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Tomatoes & Peppers: 2017 Tomato Review, 1 by DonShirer

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DonShirer wrote:
Not a great year for tomatoes here. Lots of rain, blight and too many hungry critters.
Worth mentioning:
Best tasting: Polish
Best yield: Husky Red Cherry (very late maturing for some reason)
Best dwarf varieties: Summertime Gold, Bundaberg Rumball (grew it because the name appealed to me). Bundaberg (see pix) are small to medium tan fruits with a mild ok-not great-flavor, 4ft high plants that produced a lot of fruit fairly early, then died off.
Wierdest: Michael Pollan, an odd shaped small green variety that refused to ripen. Here it is Sept. and they are still hard as a rock. Only virtue is that the critters don\'t bother them as much.

I experimented with some mini varieties hoping to find one that would do well in a windowsill in winter. Wasn\'t impressed with Fantastico, House, Hahms Gelbe, Red Robin or Whippersnapper. Utyonok shows promise but is late ripening.