Ragann63

I can, so I like variety. In Northern Kentucky (your region matters) go with Better Boy, Early Girl, Beefsteak, Roma and if you like cherrys, Cherry 100s and Yellow Pear. I have tried a lot of others, but I get the best results from the basics.

nycquilter

Also, I hate to start a lot of seeds and then have to "sacrifice" the little plants I can't give away. My mom always said I was too tender-hearted. LOL!


I am the same way. I can't stand to kill (yes, that's what it is) any seedlings I've started. I cry. So my husband nags about them and I tell him to do it himself--he would rather nag! LOL

seppert

Early Girl tomatoes. They are a nice size and shape for eating or canning.

Ramona Byrd

[quote=Carron]Here in So. Cal. we plant the "Early Girl". They are good tasting and get rather large. Believe it or not we have tomatoes on the vine right now, but they are not as large as they can get. Did pick some for Christmas dinner. One plane it really growing but no blossoms yet.
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That sounds like a good way to grow them. Since tomatoes are perennials, in theory, they should grow for many years, and you could start cuttings right now in a warmer, sheltered area.
Tomatoes come in two types, determinate, which means they will grow to a naturally pre-determined size and then grow no more. The other one, indeterminate is vastly different and fascinating, at least to me, in that it will continue to grow and grow till it is killed by cold. In a warm area it will grow to surprising lengths. I still have a picture somewhere of what the "finder" called "the mortgage lifter" tomato, near Milton, WV. He was standing near a small outbuilding (no, not THAT kind of outbuilding) and the tomato plant had totally covered that small building.
End of lecture. My late DH was a nurseryman and our kids got lectures like this often, usually far more than an innocent questioner wanted to know!!

Bonnie

I like the Celebrity and the Bonny Best. Both are good flavored tomatoes for fresh and for canning. They are about a 70 da. tomato ( if memory serves me right ). They are not as acidic as a lot of them.

bbeyes

My favorite are the grape tomatoes. Took one purchased at the store and broke it open and it gave me the most wonderful tomatoes for salads I've ever eaten. In fact gave some to neighours and there daughter does not like tomatoes and she fell in love with those.

Annz

Beefstake.

jitkaau

Black Russian.

gnewk

I tried a new one this last summer that I really liked....Nebraska Wedding Tomato

dixiechunk

Grape tomatoes