Post by camochef on Jul 27, 2015 12:20:32 GMT -5
The past two weeks or so, I've been picking tomatoes like crazy. Usually over 50/day. I've been giving them to friends and neighbors, (along with blueberries, beans, squash, cucumbers and other veggies), but they are beginning to hide when they see me coming.
This has been a very wet season the past 2 months or so and everything is growing like crazy. Tomatoes are doing especially well. then too summer squash and zucchini are also. Rattlesnake beans, have been exceptional. Producing more and better tasting beans than all my other varieties combined. (Blue Lake, Provider, Maxibel, Crockett, and an assortment of black, brown, pink, yellow, red, and multi-colored beans). But, this is about tomatoes.
Besides my 15 favorite varieties this year, I also grew 12 varieties from Darlene of some of her favorites. About 3 plants of each variety. Right now, they're producing lots of large ripe tomatoes. Of my favorites, the best tasting have been:
Pink:
German Johnson-Benton Strain
Brandywine-Glicks
Barlow Jap
Pink Sweet
Earl's Faux
Cowlick's Brandywine
Purple Dog Creek
Sandul Moldovan
Dark:
Barlow's Best Black, (a German Johnson-Benton Strain P.L. Black cross)
Cherokee Purple
Bear Creek
Dana's Dusky Rose
Red:
Brandywine-Red
Tarasenko6
Mt Fresh-plus
From Darlene's seed:
Pink:
Rebel Yell
McKinley
Weisnicht's Ukrainian
Turkey
Dester
Dark:
Not Purple Strawberry
Pink Berkley Tie Dye
Margaret Curtain
Red:
Texwine
Dixiewine
Mountain Fresh-F-1
Red Penna.
All listings are in order by taste in each category. Rebel Yell and Not Purple Strawberry are the best from Darlene. My favorites are a little more difficult to categorize by taste alone, currently I'd have to rank the 4 darks over the 4-5 favorite pinks, but they are all subject to change as the season progresses and tastes may change. By the end of the season, other factors will be considered also, such as production, disease resistance, etc.
Right now, I'd have to say Rebel Yell is #1, followed closely by German Johnson - Benton Strain, Barlow Jap and Brandywine-Glicks for the Pinks; and Barlow's Best Black, Cherokee Purple, and Bear Creek pretty well tied with Not Purple Strawberry among the Dark tomatoes
Brandywine-Red has no competition among the reds this season.
Guess I'm gonna have to break out the Victorio strainer and the large stockpots.
Enjoy!
Camo
This has been a very wet season the past 2 months or so and everything is growing like crazy. Tomatoes are doing especially well. then too summer squash and zucchini are also. Rattlesnake beans, have been exceptional. Producing more and better tasting beans than all my other varieties combined. (Blue Lake, Provider, Maxibel, Crockett, and an assortment of black, brown, pink, yellow, red, and multi-colored beans). But, this is about tomatoes.
Besides my 15 favorite varieties this year, I also grew 12 varieties from Darlene of some of her favorites. About 3 plants of each variety. Right now, they're producing lots of large ripe tomatoes. Of my favorites, the best tasting have been:
Pink:
German Johnson-Benton Strain
Brandywine-Glicks
Barlow Jap
Pink Sweet
Earl's Faux
Cowlick's Brandywine
Purple Dog Creek
Sandul Moldovan
Dark:
Barlow's Best Black, (a German Johnson-Benton Strain P.L. Black cross)
Cherokee Purple
Bear Creek
Dana's Dusky Rose
Red:
Brandywine-Red
Tarasenko6
Mt Fresh-plus
From Darlene's seed:
Pink:
Rebel Yell
McKinley
Weisnicht's Ukrainian
Turkey
Dester
Dark:
Not Purple Strawberry
Pink Berkley Tie Dye
Margaret Curtain
Red:
Texwine
Dixiewine
Mountain Fresh-F-1
Red Penna.
All listings are in order by taste in each category. Rebel Yell and Not Purple Strawberry are the best from Darlene. My favorites are a little more difficult to categorize by taste alone, currently I'd have to rank the 4 darks over the 4-5 favorite pinks, but they are all subject to change as the season progresses and tastes may change. By the end of the season, other factors will be considered also, such as production, disease resistance, etc.
Right now, I'd have to say Rebel Yell is #1, followed closely by German Johnson - Benton Strain, Barlow Jap and Brandywine-Glicks for the Pinks; and Barlow's Best Black, Cherokee Purple, and Bear Creek pretty well tied with Not Purple Strawberry among the Dark tomatoes
Brandywine-Red has no competition among the reds this season.
Guess I'm gonna have to break out the Victorio strainer and the large stockpots.
Enjoy!
Camo