It’s been a crap year for tomatoes for many down here. They were stunted and very early blight from all the rain. It’s hard to say which I would try again. I like the Prairie fire, but they tend to have black spots if not picked early-blight? One I will always grow is Super Sauce as they are huge. Didn’t matter if they were hybrid or not as they all suffered, but SS fared better. Got enough to preserve and not the taste and quality I normally have. Most everything else did well including the purple beans which are still climbing and on a 4th picking, some by ladder 😅. Hope I find a best slicer soon. I think true tomato flavor is getting lost. Maybe go back to oxhearts and Brandywine. The yellow ones are Yuck! Yes, some of these varieties are difficult to tell when ripe but generally if soft they are ripe. And I also liked the German Johnson, large like mortgage lifter. Will try Steak Sandwich and Bodacious again. In 2012 we had drought and got oxheart from local farm market and they did very well and great flavor. The rain this year watered down the flavors. Getting preservation done as I’m not looking forward to 105 heat index Sunday and glad it’s short lived.
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It’s been a crap year for tomatoes for many down here. They were stunted and very early blight from all the rain. It’s hard to say which I would try again. I like the Prairie fire, but they tend to have black spots if not picked early-blight? One I will always grow is Super Sauce as they are huge. Didn’t matter if they were hybrid or not as they all suffered, but SS fared better.
Got enough to preserve and not the taste and quality I normally have. Most everything else did well including the purple beans which are still climbing and on a 4th picking, some by ladder 😅.
Hope I find a best slicer soon. I think true tomato flavor is getting lost. Maybe go back to oxhearts and Brandywine. The yellow ones are Yuck!
Yes, some of these varieties are difficult to tell when ripe but generally if soft they are ripe. And I also liked the German Johnson, large like mortgage lifter. Will try Steak Sandwich and Bodacious again.
In 2012 we had drought and got oxheart from local farm market and they did very well and great flavor. The rain this year watered down the flavors.
Getting preservation done as I’m not looking forward to 105 heat index Sunday and glad it’s short lived.