Which one would you rate your best for flavor?
They are all good but I think sweet pea is my favorite flavor wise. It has a really intense tomato flavor. It also happens to be the smallest and most time consuming to harvest.
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Good to know, I will have to try some next year—we go through our cherry and cocktail size tomatoes quicker than the larger sized tomatoes. Next year I’m planning on trying some currants again. Tried growing some spoon currant seeds out this spring but neglected my tomato seedlings and a good amount of them fizzled out. I think the spoon currants and Carolyn’s pink were a couple of the ones I was most looking forward to growing and tasting.
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I grew a green grape a few years back and thought the same… but then i let some get “overripe” and the sweetness came thru. They were amazing. And very prolific producers!
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Love a good cheokee purple! Best tomato for chili ever.
I think this one called black Russian that Maria used to be a member on GF trade this variety with me. It is a great large well balance tomato.
Tony
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Many years ago, Black Russian and Black Krim made me realize that tomatoes were worth growing, not buying at the store.
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Tasmanian chocolate. My favorite red slicer so far. It is super savory and good acid sweet balance with great juicy texture. Only tomato in the garden not getting blight right now as well. Plants about 3.5 feet tall and still pumping out tomatoes. Produced till frost last year for me.
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Yesterday’s harvest. Good thing excess tomatoes are more welcome by the neighbors than excess zukes.
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I’ve gotten a small bowl of early Willamette so far; the big guys are still very green, my San marzano too. the wild cherry are flowering a lot, handfuls of green fruit
I planted brandywine and they are faltering- Siberian giant have a lot of big fruit forming. my Baylor paste are flowering now. I got seed of the tiger tomato as a gift but they seem to be small, weedy looking plants, and only just began to flower.
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Found a crazy looking tomato volunteer, probably a hybrid from Juliet last year, looks like sausages!
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Our folks get tired of tomatoes too…. Good thing we have chickens 
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Starting to come in strong for us. Couple new ones to try later- kookaburra cackle, Perth pride, indigo rose, purple cherokee
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Looks like your purple cherokees crack too. That seemed pretty regular on mine as well. But it was well worth the flavor, just have to pick every day or two.
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First Midnight Sun of the year. Didn’t weigh it, but probably at least a pound and a quarter. Rich, delicious and beautiful - I grow it most years.
It is interesting that the breeder, Karen Olivier, has a thing for potato leaf tomatoes and actively breeds for it. So even though this is a heart, it has potato leaf foliage, but just like any heart I’ve grown the foliage is very elongated and whispy. The plant always looks droopy and a bit weak at first, but then pumps out these giant hearts.
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Cherry types are picking up speed. I’m testing a bunch of yellow and green ones in the hope that they will be less of a problem with my histamine intolerance. So far I’m very happy with the taste. It’s going to get really interesting when they’re at full speed. I think, I may have gone a bit overboard (with 5 of SS2 only and plenty beefsteaks), but my partner assures me, that there’s no such thing as too many tomatoes. The sause will have a strange colour this year, though…
Sungold Select 2, Indigo Pear Drops, Lucky Tiger, Brad’s Atomic Grape, Indigo Rose and some Calabrese peppers.
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I’m guessing I’m about a week or two behind you here in SE WI, but this is making me impatient!
I’m really glad I made informal raised (i.e. mounded) beds for my vegetable garden this year. We got 7 inches of rain in May, followed by 11 in June and 9 in July – about twice our average. My tomatoes started to show some water stress a few weeks back but they’ve had a couple weeks to dry out now. Early fruits have been watery and bland, so I’m just hoping we can go some time without a 3 inch downpour.
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Purple boy, first ripe tomato up here in the mountains. That’s how far behind we are.
It was better than the store tomatoes but it’s definitely not anywhere near to close is the best tomato I’ve ever ever had.
We have a lot of other ones growing and if we get to try any of them, I will report back on here.
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Seems as if mostly every tomato is cracking for me this year if anywhere close to getting ripe—we’ve had a ton of rain, way more than I recall in any past years. Flavors seem a little diluted on some varieties too, but then again I haven’t tried a lot of the varieties I am growing either. The exception has been prairie fire and apricot zebra—both have great flavor. These have been my favorite ones this year so far. Still have about a dozen varieties I haven’t had ripen yet so we’ll see. Most of the tomatoes I am growing this year are first time trials for me.
