Wow, good for you getting yield out of the yellow brandywine platfoot. I don't think I picked a single tomato off my one plant. All of my brandywines were duds this year. Red Brandwine, Landis Valley, was another disappointment.
Titan Red was the yield winner among my heirloom experiments this year. It's going to be my early red high tunnel tomato for next year. Taxi remains my yellow, and I am going back to Orange Blossom F1 as my early determinate orange.
Cosmonaut Volkov remains my best heirloom answer to Big Beef. I also have a medium red indeterminate from China called Ten Hung Tan Chieh that is an excellent producer of attractive fruit. I would rate both of them higher than Big Beef in regard to flavor, and I like Big Beef a lot.
George Detsikas Italian Red was a good producer; I'm going to grow it again. All of the Jazz varieties from Fred Hempel show a lot of promise as market varieties, too.
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