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| I grew for the first time this year a few large tomatoes that I was disappointed in their flavor. My favorite is Burpee Burger and TomatoFest Heirloom Julia Child. I would like to grow a few more varieties of large meaty full flavor tomatoes. What is your favorite? |
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| 1. Marianna's Peace 2. Cherokee Purple I'm trying some others, like Sophie's Choice, Anna Russian and Riesentraube - but it's too early for fruit. The picture is Mariann'a Peace - flavor was incredible!!! |
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- Posted by carolyn137 z4/5 NY (My Page) on Mon, Sep 3, 12 at 14:10
| Mary, Sophie's Choice, which I introduced, isn't a large fruited variety, and nor is Riesentraube, which is cherry sized with a nipple at the blossom end. ( smile) Kathy, if you do a search here at GW you'll find lots of threads asking the same question, but I'll just list a few large fruited ones that I think are dependable and great tasting. REDS ( beefsteak) Neves Azorean Red REDS ( hearts) Wes PINKS ( beefsteak) Omar's Lebanese PINKS ( hearts) Kosovo ... and many more it might be best to start out with the large reds and pinks for a few years and then go on to the large green when ripes, the so called blacks and gold/red bicolors and oranges. I listed both beefsteak and heart varieties for each color b'c I find that some of the best tastes are to be found with the hearts, but maybe consider starting with the red and pink beefsteak ones first. If you don't know the above varieties I think it would be best to go to Tania's Tomato Data base, I'll link to it below, and when on the Home page scroll down to where it says to use the alphabetical method of finding the page for a variety b'c you can do that knowing the variety names I posted above. Each variety has traits, pictures, comments from others, histories when available and if you scroll down on any variety page you'll find the seed sites that list that variety. Tania herself sells seeds for over 600 varieties and many of the seed sites she specifies list hundreds of varieties. Hope that helps. Carolyn |
Here is a link that might be useful: Tania's Tomato data base
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| Favorite beefsteak discussions Favorite medium size discussions Best beefsteak, black and oxheart tomatoes Lots of suggestions for you. Dave |
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