A look at the varieties of tomatoes that I plan to sow in the 2023 gardening season. I will also share with you varieties I’ve tried in the past and will not be growing again.
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Here is an older video I made about how to sow tomato seeds
Chapters in this video
00:00 Introduction
01:13 Varieties I will not grow again
05:00 Manitoba Tomato
06:08 Black Trim Tomato
07:02 Japanese Black Trifele Tomato
09:34 Mortgage Lifter Tomato
11:11 Roma VF Tomato
11:30 Amish Paste Tomato
12:22 Elizabeth Paste Tomato
13:14 Sweet 100 Cherry Tomato
14:50 Conclusion
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24 Comments
My array of tomatoes is roughly the inverse of yours, with a high number of different cherry tomatoes (sunsugar, barry's crazy, black strawberry, chocolate pear) and only a few larger varieties (prarie fire, queen of the night, black from tula). But that's due to very different environmental pressures. Missouri summers can have us in the 90s from a week after last frost through to a week before first frost. (What are shoulder seasons XD ) In the heat, the larger varieties turn from fruit production to basic survival and drop their flowers, but the smaller fruiting varieties keep plugging away. Sunsugar, chocolate pear, and black strawberry all performed very well for me last year despite the heat.
I've already bought all my seeds for this year, but I'm putting some of those on the list for next year. Up to now, I've grown my tomatoes in a greenhouse, but I think they get too hot or there's not a lot of airflow. I don't know how I managed it, but last year I found a random tomato plant in my flower bed, and the tomatoes from that tasted much better than the ones in my greenhouse. This spring I'm putting my tomato plants in raised beds and see how they do. I'm located in Prince George, BC. So we get a fair amount of sun during the summer but we also have a short growing season.
On a note of something I would never grow again, it would be Sunberrys. I don't think I've ever tasted anything more tasteless and strange. Those seeds are being gifted to my local seed library.
These tomatoes sucked….
..But they are heirloom! guilt guilt guilt
Ok, I'll save the seeds again and try them again…
I have a red and black variety that I save each year, but I long ago forgot the name and I haven't found out again. Block of top and red on the bottom, about an inch and a half across, round but sometimes pointy and very tasty with slight smokey flavour.
I love the little tomato tidbits. I can’t wait to start the 2023 garden
My favourites are Martino's Roma, 42 days, and Sungold. They will always have a place in my garden.
This year I am going to try Cherokee Purple, San Marzano, and Carmello.
I went crazy with the cherries too 🤦🏻♀️ I grew Sungolds and Esterina, both yellow. Both really good but if I could only have 1, Esterina wins. It's sweeter rather than tangy and it doesn't split as soon as you pick them. Esterina tastes kinda like a mini pear even has the mouth feel of a grape.
I've had Romo paste in paste will try to get your paste suggestion as for our salsa seeds we are happy with.
My wife really loves her Black Krim and as you said they were great for my sandwich and far a anything we added them into..I would recommend the Black Krim if anyone only to have one variety in a garden or want a early slicer I recommend them.
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I've just happened raise them last season in the area of after 6:00 evening shade.Of 26 types definitely the biggest plants needed cattle fencing and believe you had shown a area with little sun unless plants growing up for the light. It might be a great plant to fill that spot
They are 1.5 inches of a black tomato that the bottom reds when ripened. Extra juicy and the larger salad size you'll have to close your lips while eating them or …well they are extremely juicy and a squirter .
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You being north is of some benefit I'm going with the water towers that provide protection and warmth as I had salad tomatoes June 20 and Black Krim July 1 and I will try to get a couple of Black Krim even earlier having a few plants produce a few weeks before or just larger plants might be nice.
Thanks for helping us and truly happy with your results with your Thornbury Terracotta as being just days slower than your beloved Black Krim I felt you might love them also.
My neighbor wife is a person who makes her family meals from scratch daily and also her favorite.
Thanks 👍
Sungold and Sun Sugar are my favorite cherries but trying Aperitif red cherry this year. Favorite slicer red is the Abraham Lincoln 1923. The tastiest red tomato I have ever grown Orange Russian 117 is a great bi color oxheart along with Indiana Red for Oxhearts.
We never really appreciated plum or cherry tomatoes. Don't know why, we were gifted a plant once, but never really thought of continuing.
I save the seeds from Manitoba Bush and every Spring my Dad goes and buys a couple trays of either Manitoba, Fantastic or Beefsteak. He still is wary that no fruit will ever grow from my seeds. So we always have bushels of tomatoes every year.
One thing that happened with the seeds that I saved. The plants changed slightly by losing the bush trait. Which could be a little cross pollinating or it has been lost due to nonrecurring traits. I guess I could call them my "home grown" variety of tomato?
Still not sure if I will have my new house will be ready in time but I have following seeds for 2023.
Centiflora – cherry from MIGarner
PRAXUSS cherry – Ray Brownjng
Sun Gold – burpees home grown seeds
San Marzano – Italian imported seeds and seeds from home grown tomatoes
Sweet 1000
Mortgage lifter
Black karim
Current and Red Zebra – gift from a very nice lady that I went to know what verity of current tomatoes she had.
A few more seed verities that I don’t have space may end up in trial in 2024
PPG, you really need to try and find some Sungold tomato seeds. When someone tells me they don’t like tomatoes I hand them a Sungold. They only problem is they do split so you need to keep an eye on them. My favorite tomatoes are Cherokee Purple, Black Krim, Mortgage Lifter, Amish Paste, Oxheart, and old reliable Celebrity it’s not the most fantastic tasting like some of the others but it always produces a great crop.
Happy Gardening from Southern California
oh i got terra cota free from baker creek… i will try it this year… indigo ruby red was my new favorite from 2022… amish paste also for sauces…. one i wont grow anymore "la voyageuse"
i have reduce the amount of kinds also… but got more kinds of other vedgies ahahah
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I’m with ya on the Manitoba tomato! We grow that variety every year,it’s just a straight up top of the list tomato for us. The current tomatoes I grew a couple seasons ago were just a disaster.(more like pain in the butt) I don’t even consider that type for the garden. My wife and daughter are the real tomato lovers at my house and they both love cherry types,so I’ll be growing Sweet 100 (again) those are amazing! Tommy toe,Tiny Tim and Purple Bumble bee. Thanks for the tomato update!👍
I bought some Black Krim seed after seeing your harvest this year. But, I will NEVER grow Sungold again, I got a harvest last year, I felt the skin was too thick and the taste was not that spectacular in my opinion, but you need to try for yourself and decide. This year outside, I will grow Crimson Crush (blight resistant), and Tumbling Tom. Marmande, Paul Robeson and Black Krim will be grown in my porch.
My go to favorite is celebrities in red determinate tomatoes. My favorite yellow tomato is the lemon boy and my favorite indeterminate tomato is big beef. As for old heirloom varieties, we have always liked marglobes and rutgers.
Northern Ontario here, the best tomatoes I've grown so far are Neves Azorean Red, Kentucky Cabin, Kozula 24, Omar's Lebanese, Hugh's, Mary Reynolds, Red Penna, and this fantastic Russian orange tomato called Sakharnyi Zheltyi, which translates to "Sugary Yellow". It has a rich, bold, almost mango-like flavour.
I have about 30 tomato varieties that I've bought with a very small back yard and the space to grow about 12 plants maximum and I'm more of a paste and slicer tomatoes. I haven't chosen my varieties as yet, maybe after the holidays. I'm also in Alberta
Thxs for sharing. I really love the brandywine varieties. I am growing about 20 varieties every year. The Mary robinson's german bicolor was really beautiful and tasty also. Have a nice christmas time.
I thought I already posted by can't seem to find it.. A company from Prince Edward Island has Chocolate Sprinkles tomato seeds. I like them