Better Boy for growing at home. My favorite is what I know as New Jersey tomatoes. I buy them at farm stands and they are amazing. Red, juicy and full of tomato flavor.

Green Zebra. Nice and zingy. Also Sungold. (cherry toms) Delish! I don't seem to have any red ones on my favorites list.

I like Cherokee Purple as well, but we’ve had some trouble growing those the past couple of years. The Sun Sugar cherry tomatoes do really well. We also have Shimmer, which are like a small, teardrop coloring like Cherokee Purple. We have a few new ones we are growing this year.

Mortgage lifter. Yum!

My favorite by far is Tomato Dona (a French hybrid), which I used to grow when I would find plants in the nursery. I should probably try growing it from seed, as I rarely find the plants any more, although I do not know why.

Cherokee Purple by far and it’s newer cousin Cherokee Carbon which has more disease resistance and tastes the same. For cherry tomatoes I love Sun Sugar or Sun Gold and Black Cherry.

Ded, there is nothing like a ripe Jersey tomato or Jersey blueberries.

Ded we always plant Better Boy too. Outside I have never heard of Cherokee Carbon not have I seen it around here. Interesting!

Tina, I start all mine from seed. I found out about it through the seed catalog a couple of years ago and now am a fan. I forgot to mention Lemon Boy too which we really like. It’s a medium sized yellow heirloom with an amazing flavor. And really pretty to mix on a sliced platter.

Cyn, blueberries are nearly here and tomatoes will be soon. I am tempted to drive over the bridge to be sure I get the authentic thing!

My fave is Tomande. It's an indeterminate red hybrid, resistant to almost everything our FL environment can throw at it, and is very sweet, tangy, juicy and delicious and also kind of old fashioned looking, plus the fruits keep for a long time. The only drawback is that sometimes the fruits can have a tough core to them. They're not uniform either, which I like. Some can get very large, some small, and every size in between.

I grow from seed, and it's the only tomato I've grown now for some years. The seeds are getting harder to find.

Here's a pic I found on the web:

Tomato season is over here, has been for quite some time, sadly. Our growing season is the opposite of everywhere else.

I wish we had more space to start from seed and set up some grow lights. we usually buy seedlings from the farmers market or online retailers like Burpee. We get a mix of indeterminate for the beds and then some determinate for the containers. We did have quite a few volunteers start themselves this year.

Campari! Consistently good; they always taste like tomatoes.

Speaking of pretty on a platter - Striped German is a great example. Red/orange striped, large fruit, very tasty and looks good with other colors. I get them at the Farmer's Market. I call them "dinner party tomatoes".

My favorites have been Bloody Butcher, Matina and Big Beef. Here it is almost Sept. and the other heirlooms are just sitting there, with their green tomatoes. Too long a wait for me! I will remember next year to only plant 2 late tomatoes.

in the last week or so I'm finally getting different cherry type tomatoes, early girls (this is not early!), sub arctics and san marazano. My beautiful beefsteaks are still green green green.

I've grown Cherokee Purple before and did a cherry type purple tomato this year. I really really dislike the taste. It's a strong, can't put my finger on it, flavor. Could I be growing them wrong?

Chocolate lightning. It’s a dwarf tomato plant with amazingly tasty, gorgeous tomatoes,and it doesn’t take over your garden.

Another Cherokee purple fan here, although they sometimes don't produce well, but then other times are fab. I like Pineapple as a slicer, and Orange Paruche as a small one. I also love Great White, but they are tricky to tell when ripe! Rutgers is my go-to canner.

I'm growing Mortgage Lifter here for the first time, and I echo what others have said, huge green, green tomatoes which seem to never ripen . . . time will tell.

My tomato taste buds are visually linked and I want a bright red tomato. I cannot eat a purple tomato which usually looks brownish red. Yellow is ok but only in a mixed platter. And I'm a Better Boy fan.

Cherokee Purple should not be brownish red. We usually plant a couple of Better Boys too, but I love the heirloom tomatoes and think they have a better taste.

Azilline, Cherokee Purple should not taste bitter.

Pat our tomatoes (heirloom included) come pretty predictably around July 4! They are still producing.

Tina, I did look up images of Cherokee purple and maybe brownish red isn't the exact color but I don't like that color LOL

Thanks Tina. I'll have to give them another shot next year.

Cherokee Purple and Black Krim are my favorites and do well here. In the pic (from my garden earlier this summer), they are the ones in lower left.

Here it is and Sept is almost over. The heavy smoke and high temps really did the tomatoes in this year. (Reno, Nv). They were all tiny. Even Big Beef was Tiny Beef! Also, most of my tomatoes are still green and production wasn`t that great. Makes me wonder what the smoke did to people. The one tomato I was pleased with was Black Cherry. Tasted good but I don`t know if it would have been more productive without the smoke and high temps.

Campari are my favorite but I haven't ventured much outside the world of cherry, Roma and Campari. Last summer I had Campari tomatoes every day with flavored olive oil, fig balsamic vinegar, basil and warmed Brie. By Fall I'd developed pain in both thumb joints. A quick search revealed that tomatoes can cause joint pain in some people ("This is because tomatoes naturally produce a toxin called solanine. This toxin is believed to contribute to inflammation, swelling, and joint pain."). Since backing off tomatoes and taking Nature's Way Joint Movement Glucosamine the past few months, it is much improved.

I love Cherokee Purple, Cherokee Carbon, and Indian Stripe. All three have a similar flavor profile, although Cherokee Carbon produces best in my garden. I also love Sun Gold cherries. Bella Rosa is a good red slicing tomato.

For salads I love sugar bombs (flavor rocks) :) so yummy!

Those are good. Discovered them last year. The only tomato I buy in the off season is cherry tomatoes.