Favorite Tomato

1st off. one of my very sage! Texas gardening books said to garden for expensive veggies that you actually eat. so I have concentrated on tomatoes, squashes, eggplants, jalapenos and Thai hot peppers, sweet peppers along with basil, oregano and rosemary. a Squash is $1.50 or so at the store and decent tomatoes are at least $1.40 a pound at the store. etc,etc.....

I have started from seed and planted out....
Tumbling tom x 4
Bloody Butcher x4
Juliet roma type x 4
Better Bush x 4
Super Sweet Cherry x 2
Heatwave II x 4
Kewalo x 4

and have put out cheap transplants from the grocery or local big box...
BHN 444 x 4
Celebrity x 6

We have had some crazy weather this last month in San Antonio. Heat to 92 degrees, then blustery windy weather with temps down to 45.....

Overall, the champs are the

BHN 444 and Supersweet cherries.....They are strong looking plants and are starting to put little baby tomatoes. They withstood the wind and weird cold snaps fine. I have too many plants to cover individually with milk jugs etc..The next best is tumbling toms , and heatwaves. However, I have had tumbling toms before and other internet opinions agree with me that the tomatoes are pretty bland and tasteless. I am learning as I go and I will be sure to adjust my tomato plant species to my climate. The big box stores sell Early girl, Big Boy, Brandy wine heirloom etc...which are generalized species and not well suited to temps over 95 degrees etc....Such an expensive lesson to learn.....