My tomatoes just have no taste

this year for some reason. We like an acid taste tomato not the sweet sweet kind. My Early Girls are hard as store bought tomatoes, guess it must be the hot weather. I bought a couple of the pink kind, first time, never again, no taste at all. My Celebrity are doing too good either. I ordered some Heirloom type seed from Burpee when I ordered my burpless cuke seed to try next year, the cuke plants I picked up here turned bitter this year. By the way if you like good cantaloupes, don't have the space anymore to grow them, get some burpees ambrosia hybrid seed and try them, so sweet.

Steve, have you ever planted any Better Boys? It's all I plant and theyre FULL of acid. Stands the heat better than most too.Thumbs Up

Better Boys is all my daddy ever planted and they were sooooo good!!

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Originally Posted by gabowman

Steve, have you ever planted any Better Boys? It's all I plant and theyre FULL of acid. Stands the heat better than most too.Thumbs Up

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Better boy is without a doubt the best tomatoe out there. There is one thats close its called an Arkasas Traveler

I was reading this before gabowman entered his post. I did some reading. The sweeter the tomato, the less acid it has. Low acid tomatoes were listed as yellows, pinks, purples and the small salad ones. I was hoping for a chart for the different ones, but didn't find one. Mother always planted the better boys, saying they were low acid. But couldn't find any difference in them.
Have your soil tested in the fall, oct or nov.. Add more compost to your garden, aged sawdust, manure, cotton hulls, mulched leaves. If you can get some rusty metal shavings, add some close to the plants. If you have to water, water the roots, not the plant. Don't use a sprinkler, a soaker hose instead.

Never heard of the Ark traveler. I only plant the Better Boysnow cause I believe the plants withstand our heat the best but another good tasting tomato is Park's Whoppers. They do pretty good here too and that used to be what I planted before I convinced myself the BB's were better suited here..

We planted" red defender", never herd of them before this yr . My nother in law got them at a local boy scout troop garden show . Beautiful tomatoes and are loaded . Heat has not hurt them . However you have described them to a t . Hard/tastless .

My brother brings me tomatoes, and they are celebrity, and are very good. He has been watering them every evening late, and only waters the root, and never lets their limbs touch the ground. What ever he's doing to them it works, because they are hanging in clusters.
Whats the difference in a better girl vs the better boy?

We planted ark travelers for thr the first time this year and have had the best luck ever good tasting and have picked over 2 bushels from 8 plants.Heard about on here this spring,think John Willis said something bout them.

warren, ar. is the tomatoe capitol of the world, and the bradley is the best eating tomatoe second to none!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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My brother brings me tomatoes, and they are celebrity, and are very good. He has been watering them every evening late, and only waters the root, and never lets their limbs touch the ground. What ever he's doing to them it works, because they are hanging in clusters.
Whats the difference in a better girl vs the better boy?

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Go to the funnies thread, and you'll see. Lol


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Steve I had the same problem one year,no taste.My Dad said I had used to much lime.

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We planted ark travelers for thr the first time this year and have had the best luck ever good tasting and have picked over 2 bushels from 8 plants.Heard about on here this spring,think John Willis said something bout them.

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X2 never heard of them before but doing better than anything else I have planted.

Cray, the Angel Wings nursery there on 178 Byhalia had them this year. She ran an ad in craigslist for free plants. I bought a tray of mixed plants and a few pots and got a free tray of mixed tomato plants.
The Sweet 100's are suppose to the sweetest about 1" dia. Mine aren't, might find one about 3/8" and have a good tomato taste. The cherry and grape tomatoes are sweeter.

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Cray, the Angel Wings nursery there on 178 Byhalia had them this year. She ran an ad in craigslist for free plants. I bought a tray of mixed plants and a few pots and got a free tray of mixed tomato plants.
The Sweet 100's are suppose to the sweetest about 1" dia. Mine aren't, might find one about 3/8" and have a good tomato taste. The cherry and grape tomatoes are sweeter.

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That's where I got mine went free but almost. She told me it was first time she had planted them. She is good people and gave neighbor some help on his bushes and plants.Thumbs UpThumbs Up

try the goliath original,been planting them for years. you won't be disappointed.

AR Travelers are the saltiest high acid tomato that ive found. All I plant is Travelers and Better Boys.

I raise my own plants and I found another good one, Mr. Jim. It's an old tomatoe from the depression era known as "Mortgage Lifter". It's a tart tomato, but still sweet. Right now they're loaded up and still blooming.

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I raise my own plants and I found another good one, Mr. Jim. It's an old tomatoe from the depression era known as "Mortgage Lifter". It's a tart tomato, but still sweet. Right now they're loaded up and still blooming.

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John where do you get the seeds?

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John where do you get the seeds?

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I get most of mine from "Southern Seed Exchange", Mr. Jim. You can
Google for "Heirloom Vegetable Seeds" and come up with a long list of sellers.

the best place i've found for heirloom tomatoes is gary isben's tomatoefest.

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I get most of mine from "Southern Seed Exchange", Mr. Jim. You can
Google for "Heirloom Vegetable Seeds" and come up with a long list of sellers.

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Can you provide a link for them, haven't been able to find it.

That's Southern Exposure Seed Exchange, Steve. My bad. I tried to copy link, but screwed it up.
For some reason I can't get it to post.

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That's Southern Exposure Seed Exchange, Steve. My bad. I tried to copy link, but screwed it up.
For some reason I can't get it to post.

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Thanks I found that one and ordered a catalog.