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greggf · January 15, 2008

I've grown New Yorker two or three times in recent years. It's great. TGS sells it.

I grew Fireball once. It was terrible.

My mother grew New Yorker many seasons around 1968++, when I was in junior high school. I can remember stopping mowing on hot late summer days so that she or my grandmother could give me half a New Yorker tomato-and-mayo sandwich.

I think later on she replaced it with BasketVee or HarvestVee, which were from Stokes, and were bred, I think, in Canada, which was only 18 miles from where I grew up. She canned. BasketVee was (and others say still is) good, too, for canning and fresh eating. Gotta grow it myself soon.

New Yorker is, happily, the standard tomato in my memory, and probably my standard for taste. It could well be why I don't consider "stronger tasting" to mean "better tasting."

January 15, 2008	#9
greggf Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Boonville, NY Posts: 419	I've grown New Yorker two or three times in recent years. It's great. TGS sells it. I grew Fireball once. It was terrible. My mother grew New Yorker many seasons around 1968++, when I was in junior high school. I can remember stopping mowing on hot late summer days so that she or my grandmother could give me half a New Yorker tomato-and-mayo sandwich. I think later on she replaced it with BasketVee or HarvestVee, which were from Stokes, and were bred, I think, in Canada, which was only 18 miles from where I grew up. She canned. BasketVee was (and others say still is) good, too, for canning and fresh eating. Gotta grow it myself soon. New Yorker is, happily, the standard tomato in my memory, and probably my standard for taste. It could well be why I don't consider "stronger tasting" to mean "better tasting."