Spitters

[ginger2778]

I wanted to start a new spitters thread to see what everyone can't stand lately.
I just tried yellow pear this year and it is the WORST waste of garden space ever

Honorable mention: San Marzano, not good in my garden.

What are some of your spitters?

[Tracydr]

Originally Posted by ginger2778

I wanted to start a new spitters thread to see what everyone can't stand lately.
I just tried yellow pear this year and it is the WORST waste of garden space ever

Honorable mention: San Marzano, not good in my garden.

What are some of your spitters?

Did you cook the San Marzano? It's really not an eating tomato.
I keep wondering why everyone grows yellow pear, I guess because it's so cute. Every time I see a list like this it's the first tomato on here and most frequently listed.
Maybe a right of passage?
To be honest, I started some yellow pear plants the first year growing tomatoes, found out how universally unpopular they were and planted them in the worst spot in my garden. Ended up not getting a single pear tomato to even taste. So I have no idea what they taste like.
I'm trying San Marzano for the first time this year, thanks to a very generous T-Ville member, but if it's like other true pastes, I wouldn't bother even tasting it until its cooked into a nice sauce. Striped Roman is like that for me. Not good fresh, at all. Fantastic as a sauce tomato.

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. I sometimes wonder if the impressions made in my mind by the yellow pears is the reason I developed such an enthusiasm for growing tomatoes. I had no gardeners in my family, but I can't remember not having a garden as a child and adult.

The closest thing I can identify as a spitter would be the Juliet hybrid. They do not impress me by taste, but our daughter loves them and her friends she shares with also love them. Fortunately they are super productive from spring into fall and make a very decent cooking tomato. For some reason, their taste does improve with the fall crop.

Ted

[ginger2778]

Haven't tried San Marzano cooked, but I usually make any group of tomatoes into sauce, and it comes out great, so I don't think I will try to grow them again.
I got interested in yellow pear when I saw that it was sweet according to descriptions at several seed supply companys, and when I saw it listed in Carolyn's book.It was very mushy.
In my garden Cherokee Purple is bland, but Green zebra is sweet and complex. Go Figure!

[cornbreadlouie]

Oh, come on. Yellow pear isn't THAT bad. Sure, it's a little bland, but there's not really any "off" flavors that develop. They do grow like weeds though.

Banana legs is the only one I grew last year that was entirely relegated to salsa and sauce duty. Some very non-tomatoey flavors going on in that tomato. Very pretty and extremely productive though. I really want to use it in a couple breeding projects.

[Skaggydog]

I ate at a salid bar just outside of Denver a few yaers back and I thought every vegetable there was a spitter. Soil and water can have a big affect on how things taste.

[gssgarden]

Sugary.....eeewwww......! Almost pulled the plant!!

Greg

[gssgarden]

oh...and Green Zebra!!

Greg

[Tormato]

For me, Yellow Pear isn't a spitter. It belongs in the other category in this thread...

http://www.tomatoville.com/showthread.php?t=3861

[Bladefan]

Yellow pear was not good for me either... one that was excellent though and looks just like yellow pear was Juane Coeur de Pigeon...

[ginger2778]

Originally Posted by Tormato

For me, Yellow Pear isn't a spitter. It belongs in the other category in this thread...

http://www.tomatoville.com/showthread.php?t=3861

It's the TEXTURE, GROSS!!!

[Tracydr]

If you're finding Cherokee Purple bland, you might try cutting back on the water. It seems like the people who haven't liked Cherokee Purple are the few whove grown it in a wet, rainy season.
also might account for the mushiness in the yellow pears.

[puzzley]

Hands down the worst tomato I ever raised was orange fleshed purple smudge. Pretty to look at, but absolutely a spitter. Just terrible, bland, no true tomato taste, mealy....

[celerystalksmidnite]

yellow pear, for sure. though plenty of people I've given them to have loved them. *to be fair, I grew them in a pot, which might have contributed to some of the taste/texture issues I had with it.

some varieties, it's a percentage (and probably has everything to do with growing conditions). one or a few good ones, and the rest are terrible:

green zebra, aunt ruby's gg, green giant - the only green I've liked in Texas is Lime Green Salad; love that little guy. I want to like green tomatoes. I really do.
orange strawberry - one delicious fruit, the rest inedible
pineapple - produced one mild-but-good tomato then loads of inedible, mealy fruit
black prince - the same weird off flavor I find in green zebra. like sour okra.
costoluto genovese - needs to stick to the cooking pot

[ginger2778]

Originally Posted by Tracydr

If you're finding Cherokee Purple bland, you might try cutting back on the water. It seems like the people who haven't liked Cherokee Purple are the few whove grown it in a wet, rainy season.
also might account for the mushiness in the yellow pears.

I might give CP another try. I grew the yellow pear in an earthbox, and the theory is you can't overwater it.I gave a few YP to someone else to grow, and he said it ws mushy too. Maybe it's the strain I got?
Good suggestion though.
Green zebra is never sour for me, I have grown it for 7 years.