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Florida Everglades Tomatoes produce early & often throughout the season all the way until the first frost, even during the sweltering heat & humidity of August here in central Alabama. I don't even need to spray them for pests or disease. They taste good & are not only good for salads, but good for sandwiches & snacking. I haven't tried them for sauce yet. They produce so much, that I make the excess into wine which looks & tastes like chardonnay, so they don't go to waste. I highly recommend them!
Cherry Tomato 'Sun Gold' tastes absolutely phenomenal. 'Sun Sugar' more desease resistant. 'Brandy Boy' tasty beefsteak tomato. 'Big Beef' very vigorous. 'Rosella Purple' is so sweet and low acid, can thrive in shady conditions. Determinate 'Siletz' is an early and late tomato with excellent flavor. 'Brandywine Yellow' susceptible to desease but ultimate flavor.
In the late seventies I lived for two years in Chowan County. Humidity was incredible, the biting flies were very quick to strike but there are no nicer people than Southerners. Everyone waves at everyone as you drive down the county roads, the BBQ is unique and the local sheriff came to my office one day and said " Son, sooner or later I'm going to catch you so why don't you slow your driving down and save us the bother". I took his friendly advice.
Super Sweet 100's are my GO TO. They never make it out of the garden because I eat them all. I only grow 2 every year due to how prolific, but they are a great tomato to boost grower confidence as they are easy to grow and also have large yeilds. Same as the sun gold, but sun golds tend to crack extremely easliy.
Super sweet 100's are very prolific for sure and grow them. Three yrs ago I tried the Sun Peach cherry and wow the flavor and 18 tomatoes per truss. They are a big hit and give them a try. 👍🌱
I started my sungold tomato plant inside early and I took a risk for My part of Pennsylvania and put the sungold out earlier than normal and she’s already got one fruit ripening and doing very well already almost 4ft only had one day I covered her just because went down to 39 but covered her and she’s fine growing very well now as weather been staying warmer! Wishing everyone abundant harvest and peaceful growing!
I had some struggles with the dark ones too. Black Krim and Cherokee Purple. Probably the best tasting but I have to pick them quickly when they're close or they go bad fast. They also crack and get funky more than most. At least here in Chicago. I like to leave tomatoes on the vine as long as possible. Trying a bunch of different ones this season. One is Brandywine Yellow. Yikes.
Love your channel. You are well spoken and know your subject well. Years of gardening and never knew about regular picking cucumbers to keep the plant happy. Same with the shade cloth for tomatoes. Tried it this year for the first time and was doing well, when Debbie came calling. I am north of you near New Bern, and she dumped 15" on the tomato enclosure. Lost 26 plants
We got 17 inches here and lost all our tomatoes (except the few I have growing under my rain gutters). All my tomatoes in grow bags were killed, unfortunately. It's tough growing here. We always get hit every single year 😰
An interesting tomato is "Bumble Bee" which is a very large cherry tomato. It's red with green stripes, the plants get huge, and they put out many, many tomatoes. I grew them successfully here in north central Florida last year, and one of my plants this year has one tomato that's almost ripe with many to follow!
Theres 3 versions of the bumblebee so far. A sunrise, a pink and a purple. I've only tried the sunrise and wanted some of the purple. Sunrise not my favourite but its good. I've got 5 very small sunrise bumblebees going rn. Theres a number of the artisan line cherry tomatoes and some places sell a mix. Theres a green tiger and a blushing tiger as well, that are shaped like torpedos or something.
@@VioletG629 Its good. I just prefer the flavour from one of the black tomatoes. I was thinking the purple version might fulfill me but I havent tried them yet.
I saw that…it was released last year I think, but I forget the name. I wound up passing on it, because I’m trying to replace my red and black cherry tomatoes first. I didn’t want another investigation 😂
So I recently bought citrus trees and I have came across your channel. I see you have tons of videos about growing citrus trees. How do I need to fertilize these newly planted trees? How often should I water them? I have done research, but a lot of the research conflicts and I just thought I'd ask you since you seem knowledgeable and you can't ask a google article a question.
How do you keep all your seeds organized and remember all the pros and cons on each kind? I always get lost in my seed box and just give up unless I'm looking for one specific plant.
I just bought some super sweet 100 and sungold for next years crop. I’m going to be expanding the garden so I’m excited to give them a try. I’m new to the channel (watching for about a month now) and I’m from Newfoundland Canada so this will be great.
Glad to hear you recommend Siltez. It grows well in the SFBay area. I'm exploring tomatoes from the Dwarf Tomato Project on your recommendation, so looking forward to seeing how Rosella Purple performs.
Have you ever tried Sart Roloise as a potential yellow brandywine replacement? Baker Creek sells it and I had fantastic results with it last year growing it for the first time (albeit in southern PA). Unbelievably prolific production of 12-16 oz black and yellow fruit, very tasty though I've never tried yellow brandywine to compare against.
Everyone's 'best' depends on their location. Here in west Oregon we tend to grow tomatoes developed for the Pacific NW. (Usually by Oregon State University’s vegetable breeding program) Our long wet springs, overcast days, short seasons, extreme heat and even late snowfall make this area different then most other parts of the country. It took me a few years to figure it out, but if I want consistent producers, I grow _Siletz, Beaverlodge, Oregon Spring, Indigo Rose and Oregon Star._
Great video and great channel! Glad to see your subscriber base increase week after week. It's proof that your videos are good and provide value to a large audience. Good job!
Paul Robeson (black) and Super Sioux (red) are two varieties suitable for the Carolinas climate. Also Aunt Lou's Underground Railroad, a rare pink beefsteak.
My favorite is also a Yellow. Lillian’s Yellow Heirloom. A tomato expert told me if I like Lillian’s, I should try Casey’s Pure Yellow for a better disease resistance package. I’m going to try it next year, along with Brandywine Yellow that you recommend. Thanks for the info. Oh yeah, I’m in South Georgia. I feel your pain.
I grow Sun Sugar for the reasons you stated (cracking). I grow Big Beef wouldn't be without it. I grow Brandywine and Carbon for my heirlooms. My paste tomato is San Marzano. I grow a grape called Sugary and a hybrid from Burpee called Medium Rare 16 - 20 oz very Smokey flavor. My advantage -- I live in N.J. I enjoy your videos.
Great to know there’s a reasonable alternative to the Cherokee Purple. I absolutely pamper my CP plants all summer, yet they have perpetual leaf curl and die off on me every year. Worth it for how amazing the flavor is, but I’m excited to try a more stable variety next year
Thanks for the great videos! I'm trying the Brandy Sweet Plum this year, not sure if you've tried that one. It's a Brandywine crossed with a cherry so thought I'd give it a try. Fun fact is it was originally an accidental cross!
Finally verification that you were from Jersey! I grew up there and part of the reason I love your channel so much is it makes me home sick! I live in Illinois now so everything‘s a little different here as well. You have so much great information to share with us. Please keep the videos coming.
I left NJ when I was 18. I've officially lived more of my life outside of NJ than in NJ. I have to say, I don't really miss it 😅 June, July and August in NJ is definitely more pleasant than where I live now, but the other 9 months here are a lot more pleasant (except the hurricanes).
Florida Everglades Tomatoes produce early & often throughout the season all the way until the first frost, even during the sweltering heat & humidity of August here in central Alabama. I don't even need to spray them for pests or disease. They taste good & are not only good for salads, but good for sandwiches & snacking. I haven't tried them for sauce yet. They produce so much, that I make the excess into wine which looks & tastes like chardonnay, so they don't go to waste. I highly recommend them!
You should check out the Floridade tomato and the Everglades tomato. They grow well in the Florida summer so they should be able to handle the heat and humidity
Here in SoCal, my go to tomato is the determinate Celebrity. Perfect size and shape. It’s fleshy and not all watery. I’m also growing some brandy wines and cherry falls. I have two volunteers that are growing like indeterminate, with wrinkled bottoms like heirlooms.
Dale is a smart guy sucking up the ocean breeze with peaceful sounds. ahhh, 😊I'm jealous of Dale. Thanks again for sharing great knowledge of growing tomatoes with their characteristics.
The Yellow Brandwine Plattfoot Strain gives better yield and a plant that often gives me late summer fruit. I totally agree on the pain and glory of growing this giant plant!
🍀☔🌱🌄 I have tried a wonderful variety that rivals Brandywine. Plants are available for this tomato named "Caspian Pink," which I found easy to grow in SE Michigan. When I read it beat out Brandywine in taste tests, I had to try it. I hadn't heard there was a yellow Brandywine!
I love sungold, chocolate cherry, hamson dx-52-12 (a mid century canning heirloom), cherokee purple and pineapple tomatoes. I prevented my sungold from splitting by mulching heavily with straw to help regulate the moisture, and picking them early. hard to keep up with them though!
I second the Rosella Purple recommendation! I grew it first last year after watching your videos, and your description is so spot on. About how tall does it get for you? I may have over-fertilized it last year, and it got to 6+ feet -- tall, for a "dwarf" tomato.
Glad those are great for your climate, but for the PNW colder, wetter climate many of those just don't work. I like Sungold, Black Krim, and Bradywine.
My third growing season of sun golds. They are little flavor bombs! My father got me into gardening about 14 years ago. I just picked a dozen or so of these little tomatoes to bring to him in the nearby senior home where he now stays.
What size container did you use to grow your Rosella Purple? I love your tomato videos, I'm gardening in North Florida for the first time and your recommendations are so helpful, thank you!
Thanks for doing these tomato videos. Last year, based on your review, I grew Siletz for the first time. Production-wise, the only variety that beat it for a slicer was Bella Rosa, which I highly recommend. Trying 4 different dwarf varieties this year, including Rosella Purple. We''ll see how they do in the San Diego area.
Well you named my all around fravorite...Big Beef. For many years I grew 400 plants for a little front yard tomato business. Throughout those years I experimented with many varieties until I settled exclusively on Big Beef. Not only did they have the flavor and yield, but a long shelf life as well. My runner up popular tomato was Golden Girl, but haven't been able to find the seed for years. Am a new subscriber and enjoying your videos. Live in the CA foothills near San Joaquin Valley.
I'm with you on sungold being the best-tasting tomato and I will always grow it. It's also highly productive. I'm in SoCal, so no problem with splitting here. But disease are a problem here, so I'm not going to be growing many of the other varieties you recommended. Love the idea of starting early with those early-producers with great taste you recommend. I'm looking for an Early Girl start because they do well here, the taste is good (not great, but good), and I'm dying to have real tomatoes after having none all winter and spring! Another favourite for me is Cherokee Green, which I like better than Cherokee Purple, but probably wouldn't do well for you there either.
Have you tried the Porter cherry tomato? You’ve giving so much good advice that I would like to reciprocate. I tried this one for the first time this year and they were so sweet. Everyone raved about them that tried them. 0 problems growing them. They were just great to grow. My family was eating them right off plant.
Seattle, WA September 8, 2023 The Early Girl tomatoes are finally ready to pick. I have never been happy with Early Girl. The monsoons will soon be here.
I'm trying Genuwine here in NE Florida this year. It's a hybrid of Brandywine and Costoluto Genovese. Plants are very prolific and loaded with tomatoes. Can't speak on flavor yet as the first ones are just starting to ripen.
Great video. I'm very happy to have finally found seeds of Sungold and Rosella purple (not easy here in Belgium), very impatient to taste it this summer. Thanks for sharing your advices
For next year have you ever tried the sub arctic plenty varieties? I am in canada and for 2 years i was able to get the seed. There were 2 types i got Sub arctic plenty, and sub arctic plenty beef steak. Those plants are designed for short season cold climates and omg in canada it was a winner straight up. The regular one has medium sized fruits, and they store so well! They were very prolific and the plants a more manageable size from what i remember. The beefsteak version i can never find the seed for anymore for a decade or more now,.. it was phenomenal. You got great large fruits and 1 was so stinking heavy, just wow. Not inclined to split, even when a slug ate a trail, that trail healed up and didnt split. Thick and meaty, good juice but not to juicy that it was soft and leaving puddles on your sandwich. Bright bright red. They kept well too. We kept picking off them well into cold fall weather and picked a bunch of greens right on the day we were gonna have a killing frost and keep maturing them in the house. We put some in fridge crisper, some in cold cellar. Both locations ripened slowly. We ate garden tomatoes that year up to November 22nd. From those green ones ripening slowly. Never have we experienced that. Our killing frosts are october. Can i find the friggin seed for sale anymore? Nope. GROWL!!!!!!!! Any seed catalogues carrying it for sale to canada let me know in the replies omg i love those tomatoes. Great flavour too. Really amazing for cold weather extension or for short growing window environments. If you find the seed try growing it i highly recommend. Bad side they can get blight like any other plant, last time i grew them i got blight however because i planted my rows of blight susceptible crops between other things like flowers and onions, lettuce the rows were removed far enough apart that i ripped out a whole row and the others never contracted it. I saved some. I tried that with other varieties and it didnt work but maybe its because i didnt see the blight soon enough for a culling action to work out. If you havnt tried those varieties i recommend you try next year (2024). Cheers.
I'm in Kannapolis NC. Based on your recommendations, I'll get some big beefs and a sungold thus year. L. L. Goodnights and Sons, in China Grove, sells both transplants. They also sell super 100's.
Earl's Faux is an awesome mid-season pink beefsteak tomato that produces well for me in the Midwest. It has a prolific potato leaf plant and takes the heat and humidity here in Nebraska. Çonsistently pumps out tomatoes through the season and is comparable to pink Brandywine (Suddith's) in taste Give Carotena or Jaunne Flamme a shot for a smaller tomato. Each are about golf ball sized appricott-orange colored and are simply delicious. Can take the heat and humidity as well
@@rickh633 I don't use peat moss because is a non-renewable resource, and also I don't wish to modify my soil pH. It's easier for me to just grow a different variety--although I keep growing OW because some of my family LOVE it.
I have been growing tomatoes for 11 years and every year I test varieties. I live in zone 6 …..I have grown 20 indeterminate and 12 determinate varieties and track production. Here is my go to list that I plant every year Indeterminate- Big Beef and Mountain Rouge Determinate - Red Snapper Roma type - Tachi
Have you ever tried "Delicious?" I grew it last year. Huge and yummy. The name says it, but I'm not sure about diseases. It was very vigorous here in Colorado. ❤
No. Open pollinated tomatoes generally do very poorly here. It's just too hot and humid. If I lived out west with low humidity, my approach would be a lot different. Here, you learn the hard way to seek out the really tough hybrids. The only heirloom variety I've found that does well here is Arkansas Traveler, which is one of the rare heat-bred, disease resistant heirlooms. San Marzano did pretty well, too, but I think there are better Roma types these days.
Appreciate the video as always! Would love to know your thoughts on grafted plants. We had some amazing Cherokee Purple last year and we're trying them again along with a few German Johnsons we picked up at Lewis Farms here in Wilmington. We added a few regular Cherokee Purple to see if we can tell a difference. Cheers!
Your fav are similar to mine...Sungold cherry, delish..Big Beef & Hritage Branywine....best tasting tomatos on the planet....tho finiky to grow !! A couple of my fav's also...(medium size) are Miracle Sweet & First Lady...very tasty.
Thanks for turning me on to determinate tomatoes! There’s a lot of misconceptions about them but I had great success last year with Siletz and I’ve got it in the ground again this year.. also trying about Bella Rosa and dwarf Metallica for my “shorties”
Thanks for the video, it very informative I’m definitely going to plant some of the varieties that you like and recommended. This is actually the third year I’ve been growing tomatoes, last two years I grew brandywine and beefsteak tomatoes I had pretty good yields and I love the flavor. This year I added 3 different kinds the Cherokee purple and the lemon boy and the German queen can’t wait to see the results!
I had a porch deck due to limited land up there, so I was only able to grow 6 or so varieties a year. My favorites were Pink Brandywine and Cherokee Purple at the time. However, I've since replaced them both living down there. Since I got some land, I've been able to expand to 30+ varieties a year to test tons of them.
Wow, you know your matars. Thanks for the recommendations. 😃 Your plants are looking 👍 I hope you get a record amount of tomatoes and other produce this year. It's nice to see Dale had a sweet vacation.😃
Living down here has forced me to grow more varieties than I can count. I've probably grown over 100 tomato varieties in the last 6 years to try and find out what works here 😅 Dale had the most fun on vacation out of all of us, for sure.
We love the sunsugar. It does really well in indiana. Cherokees do really well here my favorite. Bought 5 new cherry tomatoes this yearcant wait to try them. Bumble bee sunrise, chocolate pear, pink pear, jellybean, i love brandywine pink but its really disease prone.
They do so far. I hope we maintain cool weather throughout May. Usually by mid to late June, they're overwhelmed with disease. I hope this cooler pattern holds and our rainy season comes late.
I grow some pink variety, the tomato is average in size with even shape, just that is pink and taste very good alike the Brandywine mention in the video.
Do you recall what zone you were in when you lived in PA and NJ and have any tips on how to acclimate to the change in climate? This is my second summer living in western NC in zone 7a after moving from the north east and I'm still trying to figure things out. Temps are mild but unpredictable and the pests are terrible.
I grew Big Beef Plus for the first time this year. It agrees with your description and the texture is excellent, but honestly I found the flavour just wasn't there. Maybe I simply started them too late (transplant in mid-July, only 90 days before first frost), and indoor ripening. Do you think earlier planting and Summer vine ripening will help these ones develop better flavour?
Hi! I live a little over an hour from you in Bladen County. Have you ever tried a tomato variety called Climbing Trip-L Crop? I have had great success with them. Thanks for showing me varieties I've never heard of! Hope to try some of them next season!
Hello, Thanks for the video, very informative, I will definitely plant some of the varieties. Can we share a video of the tomatoes how we prune them and grow them in this Y shape. Thanks
I'm trying Cherokee Carbon this year. It is supposed to have that Cherokee Purple flavor we love, but more hardy. Also, my Rosella Purple plants look amazing!
@rainwaterrefugehomestead2267 Oooooh! I would be interested to hear how it goes for you. We moved last spring, so this is my second year at this garden site and I'm still dialing in on my location. So I can't be sure if failure or success can be attributed to the plant or trying to dial in my soil and ect.
@@stephaniemorris3760 I just picked my first batch of Cherokee Carbon this week. I'm happy with the plant and the yield, but I don't think the flavor is quite as deep and tart as Cherokee Purple. What do you think?
@@rainwaterrefugehomestead2267 How is the Cherokee Carbon going for you? What do you think of the flavor? How does it compare to Cherokee Purple flavor?
I’m afraid I don’t know in the UK. Since I’m in the US, I’m guessing most can’t ship internationally. You can try large seed shops like Burpee, or maybe even Baker Creek, but you may risk problems in Customs. Luckily, in the UK, varieties like Rosella Purple and Siletz will be outstanding in your cooler summers!
I'm going to have to try that Rosella purple for an early tomato I like Cherokee purple but prefer Paul Robeson or Black Krim but both of those aren't early varieties
Thank you for your informative gardening and tomato videos. Too late for me this year, but I'll definitely try Sun Gold and Big Beef next year. We have similar heat and humidity in north MS, so hopefully going to work for me. Trying the Genuwine hybrid this year and they look great so far. If not, I have Early Girl and Arkansas Traveler to fall back on. Do have a Cherokee Purple and Chef's Choice Orange in the mix as well. The orange is new to me, the purple is hit or miss depending on how soon the heat moves in but I love it so much I have to try one every year. So far, so good.
Spoon tomato, Harvard Square, and Alice's Dream are my favorite here. I tried some heirloom pink varieties last summer and they cracked and got attacked by the rollie pollies.
I have a question.. I’m new to growing and I’ve noticed some tomatoes mature after only 60 days or so (like Early Girl).. others mature very late in the summer. That’s why I’d like a variety. I don’t like getting all my tomatoes at one time and having more than I can use for a brief time.. and then none for the rest of the year. I’d like to have several varieties to space out the yield so I get a steady consistent stream thru out the spring/summer/fall if possible. Thanks for recommendations on several varieties that could accomplish this! 😊 (I live in S.E. Michigan if it matters)
It is excellent. There is a new strain called Big Beef Plus I want to try next year. It is supposed to be the same, but with Tobacco Mosaic Virus resistance…so they say.
I am growing Big Beef Plus this year. Some are grafts and some are regular plants. They are all without exception, extremely weak and scrawny. I am really disappointed as other varieties that are growing side-by-side with them under the same conditions and soil are doing great. Next year I will go back to the regular Big Beef varieties.
Thanks for the information. You have given me a few ideas to try here in Northern California--Zone 9b. I am curious though, as to your opinion on San Marzano's and Roma's?
Why do you start new seeds for your fall harvest? I just cut and grow new plants from suckers, not sure if there are any disadvantages from doing this.
Totally!!! I do the same thing; it's so much easier. Seedlings are so finicky. What's funny is that I used to cut suckers and then try to baby them into putting out roots for transplant. Then, one summer, I accidentally sniped a side shoot on a determinate. Instead of tossing it, I thought..."what the heck, I'll just stick this in an open spot in a container of strawberries that was sitting there, and see if anything happens." Well, it took about ten days of keeping it moist, and even though it looked dead, new leaves began to grow, and I got a whole new plant. Since then, I have always done it this way, and have tomatoes right up to the first heavy frost. Zone 7a/high desert. Happy gardening.
Thank you, this will help immensely for next year's planning! I have a big question: How the heck do you eat all these tomatoes? Is it salads and salsa every day at your house??
My tomatoes are dead by July, so my harvesting season is brief. Many fruits are lost to our torrential rains (we got 10.47 inches of rain Friday morning in a single storm). I'm lucky if I get to harvest even half the fruits in my conditions. If I'm able to get a decent haul, processing 30 lbs of tomatoes is barely enough to make a single pot of Sunday sauce, so they can go very quickly.
I have not. There are thousands of varieties out there. I could grow 100 different varieties every year for my entire life and barely scratch the surface. Every year, so many new cultivars hit the market that it's hard to choose.
I’m replacing Sungold for Sunsugar this year. Too many of the Sungold were wasted with cracks. I’m near Chicago. I’ll trade a little less taste for more edible fruit.
Have you ever tried the everglades cherry tomato? Was recommended to my fir all the same reasons you quoted in your video. Have three plants thriving in the North Georgia heat and humidity.
I ate Everglades back in Feb when I was visiting relatives in Florida. I loved it. Great little snacker. I ordered seeds and have some young plants started. I am hoping they do well.
I have not. I’ve asked people who have for a review on the taste and the feedback I’ve heard hasn’t motivated me to try. Let us know if you think it tastes good.
Florida Everglades Tomatoes produce early & often throughout the season all the way until the first frost, even during the sweltering heat & humidity of August here in central Alabama. I don't even need to spray them for pests or disease. They taste good & are not only good for salads, but good for sandwiches & snacking. I haven't tried them for sauce yet. They produce so much, that I make the excess into wine which looks & tastes like chardonnay, so they don't go to waste. I highly recommend them!
@Millennial Gardner - Very informative video! Tx. How about GRAFTING those fantastic, but weak varieties on some good tomato rootstocks? For example, please do YT VIDEO tutorial of grafting Sun Gold on SunSugar or Brandy Vine Yellow on Sun Sugar or some more disease resistant/hyper growth root stock. The grafting seems to be the trending topic in Tomato growing on the west coast. What are your thoughts?
I agree with you; Sun Gold and Sun Sugar tomatoes are great. Have you tried Golden Jubilee tomatoes? They are excellent and do well here in Houston, TX.
@@TheMillennialGardener The Golden Jubilee is an yellow heirloom slicer. They taste amazing and do well for me here in Houston. Seriously you should try them. I wish I new how to attach a picture. I tried to grow Brandywine and could not get them to grow here. I grew up on a farm in the Central Valley of CA and tomatoes grow like weeks there. I moved to TX 20 years ago so I fully understand your struggles.
If you think Sung Gold is the best, have you tried "Cherry Baby" ? For my taste buds, beats Sun Gold. No splitting, sugar candy sweet. A very reliable hybrid for years.
If you enjoyed this video, please "Like" and share to help increase its reach! Thanks for watching ☺TIMESTAMPS for convenience:
0:00 Growing Tomatoes In Difficult Climates
1:31 Tomato Variety #1
2:53 Honorable Mention (Tomato Variety #1.5)
4:08 Tomato Variety #2
6:22 Tomato Variety #3
9:05 Tomato Variety #4
12:07 Tomato Variety #5
13:55 BONUS: My Most DELICIOUS Tomato I Hate Growing!
17:37 Adventures With Dale
Make that backyard clover and no more hand pollinating 😊
Have you tried Creole Tomatoes? They are a hybrid that like high heat. We grow them in the heat and humidity of southern Louisiana.
Florida Everglades Tomatoes produce early & often throughout the season all the way until the first frost, even during the sweltering heat & humidity of August here in central Alabama. I don't even need to spray them for pests or disease. They taste good & are not only good for salads, but good for sandwiches & snacking. I haven't tried them for sauce yet. They produce so much, that I make the excess into wine which looks & tastes like chardonnay, so they don't go to waste. I highly recommend them!
Cherry Tomato 'Sun Gold' tastes absolutely phenomenal. 'Sun Sugar' more desease resistant. 'Brandy Boy' tasty beefsteak tomato. 'Big Beef' very vigorous. 'Rosella Purple' is so sweet and low acid, can thrive in shady conditions. Determinate 'Siletz' is an early and late tomato with excellent flavor. 'Brandywine Yellow' susceptible to desease but ultimate flavor.
Love big beef, but Cherokee purple is much superior in taste to rosella purple to me!
In the late seventies I lived for two years in Chowan County. Humidity was incredible, the biting flies were very quick to strike but there are no nicer people than Southerners. Everyone waves at everyone as you drive down the county roads, the BBQ is unique and the local sheriff came to my office one day and said " Son, sooner or later I'm going to catch you so why don't you slow your driving down and save us the bother". I took his friendly advice.
Super Sweet 100's are my GO TO. They never make it out of the garden because I eat them all. I only grow 2 every year due to how prolific, but they are a great tomato to boost grower confidence as they are easy to grow and also have large yeilds. Same as the sun gold, but sun golds tend to crack extremely easliy.
I have like 15 super sweets planted 👀 I plan to make ketchup
Super sweet 100's are very prolific for sure and grow them. Three yrs ago I tried the Sun Peach cherry and wow the flavor and 18 tomatoes per truss. They are a big hit and give them a try. 👍🌱
He thoroughly pointed out the cracking issue in the video.
4:40 I grew pink brandywine last year. Saved the seeds because it tasted so good
I started my sungold tomato plant inside early and I took a risk for My part of Pennsylvania and put the sungold out earlier than normal and she’s already got one fruit ripening and doing very well already almost 4ft only had one day I covered her just because went down to 39 but covered her and she’s fine growing very well now as weather been staying warmer! Wishing everyone abundant harvest and peaceful growing!
I had some struggles with the dark ones too. Black Krim and Cherokee Purple. Probably the best tasting but I have to pick them quickly when they're close or they go bad fast. They also crack and get funky more than most. At least here in Chicago. I like to leave tomatoes on the vine as long as possible. Trying a bunch of different ones this season. One is Brandywine Yellow. Yikes.
Love your channel. You are well spoken and know your subject well. Years of gardening and never knew about regular picking cucumbers to keep the plant happy. Same with the shade cloth for tomatoes. Tried it this year for the first time and was doing well, when Debbie came calling. I am north of you near New Bern, and she dumped 15" on the tomato enclosure. Lost 26 plants
We got 17 inches here and lost all our tomatoes (except the few I have growing under my rain gutters). All my tomatoes in grow bags were killed, unfortunately. It's tough growing here. We always get hit every single year 😰
I have a toxic relationship with yellow Brandywine tomatoes. They give me the bare minimum and I keep coming back for more.
That's heirloom tomatoes in general 😂
OMG! 🤣🤣🤣... you cracked me up!!! That is too funny! Thanks for the belly laugh.
@@chachadodds5860 I'm so serious. 🤣🤣
A tomato that just reminded me of my ex-wife! 😂
😂 that's me with Black Krim. I have such a short growing season and I'm lucky to only get 3-4 ripe tomatoes but they are so good
This will be my 1st year with sun golds I am beyond excited to try them❤
I’m in the same area as you, Wilmington, NC and I have great success with Burpees midnight snack, love the taste and huge yields for me.
An interesting tomato is "Bumble Bee" which is a very large cherry tomato. It's red with green stripes, the plants get huge, and they put out many, many tomatoes. I grew them successfully here in north central Florida last year, and one of my plants this year has one tomato that's almost ripe with many to follow!
Theres 3 versions of the bumblebee so far. A sunrise, a pink and a purple. I've only tried the sunrise and wanted some of the purple. Sunrise not my favourite but its good. I've got 5 very small sunrise bumblebees going rn. Theres a number of the artisan line cherry tomatoes and some places sell a mix. Theres a green tiger and a blushing tiger as well, that are shaped like torpedos or something.
Sunrise Bumblebee is my favorite.
@@VioletG629 Its good. I just prefer the flavour from one of the black tomatoes. I was thinking the purple version might fulfill me but I havent tried them yet.
Just bought the sunrise bumble bee for the first time. Can't wait to try it
@@melissakalber2185 I picked up a Lucky Tiger.
There is an "Improved" version of Sungold which I am trying this year. Supposedly a little larger fruit, but less likely to crack, same great taste..
I saw that…it was released last year I think, but I forget the name. I wound up passing on it, because I’m trying to replace my red and black cherry tomatoes first. I didn’t want another investigation 😂
I so envy your outstanding garden. I used to have a large bucket garden it was wonderful! Thanks for sharing! 👍🏻👍🏻
So I recently bought citrus trees and I have came across your channel. I see you have tons of videos about growing citrus trees. How do I need to fertilize these newly planted trees? How often should I water them?
I have done research, but a lot of the research conflicts and I just thought I'd ask you since you seem knowledgeable and you can't ask a google article a question.
How do you keep all your seeds organized and remember all the pros and cons on each kind? I always get lost in my seed box and just give up unless I'm looking for one specific plant.
I have a zip up binder I found in the school supply section and I use baseball card pages to hold them.
I just bought some super sweet 100 and sungold for next years crop. I’m going to be expanding the garden so I’m excited to give them a try. I’m new to the channel (watching for about a month now) and I’m from Newfoundland Canada so this will be great.
Glad to hear you recommend Siltez. It grows well in the SFBay area. I'm exploring tomatoes from the Dwarf Tomato Project on your recommendation, so looking forward to seeing how Rosella Purple performs.
Have you ever tried Sart Roloise as a potential yellow brandywine replacement? Baker Creek sells it and I had fantastic results with it last year growing it for the first time (albeit in southern PA). Unbelievably prolific production of 12-16 oz black and yellow fruit, very tasty though I've never tried yellow brandywine to compare against.
I'm in South Carolina. I love love beef steak tomatoes! 💜 Thanks for sharing your videos My Carolinian brother, And God bless. 🙏
Everyone's 'best' depends on their location. Here in west Oregon we tend to grow tomatoes developed for the Pacific NW. (Usually by Oregon State University’s vegetable breeding program) Our long wet springs, overcast days, short seasons, extreme heat and even late snowfall make this area different then most other parts of the country.
It took me a few years to figure it out, but if I want consistent producers, I grow _Siletz, Beaverlodge, Oregon Spring, Indigo Rose and Oregon Star._
Great video and great channel! Glad to see your subscriber base increase week after week. It's proof that your videos are good and provide value to a large audience. Good job!
Paul Robeson (black) and Super Sioux (red) are two varieties suitable for the Carolinas climate. Also Aunt Lou's Underground Railroad, a rare pink beefsteak.
My favorite is also a Yellow. Lillian’s Yellow Heirloom. A tomato expert told me if I like Lillian’s, I should try Casey’s Pure Yellow for a better disease resistance package. I’m going to try it next year, along with Brandywine Yellow that you recommend. Thanks for the info. Oh yeah, I’m in South Georgia. I feel your pain.
I grow Sun Sugar for the reasons you stated (cracking). I grow Big Beef wouldn't be without it. I grow Brandywine and Carbon for my heirlooms. My paste tomato is San Marzano. I grow a grape called Sugary and a hybrid from Burpee called Medium Rare 16 - 20 oz very Smokey flavor. My advantage -- I live in N.J. I enjoy your videos.
Im growing san marzano this year...have 10 plants and very high stakes along side them...how tall do yours grow??
@@feliciarizzo6841 San Marzano can grow to 6 ft and more, it all depends on your soil condition
Great to know there’s a reasonable alternative to the Cherokee Purple. I absolutely pamper my CP plants all summer, yet they have perpetual leaf curl and die off on me every year.
Worth it for how amazing the flavor is, but I’m excited to try a more stable variety next year
Give Black Bear or Makado Black a shot if you like dark tomatoes and are looking for improved productivity
Thanks for the great videos! I'm trying the Brandy Sweet Plum this year, not sure if you've tried that one. It's a Brandywine crossed with a cherry so thought I'd give it a try. Fun fact is it was originally an accidental cross!
Finally verification that you were from Jersey! I grew up there and part of the reason I love your channel so much is it makes me home sick! I live in Illinois now so everything‘s a little different here as well. You have so much great information to share with us. Please keep the videos coming.
I left NJ when I was 18. I've officially lived more of my life outside of NJ than in NJ. I have to say, I don't really miss it 😅 June, July and August in NJ is definitely more pleasant than where I live now, but the other 9 months here are a lot more pleasant (except the hurricanes).
So blessed to see 70s/low 80s almost all month compared to the last few Mays being scorchers. My Toms love it!
Florida Everglades Tomatoes produce early & often throughout the season all the way until the first frost, even during the sweltering heat & humidity of August here in central Alabama. I don't even need to spray them for pests or disease. They taste good & are not only good for salads, but good for sandwiches & snacking. I haven't tried them for sauce yet. They produce so much, that I make the excess into wine which looks & tastes like chardonnay, so they don't go to waste. I highly recommend them!
You should check out the Floridade tomato and the Everglades tomato. They grow well in the Florida summer so they should be able to handle the heat and humidity
Young Man! Your AWESOME!!! I'm fm South Alabama right on the florida line! Love your videos ..
Thank you! I appreciate you watching.
Here in SoCal, my go to tomato is the determinate Celebrity. Perfect size and shape. It’s fleshy and not all watery. I’m also growing some brandy wines and cherry falls. I have two volunteers that are growing like indeterminate, with wrinkled bottoms like heirlooms.
Dale is a smart guy sucking up the ocean breeze with peaceful sounds. ahhh, 😊I'm jealous of Dale. Thanks again for sharing great knowledge of growing tomatoes with their characteristics.
Dale is a good boy. Thanks for watching!
The Yellow Brandwine Plattfoot Strain gives better yield and a plant that often gives me late summer fruit. I totally agree on the pain and glory of growing this giant plant!
🍀☔🌱🌄 I have tried a wonderful variety that rivals Brandywine. Plants are available for this tomato named "Caspian Pink," which I found easy to grow in SE Michigan. When I read it beat out Brandywine in taste tests, I had to try it. I hadn't heard there was a yellow Brandywine!
I love sungold, chocolate cherry, hamson dx-52-12 (a mid century canning heirloom), cherokee purple and pineapple tomatoes.
I prevented my sungold from splitting by mulching heavily with straw to help regulate the moisture, and picking them early. hard to keep up with them though!
I live in Virginia so this really helps me get a good idea what works well here. We are not by the ocean but the weather is hot and humid.
I second the Rosella Purple recommendation! I grew it first last year after watching your videos, and your description is so spot on. About how tall does it get for you? I may have over-fertilized it last year, and it got to 6+ feet -- tall, for a "dwarf" tomato.
Glad those are great for your climate, but for the PNW colder, wetter climate many of those just don't work. I like Sungold, Black Krim, and Bradywine.
My third growing season of sun golds. They are little flavor bombs! My father got me into gardening about 14 years ago. I just picked a dozen or so of these little tomatoes to bring to him in the nearby senior home where he now stays.
What size container did you use to grow your Rosella Purple? I love your tomato videos, I'm gardening in North Florida for the first time and your recommendations are so helpful, thank you!
It is a #5 container. A #7 would be better, but it is what I had on-hand.
Thanks for doing these tomato videos. Last year, based on your review, I grew Siletz for the first time. Production-wise, the only variety that beat it for a slicer was Bella Rosa, which I highly recommend. Trying 4 different dwarf varieties this year, including Rosella Purple. We''ll see how they do in the San Diego area.
Well you named my all around fravorite...Big Beef. For many years I grew 400 plants for a little front yard tomato business. Throughout those years I experimented with many varieties until I settled exclusively on Big Beef. Not only did they have the flavor and yield, but a long shelf life as well. My runner up popular tomato was Golden Girl, but haven't been able to find the seed for years. Am a new subscriber and enjoying your videos. Live in the CA foothills near San Joaquin Valley.
I'm with you on sungold being the best-tasting tomato and I will always grow it. It's also highly productive. I'm in SoCal, so no problem with splitting here. But disease are a problem here, so I'm not going to be growing many of the other varieties you recommended. Love the idea of starting early with those early-producers with great taste you recommend. I'm looking for an Early Girl start because they do well here, the taste is good (not great, but good), and I'm dying to have real tomatoes after having none all winter and spring! Another favourite for me is Cherokee Green, which I like better than Cherokee Purple, but probably wouldn't do well for you there either.
Have you tried the Porter cherry tomato? You’ve giving so much good advice that I would like to reciprocate. I tried this one for the first time this year and they were so sweet. Everyone raved about them that tried them. 0 problems growing them. They were just great to grow. My family was eating them right off plant.
Seattle, WA September 8, 2023 The Early Girl tomatoes are finally ready to pick. I have never been happy with Early Girl. The monsoons will soon be here.
I'm trying Genuwine here in NE Florida this year. It's a hybrid of Brandywine and Costoluto Genovese. Plants are very prolific and loaded with tomatoes. Can't speak on flavor yet as the first ones are just starting to ripen.
Great video. I'm very happy to have finally found seeds of Sungold and Rosella purple (not easy here in Belgium), very impatient to taste it this summer. Thanks for sharing your advices
Glad you're able to find them! We have so many varieties to choose from here it is ridiculous, and I imagine a lot of them don't make it out overseas.
For next year have you ever tried the sub arctic plenty varieties? I am in canada and for 2 years i was able to get the seed.
There were 2 types i got
Sub arctic plenty, and sub arctic plenty beef steak.
Those plants are designed for short season cold climates and omg in canada it was a winner straight up. The regular one has medium sized fruits, and they store so well! They were very prolific and the plants a more manageable size from what i remember. The beefsteak version i can never find the seed for anymore for a decade or more now,.. it was phenomenal. You got great large fruits and 1 was so stinking heavy, just wow. Not inclined to split, even when a slug ate a trail, that trail healed up and didnt split. Thick and meaty, good juice but not to juicy that it was soft and leaving puddles on your sandwich. Bright bright red. They kept well too. We kept picking off them well into cold fall weather and picked a bunch of greens right on the day we were gonna have a killing frost and keep maturing them in the house. We put some in fridge crisper, some in cold cellar. Both locations ripened slowly. We ate garden tomatoes that year up to November 22nd. From those green ones ripening slowly. Never have we experienced that. Our killing frosts are october.
Can i find the friggin seed for sale anymore? Nope. GROWL!!!!!!!! Any seed catalogues carrying it for sale to canada let me know in the replies omg i love those tomatoes. Great flavour too. Really amazing for cold weather extension or for short growing window environments. If you find the seed try growing it i highly recommend. Bad side they can get blight like any other plant, last time i grew them i got blight however because i planted my rows of blight susceptible crops between other things like flowers and onions, lettuce the rows were removed far enough apart that i ripped out a whole row and the others never contracted it. I saved some. I tried that with other varieties and it didnt work but maybe its because i didnt see the blight soon enough for a culling action to work out.
If you havnt tried those varieties i recommend you try next year (2024). Cheers.
I was a Sun Gold/ Sunsugar fanatic until I tried Orange Paruche. Beats them both!
Love your garden..so beautiful
I'm in Kannapolis NC. Based on your recommendations, I'll get some big beefs and a sungold thus year. L. L. Goodnights and Sons, in China Grove, sells both transplants. They also sell super 100's.
Earl's Faux is an awesome mid-season pink beefsteak tomato that produces well for me in the Midwest. It has a prolific potato leaf plant and takes the heat and humidity here in Nebraska. Çonsistently pumps out tomatoes through the season and is comparable to pink Brandywine (Suddith's) in taste
Give Carotena or Jaunne Flamme a shot for a smaller tomato. Each are about golf ball sized appricott-orange colored and are simply delicious. Can take the heat and humidity as well
I have been growing a huge variety of tomatoes for almost 40 years and the Orange Wellington is the best-tasting slicer tomato I have ever grown.
I grow that too and I like it, but I find that other varieties are tastier. OW is flavorful yet mild IMO.
@@pandorahalfdanarson5171 add some acid like peat moss to your soil and it will reduce the sweetness and increase the flavor.
@@rickh633 I don't use peat moss because is a non-renewable resource, and also I don't wish to modify my soil pH. It's easier for me to just grow a different variety--although I keep growing OW because some of my family LOVE it.
I have been growing tomatoes for 11 years and every year I test varieties. I live in zone 6 …..I have grown 20 indeterminate and 12 determinate varieties and track production. Here is my go to list that I plant every year
Indeterminate- Big Beef and Mountain Rouge
Determinate - Red Snapper
Roma type - Tachi
Have you ever tried "Delicious?" I grew it last year. Huge and yummy. The name says it, but I'm not sure about diseases. It was very vigorous here in Colorado. ❤
No. Open pollinated tomatoes generally do very poorly here. It's just too hot and humid. If I lived out west with low humidity, my approach would be a lot different. Here, you learn the hard way to seek out the really tough hybrids. The only heirloom variety I've found that does well here is Arkansas Traveler, which is one of the rare heat-bred, disease resistant heirlooms. San Marzano did pretty well, too, but I think there are better Roma types these days.
Sun gold tomatoes and eggs was a common breakfast last year.
I’m looking forward to it this year
Appreciate the video as always! Would love to know your thoughts on grafted plants. We had some amazing Cherokee Purple last year and we're trying them again along with a few German Johnsons we picked up at Lewis Farms here in Wilmington. We added a few regular Cherokee Purple to see if we can tell a difference. Cheers!
Those are both my favorites. I grow them every year here in middle TN.
Your fav are similar to mine...Sungold cherry, delish..Big Beef & Hritage Branywine....best tasting tomatos on the planet....tho finiky to grow !!
A couple of my fav's also...(medium size) are Miracle Sweet & First Lady...very tasty.
Thanks for turning me on to determinate tomatoes! There’s a lot of misconceptions about them but I had great success last year with Siletz and I’ve got it in the ground again this year.. also trying about Bella Rosa and dwarf Metallica for my “shorties”
Thanks for the video, it very informative I’m definitely going to plant some of the varieties that you like and recommended. This is actually the third year I’ve been growing tomatoes, last two years I grew brandywine and beefsteak tomatoes I had pretty good yields and I love the flavor. This year I added 3 different kinds the Cherokee purple and the lemon boy and the German queen can’t wait to see the results!
Thanks for the video!! what were your best varieties when you lived in NJ besides Brandy wine Suduth strand? I'm in central Jersey, Thanks!
I had a porch deck due to limited land up there, so I was only able to grow 6 or so varieties a year. My favorites were Pink Brandywine and Cherokee Purple at the time. However, I've since replaced them both living down there. Since I got some land, I've been able to expand to 30+ varieties a year to test tons of them.
Big beef tomatoes r the bomb even in the heat of Texas. Trying the Big Beef plus this year
I still had Big Beef seeds left over from previous years, but I want to try the new Plus next year. I'm growing Celebrity Plus this year.
Wow, you know your matars. Thanks for the recommendations. 😃
Your plants are looking 👍 I hope you get a record amount of tomatoes and other produce this year.
It's nice to see Dale had a sweet vacation.😃
Living down here has forced me to grow more varieties than I can count. I've probably grown over 100 tomato varieties in the last 6 years to try and find out what works here 😅 Dale had the most fun on vacation out of all of us, for sure.
We love the sunsugar. It does really well in indiana. Cherokees do really well here my favorite. Bought 5 new cherry tomatoes this yearcant wait to try them. Bumble bee sunrise, chocolate pear, pink pear, jellybean, i love brandywine pink but its really disease prone.
Wow! Your tomato plants look great! Thanks for showing and sharing! 😊👍 I have learned so much from you!
They do so far. I hope we maintain cool weather throughout May. Usually by mid to late June, they're overwhelmed with disease. I hope this cooler pattern holds and our rainy season comes late.
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I ride my bike down by Brandywine creek now and then, Will try it up here in N ChesCo.
I grow some pink variety, the tomato is average in size with even shape, just that is pink and taste very good alike the Brandywine mention in the video.
Do you recall what zone you were in when you lived in PA and NJ and have any tips on how to acclimate to the change in climate? This is my second summer living in western NC in zone 7a after moving from the north east and I'm still trying to figure things out. Temps are mild but unpredictable and the pests are terrible.
I live in North Carolina too but not the mountains more central. I think the pests are bad all over the state!
Probably Zone 5/6 depending…. We’re 7 here in Maryland (close to Annapolis, buffered by the Bay). We need some deer resistant tomatoes!
@@markb8954🤣🤣🤣...sorry... that made me laugh. Deer resistant tomatoes. 😂
I grew Big Beef Plus for the first time this year. It agrees with your description and the texture is excellent, but honestly I found the flavour just wasn't there. Maybe I simply started them too late (transplant in mid-July, only 90 days before first frost), and indoor ripening.
Do you think earlier planting and Summer vine ripening will help these ones develop better flavour?
Hi! I live a little over an hour from you in Bladen County. Have you ever tried a tomato variety called Climbing Trip-L Crop? I have had great success with them. Thanks for showing me varieties I've never heard of! Hope to try some of them next season!
Picus is a great heat tolerant paste tomato if you're into making sauces. It does really well for me in southern louisiana
Hello,
Thanks for the video, very informative, I will definitely plant some of the varieties.
Can we share a video of the tomatoes how we prune them and grow them in this Y shape.
Thanks
They all look fantastic awesome job
Thank you!
I'm trying Cherokee Carbon this year. It is supposed to have that Cherokee Purple flavor we love, but more hardy. Also, my Rosella Purple plants look amazing!
I'm trying it as well!
@rainwaterrefugehomestead2267 Oooooh! I would be interested to hear how it goes for you. We moved last spring, so this is my second year at this garden site and I'm still dialing in on my location. So I can't be sure if failure or success can be attributed to the plant or trying to dial in my soil and ect.
Have had great success with Cherokee Carbon.
@@stephaniemorris3760 I just picked my first batch of Cherokee Carbon this week. I'm happy with the plant and the yield, but I don't think the flavor is quite as deep and tart as Cherokee Purple. What do you think?
@@rainwaterrefugehomestead2267 How is the Cherokee Carbon going for you? What do you think of the flavor? How does it compare to Cherokee Purple flavor?
Thanks for showing and sharing! I learned so much from you!
I live in United Kingdom - Surrey area.
What are the best stores to buy original seeds?
I’m afraid I don’t know in the UK. Since I’m in the US, I’m guessing most can’t ship internationally. You can try large seed shops like Burpee, or maybe even Baker Creek, but you may risk problems in Customs. Luckily, in the UK, varieties like Rosella Purple and Siletz will be outstanding in your cooler summers!
You are great. Thanks a lot for the information.
I love the tip. Thanks for your time ❤
You're welcome!
I'm going to have to try that Rosella purple for an early tomato I like Cherokee purple but prefer Paul Robeson or Black Krim but both of those aren't early varieties
Thank you for your informative gardening and tomato videos. Too late for me this year, but I'll definitely try Sun Gold and Big Beef next year. We have similar heat and humidity in north MS, so hopefully going to work for me. Trying the Genuwine hybrid this year and they look great so far. If not, I have Early Girl and Arkansas Traveler to fall back on. Do have a Cherokee Purple and Chef's Choice Orange in the mix as well. The orange is new to me, the purple is hit or miss depending on how soon the heat moves in but I love it so much I have to try one every year. So far, so good.
Spoon tomato, Harvard Square, and Alice's Dream are my favorite here. I tried some heirloom pink varieties last summer and they cracked and got attacked by the rollie pollies.
I have a question.. I’m new to growing and I’ve noticed some tomatoes mature after only 60 days or so (like Early Girl).. others mature very late in the summer. That’s why I’d like a variety. I don’t like getting all my tomatoes at one time and having more than I can use for a brief time.. and then none for the rest of the year. I’d like to have several varieties to space out the yield so I get a steady consistent stream thru out the spring/summer/fall if possible. Thanks for recommendations on several varieties that could accomplish this! 😊 (I live in S.E. Michigan if it matters)
I think I’ll try that Big Beef tomato next year! What a beast
It is excellent. There is a new strain called Big Beef Plus I want to try next year. It is supposed to be the same, but with Tobacco Mosaic Virus resistance…so they say.
I am growing Big Beef Plus this year. Some are grafts and some are regular plants. They are all without exception, extremely weak and scrawny. I am really disappointed as other varieties that are growing side-by-side with them under the same conditions and soil are doing great. Next year I will go back to the regular Big Beef varieties.
Thanks for the information. You have given me a few ideas to try here in Northern California--Zone 9b. I am curious though, as to your opinion on San Marzano's and Roma's?
Your videos are EXCELLENT!
Any recommendations for tomato varieties
appropriate for the Pacific Northwest?
Spokane area.
Does it matter where you buy Bigbeef seeds? Love your channel. Thank you!
Big Beef seeds are Big Beef seeds. Buy through whomever you prefer to do business with.
Why do you start new seeds for your fall harvest? I just cut and grow new plants from suckers, not sure if there are any disadvantages from doing this.
Totally!!! I do the same thing; it's so much easier. Seedlings are so finicky.
What's funny is that I used to cut suckers and then try to baby them into putting out roots for transplant. Then, one summer, I accidentally sniped a side shoot on a determinate. Instead of tossing it, I thought..."what the heck, I'll just stick this in an open spot in a container of strawberries that was sitting there, and see if anything happens."
Well, it took about ten days of keeping it moist, and even though it looked dead, new leaves began to grow, and I got a whole new plant.
Since then, I have always done it this way, and have tomatoes right up to the first heavy frost. Zone 7a/high desert.
Happy gardening.
Thank you, this will help immensely for next year's planning! I have a big question: How the heck do you eat all these tomatoes? Is it salads and salsa every day at your house??
My tomatoes are dead by July, so my harvesting season is brief. Many fruits are lost to our torrential rains (we got 10.47 inches of rain Friday morning in a single storm). I'm lucky if I get to harvest even half the fruits in my conditions. If I'm able to get a decent haul, processing 30 lbs of tomatoes is barely enough to make a single pot of Sunday sauce, so they can go very quickly.
Just wondered if you'd ever tried the Peron sprayless or Super Productive varieties?
I have not. There are thousands of varieties out there. I could grow 100 different varieties every year for my entire life and barely scratch the surface. Every year, so many new cultivars hit the market that it's hard to choose.
In Brazoria Co. Tx. The sweet millions and Biltmores do very well. What happened to Sweet Millions? I couldn't find any this Spring!!
Shout out to the best behaved person in the house. I agree on Sungold. Have you tried Amana?
Dale is a good boy. I have not heard of that tomato. There are so many thousands of them 😆
I’m replacing Sungold for Sunsugar this year. Too many of the Sungold were wasted with cracks. I’m near Chicago. I’ll trade a little less taste for more edible fruit.
I'm in Minnesota. Will you drop a list of what you enjoyed growing up north?
Good tips thanks for that 👍
Have you ever tried the everglades cherry tomato? Was recommended to my fir all the same reasons you quoted in your video. Have three plants thriving in the North Georgia heat and humidity.
I ate Everglades back in Feb when I was visiting relatives in Florida. I loved it. Great little snacker. I ordered seeds and have some young plants started. I am hoping they do well.
I have not. I’ve asked people who have for a review on the taste and the feedback I’ve heard hasn’t motivated me to try. Let us know if you think it tastes good.
Florida Everglades Tomatoes produce early & often throughout the season all the way until the first frost, even during the sweltering heat & humidity of August here in central Alabama. I don't even need to spray them for pests or disease. They taste good & are not only good for salads, but good for sandwiches & snacking. I haven't tried them for sauce yet. They produce so much, that I make the excess into wine which looks & tastes like chardonnay, so they don't go to waste. I highly recommend them!
@Millennial Gardner - Very informative video! Tx. How about GRAFTING those fantastic, but weak varieties on some good tomato rootstocks? For example, please do YT VIDEO tutorial of grafting Sun Gold on SunSugar or Brandy Vine Yellow on Sun Sugar or some more disease resistant/hyper growth root stock. The grafting seems to be the trending topic in Tomato growing on the west coast. What are your thoughts?
Can you make a video or a short about hand pollinating thank you
I have one here: ua-cam.com/video/x2zoorfpZ50/v-deo.html
@@TheMillennialGardener thank you I missed that one very interesting
I agree with you; Sun Gold and Sun Sugar tomatoes are great. Have you tried Golden Jubilee tomatoes? They are excellent and do well here in Houston, TX.
I have not tried them. There are probably thousands of cherry tomato varieties alone, so it's impossible to really keep track of them all.
@@TheMillennialGardener The Golden Jubilee is an yellow heirloom slicer. They taste amazing and do well for me here in Houston. Seriously you should try them. I wish I new how to attach a picture. I tried to grow Brandywine and could not get them to grow here. I grew up on a farm in the Central Valley of CA and tomatoes grow like weeks there. I moved to TX 20 years ago so I fully understand your struggles.
I'm a sun sugar guy, Bonnie sells sun sugar, burpee sells sun gold. Or atleast that the way it is around here in north eastern nc
I would recommend growing both and trying them side by side. Eating them back to back, I find them quite different.
If you think Sung Gold is the best, have you tried "Cherry Baby" ? For my taste buds, beats Sun Gold. No splitting, sugar candy sweet. A very reliable hybrid for years.
Good info as always
Thank you!