Taste Test Comparing Box Car Willie, Mortgage Lifter, and Brandywine Tomatoes.
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- I did this video back in the summer, and am just getting around to posting it. If was very hard trying to pick a winner, because they all tasted good to me.
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The Brandywine tomatoes are the best! Meaty, juicy and full of rich tomato flavor! A little salt and pepper and you have perfection! Thanks for sharing!
Yes, they are a pretty good all around tomato.....and some of them get pretty big.
I like the Brandywine fresh sliced. I tried cooking them. They are so tender with a thin skin and so juicy that they liquify. They keep their great flavor by it seems a waste of a great tomato.
They taste great but I hate growing em
My mouth was watering just watching this, they look delicious, and just looking at the Brandywine tomatoes they look scrummy, such a great test Jim, I LOVE the name of the Mortgage lifter haha! thanks so much for sharing Jim and sending heaps of love and happy growing from Ireland for a fab Friday XXXXXX
+Desert Plants of Avalon I know what you mean....they were delicious. It will be a long wait till the first one this year.
Thanks for sharing Jim. Best wishes Bob.
+Bob Lt (BobMel's Gardening) Thanks for watching Bob.
Those look great! Thanks for recording. I picked up the boxcar willie.
Thanks! That's a good all around tomato. I think you will like it. I know that we do.
Yes! I’m going on a couple of days to buy mine for this year,. I’ll Have to try one!!! Looked Great!!!
@@jimcowan8770 Good luck.
Thank you sooooo much for not smacking and slurping during your taste test. I turn off so many taste reviews because of the excessive noise. All 3 tomatoes look wonderful thanks for the review
You're welcome, Jackie! I'm a little sensitive to that also.
Would u please do the celebrity tomato,
I am curious it is becoming a very popular tomato in zone 7B thank you
Thanks for the suggestion! I've been growing mostly dwarf tomatoes for the last few years. I'm not quite done exploring those yet. I'll keep it in mind for the future though.
Great comparison. It is nice to see fresh tomatoes in Jam. You are very lucky. I would save seed for the one you like the bast. I have them in my collection. But have not had luck with them in this area.
+TheEmptynester
Nice to hear you are saving seeds. I plan to grow different types, until I can decide which ones are best.
Nice! Growing Brandywine Pink and Mortgage Lifter again. I thought they were ok before, but they seem to be missing the umph I like. I really like the Hege German Pink as a favorite. I feel like I should give these two heavyweights another shot so we'll see. Hope your 2016 garden is great for you!
Brent
+C3 Voyage Thanks for the information Brent. Much appreciated. Of the three in this video, I am considering only the Box Car Willie for this year. I still have seeds for the others, and might grow them again, but there are too many I want to try. I'll keep that Hege German Pink in mind.
I'm growing brandy wine and boxcar Willie this year... can't wait
Nice! You are going to have a great tomato year!
They look delicious!
They were, Maggy. I wish I had some right now.
Midwest Gardener Hi,. Jim,. I’m going in a few days to get my plants,. Any suggestions? We eat Lots of BLT’s! Ha! I usually want fresh tomatoes every night when they come in ! Also do lots of canning,. Just curious about what your Favorites are for both? I watched your other video about your Top 5,..
@@jimcowan8770 We don't do much canning. I would like to, but seems like I always have too much going on, and my wife just doesn't want to.
I went to a taste test at our local extension 3 yrs. ago . Out of 32 tomatoes ,I picked Boxcar Willie. Go figure. See Ya :>)
+1949RL
That is interesting. The Box Car Willie kind of grew on me as the summer went along. It is one of only three tomatoes that I grew last year, that I'm growing this year too. It is a good all around tomato.
Was holding my breath :-) Brandy wine and Cherokee purple are two of my most favorite tomatoes. I just knew you will favor brandy wine as well.
+Cultivating Organic by greenwiseJo And they have pretty big tomatoes too.
Very nice!
+Catalin Oancea Thanks.
Hi mate I grow the Mortgage Lifter last year I will be growing again great tomato very taste nice upload mate Paul.
+Nirvana Allotment Horticultural Gardening Channel The Mortgage lifter doesn't seem to tolerate the heat here, but they have an amazing number of blooms on them. Will be watching for this years videos.
Midwest Gardener More suited to our weather here in the UK rain rain and more rain lol
I'm planting Morgage Lifters this season, I hope mine look as pretty as yours.
I hope you enjoy growing them as much as we did. Good luck, Holly!
Box car willie is one of 3 varieties of indeterminate I picked up for my hydroponic grow (slim pickins). Kind of excited with this review.
Nice! I hope you enjoy it as much as we did!
Beautiful 'maters! I'm growing the Mortgage Lifter this year as well. Can't wait for the summer so I can have my tomato sandwiches for breakfast lol ;)
+Sunny Hilltop Can't beat them maters. I love my first BLT.
I Can’t Wait!!! Yum!!!
Midwest Gardener Yes! Me Too!!! I usually eat 2-3 a Week after the maters come in!!! Haha!!!
This has been a rainy season bringing fungi into Western NC from the tomato fields in the South, so I try to spray before and after rain. I put in a test of 40 plants of various varieties this year and I particularly wanted to test Boxcar Willie, Manalucie, and Manapal, and Supersonic a1960's hybrid, all of which are old varieties. I wasn't familiar with Boxcar Willie and very familiar with the others. Supersonics make large healthy plants much like Jet Star which I also like. Manalucie and Manapal were once grown as commercial tomatoes. Manapal sets a lot of medium size fruit on medium sized plants that average about baseball size which made them popular commercially with good disease resistance. Manalucie and Supersonic are too large for supermarket sales, great for eating though, some what less disease resistant. The Manalucie plants I grew from seed didn't look quite like the old Manalucie tomatoes that I grew in the 1950ties so I'll shop for seed from a different company next year. Manalucie is a large tomato with a "cat's eye" on the end opposite the stem. Supermarkets used to cover the "cat's eye" with a sticker, since city folk might think there was something wrong with them.
I have been very surprised by the Boxcar Willie tomatoes, they proved to be one of the most resistant varieties to Blight, more so than the other varieties. All of these tomatoes have outstanding taste to me and I love the big smooth fruit and flavorful Boxcar Willies. I like to save seed and grow my own plants but there is variability in seed of old varieties that you buy. I had some great Charlie Radiator Mortgage Lifters once and the next ones, not so much. The same with potato leaf Brandywine varieties. My advice is, if you find a good one that has the qualities we all want hang on to it. Cool nights in WNC provide some of the best tasting tomatoes anywhere and I don't want to waste my time with today's commercial varieties selected for disease resistance and shipping qualities.
My measure of true wealth is to be able to cut about an inch slice from the middle of a home grown tomato, salt it and put it between two slices of 'light bread' slathered in mayonnaise and give the rest away to the deer or chickens, now that's the good ole summer time living.
Thanks for sharing all the great information! I'm sure that other folks will appreciate it too. I hope you remain wealthy for a long time :)
@@MidwestGardener It's the simple things that make life worth living, like having a healthy family, like living in a peaceful community, helping others, like enjoying natures bounty, homegrown tomatoes, sweet corn, "okry", greens, squash, melons and peaches from SC, old saved beans the hulls of which are tender until they dry up, my folks used to dry these beans and we enjoyed "leather britches" all winter. Life is good, it is too bad that those who relentlessly pursue money realize when it is too late that they are left with an empty bag.
nice video, im ordering my tomatoes seeds very soon, its always good to know whats best, thanks for the info. there is so many tomatoes to choose from, black krim is on my list, I will also try and get brandy wine along with a yellow cherry tomato which my dad has saved the seeds from a store brought tomatoes ("golden" something not to sure of the name) and many more varieties for this year, thanks for sharing
+ESCAPING THE MATRIX FOR GOOD
Looking forward to seeing what you are going to grow this year. I've never grown the yellow cherry tomatoes, but I've been wanting to try them. We have a friend that did really well with them last year.
They all look good! I'm planning on growing some plum tiger stripes this coming season as something a bit different
+Alan Williams That does sound different Alan. Will be watching for the videos of them.
Need a bigger knife.
"that's not a knife..." 🇦🇺
True :)
Oh my goodness, pass me a couple slices of bread and some mayo. :)
+Chrissy 01
I hear you there. I can't wait for that first BLT!
I prefer a highly acidic tomato like I had growing up, unfortunately I have no idea "what" kind of tomato it was. Were any of these high in acid?
+Jackiepoodle1
I'm pretty sure that the Box Car Willie is, but I'm not so sure about the others. They box car willie kind of grew on us, and it is one of 3 types from last year that we are going to grow again this year.
Thank you!
just the name Brandywine soaks to my heart (I'm a Lord of the Rings fan haha) I must try these different varieties next year. especially that one. is it an heirloom, I'm guessing? #beginnergardener
I never thought of that connection. Yes, all of those were heirlooms. You can potentially have a greater chance of disease, but the flavor of the heirlooms is sooo much better. Or at least many of them. Black Krim is our favorite for taste so far.
+Midwest Gardener awesome. I'm still learning about all of these diseases...and insects... and how to prevent and get rid of them. gardening is a science for sure haha but I love it. also that post was supposed to say speaks not soaks. I'm sure you prison figured that out though.
see there is go again. oh gee.
really? I'm in too much of a hurry.
I've been doing it for years, and I still learn new things every year. That is part of the fun of it. You are doing great so far.
You did not coment on HOW the brandywine tasted, just that you liked it best. What did u like about it? I have found BOXCAR Willy to be always faithful to its fabulous true tomato taste. Were Brandywine Red has not been consistent in flavor. When "On" it is delicious, juicy somwhat sweet. However when "off" i find it rather bland, yet still juicy. Oh, and I haven't tasted mortgage lifter yet. Just my 2 cents.
Thanks for the feedback, Trina! I did this video about 5 or 6 years ago, and looking at it now, I cringe because it's not a very good video. I think I've improved a little bit since then, but describing how something tastes is still a huge weakness of mine. I've grown dozens of different tomatoes, and I've found that many of them can have an off year because of growing conditions. Sometimes the difference can be pretty extreme. In the last couple of years, I've been growing dwarf tomatoes from the dwarf tomato project, and those have my attention right now. Some of them have great flavor in a more manageable size. Thanks again for the feedback. Very helpful.
@@MidwestGardener i apologize. I did not look at the year u put out the video. In my experience with tomatoes the flavors can fluctuate with the same plant. (Early, mid and late harvest or Picked early and finished ripping on counter. Heck, if im starving then that was the best tomato i have ever tasted! 😃😊 i do like comparison test and also find it difficult to pin down the right words to match what is going on in my mouth. When it comes down to it though, everyones taste, likes and dislikes differ. I personally lean towards purples complexities and well balanced leaning towards sweet, usually pink-yellow. Growing first white tomato, tomesol, this year. Read they are usually bland so have been leery. Happy gardening!
@@MidwestGardener i will be watching eagerly for your videos on dwarfs, I have seen a few. I have started 4 different purple varieties of drawfs for the first time in my grow room. Will put them out in july.(second round of tomatoes always gets me jazzed) i live in high desert California. I get extra or extended growing of toms, beans, cucks and squash in before putting out fall crops. Happy gardening!
@@trinade3732 That is a good point that tomatoes can vary on one plant during a single season. Things can change. The White Tomesol was one of the best tomatoes I ever tasted, and also one of the blandest. I hope you have a good year for it, because we couldn't believe how good it tasted the first time we grew it.
@@trinade3732 I loved the Boronia last year. I have a couple of those growing now. I've heard really good things about Rosella Purple, so I have a couple of those too. Good luck with yours!
Did someone say BLT 😃👍
+my2cents0
I can still taste it if I try hard enough. Can't wait for the next one.
That doesn't look like a Mortgage Lifter....🤫
I'm not an expert on Mortgage Lifter tomatoes, because I only grew them for a couple of years, so I will have to take your word on that. I got the seeds from Lowes, if I remember right. The think I remember about them most is that they had an amazing number of blooms on them.
@@MidwestGardener The reason I say it is because of the number of seeds. The Mortgage Lifter is known for it's low number of seeds, and it's meatiness.
@@BIZKITJODE I didn't know that, thanks.