We love tomatoes. Before we started a farm, we had 100 plants at one point, just so we could never run out and can enough for the winter. We also never really had huge issues growing them. While we had an OK first year, last year and again this year we've struggled mightily with Septoria Leaf Spot. This year we took some additional precautions and have devoted a lot more time to attempting to keep it at bay, which mean we are still getting some sort of crop out of the plants. Our problem is always that we start too many seeds since we want ALL OF THE DIFFERENT VARIETIES. Some are ripe when they are green, yellow, white, or orange, so best to check by feel for these. Some of the ones we've got in the box this year include*:
Sweetie Cherry Tomato: One of those little snacking tomatoes, great to de-stem and pop in a freezer bag for winter cooking too.
Jasper: A cherry tomato that is more resistant to disease.
San Marzano Paste: Great in sauces, but great just to eat as well!
White Tomesol: A white tomato!
Green Grape: Bigger than a cherry, but still can be eaten in one bite if your not worried about being judged...
Red Zebra: The most striking one we grow, IMO. It is firey-red with darker stripes on it.
Green Zebra: Like the red one, but Green on Green stripes.
Ananas Noire: "Black Pineapple" - Brad's favorite, a variety of colors in one tomato. The downside is they almost always split or scare and end up in our seconds pile, so consider yourself lucky if you see one of these in the box.
Japanese Black Trifle - A new pear-shaped one we are trying this year.
Cherokee Purple: Big reddish tomato, with darker purple "shoulders."
*We haven't been the best following the plants nametags through to the field, but we definitely started these seeds this year! It's also possible there are other varieties mixed in from saving lots of tomato seeds all together as medleys.