Over the course of several years, I have noticed that aphids tend to like some tomato plants and eschew others. Last year, incredibly, I had no aphids on any of my plants. This year I am in a new location and it is a different story. I decided to take the time to record the degree of infestation. If some of you will do the same, perhaps we can determine if variety alone is a marker for aphids or if some other factors are at work. I haven't been able to find any relationship between date of planting, location in the garden, habit of plant or anything else that would explain this phenomenon. In the following list, I will use a scale of 0-10, with 0 representing no aphids at all and 10 representing an overwhelming infestation. I am leaning toward thinking that variety is NOT the main marker since I have had Clear Pink Early's in past seasons that were aphid magnets which they obviously aren't this year.

Big Red - 1

Granny Cantrell's German Red - 0
Burgundy Traveler - 4

Neves Azorean Red - 1

Richardson - 9

Anahu - 0
Gregory's Altai - 1

New Big Dwarf - 10

Sweet Quartz - 0
Early Large Red - 0
Clear Pink Early - 2

Yellow Perfection (Dwarf off type) - 2

Ashleigh - 1

Roger's Best Black - 3

Cherokee Purple - 2

Looking forward to seeing your results.

mater