Zone 4, finally getting a decent amount of ripening happening after some unreliable weather. I went away for a week and came back to these beauts! Quite a few are new to me this year, so I’m looking forward to doing some taste testing this evening 🙂
by pottthos
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Beautiful pic
Not sure if just me but I can’t read any of the names they’re too pixelated 🙁
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Thoughts on Blush? Tried for the first time this year and thought they were amazing!
Wow! What a haul!
Beautiful. You gotta tell us your favourites. I grew some of these this year and I want to know how they compare to the best ones
Kelloggs Breakfast is my favourite. So delicious!
Do you ever seed swap? I’m looking for a few of these varieties.
This is just mean. 😭
You should have a tasting party! Even when I just make a salad I taste 2 varieties side by side to compare and make anyone who’s home do it with me.
Would love to know your rankings once you get through the sampling!
Please post taste test results. 👍😀👍
A few faves so far:
Cuore di Bue – Love these! The plant got gigantic with at least a couple dozen 3-4″ fruits on it. It’s technically a paste type tomato, but it’s actually pretty juicy and I find it equally at home on a sandwich. I am a sucker for this type of tomato, and this one will be in my lineup next year for sure.
Tasmanian Chocolate – Another massively productive tomato! It was technically supposed to be a dwarf variety, but it ended up quite large at about 5′ tall and VERY wide and bushy. Tomatoes are a beautiful rust colour and have a classic tomato flavour but with a bit more depth. I was shocked at how many tomatoes this smaller plant provided.
Black Prince – This is just one of my all time favourite go-to tomatoes, great reliable production and pretty resistant to things like BER (especially for a black tomato). Plus it’s delicious! I use these for everything.
Blush – New to me this year, they are a cool plant and a delicious tomato! Very bushy with wispy, thin leaves, and the plant is very productive. Fun colour, fun shape, tasty tangy sweet snacker!
Jaune Flamme – What a beautiful tomato. Orange/golden outside, with a bright blushing red interior coming from the stem/core. Zippy flavour. Golf ball sized fruits, tall productive plants.
Hungarian Heart – One of my mainstay varieties. Paste type. This plant gets TALL (like 9 or 10′) and reliably produces a bunch of small/mid size fruits along with half a dozen GIGANTIC 1-3 pound fruits. I fell in love with this tomato 15 years ago while doing a farming apprenticeship and have been growing it ever since. One of life’s great pleasures is to chop up one of the giant fruits and stew it down in a saucepan with a couple cloves of garlic and a few glugs of olive oil, and eat with nice crusty bread. The best.
Honey Drop – I know everyone is crazy for Sungold, but for me, these lean a bit more tangy/zippy, and take the cake for little orange cherries. The plant goes nuts in the way you want a cherry tomato to, and the fruits are more resistant to cracking/splitting than most of the other cherry tomatoes I grew this year.
Zone 4! I feel your pain but you are doing great!
I’m at zone 5b and I cannot plant seedlings in the soil until mid or late May. So it’s like a torture when I see other Redditors posting the pictures of their produces in June. When can you plant your seedlings outdoors?
What do you do with all these gems?
Please share all your tips for your tomatoes not splitting!! This is beyond impressive.
Tummy! 😋
I was wondering where you were because my tomatoes were done like a month ago. Then I saw zone 4 and was like ohhh