FYI chickens love watermelons and cucumbers, nothing but the thinnest skins left after they are done eating. I love watching my girls devouring melons 🍉 🐓 / I love your channel and I love baker creek heirloom seeds.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!!
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!
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!!
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.
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
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!
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.
I agree. Mortgage lifter is a great heirloom slicing tomato. Amish paste is a great heirloom paste tomato as well. I don't think it gets as big as the paste tomoatoes in the video but it is still my favorite.
I got my Amish Paste tomato seeds from High Mowing Organic Seeds out of VT, somewhat local to us here in CT. I started these indoors, perhaps too early as they were pretty large before it was really warm enough to get them into the ground, but WOW. I now have plants nearly 7ft tall, loaded with tomatoes, most on par with larger paste tomatoes, and some even bigger. Great meaty flesh for sauce, and also my wife's new favorite for slicing and eating with fresh mozzarella. Definitely under estimated the yield and size of these plants, but truly a favorite with us
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.
I planted sweet 1,000s this year and they have been super productive, delicious and fairly blight resistant. They will succumb to the blight when the Pacific NW rains start up, but for now, they are the healthiest tomatoes we grew this year.
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.
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
I’m in the uk 🇬🇧 - but I’m sure these varieties are classics - Roma as a paste, costoluto fiorentino as a slicer and sungold as a yellow cherry Love your vlogs xx
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.
You pigs have the table etiquette of...of...pigs. Another EXCELLENT VIDEO. Thanks. I know how hard it is to put out so many videos each week. Thanks for the effort. It is truly appreciated.
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!
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❤️
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. 🐔 🐐 🌱 🐷
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!!
You two 😂😍. never stop enjoying one another. he is a goofball and its so sweet that you laugh at him like you do. me and my hubsnad are the same way. I wouldn't have him any other way though lol.
Try "Sun Sugars" from Totally Tomato 😋 You can eat them yellow, or wait until they turn orange! We don't grow any other cherry tomatoes anymore! I wash & put them in a bowl on the counter, & before I know the bowl is empty! They also freeze well in a gallon bag so you can just pour them into meals :) Kevin Just eat them once, then Sarah will always find you in the garden 😉
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.
Opalka tomatoes are my favorite for canning and slicing. You MUST try Jelly Bean grape tomatoes. I can them whole as a pickled tomato and dehydrate them also. I put those in a ziploc with a bit of olive oil, some with seasonings, some plain. Store the ziploc in the freezer, pull them out to use in salads all winter.
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.
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.
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!
great vid guys! my all time top 3 are Black Prince, Chocolate Stripes, and Cherokee Purple...favorite cherries are Sunsugar, Rapunzel, and Chocolate Cherry!!! my channel is mostly fireworks vids but i do have two vids of tomato hauls that show some pretty maters if you get time to check them out!
Thanks for another great video. You might want to try Green Zebras. They turn yellow when they're ripe and are delicious. They black cherries are wonderful. My wife's favorite yellow cherry is Sun Sugar. They are prolific and one of the sweetest. San Marzano Redorta are also prolific and are as big as Opalkas. They are sweet and a great sauce tomato. We love them in salad's also. Thanks again!
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.
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.
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.
A tip for the cherry type or grape tomatoes. I half or quarter them depending on size and I will very very lightly olive oil, white balsamic vinegar, salt, pepper and garlic powder, mix well then dehydrate them. They have a wonderful flavor and I eat them like potatoe chips! I store in a Mason jar and vacuum seal it. It's a bit time consuming cutting them up but the pay off is so very worth it. They store well also.
I think you should try Tappys heritage. It’s a slicer and it’s amazing. So disease resistant, an absolutely beautiful shape- ALWAYS, easy to core, great taste, and never cracks. Even when so many other varieties do. Try it!
Yes, I got those same tomatoes for free from Baker's Creek. They did not survive seedling stage over here in TX. I am jealous that your san marzano's grew so well. They did not grow this time around over here. Prolly too hot for them here with the 116F Degree weather. I recommend the Cherokee Purples Tomatoes. They have a delicious smoky flavor and can have a high acidic taste sometimes. The yellow Dr. Wyches are delicious too.
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.
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!
Do you ever make jam out of your tomatoes? What breed of quail are you raising? I love the poster board idea. I always forget where I wrote things down. It’s easier to keep track when it’s out in the open.
That list at the end is a great simple idea that I probably wouldn't have thought of myself! Have y'all thought about freeze drying food? They have those home freeze dries that are "affordable". Personally, I would like to try it although I forsee it being used primarily for ice cream. Something about the condensed flavor and consistency one can get out of the dehydrator can't be rivaled by a freeze drier despite all its other benefits. Dehydrated watermelon or flavored zucchini gummies! Banging!
Hey neighbors! We are from Boonville...not a close neighbor...lol! Enjoying your videos...nice to see what others are growing and like. Love heirlooms, which you can save their seeds, but I still grow some hybrids as well. Amish Paste is my heirloom, but I think mine are smaller than your pastes. For the perfect all-over tomato, that is heirloom Rutgers! Favorite cherry is hybrids Sun Sugar and Sweet 100's. Bakers Creek favorite is Green Zebra, actually it is my all-time favorite!
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.
Hey all great video, next year in your tomato patch try a Beef Master plant you will not be disappointed. Been growing them for 30 years, for flavor, meatiness and yield they are hard to beat. Good Luck
i grow romas and rudgers for just canning they make an awesome taste together. brandywine or big beef is usually what i grow for slicing .this year i got very few tomatoes and they were so small plus blight basically took over my garden I was so disappointed. Tiller broke and I begin to use grass clippings and cardboard and leaves but it was too much to do in short time to help much but by next year I hope all Ive read does work with this kind of mulching keeping blight off everything.
My chickens love cherry tomatoes, they scramble for a handful of those thrown in for them. And the cherry tomatoes have gone WILD this year. They are Matt's Wild Cherry this year, small but excellent flavor. Also the yellow pear did well, nice treat, bright yellow, easy to see , don't over ripen fast, hold well. Some tomatoes have split for me this year as Pennsylvania is drowning in rain.
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
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!
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
We get all of our seed from Rupps. They have so many varieties of everything it's mind boggling! They have short descriptions of them, so you can find what you're looking for a little easier. Only bad thing is the quantities you have to buy. We work with the neighbors around here and share them, so it's not as big of a deal. Thanks for all the info!
I am south of you guys, as far as tomatoes, it seems the more I like a tomatoes taste the more the southern blite shows up. I see many enjoy the Amish paste, I agree with them. Also some paste tomatoes taste sweeten once cooked down, so a taste test may be best to find your favorite. I enjoyed yellow Brandywine this year, kinda a breakfast type tomato, not as acidic taste. Keep up the good work, have a Great Day!
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I love how you guys don't interrupt or talk over each other
FYI chickens love watermelons and cucumbers, nothing but the thinnest skins left after they are done eating. I love watching my girls devouring melons 🍉 🐓 / I love your channel and I love baker creek heirloom seeds.
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.
Good point about the last ones that ripened later also extending the growing season.
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.
I really like your poster idea vs the notebook. So much more efficient with that visibility of totals.
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.
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
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.
“Sweet 100” cherry tomatoes🍅
More videos like this please. They are super helpful in planning next year's garden.
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.
we moveing to Missouri in March next year from Alaska. your information helps so much. thankyou for all you do.
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!!
Feeding animals is very therapeutic. When they eat what you feed them it just feels good to see how very happy it makes them. Omg 😊💝😊💝😊💝😊
Substitute Sungold for the eggyolk..Yum!
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!
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
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
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.
good day to you Kevin and Sarah !! what lovely variety of tomatoes your growing this year !!
I remember when you discovered the veggie seeds the pigs "planted" grew into healthy plants! So neat
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.
We love growing sweet 100 for cherry tomatoes. Wonderful flavor and very prolific!
Katy C i'v grown sweet 100 several time both in the ground and straw bales. Very prolific and volunteer like crazy. Also extremely sweet and tasty.
I agree - my Sweet 100's even came back from a late hail storm that decimated the plant. It also does well every year, no matter the conditions.
Thanks for taking the time to show us the different varieties and how they did. Have a great weekend and God bless
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.
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.
Purrfectly informative topic! Great feedback on the tomatos. Love seeing you care for the piggies and other animals. Thank you, God Bless.
Kevin seems like a guy I could hang out with. Very cool video, thanks and keep 'em coming.
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!!
Grace did a nice job decorating your board. I always grow the yellow pear tomato. Love them.
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.
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
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.
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!
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...ruclips.net/video/FNAg7LtybOQ/видео.html
I've got that t-shirt too.
I like the sweet 100 cherry tomato. They have been very good tomato for my use
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.
Mortgage Lifter for slicing Amish Paste for paste Yellow Pear or Blueberry (Indigo series) for cherry tomatoes
Thanks guys!!
Deep South Homestead I love your channel! You guys really know your stuff. As well as Living Traditions Homestead, of course! lol
I agree. Mortgage lifter is a great heirloom slicing tomato. Amish paste is a great heirloom paste tomato as well. I don't think it gets as big as the paste tomoatoes in the video but it is still my favorite.
I got my Amish Paste tomato seeds from High Mowing Organic Seeds out of VT, somewhat local to us here in CT. I started these indoors, perhaps too early as they were pretty large before it was really warm enough to get them into the ground, but WOW. I now have plants nearly 7ft tall, loaded with tomatoes, most on par with larger paste tomatoes, and some even bigger. Great meaty flesh for sauce, and also my wife's new favorite for slicing and eating with fresh mozzarella. Definitely under estimated the yield and size of these plants, but truly a favorite with us
I tried Amish paste last yr and it didn't do very well at all. I have grown Mortgage Lifter the in 2017 and I'm looking to try them again.
I love you guys and your videos! God bless you, your family and your lifestyle. This is how I grew up. Keep it up!
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.
You all are so funny about the tomatoes! My father grew tomatoes in our small back yard. Love them. Cherry tomatoes, Roma, and beefsteak tomatoes.
Sweet 100s cherry and red duce for slicing
Love the poster board idea! Thanks for all the information.
I planted sweet 1,000s this year and they have been super productive, delicious and fairly blight resistant. They will succumb to the blight when the Pacific NW rains start up, but for now, they are the healthiest tomatoes we grew this year.
... actually... maybe they were sweet million.
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.
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
Zone 8b, we grow mortgage lifters for slicers.
I’m in the uk 🇬🇧 - but I’m sure these varieties are classics - Roma as a paste, costoluto fiorentino as a slicer and sungold as a yellow cherry
Love your vlogs xx
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.
We live in a small town in Tennessee and we pretty much have always loved the way you do.
I love LOVE the taste of the Cherokee Purple for slicers.
Squash and pumpkin are a great wormer assistant too
Those quail are BEAUTIFUL!!! That poster board is a great idea. Reminds me of my homeschooling days. Awesome video guys.
You pigs have the table etiquette of...of...pigs. Another EXCELLENT VIDEO. Thanks.
I know how hard it is to put out so many videos each week. Thanks for the effort. It is truly appreciated.
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!
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❤️
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. 🐔 🐐 🌱 🐷
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!!
I grew Opalka for the first time this year. I absolutely love these and will definitely grow them!
You two 😂😍. never stop enjoying one another. he is a goofball and its so sweet that you laugh at him like you do. me and my hubsnad are the same way. I wouldn't have him any other way though lol.
Try "Sun Sugars" from Totally Tomato 😋
You can eat them yellow, or wait until they turn orange!
We don't grow any other cherry tomatoes anymore! I wash & put them in a bowl on the counter, & before I know the bowl is empty! They also freeze well in a gallon bag so you can just pour them into meals :)
Kevin Just eat them once, then Sarah will always find you in the garden 😉
Kevin and Sarah I really enjoy your videos>>>You are a very blessed family>>take care and God Bless You!!
You all make the best videos! Thank you I sure enjoy them
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.
I'm with Kevin. To me it's a right of summer to pick the first tomato of the plant, warmed by the sun, wash it off and eat Right Now! 😁
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.
Opalka tomatoes are my favorite for canning and slicing. You MUST try Jelly Bean grape tomatoes. I can them whole as a pickled tomato and dehydrate them also. I put those in a ziploc with a bit of olive oil, some with seasonings, some plain. Store the ziploc in the freezer, pull them out to use in salads all winter.
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.
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.
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!
slicer - German Johnson for FLAVOR! paste - Amish, tried and true, sometimes reseeds. cherry - Yellow pear type - the reseed every year
great vid guys! my all time top 3 are Black Prince, Chocolate Stripes, and Cherokee Purple...favorite cherries are Sunsugar, Rapunzel, and Chocolate Cherry!!! my channel is mostly fireworks vids but i do have two vids of tomato hauls that show some pretty maters if you get time to check them out!
Thanks for another great video. You might want to try Green Zebras. They turn yellow when they're ripe and are delicious. They black cherries are wonderful. My wife's favorite yellow cherry is Sun Sugar. They are prolific and one of the sweetest. San Marzano Redorta are also prolific and are as big as Opalkas. They are sweet and a great sauce tomato. We love them in salad's also. Thanks again!
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.
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.
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.
A tip for the cherry type or grape tomatoes. I half or quarter them depending on size and I will very very lightly olive oil, white balsamic vinegar, salt, pepper and garlic powder, mix well then dehydrate them. They have a wonderful flavor and I eat them like potatoe chips! I store in a Mason jar and vacuum seal it. It's a bit time consuming cutting them up but the pay off is so very worth it. They store well also.
I think you should try Tappys heritage. It’s a slicer and it’s amazing. So disease resistant, an absolutely beautiful shape- ALWAYS, easy to core, great taste, and never cracks. Even when so many other varieties do. Try it!
Yes, I got those same tomatoes for free from Baker's Creek. They did not survive seedling stage over here in TX. I am jealous that your san marzano's grew so well. They did not grow this time around over here. Prolly too hot for them here with the 116F Degree weather. I recommend the Cherokee Purples Tomatoes. They have a delicious smoky flavor and can have a high acidic taste sometimes. The yellow Dr. Wyches are delicious too.
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.
I LOVE the yellow pear it's wonderful in salsa and the yellow is a nice change for the salsa
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!
Do you ever make jam out of your tomatoes? What breed of quail are you raising? I love the poster board idea. I always forget where I wrote things down. It’s easier to keep track when it’s out in the open.
That list at the end is a great simple idea that I probably wouldn't have thought of myself!
Have y'all thought about freeze drying food? They have those home freeze dries that are "affordable". Personally, I would like to try it although I forsee it being used primarily for ice cream. Something about the condensed flavor and consistency one can get out of the dehydrator can't be rivaled by a freeze drier despite all its other benefits. Dehydrated watermelon or flavored zucchini gummies! Banging!
That poster board is such a good idea! And how nice that you live close to Baker Creek!
Hey neighbors! We are from Boonville...not a close neighbor...lol! Enjoying your videos...nice to see what others are growing and like. Love heirlooms, which you can save their seeds, but I still grow some hybrids as well. Amish Paste is my heirloom, but I think mine are smaller than your pastes. For the perfect all-over tomato, that is heirloom Rutgers! Favorite cherry is hybrids Sun Sugar and Sweet 100's. Bakers Creek favorite is Green Zebra, actually it is my all-time favorite!
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.
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.
Hey all great video, next year in your tomato patch try a Beef Master plant you will not be disappointed. Been growing them for 30 years, for flavor, meatiness and yield they are hard to beat. Good Luck
i grow romas and rudgers for just canning they make an awesome taste together. brandywine or big beef is usually what i grow for slicing .this year i got very few tomatoes and they were so small plus blight basically took over my garden I was so disappointed. Tiller broke and I begin to use grass clippings and cardboard and leaves but it was too much to do in short time to help much but by next year I hope all Ive read does work with this kind of mulching keeping blight off everything.
My chickens love cherry tomatoes, they scramble for a handful of those thrown in for them. And the cherry tomatoes have gone WILD this year. They are Matt's Wild Cherry this year, small but excellent flavor. Also the yellow pear did well, nice treat, bright yellow, easy to see , don't over ripen fast, hold well. Some tomatoes have split for me this year as Pennsylvania is drowning in rain.
Chocolate Cherry & Matt Wild Cherry are 2 of my favs
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
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!
There eatable be glade you can grow them ..thank God for what you have ..
We order all our seeds from Baker Creek. How cool to be local to them!
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
Cherry tomato=Sun Sugar. Canning and slicing tomato=jet star. Haven’t found a paste tomato I would recommend. Great though. Love your videos!
We get all of our seed from Rupps. They have so many varieties of everything it's mind boggling! They have short descriptions of them, so you can find what you're looking for a little easier. Only bad thing is the quantities you have to buy. We work with the neighbors around here and share them, so it's not as big of a deal. Thanks for all the info!
Lol! I was wondering how long Kevin could hold out before he ate those tomatoes! This was a great comparison video. Thanks!
The “chocolate cherry “ grows well in pots also. I grow mine in pots on my porch 👍
I am south of you guys, as far as tomatoes, it seems the more I like a tomatoes taste the more the southern blite shows up. I see many enjoy the Amish paste, I agree with them. Also some paste tomatoes taste sweeten once cooked down, so a taste test may be best to find your favorite. I enjoyed yellow Brandywine this year, kinda a breakfast type tomato, not as acidic taste. Keep up the good work, have a Great Day!