This is my first year with Cuostralee and it has been great. It is a red tomato that is produces large very good tasting fruit and good quantities as well. Others talk up Neves Azorean Red, Marianna's peace, Brandy Boy, Brandywine, Mortgage Lifter, Kellogg's Breakfast, and others. Many many to choose from, but you have all winter to research.

I like Eva Purple Ball. They're not actually purple, they're really pink-red. I like the taste a lot, they're fairly productive and blemish free. They're also almost perfectly round and easy to peel.

The only downside is that they produce later than most other tomatoes I have grown.

-Anne

If you want one big batch at once for canning, use a determinate tomato because they're bred to .........uhm.......come on all at once. Tigerellas are indeterminate and that means they continue to grow all season and will produce a smaller fruit set but over a larger period of time. That's sort of like bush beans compared to pole beans. Bush beans produce heavy for a short time period and stop, pole beans produce less prolifically, but all season. I want slicing tomatoes and canning tomatoes so plant both rutgers and marglobe (similar taste and size) but one is determinate and one indeterminate. I am in the process of pulling my vines now, after harvesting over 350 pounds of them with probably another hundred pounds to come.

Ahhh... I hadn't even thought about the determinate/indeterminate distinction! I do appreciate the other suggestions coming for varieties too, though. It just seems with Tigarella and Cherokee Purple, most of what makes them delicious is stuff that has to get drained and picked out (so many seeds and juice) for salsa. :-)