Jalapeno: Biker Billy (Burpee hybrid)

Bell: King of the North

Brandywine is the absolute best tasting tomato so I am thinking your Brandy Boy might be a close Hybrid crossed with Better Boy. I have saved 6 pak trays and 4" pots for years so I use them for starter trays.

Your choices look good.

I can recommend Rosella for your purple cherry.

You might like Little Lucky. It's a mid-sized yellow/red bi-colour with Brandywine as a parent.

For a productive beefsteak, Pruden's Purple did well for me.

Linda

Your choices look good to me. I am growing some of them myself.

Brandy Boy taste just as good as Brandywine but it is more productive. It is a stablised hybrid, means you can save your own seeds

I may suggest Big Beef. It is a hybrid, disease resistance, ptoďuctive...some use it as root stock to get more vigorous plants.

On bell peppers, I wanna know too.

Few years ago - I used 6 big beef and 4 Brandy Boys - I had tomatoes EVERYWHERE

re: peppers...I've had good luck with Karma from Park Seed Company.

Early Jalapeno is a good choice if you like Jalapenos.

for peppers, i would skip on the bells and go for the longer style peppers such has Marconi, Carmen, Corno de toro, etc. they're way better tasting, especially when red. And they're more versatile peppers, and probably more productive plants as well.

i prefer growing peppers with some heat (similar to a Jalapeno) but with more flavor, so i grow Big Jim, and New Mexico style peppers. this year i've added Beaver Dam peppers to my grow list, which i hear is an excellent tasting long pepper, but with a tad of heat. Cherry Hot peppers are also a fav, along with the New Mexico style hot peppers, they are great pickled. i just slice them up, throw them in a jar with some vinegar and keep them in the fridge. a sandwich is not a sandwich without them ;-)

Brandy boy is a excellent tomato to grow. pretty much a clone of Brandywine, most cannot tell the difference. plants grow vigorously.. for sauce making i would try Opalka, which i hear is one of the best for canning and sauces. would like to try growing it next season if i can get some seeds.

Sungold for the tiny tomato

KBX for the big orange tomato

Indian Stripe for the dark/red category (more productive cherokee purple alternative) though i hear Spudakee is just as good if not better, but seeds seem to be hard to come by.

I like black krim, they are prolific, big and delicious. The plants are huge but it depends on the pot size.

Hot pepper, I like carolina reaper, ghost all colour, fatali favorite flavor and heat. Snow white for raw eating. Rocoto De Seda Gold very good for cold climate, easy to grow, it looks so nice but I hate the taste however they are amazing when it dried.

Here is my updated list and what is planted so far.

2 New Mexico State Primavera peppers

2 New Mexico State Jalmundo peppers

6 New Mexico State Spice blend peppers (Pumpkin, Lemon, Orange)

2 Neve's Azorean Red

2 Wes

3 Big Beef

3 Brandy Boy

3 ISIS Cherry Candy

2 Sun gold

2 Cherokee Purple

2 KB potato leaf

2 KB

I'm also in zone 5a, so what has been successful for me may grow well for you. These are my "standards", and the number I planted this year, happily growing under lights:

12 Mortgage Lifter, which is my favorite tomato and might fill the beefsteak spot

12 Great White, a little picky to start but prolific and is my Mother's favorite tomato

6 Pineapple, because they taste good

12 Golden Jubilee, another absolutely dependable and prolific producer here

3 SunSugar, for the 5 kids across the street

24 Rutgers for canning

New this year, I do "experimental" plantings annually, just because I like to, LOL

2 Moonglow

2 Pruden's Purple

6 Hillbilly

2 Tasmanian Chocolate (cherry type)

2 Giraffe, supposed to store up to 5 months, we'll see about that...

For peppers I agree that King of the North grows well and is big, but I also prefer other "sweet" types in place of the bell peppers. So, my current favorites, and proven successful here:

12 Ajvarski, I love these and they have a wonderful sweet flavor

3 Golden Bell

6 King of the North

Hot:

6 Sugar Rush Peach, I've never seen anything so prolific. 12 plants gave me 3 BUSHELS of peppers last year. They aren't habanero hot, but they want to be. When I made relish and ground them in the food processor they smelled just like peaches. Flavor is sweet first, then hot. Plants were 4 feet tall.

3 Early Jalapeno

3 Lemon Drop

New to me:

3 Orange Jalapeno

3 Yellow Jalapeno

3 Napoli frying peppers

Good luck! I bought a box full of last year's seeds from our local on line auction, I have new varieties to experiment with for a couple of years!

Annie

2 Tasmanian Chocolate (cherry type)

Annie - Tasmanian Chocolate is a dwarf tomato but the fruit are supposed to be in the 6-12 oz. range. I'm growing it for the first time as well along with 6 other dwarf tomato project creations.

I'm also growing Prudens Purple, Pineapple, and Ajvarski from your list!

@Annie - I'm intrigued by your "fleet" of rutgers and your Sugar Rush Peach peppers