Tomato review 2009

I'll post some pictures later but since I just ate one of nearly every variety we planted I thought this would be a good time to review them.



Brandywine-best taste, fruit are big (some over a pound) but bruise easily, may be more disease prone

Dr. Wynches yellow - big, lots of fruit that ripened early

Paul Robeson - should be black but only the first few tomatoes were darker than the purple calabash, flavor is pretty bland and texture was pretty mushy

Purple calabash - interesting color and shape, decent flavor and texture

Peach - yellow fuzzy medium-small tomato, very sweet with no core

Green zebra - meaty tasty green and yellow stripped tomato, inside completely green when ripe

Roma - we only planted one which isn't providing nearly enough salsa tomatoes for us, we'll plant more next year, good flavor, very meaty, prolific

Mexican midget - small cherry, great flavor balanced sweet and acid, prolific but not as many here where it doesn't get really hot-this tomato loves heat and sun

White currant - small white/light yellow cherry, very sweet, thin skin, needs to be eaten quickly because the skin generally splits when it's picked



I'm going to try seed saving this year so we'll see how that goes next spring when I plant those seeds. We talked about reducing the varieties of tomatoes for next year but I really like nearly all the ones we planted. The Paul Robeson and white currants are the only ones that I'm willing to drop.