Favorite Heirloom Tomato varieties?

[MotherofOrpies]

I like candy sweet icicle, asian blush, striped green and Antho and I would love to try the indigo rose ones!!! I liked the san marzano, but didn’t get too many tomatoes off of them, and I tried a big meaty one( don’t ask me the name) and only harvested 2(!) tomatoes, never again!

 

[HollowOfWisps]

I can a lot of tomatoes and DH makes a lot of salsa, that I then can. No idea yet how these will work for either.

As hot as it is right now, I'm hoping I can wait a couple weeks before I have to start canning.

Definitely give us an update after you can!

 

[GardenBlooms22]

Love the Berkeley tie-dye tomatoes (will get a pic later) for slicers, and yellow pear for “cherry” type. They are bigger than cherry but ripen quick and grow tall!

Tried mortgage lifter this year, and they are just starting to ripen. By far the biggest tomato I’ve grown. I’m a fan of San Marzano as well, planted amish paste, Roma & SM and the SM’s are the biggest and most abundant.

Neat! Perhaps I'll try the Berkeley Tie-Die or Mortgage Lifter next year!

I have heard that they can be tricky to grow. I use a compost wood shaving mix from my duck pens and my entire garden takes off like crazy with it. It has been 90F+ since May and frequently 100F+ here. The shavings act like a mulch which has helped considerably in this heat and the duck compost has more nitrogen than chicken. My San Marzano's have been growing so many tomatoes that I had to install 2x4" grid fencing to hold them up because they were bending all of the stakes and cages.

Thank you for the advice!

Atomic tomatoes are our favorite, they are so sweet! I also grew some black strawberry tomatoes this year, they're ok, but don't taste as good as they look, lol

We actually have some Atomic Grape Tomato seeds for next year, looking forward to trying them! Your tomatoes look great!

I will get some pictures later today and post them.

This is the biggest tomato I've had so far this season, and it's a Hungarian Heart.
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Unfortunately, a deer got to it, and this is the other side.
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Wow!! That's a huge tomato!! Sorry to see the deer damage though!

I like candy sweet icicle, asian blush, striped green and Antho and I would love to try the indigo rose ones!!! I liked the san marzano, but didn’t get too many tomatoes off of them, and I tried a big meaty one( don’t ask me the name) and only harvested 2(!) tomatoes, never again!

Those varieties sound neat!

 

[Auntiejessi3]

We actually have some Atomic Grape Tomato seeds for next year, looking forward to trying them! Your tomatoes look great!

The plants get massive, I had 1 and it was over 6ft tall and even with all this crazy heat it did great! It is on the right, that fence is 7ft tall.

 

[TRALALARA1]

My favorite flavor tomato is black krim. Big rainbow is good too.

 

[GardenBlooms22]

The plants get massive, I had 1 and it was over 6ft tall and even with all this crazy heat it did great! It is on the right, that fence is 7ft tall.

Wow! That's tall!!

My favorite flavor tomato is black krim. Big rainbow is good too.

Nice!

 

[Iluveggers]

TOMATOES

My big ones aren’t ripe, I gave away a few and DH ate the last 2 ripe ones for lunch!

 

[chiknGeek]

I like mortgage lifter and cherokee purple. Thinking about trying black krim next year.

 

[HollowOfWisps]

If anyone is interested talking pumpkins I started this thread:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...s-do-you-grow-any-favorite-varieties.1542134/

 

[GardenBlooms22]

TOMATOES

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My big ones aren’t ripe, I gave away a few and DH ate the last 2 ripe ones for lunch!

Wow! Those are some gorgeous tomatoes!!

I like mortgage lifter and cherokee purple. Thinking about trying black krim next year.

I actually have some Cherokee Purple tomatoes growing right now! They're just starting to ripen, excited to try them!

If anyone is interested talking pumpkins I started this thread:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...s-do-you-grow-any-favorite-varieties.1542134/

I'll check it out!