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Originally Posted by Shazam
Sungolds are awesome. You can get the seeds at Sunnyside, but they sell out very quickly.
If you like Early Girl, try Sub Arctic Plenty or Stupice. Both are supposedly better than Early Girl with a similar maturity time.
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I have tried all the Sub Arctic varieties over the years. From my experience, they just do not compare to either Early Girl or Ultra Girl.
For one thing, most Sub Arctic varieties tend to be very compact in their growing habitat, thus yield does not compare. And I have not found the taste to compare either.
I grow Early Girl and Ultra Girl because they are a large tomato plant that works for me, the taste is good and for me, they produce a lot of tomatoes and I have found they mature the earliest.
Lemon Boy matures in about the same time as the Early Girl and Ultra Girl varieties. They are very juicy and have that real tangy old fashioned tomato taste to them, and yes, with a hint of lemon. Some do not like a tomato that is acidic in taste, I do.
As I mentioned previously, my other favorites are Celebrity and Champion, both which mature and ripen on the vine for me and have quite a large fruit size. And then I have found any of the Ultra Boy, Big Boy or Better Boy varieties work for me as well, having the largest fruit size.
I no longer grow Beefsteak. While they grow very well and have a big yield, for me, they are the one variety that I find subject to blossom end rot. And while some swear by Fantastic, for me, they are the variety that split and crack by the stem.
I no longer start my tomatoes from seed, thus I head to Garden Retreat early to find Sungold. They are the sweetest of any cherry tomato out there and a very heavy producer as well.