Suggestions Of Tomatoes For Next Year.

6 years ago

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Hope everyone had a bountiful harvest this year.

I had buckets and buckets of tomatoes this year, but I only grew one variety. I wasn't too impressed with the flavour of it. It was too mild for my liking, so the majority was made into sauce.

I'm looking for suggestions of a medium size tomato with intense flavour that just a little on the acid side.

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Mokinu

6 years ago

last modified: 6 years ago

I like these, personally:

Tatura (this version of it, which has a slightly different description than Tatiana's, which might just be a difference in opinion/perspective—although if they are different, they might both be great; this one actually tasted awesome when it was cold in my garden, this year; I grew it in dry conditions; Tatura is definitely a favorite for flavor; even the tomatoes ripened indoors tasted astonishingly good)
Marmande (I prefer Tatura to it, but it was still great, and was more prolific than Tatura; I grew it in dry conditions)
Manitoba (I grew it in dry conditions)
New Yorker V (I grew it in dry conditions)
Sasha's Altai (I grew it in dry conditions)
Mountain Princess (seems to taste and produce better in dry conditions)
Matina (seems more prolific, with larger fruit in wet conditions; much more intense flavor in dry conditions, but still good, if not preferable, in wet ones; I prefer Mountain Princess's flavor to Matina's in dry conditions)

Not all of those were prolific for me, but flavor-wise, those are my recommendations.

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fungus
6 years ago
Which tomato was it? For things to try next year: try a GWR. Plenty to choose from. They are what I would call balanced, certainly not sweet. Spears tennessee green is good and productive and strong tasting (it does have some rather thick skins though).
Chippah
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6 years ago
Primo Red was the variety I planted this year. I like the size of it. but the flavour was kinda bland and a little mealy.
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Growing from seed or buying transplants? Growing in containers or in the ground? If containers, what size and filled with what? How many plants and are you committed to growing only 1 variety at a time?

Since Primo Red is a compact, hybrid determinate variety grown primarily for commercial sales and shipping, I assume you are not interested in indeterminate varieties?

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Chippah
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6 years ago
@digdirt2 Growing from seed. I not committed to 1 variety, it;s just how it happened this year. I can fit around 7 plants in a raised bed. Then 5 - 6 directly in ground at different parts of the property. I'm open to any type of tomatoes indeterminate/determinate, just not crazy about cherry tomatoes cause the wife doesn't care for them.
zippity1
6 years ago
i love chocolate cherry very tasty and prolific i'm still picking them (as of yesterday) and should h have more this week.....of course we are west of galveston tx...
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6 years ago
Here's some more personal choices ..... a little on the acid side (some years more and some years less). All of these have done well for us over the years: Rutgers, Homestead, Sioux, Jaune Flamme (this one is a smaller saladette size but it's very productive here and we try to grow it every year), Atkinson and Druzba (this is another wonderful variety).

Shell 6A
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suncitylinda
6 years ago
As it happens I just received Tatura seed from the vendor you show Tule. It really sounds like an interesting tomato and I'm always looking for plants that do well in pots because I have sandy soil and gophers. Second for Druzba, great tasting!

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