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Nad R wrote:

Billy wrote:
In article ,
Jim Elbrecht wrote:

"Principe
Borghese" for plum tomatoes and for drying.

I'll second those. The name had escaped me, but I remember them doing
very well for me, too.

Jim

The 900 lb. gorilla in the room that no one has mentioned is, of course,
the Brandywine tomato which has a cult following, which is well deserved
in my opinion. It doesn't produce a lot of tomatoes, but the ones that
they do produce are magnificent.

For a yellow cherry tomato, you might try Blondkopfchen, which last year
(a cold year here), in my garden was a huge producer, and held up well
when the rains began.

I gave up on brandywines it requires a longer growing season unless you
begin them indoors way in advance. At least in Michigan.

That, indeed, is the downside to growing them. Even doing everything
right in a northern clime may not be enough, if Ma Nature decides to
throw you a cool summer. But when they do produce, they are wonderful.
Try starting indoors, planting through clear plastic to warm the soil
and accelerate ripening, and if you have plenty of sun, put them in a
hoop house.
http://westsidegardener.com/howto/hoophouse.html

On the other hand Big Beef tomatoes only ripen 2 weeks earlier than
Branywines. For early ripening, I plant with Stupice (55 days).
Check out www.vesey.com from York, Prince Edward Island, CA, for early
ripening varieties of everything.

I'm trying their "Quickie Corn" (58 days), as I've had very poor luck
with Golden Bantam.
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