Spitters

I think it is interesting that many folks find both Stupice and Early Wonder to be spitters. Since both are "early" varieties, it could be true that it simply takes time for the fruit of the vine to develop flavor. I grow Fourth Of July as an early variety (55 days) and the first fruits don't have much flavor. As the season progress's and production increases and average hours of sunlight increases along with average ambient temps; the tomato flavors of my early varieties improve. I'm wondering if it may be unreasonable to expect truly early varieties to also have good taste.

A couple of years ago, "one of the earls" grew an early variety named Harnas. He reported it to be the earliest producer in his huge planting that year with medium sized fruit. He also reported the fruit to have excellent flavor comparable to longer season varieties. I'm growing it this year and I think it will be the earliest producer in my garden. I'm really anxious to taste it for comparison with other early varieties.

Ted

[janezee]

We usually are wearing winter coats and hats to the fireworks on the 4th, and 'summer'
arrives about two weeks later. Our early tomatoes are mealy.
Nothing tastes good until it gets hotter.

j

[remy]

Originally Posted by tedln

Someone mentioned they don't like the texture of yellow pear. It reminded me of the Black Krim tomatoes I grew last year. The taste of the Black Krims was really good, but they had the texture of soft jello. Someone called their texture buttery instead of mushy. They were spitters for me because I couldn't stand the texture. I gave all of them away and other people really enjoyed them.
Ted

I know what you mean! I call it creamy. It is not the same thing as mushy. I grew Ashleigh, and it was like that. The actual flavor was fantastic, but I do not like creamy tomatoes.

The worst tomato experience for me has to have been Early Girl. I grew it a long time ago in my first tomato garden. I was so disappointed. I thought the tomatoes out of my garden were going to taste great. I soon found out I had I wanted heirlooms and had to grow them from seed.
Second place goes to Juliet, hard grape tomatoes with incredibly tough skin.
REmy

[stonysoilseeds]

to me it was amish paste, old german very late and hollow , green zebra on the waiting list is tiffen mennonite.. i am trying many new varities this year to replace the above

[stonysoilseeds]

ted stupice will always be a keeper for me i wasnt able to set them out until last week of june and had ripe tomatoes 2 weeks earlier than everything else besides the sungold they were my best selling tomato at my local farmers market and the yield was tremendous... the stupice plants liked me so much i started to think i might have some czechslovokian heritage in my blood lol

[babice]

Originally Posted by tedln

I've never intentionally grown yellow pear tomatoes, but as a child we had a lot of vacant lots in our neighborhood. The yellow pear tomatoes grew wild like weeds in the vacant lots. I seem to remember a very good pleasant taste from the little pears...

Reading this (above) and some of the other comments about the yellow pear makes me wonder if it just likes abuse, so-to-speak. This year I don't have yellow pear in my roundup of seeds I'm growing so mehbe I should add them to my seed list to buy for next year and be the next TV'ian to go thru initiation and try these. Mehbe I should try just planting them over on the Southern side of my house and letting them be. 'Course, I could always still buy some seeds for this year...Hmmm....

[mike5953]

I tried the german heirloom cherry "Besser" from Heirloom Seeds a few years back, and it was the closest thing I've ever grown to a "spitter".
While I don't remember the taste being all that bad, the skin was the toughest I've ever encountered on a tomato before.
It was quite reminiscent of Saran Wrap.

[arivaraci]

Grew a jelly-bean plant last year, and no one here would eat those tough little yuks!

[jennifer28]

oh yeah, my neighbor grew some of those jelly beans. I agree with you, those were some spitters.

[cornbreadlouie]

Originally Posted by babice

Reading this (above) and some of the other comments about the yellow pear makes me wonder if it just likes abuse, so-to-speak. This year I don't have yellow pear in my roundup of seeds I'm growing so mehbe I should add them to my seed list to buy for next year and be the next TV'ian to go thru initiation and try these. Mehbe I should try just planting them over on the Southern side of my house and letting them be. 'Course, I could always still buy some seeds for this year...Hmmm....

If you want some yellow pear seeds for this year, I will gladly send you some of the ones I saved last year. Just PM me your address. Not a general offer, unless you really want to try it. It's a very productive plant.

[jennifer28]

Well several people here prefer other small yellow tomatoes over the yellow pear, but I am growing them this year for sentimental reasons. Plus, I actually like them and don't consider them spitters. The children at my school like them because of their shape and just the tininess of them. Makes them very easy to snack on. I recommend them if you have younger children. It's a good way to get them to eat veggies, kind of like when I read "green eggs and ham" when I was little and I wouldn't drink my milk after that unless my mother put green food coloring in it for me, LOL

I grew some red Tumbling Tom and Yellow Tumbling Tom tomatoes last year in hay bales to see if the hay bale method would work. The tomatoes are usually displayed in photos as hanging basket tomatoes. They were extremely productive and very pretty, but they tasted horrible. I believe the yellow tasted better than the red, but neither tasted like a tomato.

Ted

[ginger2778]

Originally Posted by babice

Reading this (above) and some of the other comments about the yellow pear makes me wonder if it just likes abuse, so-to-speak. This year I don't have yellow pear in my roundup of seeds I'm growing so mehbe I should add them to my seed list to buy for next year and be the next TV'ian to go thru initiation and try these. Mehbe I should try just planting them over on the Southern side of my house and letting them be. 'Course, I could always still buy some seeds for this year...Hmmm....

My advice to you Babice is DON'T DO IT! It's a waste of good garden space, and it takes up too much space because it grows like a weed.

[babice]

Originally Posted by ginger2778

My advice to you Babice is DON'T DO IT! It's a waste of good garden space, and it takes up too much space because it grows like a weed.

Okey dokey ginger! You're right. I really don't have the room for something like that will grow like that.

cornbreadlouie - that's SO incredibly kind of you to offer that! Thank you so much! I am gonna learn from the crowd and just not worry about trying this one out. I'm getting less hard-headed in my old(er) age!

[ginger2778]

Originally Posted by babice

Okey dokey ginger! You're right. I really don't have the room for something like that will grow like that.

cornbreadlouie - that's SO incredibly kind of you to offer that! Thank you so much! I am gonna learn from the crowd and just not worry about trying this one out. I'm getting less hard-headed in my old(er) age!

I can relate to older age. When did I turn into Maam?