I will be trying heirloom tomatos next year along with trying the seed saving fermentation process (my wife is just going to love that)! Varieties I am looking at are Omar’s Lebanese, Black Cherry, Stupice, Cherokee Purple, Black Krim, Tasmanian Blushing Yellow, Speckled Roman and one or more of the Brandywine varieties. If anyone has a favorite heirloom variety be sure to let me know so I can possibly give it a try! My list is a mix of early and late maturing since frost can be a problem up here at the Colorado Rockies zone 4 location of Casa MtnClimber. It is still dropping to the low 40’s many nights. I have some big floor-to-ceiling windows facing south and west so I can start early indoors. One of my indoor tomato starts this year did very well while others just stayed about 1-inch tall. I have to figure out what was different.
I tried the Brandywine my first year gardening. It was the pink variety. It did ok had a strange “U” type shape but was good tasting. It did not like the heat where I live and of course I had no idea what I was doing which is probably one reason why it did not do well.