Hello everyone, welcome back to the Epic Gardening podcast. Today we are back with Jacques.

What we're talking about today, we know Jacques is a man after flavor in the garden.

Primarily, flavor first. Myself, I'm getting there. I have a lot of other reasons I like

to grow as well and so it all kind of blends. I don't know that I could say one is the first one,

but we are going to talk today about some varieties that we both like for, specifically for their

flavor. There probably will be other benefits as well. But I'll go ahead and start. So I started out

what 12 tomatoes in the backyard and different varieties. So cherries, slicers, beef steaks,

and in the four major beef steak area, there's three that are producing and actually producing

these huge beef steak tomatoes. One has yet to actually set fruit, which is frustrating,

but the one that's done the best, both from a production standpoint and from a taste, is this

one called Beauty King. So it looks beautiful. It's yellow and red striping, vertically stride it

down the faces of the tomato. It's firm in its flesh and it's sort of is almost a little bit

of a citrusy undertone and then the classic slicing beef steak tomato. And so for me, I think, okay,

well, for sure that one goes in the garden next year and then maybe my second pick will go in.

And then the next year, I'll mix in two other beef steaks to like try to find the next winner.

And it sounds like you kind of do a somewhat similar thing and I was wondering if you had any

flavor picks, I guess. Yeah, sure. So I mean, I also this year went hard on variety because

I want to find what we think is the best tomato. And you know, quick caveat, it's very subjective

because you know, tomato could be very sweet, it could be very rich, it could be tart. For us,

we kind of like this mix of more of like an umami kind of a little bit of sweetness, but definitely

a little bit of tartness. So currently one of our top favorites is the Cherokee Purple. And I'll say

that the Cherokee Purple not only is really delicious, but it's also the earliest producer for me

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