I have my own "Hall of Fame" list, which includes only two varieties - Big Beef and Eva Purple Ball. They made the list by demonstrating exceptional productivity, reliability and taste year after year in my growing conditions.

I'm seriously considering adding Indian Stripe to the Hall Of Fame list if it demonstrates another successful season in 2016.

Others that may make the list at some point in the future would be Stump Of The World and Marianna's Peace.

Nitsua, thanks for posting.

Definitely your "Hall Of Fame" varieties are famous and popular.

I have heard good things about EPB , Indian Stripe and Stump Of The world.

I am thinking about add IS next season. My CP did poorly this year. So its on vacations !! But then I was glad to Black From Tula in that category

OK folks, keep reporting. Your reviews can be useful to others.

Sey

First year of growing maters and I only grew 3 kinds in spite of really crummy weather. Tons of rain and a heat stretch followed by relatively cool nights

1) Polish Linguisa - Spit out a lot of paste tomatoes that were really good sized. Will grow again.

2) Marion - nice tasting but didn't produce a lot. The only plat not to suffer from blight. Won't grow again,

3) Black Krim - Best producer but suffered from late blight and had to trim a lot of limbs but bounced back several times. Will grow again.

Out of my 17 plants (14 varieties)...my two MVP's were Big Beef and Brandywine Cowlick's. The BC's was clearly my best eater. No real duds...and my Black Cherry was excellent too. Looking for a new MVP in 2016! haha

My best were:

Brandy Boy (F1 & F11)

Opalka (plum)

Rebel Yell (new for me this year)

Aunt Gertie's Gold (always my favorite gold)

Large Red Cherry (1 plant is enough to feed the neighborhood)

Rutgers (had 1 plant with very small fruit & 1 with normal size).

John A

One of my best performers this season was WILLAMETTE, a determinant red saladette developed by OSU. It was a bigger determinant but worth it as it produced lots and lots of tomatoes with juicy good taste.

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Sey - Is OSU Oregon State? I raised OSU Blue developed there. A small but nice tart tom good for salads. Supposed to be high in anti-oxidants.

John A

John, yes OSU is Oregon State University. I also grew SiletZ, Legend and Indigo Rose developed by OSU. And yes the blue tomatoes are said to be high in anti oxidants. Next year I will grow also try Indigo Apple, very similar to IR. I like their ornamental feature too.

Sey

I planted a total of 9 varieties (21 plants) this year.

Definitely making a comeback next year are:

Sweet Million - a must grow for us every year. Good flavor basic red cherry.

Cherokee Purple. First time growing this year. Now understand why it is so popular. Great flavor and production (despite the seed packet saying "fairly stingy on yield". Not this year! I soon quit counting how many tomatoes I picked.)

Cosmonaut Volkov. Great zingy tomato flavor. Tomatoes were a little small, but the plants had some challenges. One was in a too small pot, one was crowded out by a CP that insisted on growing sideways instead of up and the third was dropped/damaged when planting out. Looking forward to see what these do in better circumstances.

Striped German - I thought it was very pretty and the taste was good, although I wouldn't say great. DH loved it though, so it gets a spot next year.

On the fence is Kellogg's Breakfast. Great flavor and production but I'm trying to cut the number of plants and there are a lot I want to try.

Can't really contribute as, I gave most of my started tomatoes away this year to co-workers, mostly Brad Gates tomatoes. We had our house up for sale and I only planted in 1 small raised bed because I couldn't commit too much time to gardening. Will keep my eye on this thread though for ideas and will be waiting for your thread Sey on tenative lists for 2016 to give me ideas. If only I had not packed away my seeds. I have no idea exactly what I have seeds for and what I might need.

I still have a couple of plants hanging in there. I have been getting a few here and there, and that should continue for at least the next week, or two. This year I did a few new to me plants. I had an awesome year this year, and hope that next year will be be as good.

The ones that will be getting planted again are as follows.

1 Cherokee Purple It is a returning favorite. Good production. Awesome taste. I have a nice stash of seeds for them to make sure I have enough to start next year.

2 Steak Sandwich. Production was great considering fruit were pretty large. Most were around a pound. One plant gave me well over 50 pounds of tomatoes. Flavor was very good. (Not the best. Though very good.) Fruit were a nice pinkish, near to reddish purple color.) I made sure to pick up as many seed packs as they had left on the Burpee rack. Seeds hit the shelves here a few weeks too late for my liking for pepper, and tomatoes at least.

3. Bush Goliath will be returning. Bang for the buck it is the one on top.

4. Black Prince. I get a lot of tomatoes that ripen fast. Then I pull the plants. They do not take hot weather well. Though by the time I take them out they have given enough to justify the space. When I pull them. I plant a melon vine where it was.

5. 4th of July Sure they are small. The vines get big, and long, So I make sure they get a large cage. When the other plants quit due to heat. They kept on keeping on. I am still getting more of them every day.

6. Jubilee will return. The fruit are pretty. Fairly large. Taste when raw is not that great. Though when cooked they have good flavor. Also they surpass anything you will get in the grocery store for taste.

That is enough for tonight I will try to get a chance to post more when I get the time.

Nate

cent....I gave up on Black Prince because of disease issues. I really did like the taste, though.

I was very happy with all my picks this year, Golden Rave, Jet Star, Sweet Tangerine, and Sungold. I only grow the "low acid"/mild varieties because of my wife's stomach. I got a huge harvest from all of them. All in all the Jet Star was the best - production, and reliability. The Sungolds became almost useless except fresh eaten directly from the vine by the end of the season, due to cracking (and in very dry weather too), but by that point I was so sick of picking Sungolds I didn't care that much. I kind of liked the Tami G I grew last year better, the taste was more reliable from one fruit to the next and they produced great fruit right until frost, but my wife wont eat those. The Golden Rave got a lot of spots by the end of the season, but huge production and very delicious taste. The Sweet Tangerine was the weakest of the bunch - weakest taste, and fizzled out while the Jet Star (which produced the same early flush like a determinant) - continued churning them out. I will probably swap that one out next year. I would like to find a nice mellow/low acid beafsteak. I will also only grow ONE Sungold!

Thanks folks for posting and reviewing 2015 varieties. I am sure that a lot of members can benefit from your comments and review.

Another one of my best performer has been a brown tomato ; I call it BROWN HEART cause I've got the seeds from a store bought heirloom couple of years ago. Its texture , taste and flavor resembles to Cherokee Purple. But this one is much much more productive. here I try to post few pictures:

Green On the vine >>> There were 4 or more on the same truss.

I can share a few seeds if you are interested. Or we can trade. This is a terrific find .

Sey

Peter - "I will also only grow ONE Sungold!"

Do I correctly recall that you had something like six Sungold plants growing this past season?

I had three of them. Two too many!

I am cutting back on cherry tomatoes. The only ones will be:

HAHMS GELBE .. : A micro dwarf ... needs a 3-4 gallon pot

LARGE RED CHERRY (in ground)

INDIGO ROSE (ornamental, in pot)

INDIGO APPLE (ornamental, in pot)

I like saladette size to make it worthwhile to pick,Willamette fits the bill for me.

Sey

Yeah, they get little use compared to the larger tomatoes, and are so time consuming to pick. For the saladette I recommend the Golden Rave I grew - if you are ok with a mild (but flavorful) hybrid.