You may want to post this on the Tomato Forum. But I think for your area an early variety would be best. Determinates may work well for you too. I have a few extra tom seeds you can try if you're interested. Just let me know!

Abby

Best eating is entirely subjective other than Mr. Stripey is horrible ;-)

Sungolds (cherry sized tomato) are very popular and I love them.

For canning I really don't think taste matters as to my tastebuds they all taste the same after the canning process. Generally heavily seasoned when used too so...

When I used to can I went with the largest, meatiest varieties, more bang for the buck that way. Boiling, peeling and cutting a bunch of smaller tomatos just makes the process take longer. Neve's Azorean Red was one I liked for canning and fresh eating too. One slice would cover a burger bun and have extra sticking out on all sides. I have never seen Neves or Sungold as plants in a store though, you have to start from seed and mail order them.

I generally grow Better Boy and Brandywine for fresh eating. They're both fleshy and meaty enough to slice for sandwiches and burgers.

For canning I like Roma plum tomatoes (I like Roma's sliced up for salads as well).

Plant them out about mid-May, and watch the weather forecast. If lows are forecast in the 30's, you should cover them to protect them from possible frost. 9 years out of 10 you should be OK once June arrives.

Cheers,

Tim

I was disappointed with Better Boy as it produced a tough tomato. Brandywine tomatoes cracked heavily and the vine it produced was such a huge monster that even the Eiffel Tower that I constructed in the garden couldn't hold it up!

Last year I grew Mortgage Lifter and was very pleased with the size of the tomatoes, the flavor, ease of peeling, etc. All around good sandwich slice or cooking tomato. I'm hoping that I'll be able to find a few plants of this variety this year. My usual nursery for bedding plants, the Feed and Seed, went out of business but I'm hoping that my local nursery will have some of this variety. I've started seeds for Beefmaster, which I like. I also like German Johnson/German pink.

I agree that the Sungold cherry tomatoes are very sweet and delicious.

If you're dealing with a short season my suggestion would be Early Girls. quick, plentiful and tasty!!!!

Early Girls, geeze go over to the Tomato forum and ask Dr Male. She threatened to throw them at me

You want hybrid good taste, try Jetstar from Harris seeds, Rochester NY

Early Brandywine get your seeds from Vesseys in PEI

Paul Roberson is a browish tomato that does great as an early, Stupice as a cherry tomato OP/Heirloom
is a very nice flavor

A couple hundred miles south of London, Ont. I do a Rutgers Paste for soups and Catchup OP/Det./Heirloom