I had my first taste of this variety and I loved it! It has a really strong tomatoey taste to it. Can anybody reccomend other varieties that have a strong tomato taste like German Green?

*****

I think you mean Aunt Ruby's German Green.

The green when ripes I find not to be strong tasting but spicy and sweet. I love them.

My favorite one is Cherokee Green.

Others might include:

Green Giant
Dorothy's Green, aka Green
Lime Green Salad
Evergreen
Moldovan Green
Green Grape

......for starters

Carolyn

Thanks Carolyn. So all of these varieties that you have suggested have that sweet and spicy flavor? And what varieties in your opinion have a really strong tomato taste.

I grew Aunt Ruby's German Green and Cherokee Green next to each other last year. The ARGG came in a few days earlier and tasted really good. The Cherokee Green produced more and tasted even better to me.

I've grown Lime Green Salad two years in a row now ... both in pots and in the ground ... and love it. For me it is much smaller, like saladette size, and has a really nice tomatoey flavor covered with fruity sweetness if left to go amber in skin tones, but nicely tart if underripe ... and what a great interior color! BTW, the Cherokee Green beat it to maturity last year and Cherokee Purple has beat it to ripe this year, for what it's worth.

That's about all the experience I have with green-when-ripes (my Grubs Mystery Green got the cruds this year), but you can't go wrong with Cherokee Green, IMO ... but then as far as "tomato taste," I'm a huge Cherokee Purple fan to begin with.

Bill

Thanks Carolyn. So all of these varieties that you have suggested have that sweet and spicy flavor? And what varieties in your opinion have a really strong tomato taste.

*****

Yes, for me they all have that spicy somewhat sweet taste.

You said that Aunt Ruby's German Green had a strong taste for you, and if that's so, then those I mentioned might be the same, for your tastebuds.

But when I'm thinking of a strong assertive taste it would be other varieties, not the green when ripes.

But each of us has different tastebuds, so if ARGG tastes strong to you, then you have your own definition of what's strong tasting, which should them be duplicated by some other green when ripe varieties.

Carolyn

Maybe I better back off on the fertilizer...

Lime Green Salad last year:

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Cherokee Green 35oz:

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Korney,

I keep hearing about and now seeing those Lime Green Salad on steroids ... but with about five plants each last year and again this year, and good healthy growing conditions, I haven't got anything much larger than a golf ball. And nothing with as pretty an amber blush as yours either. Most of mine get a more smudgy amber hue ... seeds from Victory ... healthy dwarf plants ... always covered with huge sprays of flowers ... but only set about 30% of the blossoms ... great chartruese interior color ... wonderful flavor.

Hoosier,

Maybe that's the trick--not necessarily good healthy growing conditions but water soluble "steroids" thru drip fertigation--I don't know;-) LGS was grown in about 3 gallons of ProMix and compost (2:1) in a 4 gallon bucket, watered daily. The tomato on the upper left was probably about the smallest one of about 20-25+ fruits.

Here's the blossom side pic:

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You're welcome to seeds next year if you want, contact me this Winter when I have all my varieties in 1 place. Sprtsguy76 too.

Sprtsguy76,

See some of my recommendations in the thread below for strong taste. Be sure to see the keywords explanation I listed to come to those conclusions. Have pics for all except maybe Old Brooks.

Mark

Here is a link that might be useful: Looking for suggestions for STRONGEST tomato flavor

I haven't got anything much larger than a golf ball

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Same here Bill, and that's the size that they were bred to be by Tom Wagner.

Mark, are you absolutely SURE you're growing Lime Green Salad? LOL

Or do you deliberately try to up the size to the point you can what with that daily watering and steroid injections. ( smile)

I know I got my only 3 # + tomatoes a few years back when the season was wet, wet, wet, and those were Tidwell Germans and Red Barns.

Carolyn

Thank you Mark and Carolyn. Mark I will probably take you up on your offer, thanks.

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Nearly one million people in the region rely on Lake Erie for potable water. While the supply of water is ample, the quality of the untreated water has been degraded or threatened by Great Lakes-wide, stormwater runoff, over fertilization and runoff from farms and lawns, and poor sewage treatment practices causing high phosphorous and nitrate levels in Lake Erie and the lower reaches of the streams in the watershed

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Mark, are you absolutely SURE you're growing Lime Green Salad? LOL

Carolyn, I got a few large ones like that from LGS this year. The soil in my raised beds seems to be very, very good, so perhaps that is why. In the past (when container grown in rather small pots), they were always more "average" sized.

Mark, nice photography.

Carolyn, YES, they are correct seed, I got them (3) from TommyT, who got all 6 seeds from Laurel, Keith's busom buddy. (smile) And didn't you say that you don't fertilize? Maybe that's the difference.

I'd like to see that article on Eighteenmile Creek, it's less than an hour drive, I used to fish it when I was younger, Lake Erie too until just a couple years ago... What's the date on that article? Erie's the cleanest it's been in years now... I do remember when I was a kid (late '60's, early '70's), there was a phosphorous problem and detergents like Tide had different ingredients in different states. My uncle in PA (Oleyar's German tomato) used to buy Tide out there for my mother here because it "worked better..."

Thanks Suze!

And didn't you say that you don't fertilize? Maybe that's the difference.

*****

Nope, I've never said I didn't fertilize. I used to use triple 10 when growing at the old farm and switched to Espoma since I moved here. Sometimes an extra shot of seaweed or fish, most times not. Sometimes some triple 10 if I'd run out of Espoma, or shall I say the local Agway had, but again, most times not.

Carolyn

http://www.ny.nrcs.usda.gov/programs/programs/CSP/buffalo-eighteenmilecreek.html

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