Choosing tomatoes based on taste for 2024 - I DON'T recommend two but a few are really delicious!
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- Опубликовано: 3 авг 2024
- 🥒 In this video, I taste test 8 of the 31 tomato varieties I'm growing this year. I'll show you what they look like inside and out, who I bought the seeds from and, more importantly, if I think they taste good and are worth growing.
The tomatoes in this video are:
00:00 Introduction to the tomatoes
07:05 Constoluto Pomodoro Fiorentino
11:11 Lucid Gem
16:20 Amethyst Jewel
20:08 Cherry Brandywine
23:16 Sweetheart Cherry - The packet said Sweetheart Cherry, but I'm not convinced.
27:05 Honeycomb F1
29:50 Ozark Sunrise
34:30 Kaleidoscopic Jewel
For a listing of this year's tomatoes, please visit my Blog at VeggiePlot.uk
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Only those of us who take great pleasure in growing our own tomatoes totally understand that reaction to Lucid Gem, I sat laughing along with you thinking I so do exactly the same! 🤣🤣🤣 some tomatoes just reaaaalllllllyyy hit the spot!
You're so right and I'm so glad I'm not the only one 😂
Thank you for valuing the actual tomato taste of a tomato, rather than its sweetness only. I love a fat, meaty, savoury beefsteak tomato. Nothing like them in the shops. I don't like ultra juicy toms either - they make soggy sandwiches and don't cook well into sauces.
The next batch are almost all savoury Lin so I hope you like that video when it come out and find some you'd like to grow. I do like a little sweet cherry tomato, but the beefsteaks with flavour, are the best.
I second this! I read a bunch of reviews that talk about sweetness, and I am really not into that. I look for some nice acidty and complex tastes. Worst case, it is easy to add sugar to sauces or whatever one is doing if it is needed, but it is much harder to get rid of it.
OK, you are tasting the Lucid Gem tomato and I have to subscribe because I love your reactions. So great. Thank you for having a channel which is informative, highly entertaining AND family friendly. Thank you and God bless from the Ozarks, USA. 🙏🏼
🤣 yes, it was a remarkable tomato although, perhaps I was a little over the top. Thanks for subbing though and for the great feedback, it's really appreciated.
@@veggieplot My pleasure, kind sir. I’ve been binge watching your taste test videos.
We sell at our local farmers’ market and this time of year, when it starts to get chilly, is when I sit by the fire and STUDY varieties I want to grow the following year.
My GOAL is to make veggies CRAVE-WORTHY to children. I want little ones to seek out our health-building vegetables. ❤️
Your taste-test videos help A LOT! 🙏🏼
That's great to hear, I wish I had managed that with my children, although I like to think that one day they'll pick up a seed packet and grow something they'll love to eat.
@@veggieplot ❤️
We love the costeluto for brecky and for our sauces for winter
I agree, they'll make a wonderful sauce later in the year.
I am a beefsteak tomato fan because I prefer them cooked or grilled. I only have a black strawberry and mini orange variety. Great update Chris and I am looking forward to seeing your next batch. Happy gardening 👩🌾, Ali ☁️🇨🇦
Hi Ali, I prefer the beefsteaks too, although I can't resist Honeycomb every year 😂. Happy gardening to you too 🧑🏼🌾
Roots and Refuge and Prairie Plantgirl and True T V and Gardener Scott on RUclips I noticed as myself love that Thourburg Terracotta ( Baker Creek Seeds carries the seeds ) I said to you a few days ago about the only tomato I've tried and eat the whole thing and 4 different times each time said WOW! Truly enjoyed each.anf normally I don't eat tomatoes but with sandwiches in salad and in many dishes tomatoes add so much flavor.
I save my own seeds if you want I'll mail just give me a mailing address.
Seeing your response will be a great experience and our circle of friends favorite is " Midnight Snack "
My neighbor from Central America claims Thourburg Terracotta as best tomatoes for her dishes and she's cooking every day
Thanks
Hey John, they sound great and I just watched a YT video about them. I believe that Tomato Revolution Seeds in the UK is selling seeds although they call them Thorburns Terra-Cotta, which I presume are the same thing. If you're happy to send over some seeds I'd definitely try them next year as it's too late here now. Please send an email via www.veggieplot.uk and I'll send over my details. Many thanks.
I am new to your channel. Thanks for another great video and some great information about growing to tomatoes
Thank you and welcome to the channel.
TY for doing this. I get so many ideas on new things to try.
You're most welcome Robin, there are so many to try, it's crazy!
I love these videos... I grew a bunch this year as well and my favorite of all time so far is a dwarf variety called Uluru Ochre... try it... you will not be disappointed.
Thank you for the feedback and if I see Uluru Ochre I'll give it a try. I haven't heard of it before so I'll Google it too.
@@veggieplot Uluru Ochre was developed by the Dwarf Tomato Project folks... It has the most delicious, complex flavors... I hope you will try it next year... I only grew one this year and I could have kicked myself for it because out of the 60 tomato plants I grew, it was the best by far... don't be like me, grow a few of these babies...
Loved this video giving great ideas and interest. I always think no the ones that have the most flavour are the first picking the first fruits as they have the long summer warmth and sun on them. Ones that ripen later on not just from sunshine so the flavour lessens. My opinion
Interesting thought and maybe you're right.
All Sweetheart Cherry tomatoes I can find are a true cherry tomato. Kinda think yours were mismarked. Thanks for the great video.
Thank you, and I think you're right as they certainly weren't a cherry tomato.
Try “Mortgage Lifter”, for a huuuge yield...
Thank you for the tip, I'll check it out. What do you reckon on the flavour?
@@veggieplot 9/10, maybe better!
Hey! I’m in the Ozarks! I just heard your tomato choices and had to comment! ❤️
Hi Amy, sorry for the late reply, we lost a member of the family a few weeks back and everything got put on hold. I just looked up the Ozarks on Google and went down a rabbit hole of beautiful images and videos! What a lovely looking area, stunning.
@@veggieplot Oh, I am so sorry for your loss. I pray your family can find peace in these troubling times. 🙏🏼
Great video. I'll be interested to see what you think of it, because I haven't been able to find anyone else who's grown it. I just bought some seeds for it the other day, and I'm going to start them this weekend.
Hi Frances, thank you, and what tomato did you mean?
@@veggieplot Lol The Loxton Lad. I got so excited I forgot to say which one I meant.
i was diagnosed with early stage prostrate cancer my psa was 8 my oncologist told to eat as much tomatoes as possible in which i did got my psa back to 4 it a pity we cant grow them the whole year as the shop ones dont be as good
I hadn’t heard that about lowering PSA levels but good to know. Sorry to hear about your diagnosis, that must be difficult.
I purchased aztek micro dwarf from honey vale farm. Grew one plant and ended up being a indetiminate tomato plant with big yellow toms. Not what i wanted but gonna try again next year to see if it was a cross polination issue. The other 2 varieties kinda looks right . Black russian and green zebra
That’s frustrating when you don’t get what you ordered, I grew some huge red heart shaped toms which we’re supposed to be Sweetheart Cherry! Good for cooking but not what I wanted and I’ll not grow it again. Having said that both the Green Zebra and Black Krim were great.
@@veggieplot I purchased of a big company gold marizol and ended up with a red ox heart tomato.
My Black Krim have come up trumps, but still waiting on my Brad's Atomic Grape to ripen.
Yes me too but they always seem to be the last in the season to ripen properly! What did you think of the Black Krim?
@@veggieplot Very nice, quite sweet and a nice flesh.
the first one is the ones i grew this year they are quite soft
Was that the Pomodoro tomato?
@@veggieplot yes
the probleam with me is when purchasing the seed in my local store its never on the packet the name of them
That sounds a little unusual and not very helpful!