Originally Posted by habitat_gardener
I was just telling my partner the other day that if I had to, I could whittle my list down to these favorites: Benevento F1 and Polaris for tomato sandwiches, Purple Boy F1 for a reliable tasty medium tomato, and for cherries, Rosella cherry and Chocolate Sprinkles F1. All of these did very well last year despite the root-knot nematodes in some beds. A month ago I planted Kodiak mustard, which is nematocidal if it's chopped and incorporated into the soil at the right time.
Here's what I'm actually seeding this year, in addition to those 5:
striped/multi: Belle du College, Magic Bullet, Pink Berkeley Tie Dye, Prairie Fire, Talvez F1, Thorburn's Terra Cotta, Maglia Rosa, Taste Patio, Girl Girl's Weird Thing
dark: Black Plum, Carolina Dusk, Cowboy, Daifuku, One Trick Pony, Raya Rey, Reinhard Kraft's Purple Sugar
pink: Damsel F1, Pink Champagne, Pink CherryWine F!, Pink Jazz, African Queen, Pruden's Purple, Raspberry Lyanna
red: Franchi's Red Pear, Granny's Throwing, Jersey Breeze, Sheboygan, Bush Early Girl F1, Cherry Falls, Picus F1, Ruby Slippers, Beefy Red, Belmonte Pear, Legend, Sweet Aperitif, Tommy Toe
yellow/orange: Goldie, Moon Child, Orange Jazz, Sunrise Bumble Bee, Thorburn's Lemon Blush, Woodle Orange, Orange Hat, California Sungold, Hawaiian Pineapple, Kellogg's Breakfast, Taxi
GWR: Sweet Baby Jade, Bo Mango, Green Bee F1
I don't think I've ever grown so many indeterminate cherry tomato varieties before! My list of reds also looks much longer than usual.
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