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The official "my tomato can beat up your tomato" thread

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CoPlantNut:
Here in Colorado, my favorite cherry tomatoes are Black Cherry, SunSugar, and Sweet Treats.  Sweet Million is also good but is so productive as to be annoying.

Brandywine tomatoes remain my favorite beefsteak tomato for flavor, but they are horribly disease-prone; I'm trying them grafted onto disease-resistant rootstocks this year to see if I can get the flavor without the diseases.

Amish Paste is my favorite cooking / drying / canning / freezing tomato for its productivity, reliability, flavor and meatiness.

   Kevin

Mark in Texas:

--- Quote from: CoPlantNut on May 22, 2013, 11:55:13 AM ---  Sweet Million is also good but is so productive as to be annoying.

   Kevin

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I've found the same thing.  They're a great tomato but gawd they over produce!  IMO, that's one the best tasting cherry maters one can plant!  Did you know it was bred from Sweet 100?

zands:

--- Quote from: Tropicdude on May 22, 2013, 10:57:20 AM ---I would have to say the most disease resistant, and easiest bullet proof tomato I have ever grown was the Florida Everglades,  small current sized fruit but they have an excellent tomato flavor,  and grow zillions of fruit, great for salads or eating out of hand, even my daughter at 2 years old loved eating them.

So for those people like me that have problems growing tomatoes due to fungi, I recommend Florida Everglades. 

a plant in a container on the roof of our office building, re-seeded itself the next year, never watered it or anything.

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They love to reseed themselves I have a few....Good taste. The only problem it takes some effort to pick enough. But they are bulletproof, many cherry tomatoes are, getting towards being a primitive tomato. Not over bred so more survivability. High seed to flesh ratio shows it want to propagate its primitive self

Mark in Texas:
I quit planting cherry tomatoes....too lazy to pick 'em all!  Juliet, a grape tomato, is about the only one I'd consider now. 

nullzero:

--- Quote from: Mark in Texas on May 22, 2013, 02:30:22 PM ---I quit planting cherry tomatoes....too lazy to pick 'em all!  Juliet, a grape tomato, is about the only one I'd consider now.

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Black Cherry has nice sized cherry tomatoes that are easy to pick as a cluster. Just cut off a cluster and you have 1 large amount of tomatoes.

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