Here’s all the varieties I have! What essential tomato do you grow every season that I don’t have?
Here’s all the varieties I have! What essential tomato do you grow every season that I don’t have?
by 420-fresh
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PigletExtra4929
Brandywine! Doesn’t look like you have a regular red variety-brandywine, mortgage lifter, etc.
little_cat_bird
Brandywine and Azoychka are on my permanent grow list! (Alongside Black Krim, Paul Robeson, Sungold, and Matt’s Wild—so you’ve got the rest!)
Azoychka usually does great in my climate, and ripens pretty early for me too. Brandywine is unpredictable for production and plant health, but retains the crown for consistently tasting perfect (just my own opinion of course). Like, my other favorites are 9.5/10 for flavor but Brandywine is a perfect 10.
ancientbananaman
That green russian tomato that baker creek used to sell, i think its called “Malakhitovaya Shkatulka”, and “costoluto fiorentin”
xmnstn
Pink Berkeley tie dye! Best tasting tomato I’ve ever grown!
IntrepidDriver7524
Shimmer!
srsh32
I see you like the smoky dark tomatoes 🙂
To add a little red, maybe try a red Oxheart tomato – Hungarian Heart
Biolobri14
Spoon! They’re the cutest and they never make it out of the garden 😂
RumPunchKid
I grow their orange hat and black krim every year
Tiny-Albatross518
I always grow some Kellogg’s breakfast. Big, yellow beefsteak. Excellent flavor sweet and tangy. Fruits to over 2 pounds.
jp7755qod
I’m partial to Indigo Rose myself. I wouldn’t call it essential ( for most growers ), but it’s always a staple in my garden.
sourpowerflourtower
Tiny Tim
Motor-Jaguar6209
A nice green when ripe. I suggest Humph.
MisfitWitch
Green zebras are absolutely necessary for me, they’re my favorite every year
aam1975
Sungold and indigo blue chocolate are must for me.
DrippyBlock
Barry’s crazy cherry! Amazingly huge fruit clusters and delicious to boot.
Also maybe look into not supporting baker creek seeds/rare seeds, they have a pretty problematic past and have active ties to the leader of a far-right, white supremacist, armed militia.
Also the money they are “donating” to Ukrainian “relief” is to an organization who forces Christian conversion before getting relief and hands out Bibles instead of actually helping people.
yolittlespazzy
Yellow pear cherry tomato and yellow pineapple tomato are my 2 most productive, heat, disease tolerant ones for 10 years in a row now. They out do everything.
Charblee
I know you said you were avoiding generic stuff, but I ALWAYS plant an early girl. It’s just nice having a high output “ye old tomato” in the garden that’s great for cooking (salads, sauces, etc.). The early girl puts out SOOO many tomatoes, you’ll be swimming in tomatoes that you won’t feel bad about using for cooking purposes.
thetangible
I constantly recommend Persimmon and Evergreen for delicious slicers. For a salad tomato there is nothing finer than Jaume Flamme…amazing flavor, just all the best stuff about a tomato but amplified in harmony.
hop_addict
Pantano Romeanesco is my all time favorite heirloom slicer!
ConfectionThin2084
I have grown Pink Berkeley Tie-Dye and Persimmon every year for the past 10 if not longer. I don’t think Baker Creek carries Persimmon but I have found it from sellers on eBay.
Love your collection! Some stuff that caught my eye glancing quickly at my catalogue:
**Pineapple/Hilbilly:** Two different tomatoes, pineapple is slightly better but hilbilly is a good substitute, sweet and fruity – Yellowish/orangeish with pink flares beefsteak **Cuore Antico Di Acqui Terme:** F—ing massive paste tomato – Giant red oxheart **Orange Roussollini:** One of the best tasting and sweetest “sleeper” tomatoes – Slightly bigger than cherry red **Uluru Ochre:** Dwarf, fruity, sweet and tart – Orange/Ochre dwarf beefsteak **Balkonzauber:** Great compact “balcony” growth habit and loaded with sweet tomatoes – Dwarf bigger than cherry tomatoes **Red Centiflor:** Insane production and delicious (Centi – Hundred, Flor – Flowers) – Small cherry/currant tomatoes that have insane multiflora blooms and taste sweet
Potential-Sky7310
Rose Quartz multiflora Striped Roman Blush Tiger Green Tiger
NPKzone8a
Have you thought about trying any Dwarf varieties? I sure do like Rosella Purple and Tasmanian Chocolate.
thereslcjg2000
I highly recommend Rose, Pruden’s Purple, Abraham Lincoln, Japanese Black Trifele, and Kentucky Beefsteak for heirlooms and Supersteak and Brandy Boy for hybrids.
Puzzleheaded_Cap_754
Midnight snack cherry tomatoes!
Then_Bee84
Black Krim and Caspian Pink always
Hardlyasubstitute
Golden Jubilee and German Queen
Secretly_A_Moose
Black cherry, my favorites. But I also have 10 varieties this year… mostly heirlooms that I plan to start seed keeping, but also a few hybrids I have left over from last year
Responsible-Summer-4
Cherokee watch out with the Brandywine mine go black when ripening indoors.
DamiensDelight
Feedback on that Matt’s Wild Cherry…. Holy crap this was the largest and most invasive producer of all the varieties I grew last year. Between 3 plants, I would regularly go out and pick 1+gallon every two days. Problem is, that they are just sooooo small. They become tedious, very quickly.
They are delicious, but they truly are wild – careful what you plant next to them.
Friendly-Profit-8590
The yellow pear from baker creek is pretty good. Queen of the night looks cool.
scott_d59
I’m in the SF Bay Area and I grow Thessaloniki in a large planter on my deck up against my condo. I grow this variety as it keeps producing in cooler weather. I do use plastic to make a sort of greenhouse and the deck faces south. I just cut down the plants.
Here are the final tomatoes. This year they lasted longer than ever.
34 Comments
Brandywine! Doesn’t look like you have a regular red variety-brandywine, mortgage lifter, etc.
Brandywine and Azoychka are on my permanent grow list! (Alongside Black Krim, Paul Robeson, Sungold, and Matt’s Wild—so you’ve got the rest!)
Azoychka usually does great in my climate, and ripens pretty early for me too. Brandywine is unpredictable for production and plant health, but retains the crown for consistently tasting perfect (just my own opinion of course). Like, my other favorites are 9.5/10 for flavor but Brandywine is a perfect 10.
That green russian tomato that baker creek used to sell, i think its called “Malakhitovaya Shkatulka”, and “costoluto fiorentin”
Pink Berkeley tie dye! Best tasting tomato I’ve ever grown!
Shimmer!
I see you like the smoky dark tomatoes 🙂
To add a little red, maybe try a red Oxheart tomato – Hungarian Heart
Spoon! They’re the cutest and they never make it out of the garden 😂
I grow their orange hat and black krim every year
I always grow some Kellogg’s breakfast. Big, yellow beefsteak. Excellent flavor sweet and tangy. Fruits to over 2 pounds.
I’m partial to Indigo Rose myself. I wouldn’t call it essential ( for most growers ), but it’s always a staple in my garden.
Tiny Tim
A nice green when ripe. I suggest Humph.
Green zebras are absolutely necessary for me, they’re my favorite every year
Sungold and indigo blue chocolate are must for me.
Barry’s crazy cherry! Amazingly huge fruit clusters and delicious to boot.
Also maybe look into not supporting baker creek seeds/rare seeds, they have a pretty problematic past and have active ties to the leader of a far-right, white supremacist, armed militia.
Also the money they are “donating” to Ukrainian “relief” is to an organization who forces Christian conversion before getting relief and hands out Bibles instead of actually helping people.
Yellow pear cherry tomato and yellow pineapple tomato are my 2 most productive, heat, disease tolerant ones for 10 years in a row now. They out do everything.
I know you said you were avoiding generic stuff, but I ALWAYS plant an early girl. It’s just nice having a high output “ye old tomato” in the garden that’s great for cooking (salads, sauces, etc.). The early girl puts out SOOO many tomatoes, you’ll be swimming in tomatoes that you won’t feel bad about using for cooking purposes.
I constantly recommend Persimmon and Evergreen for delicious slicers. For a salad tomato there is nothing finer than Jaume Flamme…amazing flavor, just all the best stuff about a tomato but amplified in harmony.
Pantano Romeanesco is my all time favorite heirloom slicer!
I have grown Pink Berkeley Tie-Dye and Persimmon every year for the past 10 if not longer. I don’t think Baker Creek carries Persimmon but I have found it from sellers on eBay.
Cowboy 👌🏼
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Love your collection! Some stuff that caught my eye glancing quickly at my catalogue:
**Pineapple/Hilbilly:** Two different tomatoes, pineapple is slightly better but hilbilly is a good substitute, sweet and fruity – Yellowish/orangeish with pink flares beefsteak
**Cuore Antico Di Acqui Terme:** F—ing massive paste tomato – Giant red oxheart
**Orange Roussollini:** One of the best tasting and sweetest “sleeper” tomatoes – Slightly bigger than cherry red
**Uluru Ochre:** Dwarf, fruity, sweet and tart – Orange/Ochre dwarf beefsteak
**Balkonzauber:** Great compact “balcony” growth habit and loaded with sweet tomatoes – Dwarf bigger than cherry tomatoes
**Red Centiflor:** Insane production and delicious (Centi – Hundred, Flor – Flowers) – Small cherry/currant tomatoes that have insane multiflora blooms and taste sweet
Rose Quartz multiflora
Striped Roman
Blush Tiger
Green Tiger
Have you thought about trying any Dwarf varieties? I sure do like Rosella Purple and Tasmanian Chocolate.
I highly recommend Rose, Pruden’s Purple, Abraham Lincoln, Japanese Black Trifele, and Kentucky Beefsteak for heirlooms and Supersteak and Brandy Boy for hybrids.
Midnight snack cherry tomatoes!
Black Krim and Caspian Pink always
Golden Jubilee and German Queen
Black cherry, my favorites. But I also have 10 varieties this year… mostly heirlooms that I plan to start seed keeping, but also a few hybrids I have left over from last year
Cherokee watch out with the Brandywine mine go black when ripening indoors.
Feedback on that Matt’s Wild Cherry…. Holy crap this was the largest and most invasive producer of all the varieties I grew last year. Between 3 plants, I would regularly go out and pick 1+gallon every two days. Problem is, that they are just sooooo small. They become tedious, very quickly.
They are delicious, but they truly are wild – careful what you plant next to them.
The yellow pear from baker creek is pretty good. Queen of the night looks cool.
I’m in the SF Bay Area and I grow Thessaloniki in a large planter on my deck up against my condo. I grow this variety as it keeps producing in cooler weather. I do use plastic to make a sort of greenhouse and the deck faces south. I just cut down the plants.
Here are the final tomatoes. This year they lasted longer than ever.
https://preview.redd.it/j30jkhlc5yme1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4d2d9771a24d2970186787f76c970ff4a898b7e9
They’re a small to medium tomato with excellent flavor.
Rosella cherry tomatoes are exceptional