For me it is none of the above...all other colors but blue and green. I know...Scrooge.

Laurrie wrote: ↑Mon Nov 27, 2023 10:25 am Granted, I don't have much experience with GWR. This year, I grew out Yamali Green and Glacial Zebra. I liked both of them well enough. Next year, I'm growing:
I'm on a quest to find the best tasting GWR tomato in 2024.

HeyZeus Alou! I reckon if you's can't find a winner amongst all of them there, onesuch doesn't exist.

Thanks to everyone for their input! Green Giant got the nod due to all the glowing reviews; the Baker Creek packet is sitting on my desk.

Malachite Box was intriguing, but shipping being 3X the cost of the seeds was a deal-breaker.

The Gotch

My Aunt Ruby’s German Green seed didn’t germinate for 2023 and I might skip trying for a GWR for 2024. Seems like such a mixed bag of responses on how tasty or not these GWR are that it isn’t exactly selling me on them. I think I’m at the point where I want to grow tomatoes I am pretty certain will taste good.

Hope you enjoy Green Giant, I think you will, it is terrific. Dwarf Emerald Giant is a great one too--I grow that one every year. Dwarf Grinch is also worth checking out sometime (not Grinch Cherry--Dwarf Grinch is a medium/large round-ish GWR tomato).

karstopography wrote: ↑Wed Nov 29, 2023 12:36 pm My Aunt Ruby’s German Green seed didn’t germinate for 2023 and I might skip trying for a GWR for 2024. Seems like such a mixed bag of responses on how tasty or not these GWR are that it isn’t exactly selling me on them. I think I’m at the point where I want to grow tomatoes I am pretty certain will taste good.

My very limited experience with GWR tomatoes is that they are mostly horrid under poor weather conditions. They taste somewhat like bitter leafy greens. Or the taste of one of the other colors of tomatoes, but in the green, or maybe breaker, stage. Even when fully ripe, they taste underripe.

I've heard good reports about Humph, so I'll likely add it to my very short list of GWR varieties to trial.

I have been growing Green Gables for years.

Old Chef
PS Happy New Year

A new GWR Dwarf to try from the DTP is Sara's Olalla Emerald. 4 ft plant with oodles of 2" pale green, fabulous fruit. I just loved it this past season. A good producer and it fills different shoes than others out there. In fact, it has replaced my prior love, Lime Green Salad.

I haven't grown a lot of GWR varieties, but of those I have, Malachite Box (perfect for our season, and productive!) and Emerald Evergreen are my favourites for flavour.

For production, Favorie de Bretagne was the winner. The taste (to me) was mild and sweet, and man, did we end up with buckets of tomatoes.

Absinthe, followed by Malachite Box (aka Malakhitovaya Shkatulka). Green Giant is very good. Humph is very good, but very season dependent. Green Gables was nice.