Repeats
Lemon Boy
Saucey
Beaver Lodge Plum
Taxi
Black Krim
Carbon
Legend

New trials
Kellogg's Breakfast
Amana
Black Plum
San Marzano
Gold Medal
Pruden's Purple
Winsall

I'm growing:
Big Zac
Black Prince
Bloody Butcher
Cherokee Purple
Emmy
Omar's Lebanese
Paul Robeson
Rose
Suncherry
Sungold
Sweetie
Yellow Perfection

I grew "Bloody Butcher" last year and ended up with a delicious yellow/orange tomato that was about 2 oz. I'm hoping to get the same results this year. The place I bought the seeds from had them on special and not carrying them this year.

Tom8olvr - I had 22 varieties last year and it was so wet here in New England that the tomatoes did not do well. I am going to stick with 12 tomatoes and hope for better weather this growing season.

I'm growing Purple tomatoes this summer, Greens, and BiColours to find my favorites ...

Paste:
Smokey Mountain
Opalka

Purple:
Pruden's Purple
Cherokee Purple
Eva Purple Ball
Purple Calabash
Aunt Ginny's Purple
Black Bear (if I can find it, might be a black instead of purple??)

Green:
Cherokee Green
Absinthe
Green Zebra
Green Pineapple
Moldovan Green
Aunt Ruby's German Green
Malakhitovaya Shkatulka (If I can find it)

BiColour/Striped:
Ananas Noir
Striped German
Pineapple
Northern Lights
Hillbilly
Orange Russian 117
Berkeley Tie Dye Pink
Virginia Sweets (if I can find it)
Oaxacan Jewel
Tie Dye (trading for)
Black and Brown Boar (if I can find it)
Tiger Paw (if I can find it)

Cherry Tomato: Isis Candy (also bicolour)

I'd appreciate any suggestions/comments :)

So far my list for 2012 is:

Malakhitovaya Shkatulka Tomato
Black Krim Tomatoes
Rutgers Tomatoes
Red Cherry Tomatoes
Little White Rabbit Tomatoes

All are new varieties for me, so I'll probably have to ask questions throughout this season :)

My list although looking at others I now have to try sungold...

Cherry tomatoes
Sweet 100 *Repeat love them*
Sweetie
Placero
Black Cherry

Others
Lemon Boy *Repeat lasted way into the hot summer here and the taste was good and unique*

Golden Monarch (trying to see if I like it better than Lemon Boy and the production levels)

Stupice
Black krim
Cherokee Purple
Reinstraube
Caro Rich
Brandywine *Repeat*
Roma *repeat*

Like many of you, I had a miserable year last year with my 12 store bought plants. Out of the 12 plants, I got 6 tomatoes. I put them out too late and the summer just fried them to a crisp. So this year I'm starting out with a super-early crop and trying starting my plants from seed so I can choose some better varieties.

Super-Early
Early Girl
Silvery Fir Tree

Early
Jetstar
Black Cherry(if I can find someone to trade)
Anna Russian(if I can find someone to trade)

Main-season
Rosso Sicilian
Super Sioux(if I can find someone to trade)

Late
Cherokee Purple or Arkansas Traveler(if I can find someone to trade)
Homestead(if I can find someone to trade)

Money has gotten really tight around here, so I've been moving over to mostly heirloom seeds so I can at least collect the seeds at the end of the season.

Danny, I have Anna Russian, Black Cherry, Super Sioux, Cherokee Purple, and Homestead. I'd be happy to share these seeds with you for a SASBE. Feel free to email me.

1 Sungold F1
1 Red Star
1 Bloody Butcher
1 Yellow Submarine
1 Mexico Midget
2 Rutgers
2 Siberian Pink Honey
3 Pink Brandywine
3 Black from Tula
3 Stump of the world
3 Red Barn
3 Hege German Pink
3 Tidwell german

Ananas Noire
Black Krim
Brandywine (Sudduth's)
Chocolate Stripes
Delicious
Green Zebra
Kazachka
Matina
Monkey Ass
Moon Glow
Old German
Orange Fleshed Purple Smudge
Oxheart
Red Brandywine
Sandul Moldovan
Snowberry Cherry
Spudakee
Yellow Brandywine

All of your lists are really awe-inspiring!

I haven't gardened for several years so I'm easing back into things with smart pot and only three varieties from Park Seed:

Brandywine
Tomatoberry
Container Choice hybrid

Can anyone suggest one more variety that a midsize juict tomato with high acid flavor? Thanks.

I have started these;
Ferris Wheel
Delicious
Reif Red Heart
Black Seaman
Persimmon
Russian Persimmon
Monomakht's Hat
Brandwine Suddeth
Eva Purple Ball
Black Cherry
Bloody Butcher
Better Boy
Moravsky Div
Fabulous
Rozalinda
Rutgers
Baxter Bush

Im scaling back the number of varieties I will grow this year.

Brandywine OTV
Brandywine suddeths
Italian heirloom
black krim
Neves Azorean Red
Julia Child
Marianna's Peace
Moscow
Stripped Roman
Amana Orange
Red horizon/rostova
Kimberly
Trip L crop
german giant
cherokee purple

Varieties I grew last year that won't make the cut:

Black
Paul Robeson
Dagma's perfection
Big Rainbow
Black zebra
green zebra
amish paste
pineapple
lucky cross
san marzano
vintage wine
elmers old german
old german
clint eastwoods roudy red
bulls heart
brandywine red
boxcar willie
big red
cherokee green
costoluto genovese
persimmon
azoychka
mortgage lifter
and an Unknown black

I have to revise mine down to Black Krim, Cherokee Purple, San Marzano. I managed to kill my Brandywines and Isis Candy. Dang overwatered it.

Every year I'm always disappointed that I don't plant more paste tomatoes. It seems most of my tomatoes go into canning, so I've decided to grow paste types exclusively. So more Opalkas basically. If I want a slicing or beefsteak, I'll buy one from the Farmer's market. But make no mistake, there is nothing wrong with eating an Opalka fresh.

I have a tiny garden, space enough for 5 or 6 plants:

Opalka (3 plants)
Polish Linguisa (1)
Margherita (1)
Speckled Roman (1)

Great choices everyone!
This year i am going to be trying a bunch of new varieties along with my usual's.

Here we go:

***(First Time being grown)

Sungold
Black Cherry
Fox Cherry ***
Chadwick cherry ***
yellow pear
Black Krim
Black From Tula ***
Gary O'Sena
KBX
Woodle Orange ***
Moonglow
Crnkovic Yugoslavian
Better Boy ***
Eva Purple Ball
Anna Russian
Campari
Sausage ***
Costoluto Genovese ***
Riesentraube
Pink Brandywine
Aunt Rubys German Green
Striped Roman
Goose Creek
Kosovo
San Marzano
Neves Azorean Red
Ficarazzi***
Danas Dusky Rose
Giant Belgium ***
Romeo Roma ***
Aunt Rubys German Green Cherry ***
Kalmans Hungarian Pink

I am sure i will start some more seeds in the next few days, even though i do not have enough room as it is.

Hope everyone has a great growing season!

Big Beef
Better Boy
Brandy Boy
Celebrity
Cherokee Purple
Early Girl
Mortgage Lifter
Pruden's Purple
Roma VFN
Rutgers
Supersteak

Nothing too fancy and almost ho-hum, but these have performed well for me year in and year out. I've found most heirlooms to be less tolerant to disease and they don't have near the amount of production as hybrids. My standards must not be too high regarding taste, but most anything I grow, regardless of the variety, always tastes better than what can be bought at a grocery store or restaurant. There are a few heirlooms on my list that can't be denied a grow spot every year. Brandywine used to be one of them, but Brandy Boy has delivered the final knock out punch. After growing both of them side by side for several years in a row, I decided Brandywine isn't worth the trouble.

The last batch of seed I ordered arrived today, so now the madness officially starts. I spend hours & hours over the winter trying to narrow my list down to a reasonable number.
This is what will be started for this year:

Aunt Gertie's Gold
Kellog's Breakfast
Jumbo Jim Orange
German Johnson
Kosovo
Marvel Striped
Jap Trifele Black
Black from Tula
Yellow Pear
Sun Gold
Arkansas Traveler
Black Cherry
Green Doctors
Matt's Wild Cherry
Snow White
Indigo Rose
Eva Purple Ball
Striped Stuffer
Charlie Chaplin

The last 3 I've not grown before & were either on sale or free. I'm a big fan of sweet cherry types & have most colors of them covered. ;)

Here's to a good growing season!

I haven't posted on this forum before, but posting this year's list of tomatoes seems like a good way to start.

Repeats:
Celebrity
Brandywine
Persimmon

New to me:
Black from Tula
Striped German
Peacevine Cherry
Park's Whopper

I have a lot of trouble with root knot nematodes, so I'm trying to graft the heirlooms onto Celebrity (VFN) as rootstock. My grafts are still alive, so far, but I have ungrafted plants as backup in case the grafts fall apart!

For sure-

Grandma Mary's
Amish Paste
Opalka
Paul Robeson
Luci
Sungold
Blackcherry
Celebrity

Maybe- Have seed but not space...

Oregon Spring
Beefsteak
Prudens Purple
Brandywine

I am going to try a BUNCH of new-to-me things this year and going for the crazy colors just because.

* new to me

From my Sis:

Tiguna*- her friend brought the seed from Paris. I am growing from seed she saved from this ruffled tomato last year- has anyone ever heard of this tomato?
Amana Orange

From Kenyon Organics:

Violet Jasper*
Mortgage Lifter Bi-Color (have only grown ML in the past)
Indigo Rose*
Red Zebra*
Principe Borghese*

From Wild Boar Farms:

Pink Boar*
Green Zebra Cherry*
Sweet Carneros Pink*
Pork Chop*
Beauty King*
Berkley Tie Dye*
Pink Berkley Tie Dye*
Brad's Black Heart*
Red Boar*

I have Early Girl and Black Krim plants that need to start growing in the greenhouse at work.

And somewhere I need to get some Sungold seed because that one is always a must-have!

Trying so hard to get a balance of darks, yellows/bicolors, pinks, reds, pastes, and cherries. Looking over this list though, I'm thinking maybe it needs another red or two, LOL. Too late now, they're already sown.

Here is my 2012 grow list:

Amish Paste
Black Cherry
Box Car Willie (new for me)
Carbon (new for me)
Caspian Pink
Chocolate Stripes (new for me)
Dana's Dusky Rose (new for me)
Earl's Faux
Earl of Edgecomb (new for me)
Gold Medal
Marvel Stripe (new for me)
Matt's Wild Cherry (new for me)
Neves Azorean Red
Rainy's Maltese
Romeo Paste (new for me)
Striped German
Stump of the World (new for me)
Tasmanian Chocolate (new for me)

Hoping for a better tomato year this year! Last year, the spring was so cold and wet that all of my wintersown tomatoes germinated a month later than usual and were so tiny by the time it was safe to plant out, that I ended up buying plants at a local nursery, and even then barely had any ripe ones by the first frost. Very disappointing! Barely had enough to can a couple of batches of salsa, and tomato sauce.

Bonnie

I only have room for 4 plants, so here is my list:

Have grown before with good production, flavor:

Big Zac (lots of huge red, tasty tomatoes but were kind of ugly--I don't care, taste comes first)

Brandy Boy (very nice productive, large--I find them larger than Burpee claims--pinkish red tomatoes with lots of flavor)

Hungarian Heart (beautiful, large, tasty, pink oxheart-type fruit--every one last year was over a pound--that were extremely productive in last year's growing season, which I found to be the worst ever)

New to me:

Porterhouse by Burpee (I hope this one produces the one to four pound fruit they promise and tastes good--we'll see!)

I like large tomatoes for salad and sandwiches and I've tried Mortgage Lifter which I found to be very "bland" and I hope Porterhouse will be a better replacement.

I am not a big tomato person but my mother ia so she chose big beef. I chose brandy wine sweet 100s yellow pear and green zebra. Oh and san marzano for sauce!

Sioux
Cherokee Purple
Yellow 1884 Pinkheart
Grandma Suzy's Beefsteak
Royal Hillbilly
Tommy Toe cherry

This is my second year to grow tomatoes and the only ones on this list that I grew last year were Cherokee Purple and Sioux. The Sioux did great, CP only made a few tomatoes that got eaten by caterpillars. But everyone says it's so good, I decided to give it another chance.

This year's batch:

Northern Lights
Black from Tula
Isis Candy Cherry
Black Prince
Stupice
Gruschovka
Lucky Cross (Tomatofest bonus this year)

Sungold
Black Cherry
Yellow Pear
SuperSweet100
Martina's Roma
Stupice
Bloody Butcher
Black Krim
Cherokee Purple
Green Zebra
Rose
Mountain Fresh Plus

Started seed for:

Chocolate Stripes
San Marzaon Redorta
Homer Fikes Yellow Oxheart
Stupice
Super sweet 100's
Sungold
Dagma's Perfection

Wish I had more room

Celebrity (2 plants) - for disease resistance...just in case.
Cherokee Green - amazing flavor!
Cherokee Purple - not good last year. Want to give it another shot.
Pruden's Purple - new to me this season
Sandul Moldovan - great flavor.
Marion - new to me this season.
Marglobe - new to me this season.
Sun Gold (2 plants)- great flavor. Favorite of my 3 year old.
Kellogg's Breakfast (2 plants) - Father's favorite. Excellent flavor!

Kim

Here is a link that might be useful: My Garden

This is the temporary list :)
Community Garden-First Fruits
RL leaved mostly
SPRAWLING:
Anmore Dewdrop
Gartenperle
Gold Nugget
Green Sausage
Grunt's Thai Pink Egg
Koralik Cherry
Whippersnapper

DWARF: some are PL in this list
Beryl Beauty
Coastal Pride Orange
Coastal Pride Red
Demidov
Dwarf Stone
Emerald Giant
Jade Beauty
Micro Tom
Mr.Snow
New Big Dwarf
Rosella Purple
Scoreby Dwarf
Summertime Gold
Summertime Green
Tasmanian Chocolate
Totem
Utynok
Wild Fred
Windowbox Roma
Yellow Pygmy

DETERMINATE:
Bursztyn
Copper River
Farthest North
Halms Gelbe
Kamatis Tagalog
Kimberly
Moldovan Green

STORAGE:

Lutescent

BICOLOR:
Armenian
Beauty Queen
Big Rainbow
Carmella's Yellow Stripes
Deweese Streaked
Gajo de Melon
Golden Cherokee
Hazel Mae
Isis Candy
Pearl�s Yellow Pink

PASTE:
Amish Paste
Baylor Paste
Carol Chyko�s Big Paste
Cow's Tit (Goat Bag)
Cream Sausage
Dad�s Barber Paste
Giant Italian Pear
Heidi
Hog's Heart
Howard German
Jersey Devil
Jersey Giant
Long Tom
Martino�s Roma
Opalka
Pittman Valley Plum
Principe Borghese
Rocky
Rosalies�s Large Paste
San Marzano
Sarnowski Polish Plum
Sausage
Shannon�s Paste
Sheboygan
Uncle Charlie's Italian Pear
Uncle Steve's Paste
Worley
Wuhib

DARK:
Black Cherry
Black Pepper
Black Star
Brown Berry
CP
CP x BW
CP x Bradley
Indian Stripe
Large Barred Boar
Pierce�s Pride

GREEN
Green Bombs
Green Grape
Green Thumb
Green Velvet
Malakhitovaya Shkatulka

PINK:
Hege German Pink
Mazarini
Ohio Van Wert
Pink Gaetano
Pink Ping Pong
Portugal Monster
Tsar�d Royal Gift
Winsall

ORANGE
AAA Sweet Solano
Amana Orange
Angora Orange
Djena Lee�s Golden Girl
Golden Sunray
Kentucky Beefsteak
Orange Minsk
Persimmon
Sweet Orange
Verna Orange

YELLOW:
Casey's Pure Yellow
Egg Yolk
Furry Yellow Hog
Giant Belgium
Porkchop
Sweet Beverley
Djena Lee�s Golden Girl

RED:
4th of July
Amish Old Red
Angelo�s Red
Ashleigh
Backfield
BW-Landis
Cuostralee
Goose Creek
Phil�s Fantastic
Wild Bill�s Big Red

WHITE:
Powers Heirloom
White Beauty
White Queen
White Tomesol
White Wonder

ABC Potato Leaf
Adam1
African Queen
Amazing Grace
Amazon Chocolate
Amish Potato Leaf
Aunt Gertie's Gold
Aunt Ginny�s Purple
Babywine
Barlow Jap
Beduin
Belle Arlesienne
Ben Gantz
Betalux
Big Cheef
Big German Pink
Big Mac
Bilders
Black Elephant
Black Krim(var)
Black Pear
Black Sea Man
Bloody Butcher
Blue Ridge Mountain
Blushing
Boar�s Hoof
Boondocks
Brandysweet Plum
Brandywine Apricot (Yellow)
Brandywine Black-PL
Brandywine Cherry
Brandywine Cowlick�s
Brandywine Joyce�s
Brandywine OTV
Brandywine Pink
Brandywine Pink-Sudduth
Brandywine X Stupice F3
Brandywine Yellow Platfoot
Brianna
Butterworth�s
Cabin
Casey�s Pure Yellow
Cherokee Purple
Cheetham�s
Chianti Rose
Cleota Pink
Concrete Red
Cooper�s Special
Depp's Pink Firefly
Earl�s Faux
Ed�s Millenium
Elbe
Eli
English Rose
F.H.Crow
Flathead Pink
Flathead Orange "Popeye"
Fritz Ackerman
Galina�s Yellow
Gary O�Sena
Gary Stayley�s-C
German Johnson
German Pink
German Potato Leaf
German Queen
Glacier
Gogosha
Grandfather Ashlock
Grandpa Charlie
Grandpa Willie
Grant County Pink
Green Giant
Grub�s Mystery Green
Grub�s X Shannon�s
Guker�s Special
Harry Spudleaf
Henry Field
Heshpole
Hillbilly Potato Leaf
Indiana Heirloom
Italian Tree
Japanese Trefele Black
Jeff Davis
Julia Child
KBX
Kentucky
Kentucky Pink Stamper
Kentucky Plate
Kimberley
Kotlas
Large Mennonite
Ledoux Special
Lenny & Gracie Kentucky Heirloom
Lillian�s Yellow
Limbaugh�s Potato Top
Lincoln Adams
Linda�s Faux
Little Black
Little Lucky Heart
Liz Birt
Lucky Cross
Magnus
Malinowy Ozarowski
Malinowy Warzarski
Marianna�s Peace
Matina
Medovaya Kaplya
Moravsky Div
Missouri Pink Love Apple
Monk
Mrs. Benson
Mrs. Houseworth
Mt. Olive
Mule Team
Ola Polka
Old German
Olena Ukranian
Pervaya Lyubov
Pink Shekel
Polish "C"-pink
Polish (Ellis)
Pruden�s Purple
Purple Haze
Purple Perfect
Red Baron
Russian Apple Tree
Shah/Mikado
Slava
Soldacki
Spark�s Yellow
Spudakee
Spudalucie
Spudatula
Spudayellow Strawberry
Spudleaf 117
Stump of the World
Stump x Bear Claw
Stupice
Stuse
Summer Cider
Syrian Potato Leaf
Szach
Tater Kin
Ten Foot Large Red Pole
Tennessee Heirloom
Terhune
Throwback Potato Leaf Plum
Toedebusch Pink
Turks Muts
Uncle Blaine�s Pink Beefsteak
Uncle Mark Bagby�s
Victoria
Vintage Wine
Vorlon
Wanda�s Potato Top
Watermelon Beefsteak
Wayahead
Yellow Perfection
Yellow Submarine

Backyard
42 Days

Amish Orange

Amish Salad

Ananas Noire

Anna Aasa

Aunt Lou's Underground R.R.

Azoychka

Big Cheef

Big Mac

Big Rainbow

Big White Pink Stripe

Black Cherry

Honkin' Big Black Cherry

Blue Ridge Mountain

Brandywine Cherry

Brandywine Yellow

Chocolate Cherry

Chocolate Stripes

Copia

Cuban Black

Deweese Streaked

Earlie Annie

Earl�s Green

Elberta Girl

Eli

Emerald Apple

Farmer Reds

Fireworks II

First Early

Georgia Streak

Germaid Red

German Striped

Giant Belgium

Grandfather Ashlock

Green Giant

Guido

Hillbilly

Holy Grail

Hoy

Indian River

Lucky Cross

Mammoth German Gold

Marmande

Marvel Stripe

Northern Lights

Novikov�s Giant

Oaxacan Jewel

Old German

Omar�s Lebanese

Orange Russian 117

Pearly Pink

Persimmon

Pineapple

Red Barn

Red Wolf

Rose De Berne

Soldocki

Spudatula

Sweet Beverley

Tater Kin

Tlacolula

Ukranian Pear

VA Sweets

Victoria

Watermelon Beefsteak

Zarnista

100 year old varieties-historical section
X1884
Acme 1875
XAmish Paste 1870
Aristocrat 1893
Avon Early 1921 still old and needed
XBeauty 1886
XBrandywine 1885
XBuckeye State 1895
Canada Victor 1874
Cedar Hill 1876
Conqueror 1876
Cook�s Favorite 1876
XCrimson Cushion 1894 (or earlier)
Dwarf Champion 1894 (or earlier)
XDwarf Stone 1902
XEarliana 1900
Early Large Red 1700�s
Early Michigan 1889
Early Red Smooth 1876
Early Ruby 1894 (or earlier)
XElbe 1889
Essex Early Hybrid 1881
Favorite 1883
Fejee Island 1876
Ferris Wheel 1898
Ferry's Improved 1868
General Grant 1871
Globe 1906
XGold Ball 1892
Golden Sunrise 1894 (or earlier)
XGolden Queen 1886
Hathaway�s Excelsior 1876
XHillbilly early 1900�s
XHonor Bright (Lutescent) 1897
Ignotum 1894 (or earlier)
XJeff Davis ?
XLumpy Red 1900's
XMagnus 1900
Matchless 1901
Mikado 1889
XMissouri Pink Love Apple 1866
New Stone 1889
XParagon 1870
Peach 1885
Perfection 1880
XPicardy 1890
XPolish 1800�s
XPonderosa 1894 (or earlier)
President Garfield 1884
Red Pear 1872
XShah (yellow Mikado sport) 1894 (or earlier) we will see what this looks like, supposed to be extinct
XSoldaki early 1900�s
XStone 1885
Table Queen 1894 (or earlier)
The Lorrilard 1894 (or earlier)
Tilden 1868
Trophy 1872
Turk's Turban 1880
Valencia Cluster 1876
XWatermelon Beefsteak 1800�s

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Just picked up my seedlings at Tomatomania this morning. This year I'm growing:

Sungold - I grow this every year. The most prolific in my garden.
Sunsugar - new to me
Green Zebra - grew this 2 years ago very successfully
Pineapple - new to me
Kellogg's Breakfast - new to me

A short list compared to some of you, but I'm hoping for decent production of tasty tomatoes!

My Repeats:
German Johnson
Aunt Ruby's German Green
Principe Borghese (I'm giving this a second trial year for a fair shot - last year I planted it in an iffy spot and neglected it).

Trying new this year:
San Marzano
Alicante
Bloody Butcher
Jaffa
Jubilee
Blodkopfchen
Watermelon Beefsteak
Longkeeper
Indigo Rose (starting for a friend but may grow if I have lots of starts)

I notice several of you are growing Old German, which is making me regret my decision not to - this is the first year in quite a while I am not. But, since I'm at capacity (I'll be packing 'em in as it is), I'll just have to live vicariously through your Old German enjoyment.

Wow, I'm relieved that I'm not the only one with a wide variety of tomatoes, actually compared to most of you I don't have that many. It makes me want to pick up some more. Here's what I'm starting from seeds this year:

Beefsteak
Black Krim (Rainbow Heirloom Mix)
Brandywine Pink (Rainbow Heirloom Mix)
Cherokee Purple
Coustralee (Rainbow Heirloom Mix)
Djena Lee's Golden Girl (Rainbow Heirloom Mix)
Endless Summer
Golden Mama (Best of Show Mix)
Golden Sunburst (Rainbow Heirloom Mix)
Green Sausage (Rainbow Heirloom Mix)
Honey Bunch (Best of Show Mix)
Mexico Midget
Orange Roma (Best of Show Mix)
Pineapple
Pink Slicer Hybrid (Best of Show Mix)
Rutgers
Snow White Cherry (Best of Show Mix)
Yellow Pear

And two others that I forgot to put on my seed list, I think some kind of beefsteak and steak sandwich. Some of the seeds came in mixed packets.

Last year I tried starting from seeds and managed to kill 90% of the seedlings on every step, until finally I either over-watered/over-fertilized/allowed it to rain too much and as the tomatoes began to ripen they turned black and rotted. Blossom end rot I think. The only tomatoes I got was a handful of yellow pear and they tasted terribly bland, I don;t know if it was because they were not doing well or if that is how they're supposed to taste.

Hopefully this year will do better, or at least kill the seedlings early enough to buy plants at the store. I am excited about the heirlooms, especially the pineapple.

So it was the yellow pear and not just me? Perhaps the yellow pear seedlings won't make it to my garden this year.

Well, after reading what you all are growing...makes my list seem a little annorexic.

Black Plumb
Brandy Boy
Cherokee Purple

New this year
Black Krim
Sungold.

oh, i have a tiny list too -
bloody butcher,
matina,
ferline,
sungold,
cherokee purple,
neve's azorean red
craigella

My List

garden peach
costoluto fiorentino
green sausage
japanese black trifle
sweet beverly
orange icicle
missouri pink love apple
great white
lemon giant
sweet solano
paul robeson
purple dog creek
foxy lady
druzba
carmello
berkley tie dye
siberian

First time growing in my new raised beds! lets hope the harvest will be larger and tastier then last year.

Brandywine(not sure of variety)
Cherokee Purple
Virginia Sweets
Chocolate Cherry
Honeydrop Cherry

All saved seed from 2011 -- achieved a 98% germination rate. I always plant about 150% of what I need to make it to the garden, so I'll have extra this year (again).

Brandy Boy
Beefsteak
Persimmon
Pineapple
Sweet 100
Valencia
Golden Jubilee
Italian Heirloom
Mortgage Lifter
Purple Casbah
Black Russian
Big Boy
Brandywine
Black Krim

Love the lists...long and short!

This year for me:
Aunt Ruby's Green
Green Zebra
Brandywine yellow
Black from Tula
Black Giant
Carbon
German Johnson
Black Seaman
Pineapple
Moon glow
Plicer Vessy
Rossa Sicilian
Orange Banana
Amish Paste
Jersey Giant
Lemon Drop
Emmy
Yellow pear

I have to confess mine are all bought starts; I just don't have the set up for starting from seed and didn't take the time to change that this year. Maybe next. So my choices were a little limited, but here's my list:

Repeats:
San Marzano
Sun Gold
Sweet 100
Black Krim

New:
Hillbilly
Big Beef
Stupice
New Girl
Prudens Purple
Super San Marzano
Azoychika
Druzba

I'm not growing from seed yet, but here's what I got growing in my small garden (in addition to five pepper plants):

Black Cherry
Brandywine Pink
Cherokee Purple
Cow's Tit
Roma
San Marzano
Vinson Watts

The only one I've grown before was Roma, although I did have a standard Brandywine last year. I want this to be the last year I do Roma, depending on if my other paste tomatoes do well. Last year's Romas were susceptible to blossom end rot, which was partially kept at bay using a b-e-r spray. I also would like to get away from determinates and hybrids for pastes. And the flavor of Romas are just OK to me; but they're a good backup in case the others don't do well.

I didn't see Vinson Watts on anyone's list. It's from Kentucky, and developed for over 50 years. It's a flat pink beefsteak variety. I can already tell this is a robust plant that's really going to produce.

The Cow's Tit is a funny plant. The leaves are fluffy and the stems are growing in all sorts of wild directions. Is this normal for this plant?

I have a total of 17 plants this year. Next year the garden space will be complete, so I should be able to grow extra canning tomatoes. This year it's:

Opalka x6
Amish past
Indigo rose
Black cherry
Black from Tula
Ananas Noir
ARGG
Principe Borghese
Cuastralee
Kellogg's Breakfast
Pineapple

One Early Girl in a pot to hopefully get some earlier slicers.

I thought I had posted my list, but I can't find if, hope it is not a repeat, but now I have a question.
Delicious
Red Brandywine
Black Krim (my new favorite)
German Gold (my sisters farvorite)
Cherokee Purple
Belgian Giant (1st time)
St. Pierre. **My bad, I bought it on ebay (YES I have a problem!) as a paste tomato, well it is not, but does anyone have an opinion on them? they are doing great. blooms all over, but I wanted something for putting up and sauces.
and the ever popular volunteer cherry that comes back every year, and is our snaking tomato. This will be year three and if it stays true I will be a happy camper.

My info on Saint Pierre says it was used for commercial canning and processing. Apparently it's good for whole canning because it stays firm. 3-cell.

I haven't grown it yet, so that's all I know.

I was really intrigued by the snaking tomato until I realized it was most likely a mundane snacking tomato. You should save seeds so you don't have to worry about it not reappearing on its own. My volunteer grape didn't self-seed the year of the Late Blight and I was glad I'd saved seed the previous year.

O.K. the cat is out of the bag, my spelling is my (one of) weak spot. and I don't proof read very well.
No way would I keep a snaking tomato!! Yes this is the year we will keep some seeds. My sister is very happy because one came up by her composter, just hope the deer don't find it.

black cherry
sungold

brandywine
mountain fresh
black krim
cherokee purple
dionni
carolina gold
costoluto genevese
super san marzano
stump of the world
Pineapple

Yay, my first post! Had to join in on the fun.

Growing this year, mostly in Smart Pots and Earthboxes:
Note: * denotes my first time for this variety

1. Ananas Noire*
2. Paul Robeson
3. Pineapple
4. Big Beef*
5. Sungold*
6. Sweet Million*
7. Berkeley Pink Tie-Dye*
8. Megabite*
9. Cherokee Purple

Happy growing to all!

I did post before but it changed. Some I started didn't make it after attempting to harden off in a freak storm.

And I kept finding others I *HAD* to have. Others I'll plant if I find them are Gold Medal & Dr Wyches orange.

The new list:

Arkansas Traveler
Aunt Ruby's German Green.
Black Cherry
Black from Tula
Black Krim
Black Zebra
Burgandy Traveler
Carbon
Charlie Chaplin
Cherokee Green
Cherokee Purple Heart
Chocolate Stripes
Eva Purple Ball
Frank's Large Red
Grandma Viney's Y & P
Green Doctors
Green Doctors Frosted
Green Zebra
Hazel Mae
Hillbilly
Indigo Rose
JD's Special C-Tex
KBX
Kentucky Striped
Kosovo
Marianna's Peace
Matt's Wild Cherry
Medovaya Kaplya (Honey Drop)
Momotano
New Big Dwarf
Pineapple
Prue
Snow White
Striped Cavern
"Suprise" (an unknown dwarf from Craig LeHoullier)
Sun Gold
Sweet 100
Virginia Sweets
Wes

I was given plants in bulk by someone that's the main tomato guy locally so with certain varieties I have easily 10-15 plants.
I'm at around 200 plants. I think I went a bit overboard this year, lol.

Yellow Brandywine
Red Brandywine
Big Beef
Early Girl
Campari (seeds from store-bought tomatoes)
Starfire
Roma
Sweet 100