We Won't Grow THESE Again!

Lately we've been receiving a lot of questions about the varieties of tomatoes we are growing this year. Today we will go over them all and let you know which ones we won't be growing next year.
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[@daviddevore700]

“Sweet 100” cherry tomatoes🍅

[@angief8597]

Purrfectly informative topic! Great feedback on the tomatos. Love seeing you care for the piggies and other animals. Thank you, God Bless.

[@blessedisshegroup]

I love how you guys don't interrupt or talk over each other

[@michellerushing4311]

Kevin, you are subtly hilarious! The kind that can just be really enjoyed and never feel like it takes away from the content or diverts attention in an annoying way. I love it! Y'all are definitely one of my few very favorites.

[@lyndiaroot333]

That wall chart is an awesome idea! My cucumbers went nuts this year so I've been canning for a good 2 weeks straight but I've lost count as to how many jars I've done. I'll have to implement that next year. Thanks for the idea!

[@juliemcgugan1244]

Good point about the last ones that ripened later also extending the growing season.

[@Ostarita]

More videos like this please. They are super helpful in planning next year's garden.

[@tomwells9665]

Thanks for taking the time to show us the different varieties and how they did. Have a great weekend and God bless

[@victoriaburkhardt4402]

Hi Kevin and Sarah, you guys are my favorite and inspirational! Keep doing the good work you're doing! My favorite slicer of all time is the Cherokee Purple. I've attended the tomato festival at University of Missouri-Columbia's Bradford Farm several years - they always have taste testing of at least a hundred varieties. My favorite is always the Cherokee Purple! So huge, and the old-fashioned tomato flavor I'm looking for. Indeterminate variety, and large amounts of huge, early ripening fruits.

[@50shadesofgreen]

good day to you Kevin and Sarah !! what lovely variety of tomatoes your growing this year !!

[@sandywinslow8839]

we moveing to Missouri in March next year from Alaska. your information helps so much. thankyou for all you do.

[@alanabroadwater8265]

I have planted Supersonic tomatoes for over 30 years. I love them. Also in the last 3 years I've also planted a few Pineapple tomatoes. They are huge slicers, and I've also canned them.

[@gratituderanch9406]

I buy my seeds from High Mowing seeds. Love how their catalog is clear and their non gmo etc. good customer service too. Btw- love the chart for keeping track of harvests!

[@gonzalezpandura]

I like the big boy for sandwich and canning,Tom Tom cherry tomatoes,Roman for mixes like salsa,puree etc. To be honest my garden didn't do good this year but better than last year.

[@Celestes_Nest]

Those quail are BEAUTIFUL!!! That poster board is a great idea. Reminds me of my homeschooling days. Awesome video guys.

[@aprilstafford7986]

I was given a bunch of Baker Creek seeds a few months ago and had never heard of them. Then I find your channel and BAM you talk about them often. Love it! I planted the Vinson Watts tomato. I'm excited to see it!!

[@mauricecardinal6352]

I really appreciate the efforts you two put into your food and your lives. This is very important in these days to be self sufficient. Of course many are not as lucky. I really love what you do and how you explain every detail. Thanks again.

[@jamesmoon7312]

We live in a small town in Tennessee and we pretty much have always loved the way you do.

[@lindakaye4416]

I grew Opalka for the first time this year. I absolutely love these and will definitely grow them!

[@jkhenderson1]

Lol! I was wondering how long Kevin could hold out before he ate those tomatoes! This was a great comparison video. Thanks!

[@kathleencramer4738]

Love the poster board idea! Thanks for all the information.

[@Betty-qd8st]

The “chocolate cherry “ grows well in pots also. I grow mine in pots on my porch 👍

[@nicolebryans9825]

I love the chocolate cherries!! And I love that he started eating the tomatoes at the end! Great information and I love that you said what didn't work for you. Very helpful!

[@QLH.U2bbers]

I really like your poster idea vs the notebook. So much more efficient with that visibility of totals.

[@TheBrentdog]

You all make the best videos! Thank you I sure enjoy them

[@lorindav5549]

Oh, I also wanted to add, my Grandma had a system like yours for keeping track of foods made and consumed. It was on the freezer in her storage room with a pencil on a string right beside it. As she canned, froze, dried, or stored foods she used hash marks to keep track and then crossed them out as they were used so that she knew what they had and how much they used per year. Made sense to me because it was right there in her storage room with all of the foods and she could see with a glance what she had and what they needed to grow more of the next year.

[@tamarabutterworth8300]

Love the info. It helps to get info about the different varieties from people you trust and have a good knowledge base. Thanks for sharing.

[@maryjenkins4003]

I love you guys and your videos! God bless you, your family and your lifestyle. This is how I grew up. Keep it up!

[@terraranch1459]

This video was very enjoyable and I learned a lot about the different varieties. I loved seeing your baby quail, and feeding the pigs is so fun. Hugs Sarah and Kevin❤️

[@beverlyshelton5635]

Hi yall, its my first year gardening in NE Arkansas and I'm so excited I planted celebrity, big boy, and one called rainbow, and also beef steak

[@hollyhopkins9015]

Hi! I've recently found your channel. We must not be to far from each other because I'm about 40 minutes from baker creek seeds too😉 Try the Missouri Love Apple, it's done well for me this year it's the only tomatoe that I haven't had to fight the blight on. It's a great slicer and more prolific that other heirlooms I've grown. I also love the Amish paste, it produce well even with blight. So happy I've found you all! Having someone growing in the same zone putting up videos is such a great resource! Thank you!

[@marilyngodfrey868]

Mr. Tom, what a great story. I am going to use your advice. Thank you for sharing.

[@Steve-ps6qw]

Kevin, I had no idea you were raising quail!!! That's my favorite! Quick to grow and easy to process....and you wore the appropriate T-shirt, one my favorites too!

[@LivingTraditionsHomestead]

We just got the quail last week! We raised them in AZ as well. Here is a link to a video when we got them...kzbin.info/www/bejne/fH-kmGqCqd6VhbM

[@ltcajh]

I've got that t-shirt too.

[@margiemoore3078]

LOVE your shirt, Kevin. Thanks for the tomato knowledge....

[@JaniceSeagraves]

Grace did a nice job decorating your board. I always grow the yellow pear tomato. Love them.

[@DrivenByFaithTV2]

I watched your summer garden harvest in the other video and. I was amazed at how beautiful your fruits and veggies are. We grew small cherry tomatoes 🍅 and some heirlooms this summer but here in South Carolina it was too hot and they got sunburned. I’m disappointed about that.

[@catracampolieto8989]

I bought Jet Star tomato starts this year. I'll be canning for the very first time. I can't wait to see how they do.

[@JoshuaSmithHomesteader]

My favourite cherry tomato is champagne. Tomatoes I am growing this year are, san marsano and bellstar for paste. Sophies choice, Italian heirloom, bonnie best, lemon boy. And a rainbow pack of different cherry tomatoes. All of which are still green up here in Canada! August will be a busy month eating and canning tomatoes. Cheers!

[@ToqTheWise]

This year I've been growing cherry tomatoes in some new soil (one part steer manure for every two parts store bought potting soil) and they're doing wonderfully. No blight, no blossom rot, I don't know what it is but even the aphids are leaving them be. I'm really impressed, i wish I knew the exact verity

[@AnneMarieRenee]

This is great info! I have a jet star on my patio and cannot wait to have some ripe tomatoes! We got a very late start this year because we had to do so much site work to level out where we wanted to have raised beds. But I am looking forward to growing many more varieties next year and this info helps!

[@kristenowen9238]

Big boy hybrid Bush. Absolutely great tasting, very little blight, and truly a great producer. My first year growing them and it will be a staple in the garden now

[@glenmorse9533]

My favorite is big beef. Produces lots of big nicely shaped, good tasting, good for making sauce. We have been growing blond girl cherry yellow tomatoes for several years now, and they are good, and many, many on the plant.

[@LauraMartinez-rf3dm]

I love videos like this!! Because gardening is my favorite, of course :)

[@Flemeth85]

Kevin seems like a guy I could hang out with. Very cool video, thanks and keep 'em coming.

[@horsebabyhehe]

I love LOVE the taste of the Cherokee Purple for slicers.

[@missmaam792]

I know that this is a year old video but I wanted to tell you that I just called Totally Tomatoes and asked about seeds for the Opalka and Jet Star varieties for year 2020. They could not have been nicer in answering my questions and I gave you props for the referral. Thank you Living Traditions. P.S. I grow in half wine barrels so I have to rein myself (and my tomato varieties) in.

[@StaceyHerewegrowagain]

Hey Kevin and Sarah! I just found your channel and let me tell you, this is exactly what I want to be doing! I am so happy to see this. I want to have a farm one day, with a greenhouse so I can feed all my animals with the veggies I'm growing just like you guys! 😉I want to start jarring my tomatoes so bad!. I can't wait till I can have my very own dream Garden! Thank you so much for sharing yours! Those jared tomatoes look so good!!

[@patriciagreen9234]

Love you guys and your vlogs! God bless.

[@Emeraldwitch30]

On notes for gardening. I end up hosing my notes at least once a season. My new phone has better features I can add text right to the photo and when I scroll up on the photo it has the time/date stamp. Its helping with my gardening this year a lot. Plus when fellow gardeners have issues I can send the photo to them with the notes and even arrows to point out issues.

[@GrubbGardenBonnie]

Love love this video! Thank you so much for posting it! I sure love your channel.

[@georgetuider654]

I grew some heirlooms last year from a package that was a mixed assortment to eat fresh and they were fantastic. Not high yields per plant, but delicious. Summer and mater season can't get here soon enough! That poster board is a great idea and I'm going to use it this year. Thanks for the tip!

[@michaelbishop619]

thank you love you guys!!!!!

[@oostys8118]

Great system Sarah! Was thinking of using a notebook as well for when i finally get a harvest, and the poster sounds way better, cheers One

[@blanerobertson6242]

My uncle raised and fed his family all his life from his garden and orchard. His favorite slicing tomato was called a beef steak. Large,solid and a great taste when included on a full sized hamburger ( it covered the whole patty). Keep up the good work, your success is a welcome diversion for us during these times. Thanks.

[@eileenpalumbo6578]

Great idea with the poster board. Its good to know how much you put up and did it last through the year. I will try that this year.

[@shepstrohm]

We've been growing yellow pear tomatoes for a small/cherry tomatoe variety for years and love them. Very sweet. Great eating or salad option. I added the black cherry tomatoes to my list for next year!!

[@cindymoore9096]

Yellow “Jelly Bean” cherry tomatoes were the favorite in my garden last year. They were a largish grape shape. Great taste, sturdy plants and kept producing even after the wind folded them over their tomato cages. Kept for a long time on the plants, and tasted good at all stages of ripeness.

[@gloriajbarry3356]

Greetings from the Mosaic Community Garden of Chula Vista, Calif (San Diego) we simple were excited this last season with the Yellow Jelly Bean TOO. We were so overwhelmed by the quality, and our harvest was incredible. We included these in our pints for produce sales and we had such a great response to continue and include them on our next season planting crop. best, CEO, Gloria

[@pollkat]

In the middle of watching your video I realized I think I have the same garden hat. Mine is a slogger and I love it - though it looks much better on you. :) Love seeing what other people grow. Have to try some of your varieties. Thanks

[@lindacaulk8134]

When I lived in SE MO. I always grown grape and pink Lady tomatoes they grew really well also beef steak tomatoes.

[@mrs8792]

This will be my first year raising quail, I’m so excited! I will raising meal worms for added protein, over and above their feed. I would love to raise enough for meat and eggs. I’m getting the jumbo cornuix variety. I love your channel so much😊

[@gonzalezpandura]

Sara love the poster board idea.

[@joanneburns325]

Don’t know whether others have asked,but I wonder if you could - once in a while - more closely show the t-shirts Kevin wears. I find them intriguing, especially the tan one with the chick and the fried egg. Thanks for your great vids, gentle humor, thoughtful presentations, and love of Life.

[@christinealwayschirping4115]

Always interested on new varieties gonna go back and write down names of your peppers, like how your doing your spices...really like ideal of writing stuff down enjoy your videos... as always thanks for sharing have a great day and God bless you both and your family

[@leonardsmith3968]

Have grown Brandywine (heritage) for more than a decade (N Georgia). It does require full sun and frequent watering. The hotter the weather the more care that is required. I’m 77 years old and still gardening. Love your channel although this my first comment. “God Bless You Also.” Buzzybruce

[@hidawayhomestead524]

My tomatoes are just starting to ripen. Only a few plants in my small garden have survived this crazy weather this year. Tomatoes are doing the best. Thanks for the education! I really enjoy your videos. Stay safe and God bless. 🐔 🐐 🌱 🐷

[@sharonc685]

Zone 8b, we grow mortgage lifters for slicers.

[@rainskitchenandgarden]

Ha ha ha...Kevin snuck a few tomatoes, that was funny. I love watching you two. Sarah, how you are always looking at Kevin when he's talking, and you smile along...It's wonderful to see a happy couple. And thanks for the tutorial on all of those tomato varieties! I have a very small container garden which may only produce a few dozen tomatoes...hoping the homestead dream comes true next spring so I'll have a bigger garden! So I can't really recommend any varieties. I hope you get some nice suggestions though. Interesting though...I did look at my seed packs...the tomatoes I planted are called "Hybrid Tomatoes"...I guess that doesn't tell you much! But they are nice. I have food intolerances to most fruit and veggies skins so I have to peel my tomatoes before I can eat them. I noticed that the skins are thick, which makes for easier peeling, but the tomato itself is just okay, with so-so flavour. Thanks for opening my eyes to really analyzing my crop. :)

[@alysoncalvary4815]

The little yellow ones are my girls favorites. They also love the little red cherry tomatoes

[@lazybee9011]

We are in a very hot climate so what works for us may not translate to you as well. We struggled for years to find tomato varieties that could handle the heat here. This year is our most successful so far! We are getting lovely slicing tomatoes from Aussie (really big red heirloom) and Carmello (medium red heirloom). Our best cherries are Mexican Midget and Cyril's Choice (red heirlooms). We are growing Amish Paste for the first time and it's doing great as well.

[@bk2u777]

Kevin and Sarah I really enjoy your videos>>>You are a very blessed family>>take care and God Bless You!!

[@garybivens3236]

I really like the Amish paste tomatoes from Baker Creek

[@jeffcraig5462]

I always grow amish paste. Hands down the best paste tomato and prolific. Heirloom also. The spouse loves the brandywine for fresh eating. Also an heirloom variety.

[@elizabethtomlik1748]

I really like Scotian for slicers, and Pink Tiger Stripe for a cheery/grape tomato, super pretty. They are hardy - I grow them on the east coast of Canada with no trouble.

[@debarnold5019]

I have grown Amish Paste from Baker Creek for the last couple years and am pretty happy with those. I also grow yellow pear tomatoes and love them (i think i got them from Baker Creek also). All my other varieties are new to me this year from Baker Creek. Haven't harvested anything yet. We had a bad hail storm a couple weeks ago and they are just limping now so we will see what we get.

[@michellem5997]

Last year I grew Roma which I bought at lowes as starts & Rio grande from seeds bought at walmart. The Rio grande was the winner of those paste tomatoes for us based on production & plant health. This year I grew several cherry type & my favorite has been black cherry. Next year I plan to grow olpaka as a comparison because Luke from the MI Gardener said they were a favorite of theirs. Now I see you are finding the same so I'm getting excited about next summer!

[@uddercharmsfarm8159]

The Riesentraub are great pickled!! Another excellent video! I will try some of these next year.

[@gloriajbarry3356]

Greetings from the Mosaic Community Garden of Chula Vista, Calif (San Diego) we simple were excited this last season with the Riesentraub TOO. We were so overwhelmed by the quality, and our harvest was incredible. We included these in our pints for produce sales and we had such a great response to continue and include them on our next season planting crop. best, CEO, Gloria

[@marilynm464]

Grace, love your artwork on canning poster.

[@heavenscenthomestead4242]

I too like the Opalka. My other favorite paste is the Amish Paste Tomato. I save the seeds every year and have great sucess from both. Great video. Love your poster!

[@tiffanymiller5558]

Thanks for all of your videos. I am loving them. I would recommend growing black krim for a slicing tomato (so delicious heirloom) and the yellow pear for cherry tomato, not as sweet and very prolific. Thanks for all you do and God bless you.

[@Keiths1234]

I Love You poster board showing what you can and dried and how many jars of each good tip keep up the good work thank you for blessing me with your knowledge I love tomatoes 2

[@grandiesgarden175]

GREAT info, thanks!

[@homesteadingatkookergehoft8131]

The poster tracking system is a neat-o idea!

[@kprairiesun]

I remember when you discovered the veggie seeds the pigs "planted" grew into healthy plants! So neat

[@kaiducoeur9932]

Your vids are such a wonderful resource! TY so much 💓

[@swianecki]

All those tomatoes look so good. Wish I had some. Loved Mr. Tom's story in the comments about the tomatoes too.

[@mirandaf2112]

I really love the cherry tomato called golden cherry. It is an heirloom variety. I live in zone 2 so it is harder for me to grow big slicers before the frost, but 1 that I really like is called Sashas Altai because it ripens early and we can eat it off the vine. Most of our tomatoes I have to pick green and ripen indoors. I like the chart idea. I am always losing my notebooks too :)

[@MissyKrystyniak]

I love ur idea with the putting up poster board. Id love to see a picture of it towards the end of the year just to see what different thi gs and how you save them if its not too much trouble :) love u guys!! God bless

[@kiraholley5491]

I personally love Hungarian heart tomato! My single plant was huge and it did really well in the California heat.

[@David-ei1fs]

I buy my seeds from Baker Creek too. I grow Black Krim, Carbon and a couple others for fun, and have found that with any "black" tomato, its best to harvest a little underripe, and bring them inside. The heat causes some to rot on the vine rapidly. When I bring them in early, and let them ripen on the counter, I get deep rich tomato. I have never had luck with "San Marzano"...weak vines, poor fruit. I live in Virginia zone 6, hot humid summers. "Black cherry" does well here too.

[@karenschafer2827]

When I was growing up, my father always grew Rutgers tomatoes developed by Rutgers U in NJ and I believe that Jet Star was developed as a more disease resistant variety of it. Jet Star is always my choice for good eating on sandwiches and a good canner.

[@scientificexplorergirl3374]

My family's favourites are: Slicer: Rutgers; Paste: Amish Paste; Cherry: Sweet Million. Best wishes.

[@michelevk569]

Slicer - Cherokee Purple & Brandywine Sudduth Strain Cherry - Christmas Grapes Dried mainly, but also for paste or pureé, and sauce: Principe Borghese (Prince Borghese)...a rather smallish, but very versatile tomato...superb dried and then preserved in oilive oil.

[@dupioni]

We had really great luck with Green Zebra tomatoes this year. Wonderful flavor. A green tomato but blushes yellow on the crown when ripe. Hopefully that would take care of that issue of not knowing when they are ripe.

[@markgramlin105]

Your garden videos are great! My favorite slicer is Brandywine. The flavor is unbeatable. I have yet to find a favorite paste tomato. Maybe I need to try the oplaca. Cherry tomato for me is Juliet hybred. Great flavor, unbelievably productive and blight resistant. Juice them by the handfuls through my trespade no cutting or coring. Brandywine is now available in a hybrid for better resistance.

[@loves2spin2]

That poster board is such a good idea! And how nice that you live close to Baker Creek!

[@oldchickenlady]

slicer - German Johnson for FLAVOR! paste - Amish, tried and true, sometimes reseeds. cherry - Yellow pear type - the reseed every year

[@mysticalwindows]

I love the poster idea

[@bb.w7450]

There eatable be glade you can grow them ..thank God for what you have ..

[@bethgraupmann8406]

We’ve spent the last couple years trying different varieties yet always keeping a few celebrities around because that’s what my parents have always grown and it’s done well. We tried the Jet Star this year, and it is my new fave for large tomatoes, they produced more and larger tomatoes than my celebrity did. I definitely noticed the difference in volume between the hybrid and heirloom varieties this year. We’re also trying Yellow Pear, Black Cherry, San Marzano, Purple Cherokee and a Supersteak this year.

[@susanchristensen1500]

Squash and pumpkin are a great wormer assistant too