black Krim tomatoes which we us to make BBQ sauce as it's a dark tomato. All the tomato scraps and extra tomatoes around the yard the ducks and chickens eat when they are out free ranging. Our tallest tomato plant so far this year is the pink heirloom beefsteak which just hit 15foot and still going strong. We started the spring off with tons of rain, no sun, wind and still managed to get tomatoes planted outside in late march in the raised in ground beds. Summer hit with lots of 90 degree days, and no rain. We heavily mulch all the garden beds with shredded leaves, grass clippings, rabbit poo and paper bedding along with comfrey leaves. We don't use any fertilizer from the store, just what we have on hand. All beds are heavily amended with our homemade compost which is full of reg wiggler worms, lots of chicken, duck, quail and rabbit poo as well as anything organic that we put in it. Been picking tomatoes since and it's now September and we are still picking.
I am impressed! And envious!😊
Wow! Impressive!! What county are you in? I'm in Warren... close to Del water gap. I should weigh how many pounds we get but I'm sure it's no where near 900lbs. I grow Roma and Roma VF along with Amish paste but never heard of striped Roma. Good for you growing for 40 years!
You prob grow in ground I'm assuming since such high yields...just support with cages ??
Are you selling any on etsy or anything?
I'm in NW Missouri and can never get any tomatoes with Black Krim and not many with German Pink. I will try it again, though.
THE BEST TOMATO REVIEW EVER!!! Thank you so much for the very thoughtful review! I loved that you sliced the tomatoes both directions to show the level of juice and cores. Also, I think the descriptions were spot on! About 10 years ago I had a shattering experience with an Heirloom tomato that was so delicious sliced with a bit of salt... I went crazy having them on my toast for breakfast, on my lunch plate at work and for dinner... I did that for about 3 days and then suddenly I got the worst Hives of my life!! I had NO idea what caused it, but it landed me in the Emergency room at the local hospital. The ER doctor checked me out and said that it was a Nasty case of Hives and when he reviewed if I had been eating any FRESH things more than usual, we discovered the Suspect quickly! Since then, I am careful how many I eat, but I still love them... Again, Sarah and Kevin... THANK YOU!!!
I'd love to know which seed company you got your ORIGINAL Large Cherry tomato seeds from.
Love that you did comparison of different tomatoes .
Glad to see some "real" tomatoes. When i was a kid in the 60s, my mom grew delicious tomatoes in her garden (totally superior to any supermarket tomato). My brother and I would take a salt shaker to the garden and eat them like apples. They were so delicious that we would cut thick slices and put them on white bread with mayonnaise.
I did the same in my granddaddy’s garden that was just out the back door, and beside the path to the outhouse. His farm’s main crop was Burley tobacco, though we had corn fields for eating and livestock feed. A salt shaker, or sometimes a little dish of sugar for rhubarb stalks😊was a daily thing to take out back on a summer afternoon
Mr Kevin hasn’t gotten too tired of the tomatoes yet, he has already eaten enough for a meal. 😊
I grew Amish paste for the first time this year. I didn’t realize they got so big! Very happy with them.
We love our cherry tomatoes cut in half, sprinkled with seasoning then freeze dried. They make perfect snacks😊
Black Cherry tomatoes are my absolute favorite !
I love them too. They did great in years passed. Not this year though. My second favorite are those tiny currant tomatoes they showed. Yes, they go buzerk. But, I love them in pasta salads. We eat a lot of pasta salads in the summertime. I also love the yellow and orange cherries. The spliting is a bummer. But, I will still grow them because of the taste. Different strokes I guess.
My first time growing them. Only got a few, and only shared enough of those for the family to try them. We all agreed to have a lot of them next year
The Good Lord threw a few curve balls this year, but we bounce back💪🏻💯🙏🙏🙏
Both my son and sister won't eat a fresh tomato but love tomato sauces, ketchup and salsa. I love any tomato, any way I get it.
The most successful tomatoes for me, this year, were my campari's. It was crazy. I had cut open an organic Campari and just squished it over the pots and I ended up with hundreds of beautiful plants. I gave many of them away. Even though that was months ago, I am still seeing plants pop up all over. They were also very sweet and delicious. I will do that again next year! Even though they are considered hybrid, they grew to be the same size and delicious taste
I'm weird too. Can't stand cooked, frozen , or pickled green beans of any type, but happy to eat them fresh off the stalk😊
If I could only grow one tomato, it would be Amish Paste. It is an heirloom, it is SO versatile, and has the BEST flavor of any tomato I've ever eaten or grown & I've grown a lot. I did a trial of 72 varieties a few years ago, mostly cherries, and now I only grow Amish Paste & my favorite 6-8 cherries. I use Amish Paste for everything, sandwiches, salads, salsas, soups, sauces, tomato slices, eating like an apple . . . everything!
MIGARDENER!!!! YES!!!!!!! i love luke's channel, his seeds, his wealth of knowledge, his humility and TRIFECTAAAAAAAAA!
Except out of stock too much
@@theresatyree3904 not everything but at the end of the season, yeah.... but that's what happens when its a quality product
MIGARDNER..never a disappointment with their seeds. I usually stock up about this time of yr.
I love MIGardener, too! I buy in bulk to stock up for the year!
I like Jet Star, & Sweet 100's Cheery tomato's & Big Boy, & Better Boy, when I had a garden. I miss having a Garden.
Very interesting. Know to get the jet star tomatoes. Amish paste and the Juliette ones. Thank you for showing and telling about them. Hearts and a flowers coming to you. ❤️💐
Juliette and beefsteak😊. Started a new one last year called indigo red and they are delish...I saved seeds and grew again... just love them.
I was surprised but pleased to hear that you, Sarah, don’t like fresh tomatoes. Neither do I. I do not like the taste, and the slimly seeds are yuck to me. However, I grow tomatoes because I love anything made with tomatoes. I make my own sauce and paste and ketchup.
Same same
Sarah, you’re not weird about fresh tomatoes. I’m with you on eating fresh, but love them any other way. I really enjoy the videos.
I have learned a lot. Thank you for what y’all do.
Good ☕️☕️ Morning Kevin & Sarah,I loved your video this morning BUT I also love seeing your animals your growing season & your beautiful homestead.Everything is so neat & clean because of your hard work!Blessings sent your way!❤
Received a tomato plant from a friend, best tasting large tomato I ever tried. Black Krim.
You're not so weird, Sarah. I can't even stand the smell of fresh carrots, but I love them cooked. Hey...that's just us!! God bless you.
Thank you so much for your kind comments. You’re insight is much appreciated! ❤
I love the large red cherries too! Brandywine and Cherokee Purple are my faves.
@@julieschossow9315 Cherokee purple hands down best flavor
I grew the Amish Paste this year; it is a forever winner! My kids loved the taste for salads and they fact that they are not watery. I never had enough to make sauce because they were so good fresh. And the plants are hardy and were loaded with fruit, even though I was growing them in EarthBoxes.
Sarah-I thought I was the only weirdo who loves tomato products but not fresh tomatoes.
Pico de gallo is my favorite salsa, raw 6 Roma, white onion, 1/4 c lime juice, salt to taste and cilantro. Now I’m not a big cilantro fan so I put the leaves on top put it in the fridge overnight and then remove the cilantro and enjoy. The flavor without the cilantro leaves
Just started my garden & got 2 tomatoe plants, got from a lady in neighborhood, just a big red round tomatoes! We will see how they turn out
Super informative and very well presented. Thank you for taking the time putting this together.
We love Juliet tomatoes! We love how long they last after picking. I've been making a tomato soup base out of them. I freeze the base then when I want soup I add chicken broth, cream and a cube of frozen basil. Great for when the snow starts flying.
Yep, here in Indiana I had all that plus a tree fell on our raised beds, wiped out the fencing & electric fences. Tore down out hanging tomatoes & the shade clothes. All on a beautiful, sunny day!
I seeded 7 varieties & learned so much!!
Hi my friends. I love your videos. God bless you y'all for your beautiful video. I'm making and can't complain about it and I think it's it's not today we can decide the tomatoes 🍅
My all-time favorite thing in the summer is a bowl of freshly picked cherry tomatoes in all colors/flavors. Mix them with some diced cucumbers, a bit of red onion, salt and pepper, and that's a side dish I could eat every night! I no longer have a garden, so I have to be satisfied with the rainbow assortment box I can get at the grocery store. Maybe next summer I'll plant some. I will say from experience, though, that once you plant spoon-type tomatoes, you never have to replant them. They reseed and grow prolifically. In fact, a fun thing to do might be to plant them in various places around the edges of your wooded areas to feed the wild birds. They'll grow there year after year, and if you find yourself wanting to add them to a salad just for fun, you'll have them available.
My favorite slicer is the Raspberry Lyanna. They are smaller than most other slicers BUT the flavor is so good!! Funny I had made up my mind a few weeks ago that next year will NOT be year of "trying" new ones. 2 paste, 2 slicers, and 2 cherries. Already started my list of what to grow and when to plant. Thanks for sharing. God bless and protect.
weather...same here in N. Mississippi - crazy season
Not to far North here in SW TN...same.
The yellow cherry tomatoes make wonderful tomatoe jam
I love tomatoes so much that I can probably give Kevin a run for his money😊😊
Our tomato harvest was the pits this year. No flavor, mushy insides and hard skins...not a great year...we have had AMAZING tomatoes in past years but not this year!! We hope next year is better. Love your videos Sarah and Kevin...cute shirts too!!
Here too
@@lisarussell1521 not sure what is going on this year!!! We have a plot at a area community garden...we purchase our plants from an Amish nursery in Jamesport, MO every year and they are always AWESOME...but not this year...I am so bummed...I choice not to preserve any and just give them away...hopefully next year will be a better year for us.
I grew Spoon tomatoes this year and my great nephew loved picking them with me. They liked eating them too because they picked them.
I used to buy all my seeds from MI Gardener. The outcome eventually became inconsistent across the board, wrong variety, poor germination, etc.
I have switched to FEDCO, Botanical Interests, Jung and Southern Seed Exchange and have been very pleased.
Totally agree on the yellows - not a fan. But... our customers frequently ask for them, so we at least grow seedlings for sale.
I grew persimmon tomatoes this year. Bright orange and very sweet
This year we planted a pear-shaped yellow tomato. They taste great and are firmer than typical cherry tomatoes. I plan to save seeds from them and grow some of them next spring.
Super Great video
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Agreed kevin tomatoes are the best. My favorite are the same as well, can't ever get enough of them. Thank you for sharing and explaining what you are doing.
My Grandfather used to sell his extra tomatoes from his front yard. I would help when not in school. His favorite tactic was to place a huge yellow one on the top of the baskets. I've had other people come back to ask for a basket of just yellow ones. I just love the little yellow pear tomatoes - even got my grandson thinking they were candy.
My problem is I go to a nursery after I planted everything and see something else I think I would like to try. Started off with 2 cherry tomato and got to 8. Enjoying the content.
I grew Amish paste for the first time this year, and was really impressed.
Another great video about Tomatoes and it was great for sure. Loved the show and tell and will be watching it again. Stay safe and keep up the great job around there and the fun you all have too. Fred.
I have planted the same seed and same variety in ground and in containers. They are sometimes like two different tomatoes.
You can save the Juliet seeds and put the offspring seeds in an area you don't broadcast to see "Who knows!?" I have saved sweet pepper seeds from the grocery store and grew them this year. They were smaller than the lunchbox sweet peppers I purchased and by saving the seed, I got seed for free! All three colors grew out to fruit and they were plentyiful, and they were sweet. Grow out the hybrid seeds in another area just to see what you get, It might surprise you.
I had tomatoes coming out of my ears this year, I the last two weeks, I have harvested 10-12 big mixing bowls heaping full.
I've been loving this year because of all the tomatoes!!😊😊
Sun Sugar is my favorite cherry tomato
💯 If I could only grow one tomato, it would be Sun Sugar!
My dad grows a tomato called Big beef they remind me of the jet stars . Have small cores good as a slicing tomato and a canning tomato. We love them. They are also a hybrid tomato.
I grew an Amish paste tomato called 'Blue Beeches' which looks like a cross between the Jersey Devil and the Amish paste. They did very well and will be a keeper for me. Very large and dense for a thick sauce... and the Jet star and my all time favorite the Beef steak. All did well this year until the late July heat. I gave a good dose of plant food and they are producing again.
For 40 years, we would try new varieties in addition to some favourites, and then those favourites would be changed and now we have settled on three that we will always grow. Cherry tomato variety is called "42 days". It is very early, I save the seed and sow several times to get a long harvesting season. Does ok in a hanging basket. The favourite paste is called "Ludmilla's Plum". Prolific, hardy and tastes good. And "Ashleigh" is a nice slicer, large, heirloom, and the flavour is so good.
These sound interesting! May I ask what growing zone you're in?
My Grand-Littles love picking/eating Tessa's/Spoon tomatoes.
Ideal for little kids.
Hello Kevin and Sarah this year for me was very successful i only had 5 tomato plants but the amount i got was surprising. i got over 60 tomatoes . i did have a yellow tomato plant only because i couldn't get another red one . but i like the yellow ones. ive been eating bacon and tomato sandwhiches. for the last 2 weeks.
I'm the same way. Do not like tomatoes but love sauces, ketchup, and salsa. So I completely understand! We planted 27 amish paste for sauces.
I appreciate these videos with your pros and cons explained. I also have my favourites but love to try something new especially on tomatoes, sweetcorn and squash. Personally when growing tomatoes I like a beefsteak, a standard salad/slicing tomato and a cheery such as Sungold. I find this covers all bases for our needs.
Sarah, I’m like you in eating tomatoes. Not weird at all.
Your "only" downside of Jet Star is, to me, an absolute showstopper. I will never grow a hybrid and not be able to save my own seed. By buying hybrids, I feel like I would be supporting the seed industrial complex's efforts to strip us of any and all capability to produce our own food. There have been big seed companies, those producing the GMO and/or hybrid seeds, who have sought in courts to get propriety ownership of open-pollenated seed strains and trying to pass laws that allow them to search any garden for unlicensed possession of their products and to then criminally charge just like they do with wheat, soybean, and corn seeds, amongst others.
My favorite slicers, that I grow reliably in NE Oklahoma, producing the most perfect fruit of any tomatoes I have ever grown, are Cherokee Purple and Mr. Stripey. I actually got introduced to these about 6 years ago because they were offered at the local Lowe's, of all places. I bought them and they were amazing. I continue to grow them year after year from both cuttings (but missed this year) and from saved seeds. I have seeds saved from other varieties as well, all open pollinated and I can grow all the tomatoes I can use for the rest of my life.
Here in the Interior of BC Canada was a prolific abundance , we had a very cool start to the year then a bountiful harvest .
My original large cherry seeds came from dollar general and I still grow them 7 years later. My original yellow pear tomato plant came from a nursery a few miles away and I still love growing and eating them for over 10 years. I try different slicers and paste but my favorites are kelloggs breakfast orange and amish paste. In middle TN.
Our favorite tomatoes are stripeys. This year I tried a different tomato seed and I will definitely be planting it again next year. It’s called Sweetie Tomatoes. They are about the size of marbles and are similar to the sweet 100 tomatoes. In comparison to taste the taste sweetie tomato is sweeter than sweet 100.
Thank you again Sarah and Kevin. This was very helpful and I am hoping my climate will provide the right conditions to grow the jet stars. I have never tried but anxious to tsince I have been following you for years now and know it’s your favourite. I live in Canada zone 7a so keeping my fingers crossed!
Use your local last and 1st frost dates as to safe times/dates to plant and
harvest by. We are in zone 5a/b in Maine and start planting mid to end of May,
and have plenty of time for determinants. While with indeterminate varieties
can harvest up to 1st actual frost. We start cutting new blossoms end of August
as days are shorter and won't produce much even if green. Either way, if you
get a frost forecast, get everything picked that you want to keep off the plant
before that night. You should be fine. Hope this helps. Mark n Rosa
I love the Juliet tomato. (First year for this one) I love in a salad, because I don’t like whole tomatoes in a salad; - so the Juliet slices easily into little “mini-disks” so I can get one on my fork with each bite.
I'm with you Sarah. Don't like raw tomatoes but love everything else. Sauce, stewed, ketchup etc. We grew a new cherry type tomato last year that my daughter picked up at a farmers market. They were called Sunrise Bumblebee and everyone loved them who eats raw tomatoes. After researching them I found they are an heirloom so I saved some seeds. I also ordered seeds from Azure because I didn't trust my seed saving skills yet. Grew both this year and the seeds I had saved did better than the new ones I ordered. I'm thinking it was because they were adapted to my climate better like you say. Also got Amish Paste from Azure like you recommended and you are SO right. It's a terrific tomato. Thanks for all your advice Kevin and Sarah
Yes, we will convince you to stick with the tomato experiments! You turned me on to this, so dont bail on us now😂
Most of my success was with the cherries. I agree with you on the super tiny varieties in that they are just too time consuming and the skins are tough. My orange current grew like Jumanji though, so they get thrown in the chicken coop for a little snack as I prune them out of my way.
My ultimate favorites were gobstopper, champagne bubbles and what I think was super sweet 100. You must be patient and leave them on the vine for ultimate sweetness. I have a row right outside the kitchen door that gets snacked on all day.
My larger favorite is Wapsipenican Peach. Another you must leave on the vine to ripen. If you wait until a little red cross forms on the bottom, you wont be sorry🤓 These make a great mild chili for people who cant take the high acid of a red tomato. Also, we live near the "Wapsi" river in Iowa so its a fun one to talk about😎
Our sandwich tomato is a super compact orange one. We got a bunch from a neighbor and he forgot the name so we named it after him and save the seeds.
My big losers were mortgage lifter and brandy wine. The ripe green shoulders throw me off and they arent anything special taste wise. Also Indigo Rose is beautiful, but lacked any resemblance whatsoever to having flavor. Lol
Im looking forward to seeing what you really decide to grow next year😉
I grew Juliet's on your recommendation and they've done so well!! I planted extra ones under my cattle panel hoop, they've grown up and over it and are more than half way up our Bay tree.
Love the shirts!
I have grown Amish Paste for 2 years now, in my 10 x 40 ft hoop/greenhouse in GA - just 20 mi south of ATL. We have had insanely HOT weather this year and part of last. So I have not had much of a harvest at all. Everything this year has taken a beating. I have also grown Black Strawberry Tomatoes which have been very productive and yummy. Great for salads. I also dug up a volunteer plant that has steadily been producing like gang busters. It's a very small yellow grape-like tomato. It came up inside a chicken pen and probably from a store bought tri color package. Everyone is raving about them. Having a lot of trouble with my Beefsteaks. None produced yet.😢 Been trying to start them indoors earlier and earlier. Thinking maybe that's been a big factor. But I am convinced it's just been too hot. Next year I plan to grow outside of the greenhouse and inside.
One tomato that I plan to grow every year is the Lemon Boy. Even though it is yellow, it has the best flavor of all. I’m 65 and live in zone 8b and it’s the best for eating. I also like the sweet 100’s cherry (or grape) tomato. But for canning…..I like a big red tomato. ❤❤❤❤
This morning we made another 14 pints of juice from our Jetstar plants. This is the second year we planted Jetstar. Thanks for the recommendation.
My husband doesn't like fresh tomatoes either but he'll definitely eat salsa, pizza sauce, spaghetti sauce...and I absolutely LOVE fresh tomatoes. Ain't nothin' like standing in the warm sunshine, picking a warm, delicious cherry tomato off the vine, closing your eyes and enjoying every single moment! I grew 3 new varieties this year...Tropical Sunset cherry tomato, Honeycomb cherry tomato and Brandywine red tomatoes. Honeycomb was definitely my favorite, they were so sweet and prolific...Tropical Sunset was bigger than the Honeycomb but not very sweet...Brandywine got a late start but they were really delicious and made an awesome 'mater and ma'anaise samich!!!! Thank you for this video!! I'm definitely going to try the Amish Paste next year.
I feel the same as you Sarah. Fresh salsa and cooked tomatoes. But I love growing them anyway.
Hi Kevin & Sarah! Thanks for your tomato review.....so, funny story. After watching your video I decided to go ahead and order the Amish Paste & Jet Stars for spring. I ordered from Totally Tomatoes. I got a call from Totally Tomatoes the next morning and he said this time of year they probably get only 5 orders for tomatoes and that night got almost 50 orders for almost identical tomato orders. He wanted to know what prompted me to order tomatoes last night from them?????? So, I said I think I know what happened....................
My tiny grandbabies loved the spoon tomatoes as a novelty. Mine did not ripen in clusters, so picking them on their jungle vines was impossible!
I live growing tomatoes but this year was a tough one! We had a very wet spring here in north central Missouri so mine struggled for a couple months. They have gone crazy in the last month but not sure if they'll have time to ripen before first frost! Like you my sister doesn't like to eat fresh tomatoes but eats salsa and sauce. I love trying new varieties and my favorite yellow is Dr. Wyche. Big delicious tomato. A yellow cherry variety is a yellow bumblebee. Yellow with red streaks when ripe. Yummy flavor. Thanks for sharing and I look forward to watching what new varieties you grow next year.
I loved spoon tomato.i would cut off branch and shake off. Plus reseeded 2times
My all time favorite tomato is the Mr stripey. A yellowish tomato with red stripes on the top. I love the flavor however they tend to be a really soft tomato. I also love the German pinks which is actually more of a purple color, but bursting with flavor. I think I may try the jet star. Thanks for the reviews.
My favorite cherry tomato is the Chocolate Sprinkles, they are a very flavorful tomato, an indeterminate variety and I will always plant this variety. I planted Bumble Bee cherry tomato and it is also hard to pick without ripping the top of the tomato so the rest of the seeds I will put in the trash.
Paul Robeson Enough said. It's one of my favorites for slicing, Salsa and really saved me this year on sauce. My sauce tomatoes didn't thrive and I needed to replace my sauces and salsa. It is juicy. But I just let them drain off some before processing. But for flavor. I love it. Krim is similar. I know there will be a time that I will need to put more effort into growing more for production in the next few years. But for now. With the smaller garden space that I have. I am just enjoying and learning how to grow. I do have to agree about the Amish paste tomatoes. I thought I had enough seeds for this year. But realized to late to order that my package had some how ended up empty. Poor record keeping on my part. So I ended up with subpar paste tomatoes. Wont make that mistake again. My favorite cherry tomatoes are the black cherry tomatoes. The sweetest of all the cherries I have tasted.
I grew juliet tomatoes fir the first time this year. I will definitely grow again taste good a great size and very profligate
Amish Paste is good on sandwiches - totally agree with that.
The Juliet is the best tomato for Southern gardens. We use it for sauces, salsas, and pico di gallo and they all taste amazing! We'll try the Jet Star next year for a slicer. :)
I grew Amish Paste first time this year, and I had several so large they were the same size as my 5 cup Mr Coffee pot! and delicious! I was shocked and yes I took pictures. and many others very large. Made my sauce go much faster! It thrived in our very low rain year (8 inches below normal!).
10:09 my proven favorite is the pink brandywine. This grows so well for me in central
Kansas. It’s an heirloom, so seed saving ☑️
I bought a bunch of seeds from MIGardener, too. The Napa cabbage grew mustard greens and the Long purple egg plant grew normal teardrop fruit, so you could well have not gotten what the package said.
I too have had problems with MiGardener seeds. In about 15% of the packages bought (and I bought a lot), I have been either severely shorted in seed count, received a sealed package with no seeds at all, had zero germination from one variety even though I got two packages, or in several cases the peppers or tomato varieties ordered were completely different varieties once grown, losing the entire growing season for those plants. I am trying other seed venders for now. Hopefully it is just growing pains for them but the experience has left me looking elsewhere for quality cont
I grew Amish Paste and Rugby roma tomatoes this year for the first time and will definitely be growing both of them again next year! The Rugby ones are a gorgeous pink color! But they do have a bit of a point at the end, which you don't like. I also grew a yellow cherry tomato for the first time this year. It was from seeds that I saved from a friend so I'm not 100% sure what kind they are but I will likely grow them again next year because I love having beautiful colors in my salads in the summer. But my personal favorite cherry tomato is a black cherry that I saved seeds from many years ago and have been growing/saving seeds ever since. I loved hearing about all the kinds you grew. I didn't know tomatoes came in such tiny varieties!
Amish Paste is my favorite paste tomatoes. 2nd fav is Arkansas Traveler
Up in central NC we kove Purple Cherokee tomatoes. Big slicers with fun shoulder colors, plus they grow well in heat and humidity.
islsqo plant juliet every year. my father told me about those tomatoes. he is now no longer with us, so it is a sweet reminder of him each year. i also grow early girl every year. we live in san diego. luckily i was able to harvest all our tomatoes before the excessive heat wave we had here
I loved this review of your tomatoes! Thanks for such good feedback. I chuckle when you admit as the seed catalogs start you might get sucked in. 😊 happy planning. 💙🐸😎
Best tomato sauce I ever made was a combination if about 6 different types.
My first year either pink zebras. They are amazing! I also grow sungold cherry tomatoes and think they have great flavor for a orange tomato and are very prolific
Sarah, you are not alone! I'm not much on fresh sliced tomatoes, but I love using them in cooking. Tex-Mex and Italian cooking are my favorites, and you can't do them without tomatoes. The exception is Cherokee Purple tomatoes. I love those fresh.
Central Texas. Tomato season is done by July 1st (heat). Early Girls have become my go to variety.