12/16/2023 0 Comments Bato bucket sliced![]() This is one easy slicer you won’t find in the grocery store aisle and will want to try! #7 MOST PRODUCTIVE 2021 SLICER TOMATO VARIETY: If you especially love history, you’ll want to grow this tomato to preserve the seed for future generations because it is now 129 years old! It was originally introduced in Thornburn’s 1893 Seed Catalog. It’s outer skin and inside flesh of the tomato has a most unique color - it’s a mix of a chartreuse green and terra cotta - some call it a honey-brown shade, but our trials seemed to be more colorful than that. Thornburn’s Terra Cotta Heirloom Tomato is a joy to grow! Not only does it taste wonderful, but it’s color looks beautiful mixed in with other sliced standard red tomatoes. ![]() #8 MOST PRODUCTIVE 2021 SLICER TOMATO VARIETY: We have adapted this seed to grow in a hydroponic system using organic methods and so even though it will grow in soil just fine, it is especially suited for hydroponic home growers using a Tower Garden, Bato Bucket system, or the Farmstand. It has more flesh than seed ratio, so also serves well for using to make sauce. When cut open, it will have bi-color shading of yellow and red making it a beautiful slice on the plate or sandwich. It has good resistance to foliar disease and is an indeterminate.īig Rainbow Tomato variety will ripen with color shades showing green on the should, yellow in the center, and red towards the bottom. We were drawn to this tomato for it’s beautiful coloration when sliced open! Big Rainbow Tomato is a beautiful bi-color slicer tomato variety with early tomatoes weighing 2+ pounds with very little cat facing or deformities. It grows nicely in 5 gallon felt containers or Bato Bucket systems and is a heavy producer - boy does it produce blooms! Wowza! If you plant this variety every two weeks in the first part of the growing season, you will have a bushel load of tomatoes that can be used for slicing, salsa, salad, sandwiches, canning, drying, Fried Green Tomatoes… you name it! This is one I can’t wait to grow again! #9 MOST PRODUCTIVE 2021 SLICER TOMATO VARIETY: It only gets a couple of feet tall and needs only a little support making it ideal for containers and small space gardening. It was originally bred by Tom Wagner and is a determinate variety. In fact, Green Elf Tomato was #10 in highest production by weight of ALL slicers varieties in our 2021 trails! Green Elf Tomato (also known as Wagner’s Lime Green Salad Tomato) is one of Owner and Lead Grower of Grow Your Health Gardening, “ Erin’s Top Tomato Picks” Seed Collection from the 2021 growing season. (But remember, our data is propiertary and we cannot share specific weights.) So here we go… ready? And the top ten biggest producers out of 75+ varieties (by weight) are… #10 MOST PRODUCTIVE 2021 SLICER TOMATO VARIETY: If you have any questions, feel free to ask in the comments below. All of this tomatoes were grown hydroponically meaning the tomato plants received the perfect pH level and ideal nutrients throughout the season. ![]() We will also include links to each tomato variety if you’re interested in getting homegrown seed grown using organic methods. If you’re looking for varieties that produce a multitude of blossoms and tomatoes, then this is YOUR LIST to grab. Totals reflect equal number of plants per variety. The results are in! Last season (2021) we counted and weighed every tomato that came off the vine and was harvested. ![]()
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