What tomato variety are ya'll planting this year?

[TJay]

We built our "forever" house and moved in in 2018. Our house sits on nine acres that was literally carved out of a mature timber stand, tall pines in the front and mature hardwoods in the back. I'm not a serious gardener but I've almost always had a small plot with tomatoes and peppers. Since moving here I've tried various locations around the house but the problem has been not enough sunlight because of the trees. This year I think I've finally found a small spot that will provide 6 to 8 hours of strong sun once the sun settles into it's summertime path across the sky. So, I'm thinking a couple of Better Boys as I've always had good luck with them and I'd like to do a couple of heirlooms too. Either Cherokee Purple or Carbon. I've grown CP and love them but I'm kind of curious about Carbon, anyone grown them? And I'll probably plant a couple of Romas for salsa and then Jalapeno and Serrano for the peppers. Any thoughts?

 

[ssramage]

Brad's Atomic Grape, Pink Berkely Tie Dye, Orange Hat, Purple Reign, Kellog's Breakfast, Blue Boar Berries...maybe a couple more that I'm forgetting...

 

[fishfryer]

Cherokee Purple

 

[Nicodemus]

Bodacious and my old standby, Rutgers.

 

[snuffy]

Rutgers and Parker's Whoppers

 

[The Original Rooster]

Mary Persons High School FFA was selling Big Boys so that's what we got this year.

 

[Big7]

Standard Big Boy and Better Boy.
They taste the best to me and put out sandwich slicing size tomatoes.

If I had more sun, I would put out some kind of Cherry or Grape Tomatoes.

 

[ilbcnu]

Mortgage lifters and brandywine

 

[doomtrpr_z71]

Red bounty and roadster

 

[Ihunt]

What kind is very acidic? I like the ones that will pucker you up.

 

[snooker1]

Beaf steak and cherry

 

[Cool Hand Luke]

Cherokee Purple my favorite but wife loves beefsteak. Got some growing from the seed need to get in the ground

 

[livinoutdoors]

Amish paste, Homestead, Tropic vfn, Neptune, Everglade.

 

[Crakajak]

Mortgage lifter and Cherokee purple.

 

[ddavis1120]

Early girl, black krim, red snapper, celebration, fl 91 and some sweetie cherry. I love the heirlooms but the hybrids are hard to beat production and disease wise.

 

[ucfireman]

kind of curious about Carbon, anyone grown them?

I grew them a couple of times, decent size (baseball or larger,) very juicy, and a good flavor, can't really describe. Not acidic and the "true" tomato taste but good.

My favorite is Cherokee purple, they just don't produce enough per plant.
I like Rutgers and celebrity. And Sweet 100s for cherries.

I used to start a bunch from seeds and try them out. Just got tired of having to bring them in at night and put them out for sun.
Now I just buy a flat of a couple varieties.

I say try as many as you can find or grow and just keep track of what you like. Kind of like figs, cant have too many varieties.

 

[Cool Hand Luke]

For anyone who lives near west Cobb county, there is a guy selling Cherokee purple/brandywine cross plants on GON classifieds. Bet those are tasty!
(it's not me)

 

[Redbow]

Better Boys and sweet 100's salad tomatoes.

 

[livinoutdoors]

I'll add this in here too for what its worth. Ive had much better results ever since i started growing more determinate varieties. They just hold up better.

 

[ucfireman]

I have never grown Determinate varieties, hear they are easier for salsa and canning as they come in all at one time .
Do they taste good also? I like a acid tomato taste.

I'll add this in here too for what its worth. Ive had much better results ever since i started growing more determinate varieties. They just hold up better