This year’s tomato tasting was a great success, with a total of 41 tomato varieties present over the 3-hour event!
Participants brought in some wonderful new varieties this year, including Pink Bumble Bee Cherry, Gajo de Melon, and Blue Cream Berries. We always take people’s votes into account when deciding which tomato varieties to carry, so look for the most popular varieties from this year and previous years when you come to buy your organic tomato starts next spring at Harlequin’s Gardens. Every year we grow 80+ great varieties for all kinds of uses and growing conditions! A huge thank-you to Growing Gardens for providing our the location, helping us publicize the event, and for bringing us some fabulous volunteers. Thank you also to the volunteers of Slow Food Boulder County. We couldn’t have done it without you!
2019 Taste of Tomato Vote Tally
CHERRY TOMATOES
33 Pink Bumblebee (open-pollinated, indeterminate)
31 Mexico Midget (heirloom, indeterminate)
18 Improved Black Cherry (open-pollinated, indeterminate)
17 Honeydrop (open-pollinated, indeterminate)
16 Coyote Yellow Currant (heirloom, indeterminate)
14 Sweet 100 (hybrid, indeterminate)
13 Matt’s Wild Cherry (heirloom, indeterminate)
12 Sungold (hybrid, indeterminate)
12 Galina (heirloom, indeterminate)
8 Blush (open-pollinated, indeterminate)
6 Husky (hybrid, dwarf indeterminate)
6 Tommy Toe (heirloom, indeterminate)
6 Wild Sweetie (heirloom, indeterminate)
4 Yellow Pear (heirloom, indeterminate)
3 Blue Cream Berries (open-pollinated, indeterminate)
3 Cherry Hill Plum (no information available, name probably made up)
3 Super Sweet 100 (hybrid, indeterminate) 3 Sweet Chelsea (hybrid, indeterminate)
2 Black Cherry (heirloom, indeterminate)
2 Gajo de Melon (heirloom, indeterminate)
SALAD TOMATOES
42 Japanese Black Trifele aka Black Truffle (heirloom, indeterminate)
28 Paul Robeson (heirloom, indeterminate)
24 ‘Anasazi’ (origin unknown, open-pollinated, indeterminate)
15 Early Girl (hybrid, indeterminate)
14 Glacier (open-pollinated, determinate)
8 Green Zebra (open-pollinated, indeterminate)
7 Jaune Flamme (heirloom, indeterminate)
5 Fourth of July (hybrid, indeterminate)
5 Juliet (hybrid, indeterminate)
BEEFSTEAK TOMATOES
34 Cherokee Purple (heirloom, indeterminate)
19 Pink Brandywine (heirloom, indeterminate)
15 ‘Simona’s Romanian’ (heirloom, indeterminate, made-up name)
13 Striped German (heirloom, indeterminate)
12 Cherokee Chocolate (heirloom, indeterminate)
11 Black Krim (heirloom, indeterminate)
6 Black from Tula (entry was a red tomato, not accurately identified)
3 Big Boy (hybrid, indeterminate)
3 Black Beauty (open-pollinated, indeterminate)
1 Red Brandywine (heirloom, indeterminate)
0 Big Beef (hybrid, indeterminate)
PASTE TOMATOES
1 Roma (heirloom, determinate)