Finding the Best Tomato Variety Is Hard
There are literally hundreds of varieties of tomato available either as seedlings at the garden center or as seeds from either the garden center or from a mail order or Internet company. Choosing the best variety for you can be an intimidating and certainly a challenging task.

Here are the main variables used by some tomato gardeners in making their choice of variety:

Indeterminate vs. Determinate

Early Harvest vs Mid-season Main Harvest

Slicing tomato (conventional size), Beefsteak (big) Tomato, Sauce Tomato, Cherry Tomato (small)

Open Pollinated (called heirlooms) vs. Hybrids

Color – Red, Pink, Orange, Yellow, Green, Purple, and Striped


Good Source of Info On Tomato Varieties
For excellent info on the best Tomato varieties by state go to the vegetable variety data collection project at Cornell University - www.vegvariety.cce.cornell.edu. We urge you to join this valuable site and contribute your own ratings of varieties.

We have rated the tomatoes we prefer on this Cornell University site under the username of "yardener". Check it out.