Amazing and Delicious New Tomato Varieties for Your Garden
What is your favorite vegetable to grow? If you’re like most gardeners, tomatoes are at the top of the list. It’s understandable because a fresh-picked tomato tastes a million times better than any purchased at a large volume grocery store. So whether you want small yellow snacking tomatoes, large red beefsteak tomatoes, or anything in-between, there is an AAS Winner tomato to suit your fancy.
Each of these recent AAS Winners was trialed throughout North America by professional, independent, volunteer judges who grew them next to comparisons that were already considered best-in-class. These varieties performed better than their comparisons and were granted the prestigious AAS award designation.
Small but Mighty
Tomato Apple Yellow F1
If you’ve never tried an apple- shaped tomato, now is the time. This AAS Winner offers incredible garden performance, a dimpled apple-shape fruit with a deliciously sweet citrusy taste and firm, meaty texture. 5’ tall vines produce abundantly in clusters, resulting in up to 1,000 fruits per plant. The fruits are an eye-catching, bright, lemon yellow color reminiscent of the “Big Apple’s” taxi-cab colors.
Celano is a patio type grape tomato with a strong bushy habit. It is best grown with some support, such as a tomato cage. This semi-determinate hybrid tomato is an early producer of sweet oblong fruits weighing about 0.6 oz. each. In comparison to other grape tomatoes on the market, Celano is sweeter, has a better texture, deeper color, healthier plants, and the yield is phenomenal.
Beautiful Hues of Yellow and Orange
Buffalosun shone in the trials with fruit that had a better texture, a higher yield and less cracking than comparisons. Stake this indeterminate tomato and you will be rewarded with fruits long into the season. The unique yellow with red/orange flame colored skin is beautiful and results in a nicely marbled interior. Good tasting sweet, tender flesh gives the look of an heirloom without the mushiness often associated with heirlooms. Buffalosun also outlasted the comparisons when disease hit in late summer, thanks to its late blight resistance.
Tomato Chef’s Choice Bicolor F1
The first bicolor tomato in the Chef’s Choice series is here! Indeterminate plants produce up to 30 large, 7-8 ounce flattened beefsteak fruits with beautiful pinkish red internal stripes within a yellow flesh. These heirloom looking tomatoes are as sweet as they are beautiful with a better flavor and texture than the comparisons. Gardeners will enjoy earlier maturity and more uniform fruits that hold up all season long, producing well into September in the Heartland.
Classic Reds in Small, Medium and Large
This rockin’ variety has a very sweet (Brix of 8.5), light acidic taste giving it the perfect sweet/acid balance. Crokini’s round fruits are small and firm with a crunchy texture and good flavor. This winner gets high marks for durability because fruits do not crack on the vine, yielding up to 10-12 sweet fruits per cluster. Overall, the yield was better than comparisons because of the in-bred Late Blight resistance well into September. The Southern AAS Judges like the better taste and texture as compared to Sweet Million.
Early Resilience is a rounded Roma tomato with a deep red interior color, uniform maturity and good quality flesh for canning and cooking. The AAS Judges noted that this variety was very resistant to Blossom End rot, resulting in a high yield and less fruit loss. Similar great taste as the comparisons but a much healthier plant and fruits. Overall, this is an excellent variety that would be a home canner’s dream and could very well replace some of the other Roma varieties as a new standard.
Yes Sir! Galahad is a brave new tomato variety that has a high level of Late Blight resistance. Galahad is a high-yielding, great tasting tomato that grows on a strong sturdy plant. The sweet, meaty flavor is better than that of comparison varieties and boasts of being crack resistant. Broad shoulders (just like Sir Galahad?) and large, clean fruits grow on a highly productive, disease-resistant plant. Certainly, a variety you’ll want to use in your battle for tomato greatness.
WHERE TO BUY!
Interested in purchasing these new AAS Winning tomatoes? Search their AAS Winners page to find direct links to retailers under the Where To Buy button. Or check the entire list of retailers on the Buy AAS Winners Page. Please note: since these are new to the gardening community, some varieties may not yet be available for purchase.
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i’ve tried to loacate the Crokini tomato in the above article / add, with no avail, do y’all have a seller to purchase seed from?
These tomatoes are some of our newest AAS Winners for the season. These 2020 winners often are so new that mail-order seed companies haven’t yet included them in their catalog or website. If we have a source for the seeds, we do add a Where to Buy button on the Winners individual page. We will update those Where to Buy buttons for the newest winners as we find sources.