Some of my Favorite Tomato Varieties...the very best #1 is the Cherokee Purple. Some other Tasty Tomatoes are the Argentina Cherry, Burbank slicing and the Orange Valencia Tomato.
have you ever found a Golden Roma or maybe Italian Gold? I found some of these last year, but can't find any more. They were magnificent! Roma style -- very large, and gold. Little tiny seeds if you could find them at all, and almost no water.
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The new 2010 Pennys Tomato Catalog just arrived. What great and unique varieties. I'm going to buy and plant the Giant Italian Tomato Tree along with some others. Keep coming New Catalogs...I love them. Hope to get maybe 20 or so this year. Takes away the Winter blues.
Yes to Cherokee Purple. What a flavor! Arkansas Traveler is nearly as tasty, and much more prolific in our experience. Alas, the season in the Colorado Rockies is too short for either. I love to whine.
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We really enjoy "Green Zebra". The flavor is sweet/tangy/tomatoey, & the color is fabulous on a mixed sliced tomato platter or on a BLT. Fruits are just medium-size, but even when grown in containers on the deck I get a decent harvest.
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Originally posted by granIN: have you ever found a Golden Roma or maybe Italian Gold? I found some of these last year, but can't find any more. They were magnificent! Roma style -- very large, and gold. Little tiny seeds if you could find them at all, and almost no water.
I'm looking for Italian Gold this year too. I haven't grown them for a few years because I hate making sauce. But I've noticed acidy tomato sauce is bothering me so I want to grow gold paste tomatoes again and now the seeds aren't around anymore! They are a great paste tomato with good resistance to BER and ripen mostly at once but also hold on the counter until you can process them. Meaty and flavorful with good production. They are not even in Totally Tomatoes.
I have decided on these varieties for 2010-- drumroll...
hybrids: Goliath pear goliath sungold super suncherry (red sungold)
heirlooms: big rainbow brandy pink flame orange (just one plant) stupice persimmon coustralee probably viva italia
I prefer to grow a determinate paste tomato but a lot of the exciting ones are indeterminate. So it is down to (D)Viva Italia or (I) super marzano I guess. Customers want a large paste tomato and hate the smaller ones!
