Time for figuring out which tomatoes are which in those CSA boxes. We are trying out a variety of cherry tomatoes this year as we are looking into figuring out which varieties to continue with for next year and if we grow them next year, we will start to save seed from the best plants. We ended up having to purchase our cherry tomato plants because the seedlings we were hoping to grow did not happen for us. For some reason the seed we used just never germinated. By mid May we had to do something if we wanted cherry tomatoes at all. So, we did the only thing we could do which was buy some plants...
We set up our cherry tomato beds so that they went from Red to red to small red to brown to orange to Yellow to yellow. A nice rainbow effect!
Listed below are some varying opinions of flavor:
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| Alan Chadwick cherry |
flavor: sweet and meaty or savory salty
grow again: yes!
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| Peacevine |
size: small to very small
flavor: sweet and juicy or juicier than Alan Chadwick
grow again: maybe
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| Brown cherry |
size: medium
flavor: tart
grow again: maybe
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| Sungold |
size: small
flavor: very sweet or bright and sweet
grow again: yes!
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| Chello |
flavor: tart
grow again: maybe
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| yellow Reisentraub |
flavor: sweet
grow again: yes!
Now here's some pictures of the other tomatoes we are growing. We have our slicers and our pastes.
Slicer tomatoes:
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| Nyagous |
size: medium
flavor: juicy and sweet
grow again: no
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| Nyagous |
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| Moonglow |
flavor: firm flesh for slicing
grow again: maybe
Paste tomatoes:
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| San Marzano |
size: medium
flavor: very firm flesh not super sweet
grow again: yes
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| Principe Borghese |
size: small
flavor: mealy but sweet
grow again: yes!
The paste tomatoes have already gone through two trials of sauce making. So far we thing they make great sauce both on their own and mixed together. We threw them into the pot whole without cutting at all, just removed the stems. While they do have thick skins, we were able to sieve them out with a bit of work and by using the only colander type kitchen gadget we had. We got about 6-7 quart sized jars each time from about more or less 28lbs of tomatoes.
Still got plenty of paste tomatoes hanging. More saucing is in our future for sure!
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