2023 Tomato Grow List

It's nearly that time of year again. 

Greenhouse:

grown before...

Mat-Su Express - dependable, big producer, very good taste, one which I grow every year now
Girl Girl's Weird Thing - amazing tomato, great taste, looks beautiful, huge producer, another one which I will grow every year
Rosedale - probably the best tasting tomato last year, a few weeks later to ripen but very good yields
Daniel Burson - black beefsteak, 1st year died early, 2nd year not true to type, let's hope it's 3rd time lucky now I have reliable seed from the USA

new for this year...

George Detsika's Italian Red - big red beefsteak, supposed to be quite early for a big tomato
Polaris - black beefsteak, early and very meaty, bred by Karen Olivier from Canada (she grows outdoors so many of her breeds are early and hardy)
Longhorn - elongated black ox-heart, supposed to be a big producer
True Colors - beautiful multi-coloured ox-heart bred by Karen Olivier again

Outdoors:

Nagina F1 (Crimson Plum) - blight resistant plum
Rose Crush F1 - blight resistant pink beefsteak
Pink Honeymoon F1 - blight resistant pink beefsteak
Maskotka
Reinhard's Purple Sugar
Sweet Aperitif

..and whatever comes up from the 'Melange Surprise' free packet I received last year in my tomato seed order from Cultive ta Rue (https://cultivetarue.fr/boutique/?lang=en).

Some pictures of the new-to-me varieties attached.

My list is still in a state of flux, and in the process of changing having read TMTT's list and comments

So far I think I'll go with the following

GH
Honeycomb F1 orange cherry NEW
Sungold F1 orange cherry
Piccolo red cherry
Picobella red cherry, experiment, seeds from a supermarket tom NEW
Honeydrop - I've no idea, pics on Web are conflicting NEW
Bloody butcher red cocktail sized NEW
Fireworks red salad NEW this one may go outside
Zlatava yellow salad greenback resistant
Black icicle elongated dark one, maybe, NEW
Akron F1 red salad
San Marzano red plum
Alicante red salad maybe
Burlesque red beef NEW
Buffalo horn red large horn shaped
Purple cherokee purple beef NEW
Old German beef NEW
Maybe Gourmandia just because I have the seed and its new only one rather weedy  plant survived, I don't have much faith in it producing huge toms
Maybe Mat Su express because TMTT likes it. I had discounted it because I thought it was a bush variety, but Web is divided on that. Enlighten me TMTT.
Sgt Pepper's heart shaped blue shoulder
Possibles - Girl Girl's Weird Thing & Reinhard's Purple Sugar on TMTT's recommendation did grow these

Outside all supposedly
Ferline F1
Mountain magic worked well last year
Primabella NEW
Primavera NEW
Rubyliscious
Minibel NEW patio dwarf variety 
Garden Perle for patio
Summerlast NEW for patio at end May very sturdy healthy looking plant - hope the toms taste as good


All subject to change

Mat-Su Express is an indeterminate (vine) tomato which resulted from a cross between Brandywine and Bloody Butcher. It was bred by a tomato farmer who has polytunnels in the Matanuska-Susitna Valley (Mat-Su for short) in Alaska. It's inherited the earliness from Bloody Butcher and has been our first tomato to ripen two years in a row. In 2021 one plant produced 6.2kg, in 2022 5.3kg. The fruit can vary in size but in general it's a medium red beefsteak. The flavour is really good.

If you have space I would highly recommend Girl Girl's Weird Thing too, and Reinhard's Purple Sugar if you like Black Cherry/Rosella.

All grown outside

Container determinate tomatoes:
Tumbling Tom Red
Tumbling Tom Yellow
Rambling Red Stripe AKA Jester

Indeterminates:
Sungold F1 - orange cherry
Golden Sunrise - yellow cherry
Auntie Madge's - small red plum
Tigerella - medium red/orange stripe
Green Zebra - medium green/yellow stripe
Gardener's Delight - red cherry

New to me:
Girl Girl's Weird Thing
Ananas Noire
Rosalie's Early Orange AKA Sweet Horizon
Reinhard's Purple Sugar

I'm still researching so might find room for a couple more.

Mat-Su Express is an indeterminate (vine) tomato which resulted from a cross between Brandywine and Bloody Butcher. It was bred by a tomato farmer who has polytunnels in the Matanuska-Susitna Valley (Mat-Su for short) in Alaska. It's inherited the earliness from Bloody Butcher and has been our first tomato to ripen two years in a row. In 2021 one plant produced 6.2kg, in 2022 5.3kg. The fruit can vary in size but in general it's a medium red beefsteak. The flavour is really good.

If you have space I would highly recommend Girl Girl's Weird Thing too, and Reinhard's Purple Sugar if you like Black Cherry/Rosella.

I'll definitely consider those two. May not have room for any extra, as this year I'm allowing each plant a bit more space in the gh border to avoid the jungle effect, but I can perhaps swap out some of the others. As I said, all likely to change.

.... one of my all time favourites is Black Icicle - just saying

I thinkI have room for 4 inside and a couple out....
In
1.Black icicle
2.Black cherry
3.
4.

Out?
1.Gardeners delight
2.

Im just going to sow 3 of each variety and choose the best.

Definitely buffalo horn, rosella and Veggies rambling red stripe. No idea what other varieties but there’s going to be more.

I've looked at various places on the Web and found differing opinions on whether Girl Girl's Weird Thing is determinate (bush) or indeterminate (cordon)
TMTT can you clarify?

I've looked at various places on the Web and found differing opinions on whether Girl Girl's Weird Thing is determinate (bush) or indeterminate (cordon)
TMTT can you clarify?

It's indeterminate. The one plant gave us 24 fruit weighing a total of 6kg last year, first ripe fruit mid-July.