My mouth was watering watching those tomatoes get cut up. I can't tell you how much I enjoy a fresh tomato.

Cherokee Purple is, for me, miraculously, the most delicious tomatoe I've ever tasted and/or grown. Grew them here in Mass. they came in almost as big as grapefruit but the Taste!!! Am a neophyte gardener; just got incredibly lucky with them. Thanks.

Currently growing Cherokee Purple, Sun gold and San Marzano. Cant wait for the fruit!!

imagine my surprise when I saw Black Krim on the list. I've got 2 plants started from seed about 16" tall so far cant wait.

Funny because I put Brandy wine above both black Krim and purple Cherokee. Have grown all 3 in the same season and still feel that way. Different strokes for different folks

Black Krim is my all time favourite and very similar to the tomatoes I remember from my youth in Southern Ontario.

This old timer in Nebraska still holds the flavor of Rutgers tomatoes as the benchmark.

Hands down, the best tomato I've ever grown and eaten myself was a Cherokee Carbon. I've got some Cherokee Purple in my garden this year and I've got high hopes!

You don't know what a tomato tastes like unless it's organic from your own garden. Tomatoes from the grocery are tasteless and toxic.

One of my favorites is Dad's Sunset from Bakers Creek Seeds, which is a very sweet, large yellow tomato with no cracks, very productive,mine produce up to late fall.

I love Lemon Boys. So mild and bright.

Welcome back😘! Your video is so great, I learned a lot about tomatoes. Thank you so much!

GREAT VIDEO!!! This took dedication, my friend. Thank you so much. God bless you richly. 🙏🏼

The video in question is the first one of yours I watched. Happy to see a follow up! Boy, those look good!

Good Afternoon Jim - So glad to hear from you this morning and hope the healing is continuing to go well for you. I had to take notes from this video as I have not grown any of these varieties. LOL Appreciate the experience of your audience for all new gardeners and for your research in making this video. Wishing you a blessed weekend and stay cool..

My favorite is brandy wine. Brown cherry tomatoe for a cherry tomatoe. The sweetest I’ve had is Snow White cherry tomatoe.

Welcome back, mate. I hope you’re enjoying the weekend 🙂

Going through and tracking all of the viewers comments must have been a lot of work! Thank you for making this!

Happy to ear you again :-) I hope you're going well. Sewed several of those tomatoes the last ten years. This year is not our best season, according to the rainy summer, but among our 100 varieties grown each year, Paul Robeson was one of our best success ; as always, we always prefer dark tomatoes for their rich taste ; but this list is a good summary of tasty classic tomatoes. Thanks for sharing. Greetings from Belgium and have a nice weekend😊

So great to hear from you, I've missed my Saturday morning Midwest Gardener video. I agree with you about the black krim and brandywine. They are delicious. I grew the yellow brandywine. Both struggled in the heat. The ones that I did get were delicious. I also really like the Hungarian heart. It too is very meaty. I'm hoping to grow more of these before we get any frost. I sure enjoyed the video, it made want a tomato sandwich. Take care and God bless.🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅

This was a good year for tomatoes. I sowed then transplanted 23 varieties early, so most of the harvest was earlier than usual and before the terrible heat. Our favorite was Paul Robeson. Consoluto Genevese and Chef's Choice Orange #2 & #3. We tried a new cherry, Orange Roussolini. Loved it, and it's still going strong. Glad to see a video, Jim. Hope you're healing and doing well.

What a cool way to crowdsource a tomato growing list! I don't have any of these ten (though I've heard of them all) and tomatoes are probably my favorite vegetable to eat, so I've got seeds for more than 80 varieties. Super interesting!

Glad to see this video. I didn’t know what had happened but I was worried about you. Glad to hear you’re doing better. My favorite tomato of all time is the Burpee Big Boy. My dad saved seed and planted these every year. It’s a great memory from long ago. I love fresh sliced tomatoes and will be sad to see them go this fall but this video and comments will help me think about the ones I’ll grow next year. Prayers for your continued healing.

I've grown and enjoyed all of the tomatoes on your list except German Pink. My favorites are Mortgage Lifters, Gold Medal, Belle Marmouise Juane, Paul Robeson, Black Cherry and Aunt Rubies German Green. For sauce tomatoes: Amish Paste, San Marzano Redorta, Russian Orange (bicolor) 117 and Italian Heirloom. Thanks for the great video and blessings to you and your family.

Really enjoy your channel! I didn't grow Cherokee Purple this year, however it's by far my favorite and Brandywine Pink is definitely my runner up.

Based on your recommendation from a previous video I watched, I got online and purchased 30 Black Krim seeds. Nearly all of them sprouted. They are now outside growing fast. I love the look of them from pics and videos, so I’m excited to try them. Thanks for the recommendations.

The C.Purple is king. Lots of great types on there. Over here nostalgia can't save it forever so close behind the CP at least for now is the Pineapple for Angel and the Black Beauty for me. So many great types though can spend forever trying new ones. Great video. Thanks for the share!

I will always grow Black Krim because it’s my favorite! I had a lot of success with Green Giant and they’re pretty tasty but a little too acidic for sauce.

I grew a tie-dye tomato plant one year and the taste of it blew my mind and nothing has come close to that taste since but I’m growing black Krim this year and pineapple can’t wait to try them both.

Great video,short and to the point❤👍

I regularly grow four of the tomatoes on your list: Sun Gold, Brandywine (my favorite), Kellogg's Breakfast, and Pineapple. They are all great. Next year I'll try some of the others that you listed.

Funny as I was watching this I kept saying it has to be Cherokee purple and black Krim near the top , and it was! I like Brandywine, but I grew Aunt Ruby German Green last year and imo it deserves a spot in the top 5 too.

Growing some Cherokee Purple for the first time this year. Can't wait to try the first one!

Agreed, no doubt top 3, Cherokee Purple, Black Krim and Pink Brandywine. Thanks for your videos :)

Yes! In my mind, Cherokee Purple is my number one! We like to grow Mortgage Lifter and Brandywine as well.

I hope you’re feeling better Mr. Jim. I love pretty much all those tomatoes but I agree with the pole, Cherokee purple is everything you want in a tomato.

Lemon boy came thru this year, but Cherokee Purple is hard to beat. Rutgers and Marglobe are old favs too.

Black Krim is sooo good and adds an indescribable flavor to soups and stews. It's like this amazing rich and umami flavor that enhances the whole dish.

Yay! I'm growing Cherokee Purple for the 1st time this year, and it's the only variety I'm growing in this top 10! I'm also growing Beefsteak, Red Cherry, and Super Sweet 100! I hadn't even heard of half of theses! Thanks for sharing!

Thank you, sir!

I'm a big fan of cherry tomatoes 🍅😋😍 Thank you for sharing.

Cherokee Purple and Black Cherry are my favorites. I started growing them both around ten years ago. Had to start my own from seed because all you could ever find as far as seedlings were the usual hybrid suspects. About four-five years ago I noticed the Cherokees were suddenly available at nurseries everywhere, and even the big box stores. I guess the secret got out.

Love what we call the German Johnson, and the Mister Stripey, have some of the Cherokee Purple planted like those also, heck it's hard to pick, there all great.

Black Krim is my very favorite. I was happy to see it made number 2. it's number 1, in my books. The best tomatoe sandwich

I once grew nothing but tomatoes in my huge backyard garden (plus Basil , walla walla onions and Anaheim peppers.) I had 45 varieties of tomatoes and made the best homemade salsa ever. I had friends who admitted to actually just eating it out of the jar like it was a chunky tomato soup. Also, I doubt any of my neighbors had to go out and buy tomatoes that summer because the tomato fairy kept leaving bags of them on their doorstep before they’d wake up. I earned the nickname of Tomato Lady from a friend who, when he saw my garden stood there with his mouth open gobsmacked. He was 6 ft 5 and my garden was a literal forest of tomato plants two feet taller than he was. I had made a smart decision when I planted that garden and put a drip irrigation system in so that watering would be easy. My biggest tomato was a pink Brandywine that was 4 1/2 inches tall, 18 3/4 inches in circumference and I can’t remember the weight. When I brought it to a family dinner and sliced it took up the whole plate. I babied that tomato protecting it from animals and making sure the stem wasn’t going to break. I took all other blossoms and fruit off of that stem. I didn’t crack and was perfectly shaped. Biggest tomato I had ever grown and never have since.

Cherokee Purple has always been my favorite!

Great video!

Hard to argue with Black Krim getting on the medal podium - we’ve been growing them since we started our garden and they’re reliable producers of beautiful, super flavorful tomatoes. The best tomato I’ve ever had in terms of flavor is Aunt Lou’s Underground Railroad - perfect balance of sweetness, acidity, and savory/umami. They’re likely not going to win an award for being the most productive plants, but the fruit they do bear are big and bursting with flavor.

Welcome back! I was starting to worry about you! I love many kinds of tomatoes but have been more focused on disease resistance and productivity in a shady environment. My current favorite is a beefsteak-like indeterminate variety I call "super bush", descended from what was supposed to be a pepper seed I started 5 years ago -- it is cold-tolerant, with a strong stem, somewhat early and still one of the latest-producing every fall. This year all of them survived unusually hot wet weather in July in which nearly all heirlooms, including Cherokee Purple, succumbed to Fusarium Blight (a few other hybrids and enhanced heirlooms also survived). Super Bush was also the most productive of a full-sun raised bed in a friend's allotment. I hope I can move on from survival and productivity to a bigger focus on taste down the road -- thanks for the road map of varieties to try. I did succeed in growing Sungold this year, and it was incredibly sweet and productive early on. I also grew some tiny wild Mexican tomatoes that have a great intense flavor. But neither of these survived July.

Mouthwatering!

Hmm.... Black from Tula made the list? Interesting. Never tried it. Good list. I might've changed the order a bit but these are a great lineup for those choosing seeds next year and newbies wanting direction. Thank you

Down here in the south, hot and humid, cherry tomatoes thrive the best. Of those Black Cherry and Sun Gold are fantastic. Larger tomatoes like Rutgers, Parks Whopper and good ole Romas produce well and are delicious.

Jim, I'm enjoying one of the best tomato-growing years that I've had in quite a while. Of the four new (to me) varieties that I'm growing, one was a real standout. Unfortunately, I don't know which one it is, because the day I planted them my young great-grandson insisted on helping me plant "Matoes". The unfortunate part was... I didn't realize that my precious little one had pulled all of my plant tags out of the ground and had taken them home in his pocket. His mommy found them while doing laundry and threw the tags away. I didn't grow them from seed this year but purchased the tomato plants at a local nursery. I would definitely grow them again if I can figure out what variety they are. I hope you and your sweetheart have a wonderful weekend. ~Margie🤣😂🤣

Black Krim is definitely my favorite. I use them in my spaghetti sauce, tomato jam and chili sauce. Delicious and versatile.

Great list for once I agree with. Cherokee purple are the best tasting. The best harvested when the shoulders are still green. By letting the shoulders ripen the bottom becomes mealy.

My favorite is Alice's Dream. Love that tomato. Followed closely by Fuego Rosa. Both great sandwich slicing tomatoes.

Every year I choose about 40 varieties of tomatoes to grow. I plant cherry, orange, green, striped, black, red, pink and paste varieties, each for proven flavor and yield. If I could grow only one, it would be the Hungarian Heart. It has exceptional flavor, is very meaty, a good slicer and makes for great cooking and canning.

Sooo many😂 It seems like the one on my BLT is always my Fav whatever it might be at that moment😆

This is great info. 06/30/24 and I am already making my list for next year. And in 4 months I'll be planting my garlic for salsa. LOL..

After watching one of your videos last year about the Boronia, I had decided to grow it this season, This is a very very good tomato, in my opinion it is up there with the Cherokee Purple.

I not a big tomato fan, but I do like to grow them for family and friends. Last year I got a late start with my planting so I wanted to start with seedlings rather than from seeds. The particular plant store I went to was almost out of vegetable plants and there were only 3 tomato plants left. Two were roma types and the third I had never heard of before. It was the Cherokee Purple. I grabbed all three. I planted each in separate pots and watched them grow to harvest. I was curious of how that Cherokee Purple would taste. It was delicious. I absolutely fell in love. It was sweet and tomato yummy without that strong acidy twang most tomatoes have. This year I started them from seed and am so looking forward to harvest. Cherokee Purple is my favorite number 1!

Cherokee Purple so far is my all-time favorite. It was not a great year for tomatoes in my garden. Next year will be better! I tried Paul Robeson this year, Juliet(a cherry), a White Tomato, And Dr. Wyches. I had heard people rave over Paul Robeson but Cherokee Purple kicked its fanny in taste. The Dr. Wyches was a yellow and tasted great. I will try the Black Krim next year along with Pork Chop, Pieapple, and Kealogges Breakfast, and 2 I can't remember the names but are from Strictly Medicinal seeds, and one was said to be as sweet as Sun Gold but is an heirloom so I can save seeds. I can say it has been a bumper year for peppers. Glad to see you feeling better!🙏💞

Brandywine, Nepal, Cherokee Purple, Sicilian Saucer, Hutterite, Yellow Pear, all do well for me in our hot Canadian summers.

For whatever reason I had no luck on tomatoes this year. I might try the Cherokee Purple next year. I was a month late getting seeds started. Best to you, Sir. May you continue to heal and be well.

I’m always looking forward to your recommendations, great list! I have a few great ones on my list: Girl Girls Weird Thing(funny name,fabulous tomato), Captain Lucky, Nina’s Heirloom, Gary O’Sena, sweet cream, Marmande, Terhune, Silvery fir Tree( grown as novelty turned out great), Santa María, Marzano Fire, Curtis Cheek, sungold( I have tried sunpeach and sunchocola but prefer the sungold.) Mortage Lifter VFN, Benevento, and of course Cherokee purple and German Johnson as they are beloved here in NC.

Really difficult to narrow down to 1 favorite. I grew Cherokee Carbon, Rosella Purple, Mortgage Lifter, Pineapple, Sun Sugar Boronia and Uluru Ochre. I am a fan of all of them look forward to eating each one. No red headed step children on my list. Enjoy them all.

Great list! I've never tried black krim. I may have to do that next year. I love the taste of Cherokee purple, but I've always had issues with growing them in South Carolina and just don't get very many. I've had similar issues with big rainbow which also has excellent flavor, but low production for me. I get great results with pink brandywine though. For cherry tomatoes I've had great results year after year with Blush cherry. It has excellent flavor, especially if you make sure to let it reach full ripeness.

I planted Cherokee Purple for the first time this spring and the plants are full of green fruit. I've been wondering what to expect, being totally unfamiliar with them. Thanks for the video!

I've grew many different varieties in the East Tennessee mountains... I got to put two tomatoes in number 1# spot- The Black Sea Man and Gary O"sena (The Gary O'sena is a stabilized hybrid between Cherokee Purple and Pink Brandywine....

I’m glad you mentioned flavor is different from year to year. I think it is different depending on area it’s grown also. I grew 25 varieties of heirloom tomatoes last year and can’t say I liked any of them. Sure the Sun Gold seemed to be many’s favorite, but I had a late season taste and I couldn’t tell if it was a grape or a tomato. I think we are losing the true tomato flavor and seems most vegetables are described more often then not as sweet. I tried the black tomatoes-Krim, Cherokee and black cherry and the cherry was fine, but the others just didn’t have it. Many of the heirlooms had a lot of waste due to scarring and not a fan of green shoulders or cores. To tell the truth we just opened a 2022 can of tomatoes and the aroma was terrific! I searched back and all but two were hybrids. I do like the Brandywine and still looking to find the right OP one to save seed, but I think I will gravitate back to hybrids I grew in 2022. The other thing is I don’t believe there can be so many varieties of true heirlooms. I think many are surfacing from backyard crosses. The acidity is being bred out and they don’t keep long. I thinks we are losing the true tomato flavor and that is why I’m looking to save seed before they go the way of the grape.

Black krim, Paul R, Cherokee purple, Kellogg's b, Gold Medal are my favorites no order just love. In fact I am running in place trying to decide what to start. This year.

Great video, Jim!!! I don't love tomatoes, but I love to grow them for everyone else & I eat salsa, of course. We discovered F1 Clementine cherry tomatoes a couple years ago when Johnny's had a sale on seeds & I think they're the larger, better big brother to Sun Gold. Very meaty and sweeter than Sun Gold. They're over 1" in diameter usually, and they keep going when all the other varieties have quit. Ananas Noire (Black Pineapple) is my second favorite, but it seems to be determinate and not indeterminate because they produce for a short time, and are the first to die back.

Thank you for your effort! So interesting! The best tomato I ever tasted was also a Black Krim... I will never forget how unbelievable it was. And all the tomatoes from that plant tasted like that. But I've never been able to get seeds like those again - I've bought Black Krim seeds wherever I've seen them, but every year they weren't the real deal... So I'm still searching for that real Black Krim I tasted 12 years ago. But I'm starting to think you can't find those seeds anymore, because every time I see someone on KZfaq taste a "Black Krim" it also doesn't look like the real thing. So somebody will have to find and save the real Black Krim seeds, before we lose it completely.

my grandfather always grew Big Boy and it was always my favorite. But last year I tried a Domingo. It was not only the biggest tomato I've ever grown, but also the best tasting. I'm going to see if I can find some Black Krim and Cherokee Purple.

100% agree with your viewers top ten, although there are some newer varieties right up there with them, like Chocolate Stripes.

I love Marvel Stripe tomatoes. Golden with deep pink stripes. Yum!

The most delicious tomato I ever ate was a Dr. Wyche's. The second most delicious tomato I ever had was a Black Prince, but I have never tried several on your list. I do have Black Krim and Kellogg's Breakfast tomatoes planted. I will test them this summer.

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Have Brandywine and ALWAYS have sun cherries (

Berkley tie-dye was probably my new favorite this year but I also agree with many on this list.

Black Krim was the strongest/healthiest and most productive plant of the tomato varieties I've grown. Incredibly impressive; it had a woody stem larger than my thumb. It gave green tomatoes into November (zone 9, CA, with 100+ degree days throughout much of summer) and was the first to flower while still under grow lights. Cherokee Purple on the other hand didn't do too well and gave me few. I believe we all agreed our favorite taste-wise though was pink brandywine

Terroir. Familiar with that term -- usually applied to wine: the climate, soil and weather. For that reason I appreciate knowing the location of the video producer. In the Pacific Northwest I grew Cherokee Purple, once. While it was very prolific, it won my bland award. An interesting experiment would be for many gardeners across the country to grow the exact, same source variety in their particular location and report results, even measuring acid and sugar with instruments.

German stripe and sun gold are my 2 favorites

Last year I planted Thessoliniki and San Marzano for the first time and I doubt I'll ever plant another variety again. Sun Gold are my favorite cherry tomatoes and I planted Mr. Stripey one year and I remember it being fairly tasty.

I grew up on the farm in NJ in the 70’s and 80’s. Jersey was famous for tomatoes for decades. The best tomatoes I’ve ever had, and I’ve had some of the top few on this list, but the best I ever had was Jersey tomatoes. They were Ramapo, Morton, and Rutgers. Those were the varieties we were growing on the farm back then. I’d say that they were far better then, Black Krim and Cherokee Purple, which are good tasting tomatoes too, I grow them myself.

I grew Sun Gold this year and another Cherry variety that was tied with or perhaps a slight winner over Sun Gold in some blind taste tests with friends. Italian Ice.

My favorite tasting tomato is currently green zebra. At first, the color put me off though. My thoughts are with you on your recovery.

We get alot of sun out here in desert SW. Better Boys always do well, super fantastic s most beef stakes, get some shade. Heirlooms seem to need sandier soils with humidity

I'm just going through my seeds now, deciding what to grow this year. I'm going to grow 2 dwarf tomato varieties, Geranium Kiss and Wherokowhai. Haven't made my mind up about what other varieties, but I have lots of time. I DO have to decide on which peppers to sow soon though as I start them earlier.

Uncle Jim, this is a cool video!!!! ❤ My favorite this year that I grew was Aunt Ruby's German Green 💚 I will grow this every year now. I need to try Black Krim again. It just stinks that covid has officially changed my taste buds and tomatoes don't taste like they used to for me. It's horrible. But I just have to get used to the "new" taste and go off that.

Thanks for sharing. I have grown all but german pink, black from tula and cherokee purple. However, I already have plans of growing cherokee purple next year so do not worry. I will give you two favorites. My fav cherry tomato is barrys crazy cherry and my fav large tomato is a new one I grew this year called orange crush. It's quite productive, tastes great and has virtually no seeds which makes it difficult for seed saving and also difficult to find seeds for but great on burgers and sandwiches.

Dry farmed, or dry finished tomatos makes the most flavorful tomatoes I ever grew.

Great video! New to the tomato world. I have some pink boar going this year, and they're looking nice. Have you tried them? I'm definitely going to try Cherokee purple and krim next year. Thanks again!

The past few years the best tasting tomatoes in my garden (according to friends and family vote) were Amish paste and Mexico Midget. I grow them each year to compare to new varieties but so far they win.

My #1 is Ananas Noir. I grow most of these. I am trying Sun Gold this year.

My favorite so far is Cherokee Purple. I have tried growing Black Krim but I think it was too hot for them to produce fruit these past two years. I have tasted Sun Gold and I really like them. I will be growing those next year. We can our produce, so most of my plants are for productive fruit bearing and sacrificing some taste.

After decades of growing tomatoes, I always have Cherokee Purple, Brandywine (pink) and Pineapple in the garden. In the last couple of years I’ve also had great tasting tomatoes from the Missouri Pink, which is very similar to Brandywine. Cherokee Purple wins on taste. Pineapple is such a beautiful and good tasting tomato, although sometimes it can have a very heavy core. There’s just nothing more beautiful or delicious as a plate of sliced tomatoes with those three varieties and a little onion and basil. Thanks for this rundown. I had forgotten about the Black Krim and will have to grow that one next year. It is excellent, although I remember it producing smaller fruit than the Cherokee purple.

My favourite is black beauty, midnight snack and ponderosa pink

I don't have a top ten, but last year (and again this year) I am growing one called Hungarian Heart, which I recon is the best tomato I have ever tasted, it is heart shaped the biggest one was over 500 g in weight and easily 6 inches in diameter, very few seeds and solid flesh. Second favourite is Brandywine.

I grew Cherokee Purple next to Cherokee Chocolate in my garden last year and the clear winner was Cherokee Chocolate. Same look and flavor but larger more vigorous plants.