My MOST PRODUCTIVE TOMATO Varieties! [And 4 Varieties To Avoid]
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- This is a vegetable garden tour of my tomato garden, showcasing my most productive tomato varieties of indeterminate, determinate, dwarf, heirloom tomatoes and hybrid tomato plants. I show you my best tomato plants in this plant tour, as well as some of my worst varieties to avoid.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 How To Grow Tomatoes For Heavy Production
1:15 My Most Productive Determinate Tomatoes
2:00 Siletz Tomato
3:49 Abu Rawan Tomato
4:31 Bella Rosa Tomato
5:16 Rosella Purple (Dwarf Tomato Project selection)
6:21 My Most Productive Indeterminate Tomatoes
6:22 Super Sweet 100 & Sun Gold (Cherry Tomatoes)
7:47 Big Beef Tomato
8:36 White Tomesol Tomato
9:43 Precious Pink Tomato
10:33 Chef's Choice Bicolor Tomato
11:15 Chef's Choice Purple Tomato
12:10 Chef's Choice Green Tomato
12:45 Arkansas Traveler Tomato
13:33 Chef's Choice Red Tomato
14:07 Big Brandy Tomato
14:47 My Least Productive Tomatoes
14:56 Big Raspberry Tomato
15:53 Brandywine Yellow Tomato (Platfoot Strain)
16:55 Cherokee Purple Tomato
17:48 Brandywine Pink Tomato (Sudduth Strain)
18:48 My Standout Favorite Tomato Varieties So Far
20:20 Adventures With Dale
Stay tuned for a future garden update where I'll be harvesting tomatoes and show you my best tasting tomato varieties in the tomato harvest.
If you have any questions about growing tomatoes, want to know about the things I am growing in my garden, are looking for any gardening tips and tricks, or have questions about gardening and organic gardening in general, please ask in the Comments below!
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Thanks for growing in the south. So many online channels aren't addressing the nuances of southern growing
"Nuances" is the understatement of the year! I've never seen anything like the weather down here. How you can get 4-7 inches of rain in a couple days as a low pressure system sits on top of you and drowns your entire garden is something I never experienced up north. The disease pressure here is off the charts, and no matter what you do, you simply cannot defeat it. Sometimes, I think the best way to garden is to just pack up, move to Florida, build a greenhouse and grow in the winter, then vacation from June to September 😂 I'm trying to manage the struggles as best as I can. Thanks for watching!
@@TheMillennialGardener I'm planning to depart Virginia and return to upstate NY sometime in the next year or two. Nuances, indeed!
I wish channels & commenters stated zones and made zone related tips.
Wow. I grow in Tennessee. Just toss the seeds on the ground and let it go. Get enough to can every year.
Yes, thank you for being a southern grower channel! I watch so many channels from all over and the closest to resemble our crazy SC weather was someone in FL... So thank you! And your content is amazingly informatitve and so relevant!!
For me, the favorite thing to do is a combination of determinate and indeterminate varieties, plus experimenting with seeds from F1 hybrids.
I grow Sungold tomatoes every year for my grandkids. They LOVE them!!!
It's really great you tell the heights and lengths in meters as well, easier for us Europeans to understand.
Ya it’s the same for Americans. It’s like when I watch a Canadian or UK or European video some videos uses just the metric system. Some uses feet or miles cause they maybe traveling Americans, but some TH-camrs use both systems.
I’ll tell ya this. If you’re American hearing the temperature in C degrees means absolutely nothing. It’s like kilometers and cm I can visually sort of reference cause I somewhat know how close they are to what we use in the U.S. but like for C degrees haha it’s like oh hell. I remember in physics there’s a big equation you have to use to convert C into F or ferenheit or whatever but you can’t visually do it or guess at least I’ve not been exposed to using Celsius enough to do that. It’s like -80 C is absolute cold or something for storing mushroom cultures I think and 0 C is freezing so it’d be 32 F but other then that it’s like haha hilarious.
Ya it’s the same for Americans. It’s like when I watch a Canadian or UK or European video some videos uses just the metric system. Some uses feet or miles cause they maybe traveling Americans, but some TH-camrs use both systems.
I’ll tell ya this. If you’re American hearing the temperature in C degrees means absolutely nothing. It’s like kilometers and cm I can visually sort of reference cause I somewhat know how close they are to what we use in the U.S. but like for C degrees haha it’s like oh hell. I remember in physics there’s a big equation you have to use to convert C into F or ferenheit or whatever but you can’t visually do it or guess at least I’ve not been exposed to using Celsius enough to do that. It’s like -80 C is absolute cold or something for storing mushroom cultures I think and 0 C is freezing so it’d be 32 F but other then that it’s like haha hilarious.
I also got my free packet of of White Tomesol from Baker Creek. Like you I wouldn't have thought about choosing it. I was amazed how prolifically it produced good sized very flavorful fruit. I'm growing it again this year.
I’m growing Big Beef for the first time this year, glad to hear yours are doing so well. I’m up north so a little behind you, but the plants look great and the fruit that has set so far looks great as well. I’ve been growing Celebrity for 3 years now, overall great tomato. Perfect size.
Yore videos are perfect. No fluff just information. Your information is really well laid out also. Thanks a lot! Love your work!!!
Glad you like them! Thanks for watching!
My Dwarf Tomato Project tomatoes are doing great so far for me up her in Maine. I still can't thank you enough for introducing me to them! I also just plain love your channel! lol
I'm glad to hear they're working out for you. They're a great "cheat" to get heirloom-indeterminate-quality tomatoes in places with short summers. The high value beefsteaks can now be grown in all 50 states! Thanks for watching. I appreciate it.
I am growing Geranium Kiss and Wherokowhai (try pronouncing that!) Dwarf tomatoes this year. I am growing in one gallon, 3 gallon and 5-gallon containers just to see if there is a difference in performance. So far there is a clear difference in size! Let's see how the fruiting measures!
Thanks so much for this video. I really enjoy that content you create. You are easy to listen to and break things down in a simple manner. Your content is very engaging and I usually watch your videos from start to finish. You are a no nonsense person - and unapologetic about the choices you make in your gardening style, which is really great. Thanks so much, I have learned a lot from you.
Thank you. I really appreciate it. I try and get the point across that I really do these things in real life in my own garden. I do promote products on occasion, but only the ones that I use in real life and I feel are responsible for my success. I don't want to keep any secrets. My dream is that you all outproduce me! I want as many gardeners growing their own food as possible. Thank you for watching!
I've enjoyed your videos and presentation. You share your information straight to the point without fluff, and keep it interesting. I subscribed to both of your channels. Looking forward to enjoying all your future videos. Thanks for sharing all your knowledge!
Thanks so very much for always being so detailed videos telling us everything gardeners need to know. I don't think I need to watch anyone else. You are superb!
I have had amazing luck with cherokee purple in missouri! One of the best out of about 30+ varieties I've grown. Super production and quite a few fruits that are close to and sometimes over 1 lb. I've even had several here and there that are upwards of 2 pounds. Enormous. Although when they get really big sometimes they have a weird shape
I love Sun Gold. They’ve been very reliable, productive, and the critters have not bothered them. I’ll be trying Purple Rosella this year per your recommendation. Thanks!
The only negative I can say about Sun Gold is they're splitting in the heavy rain. But most tomatoes do that. I think you'll enjoy Rosella Purple. It is, in my opinion, superior to Cherokee Purple.
YAY for Sungold tomatoes and talking TASTE!!! Thank you!
They're excellent. Thanks for watching!
A most excellent demonstration !!! Expert craftsmanship based on detailed knowledge base. Was so pleased --will view this one over again and keep as reference. No one else has really portrayed the spectrum of the new dwarf varieties nor summarized the clear limitations of most lg. heirloom types with their low production. Please keep bringing us your garden experience. Many thanks. Kathy Komp Cleveland Ohio.
Glad it was helpful! It's a real pain to reset the camera dozens and dozens of times to take all these individual shots, so when I hear this is helping so many people, it really makes me happy. Thank you for watching!
Could not agree more! After viewing this video when it was first published, I purchased the Summer Sweet Gold & Emerald Giant dwarf tomato seeds. These seeds are not Walmart cheap......so only planted 1 of each in my raised bed. I have been blown away by both plants; so beautiful and covered with blossoms. Even my neighbors have taken notice of these extraordinary plants. Thank you, MG.
I learn so much from your Channel about growing tomatoes.Thank you for what you do.
Thank you for watching! I couldn't do it without viewers like you tuning in!
About to start my Siletz seedlings in Melbourne. Thanks to this video, I planted one last Summer and it was a Superstar. So glad I did.
It didn't grow too tall (2 feet), so I just placed bricks all around the base and allowed it to sprawl on the ground.
It just kept producing. I stopped weighing after I harvested 13lbs, and wouldn't be surprised if it produced 20lbs, as the birds ate quite a few also.
Took up little space, needed no attention, produced a heap, and was by far the earliest producer.
Handled the cold very well, and although the fruit was more acidic than I normally like, it was still pleasant. Will plant 4 this season.
I'm here in Southern California zone 9b and I got my plants in the ground a little late this year at the middle/end of May. Pleased to say besides two indeterminate the rest of my tomato plants and night shades are doing fantastic. But the real champ in my Champion determinant tomato. It's literally been producing for over two months with another literal 30-40 more tomatoes with them being in all stages of fruit development. Also have a SS 100vf that is doing insanely good. Love the videos keep up the good content !
We love super sweet 100 here in Cary, NC. Tried Sun Gold last summer it was good too, but we grew Honeycomb hybrid this year and it's our absolute favorite ever! Soooooo good!
Thank you for your videos!
Thanks for the suggestion! I'll definitely be growing more cherry types next season. I really appreciate you watching.
Extremely interesting. I live in central Florida and the soul is very sandy. I enjoyed the part of the determine tomatoes very much. I grow my tomatoes in containers. Thanks for all the information.
I have a very wet, humid climate, and our rainfall may even exceed yours in the summer. We average over 60 inches of rain a year, which is higher than anywhere in Florida except the panhandle, so if they do well for me, they'll probably do well for you.
I live in central Florida, as well. I ,too, grow in containers.
Thank you for your garden tours!!! So informative. I have difficulty growing tomatoes. Will try some new varieties 😄
Thanks for all the hard work on these videos, not to mention the garden work and research. Dale reminds me of my Sam.
Thank you. Great content. I like how you grow so many varieties and then take the time to tell us what worked and what did not work.
Your garden is so pleasing to my eye that it's almost Zen for me. I could look at it for hours. I've written down some the varieties you mention and hope to try them next year. As for AWD, this is the funniest episode so far. All this is the reason you have almost 100K subscribers in the relatively short period I've been watching your channel. Well done!
Thanks. Unfortunately, it has done nothing but rain since I filmed this video, and now all my tomato plants are pretty much ruined. The fruits are mostly okay (except the ones that split in this horrible weather), but the plants won't survive much longer. It's pouring right now, so that'll likely push us into the 5+ inch range for the past few days. It's completely devastating. I have been working very hard to film as much tomato footage as I could while we were stuck in a light drought, because I knew once it ended, my season would be over.
@@TheMillennialGardener I know from the TV weather reports you are getting terrible weather. I hope sincerely that you can salvage much of your harvest, even if the plants fail. It was such a beautiful crop. You always work hard and the quality of your videos show it.
@@TheMillennialGardener NC is absolutely terrible state for gardening... we had lots of rain here in Cary too (probably less than you though) and now my eggplants covered in mushrooms and my petunias are dead and some tomatoes are breaking too :( oh and both my zucchini plants are dead (thank you borer...)
Thanks. I live in Southern California. Could never figure out why my Brandywine tomato bush never gave me more then a couple of fantastically delicious tomatoes. Always thought I was doing something wrong especially since my other varieties did so well. Will continue to grow a couple of Brandywine bushes, but now I won’t get disappointed when all they produce are a couple of tomatoes. Again, thanks.
What a wonderful collections of tomatoes varieties! Love how you have so many varieties.
Thank you. I really enjoy it. It is a lot of fun. Thank you for watching. I appreciate it.
@@TheMillennialGardener Thank YOU for sharing so I can enjoy watching your wonderful garden.
My pleasure!
I like your videos, I feel like a student. It’s a good thing. I’m thankful I get to glean from your experience 😀
I'm glad you're enjoying the videos! I appreciate you watching!
Thanks for all the great tomatoes to try , your garden is gorgeous!
Thank you. I really appreciate the kind words. Thanks for watching!
I discovered Chef’s Choice in 2020 regrowing this year. I’m in zone 10. Love all of the various colors.
They're really awesome hybrids! Thanks for watching!
Sun Gold Tomatoes are my absolute favorite to grow. So good.
They’re my favorite so far this year.
Sun Gold tomatoes bring an umami that the sweet 100s tend to lack which is why they present as more complex on the tongue.
Growing for the kiddo’s lunchbox, the 100s are amazing. Want something that will stand up to some garlic and basil on bruschetta, the sun golds are your fruit.
I grow both for the reasons above. That and both of them are intense in their yields as you mentioned.
I agree. The Super Sweet 100's are good, but they're more like eating grapes. They're great eating fresh off the vine. The Sun Gold, on the other hand, are acidic and complex. I think they'd be fantastic in tomato sauces and salads, because they have so much bite. I am going to look for a purple cherry for next year and grow a red-yellow-purple mix.
The brandy wine sudduth are what grows best in my sw Mn garden. 2 miles away at my parents house it doesn’t grow well. I start tomatoes every year indoors but it’s the volunteer Brandywine in my garden that end up producing massive huge fruits
@@TheMillennialGardener Have you tried the yellow pear cherry tomato? I grew the Sun Gold and the Yellow Pear last year and the I liked the Yellow Pear better. Love your videos. Thanks for all the information.
I learn more here than almost any other gardening channel. Two thumbs up!
Awesome selection on varieties that’s are winners! Will be trying some of your proven success top picks! Thank you
Thank you. Keep in mind I'm in a very humid, subtropical climate. If you're in a drier, less humid climate, some of these varieties that are failing me may do better for you. If you're in a soupy, wet climate like mine, this video should help.
South Jersey here! I’m still gonna try ur winners, they check off everything i want in my plants to have success👍👍 my 42 different varieties are just getting going here
@@cassandraberger9146 I was born and raised in Egg Harbor City. Lived in Atlantic County most of my life.
Thanks for your list. I have quite a few for next year that are on your list. Many of my tomatoes got herbicide damage this year so I’ve rooted some of my healthy suckers for a second chance.
Ah, sorry to hear that. Hopefully this video was helpful! Thank you for watching.
All those plants are really doing amazing and a nice variety as well!! The dwarf plants are impressive too, i'll try some next season. Also keep us posted on that White Tomesol' i can't wait to see how it finishes and tastes. Congrat's on you success!
Once my later season tomatoes start ripening, I should be able to compare a few of them. There are a lot of new varieties that I want to evaluate.
@@TheMillennialGardener I'll be looking forward to it!
Thank you for loving on the dwarfs and determinates. they do much better with my season of 97% humidity and I have so much fun discovering the breeding.
They absolutely do. I find indeterminate tomatoes to be the least productive per square foot. Indeterminates have the best selection, but there's a reason why they aren't grown commercially very often except in commercial greenhouses. The determinates are more productive and less work.
I really appreciate just how much you put into these videos. I nerd out on technicalities and fine details. You most definitely provide all of the essential information needed to execute fantastic growing practices and comprehend exactly what you're doing. Thanks for helping me take it to the next level.
Also, I just got a VDB fig tree! The brown turkey was all I knew and grew prior to discovering your channel.
I'm glad to hear it's helpful. It takes a ton of time resetting the camera dozens of times to take all the shots, then edit all those tiny clips together, so hearing how useful these videos are makes it all worth it. I'm also glad to hear that you got yourself a fig tree. Don't let it be your only new tree! Growing figs is the most addicting thing in the garden to me.
This makes me feel a lot better. This is my first year in a very long time trying to grow tomatoes (I have huge pots on my front porch) and I picked Cherokee Purple on a whim. They're doing awful and I thought I was doing something wrong. Sounds like though they're just not great producers. Next year I'll try a determinate variety.
From my experience, indeterminate varieties haven't done well in pots for me. They get too tall and it's hard to support them. The determinate tomatoes are shorter and might do better in a pot. We make our own tomato cages.
I'm growing sungolds this year! I am excited to try them. I'll have to try the super sweet 100.
Both are good, but in my opinion, Sun Gold are much better. They're larger, sweeter, tangier and equally productive. The Super Sweet's are good, but I may look into replacing them with a more acidic red tomato because I like a good acid bite.
GREAT VIDEO. Your content is so good. I really enjoyed the last part :)
Thank you! I appreciate you watching.
Your tomato garden looks awesome, I am going to try these next season.
Thank you! I appreciate you watching.
Great vid ty so much!!
I just tap all my flowers with my ✋🏻 to pollinate.
Bella Rosa and sun gold are 2 of my go to tomatoe plants for the garden. Sun golds flavor is exceptional 👌
Sun Gold is awesome. I also added Sun Sugar this year. We'll see which is better!
Great information for serious 🍅 tomato gardening. I have had similar results for varieties you grow. Thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching! I appreciate it.
If you found this video helpful, please "Like" and share to help increase its reach! TIMESTAMPS for varieties are here:
0:00 How To Grow Tomatoes For Heavy Production
1:15 My Most Productive Determinate Tomatoes
2:00 Siletz Tomato
3:49 Abu Rawan Tomato
4:31 Bella Rosa Tomato
5:16 Rosella Purple (Dwarf Tomato Project selection)
6:21 My Most Productive Indeterminate Tomatoes
6:22 Super Sweet 100 & Sun Gold (Cherry Tomatoes)
7:47 Big Beef Tomato
8:36 White Tomesol Tomato
9:43 Precious Pink Tomato
10:33 Chef's Choice Bicolor Tomato
11:15 Chef's Choice Purple Tomato
12:10 Chef's Choice Green Tomato
12:45 Arkansas Traveler Tomato
13:33 Chef's Choice Red Tomato
14:07 Big Brandy Tomato
14:47 My Least Productive Tomatoes
14:56 Big Raspberry Tomato
15:53 Brandywine Yellow Tomato (Platfoot Strain)
16:55 Cherokee Purple Tomato
17:48 Brandywine Pink Tomato (Sudduth Strain)
18:48 My Standout Favorite Tomato Varieties So Far
20:20 Adventures With Dale
Great Vid... I am definitely going to try a couple of the Varieties you suggest... I'm in South Florida and do all Container gardening, so some of these Determinates would work well for me..
Bella Rosa is really impressing me. We just got 5 inches of rain and the fruits are perfect. No cracking. I picked 3, but they need some time to finish ripening on the counter. I hope they taste good, but the fruit itself is impressive.
I’m in set texas just west of Houston. Appreciate your advice on heat and humidity. Love the Dale video
Hello. I just discovered your channel, and find it really interesting. Your voice is easy to understand, which is really nice for me, as i am french :) You have a really great garden, thx for the video.
I’m glad you find the channel enjoyable! Thank you for watching. I really appreciate it.
Your garden is looking great! Wait till you see my beast tomatoes. I have some heirloom tomatoes that have been in my family since they migrated from Italy. Last year I grew one 3.5 lbs., in that one tomato had 20 seeds. Blessings 🙏
That's a big tomato. I always go for quantity, so my tomatoes rarely get over 1 lb. One year, I should try to grow a monster. Thanks for watching!
Hi, I love these types of videos from you...which varieties are the best to grow. They save me so much time searching for the best. Like your cucumber video :) . Always to the point and clear. Thank you so much.
I'm doing the research so you don't have to 😂 These types of videos are always a pain to shoot and edit since you have to reset the camera about 40 times to do this, but it is too important not to do. I'm glad it was helpful!
Super fantastic was my favorite variety this year. Fruity notes, low acidity and big!
Wow , who knew there were so many different tomatoes, you're so full of information and I'm sharing in hopes that my Facebook friends will watch and learn along with me.
There are, literally, thousands of varieties. Maybe tens of thousands. You could grow 100 different tomato varieties a year and barely scratch the surface during your lifetime. It's fun shopping, but it can be hard making a decision. Thank you for sharing my videos! I really appreciate it!
I'm on my first year of gardening in Wilmington, NC since moving from the Piedmont part of the state. Started a bit late this year and having trouble with some of the big box store varieties. Nice video and you gave me some great ideas for next year!
It's much harder to grow tomatoes here due to the heavier rain, higher dewpoints and much warmer nights. In the Piedmont, the nights often fall into the 60's during the summer. That virtually never happens here, so the tomatoes struggle terribly. The big box store tomatoes overwhelmingly flop, here. A few that will do well and tolerate our conditions are:
Indeterminates: Arkansas Traveler, San Marzano (paste type), Big Beef.
Determinates: Bella Rosa, Celebrity.
Almost all cherry types should work. Sun Gold and Super Sweet 100 perform incredibly well here and can actually produce all summer. Next year, I'll be moving to more cherry tomatoes and growing less beefsteaks. After 4 seasons trying to grow beefsteaks here, they're just too big of a fight. I'll still grow some, but not as much.
Getting your transplants in-ground on about March 20 will greatly increase your chances of success. The key is to get them in early so they flower in mid to late April while the nights are temperate. You may need to cover them one or two nights for a late frost, though. It's good to have a stack of 5 gallon paint buckets on hand to throw them over the plants.
@@TheMillennialGardener I appreciate the advice! I'm making notes for next year. Definitely want to try out some of the varieties you just mentioned and you've got a new subscriber. Thanks!
New Jersey grower here -also have a huge problem with humidity.
The best variety I have ever grown Box Car Willie FANTASTIC!🍅
I haven't grown that variety. I've seen it. It looks to be a mid-sized slicer if memory serves.
Poor Dale LOL...didn't want the strawberry today! Thanks for what I think as a new gardener is a great video. Just ordered a bunch of different varieties of tomatoes mostly determinate and container varieties because the seeds I got here locally in Florida and have been growing just are not producing anything but flowers and the plants look sick. I finally got 1 tiny little mater growing on one of my plants, I think its a beefsteak and I started them all indoors way back in March. People I watch have been harvesting theirs and here I am waiting on 1 little mater LOL
Incredible tomatoes plants in your garden😍. We are growing some tomatoes this year too. Home growth tomatoes is the best . My favorite is cherry tomatoes. Amazing collection of variety tomatoes. Thanks 🙏
Thank you! I appreciate you watching. Best of luck with your varieties!
I love all of your tomato plants.
I am in north Delaware and this year production is amazing especially the big beef!
Glad to hear it! Hopefully, we continue to get some dry weather behind this tropical storm. Thanks for watching!
I have 4 big beefs and 2 cuttings in a jar ready for transplant. Yea your tomatoes are producing they look loaded. Cool garden.
Thanks for watching!
I grow most of my tomatoes hydroponically. I love the big beef for its high production and awesome texture and flavor. I'm sure you will enjoy it. One tomato that I am growing for an indoor tomato under lights is the Tiny Tim. It is supposed to be dwarf. It has taken over my basement grow area (not so tiny) and has the most incredible, firm, attractive bright red tomatoes. I put one outside in my Dutch bucket system and it is blowing me away. It easily has 70 tomatoes set and well over 300 blossoms. It seems to be self-pollinating and sets fruit without intervention both indoors or outdoors. For me it has outperformed the sweet 100 variety, which was incredible. Try the Tiny Tim, I am sure you will love it.
Where did you get the Tiny Tim seeds????
@@simonadunn7168 Here's a link. They were all good seeds from this vendor, www.ebay.com/itm/184380684502?hash=item2aedf1f8d6:g:vWgAAOSwByFfHaEb
I've seen Gary Pilarchik grow Tiny Tim, and it is a wild looking plant. If you like that variety, you should seriously browse the Dwarf Tomato Project selections over at Victory Seed. They have a similar growth habit, but you'll get an enormous selection of heirloom-quality fruits with amazing colors and patterns. It will blow your mind. The fruit quality is off the charts with many of the varieties.
Wow, you have the biggest variety of tomatoes I’ve ever seen in one place and they look great! I’m trying to grow the Beef Steak Tomatoes for the second year, whereas it’s late September here in southeast Texas and most of them are finally getting loaded with beautiful tomatoes. Last year, which was my first year growing them across a trellis where they finally did okay very late in the fall as I’ve been told the extreme heat that we have here prevents them from producing and keeps many of the leafs with a scorched appearance. Nonetheless, I have 6 plants for my family use which now has more than 50 tomatoes of various sizes and I’m keeping close watch on them after finding a Caterpillar eating away on one of them. I’m hoping they stay pretty and grow as large as they should but most importantly hoping they have a great taste! Thanks for the informative videos and keep them coming.
Thank you for sharing this amazing video 👏👏👏
I am a fan of the dwarf tomatoes and maybe you can do a video with your dwarf varieties. Greetings from Crete Greece 😊
Thanks for watching! I appreciate it.
Thanks you. This is a very good video, I learned a lot. I keep a running list of Tomatoes and have added a couple from your video.
Glad it was helpful for you! Thanks for watching!
Thank you so much that was most helpful I am a new tomato grower and I’m growing in containers so this was very helpful for me
Excellent! I’m glad to hear it was helpful. Thank you for watching!
Great sharing
Thanks for watching!
Thanks for this video, I love tomatoes and I just didn't know which ones to get.
Glad to hear it was helpful. I'll have a harvest video soon!
Very informative. Thankyou so much. I will know more about what to plant next time.
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching!
I'm glad I found you because I live on the East Coast of NC too. I'm looking for the right kind of tomatoes to grow here.
The tomatoes that are holding up to this miserable, wet June have been Sun Gold, Super Sweet 100, White Tomesol, Big Beef, Bella Rosa, Arkansas Traveler and Celebrity. The rest are suffering with cracking and getting watered down.
Enjoyed the video. Love growing tomatoes!!
Thank you!
Thanks, great video, good information. Dale is soooo patient! 😆😆
Thank you! Dale is only patient when he knows the appearance of being a Good Boy is going to lead to the immediate reward of a treat. Suddenly, he can win any staring contest. When he wants something and your back is to him, he will pester you in the sweetest, most annoying way possible. He will walk up to you, put his paw on you, if you don't acknowledge his paw, he will repeatedly tap you, then sit like a statue and stare. If you don't acknowledge him, he will leave the room, re-enter the room and begin the process all over again, as if exiting and re-entering the room creates some kind of time warp where you rewind time and you forget the first encounter ever happened. He has more personality than most people. It's unbelievable.
@@TheMillennialGardener Hahaha! Dale sounds like such a sweet guy! Nothing like such a sweet personality in your dog!
He’s the best person I have ever met. I’ve never met a human as kind, myself included. We could all learn a lot from Dale and other dogs like him.
We're trying several of the varieties you mentioned here for the first time in 2021, including Siletz. Baker Creek also sent us the White Tomesol as a freebie. I only put one in the garden to try it out, now I wish I'd added a few more LOL! Last year we had very bad cracking on our Cherokee purple, but otherwise the production wasn't too bad here in 6A Michigan.
Michigan has extremely agreeable weather for tomatoes during the summer with relatively dry weather and lower humidity. It's funny because it's a pretty short season up in Michigan, but when your summers hit, they're awesome for gardening. Once summer gets here, I really envy you guys up there. I would imagine tomatoes do very well for you. I think you're going to enjoy Siletz. I just had my first Bella Rosa today. I should have let it ripen about 2 more days, but it was quite good.
I have them too 😂 but didn’t plant them yet. Great to see they do well for everyone
Rosella Purple 🌹💜🍅. Can't wait to try.
It's one of the best! Very sweet, and very low acid. If you like sweet tomatoes, it's a winner.
This might be the best tomatoe video yet. Well made. Im in central FL and looking forward to trying a few of these. I never really thought about it but determinate really do produce better. Thanks for making this video.
Thank you! Determinate tomatoes are often a better selection for Florida and other Southern zones. They are often more disease resistant, and flower better in heat. Some good varieties are Bella Rosa, Celebrity and Margherita VF.
@@TheMillennialGardener Awesome thank you for the tips! I started some Celebration Hybrid seeds a few days ago. Are they the same as celebrity? Thanks again!
Yea Cherokee purple is a Deep South tomato, doing great in Mississippi. Getting tons off of just 2 plants. Still growing too. A great indeterminate, and a very sweet tasting tomato.
That's interesting, because my climate is identical to the Deep South. My latitude is exactly in between Huntsville and Birmingham (at 34.1N), and my growing season is longer than both with a higher dew point because of the coastal influence. I'm just not seeing any luck. It only sets in the cool temperatures. After growing this for 4 years, I think Cherokee Purple is better suited for northern climates with short growing seasons because it only sets in cool temps and ripens early.
Looking forward to your next video!
Thank you! Next one is out tomorrow! 😀
Love tomatoes with high acid taste. I eat the plain tasting ones , but not because I like them. Your tomatoes look so good. You can tell you are a good gardener.
I think you will love Chef's Choice Pink, Sun Gold, and, most of all, Dwarf Emerald Giant. Dwarf Emerald Giant is the most acidic tomato I've ever had by far. It is like someone squeezed lemon juice all over the tomato. Its bite is incredible. Easily a Top 5 tomato for me. You have to try that one.
Interesting comparing Northern CA climate for tomatoes. I've been growing tomatoes for 25+ years. I also have great results with Big Beef and the Chef's Choice hybrids. I've only grown the Chef's Choice pink and orange. The CC orange is my absolute FAV - so perfect and productive! This year, the garden center sold GRAFTED Suddeth Brandywine, on a hybridized root stock with the heirloom plant on top. I planted a heirloom Suddeth Brandywine next to the grafted variety and what a huge difference. The grafted is doing twice as nice. Cherokee Purple is prolific here but I'm not a fan of the taste. My other favorites are the Orange Strawberry - 1-2 lb orange beefsteaks, Maryianna's Peace - similar to Brandywine without the blight and more productive. For cherry tomatoes, I grew Sun Gold until I tried Isis Candy. Isis Candy had strong stems, super productive, sweeter and the tomatoes can be dried or roasted if you cant eat them all - plants always 7-8 ft tall! Happy Gardening!
Hi Thank you for your detailed information. I’m growing ISIS Candy this year. Just wondering if it’s heirloom??
@@soby123 There's a tomato called ISIS candy??!
@@dross10001 Yes 😃
Can't wait for the tasting. Really curious about the chef choice hybrids. Alas, my season doesnt start until October here in southwest Florida.
I will have a big update soon! Thanks for watching.
This year I'm growing ace 55 bush, bushsteak , Italian Roma and supremo I also grew 2 big rainbow 1 black Krim and assorted cherry tomatoes. I grew moneymaker pole last year and it had less and smaller tomatoes then all my other types. Determinate seem more productive in my climate.
Determinates are more productive, in general. They put much more of their energy into fruit production than indeterminates. Best of l luck, and thanks for watching!
I like the determinate too. This is my 2nd year with dwarfs and I love them. Blossom Booster is my friend!
Hi! From NC. Thanks for the great information
Thanks for watching!
I always plant a sacrificial sweet 100, my husband and son keep it picked clean of fruit, an oh look snack while outside. It is a requirement in the garden! If I want anything for myself I have to plant one out of the way of outside snack range
Absolutely beautiful 🙏!
Thanks for watching!
I just watched your video again and this time I noticed you mentioned you started these plants in February. These tomatoes being this large on June 1st is amazing. I live north of Greensboro and am in zone 7b. When you say February, do you mean you start the seedlings in February and transplant later or do you actually put them in the garden in February? That seems early but it must be nice to be able to start so early. We don’t really get to put ours in the ground up here until mid April. Love your videos. The hydrogen peroxide was another great tip.
I share your like of Big Beef tomatoes. To me it is the best all around hybrid tomato out there right now. I have planted them for 3 years straight now and they are consistently the most disease resistent tomato in my garden. One year one of my Big Beef tomato plants survived from the spring all the way to December. I picked the last tomato off of it Dec 12th. Usually you can either have a tomato type that produces lots of tomatoes or one that produces nice sized tomatoes but rarely both. Big beef is the exception. It is very productive and the size of the tomatoes on it are very nice. You need to stake or cage it well because it will produce clusters of very large tomatoes from top to bottom. It also produces tomatoes pretty early often beating varieties like Early Girl in my garden for the first ripe tomato.
I always top my indeterminates so they can put energy into the fruits. Interesting vid, some varieties I’ll be sure to try. Thanks man.
That is a good practice in places with shorter growing seasons. If you have a longer growing season, topping them may quit production early. It's hit-or-miss, here, depending on disease pressure. Topping them requires proper timing, so the dryness of the season means everything in a climate like mine. Thanks for watching.
Brunswick County resident here. Good to see local growers here
It's certainly not easy to grow in our summers, but the other 8 months a year aren't too shabby 😀
I'm about 4 weeks behind you, but I also got the free White Tomesol packet and it's been the fastest growing plant out of about 9 varieties I've got this year (and healthiest growing in the sense that the stems are thicker compared to the other kinds). Supposedly the taste is more mild (my family prefers low acid and sweeter tomatoes), but the other characteristics it has going for it have me considering cross pollinating it with the varieties we like to see what kind of diy hybrid tomatoes we may get next year
My White Tomesol is still producing and actually has set some fruit despite peak heat, but I haven't gotten one that tasted good yet. It's just been too wet. Because the tomato is so mild, rain will wash out the flavor quickly, it seems. Hopefully, I get some fruit that ripen in the dry weather.
I love your channel. I’ve learned a lot.
I appreciate that!
I’m on the exact opposite side of the state from your location and it is much cooler on my end. My best producer in my climate is a variety called vivacious hybrid which only came out last year. I harvested 75+ tomatoes off of a single plant last year that I threw in my compost pile as an extra tomato plant after planting. Just let it grow wild.
My favourite is "Gardeners delight", super tasty and amazing producer
You keep making my seed wishlist longer and longer every video!
You know Dale's a good guy through and through because he could've taken your fingers at any point! 😂 I can't get Rosie to eat the strawberries this year either! Her first summer I shared strawberries with her and didn't get another one all season. Once she knew they were there, she just kept sneaking them when I wasn't looking! I guess she prefers the mulberries, idk. More for me!
It’s funny. When I planted the strawberries last year, Dale actually started eating them off the ground. I had to put a fence around them to keep him out. Now, he doesn’t seem to want them. He eats virtually everything, but won’t touch a strawberry, blackberry or raspberry, it must be a texture thing 🤷♂️
@@TheMillennialGardener That's so funny! What is going on with these weirdos? Maybe they're ashamed of their thievery? No, probably not.
I love them , they all look so good . Am so encourage.
I'm glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching!
I'm getting a Revolver ammo (reload cartridge) holster and will be putting a salt shaker in it for this season!! ❤👍
I recommend that fancy Himalayan pink flake salt!
A very interesting type of tomato to grow that I never see people talking about is a Litchi Tomato! They are a type of cherry tomato that has a husk and is covered in thorns so harvest can be a pain without gloves but it was very fun to grow such a unique tomato, it even has two colors, red on the outside and yellow on the inside! Its been a few years and I only grew it one year so I can't say much about the taste but I remeber enjoying it!
Could be another video idea if you grow it this year! :)
They're also technically not tomatoes.
Grew "Super Sweet" last year. They were very prolofic and I used to take containers of them into work to share. My coworkers raved about them! Like candy they said. I wish I had kept some sseds.
Thanks for listing the names of tomatoes. 😊
I have pretty good success with Cherokee Purple here in Sacramento, CA. But I do shade all my tomatoes and peppers when the temp is 95 and above.
The chefs choice black is incredible.
Heirloom quality taste
The Chef's Choice varieties are so productive that it becomes redundant and pointless to grow the heirlooms. Unless you have to save the seed, there isn't much point in growing heirlooms anymore, in my opinion.
@@TheMillennialGardener this was my 1st year with the chefs choice. I was very impressed. I am going to try the others as well
@@johnmalatesta751 I’m going to try Chef’s Choice Black next year. I was disappointed with the dwarfs and might grow mostly hybrids next year.
@@archstanton9703 this was my 1st year and they were awesome. I grow both heirlooms and hybrids.
I grew chefs choice orange two years ago and it has been by far my most productive and healthy tomatoes I’ve grown to date. Great flavor from an almost softball size tomato. I’m growing some Black Sea Man tomatoes this year. I’ve heard they are maybe the best tasting tomatoes there are.
Dale is going to enjoy the tomatoes this season!
Also I'm hoping Brandywin Pink does well for me in Zone 6, Michigan.
He is already enjoying them, for sure. He loves his fresh veggies. Brandywine Pink would definitely benefit from hand pollination. It is a tricky variety. If you’re not familiar with the toothbrush trick, it works dramatically well: th-cam.com/video/x2zoorfpZ50/w-d-xo.html
@Nick Clarke " I'm hoping Brandywine Pink does well for me in Zone 6, Michigan." DITTO!
@@TheMillennialGardener - I get very good pollination of Brandywine Pink and every other variety just from wind and insects. Maybe the weather difference.
If you like Pink Brandywine, you have to try Marianna's Peace. I love Pink Brandywine, but Marianna's Peace beats it for me.