Mostly obscure types since I get tomatoes and seeds from others in my community garden. We have favorites that grow very well in our conditions. Here is my list:

Ananas Noir

Red Zebra

Rose

Berkeley Tie Dye Pink

Canestrino

Juliet

Bull's Heart

Joe Pesch ( not up yet, taking a long time...)

San Marzano Redorta (also not up yet)

Blush ( not up )

I'll probably pick up a few at the nursery as well

I planted out at the end of February since we had another abnormally warm one this year. Figured it'll probably go like last year and be quite warm enough to plant early, so far so good.

Black Cherry

Black Krim

Black from Tula

Dixie Golden

Kellogg's Breakfast

Marvel Striped

Pink Berkeley Tie-Dye

San Diego

San Marzano Lungo no.2

Stupice

Sungold Cherry

I would totally have done more types but the husband HAD to have "at least 6!" Black Krim, so there you go.

I don't blame him... Black Krim is one of my faves too.

I have found Cherokee purple to be one of the tastiest maters I've ever had. Mr. Stripey, early girl, parks whopper, so far. I would like to fine a nice grape that is tasty. I had a yellow pear that tasted horrible two years ago. What a pity, it produced a lot, a lot that went to waste as I didn't like it. I had a surprise tomato, you know, mis-marked plants. It was supposed to be early girl. Dark on top, green on the bottom until it ripened. Splotchy when ripe, tasted like poop. yark, I wish I knew what it was so I don't buy it again.

I started way more than I am going to have the room to plant. My list is:

1 German Johnson

2 Cherokee Purple

3 Pruden's Purple

4 Black Cherry

5 Early Treat (Hybrid)

6 Orange Wellington (Hybrid)

7 Tasty Treat (Hybrid)

8 Big Pink (Hybrid)

9 Porter House (Hybrid)

10 Steak Sandwich (Hybrid)

11 Patio Princess (Hybrid)

12 4th of July (hybrid)

13 Mortgage Lifter

14 Black Krim

15 Abe Lincoln

I have way more than I am going to plant out. I plan on selling off the extras to recover a fraction of my cost for this year. I tend to plant the ones that I can not buy transplants for. Also some of the ones that are sold If you do not get that thing the second it comes off the truck it is a crap shoot as to if it has not had the tag switched a few times. I have purchased plants off the truck that were mislabeled more than a couple of times as well.

Mainly Wild Boar's Farms tomatoes I'm looking forward to.
Black Beauty
Brad's Crazy Cherry
Cosmic Eclipse
Dragon's Eye
Solar Flare

Brad's Crazy Cherry is giving out major blossoms so just like the photo so I think it will be a good grape tomato.

Black Beauty and Dragon's Eye got a bit sick and growing slowly for me, but I had it in a shaded area. Haven't transplanted the other two yet.

-Sun Gold

-New Big Dwarf

-Bella Rosa

-Cherokee Purple

-Cherokee Carbon

-Sweet Tangerine

-Indian Stripe

Hope to start transplanting near the end of this month.

Started 1/25 for my "cool-weather" earthbox experiment:

Siletz

Legend

Started 2/17:

Gold Dust (for EB)

Early Annie

Azoychka

Northern Lights

Katja

Black Sea Man

Blue Streak

Started 2/22:

Pink Berkeley Tie Dye

Granadero

Black Krim DF

Pink Honey

Rosella Purple

Cherokee Tiger Dwarf

Brandywine Heart

Fred's Tie Dye

Jaune Flamme

Isis Candy DF

Hahms Gelbe Topftomate (for EB jr)

Started 2/26:

Uluru Ochre (for EB)

Dwarf Purple Heart (for EB)

There will be a round 2 in April for late July transplant (all for EB):

New Big Dwarf

Rainbow Dwarf

Dwarf Arctic Rose

Sasha's Altai

Big Green Dwarf

Willamette

@ mlissca(9b) .. very nice grow list.

Interestingly, I am growing 8 of those in your list. This rarely happens to me to see such a common ground. Have a good season !

Sey

I am only growing the tomatoes my wife will also eat, so I am only growing Sungold, Golden Rave, Chef's Choice, and Jet Star. I have bags and bags of tomatoes in the freezer from last year and cans of sauce and none of it is getting eaten bc her stomach is messed up.

So, I am growing more peppers this year instead. And I am surprised they don't get as much love as the tomatoes. Roasted red pepper sauce is great. And it is nice not worrying about LB.

My favorite are those Golden Rave, they are tasty prolific little tomatoes. Everyone who eats them likes them. Seems not like the stuff you guys like though. You want deep heirloom flavor. :)

I have a super long grow list considering the space I have. I suspect I will have extra plants to give away to friends or tuck into more corners of the backyard than initially planned since I have a problem killing of seedlings after they have sprouted. This year I am actually including some F1s, which I have not done in the previous two gardening years. The ones in bold are repeats.

Brandy Boy (F1)

Sungold (F1, cherry)

Isis Candy (cherry)

Whippersnapper (cherry, tiny plants, will be planted in pots)

Lucky Cross

Fred's Tie Dye (dwarf, will be planted in a big pot)

Jersey Devil

Vorlon

Persimmon

Plan 9 from Outer Space

Black from Tula

Noire de Crimee

Southern Sun (will be planted in a pot)

I will be starting Ramapo or Moreton (both F1s) once I receive the seeds from Rutgers University. I may also plant Rutgers 250, we'll see. I may also toss another one in for good measure. LOL. Never can have enough tomato plants.

Focusing more on higher quantities of just a few this year.

SunGold x4

Secret Sauce x 6

LemonBoy x 2- husband loves them

and over 100 seedlings of different dwarf/micro crosses for a helping in a growout.

Just six varieties:

Black Krim - My no. 1 from last year

Brandy Boy

Sun Gold

Mortgage Lifter

Bloody Butcher

Big Beef - based on info from this Forum

I will likely add a grape type since my grandchildren love to pick and eat from the vine.

Here is my list for Charlotte, NC. I will end up with about 60 plants for myself and about 30 for an old timer buddy of mineAll except the Oxhearts have been trialed and tested for my garden and are keepers. This year, I decided to trial some Oxhearts:

Green Giant, Mortgage Lifter Red, Black From Tula, Polish Linguisa, Kellogs Breakfast, Black Krim, Coustralee, Persimmon, Big Rainbow, Indian Stripe, Sun Gold, Rutgers, Watermelon BS, Sweet 100s, Giant Oxheart, Orange Strawberry Oxheart, Olena Ukranian, Thienemans Australian Oxheart, Brad's Black Oxheart.

I started Roma to grow in bags and a brandy wine, I will try and pick up a black cherry if I can find the plants for it

Nice growout lists.

There is a lot of diversity. I also recognize a lot of popular varieties. And there are few that I have not heard the name before or don't know what kind of fruits they produce.

Alright, ye'all have a productive season. Keep on trucking !

Sey

Got these in the ground just barely ahead of three rainy days:

Cherokee Purple (six of these bad boys )

Cherokee Ranch ( cross between Cherokee Purple and a wild Ecuadorian currant tomato - huge and prolific OP plants)

Arkansas Traveler (good old standby)

Costoluto ( nice results last year, produced well in the heat)

Paul Robeson

Homestead

Japanese Black Trifele (third year with these - definitely a favorite)

Black Krim (of course!)

Green Zebra (back this year after a couple seasons off)

Marianna's Peace (first time for this one)

Striped German (beautiful and tasty too)

Rose de Berne (another first timer)

Pink Bumblebee Cherry (got a plant from a neighbor - looks interesting)

Porter (mainstay of the garden - produces well into the summer drought)

Black Cherry

Matt's Wild Cherry

Yellow Pear (yes, they taste great here - probably because of our heat and humidity)

Gigielle, are you going tonrutgers day April 30?/gigielle

Brandywine Sudduth Strain

New Big Dwarf

Chapman

Russian 117

Costoluto Genovese

Aunt Ruby's German Green

Azoychka

Armenian

Anna Russian

Cherokee Purple

Stupice

Goat Bag

Roma

Big Mama

Early Girl

Big Beef

Jersey Boy

Celebrity

Brandy Boy

Big Boy

Better Boy

Rutgers

I haven't grown tomatoes for seven years (my wife and I had three kids in that time), so I'm growing from seeds I purchased seven years ago. I just sowed them yesterday into a 72 plant seedling holder (putting two seeds in each), so wish me luck to see if any of these actually germinate! If I can get 10-15 plants, I think I'll be satisfied.

Tigerena

Black Cherry

Gold Nugget

Black Russian

Black Plum

Gardener's Delight

Sungold F1

Eva Purple Ball

Marianna's Peace

Brandywine

Brandywine Yellow

Brandywine OTV

Cherokee Purple

Caspian Pink

Ananas

Black Crimson

Hess

Georgia Streak

Pruden's Purple

Kellogg's Breakfast

Arkansas Marvel

Carbon

Pineapple

Hawaiian Pineapple

Pantano Romanesco

Costoluto Genovese

Black Krim

Hazel Mae

1884

Earl of Edgecombe

Old German

eterprincess - Sorry for the late response, I was super busy at work!! No I don't think I am going. Born in Jersey, but live in VA. Not sure we will get up there.

Kellogg's Breakfast

Yellow Brandywine

Big Rainbow

Delicious

Northern Lights

German Johnson

Dixie Golden Giant

Eva Purple Ball

Dixiewine

Kentucky Beefsteak

Joe's Pink Oxheart

German Red Strawberry

Chocolate Stripes

Texas Star

Striped Roman

Cherokee Purple

Lucid Gem

Bear Claw

Yellow Pygmy

Growing fewer varieties, but more of the ones that produced well:

Black Krim

Brandy Boy

Anna Russian

1884

Buffalo Heart

Super Sauce

I have a pretty good mix of new varieties & old standbys. The newbies will likely only get 1-2 planted, and the older varieties will get more. We make a lot of salsa and sauce, and i've found I prefer it with a wide variety of tomatoes in it, rather than just one variety! Bold are repeats, the rest are either new, or for some reason previous grow-outs were unfair (weather conditions or growing issues with the plant)

I potted these up this weekend, they're looking pretty daggone good so far!

aunt
lou's underground railroad

barlow jap

bear creek

black cherry

black krim

black master

brandywine
cherry

brazilian
beauty

cherokee tiger
black

cherokee tiger
red

cowlick
brandywine

depp's pink
firefly

early ssubakus
aliana

fuzzy peach

gary'o sena

grandfather
ashlock

guernsey
island

hege german
pink

jd's special
c-tex

kbx

omar's
lebanese

orange heart

paul robeson

pink oxheart

plum lemon

purple russian

rebel yell

red pear
gransasso strain

speckled roman

spudakee

stump of the
world

sungold f1

uncle mark
bagby's

vorlon

wes

I'm in SC, about 20 minutes east of Augusta GA. Hot, humid and prone to drought. Had to rely on the garden centers this year--couldn't start my own--but I have a decent variety. Most of them, I'm planting 2 plants each

Abraham Lincoln

Box Car Willie

Hillbilly

Pink Brandywine

Celebrity

Sun Million

Parks whopper

Beefmaster

Cherokee Purple

Mexico

Dixie Red

Super Fantastic

I'm curious, what does one do with 35 different tomato varieties. 70+ plants? Are you selling them, or taking baths in tomato juice? :)

Blujen said, "We make a lot of salsa and sauce."

bluejen... I have never heard of most of your varieties. I'd grow Cherokee Tiger Black just for the name alone. I hope you will come back to this thread and report on flavors....

Hehe, Right now there are 114 plants potted up on my stand. Usually about 65 make it to the garden. We'll eat tomatoes for lunch and dinner from June through October, and freeze and can until there's no more space, and the reset will go to local food pantries. We make salsa, which we share with family & friends, and we dehydrate them, and freeze them whole. Last year we put up about 400# worth, not counting what we ate fresh.

I admit that I usually try to keep the varieties down but this year I just had too much fun. I have several friends who will take the extra plants so that won't be an issue, and many will only have 1 plant in my garden. Black Krim & Vorlon though, will each have at least 5.

The Cherokee Tiger plants are both dwarves, the Red i got to taste last year and was interesting but it was a rough year, and it was only OK. The black I never got to taste. Theyr'e interesting plants - the foliage is chartreuse, and then the tomatoes are striped. Red is striped with orangey yellow, and the black is striped with almost dark green?

Hadn't thought of taking baths in the juice... maybe that would be an excuse to plant more?.... =)

I'll have to put the Cherokee Tiger variety on my list for next year. I garden in a community garden with very experienced tomato growers and it is always fun to grow something new especially if it looks amazing and has a great name... so fun!

As a second-year tomato grower, I don't really have much experience on what is the best tomato to my taste. I basically just regrow some varieties which did very well last year and add a few new varieties to try.

With a limited space, here is my list for this year:

Repeat:

Yellow Pear

Italian Ice (white cherry tomato from Burpee)

Pink Brandywine

Black Krim

New:

Big Beef

Parks Whopper

Nectar ( Red cherry from Parks. I'm extremely curious about this variety. It is recommended by a friend. she said it is very sweet and taste better than sun gold with thinner skin)

1884,

Amana Orange,

Beefsteak,

Big Beef,

BrandyBoy,

Cuostralee,

Indian Stripe,

Kellogg's Breakfast,

Neves Azorean Red,

SunGold.

These are all repeats, with the exception of Beefsteak. Will grow 2-3 of each, except Sungold... all I need is one of them.

Good tomato growing season to all!

I forgot to start German Red Strawberry!!!!

Indigo Cherry Drop

San Marzano

Roma

Big Beef

Black Krim

Celebrity

Sun Gold

Tami G

Well, in addition to Big Beef, I also started seeds for:

Martino's Roma

Paul Robeson

Brandy Boy

Purple Hillbilly

Chocolate Stripes

Bush Beefsteak

Indigo Blueberries

No idea where I'm going to put them.

Rodney