Last Season's tomatoes
Ok to rate last year's...
1. Black Cherry: Grew well, prolific, very poor taste
2. Marianna's Peace: Grew poorly, few ripe fruits, problems with splitting and blossom end rot, taste excellent
3. Mexico: Average growth and production, very tasty fruit
4. Box Car Willie: Excellent growth, prolific up until temps skyrocketed. Very tasty fruit. One plant did have trouble with early blight.
5. Bloody Butcher: Poor growth, poor production, ok fruit
6. Stupice: Great early tomato, usually have ripe fruit in May without a greenhouse. Very tasty smallish fruits
7. Amelia: Dependable grower and producer, average taste. TSWV resistant.
8. Brandy Boy hybrid: Average growth, had some trouble with early blight, excellent production, tasty fruits, but not as good as the real Brandywine.
9. Abraham Lincoln: Huge plants, average production, excellent fruit
10. Ponderosa: Average growth, average production, very tasty fruit
11. Uncle Mark Bagby: Good growth, had some trouble with early blight this year, excellent production up until the extreme heat hit, very tasty fruit.
12. Mule Team: Excellent growth, steady production right up until frost, tasty fruit
13 Nepal: Very bushy growth, average production up until extreme heat, tasty fruit
14. Tropic: Very tall viney growth, great production, picked ripe fruit in December after long drought and several frosts, tasty fruit
15: Yelllow Current Tomatoes: All volunteers, grow like crazy, produce like crazy, excellent taste, but be sure fruit is ripe for best, sweetest flavor.
