What kinda tomatoes is everyone planting this year?

Curtis B...yes the Pink girls are that good! Beautiful fruit, great for slicing...firm texture, great flavor.

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Are they useful at all for canning. I did stewed last year, this year will be the same + sauce and soup.

I am planting Green Zebra, Pineapple, Hillbilly, Arkansas Traveller, Super Sweet 100 and a red and a yellow Tumbling Tom.

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Brandywine , Ace 55, Sweet 100's, roma and marzano for canning.

Amish Paste

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A lot of folks told me that Celebrity is VERY reliable, so as this is my first garden in a very long time, that's what I planted. We'll see.

Goldman's Italian American Tomato
Amish Paste
Red fig tomato

Brandywine and Amish paste. Had to cover them all last night because of frost.

We have been eating San Marzano and Florida. Have small plants of Cow's Tit and Creole, the seeds of which I received from Martin.

Mainly Polar Star, Oregon Spring, Golden Jubilee, Cherokee Purple, and a few Sungold, a Beaverlodge Plum, and then a couple of black and red cherry varieties that I am forgetting. I have a couple of plants of other varieties that I traded for just to try them out.

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this is my first garden, so I stuck with pretty common ones. I'm trying Early Girl, Beefsteak, and Roma.

I made the mistake of transplanting all my seedlings into their own pots. I have an ARMY of tomatoes here...

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Did not do any canning so I can't say about the Pink Girls for that...I just think they're terrific eating tomatoes...my favorite!

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We scaled back a bit from previous years but going with the tried & trued -

San Marzano (canning)
Mr. Stripy (slicer)
Bloody Butcher (salad tom)
Black Russian, my Mom's favorite because the skin melts in her mouth.
Cherokee Purple - everyones favorite.
Valencia (orange slicer)

Our only non-heirloom - Burpee's Long Keeper

We started seeds later than we had hoped to but now with our 8th straight day of rain I'm glad. Pulled the last of the salad greens in mid April from the cold frame and have had all of our seeds in it. Good not to threaten the family cat on an hour basis to leave our future food supply alone.


~~ pelenaka ~~

Rutgers, Arkansas Travelers and Romas. I'd have to double check with DW, but I believe they are all from seeds saved last year. (Cheap,cheep)

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Cherries: Sweet Million, Black Cherry and Yellow pear

Slicing: Brandy Boy, Black Krim and Big Rainbow

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Red Brandywine, Roma, Rutgers and Big Boy.

We have various planted from old seeds but the eat there is no second to Parks Whoppers. We have planted them for 6 yrs now and never disappointed. They are bread sized, firm and delicious. All are perfect tomatoes just like in some magazine. No cracks or blemishes.

2 yrs ago we harvested all we wanted and my mom took the rest and sold them to the local restaurants. She sold 400 lbs from 10 plants AFTER we had all we wanted.

We also have Romas and cherries planted

Stupice
Spear's Tennesee Green
Yellow Mortgage Lifter
Red Zebra
Black Prince (blackish, chocolate brown)
Amish Paste
Gajo De Melon (pink, yellow or marbled - cherry tomato)
and a White variety
We'll have over 80 tomato plants that will need to get into the garden in the next few weeks. That still leaves about 75 that we will be selling locally....my house is over run with tomatoes, peppers and many others!!

ok, here's what i've got so far. from seed cherokee purple, orange icicle, white tomesol, black brandywine, momotaro. from lowe's, celebrity, mr.sripey, german johnson and german queen. these are already in the ground with back-ups ready.....just in case.

I have two Better Boy, one Brandywine, and one Cherokee Purple. So looking forward to homegrown Jersey Tomatoes.