Favorites that I've grown here at least a couple years are Benevento F1, Polaris, Purple Boy F1, and Green Gables. All of these did well this year, and the first three also did well last year (I also grew GG several years ago). Benevento F1, a yellow-striped red tomato, and Polaris, a dark purple-burgundy, are my favorite sandwich tomatoes. Purple Boy F1 is a prolific dark tomato with a good flavor and excellent shelf life. Green Gables is a wonderful green-when-ripe for this area, a fairly compact indeterminate with good shelf life.
New to me this year: Rosella (cherry) had great flavor and production. Black Cherry had good flavor and production, and the plant was dense; this was the first year I grew it in this climate. I grew a lot of nematode-resistant varieties and the winners were Chocolate Sprinkles F1, a tasty dark striped cherry, and Bush Early Girl F1, a compact 2' bush with red round unblemished fruit that produced consistently all summer and is one of the few (out of 40 varieties) that is still producing. (It outproduced the other 6-7 red round hybrids I grew.) Green Tiger was the best-tasting tomato in my garden earlier in the season, but production was so-so. Damsel F1 was a good-tasting pink nematode-resistant variety but didn't produce a lot.
I love my heirloom Brandywine pinks.
Favorites that I've grown here at least a couple years are Benevento F1, Polaris, Purple Boy F1, and Green Gables. All of these did well this year, and the first three also did well last year (I also grew GG several years ago). Benevento F1, a yellow-striped red tomato, and Polaris, a dark purple-burgundy, are my favorite sandwich tomatoes. Purple Boy F1 is a prolific dark tomato with a good flavor and excellent shelf life. Green Gables is a wonderful green-when-ripe for this area, a fairly compact indeterminate with good shelf life.
New to me this year: Rosella (cherry) had great flavor and production. Black Cherry had good flavor and production, and the plant was dense; this was the first year I grew it in this climate. I grew a lot of nematode-resistant varieties and the winners were Chocolate Sprinkles F1, a tasty dark striped cherry, and Bush Early Girl F1, a compact 2' bush with red round unblemished fruit that produced consistently all summer and is one of the few (out of 40 varieties) that is still producing. (It outproduced the other 6-7 red round hybrids I grew.) Green Tiger was the best-tasting tomato in my garden earlier in the season, but production was so-so. Damsel F1 was a good-tasting pink nematode-resistant variety but didn't produce a lot.
I needed to know more about tomato varieties- and so this post was really useful- thank you!