Went looking and finially found this thread on page five!!

Anyway lots of talk about the heirlooms but not all my plants are heirloom or open pollinated.

So usually I plant 3-4 of Sungold or Sunsugar. This year grew my own from seed so planted 6 of each. Should have plenty and this is the sweet cherry tomato everyone wants to snack on.

Speaking of sweet orange hybrids I also planted on Orange Zinger (seeds from Territorialseed) which is a slightly larger orange cherry tomato and two plants of Orange Paruche. Also a very sweet orange cherry tomato.

I had both of these last season so I know they are great!!

Also put in two plants of Golden Rave. A grape shaped small yellow. Had that last year also and liked them.

Indigo Ruby. I have already picked ripe ones but forgot to get a picture. You can see the purple were the sun hits these large grape shaped tomatoes. Then bottoms turn red. Makes a very pretty tomato and very attention getting in the garden. My friend said the ripening tomatoes remind her of flowers, especially pansies.

Rita:
You are a fount of information on obscure varieties! Hadn't heart of I. Ruby before, but here is a link to a video comparison of four small Indigo varieties, I.Rose, I.Ruby, I. Starburst and I. Sun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

It is not even in the database although the other Indigo I grow (Indigo Kumquat) is . Thanks for that link.

Today I picked Sungold cherry tomatoes.


It rained yesterday so I did have a fair amount of cracking. I just ate the cracked ones right away as I was picking. No problem, they didn't make it into the bowl.

These Sungolds sure do taste great. Very sweet and tasty.

Can't beat the Sungolds. I just keep on picking!!

These have been a very big hit this year. Love these mini roma shaped tomatoes. Just great production and taste.

Golden Rave

@WeedWhacker
     Sandy: A while ago you said you were growing Health Kick this year. How did it turn out in production, plant size and taste?

Hi Don,

I can't completely evaluate Health Kick because I had to pull my one and only plant out quite early; I was growing it in a high tunnel along with 6 other tomato plants, and the plant next to it became infected with some disease (I think it was bacterial canker), which began to spread to the Health Kick plant, so I pulled both of them out before it progressed any further.

That said, though -- I found the taste to be quite bland for fresh eating, but the fruit was an attractive bright red-orange, around 4 oz. per tomato, and it was quite early to ripen. The initial production was excellent but obviously I don't know whether it would have continued to set a lot of fruit. The plant was about 4 feet tall when I picked it, and was a nice sturdy, bushy plant. The best use for this variety, in my mind, is for making sauce, juice, etc.

Edited to say: I should have wrote "when I pulled it out," not "when I picked it."

     Thanks, Sandy. I too lost some plants this year because I wasn't quick enough with preventive measures. Thanks for the details. Sorry Health Kick was too bland for fresh eating, but at least it might make some healthy sauce!

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I had some blight problems this year, and the one hybrid I planted (Husky Cherry Red) was the most resistant. So based mostly on recommendations from this thread, I'm going to try a few more hybrids next year (and also look into sprays like Daconil). Although I probably won't have room for them all, I'm considering:
Country Taste
Orange Paruche
Chocolate Sprinkles
Fourth of July or Megabite
Bush Champion II or Bush Goliath

There must be some good tasting hybrids. I've gotten some excellent tomatoes from a farmer's market recently that I'm pretty sure are hybrids, but the clerks have no idea what variety they are.

Country Taste
Orange Paruche
Chocolate Sprinkles
Megabite

Are all great for me. Have grown and really like these varieties.

I grew Container Choice from seed this year. Never again! During hardening off, the seedling was a prima dona: requiring extra shading and a longer hardening off period. As a growing plant, it was so highly branched, it was a real challenge to find some sprawling, tangled part to tie up. As a mature plant, its production was lousy: only a dozen of so. . . but each fruit was large (6-8 oz slicer) and fairly tasty (not outstanding but good).

This was the third year in a row I've grown Jasper from seed, too. I (and my fortunate neighbors) find it VERY tasty and QUITE productive! I've posted production notes here, in Plant Database. I'll keep growing it every year, until I run out of seeds (it's an indeterminant hybrid) and will probably first try to trade for more seeds. . .or give up and BUy more seeds!!

Sounds like I need to find more about 'Jasper', as I always have two in containers.

So after afew years of not being grown here the old regular and reliable stand by tomatoes of Early Girl, Big Boy, Better Boy and Juliet are all back in the garden this season and already planted.

My trial varieties this year are Dixie Red and Skyway. They will be competing with Mountain Merit, Red Defender, Red Morning and PS 01522942

farmerdill said:My trial varieties this year are Dixie Red and Skyway. They will be competing with Mountain Merit, Red Defender, Red Morning and PS 01522942

I have never grown any of those.I wanted to try Bella Rosa this year because you recommended them but don't have them because I never got seed. Oh well, maybe next year.

Fortunately You don't have need for varieties with resistance to TSWV. That is my bottom line, so I start with TSWV resistance and look for varieties that taste good. They are getting much better, the first releases were hard enough to use as softballs.

farmerdill said:Fortunately You don't have need for varieties with resistance to TSWV. That is my bottom line, so I start with TSWV resistance and look for varieties that taste good. They are getting much better, the first releases were hard enough to use as softballs.

I like both productive and tasty. Sometimes it is difficult to get the tasty with the productive.

Of course I like to grow what tastes great to me. I know I love some old standby hybrid varieties that the real heirloom only people frown upon as not so great. Don't matter to me. Tastes great to me and my vote is the only one that counts in my garden.

For instance I often grow Juliet Tomatoes. Last year not but this year they are back again. I have a neighbor that each year points at the Juliets and tells me not to bother ever growing them again because she doesn't like them. Well, woopy do. Who cares? I like them and I do as I please.