I'm running short on time but my top new tomato this year was KBX (Kellogg's Breakfast potato leaf). I've picked 30 tomatoes weighing about 25 lbs. and there are still a couple more left to ripen. The taste was sweet with a little tang and hint of citrus. Core wasn't very big, almost no concentric cracking due to rain but most fruit do have some radial cracking from the stem, they store on the shelf as well as most hybrids. Overall a 10 in my book.

I have thought about getting Kellogg`s Breakfast. Then I heard a lot of people like Dr. Wyche`s yellow, so I will probably end up with one of the two. Thanks!

Mine this year are (so far) include Galapagos Island, Sweet Orange Cherry, Marion, Bloody Butcher, two of my Brandy Boy cross F2s, Husky Red F1 (it's probably actually the matriarchal parent of the F1), Early Girl F1 (purchased plant), and Thessaloniki. Sausage would probably be doing better if it had more space, but the Sausage plants are crowding each other, turning into a foliage forest. Some cherries I didn't mention are doing well, but were either late, hard to harvest or some such.

Here are some honorable mentions: I kind of like Matt's Wild Cherry, as it's vigorous. The fruits are good and very deep red. Rio Grande is pretty cool. I like Valley Girl F1, except the first to third waves of ripe fruit had BER. Big Boy F1 did decently considering it was shaded by other tomato plants. My Mexican Yellow cross tastes pretty good. Nodak Early and Mountain Princess did pretty well. Porter (pink, plum-shaped) has done decently especially considering the soil it's in. Polish Linguisa has excellent taste. Coyote was pretty cool, and very vigorous.

Tidy Rose F1 was pretty great (productive and decent taste; low-crawling and beefsteak shape). It was almost a favorite.

Annie - you are making me want to try Golden Jubilee next season! I've already started putting together my 2020 plans and have 5 or 6 spots yet undecided. I'm putting it on my wish list.

I wasn't too impressed with Tasmanian chocolate production either but I got a dozen or so from my one plant. Of the 6 dwarfs I grew I liked Mr. Snow, Brandyfred, and Beauty King the best. None of them were that productive averaging about 5 lbs. per plant.

Here, my Pruden's Purple was one of the earliest OPs to ripen and it set fruit later in the season's heat better than most. I just picked the last few from it a week or so ago. IIRC it produced about 22 lbs. and averaged about 10 oz. per.

Wes was another great producer and seemed more like a determinate in that all of the fruit ripened in about a 2 week span. I got 27 lbs. from one plant and about half of the fruit were over 1 lb. Being a oxheart I expected the fruit to me more meaty with less seeds and gel but that really wasn't the case.

Others that produced well (15+ lbs. per plant) were Girl Girl's Weird Thing, Rebel Yell, Pineapple, Pink Ping Pong (yummy saladette), German Johnson, Bolseno F1, Linvingston's Yellow Oxheart (very meaty!).

I didn't care much for Black From Tula. The fruit didn't ripen evenly and it was hard to tell when they were actually ripe, the also didn't store very well. Jaune Flamme produced pretty well but the taste was a little intense for me. I might grow it again sometime but not next year. I prefer my cocktail tomatoes to be sweeter. Lucky Cross was pretty good and had pretty fruit but was one of the latest to ripen and didn't quite get to 15 lbs. of production. JD's Special C-Tex was a major flop and only produced a few tomatoes. Very disappointing since I had heard a lot of good reviews on it. Never again!

I was disappointed in Indian Stripe PL for the second year in a row. It tasted ok, but wasn't very productive or even very big and it was a disease magnet.

Orange Strawberry, a large heart, tasted divine.

Maglia Rosa, which I planted early in a 3 gallon container, tasted amazing, and still does. Usually, there are other varieties that taste better at the end of the summer, but not this season!

I still love Little Lucky, Taste and Bulgarian Triumph.

Our top producers this year were Pink Ping Pong and Lollipop.

I tried to get Bloody Butcher last year and failed. I will try again this year. I won`t bother with Indian Stripe which I did want. I might look for Orange Strawberry since I have never had a heart tomato. I only have room for about 8 tomatoes, so I have to be selective. I have heard before about people not liking Black Tula. I might try Black Krim instead. Pink Pin Pong sounds interesting. I wish I had more room!

I grew 6 varieties of cherry and 6 varieties of beefsteak. The Sunrise Bumblebee is the winner from the cherry categories. The fruits are bountiful and gorgeous looking with yellow and orange stripes and they taste sweet like candies. The Indigo Kumquat is interesting as the fruit turns from green to purple then yellow and finally red. It is quite prolific but the fruits are prone to splitting. I also have Super Snow White, Sweet 100, Gold Krone they are ok. I will not grow Gaja de Melon again. Yellow pear was also disappointing.

In terms of beefsteak tomatoes, I think the Dr Wyche is overrated. Nice flesh, taste great, but every tomato is cat-faced or split. Mortgage lifter gives big tomatoes but not prolific. Costellato Genovese, black krim and Hillbilly are predictable and consistent. I also have Roma paste tomatoes which is very prolific and great for sauce/canning. Yellow Dragon, for some reasons, is a disappointment this year.

Huh. Never grown Dr. Wyche's Yellow, but I have grown Sweet Ozark Orange twice (not this year). Sweet Ozark Orange is half Dr. Wyche's Yellow; I think the other half is German Red Strawberry. Sweet Ozark Orange had blemish-free, consistently large fruits without cracking or splitting, whether I gave it drought all year or heavy watering all year. It was quite good, although the taste was not unusual for an orange beefsteak to me. It had reasonably good production, but it wasn't the earliest.

Have any of you grown Amana Orange or Persimmon?

I grew Persimmon this year and was disappointed in its acidic taste :(. I also found Moonglow acidic. (It's another gold one). Too bad because it is compact and prolific with lovely round orbs.

I love acidic tomatoes! :) They're hard to find. But that's too bad you don't like them. Moonglow, eh? I've got seeds for that. So, that's great to know. I'm not sure I've tasted an acidic orange tomato before. I'm curious what that would taste like. I've had acidic yellows, though (and acidic golden cherries). I've grown Persimmon before, and was just curious on your thoughts, since the taste was so unique to me. Mine wasn't acidic, but I overwatered it.

I just looked them up on Tania's website and she says that Persimmon is orange and that Moonglow is golden. You're in luck! I thoroughly recommend Moonglow for you ;).

I'd say my winners are the only ones that ripened! My yellow pear heirloom cherry tomatoes.

My standards, Cherokee Purple, Kellogg's Breakfast, Eva Purple Ball and Sun Gold all did well this year. We haven't had rain at my location in over a month plus 90 degree temps all summer but none of that fazed them; production is still very good.

I tried a few new ones this year. St. Pierre is a French heirloom and definitely a keeper. Great taste and a solid producer. A perfect tomato every time.

Brad's Atomic Grape and the Blue Berry were both pulled mid-seasoned. I had 2 plants of each and the results were consistent: terrific production but terrible flavor. I had bowls and bags of these tomatoes and couldn't give them away, so I pulled the plants. I still have lots of seeds if anyone wants them (purchased from Baker Creek).

@Kris Blue Berries and Brad's Atomic Grape are two I've been interested in for a while. I can't message you, though, until you enable that feature in your settings, but if you PM me your address, I can send you a SASE with labeled bags inside.

How would you describe the terrible flavor? Was it strong, tart, sour, sweet, mild, bitter, or like a Harry Potter jelly bean, or something else? It sounds like maybe it's the anthocyanin taste that some people don't like, from the blue skin.

Great to know about St. Pierre.

I'd like to add Napoli to my list. It's very prolific, and the fruits are very durable with great hang-time. Fruits aren't huge, but the durability factor and production makes up for it. I transplanted it late (and small); so, that's probably why I didn't mention it sooner.

Also, Sheboygan has amazing taste (similar to Polish Linguisa, but more prolific in my garden, even though Polish Linguisa was transplanted larger and earlier, with more sun). Like Polish Linguisa, the fruits don't have the best hang-time, though. I transplanted Sheboygan late (and small), too. Sheboygan's fruits are pretty big for a paste (like Polish Linguisa, Sausage and such), and some fruits are bigger than others, but they're all big. I got one that looks like a full oxheart. I did give Sheboygan three handfuls of wood ash, though (which I didn't give to Polish Linguisa).

Anyway, I plan to grow both Napoli and Sheboygan again next year.

Nearly every variety was a winner for me this year. It was the "best tasting" year in my garden, ever.

At the top was Aunt Ginny's Purple, Stump of the World, Brandywine Sudduth, SunGold, Swoon, and a yellow cherry that was supposed to be Japanese Pink Cherry (I'm eager to find out what this yellow cherry produces next year).

Many, many others (too numerous to mention, for now) weren't too far behind.

My best producer was Mortgage Lifter but the best flavor was from Black Krim. My Brandywine didn't do as well this year - different weather.

This year was full of surprises for me! Most of my favorite varieties were new for me this year.

Chocolate Sprinkles - brown cherry tomato, extremely prolific and so tasty! I couldn't get enough of them! The only problem with them - we had a very cold and wet September and as soon as it started raining, the fruit started splitting (even though it is supposed to be a crack resistant variety).

Orange Strrawberry and Orange Russian 117 - both very productive! Loads of big heart-shaped tomatoes, unbelievably tasty too!

Barry's Crazy Cherry - now I know why it's called crazy. I never knew one plant could give so much fruit! Tasty too, I was surprised to learn that sometimes there could be no trade-off between quantity and quality.

Black Dragon - second season growing. Very prolific, again, and with good taste.

On a side note: I had a very funny experience with Brad's Atomic Grape. I had 2 plants of it and also 2 Red Currant tomato plants, but for some reason when they started fruting all 4 plants turned out to look the same. I tend to think that I must've mislabeled the seedlings, although I remember they looked different: currant seedlings had very elegant and slender leaves, while Atomic Grape leaves looked like all other varieties. In the end I liked the tomatoes for their productivity and taste, but will only grow one Red Currant plant next year. All my beds ended up covered with these tiny tomatoes, I guess I'll have to pull their offsprings heavily next year. But after reading yet another review of Atomic Grape I don't think I'll even try to grow them again.

Planting season just started over here in the Middle East but I am making a list of varieties mentioned in this thread to buy so I can try next season!

I know I have gone on and on about the great taste of Maglia Rosa this year, but I have to say that this plant is still going strong and currently loaded with ripe tomatoes! I brought the (3 gallon) container inside when the weather cooled, and I plonk it outside for a few hours whenever the temp is over 50F. The tomatoes still taste amazing!!!!!

Early in the season my Estler's Mortgage Lifters started out great but then went kaput. Of the slicers, our 2 really standouts were Big Zebra and KBX . DH &I love Big Zebras but because they are a weird mix of green & red we can't persuade anybody else to try them. They don't know what they're missing!! But cherry tomatoes - oh yeah!!! There were still hundreds on the plants when the freeze hit :>( covering them didn't help since it was temperature not frost that got them. If it had been just one night some of them might have pulled through but it was 4 days in a row. Then we got 4 nice days then 2 more below freezing again. Next round of decent weather we will be out cleaning everything up. Will be interesting to see if we get any volunteers next year!