Hey neighbor! SE SD here. Growing 80 varieties plus trialing some brand new varieties via breeding projects. I do a seed giveaway on a couple of garden forums, mostly from all the varieties I don't want to grow anymore. It's hard to cull some of them, right? Love your list for 2024! Some questions/comments: 1. How does the Ruby Crush compare to the Sweet Million, Sweet Apertif and Super Sweet 100? I am doing an experiment to see which of those three does the best based on flavor, health and productivity. Might need to add Ruby Crush for next year. Side note, I make pizza sauce and cherry tomato marinara with my snack size maters. I like fiber so skins don't bother me, especially for the small batch pizza sauce. 2. I grew Candyland in a hanging basket one year. I thought the maters were too small, so not growing it again, even though the flavor was good. 3. Love that you test Brix. I did not find it directly correlated with how my palate perceived sweet on all the tomatoes, but was close for most. I added Brix to all my taste tests last year. More a fun toy to play with. 4. 14 gallon pot for large maters, sweet! I practice High Intensity spacing. Partly because I have a suburban backyard and grow everything (including grapes and fruit trees) and I like to play around and run experiments. Last year my tomatoes were 8-10 inches apart (did great) and this year 10-12 inches. I can grow for volume or variety, but not both. Variety for the win! 5. Last year my largest tomato was from the close spacing mater patch and the tomato plants set alone with 5-10 feet spacing each? Small maters. I swear, tomatoes just do what they want. 6. Hungarian Heart is a FANTASTIC tomato. They are so meaty and large! Tasty too. 7. You mentioned Hillbilly, my favorite large tomato. I grow both the regular leaf and potato leaf. Aunt Ruby's German Green (and all the other greens) are some of the best tomatoes I have tasted. 8. I tried Paul Robeson for three years, two different seed vendors. If I even got a healthy plant, the taste was bland and nothing worth noting. I think I may be the only person on the planet who doesn't like it and will never grow it again. 9. I am growing a Cherokee Purple Oxheart this year. Something new. I have a video listing my varieties (by category) but I purchased this on a whim at the Farmer's Market. I hope it makes a great oxheart because aren't oxheart tomatoes fantastic? 10. I make sauce from every size tomato. From canned or frozen tomatoes. If I don't give it away or use it, I'll preserve it. 11. Pink Tiger is my favorite small tomato. The Tiger series from Fred Hempel (rest his soul) is the best small mater series, even better than the Bumblebee series of his. I've grow pink tiger, green tiger, lucky tiger and blush tiger. Excited to find your channel! Subscribed.

Ananas Noir is a fantastic tomato as well. I grow over 200 in my garden every year and this will always be in my garden

I grew Caspian Pink a very long time ago, when I was living in Utah. It seemed to grow pretty good, enjoyed the taste, visual appeal and texture, nice sandwich tomato..

I planted a super sweet 100 in July, it was 8ft tall by September!!!!

Blue flannel. Were friends now . Good very good work! Thank you. You have now become my favorite in this topic.

Love your channel. You guys are great. Lots of wonderful information here. I love growing tomatoes too. I am in zone 6B Ohio and can’t wait to get my seed started indoors probably in another month.

I’m in eastern Iowa and I grow about 15-20 different varieties of tomatoes each year. The favorites the last few years are Amish Paste and Mexico Midget-both have great tomato flavor. Each year I grow them to compare to new varieties, I’m creating the 2024 lineup right now. Brimmer tomatoes are another good one I rotate in and out. I have heard that Chef’s Choice Pink is a good sub for Brandywine, but I’ve never tried it, so, who knows? I’ll try it one of these years. Thanks for great descriptions, it’s helpful!

I'm in NC Iowa and had good luck with Wapsipinican Peach and Cherokee Purple last summer.

Your video is chock-full of detailed information on so many tomato varieties! It helps to know the good, the bad, and the ugly *before buying seeds, planting, and growing them.* Thank you so much!! 🍅🍅🍅

Virginia sweets became a staple in my garden 3 years ago. Its beautiful and delicious

Depends is very correct. Midnight Snack for snacks For salad Candy Land Red Best All around Black Krim Best on grill beef sandwich Black Brandywine Interesting and thank for more suggestions

Purple Cherokee is always my favorite in greater kansas city

Love this type of video! Thanks for sharing. We are in the initial phases of becoming a market farm and tomatoes are a big focus for us. Of course we have been growing for a while prior. We have different growing climates with less rain here and different soil than in Iowa so things will likely perform differently for you but I wanted to share some of our favorites that you didn’t mention. Bloody butcher- early, cocktail, red, and great for container growing and early tomatoes, but will produce all season Bushsteak- nice solid red tomatoes, but very compact plants that produce a ton of fruit and they are uniform, these are our go to for production and the flavor is good Virgina sweets and anais noir were new to us this last season. Glad you are trying them. Well worth it and we will grow again. We will add ruby crush, two tasty and maybe black strawberry from your suggestions. 😊 We did try the tumbling Tom yellow last year and unfortunately we found the flavor horrible. So bad that we stopped picking them because we didn’t want them mixed in at the farmers market with our other cherry tomatoes. Sorry to mention that! Subscribed to your channel! ❤

love your video will keep watching you!

Great review , love the video. Will keep watching 👍

Your video helped me decide to grow Black Strawberry, Alice's dream, and Sart Roloise this year.

I think I have over 30 varieties of seeds, but not sure how many I’m going to start. I was thinking maybe 10 determinate and 10 indeterminate and see how it goes.

Really love your videos and the expertise you bring. That you have grown each of these types of tomatoes and can comment so knowledgeably is of such value to me as a gardener. Thank you for sharing your experiences!! PS. My current favourite tomatoes include Wessel's Purple Pride (an indeterminate paste), Eva Purple Ball (the most perfectly round tomato ever!) and Muddy Mamba (which looks quite a lot like an Ananas Noire).

I only grew traditional Oxheart heirloom tomatoes in 2023. The positives: the fruits have amazing flavor, great ratio of usable fruit to seed cavity size as well as soft skin. The negatives: shelf life is not as great as some other varieties, and the growth habit of the plants are not the best. In 2024 I'll grow a bit more variety: Salad/Snacking Plums: Ukrainian Purple; Green Plum; Golden Sweet; Tiger Plum (multicolor) Uniform Round: Black Cherry (dark); Purple Bumblebee (multicolor) Paste: Oxheart (saved seeds); Balsak; Supremo Roma Large: Rosa de Barbastro; Cherokee Purple (dark); Black Krim (dark); Berkeley Tie-Die Pink (multicolor)

I like that you are discussing some varieties that are different. I am growing cherry: Juliette, Black Cherry, and Sungold. Sauce: Plum Regal and Grandero. Slicers: Galahad, Chief Choice - Orange, Chief Choice - Striped, Chief Choice - Red.

To Big isn't a problem with cattle panel.Bigger plants produce better

I grew Lemon Boy Plus. It is not mild at all. It is super tangy, sharp. Well, at least for me. Sart Roloise died quickly in my garden. Did not like our heat. I've heard Mariana paste is an exceptional standard, but mine this year is Shelby. Enjoyed the video. Thanks.

My family tried a Bulgarian heirloom called Mikka from TomatoFest. It did extremely well in a midwest climate without being human-watered even once during the growing season. Some fruits were over 1 pound, red, and meaty with exceptional flavors. My two cents. Thank you for yours!

Caspian Pink rivals Pink Brandywine in taste (almost as good, which is saying a lot, in my opinion). Far more productive, has better disease resistance and is much more forgiving than Brandywine if you have a very hot, humid, rainy summer. Big, thick-vined plants produce big tomatoes, just slightly smaller than Brandywine. I grow both every year in SE Pennsylvania. Really good tomato.

I have saved this video and will be trying some tohisfall

I have to stop watching tomato videos, because I want to grow them all, lol. I learned a lot from this video, though. Thanks for all of the great info! I like Pozzano as a San Marzano replacement. Similar taste but more productive, larger fruit, and no BER. I am trying Gladiator this year and I'm trying some dwarf tomatoes for the first time. Brandy Boy was a winner for me, and I thought Pink Delicious from Park was very similar but more perfectly shaped but less productive. I tried Caspian Pink once but I think the plant died. I still have seeds, so I will try that one again! Supersauce was a winner for me as well--interesting that you described it as more of a determinant. I tied to trellis it as well.

Just a suggestion, if you are growing these maybe take your own pictures of the tomatoes. Most of the ones on the packages are not great photos.

Big Zac taste really good.

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I love oxhearts. I like True Colors and Midnight Sun, both are oxhearts with whispy foiliage. And for dwarf oxhearts I like Dwarf Purple Heart. And it does look more purple than the Tasmanian Chocolate. I actually really like Tasmanian Chocolate, but I can understand it is not the most appetizing color, kind of brown. The Purple Heart is more of a dark brick red.

I enjoyed the review. I tried some different tomatoes from MI 😮Gardner, & they didn’t perform well here in SC. -I grow Cherokee P. , Blue Beauty every yr, these taste incredible, but production isn’t high. I’m looking for a more disease resistant, classic taste, smaller size tomato. If I wait for the big tomatoes 🍅 to ripen, I may not get many due to Blossom End Rot & pest pressure. I have been growing more cherry types , to dodge those problems. What’s your recommendation for a medium size, classic taste,& disease resistant tomato 🍅?

Heart tomatoes are very dramatic plants, always look sick compared to others Virginia sweet is a super tomato, and Virginia sweet meat is an awesome red.

I liked Giant Crimson

Where can I buy the white currant tomato seeds. Ihave been looking but to no avail yet. Thanks

I will never understand why Juliet is such a 'thing'. Especially with that rubbery thick skin. Good to know re BER with paste types. I'm trying to grow some this year

where is cherokee purple

What's another name for poppies tomatoes?

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