Late season tomatoes!

In our long, hot summers, some of my tomato plants simply wilt and die. I've tried growing a number of varieties which can survive the heat and produce into fall, but I always have a few empty spaces where a plant simply died. This year, I decided to try a few purchased seedlings which I've never grown before in the empty spaces. While most of the purchased varieties simply wilted and died as seedlings shortly after planting them, a couple of varieties performed very well, growing and producing into fall.

Lemon Boy is a hybrid variety which grew well, bloomed in the heat; and produced abundantly into fall. I'm normally not a fan of yellow or gold colored tomatoes finding them mostly bland in taste. KBX and Orange Minske are exceptions to that norm.
Lemon Boy produced a good tasting tomato of medium size abundantly into fall. I picked some green tomatoes on the day our first frost arrived and they are ripening well and also taste very good.

San Marzano also grew and produced well in the heat. While they have the general appearance of a Roma tomato with their elongated shape, they have a much better taste than any Roma I've eaten. I also have some picked green San Marzano tomatoes ripening.

Ted

[JJJessee]

Those San Marzanos really shine roasting them @ 275° about 4-6 hrs with garlic. EVOO, salt and herbs. I found couple solid green slicers on the ground in the garden a week or two ago, brought them in and they ripened, albeit not much better than a store-bought mater.

[KarenO]

Nice to have some late ones, sure would be a treat this time of year
Karen