My TOMATO VARIETIES, RESULTS & TASTE TEST! It’s the end of the season, and here are my thoughts on my tomatoes this year! Please share! City girl urban gardener turns late bloomer homesteader! Subscribe so you won’t miss out!
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I enjoyed your taste test of your tomatoes! Thank you!
Nice to see the various tomatoes from your plot. Thanks for sharing your taste test. Cheers.
That's how it's been here in southwest Virginia with my tomatoes. Yes stink bugs too! Lots of rain splitting and cracking.
You have lots of beautiful varieties!
I fermented some cherry tomatoes, and they didn't hold up well, but I worked with what I had.
I grew some Cherokee Carbon tomatoes. LOTS of splitting, but they are wonderfully flavorful.
Romas didn't do well overall. Had some sunrise or sunset sauce variety, and I lost them all to blight. One day they were gorgeous, the next day they were in the final stages of death. Another variety of Romas I had an endless battle against blossom end rot, but I managed to see a few through to harvest.
I used to like Roma tomatoes sliced in a salad.
Excellent review of your tomatoes Kaye! Some varieties just fizzle out with the turn in the weather and others still produce great. Always helpful to know which varieties you will grow again and why.
I am in Indiana.
This year, I planted three kinds of tomatoes. All cracked except the Mountain Fresh variety (there were two slighty cracked from one of those plants). Beautiful tomatoes, but not a lot of flavor.
I also planted Serbian Prince. They tasted good, but cracked horribly.
My favorite are Ozark Tommy Toe, German Johnson, Celebrity, Cherokee Purple, Campbell 33, Better Boy, Early Girl. German Johnson and Celebrity is my favorite for canning or making juice. Campbell 33 is the best for canning into soup. My ozark Tommy Toe grows past frost for me and my chi's loves this tomato straight off the plant.
I am going to try a few extra next year, not sure which. My middle daughter likes yellow and orange tomatoes so I need to find one for her. I tried Aunt Ruby's German Green this year and I liked it. It done wonderful for my pickled green tomatoes & onion canning. I missed my tomatoes for tomato paste this year, not sure how I forgot it. I've grown these in NC & KY and done very well.
Thank you for doing this video and I may go ahead order some a couple new varieties. Have a Blessed Day.
I did not get any tomatoes planted because we travelled in May. I do have a volunteer cherry tomato that flowered but so far too hot to fruit. The melons are doing very well. Have a honey dew and 6 bush sugar baby watermelons growing strong on the chain link fence (alley and vacant lot bordering fence so no neighbors involved). Last year I grew San Marzano, Cherokee Purple, and Roma. I also love Early Girl which is yes, a hybrid but quite easy to grow.
We grew one called Everglades. It’s a cherry. It withstood all the bugs and humidity of South Georgia. We only used about 10% because we couldn’t keep up.
Hi from South Florida Kaye. Just planting my Brandywine tomatoes in containers outdoors!
Hi Kaye, thanks for the review. Need to try the German green tomatoes I think. Maybe next year. Lord willing weather will cooperate! Our garden wasn't great this year either. But I must say was difficult to even plant and care for it. We moved to a new property and we are still unpacking after many months. You know all to well about this. Exhausting! Not much time could be spared this year. Our garden produced but it struggled under the scorching sun. The hot temps and very little rain made for a very small yield except for our cherry tomatoes. Gave hundreds of those away. Also fed our chickens many cherry tomatoes. They love them. We love the sun sugar, sun gold as well as sweet 100 cherry tomatoes. They always produce for us and nice for summer salads and just popping into your mouth. Our purple Cherokee and black krim are a must for us. Hopefully next year we both have a better growing season. Enjoyed the video as always. Lol and now I'm hungry God! God bless.
It was a difficult growing season all around. You had too much rain, we had none! 3 months in Texas with 0 rain. Since August we've only had a couple inches but I love watering my plants and observing everything. My favorite this year was the Kellogg's Breakfast…so tasty! I've got my fall tomatoes growing and doing well and hopefully will have enough time. I had great success with my Hoss Tools determinates. I hope to get a bunch of Sun Gold to ferment. Loved your review!
LOTS OF BEAUTIFUL TOMATOES, I PROBLE WOULD LIKE THE TASTE OF ALL OF THEM. !!!
Idk…their isn’t a tomato I don’t like. I grew a lot of Roma and they were delicious. My sauces turned out wonderful. Those you reviewed are nice!
Wow! They all look delicious Kaye ♥️ Lost of juicy wonderfullness from them. I’d have to have a salt shaker with me…🤣🤣. It’s so fun to taste and review what you’ve grown….good job!
I've come to accept hybrids(Jet Star , Jetsetter) as my reliable workhorses with open pollinated as treats. Times are too precarious to not bring in a big harvest to process.
@Kaye, I wish I had the room to grow so many varieties of tomato. I put my money on Amish paste this year and they were a disappointment. Next year, I will plant Cherokee Purple that I love and cans well. Here, in my urban homestead in swampy Northern VA, I am a member of an Amish "food club". I have been buying canning tomatoes from my farmer since 2020 and saving the seeds that I am sure are his family heirloom. He won't tell me the name so I call them Esh Tomatoes after him. That will be my second tomato for next year. My big discovery this year is Stacy's marvelous delicious fermented tomato sauce that will keep in the back of the fridge all winter, like refrigerator pickles. Thank you for sharing your tomatoes varieties that have tempted me plant more. haha. ❤🍅🍅🍅
I really appreciate you sharing the results of your tomato season. Very informative hearing your feedback on the different varieties. I had quite a few tomato blossoms fall off early on. Fortunately, the next round of blossoms held, and the bees showed up. Good tomato harvest but not great like last year's was. I planted Ananas Noire for the first time this year and it's a pretty darn good variety (pinkish purple highlights with predominate green shoulders and a colorful, streaked interior, moderately meaty).
I was recently told that if your tomato is ripe it can be refrigerated without harming the flavor and it will be slow to over ripen. If it is not fully ripe it cannot be refrigerated. I have not tested this but would be interested in hearing if anyone has.
Beautiful tomatoes, even if they have high water content. Good video! ♥️🙏🏼♥️
I have a new favorite this year! Mr. Stripey! Juicy and sweet! Our pest has been grasshopper! When you walk outside it is like popcorn popping!
Where's…Im thinkin tomato sandwiches now !!! Mayo, white bread , salt and pepper !!!! Nothin like it !!
…….Southern thing. Yeahhh
Thanks Kate….Bless you…stay pretty ——–.
You are too funny Kaye. A stink bug convention. OMG
Would you sell the Gary O'Sena seeds?
Enjoyed hearing your choices of tomatoes & opinion! I planted 6 (too many in my small, raised bed garden 8’x12’). My best results has been 4th of July & am hoping the San Mazana will redden. Loved the Sun Gold cherry but little yellow pear had little depth of flavor so fermented as a salsa. Will only plant 3-4 in 2023. May try one of your suggestions for a slicer but 4th of July is delicious, prolific, no splitting (unfortunately, huge Cherokee Purple split; cut bottom half & made tasty basil sauce w pasta). Thank you for the ideas! JCG
Kaye, it’s really hard to grow heirloom tomatoes in the south . We grow mostly hybrids with the exception of paste tomatoes. If you want large slicing tomatoes, try Red Snapper and Roadster. Hoss sells them. They are determinate tomatoes. You had my mouth watering tasting those tomatoes! Yum!
Great looking variety of tomatoes. I only grew Sungold (cherry) tomatoes, Giant Red (cherry) tomatoes, Cherokee Purple (slicers), Chocolate Cherry (cherry) tomatoes and Lemon Boy (Slicers). I will have to try some of those next year.
I feel your tomato pain! Some places around the country had bumper crops this year.
Enjoying your taste test, thanks!
My tomatoes were a bust this season! All indeterminate except for Roma. I had one nice flush, then they couldn't handle the heat. I've kept a few completely pruned Vines, 8 ft long, with new Healthy Growth on the end and at the base. Wondering if something will happen, a bit of an experiment. Even the deadest looking of vines is bright green with water flowing when I cut through it, I'll report back. Ha!
Glad we are able to see and hear about the different tomatoes…Everyone please ask your friends to come visit this channel..
I also got free black vernissage with a baker creek seed order several years ago and it remains a must-grow for me. i added pink vernissage this year. Both are very productive, even in this hot drought we have had in north Georgia this year. They are still putting ut new tomatoes after others have given up.
I am guessing you'll have a ton of volunteers next year. With all your space, I'd let them go wild. Yippee!
That was great! Inspired to grow more varieties than I do! Thank you!