What is making a return to your garden in 2016?

[Chrysos]

I love both, but Sun Sugar doesn't split as bad as Sun Gold here in the Pacific NW!

[Gardeneer]

OK. Maybe I have made a comment before. But noway I am going to go through 15 pages to find out. So here are my latest return from past that I will be growing in 2016(in addition to new ones). Actually they are ready for plant out.

== Azoychka
==Legend
== Siletz
== Willamette
== Cherokee Purple
== Black from Tula
== Silvery Fir Tree
== Dwarf Purple Heart
== Dwarf Hahms Gelbe T
== Indigo Rose
== Brwon Heart (I named it)
== Big Beef
== Ananas Noire
== Costoluto (?)
plus 10 new varieties
Gardeneed

[NarnianGarden]

Az is a must. Ever so faithful!

Originally Posted by drew51

Malakhitovaya Shkatulka my first green when ripe. I want to make ketchup! I added Green Giant too. I heard it's good, but doesn't always produce..guess I'll see! It will be used for the green ketchup too. I found a number of recipes, and I'm going to try two of them.

Be warned, Green Giant is *very* juicy. I'm not sure what kinds of tomatoes are best for ketchup, though. (Paste tomatoes?)

It can be very productive, too, I've read. (It was for Baker Creek, anyway. For me, it wasn't super productive, but I got tomatoes, although not enough to make much ketchup, and they were pretty big). It's also very tasty. Its best uses, I think, are probably fresh eating and juice.

[jveri]

Green Zebra
KBX
Black from Tula
Costoluto Genovese and Fiorentino
Black Cherry

[twillis2252]

So many Choices!!! Garden way too small!!!!!

[drew51]

Originally Posted by shule1

Be warned, Green Giant is *very* juicy. I'm not sure what kinds of tomatoes are best for ketchup, though. (Paste tomatoes?)

It can be very productive, too, I've read. (It was for Baker Creek, anyway. For me, it wasn't super productive, but I got tomatoes, although not enough to make much ketchup, and they were pretty big). It's also very tasty. Its best uses, I think, are probably fresh eating and juice.

I make sauce so I am familiar with how to properly reduce a sauce. I'm growing two different green when ripe, so if needed I'll just use one.
I often remove seeds and gel before I put tomatoes in a food mill. Also freezing them can remove liquids fairly well. When thawing the water leeches out. A few tricks of the trade! One recipe calls for 5 pounds, one calls for 2 pounds, so I'm sure I'll have enough. The two pound recipe calls to add water.
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/j...up-recipe.html

From what I understand from friends making it, Malakhitovaya Shkatulka makes an super tasty ketchup, so I hope to just use that one. With Green Giant as a backup. Also the color is better with this one.

I will probably use above recipe as I really don't use ketchup very much at all. I don't want a ton of it. Although it would probably make a good and unique gift for sure.

[Cole_Robbie]

Prune Verte would make an interesting ketchup or green sauce. It is a GWR with a low water content.

[beachykeen]

Originally Posted by wxcrawler

I only have room for about 8 plants in my raised beds. These are my favorites, and will be grown every year......

Sun Sugar
Big Beef
Black Cherry
Juane Flamme
Break O'Day
Yellow 1884 Pinkheart

That leaves me two spots to try new varieties. I haven't decided yet if I'll grow Cherokee Green again this year. It's very tempting, because it was excellent.

Lee

Hi from Mary in Claremore! I am growing break o'day this year, too. How does it produce for you?

Originally Posted by drew51

I make sauce so I am familiar with how to properly reduce a sauce. I'm growing two different green when ripe, so if needed I'll just use one.
I often remove seeds and gel before I put tomatoes in a food mill. Also freezing them can remove liquids fairly well. When thawing the water leeches out. A few tricks of the trade! One recipe calls for 5 pounds, one calls for 2 pounds, so I'm sure I'll have enough. The two pound recipe calls to add water.
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/j...up-recipe.html

From what I understand from friends making it, Malakhitovaya Shkatulka makes an super tasty ketchup, so I hope to just use that one. With Green Giant as a backup. Also the color is better with this one.

I will probably use above recipe as I really don't use ketchup very much at all. I don't want a ton of it. Although it would probably make a good and unique gift for sure.

Those sound like some great methods.

Green Giant, like many tomatoes, tastes a lot different when cooked, too. It's pretty mild when cooked (at least sliced on pizza), I think (and as you can imagine, slices get the pizza wet). I found a good Beefsteak tomato (actually, it was round and not large, but it was called Beefsteak--Peaceful Valley's) that held its flavor extremely well when cooked on pizza. I'll have to keep an eye out for more varieties like that. I wonder how they would do for sauce.

I've read that Malakhitovaya Shkatulka makes great green ketchup, too. I'm growing it, this year.

[BigVanVader]

Thanks for the freezing trick for removing water. I have actually used that method by accident because I freeze tomatoes whole often, just never connected the two.

[Yak54]

Making it back from previous years garden favorites for 2016 are Stump of the World, Sweet Ozark Orange, Brandywine Cowlicks, Riesentraube, and Momotaro. Plus 6 "new to me" varieties for a total of 22 tomato plants.

[Kazedwards]

I'm growing all of these again this year. Stupice I didn't grow last year but did the year before.
Brandywine, Cowlick's- great taste
Goose Creek- great taste and decent production
Siletz- good taste as long as it's hot out, but the best production last year
Stupice- It's a great snacker for in the garden. Good tasting cherry/grape


-Zach

[Lindalana]

Repeats from last years, excluding cherries which I mostly grow for give away rest of my very favorite


Altaiskiy Urozhajnij
Black Magic
Black magic
Byiskaya roza
Chudo zemli
Chilikskie
Detsikas
Guido
Galina Red
Gloria
Helsing ★★★★★★★★ blues
Indian stripe rl
IS PL
klein early
koroleva
Mama Alla
Mom's heart
Mikhalych
Mayo delight
Noire charbonneus
Orange strawberry
Pink, mine
Petrusha ogorodnik
raspberry giant
Russian queen
Sereginy
Shirley S
Terhune
tsarskiy lubimets
Tsar kolokol
Serbian oxheart
wild fred
Yellow clusters-
VB Russia
1884 purple
Blush
Pravda
sprite
HHHS
gardeners delight
black vernissage
riesentraube
yellow cherry
black cherry
medovaya kaplya
peacevine
chocolate cherry
sungold
detskiy sladkiy
carbon copy
isis candy

[roper2008]

Originally Posted by AlittleSalt

There was one tomato we grew here 2015 that I honestly didn't think was going to be all that impressive. I'm very glad that I was wrong. Pink Ping Pong is a funny name, but it has a really good taste - at least when grown during record rainfall followed by 100+F Texas humid heat. I would call the taste, slightly spicy and excitingly cool. There's you a different way to describe taste.

I will grow it Spring/Summer 2016 and Summer/Fall 2016 and again in Spring/Summer 2017. This variety went through hell and produced a very good tasting product. It earned its spot in our garden.

I decide last minute to grow this one. It was from a 2011 seed swap. It's a pretty
plant. Hopefully I have the correct variety.

I have a packet of Earl's Faux that's on my desk staring at me. It is from a 2009 sase
here on tomatoville from DuckCreekFarms. I will grow a plant next year.