If you like plants that have thick dark green rugose foliage on stalks that make them look like the trees little kids draw - then Lime Green Salad is for you! IThese plants are so pretty in pots they can sub for any 2 foot high potted ornamental on my deck anyday. They get covered in blossoms & grow sharp, citrusy bigger-than-golfball sized fruits that make PERFECT salsa and do well with watermelon & feta in summer salads.
Love them! Put that KBX near a south facing wall - it is my FAVORITE gold-orange beefsteak of all time! Annual must grow - multiple plants, save seed off supper plate - that good!
Flammee is late season for me but oh-so-good I would drag it into the living room if DH (aka the quartermaster) hasn't banned me from doing so (& from taking in any more starving semi-feral cats LOL).
I grow blighty Isis Candy every year for DH - when it inevitably gets sick from the bottom up, I take big old cuttings from up high & root them (takes about 5 days in water in the shade down here). Mother plant then withers but the cuttings do not catch whatever the initial plant inevitably gets. Go figure. I am trying Marizol magic, Bi-color Cherry & one other supposed bi-color cherry to see if they are more resistant to whatever Isis Candy is not down here.... & if Mr. Discernment will gravitate to them.
Black Cherry - must have every year, multiple plants -
Virginia Sweets - love it! Put that one near that south facing brick or stone wall if you can. Late season & oh-so-fabulous!
Aunt Ruby's German Green - a disease resistant god producer of wonderful tomatoes - a grow every other year or so here. It & Grubb's Mystery Green have been the healthiest & best producing for me so far. (Note - my weather is not your weather - we are horribly hot, humid & droughty - I still pine for my open windows, no screens or ac & light summer quilt from living in Seattle)
DH demands Cherokee Purple annually. Can actually pick out the slices of CP when they are served on a plate of mixed blacks. He who loathes the garden is quite the tomato specialist. Eat them when you pick them - they soften fast (not rot just soften).
Gardener's Delight is a great cherry tomato.
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