Okay, I know this seems very early to be asking this question but what variety of tomato plants do well in colder climates? Looking for some varieties that you have used and have been a good variety. Looking to buy seed and start my own plants late winter. I'm getting truck loads of seed catalogs already.

I had a friend tell me "Jetsetter" was a great tomato plant, has anyone evah tried that type.

WI55 it is a 55 day medium slicer

developed by the University of Wisconsin in the 1930s just before hybreds

I planted some "Cold Set" tomatoes once. They didn't get real big, maybe tennis ball sized, but they were prolific, matured quickly and survived a number of light frosts. Good flavor for a short maturity tomato.

Burpee Better Boy. Planted 109 Better Boy Tomato Plants one year, and went through one 4 Pound box of Miracle Grow Fertilizer EVERY WEEK. Had plants that were 4 and 5 Feet high. Lots of Tomatoes that year !!

Sweet 100 cherry tomato did well for me this year I was eating steady all I could eat most of July then in August they went crazy and I could have picked a gallon every other day form 3 plants

early girl is another that did ok

having them well started in a hoop house, south facing window or other enclosure then move them out very shortly after last freeze

unfortunately I didn't get a start till mid may and we got a hard frost first week of October and I have about 100 pounds of green and lightly red tomatoes still on the vine

I had picked a lot and been eating but had so many more I should have picked and ripened in the house

From what I have seen 100 miles east of you, with good soil and water about any will grow. I have a mound of 15 year old cow manure that I put in a old water tank. It takes water about every day. But I can get tomatoes to grow. Last year I had Beef Steak and Big Boy. I can't say I have a favorite, they all do good if I water them. I did plant outside until mid May. Or else they just freeze off. This was the year before last. I can not remember what types they were. But that is from 8 plants and it was about every three to four days once they got going. I made a big tomato cage out of one of those light weight cattle panels and I wrap it with shrink wrap when I first put the plants in it. It cuts the wind and acts a green house and heats the soil.

Beefsteak tomatoes do well up here In northern Maine

Manitoba and Mountain Merit

Snowy Been growing tomato's my whole life at 6500 elevation and the best luck I have had is with Siberian which is a heritage. They are a mid size tomato with great flavor and I have never had a problem with bugs or rust. I do start them in a green house but they grow fast once the ground warms up another variety is early girl but dont do quite as well. I never put them in until the second week of June and get buckets of tomato's.

Awesome information! I wrote down all varieties you guys suggested and will see what I can get.

If you are looking for an early variety Jung's Way Ahead is pretty good.
I have planted quite a few varieties over the years and if I could only have one
it would be Celebrity. Good disease resistance, medium size, great flavor,
cans pretty good, not too much you can find wrong with it. I usually grow around 25
plants each year, always trying something new, but at least a half dozen of those will
be Celebrity.

Zim

I am thinking I am going to make a small high hoop green house out of light weight cattle panels next spring. Three will make a 8x12 and all I will need to do is frame the ends and a bottom. When I get ready to start I will give you a shout and you can come help. When we are done we can go make you one if you like it.
I picked the last four tomatoes today. I cut the branches off with tomatoes when it was going to freeze hard and hung them in the basement with baler twine. They hang there and ripen up. I think if you take the entire plant and hang it they ripen a little slower. The year I did that I had tomatoes in December.

Jubilee is my favorite

Early Girl is a favorite in these parts.

But early for us are the few plants you gamble with setting out early to see who can have the first mater. Some years you win some you lose. We have a long season so we have a huge selection of main croppers.

Oh and by early I mean tomatoes in May.

We have had good luck with two.
Jet Star
Super Sonic

Here in Wisconsin you plant the darn things in early May.
Then they freeze off and you plant them again around Memorial Day.
Then you fret, fertilize, water, and pace back and forth and wonder why
the little green sob's will not get ripe. Then around mid August you wonder
why in God's name did you plant so many? 6 weeks or so and they are going to freeze,
can't hardly give them away and if ya eat another BLT you are gonna bust your belt.

Flash ahead to late November, first seed catalogs arrive, begin planning for next year....


Zim

I do not know about growing tomatoes in your climate, but the Pink Girl tomato is hard to beat in flavor

chain link fence top rail makes good hoop houses , you build a bender or buy a bender