What tomatoes are you growing this year?

[ChickenGrass]

Hi there,
I was wondering what tomatoes you all are growing this year.
I will be growing Gardeners delight, Cristal, San Marzano, Chocolate cherry and Corazon beefsteak tomatoes.
Has anyone else ever grow any of these varieties?
I will grow 2 plants of each variety.
I can't stand eating tomatoes.
The only way I will eat them is in soups or sauces, one of the reason I am growing,
San Marzano. I read they are good for making pasata and bottling.
I suppose I can also freeze the tomatoes or bottle the spare tomatoes.
Or I can simply give them away.
I think the only reason I grow them is because I have it in my head,
That you have to grow tomatoes in your polytunnel!
Goodluck,
Fionn.

 

[Nyboy]

You don't like bacon lettuce and tomato sandwich

 

[ChickenGrass]

Well I do like them without the tomatoes
Sometimes I will have the tomatoes in it but I don't really like the taste of them.

 

[seedcorn]

Down to 2-Better Boys and San Marzano.

 

[so lucky]

Well, I have to agree, it would be a shame not to grow tomatoes if you have the poly tunnel and the room. You can be a hit with your friends and neighbors who do love them. You may as well grow a pretty variety. Are any of those you named yellow or orange? You need one or two to round out the attractive tomato baskets you will be giving out.
I have grown San Marzano. It's very productive, but mine got blossom end rot due to crazy Missouri weather.

 

[ChickenGrass]

None of the varieties are yellow,
But the chocolate cherry is kind of a purple/brown/red colour
Now that you mentioned the yellow tomatoes I think I will also get some of them too!
I was thinking maybe sungold.

 

[seedcorn]

I have found non-red tomatoes are frowned on by non gardeners. Especially black ones as they think they are tainted.

 

[catjac1975]

Deep red juicy fresh picked are better than anything-nothing like store bought.

 

[dickiebird]

I'll grow some yellow and some red 'maters...

THANX RICH

 

[digitS']

I have grown Gardener's Delight and Sungolds.

I grew a little exhausted picking Gardener's Delight - it may have been their location in the garden but they were so tiny. Lots of flavour, I remember. Sungold can't really be any bigger but they are so much like candy, I guess I'm just willing to pick and pick and pick and .... It's not much different but Sun Sugar has that candy taste and, for some reason, the last year or 2 - they have bigger fruit. Sun Sugar also does not split as easily as Sungold. Sungold probably has the edge on flavour, though.

Here's what I said I would have in the 2016 garden:

Amy Sue
Brandywine OTV
Big Beef
Dagma's Perfection
Early Girl
Gary O Sena
General Mischief
Goliath
Jay's
Pantano Romanesko
Pruden's Purple
Rainy's Maltese
Thessaloniki

Anait*
Bloody Butcher
Buisson
Kimberley
Pink Pearls
Safeway Cluster*
The Witz

Coyote
Sungold
SunSugar
Super Sweet 100
Sweet Chelsea
Yellow Jelly Bean

*new-to-me

I cannot see any that I didn't have, except Pruden's Purple. The Safeway Cluster, what was it - one seedling emerged and promptly died? I tried to start others but they wouldn't sprout. The seed was old. I lost the Anait plant in the garden. By that I mean, I didn't know which red cherry was the Anait until the season was over. The fruit was picked and mixed in with the Sweet 100. Shoot! Oh, and I also had some nice Lemon Boy plants.

Steve
who hopes to have these and maybe 1 or 2 more in 2017