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It’s been another great year for my tomato garden! I’m doing a tomato review of the best tomato varieties that I’ve grown this year, including the ever-popular sungold tomato. I’ll also share what I’ve learned about tomato plant care and which tomatoes I’ll definitely be growing again next year!
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⏱️ Timestamps ⏱️
00:00 Introduction to Best and Worst Performing Tomato Varieties
00:16 The Sun Gold Cherry Tomato Review
00:51 Juliet Tomato Review
02:08 Crimson Carmello Tomato Review
03:16 The Early Girl Tomato: A Winner in the Garden
04:14 Review of the Better Boy Tomato
04:58 Review of San Marzano Tomatoes
05:34 Review of Roma Tomatoes
06:38 Favorite Tasting Tomato of the Season
07:47 Downside to Heirloom Tomatoes
09:22 Get Your Free Tomato Growing Guide
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19 Comments
I seem to always have a mystery tomato or pepper or both each year I grow too! 😂 For my second batch of tomatoe's this year I'm currently growing better boy and early girls, no fruits yet though, hoping for fruits when the weather cools down.
What a great comparison for those of us in your zone. I LOVE sungolds!!!
Been so hot this year I'm thinking it hindered some flowers! Up here in Canada
Have you tried Brad’s Atomic Grape yet? I’ve found they do great in hot conditions and have a unique savory flavor.
Nice comparison of the varieties you are growing. If you want to try a determinate version of Early Girl, I had great success with Bush Early Girl 2. Also had great success with Big Beef Plus and Lemon Boy Plus.
That mystery tomato looks like “ Hungarian heart” or similar variety
Juliet is my favorite tomato. I switched to Sun Sugar from Sun Gold because of the splitting. Similar flavor, It does great in the heat, no splitting. Growing better boy 1st time this year. So far so good. Next year will try Early Girl. Great video 😊
Juliet are small Roma tomatoes and are excellent for single use for 1 person, as in if I were to make a salad, put tomato into an egg scramble or many other use cases, like I cut up tomato to mix in with rice and beans, it's a perfect size since you cut up the entire thing for a single serving. It doesn't need to have a great taste for that use, it needs to have a little tangy kick to stand up against the food you added it to and it also means it doesn't need to be very sweet.
Juliet's make great tomato sauce. If I could only grow 3 varieties of tomatoes, they would be Sun Gold, Juliet & Purple Boy; cherry, grape/sauce & slicing.
same happened to me with Roma – planted 1 one year and had 50 tomatoes on 1 plant, planted a different Roma the next year and the plant didn't do anything, maybe 2 on the entire plant. Use to grow Early Girl, might go back, it did well, and Lemon Boy, I have many varieties of cherry tomatoes and they are all finally ripening – woo hooo~ we eat them mainly in salads, with eggs, in chili, etc., so mainly cherry, but I do also have San Marzano and another small/mid called 42 day.
Love heirlooms for there awesome taste. But always grow early girl for there productivity without there splitting or cracking of an heirloom.
I can tell she is in the california central valley zone 9 because I used to live there. It is extremely different from zone 9 Florida.
It's always so sad that the heirlooms taste so great but only produce a few tomatoes. : ( My very favorite is Pineapple (Mr Stripey). Fabulous flavor, not very disease resistant and only produces about 6 tomatoes when all of the hybrids produce dozens
Thank you
Great job👍
For the mystery heirloom: was it McKenzie seeds, by chance? I could tell you the varieties in the packet if it was (I had to look it up online a couple of years ago and have been growing from the same packet since). There are 8 varieties: Brandywine Pink (classic), Red, Yellow, and Black, and Cherokee Purple, Green Zebra, Nebraska Wedding, and White Wonder.
If you did get from McKenzie, I think you have a Red Brandywine. The reason I say red and not the classic pink is because of the plant's leaves; they looked like regular leaves, whereas the other Brandywine colours mentioned are potato-leaf varieties.
If it wasn't McKenzie though, I have no idea. 😅
I like sungold cherry tomatoes, but I LOVE the Sun Sugar best of all. They are sweeter and do not crack as easily.
Yes! Early Girl is my best tomato by far.
Its variety is ,,,the seed name ,,for your rainbow tomato plant Is
BIG RAINBOW,,
Be sure to plant early,,,I’ve tried later crops and they don’t do as well
Great video. Thanks for sharing. Early Girl and Better Boy do great here in hot, humid SE Texas.