Tomato Harvest and Review Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pDFaxKC21A&t=1344s
How to Grow Great Tomatoes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMlxoBuqObA
The Varieties on my top 10 list:
Dr. Wyches Yellow https://www.rareseeds.com/store/vegetables/tomatoes/orange/dr-wyche-s-yellow
Paul Robeson: https://www.rareseeds.com/store/vegetables/tomatoes/purple/paul-robeson-tomato
Italian Heirloom: https://www.fruitionseeds.com/Organic-Italian-Heirloom-Tomato-p/t13.htm
Climbing Triple Crop/Trip-L-Crop- https://migardener.com/store/99-seeds-by-category/all-seeds/tomatoes/trip-l-crop-tomato/Black Beauty- https://wildboarfarms.com/product/black-beauty/Large Barred Boar- https://wildboarfarms.com/product/large-barred-boar/
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WBF Blue Cream Berries: https://www.rareseeds.com/store/vegetables/tomatoes/wild-boar-farms/blue-cream-berries-tomato
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Sunrise Bumblebee- https://www.rareseeds.com/store/vegetables/tomatoes/striped/sunrise-bumblebee-tomatoPurple Bumblebee- https://www.rareseeds.com/store/vegetables/tomatoes/striped/purple-bumble-bee-tomato
Painted Lady: https://wildboarfarms.com/product/painted-lady/
Aunt Rubys German Green- https://www.rareseeds.com/store/vegetables/tomatoes/green/aunt-ruby-s-german-green
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I watched this video and bought so many seeds based on your recommendations. I am really excited even though it's a little late to start seeds now and I have no where near enough space to plant all these varieties. 🙂 Thanks, Jess.
If I had to choose one tomato to grow it would be, "Goose Creek". I have only a small space to grow this year so I bought four Goose Creek because I know the favor never disappoints and they are an excellent all around tomato.
No sungold?
Have you grown Green Giant?
Where do I get the TERRACOTTA?
As far as cherry Tom's go I would probably have to be bribed to be swayed off of sun golds. Personally they are tomato flavored' grapes' if grown in the right soil.
Has anyone planted a Soldacki tomato? If so how would you rate it?
What???? Of all the counties in all the land, WBF grows in my county. I have never heard of them before now and they're right next door to me.
Your home is beautiful!
This is the first time coming across your YouTube channel. I had to stop the video at the Black Beauty tomato and write this comment for you.
First and foremost, I love your enthusiasm for growing. I can tell that even with all of its trials and tribulations growing still brings you so much joy. I love seeing that.
What you said about the Black Beauty and how it’s tooooo precious to just process and throw in a jar with every other tomato. That it’s not necessarily the flavor that compels you to grow it, but instead it’s the joy and excitement that keeps bringing you back to include it in your growing regimen.
You go on to say it’s because you love sharing and giving the oddity to the world to also enjoy, so they too can experience a little bit of what you experience and how it makes you feel. That’s so heartfelt and it hits home on so many levels.
Congratulations 🙂 you have a new subscriber and I have a new channel to keep up with and to look forward to.
Thank You, this video and your passion made my day.
video starts at 4:00
Cherokee Purple they come up every year from seeds that fall to the ground bunny chewed fruit and the bunnies enjoy them as much as I do!!
Such great tomato info and great to find out the differences.. exciting!!!
Chika red cherry. My favorite red cherry. It's a hard to find Japanese variety. Really good tasting and prolific . Grows great in containers.
I love fried green tomatoes so leaving them on the vine till they ripen is the hard part.
I am growing the Dr. Wyche ( I also say "Wee-Chee"!) and the Paul Robeson this year because of your list. Got the seeds per your suggestion!
I planted about sixty different virietes this year all heirlooms and so far only three have gotten blight some are just more prone to it than others. The sad thing is I didn't tag any so unless there really unusual I won't know a good one from a bad.
????? i listen did not learn which she thought best maybe i got bored and was not paying attention….
I ordered the Terra Cotta Tomato seeds from Baker Creek this year and have 3 plants growing. I have a small garden so am limited to the amount of plants I have space for. I did notice the variety is not yet stable as others have noted. All the tomatoes are green right now and not ripe here in Champaign County IL but each plant looks different. One of them looks sort of Siberian with dark green shoulders sort of like an unripe Black Krim or Purple Cherokee, one of them produces peach shaped fruit with a point on the bottom, and the third is sort of beefsteak shaped. I also planted two White Tomasol as those are the free seeds Baker Creek sent out with the order, both are very similar. I gave a White Tomasol and Terra Cotta plant to my friend in Michigan and she has them growing well in her front yard so will be interesting to see if they also differ from mine. None of the plants are showing any disease, last year I had blight take out one of my two Brandywine in September, but so far these two varieties look healthy here at 40N 88W where we had an extremely humid week in late June with 8 days of rain where my Golden Zucchini suddenly wilted and dropped dead from healthy in just two days. Strangely the white Pattypan Squash is still healthy and starting to fruit.
Mortgage Lifters, Gold Medal, Black Cherry, Paul Robeson, San Marzano Gigante, Amish Paste, Green Zebra and Japanese Black Trifle. Blessings and thanks!
Great review,I have two of your picks
Terr Cott and Brad's atomic grape, so I will look forward to judge for myself and please to hear it from you.
Probably try a few of them others
Thank you for the teaching
My favorite must grow is a heirloom Russian tomato, Black Kim. Taste so good like a tomato should.
What is your favorite Canning Tomato?
Do you grow San Marzano tomato?
Like you I have grown many different tomato varieties and definitely agree with you about your picks — Italian Heirloom, Amish Paste, and Aunt Ruby's are way up there. I tried SBBee for the first time this summer and agree with you that it has a beautiful fruit and also find it's just barely missing something in flavor — needs more zing or sweetness. I really like the firm chewy texture, the skin doesn't separate from the fruit like most cherries. So far, not having tasted the berry line, the hybrid Sun Gold is the best cherry I've tasted. Cosmonaut Volkov, a Ukrainian heirloom, has done consistently well for me. Great taste, doesn't develop that nasty papery skin when stressed either. Very wispy plants.
My top two would probably be Amish Paste — great texture, always tasty, an interesting sweet edge regardless of the type of summer, also remains tasty and firm when ripened off the vine, and Cosmonaut Volkov — again, produces well and early in all types of summers with a good fresh zing, fruit and skin remaining one (though not slicer sized).
The most flavorful black tomato I've grown is Black Sea Man, an odd sort of semi-determinate plant, not as productive as PRobeson but with a more noticeable flavour.
I am a year +1/2 seeing this and responding, but here goes. A gentle, modest tomato called "Peach Blow Sutton" is dear to me because it tolerated terrible growing conditions to provide lovely fruit for me, and because green ones sat on my counter and slowly ripened 'way into autumn, gifting me with treats that I didn't deserve. Yes, its skin looks oddly peachy.
Please do an updated version of this ❤️