Thanks for the tip on that one, Susan! I'm sure other folks will appreciate that too. Hope you're having a good tomato year other than that one.

Yep, those darker tomatoes are hard to beat. You guys get some rest and have a great weekend!

Try Paul Robeson. It's an insane performer for me in Chicagoland and for 'me' tastes better than Black Krim and CP.

Hopefully this year will be a better year for you. I'm hoping for the same here. We are off to a decent start so far. Good luck!

Nice! They tend to be a little larger than some of the dwarfs. I hope you enjoy your first one as much as I did!

My the Uluru Ochres were the last to produce and have been the least productive. They were supposed to be the earliest of the five dwarf varieties I planted. I hoping that the tomatoes will continue to develop and start turning, so I can pick them before the plants die.

Thanks for the tip on Fred's Tie Dye, Joy. I'm really enjoying growing the dwarfs.

Thanks! Yes, this taste test video was a pleasure for sure :) What I didn't eat was used in a cucumber and tomato salad. We eat a lot of those in the summer.

Thanks David! Even though this season is still in full swing, it's never to early to think about what to grow next year. You have a great weekend too!

Yep, I think any of them are worth a try, Scott. Especially the Rosella Purple!

Cool! I think you will enjoy them both. I know we did.

Glad it was helpful! Yes, I am getting excited for spring. I can tell you are too :) I think it's going to be a fun gardening year.

Lol, I didn't know taste bud twins was a think, but glad to know I have one :) It's been a very good tomato year here this year.

Quite a lot of us grow them now & there's an FB page dedicated to them alone.

Taste bud twins 🤤 how wonderful

That is great news, Sherry! I hope you enjoy those Black Krim as much as we did!

Good luck with all those different varieties!

I'm thinking about growing that one again this year.

They were all good. Yep, if you like Cherokee Purple, you are going to have to try Rosella Purple. That is a good one for sure.

Good luck with them!

I agree. The purple heart is a beautiful tomato. I finally have all of our tomatoes in the ground now. Hope you get the garden you want at some point.

Wow, sounds like you have a tomato heaven going on over there, Renee! Those are some really good ones you grew. Hope you enjoy growing those top 3!

Hello. They all did taste pretty good. We are doing our best to stay safe....you have a great weekend too!

Thanks Tiffany! They did all taste pretty good. I have heard that Bob Ross comparison a few times :)

You're welcome! I see a good tomato year in your future :) Good luck!

Thanks a bunch! I hope you enjoy growing all of the different types. There are a lot of good ones out there. Yep, 6b is what we are too.

You're welcome! If you find indeterminates sometimes hard to manage, I think you will love the dwarfs. They are just so much less work in my opinion. You must be doing something right if your tomatoes all set fruit in the 90s. That is another thing I like about the dwarfs. For me, they seem to set better in the heat than most of the indeterminate heirlooms I had been growing. Good luck on your dwarfs next year!

If you've never grow dwarf tomatoes, I think you will like the more manageable size. You still have to do some pruning, but not as much.

Yes, they are all worth a try....especially the top 5.

Lol, sorry about that, Margie :) Yes, I made a cucumber and tomato salad out of the parts that didn't get eaten during the taste test. It sure was good too!

Thanks for your thoughts and comments, and your tip on the Golden Heart! I will surely check it out. Thank you so much for your work on these wonderful tomatoes that have made growing tomatoes more pleasurable for me and others!

Thanks a bunch for sharing the list of ones you've tried. I hope to try a few new ones next season. As I find more that I like, it will be harder to settle on a list though. It's great that you found one that works great for you in your zone.

@@MidwestGardener last year my Adelaide Festival bested Rosella for taste and production :)

Great to hear that you are getting some really nice tomatoes to eat. The most common reason for fruit not to set is heat around here. Pollen becomes much less viable once temps get around 90 and over.

Thanks Priscilla! Yes, those top few are definitely worth trying. I got my seeds from victory seeds. Those darker tomatoes are hard to beat.

Thanks for sharing how those went for you. It's always good to hear how different plants work for other folks. And thanks for the tip on Sophie's Choice also. I'll be looking for a few new tomatoes to try next year.

Also the best garden tasting videos in general !

Thanks for that, Connor! I'm glad you enjoy the videos.

Thanks again!

You're welcome! Yes, you picked a couple of good ones. Tasmanian Chocolate produced more for me, but Rosella Purple tastes better. Boronia is another good one that I like.

@@MidwestGardener thanks! 😃

@@k.p.1139 You're welcome!

The Lemon Ice is very productive. Of the ones I'm growing this year, it is really close with the kookaburra cackle. The most productive tomato this year is the Sleeping Lady. It's even still setting fruit. We are growing two Lemon Ice. Once in a grow bag, and one next to the storm shelter. They both produced well, but both are showing the same issue with a little disease. But that is no reason not to grow it. I've already pulled our Tasmanian Chocolate, and one Boronia.

Thanks Kelly! Man, that's a nice list of tomatoes that you grow. Yes, Carbon does produce quite a bit better than Cherokee Purple....or it did for me. Thanks a bunch for sharing how those did for you.

Be careful out there! Yep, it's really nice to grow tomato plants that don't get taller than I am.

@@MidwestGardenerI'm taking it easy. I'm so slow it's a wonder that I don't have moss growing on me. 😃😃😃😃😃

Lol 😂

It's nice that you grew some tomatoes especially for your mother! I tend to like the darker tomatoes. I totally agree about any homegrown tomato being a good tomato. Hope you can find some of those Rosella Purple seeds. I got mine from Victory Seeds.

Tried Black Sea man this year but they didn’t like my hot summer here in 9b. I imagine they’d be great in a dry 90F summer though, just not 100F+. I wish you luck with them! :)

@@melissasullivan1658 Thank you. I'm zone 4, on the east coast of Canada. Our season is very short, last frost into early June and first frost late August are not uncommon. We start all our seedlings indoors 4-12 weeks ahead of planting them out around June 10th. I have 3 growlights! Fortunately, once everything is in the ground they grow like mad! We have 16 hours of summer daylight because we are so far north and it rarely gets over 30°C/86°F. It rains 1-2 days a week so just right. That's too bad about your tomatoes, I hope your other plants are doing well.

@@melissasullivan1658 hey Melissa, I'm in 9b also. I had really good luck with Marglobe, Beefsteak, Mortgage Lifter and Homestead. The diseases were low. The production was good up until I had a back injury and couldn't take care of them for about a month. I didn't do taste tests either, but I really liked them all. I also had a White Beauty from Baker Creek last season that did well also. I really liked the taste of the white tomato. I hope you have better luck with your tomatoes this fall. I'm going to start my seeds soon. Happy Gardening 🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅

That one might be a good one for you to try then. It's very productive.

Yep, that one did great for us last year. Not so great this year, but I've seen what it can do.

Such a contrast to the Boronia growing a few feet away 🙂

@@stephenrowe1415 True.

Thanks for sharing some of the information on how some of them did for you! I had some Kookaburra Cackle tomatoes, but they weren't quite ready for this taste test. They do taste pretty good to me though. I might put up a separate taste test for those. They were pretty productive too, but aren't doing as well as the Sleeping Lady for production.

I agree. There are a lot of great tasting ones. I'm going to be trying Purple Reign this year. Thanks for the information on the others!

You're welcome! I'm pretty sure that the Lemon Ice will be milder no matter how you water, but if you find out otherwise, please check back in. There is nothing wrong with their flavor, it's just not as bold as the others. I'm already starting a few peppers seedlings to keep me entertained when cold weather hits here. If you find a dwarf that you like that we didn't grow, please check back in and let us know. Good luck on your upcoming season!

@@MidwestGardener Yes, once you've tasted the intense flavour of a black or purple tomato, mild really seems bland. But variety is good, and there are times when you feel like just having a mild tasting tomato. Will definitely let you know how my Dwarfs go and if there are any I highly recommend. I saw your other video on Carbon tomatoes and managed to find some seeds. They germinated after 5 days and are going gangbusters. By far, the most vigorous of all my tomato seedlings and I have around 40 varieties. I also have some Dwarf Wild Fred, which I believe is a cross between New Big Dwarf and Carbon. Will be interesting to see how both of those go and whether taste is very similar.

Yep, they are all BLT worthy :) It's been a good tomato year so far.

@@MidwestGardener no tomatoes yet here. The flowers are just starting.

@@canadiankabingurl9782 Hope you get a great late harvest.

Thanks for the tip on Lil Faithful, Melissa! I'll try to remember to check that one out. I'm always looking for new varieties to try. Must be a hardy one.

I’ll have to give that one a try for out here in the hot desert. How early was Lil Dwarf? Cheers!

Glad to hear you like Dwarf Purple Heart. I think that one produced pretty well the year I grew it. Yes, the taste of White Tomesol is incredible on a good year.

@@MidwestGardener Dwarf PH is such a gorgeous tomato. How pretty. I'm going to do quite a few of them next season!

Oh! Almost forgot : I was interested to hear what Jim had to say about the variety!

Thanks for the feedback on the Tasmanian Chocolate, Karen! The last time I grew it, I had an off year for it too. The first couple of times I grew it, it worked out pretty well for us. It was more productive compared to others, and reached about 5 feet tall. I am considering it for this year, but I haven't made a final list. I think I will start more plants than I need and make a decision when I'm closer to transplanting outside. I do like the more compact plants of the Boronia and Rosella Purple better though. Glad to hear you are giving it one more chance, which is kind of what I might be doing this year. Good luck with your growing season!

Yep, some of them are definitely worth a try. I really love it that you get so much use out of your tomatoes!

Most of the ones I've tried get at least 4 feet tall. I was trying to imagine growing some in that amount of space. I can't imagine more than two plants, and then they would be crowded unless you do some pruning. A homegrown tomato in the winter sure would be good though.

@@MidwestGardener It's a 3 foot wide unit. Well if they get too tall, I'll cut down and encourage suckering.

Thanks!

Sleeping Lady produced the most tomatoes so far. It's also going strong so far.

@@MidwestGardener Thank you! Have a fantastic weekend!

You're welcome....you have a great weekend too!

Uluru Ochre was slow for me too. I don't remember how many days it was for Sleeping Lady, but it seemed like it was about average of the ones I grew last year.

@@MidwestGardener So far, I've narrowed it down to Black Cherry, Adelaide Festival, Rosella Purple, Bundaberg, Mary's Cherry, Marlinga, and Kookaburra Cackle. Black Cherry and the last three dwarfs would be new for me this year. I might flip a coin on Maralinga and Kookaburra because they seem rather similar. I figure the only way I'm going to get a half decent tomato harvest is if I plant as early as possible, no matter what tomato variety, due to the harsh desert climate. Thank you very much for all of your replies and sharing your successful experience with dwarf tomatoes! Have a good one!

Good afternoon Bob. I don't know what to think about comments disappearing either. I've had that happen to me a few times now. I screw up enough without anyone's help 😄

Same here I don't need any help screwing up. I can do plenty of that on my own. 🤣🤣 Hugs brother.

Same here.

I've grown that one. I prefer Rosella Purple to that one. I don't see how you can say any of them are the best unless you have tasted them all.

I addition, growing conditions vary. One guy I know preferred Boronia one year but then next year liked Rosella Purple was better. Mine grow under varying conditions: some in pots, some in ground but in 2 different locations. Also, the sun will vary in the different locations. Sun, soil, water, changing weather conditions . . . so many factors. Also, sometimes our favorite tomato is not as productive for us. And there is personal preference in taste. I love the black tomatoes. Try several and see what you like best over time.

First of all, I'm really sorry that you are having to deal with this, Rose. I've never had to deal with an issue like that with seedlings. I think you've handled it about as well as you could have so far though. I tend to be overly cautious when it comes to tomato diseases myself. I'm not sure how easy it would be (or if it even possible) to spread the virus by touching infected seeds. I know that it would be expensive to do, but if it was me, I think I would discard the seeds that had the virus first of all. Then I would order more seeds of the other varieties if possible. I know it would mean getting a later start, but that might be the safest way. I don't know if this helped at all, but I'm sure sorry you're dealing with this. Be sure to check back and let me know how this works out for you.

Black Krim was the best tomato I've ever tasted. Without being able to compare them side by side, I would call Cherokee Purple and Rosella Purple a toss up for taste. If I could only grow one, it would be Rosella Purple. It produces better for me where I live than the other two, and it is a much more manageable size.

Even though seed starting time is getting closer for us, I haven't made a final list. A couple of new ones in the running this year are Dwarf Mary's Cherry, and Bundaberg Rumball. Both are smaller type tomatoes.

@@MidwestGardener Are you going to make a video on your seed selection? The Bundaberg Rumball sounds like a variety to try because of its earliness and productivity. By the way, have you found a cherry tomato with an earthy, salty flavor like a black or purple tomato? Thanks for sharing!

I've never had to deal with snow fleas, so I don't know a lot about them. They say they don't usually damage plants, but they say the same thing about rollie pollies, and they will damage seedlings. I would just use some diatomaceous earth.

@Midwest Gardener Alright, thank you! Also I want to grow some tomatoes, do you have any tips and tricks?

@@bagelbananaalt5536 If you are in the northern hemisphere, it too late to start this year. If you've never grown tomatoes before, I would start with a determinate type. There is too much to growing tomatoes to put it in a comment. I have dozens of videos on tomatoes. Most of them are in one playlist. There is one that has my top 5 tips. Here is the playlist: kzfaq.info/sun/PLDxKaNVTfCp4B4HTSIu8uBYvqBObEo4pP

I've grown Paul Robeson. I prefer the flavor of Rosella Purple.

Awesome I just sowed some of those ready for spring !! Thanks my friend!!

@@machinegunhippy You're welcome!

Hello.

Thanks for the feedback.

Thanks for the tip.

That is very true. I've had some really good ones that weren't that pretty to look at.

Lol, yep, that's kind of the way it seems to work.

Thanks!