Let's See (revisit) Your Top 20 for Taste

[recruiterg]

http://www.tomatoville.com/showthrea...p+20+for+taste

This was one of my favorite posts on Tomatoville. Wondering if any new or different varieties have crept onto anyone's lists???

Here are a few of my favorites:

Brandywine Sudduth
Black Cherry
KBX
Aunt Gertie's Gold
JD's Special C-Tex
Spudakee
Cherokee Purple
Red Brandywine
Earl's Faux
Cuostralee
Sungold

[barkeater]

My best tomatoes this year - a very short list - were:

Bloody Butcher
Moskvich
Ramapo
Orange-1
Early Wonder (Pink)
Black Giant
Black Cherry

Most of the others have barely given any ripe tomatoes. Maybe they all ripened this week while I was away (I wish!).

[geeboss]

Well I liked the following and will grow again next year.
Cherokee Green
Neves Azorean Red
Momotaro
Santa F2
Tommy Toes
Sun Gold
Opalka
KBX
Tom's Yellow Wonder
Indian Stripe
Cherokee Purple
Will sub Chapman in place of Brandywine Sudduth
Will sub Coustralee in place of Jeff's Pink Mystery Oxheart
Will sub Dr. Lyle in place of Liz Birt
Will sub Donskoi in place of Biltmore
Will sub German Queen in place of Oregon Spring
Will add Aunt Ginny's Purple
Will sub Yellow Brandywine in place of Orange Oxheart
Will sub Early Ssubakus in place of Yellow Pear
Will add Manyel
Will add Lucky Cross
Will add VA Sweet
Will add Northern Lights

and several others to be determined shortly.

[gssgarden]

Shannon's
Cherokee Purple
Anna Russian
Coustralee
KBX
Kellogg's Breakfast

That's all I need to be happy

Greg

[where_with_all]

Brandywine Sudduth
Cherokee Purple
Kalmans Hungarian Pink/Wagner Italian

Looking forward to trying
Kellogg's Breakfast and Aunt Gertie's Gold

I Never heard of KBX???

[TZ-OH6]

These were my favorites/honorable mentions this year.
Black Krim/Noire de Crimmee
Brandywine Sudduth
F2 red cherry [Lime Green Salad x ?? -either Ping Pong or Gardener's Delight]
Rose
Tigrella- Early, pretty, tasty, cherry size.
Cherokee Green
Kelloggs Breakfast
Orange Banana
Roman Candle

Alot of the red beefsteaks were good (Earls' Faux, Stump, Ashleigh, Red Penna, Chapman) but there were enough cultural problems that I didn't get a chance to see most varieties at their best (blight hit before many were ripe etc).

[montanamato]

This year I had only 20 or so varieties survive, but the standouts from those are:

Canestrino No. 1
Ludmilla's Red Plum
Marizol Magic
Granny Carvielle's Yellow Roma

Still getting highs in the low 90's so have a few varieties still ripening that I have yet to taste...

Jeanne

[jcmorse33]

My best tasting varieties out of my own garden to date are as follows:

Spudakee
Brandywine (Sudduth's)
Earl's Faux
Summer Sunrise (dwarf project variety)
Dwarf Sunshine (dwarf project variety)
mystery farmer's market variety that I grew from saved seed
Sungold F1
KBX
Black Cherry
Rosella Giant (dwarf project variety)
Sweet Baby Girl

[Barbee]

Here's my list from last year:

My list of Wot's (What a tomato)
1. JD's Special C Tex
2. Black Krim
3. Marianna's Peace
4. Earl's Faux
5. KBX

__________________
This year I'm going to have to add:
Lynwood
Lucky Cross
Ed's New Millenium
Black from Tula
And Stump of the World...which I tasted at CHOPTAG and loved.
I'm cutting back next year. I mean it. Really.

[piegirl]

In addition to Black Krim, C. purple, Hungarian Heart, a friend's family heirloom, and Jet Star I will be adding:

Red Penna - although production was low, I will certainly try again.
Serdtse Buivola
Odesskiy Rozovyi
Tony's Italian
Indiana Red

I didn't have any real stinkers this year, last year the list was long and none returned. May grow Togorific again just for the cute factor - a new set of critieria??

Piegirl

[Vince]

I have not tried hundreds of Varieties of tomatoes, but I will give you some that are at the top of my list.

Sungold F1
Brandy Wine Sudduth
Cherokee Purple
Pink Berkely Tie Die
Persimmon(mild but delicous)
Coustralle, hands down the best red I have ever tasted.
Omar's Lebanese, sweet and delicous
Purple haze F1
Brandy Boy F1- at times better than Brandy wine Sudduth
Dwarf Wild Fred F5-possibly the best tomato I have ever tasty.
Wes-I only got a couple off a diseased plant this year-but they were outstanding

[goodwin]

Here are some new ones I tried which I'll plant again next year.

Bedouin - a spicy black pear
Lillian's Red Kansas - giant pointed red with great flavor
Lucky Cross - enormous plants set bushels
Early Wonder - actually is early and clear pink
Sophie's Choice - sweet red salad tomato
Green Doctors - they do split, but best GWR cherry ever
Rose Quartz - pink cherry develops good flavor late in season

I agree with a lot of the choices folks have mentioned. Every year is different, but with all the varieties out there, I rarely give a poor performing tomato a second chance.

[icelord]

These are standards for my taste.

R117
Black Cherry
Snow White
Anna Russian
Black From Tula
Aunt Ruby's German Green
Jerry's German Giant
Kosovo
Dr.Wyche
Marianne's Peace
Stump Of The World

These Also do well up here in the TUNDRA, He He He.

[Tomaddict]

Glad you specified top 20 rather than top 10, can never narrow my list down that far! Here are those that I'll certainly want to grow again next year. Most of these are perennial favorites.

Reds:
Nepal - good all-purpose medium sized red
Mayo's Delight - always good flavor here in a northern state
Monfavet - grew this last yr for the first time in 15 yrs, good flavored early variety.
Gail's Sweet Plum - new var for me in '09, very good flavored 1" plums, available from CV Sand Hill
Heidi - our preferred paste var for canning
Hungarian Italian - our next best paste variety

Yellows:
Lemmony (aka Limmony)
Hugh's
Lillian's Yellow Heirloom - very late here in SW Mich but worth it
Sun Gold (F1)

Pinks:
Aunt Ginny's Purple - always outperforms Brandywine for me and tastes just as good
Cherokee Purple
Caspian Pink - I hear folks dis this variety but when we have cooler summers like this yr and last yr, it is one of my best performers and tastes very good
The Dutchman - pleasant surprise, new to me in '09
Tiffen Mennonite - see comment for Aunt Ginny's Purple, same goes for this

Other colors:
Aunt Ruby's German Green
Black Krim
Lucky Cross - consistently better than any other bicolor I've tried (and that has been quite a few)

My favorites in pots:
Skazka
Summertime Green - one of the Dwarf project varieties

With all these every year varieties and others I want to regrow to generate fresh seed, it keeps getting harder to find space for the "new experiments"!

[habitat_gardener]

My favorites change every year!

2009, Piriform, Fox cherry, Sun Sugar F1, Earl's Faux.

2008, Aunt Ruby's German Green, Cherokee Purple, and Orange Strawberry. (This year they've hardly produced anything, and don't stand out at all. But someone to whom I gave an OS seedling says it's the best-tasting tomato in her garden this year.)

2007, Black Krim (especially cooked!) and Opalka. (This year, Opalka is good but not as large or wonderful as in previous years.)

2006, Ernie's Round, Aunt Ginny's Purple (both had luscious tomatoes but not very many of them), and ARGG were the best large ones, Sun Sugar F1 and Galina the best cherries.

2005, Black Cherry, Tommy Toe, and Opalka. (Black Cherry was really outstanding that year and the year before, but have gotten either mislabeled seedlings or duds ever since. This year, it's kind of sour.)