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Pick The Best Tomatoe in each Category

greenthumbzdude
9 years ago

1. Best tasting
2. Most productive
3. Earliest producer
4. Largest
5. Ugliest
6. Tallest (plant)
* feel free to add more categories

Comments (18)

  • sheltieche
    9 years ago

    well, I tend to choose keeper tomato varieties by first 3 categories- for my zone 5 garden it has to be early, productive and tasty to earn its real estate so I am up to a good number of those. I prefer large ones as I mostly can for salsa, sauces etc. So again many large hearts and beefs. I try to keep variety of colors and shapes too.

  • seysonn
    9 years ago

    Good Topic.
    In my case, it is still to early to call in some categories.

    1. Best tasting : To Early to name One.
    2. Most productive: I have 3 of them. But I picl Bloody Butcher
    3. Earliest producer : Siletz
    4. Largest : Cherokee Purple
    5. Ugliest : BLANK
    6. Tallest (plant) : Sun Gold

  • CaraRose
    9 years ago

    Just going with what I'm growing--

    1. Best tasting
    Tie between brandywine and cherokee purple. I'm still leaning towards brandywine.

    2. Most productive
    Tumbling tom may win this. Bloody Butcher has also been very productive.

    In amount of fruit to size ratio of production, I'd give it to red robin. The plant is six inches and loaded. However it won't be nearly as productive overall as any of the bigger plants.

    3. Earliest producer
    Bloody Butcher

    4. Largest
    I don't weigh mine. Cherokee Purple, Brandywine, Big Beef, and Bushsteak have all produced some very large fruit.

    5. Ugliest
    Got some megablooms and catfaced fruit on Cherokee Purple that are pretty ugly.

    6. Tallest (plant)
    Orange Roma. At this point I'm thinking of topping it.

  • fireduck
    9 years ago

    In my containers: Best tasting: Cherokee Purple Most productive: Sungold Earliest: Sungold Favorite: Cherokee Purple and Carbon

  • smithmal
    9 years ago

    1. Best tasting: Black Cherokee, Kellogg's Breakfast, Sungold
    2. Most productive: Celebrity, Black Cherry, Dr. Carolyn
    3. Earliest producer: Indian Stripe, Kimberly
    4. Largest: Kellogg's Breakfast, Marianna's Peace
    5. Ugliest: never met an ugly tomato before
    6. Tallest (plant): Black Cherry, Matt's Wild Cherry

    Other catagories:
    Best Red
    Best Yellow
    Best Green
    Best Bi-color
    Best Black
    Most disease resistant
    Most drought tolerant
    Needs least amount of sun
    Easiest to Grow from Seed

    smithmal

  • barrie2m_(6a, central PA)
    9 years ago

    Some repeats here:

    1. Best tasting: SunSugar or Sungold
    2. Most productive: Big Beef or Celebrity

    1. Earliest producer: Yellow Mini, SunSugar or SunGold
      4. Largest: Pineapple
      5. Ugliest: Riesetomate
      6. Tallest (plant): Jasper
  • chicago_farmer
    9 years ago

    1. Best Tasting: The first one
    2. Most productive: Reisentraube
    3. Earliest: Yellow pear
    4. Largest: Brandywine 1.5 lbs largest so far
    5. Anything with blossom end rot
    6. Grape

  • seysonn
    9 years ago

    Her is another shot at it:

    1. Best tasting --------->>> Sungold + Ananas Noire + Cherokee purple
    2. Most productive --->>> Matina, Bloody Butcher
    3. Earliest producer --->>> Siletz, Bloody Butcher
    4. Largest ---->>>> Ananas Noire ~~ 20 oz.
    5. Ugliest --->>> None
    6. Tallest (plant) ---->>>> Sun Gold, Matina

    I have yet to taste a few, like Green Zebra, Siberian, Stripy.

    This post was edited by seysonn on Sun, Aug 31, 14 at 23:53

  • rt_peasant
    9 years ago

    1. Best tasting - Cherokee Purple or Gary'O Sena for slicing tomatoes, Sungold for cherries.
    2. Most productive - Last year I grew a Rutgers Select that produced approximately 230 tomatoes, but Big Beef is the most consistent heavy producer that I've grown. Also, Sungold which produces 100's of cherry tomatoes.
    3. Earliest producer - Sungold
    4. Largest - Cherokee Purple (25 oz.)
    5. Ugliest - ??
    6. Tallest (plant) - My plants always flop over when they exceed the height of my CRW cages, but the biggest plant is always a Sungold. They typical get 12' to 15' in diameter in my garden.
    7. Overall Favorite - Brandy Boy (for balanced tomatoey flavor, productivity, and earliness)

    Sungold was mentioned in 4 categories. It's probably not a coincidence that it's got a permanent spot on my grow lists.

  • Kimadano
    9 years ago

    1. Best tasting - Djeena Lee Golden Girl - Wow!
    2. Most productive - Druzba
    3. Earliest producer - Moskovich
    4. Largest - Cherokee purple 22 oz.
    5. Ugliest - Moskovich (BER)
    6. Tallest (plant) - Red Pear - Stopped measuring at 10 feet

  • green_go (Canada, Ontario, z 5a)
    9 years ago

    1. Best tasting - KBX, Rebel Yell, Black from Tula.
    2. Most productive - Azoychka, Fish Lake Oxheart
    3. Earliest producer - Latah
    4. Largest - unknown variety given to me by my aunt from Ukraine. Fruits are absolutely HUGE.
    5. Ugliest - none
    6. Tallest (plant) - Coyote, orange cherry from Costco

  • HotHabaneroLady
    9 years ago

    Just considering this years tomatoes:

    1. Best tasting
    Azoychka -- very lemony, taste with lots of the acid component. Maybe the best tasting tomato I have ever had, especially for those of us who just adore lemony tastes. :)

    2. Most productive
    Probably green zebra. But nothing is very productive this year.

    3. Earliest producer
    Azoychka

    4. Largest
    Mortgage lifter (r.c.)

    5. Ugliest
    Cherokee purple

    6. Tallest (plant)
    Mortgage lifter. I'm going to have to top them because they are getting taller than the fence I am using as a trellis.

    Angie

  • eileen_gardener
    9 years ago

    About 10 years ago when I first started growing tomatoes I grew, among a lot of others, the brandywine. It was prolific and delicious!! In the years after that, although they were nice, the flavour wasn't so good and I didn't get many. But this year the brandywines were again delicious and better than I have ever tasted. Much better than the others I grew. Maybe it has to do with the weather conditions because this summer was really good weather wise.

  • maj742 (zone 4-5) north-central WI
    9 years ago

    1. Best tasting - Indigo Blue Beauty
    2. Most productive - Sun Sugar
    3. Earliest producer - Sun Sugar
    4. Largest - tie: Scarlet Red/Big Beef
    5. Ugliest - Polish Linquisa
    6. Tallest (plant) Sun Sugar
    Ate first - Indigo Blue Beauty Indigo
    Ate second - Sun Sugar
    Ate third - Chocolate Cherry
    Ate fourth - Big Beef
    Most disappointing - Martino's Roma
    Next most disappointing - Defiant PHR Hybrid
    Did well - Sun Sugar, Big Beef, Scarlet Red Hybrid, Chocolate Cherry
    Delicious but only average yield - Indigo Blue Beauty
    Won't plant again - Martinos Roma, Polish Linquisa

  • Aaron_Wisconsin_
    9 years ago

    hi maj742, why do you think Matino's roma is disappointing? not productive or something else?

    I am planning to plant some for next year. This year I also planted two. But I started so late that I don't think they will have any chance to mature.

  • maj742 (zone 4-5) north-central WI
    9 years ago

    Aaron,
    My garden here in Green Bay had many great tomatoes, but I thought Martino's Roma was tasteless, mealy and dry. The bush was first to attract a leaf disease which spread to other Martinos and to other nearby varieties. They were very small fruits, which tended to drop to the ground easily even when they were green. I also thought my other roma, Polish Linquisa was tasteless, dry, mealy, and the fruits cracked a lot after rain. I guess I am done with romas.

  • maj742 (zone 4-5) north-central WI
    9 years ago

    Aaron,
    My garden here in Green Bay had many great tomatoes, but I thought Martino's Roma was tasteless, mealy and dry. The bush was first to attract a leaf disease which spread to other Martinos and to other nearby varieties. They were very small fruits, which tended to drop to the ground easily even when they were green. I also thought my other roma, Polish Linquisa was tasteless, dry, mealy, and the fruits cracked a lot after rain. I guess I am done with romas.

  • lkzz
    9 years ago

    1. Best tasting - Black Krim
    2. Most productive - Large Red Cherry
    3. Earliest producer - Large Red Cherry
    4. Largest - German Johnson
    5. Ugliest - N/A
    6. Tallest (plant) - Large Red Cherry
    7. Most prone to disease - Large Red Cherry and Amish Paste
    8. Prettiest - Box Car Willie (see picture)