Tomato Tasting (Regular Red, Round, Slicing Varieties) August 2021
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
- 9 of my tomatoes in this category. Comparison.
Hybrid and Open Pollinated Varieties Include:
Better Boy, Big Beef, Big Zac, Carmello, Celebrity, Chef's Choice Red, Early Girl, 1923 Abe Lincoln, Eva's Purple Ball.
Red Slicers are compared against each other, as well as against some of my favorite odd colored varieties from this year.
If you would like to share seeds for me to try:
Mark's Garden Life
P.O. Box 72 Street MD. 21154
It's kind of weird that I just spent 42 minutes watching people talk about tomatoes. Nah! It was awesome! Love it! Thanks for all the effort you put into your videos!
Me watching these videos: I will not buy more seeds, then places an order.
😂😂😂
ikr!
SAME!! For every single video in this series 🤦🏼♀️🤷🏼♀️😅
Awww, Holly girl never cease to amaze me..... star of the show
I love these tomato tasting videos, especially now that you are doing them with friends! This will really help me decide what to grow next year. :)
Thanks to Carrie for joining you and Dave. It's always a pleasure to have Dave sharing his opinions. I'm always grateful to you Mark for taking the time to share these videos about the produce you have in your garden. I try planting beefsteak but it didn't work, the bugs crop them down before they had a chance to stretch up, not sure how the beefsteak would taste. Just a variety that came in my seed kit. Lovely variety
Awesome tasting! My head is spinning with what tomatoes I want to plant next season. This was great! Thanks again Mark.
Stephen
Ps. Virginia Sweets is a definite!
This is one of those videos I never knew that I needed, but I’m so happy it exists. Thank you for this style of video! I now have a wide selection of tomatoes I can plant.
Dave must love the soft crab.
It’s going to take me 10 seasons to grow all the varieties I have on my list! I’m here for moral support now lol. Good to see Dave and Carrie too! Saved this video for future reference 🤓 Thank you so much, Mark, for making this series! Many blessings to you all. 🙌🏻🙏🏻💞
Wow! Brought back memories of having a large garden, canning, making elderberry + gooseberry + currant jams. canning plums, pears, tomatoes, making sauerkraut in the fall, making mincemeat out of the green tomatoes after the frost, trading picking apples for 20 bushels of apples. Having a fruit cellar filled with apples, green tomatoes, potatoes, carrots etc. for the wintertime. We just preferred eating our stuff because nothing tasted better.
Hi Bob!
It sounds like your family kept really busy! To tell you the truth, it may be a little healthier growing it yourself too. I don't think most people today are familiar with how hard people used to work to keep food on their table. I appreciate your support and I really enjoyed your comments.
All my very best, -Mark
Amazing! Now I want to grow all these tomatoes in my garden.
Thanks Mark! Between this and the other taste testing videos, I have ordered 5 different varieties of seeds for next year.
Infamous Dave returns 🥰 welcome to the fam Carrie. 🙌 Mark, this is a great series... love it ❤ Anna's Noire, Virginia Sweets on my list
What? Omg I can't wait to watch this in detail and comment. Right now I've got work to do. I love it when you bring friends!
Mark's videos are why I'm WAY behind in my work! HAHA.
I loved watching this and absorbing all of your descriptors as I just cannot get a summer tomato here in Vermont where this morning it was 44 degrees.
You gotta start them early!
Wow, love learning of new varieties! I'm definitely planting a Curtis Cheek next year, since my last name is Curtis! Lol I planted a celebrity and a cherry this year, not disappointed at all! Great video Mark, thank you!
No 1s yet, no supermarket tomato yet! Funny! Enjoyed the video.
You just simply amaze me Mark! 🍅🍅
Another great tasting video. I’ll be looking for Virginia sweets and Curtis cheek as well as the 1923 Abe Lincoln next year. Thanks for all the great info.
great again. I've never seen the Virginia Sweets but I have grown Old German's and loved them.
Reds are best for BLTs but others put a smile in my brain.
Thank you 3 for the showing.
Great video and very informative. Its making me hungry cos they all look yummy. lol
Hey YJ!
Thank you!
great video every one!, the back row was just beautiful ...yeah i would like to see a ring of mixed colors on a plate...you know like your 4 or 5 favorites mixed....beautiful casual/country presentation Mark....
This was the best video yet. Everyone has a different option. I think this is more helpful.
The Celebrity that I grew were very beautiful and productive. They were definitely camera ready but the flavor was bland.
I like Better Boy. Nothing beats it for disease resistance and productivity. It has a very thick skin. I use it for bruschetta so I quarter it, cook it in the microwave and peel the skin away. I wouldn't use it as a slicer with skin on, very chewy.
I just discovered your videos yesterday Mark...really pleased I did. I’ve already been binging on them. Chockablock full of great information...and your really cute.
Hi!
Welcome to the channel! I'm happy you like them. Thank you! Thanks for watching/commenting!
You have a incredible day!
Best, -Mark
Dixie Red is Florida 91 but better. Very very heat tolerant. I like oregon spring or siletz over early girl, independent day is a good alternative but smaller tomatoes. New girl is more vigorous over early girl. Another great video. I love these tasting videos.
Friggin excellent buddy. We grow in the winter. Green giant, Pink Brandywine, Mortgage Lifter. Home depot does not know that. Southwest Florida.
Hi Kenneth!
Glad you found it helpful! What part in Florida?
Thanks for watching and commenting!
All the best, -Mark
@@marksgardenlife5971 I am in hell buddy. Southwest Florida.
lol But you have wonderful winters though!
Just like a Super bowl of great tomatoes 🙂, Truly hard to not want to look for a new favorite.
Thank you Mark your many videos have improved my garden and looking forward to next season.
Please keep teaching us,Sir
What would you think of a cooking segment of some of your fresh produce? Nothing extravagant but how to incorporate what you have grown into a fresh & delicious meal?
Awesome contenr2, by the end i was craving tomatos
Loved it….Ananias noire is a favorite….Good job!
Ahh Carrie! Our local Agriculture Celeb!!! She doesn't know me but I saw her at VVFs and i told her she needed to start her own channel lol. Love Dave too! Like seeing him in the videos!! Great video again!!!
The Curtis Cheek tomato is AMAZING. And the story of the tomato is so damn neat. Love that more people like it!
Green tomatoes kick butt. Aunt Ruby Green and Cherokee Green are delicious.
I tried the Isis Candy again...spit it out. Hubby loves it so a palate thing. Dinner tomorrow is BLT using the first Hillbilly tomato harvested today. It's a fat stunner, so excited.
LOVED this video! I will def be ordering seeds for Virginia Sweets (if I can find them) and the Ananas Noir.
Thanks again!
Mark absolutely love these tomato tasting videos. Homegrown tomatoes are what summer is about. You have described several that I must try for next year. Are these varieties sold at your nursery or did you order most from seed catalogs? I noticed your number of subscribers is now nearly 10,000- congratulations!!
I've never eaten tomatoes but good lord I sure could learn to love them 🔥
Mark! This is the one I was waiting for. I have never grown anything but true red tomatoes. After this video, I’ll be placing orders for more of the bi-color varieties. That “Ananas Noire” looked so good! Awesome job!👊🏾😁
What fun!! What do I have to do to get in a tomato tasting video? lol 😝
Dr Wyche is one of my favorite! Gotta try!
Very educational video. Thanks!!
Green tomatoes are also very good sliced, lightly floured and fried them 😋
Hi Cristian!
I agree! I'm doing a video showing how to cook them next week. Thanks for watching/commenting!
Cristian, you have a great week!
Cheers, -Mark
@@marksgardenlife5971 No thank you for putting up your time to show people how many tomatoes are out there. I love watching your videos they all have interesting info for amateur gardeners like myself. I will definitively try some of those varieties next year. I wrote down all the names for all the videos ;-). This year I had success with tomatoes compare to last year (I am growing in raised beds I made myself IG @butcovich) but this year the challenge has been the weather we had so far in the North East. I am Long Island NY. Very very humid and with a lot of storms that have toppled my tomatoes many times (I need to change my trellising system). Maybe I will come to visit one of these days :-). So much to learn, but I Press On!!
Have a great week yourself!
Cheers
Ok.
Abe Lincoln, the noire one and Virginia sweet on the list for next year. I tested Rutgers, mortgage lifter, delicious and sub arctic. Delicious was the best.
This was even better than the others with 3 different opinions. I wish I could join the taste test and enjoy some of y’all’s cooler weather. Today was probably a record day here for our coolest aug 18th. It was amazing being in the low 80s and finally getting some rain. My pecan orchard and pond really needed it. Rain here in August is very unusual. I’m trying y’all’s favorite tomatoes.
I sure would like to taste Marks tomatoes!! Great videos Mark !! Greetings from Stuttgart Germany
I love these videos! I also really like that you did hybrid and open pollinated to compare.
I also think it’s good to have someone with you as it gives a different opinion. Really well done. I love how you show the tomato plants at the end and also show the scoring. This is the best of all the taste test videos I’ve seen. I grow about half of these and I’m interested in considering some of them you grow.
I'm so glad you decided to do the tastings with your friends (can I take a little credit here?😄) . It really helps hearing different opinions and in trying to decide what to order for next year.
I appreciate these videos I am going to buy a few of these you shown. ❤️
Another winner!!
With all the varieties of tomato seeds I have purchased, these videos help me to decode which ones to grow/try! (Because I certainly dont have room for them all! 😂)
Love your bread knife for tomatoes! There's a couple "tomato knives" available online. I have the cheap Rada tomato knife. It's about $7 for one but works amazing. It's probably not a good video knife tho because its' so small. But Wusthof makes two different tomato knives (one is the pro line and is the regular knives). Those look pretty cool!
Ok Mark, going back through your tasting vids to give credit. I already preach the gospel of Curtis Cheek, it's my favorite red, up there with Carbon and Royal Hillbilly. Thanks to your videos, I will be trying Ananas Noire, Green Giant and Virginia Sweets this year. I got SOCLOSE to my first two pounder last year. This year I am growing Goatbag to get that big one. Wish me luck!
Thank you for your content.
Hi there!
You won't be disappointed with the new three. I promise. I am honored that you are allowing me to help influence your garden. I do wish you good luck. Please wish me the same!
Thank you so much for watching and commenting as well.
Best always,
-Mark
Liked this
Thanks again Mark
Hi Mark!
Well i have to say this was so great all the tomatoes in the 4 part series was amazing, well done Mark for the success, and it is so good that you got 2 other's with you for there input.
How many more weeks do you have left with the tomatoes?
And have you saved seed's for next year?
Look's like Holly was better behaved this time round lol.
You're about to hit 10k congratulations Mark!
Looking forward to the rest of the season that you have left.
Well the weather here is really starting to warm up as we have been having temperature's in the high 60's and low 70's and this weekend will be a warm one again.
So far my peach tree is starting to bloom so is the avocado and the fig tree is leafing up.
Thank you as always for you're video's and look forward to the next :)
Best Gabriel
Great series! Where all do you get your seed? Some of these varieties were not on johnnys or seed savers.
Just like a fruit, sweet and juicy.
yep!
Your garden I so beautiful and crisp clean lines which I love. I'm curious what you do with all your produce? Do you sell it? I love tomatoes but there is no way you can eat that many. 😋 I have grew a few different varieties this year and have loved earning about more varieties. Thanks
Hi Michele!
Thank you! I'm glad you like it. The produce...I use a little for myself, give to friends and people who help on the property and donate to food pantries and shelters. I'm glad you are learning from the videos. I like hearing that. Thank you! Thanks for watching/commenting!
Michele, you have a wonderful Sunday!
Best, -Mark
Good evening Mark,wow this was another fabulous video,lm saving all of the tomato ones so l can have a real good look at them...to much noise and things going on around me at the moment Grrrr 😒 l see your getting a LOT of new subscribers and very well deserved 👏👏👏 your coming across on video very nicely.I see Holly went walk abouts lol 😆 and never came back when you called her...she wouldn't be far away.....would she!! 😳 Big thankyou to your friends too......just wondering how tall Dave is! If you 6ft ish he must be close to 7ft lol what a tall gentleman he is.Been a busy day at the allotment today,cleaning up and making compost and the weather has been very kind.All the very best Mark 🌱🌱🌱💕🇬🇧uk
Down in coastal SC I tried to grow two types of tomatoes.
Well mid april to mid may I got a lot of cherry tomatoes.
Then the heat and humidity kicked in and my plants didn't do well.
Email me again this winter and I'll let you know which varieties I did this summer were more heat tolerant.
-Mark
@@marksgardenlife5971 I signed up on your newsletter on r site.
I used raised beds (10 or 12 inch pressure treated) simply to avoid snakes nesting during dec - early april (copperheads). So some plants can't handle the 90 degree w 80% humidity with heat index of 99' for three months.
I used to live in NJ so cherry tomatoes are in my dna.
Awesome Tomato Tasting and Reviews.. Have you ever tried growing Cosmonaut Volkov?
Wild Boar farms has exotic toms.
You probably already know that. Just found you on utube.
Hi Mark!
Yes, they are interesting breeders,
Many of their varieties contain anthocyanin genetics which are pretty cool.
I really appreciate you reaching out!
Best,
-Mark
OK ordering Ananas noir, green giant, and maybe virginia sweets, but I have seed for gold medal. Are they about the same? Seriously Mark, you have to try Thorburns Terra Cotta. Four out of four of us who are sampling a ton of garden tomatoes this year say it is the best tomato we've ever had. It is like a complex cherokee purple. But that might not be too descriptive. Complex and spicey. It's also pretty. If I can get seeds for Curtis Cheek I will. I guess they are hard to get. I tried Pink Berkeley tie dye this year and it is just a good tomato. I can't figure what the hype is about that one besides it is pretty. But i possibly needed to let it ripen another day or two. I'll give it another chance. I feel the same way you do about blue berries, that is my garden's most beautiful disappointment 😞.
Where do you source 1923 Abe Lincoln seeds as they all look different from different companies?
Hey Mark...what breeds of chickens do you have???? in Indiana gardening and chickens go hand in hand...all our veg waste went to the chickens!!! an old lady that worked with mom used bantams in her gardens to weed and loosen soil and keep it aerated ......be good to yourself.
How did early girl beat celebrity? No way. The celebrity I’m growing this year is much better than the early girl I grew last year. Much better flavor period. But that’s just me.
I wanna fined tomato’s that tased like what my father grew. Lol , I have a whole lot of searching!
Maybe it was the rain. Celebrity was bigger so probably more water?
@@BlackJesus8463 idk but early girl taste like a store tomato, tasteless. That was my experience. It is a good producing tomato but no flavor.
Very informative vide Mark. I'm intrigued by you top faves here. Where did you source your Curtis Cheek seeds?
I dont know what better boy tastes like. Because I prefer the better tomato out of the 2. Which would be the big boy.
Here in Kansas and my celebrity tomatoes are at 6 feet right now 😳 and my jet star are 5 feet.
Great video. Virginia Sweets is on my list for next year along with Abe Lincoln. Where do you get your seeds especially Abe Lincoln as I grew them last year and they were small? Thanks.
Are you gonna do Chef's Choice Green next year?
Hey Mark, I just found your channel and am enjoying it. I live down in North Anne Arundel County. I've been trying to grow container tomatoes, but haven't had much luck with Home Depot varieties. I just tried Better Boy and it is dying faster than it's producing. Would you have any advice? I'm also using the City Pickers self watering containers.
I have a tomato notebook too
I’m starting mine now 😂
Had to sub after that! Where can we get seeds??
I LOVE Carrie! Does she have a channel on UA-cam?
What is Dave's favorite sweet smoky tomato? Everyone here likes the sugary stuff.
tomato growers seeds has Gold medal seeds available
Looking online at some of your top choices, the photos shown at companies selling seeds, show tomatoes that look NOTHING alike. One might show a tomato with deep ridges on the top but the next company shows a tomato with a smooth even top surface. Gives one pause for thought!
Hi JC!
I am starting a seed company, but it will be a year or two in the future and than everything I am growing that I like and have found to be a excellent choice, will be available. With heirlooms, there are varying strains of varieties. That's the problem.
Best, -Mark
I don't know better boy
I didn't think it was known for thick skin but it tastes really good and its a safe choice imo.
I love the taste test videos. Don't hate me but I prefer when you do them without guests. They seem more focused. For some reason I see that garden as your peaceful man cave. This is too much yap yap going on in the cave. Sorry!
Hi Sansaviera!
I'm glad you are enjoying them. Thank you! I started with the guest because I was getting so many request to have just more than my opinion which I do understand since everyone has different taste of what's good and what's not. Thank you for watching and of course commenting too!
Sansaviera, you have a great day!
Best, -Mark
It's kind of weird that I just spent 42 minutes watching people talk about tomatoes. Nah! It was awesome! Love it! Thanks for all the effort you put into your videos!
Just found your channel and I’m already loving it. I’m a Carolina farm girl, and tomatoes are my jam! I love them. I’m bout to go back and watch the others from this series, I love finding and growing new yummy varieties. 🍅😎