Name Your Heirloom Tomatoes For This Year!

I keep seeing everything about heirloom, and coming back... I just want to know which one's we all find worth it! Which one's are hardy enough, early enough and tasty enough to warrant not needing a hybrid! Something we boast about Like I LOVE brandywines... but none of mine made it this year. :/

I am trying Goliaths this year... I hope they do ok....they say the stalks can grow 10 ' I hope not

Black Krim
Cherokee Purple
San Marzano
Valencia (maybe, there may not be room!)

and a couple of hybrids, but you wanted to know about the heirloom ones.

We want to make sauce, and I'd like to find a really flavorful heirloom that makes my mouth go 'Wow!'. We're going to grow at least two plants each of these tomatoes (I may get 3 of the San Marzano, we want to have enough tomatoes for pasta and pizza and whatever else!) because I've heard that heirlooms often don't produce as much as the hybrids do, so that could be a factor. Last year two hybrid plants produced enough tomatoes for self and hubby to have about 36 oz of salsa and to give a few away, but we didn't have anything left by the end of the summer. Here's hoping more tomatoes will mean that we will actually be able to put some by for winter time!

We'll see if that's the case. I am also planting both the Black Krim and the Cherokee Purple because they're both supposed to do well here, and I've been hearing nothing but rave reviews about their flavor. If I like one better than the other, then I'll only plant the one next time.

It's exciting for me, I've never tried to do heirloom tomatoes before, always hybrids.


Whitewater (I will come back in the fall and report!)

I'm doing Brandywines again, although I haven't been too happy with the results - they always crack on me & go bad. I am also doing Azoychka (yummy yellow), Kelloggs Breakfast, Mountain Princess, Hazelfield Farms, Romas & Milanos. I'm hoping to have a tomato tasting party this summer!!

So far this year I have started:

Cherokee Purple
Indian Stripe
San Marzano
Cuostralee
Mr Stripey
Mortgage Lifter
Black Cherry
Isis Candy
Burrakers Favorite
Kellogg's Breakfast
Amish Paste
Black Krim
Cherokee Chocolate
Hillbilly
Neves Azorean Red
Giant Oxheart
Brandywine


Of all these Brandywine is the only one I have grown before. So far there are a few I have noticed are hardier as seedlings. The San Marzano, Black Cherry, Mortgage Lifter, Cuostralee, and Burraker's Favorite all were very prone to damping-off whereas the Isis Candy and Cherokee Purple have shown no signs of slowing down.

I haven't gotten mine in the ground yet due to illness and numerous DR appts but am hoping to get them in the ground within the week....

I've been told that the green sausage tomatoes are really worth it for a paste tomato. So I am doing 2 of those plants this year. I think it will be really awesome to have some green tomato sauce. I wonder what people will say!? LOL

We all have some great choices so far... it looks like tomatoes for use as paste tomatoes is the most important factor right now!

vfem, a friend of mine had such an abundance of yellow pear tomatoes that he made ketchup! Very cool- green sauce, and yellow ketchup!

vfem said:

I've been told that the green sausage tomatoes are really worth it for a paste tomato. So I am doing 2 of those plants this year. I think it will be really awesome to have some green tomato sauce. I wonder what people will say!? LOL

We all have some great choices so far... it looks like tomatoes for use as paste tomatoes is the most important factor right now!

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When I saw your post about your tomatoes I look up the green sausage because I had never heard of them and they look so cool. I may try them next year.

HunkieDorie23 said:

vfem said:

I've been told that the green sausage tomatoes are really worth it for a paste tomato. So I am doing 2 of those plants this year. I think it will be really awesome to have some green tomato sauce. I wonder what people will say!? LOL

We all have some great choices so far... it looks like tomatoes for use as paste tomatoes is the most important factor right now!

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When I saw your post about your tomatoes I look up the green sausage because I had never heard of them and they look so cool. I may try them next year.

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I'll be saving seeds if you want to get a hold of me this fall for some!

vfem said:

... it looks like tomatoes for use as paste tomatoes is the most important factor right now!

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Speak for yourself, young lady!

29 varieties of tomatoes . . . not a single paste variety . Paste?! Perish the thought!

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