Nematodes and heat waves! Daily highs above 90F for nearly all of July to September, with about 9-10 days a month over 100F for June-September. I haven’t been rotating crops, and planted mostly nightshades in the current community garden plot for 3 years, so the nematodes were bad this year. The whole bed of dwarf tomatoes, almost all the determinates, and most of the OP indeterminates produced little or nothing.
Successes:
Polaris was the best tasting, but I got only a few, mostly smaller ones. I haven’t pulled it yet, but the healthy Woodle Orange plant right next to it produced no tomatoes and had lots of root-knot nematodes.
Benevento F1 was great! I got a nice crop of large, tasty striped tomatoes.
Purple Boy F1 was the most productive of the very tasty varieties.
Picus F1 was a fairly productive paste, nice and dense.
Start F1 produced a lot of surprisingly sweet but tiny tomatoes.
Yana was a very productive red determinate! Lots of small red tomatoes that were edible but would not win any taste tests.
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