Summary of last season’s tomato varieties:
Sungold: Very good producer, lasted thru the summer, 3/4″ to 7/8″, orange cherries. A favorite. Aunt Carolyn says “good, sweet!”, and I have to concur.
White Currant: good producer, by far the most delicious of the cherries. Super sweet, juicy, thumbs way up. Only downside is they are difficult to pick–they don’t pop off easily and split often when pulling off (in which case you have to eat immediately, yum!). Small 1/2″ to 5/8″ fruits.
Sungold on left, White Currant on right
Black Cherry: good prodcuer, 7/8″ to 1″ fruits. Better if you wait until fully ripe, there tends to be some green that hangs on. Flavor ok, but was not a favorite. Aunt Carolyn proclaimed “skin tough”.
Black Cherry
Bush Early Girl: “Early” in that they seem to ripen faster than other tomatoes. Smallish non-cherry tomatoes, average 2.5 oz. Somewhat bland flavor, but not bad. Decent production. Plant seemed a bit leggy, but that may have been my growing conditions. Survived the summer and produced into fall. Was more productive in the fall. Reliable.
Bush Early Girl
Japanese Black Trifele: smallish fruits, teardrop shaped, meaty, good flavor. Might do this one again, but fruits kind of small for a non-cherry. Aunt Carolyn thought they were “too sour”.
Japanese Black Trifele
Aunt Ginny’s Purple: this was the flavor winner. Large fruits. Very tasty. The most “tomatoey” tangy flavor of all the ones I grew. Definitely growing this one again.
Aunt Ginny's Purple on left, Japanese Black Trifele on right
Stupice: these were a fall-only planting, so only got a few from the plant. I think overall they were ok, but smallish and nothing remarkable.
