Type or Variety of Vegetables Tomatoes That I Like to Plant

Type or Variety of Vegetables Tomatoes That I Like to Plant

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The type or variety of vegetable that I like to plant and that you should consider choosing to plant in your garden depends primarily on your climate (the length of your growing season) and the amount of sun your garden receives.

I find no matter which variety you choose, they all taste great when they are homegrown! You know there’s nothing tastier, more inexpensive and more nutritious than backyard grown vegetables compared to store bought vegetables. Since store bought vegetables are not picked when they are ripe or picked when they are half-ripened, they do not contain the same amount of nutrients. Plus think about the carbon footprint of transporting them from wherever, while backyard vegetables are only a few footsteps away and can be picked whenever you need them. No more driving to the store for vegetables!

I’ve been growing vegetables for many years and through experimentation I have figured out for myself what works best and I wish to share some of my tips on this webpage with you. I'll begin with tomatoes since fresh tomatoes are my favorite.

Tomatoes

For short growing seasons that begin around mid May and last to around mid October or gardens that do not get a lot of sunlight, I prefer to plant the Early Girl variety of tomato. They are the most ideal variety of tomatoes to grow. For long growing seasons and gardens with lots of sunlight, you can plant Beafsteak.

Here are my reasons:

They have a very early maturation period when it comes to bearing fruit of around 50 to 60 days as compared to 60 to 70 days for Beefsteak tomatoes. Consequently you can get two batches of tomatoes - even with short growing seasons - one in mid summer and one in late summer to early mid autumn. Of course these tomatoes will ripen throughout the summer but generally they come in bunches. Compared to the Beefsteak variety, if your summer is short you will only get one large batch. Whatever grows thereafter is just too green and not mature enough that late in the growing season. There are of course a variety of other tomatoes with maturation periods that vary in between Early Girl and Beefsteak. So read the labels and decide what is best for your growing climate and conditions.
Early Girls can be steaked pretty high, up to 7 feet.
They require less sunlight but the more sun the better as with any tomato plants.
They are very tasty and great for cooking contrary to what many people think.
The fruit tends to be smaller than the longer maturing tomatoes but they can grow to a big size depending on growing conditions.
They are very plentiful. I find that during the summer I always get too many Early Girl tomatoes, especially all at one time. Therefore I give a lot away and I also freeze a lot and use them for cooking during the winter.
If your Early Girl tomatoes are still green and the days have grown shorter and colder (just before the first frost in fall), you can bring the green ones in and place them in a dark area and they will ripen and still taste very good for quite some time.

Cherry Tomatoes

As for cherry tomatoes, I prefer to plant the Sweet Million. I am not going to go into detail because the name says it all. They are plentiful, very tasty (both fresh and for cooking) and they will grow almost anywhere, but they do require a lot of space and steaking because they just keep growing and spreading out. You can also freeze them and use them for cooking in winter.

The good thing with cherry tomatoes is that they are always bearing fruit, so you will always have fresh tomatoes, most likely – too many!

Please bookmark this page and do not forget to visit it. I will be adding more of my favorite vegetables for planting.

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