I didn’t go through them all hunting for beefsteaks, but here is the list of early tomatoes on Tania’s site:

http://t.tatianastomatobase.com:88/wiki/Category:Early_Tomatoes
Maybe something like Demidov, Morkovnyi, Mountain Princess???
This should give you some short season choices.

You could also go the dwarf tomato way & grown them in pots. Then you can move them inside or cover them easily to avoid frosts & lengthen your season…
Some good choices for large fruited dwarf tomatoes would be
Summertime Gold (yellow oblate)
Yukon Quest (an oblate pink)
Dwarf Sweet Sue (round to oblate yellow with pink blossom end)

From memory – Northern Lights has been my earliest bi-colour. Azoychka (yellow) is early for a fairly large (non-beefsteak) tomato.

I love the ribbing on the tomatoes in your photo. Very pretty!

Ah, it doesnt look like I’ll ever be done with tomato varieties to try! Thanks. I did grow Northern Lights last year—they were beautiful, and huge, and productive, but soft and mealy. If I picked them while they were still yellow and green the texture was okay, and the flavor mediocre.

Agree about the flavor of sungolds not being surpassed, although I have found a few others that are comparably good. I think green grape tastes wonderful (the plant is a whiny wimp about cold or drought though), and i am also loving some of the black tomatoes, especially Black Krim, and striped tomatoes, especially Large Barred Boar, and Pink Berkeley Tie-Dye (although my PBTD is more of a green tomato with pink stripes than a pink tomato). The BK and PBTD have been reasonably early, productive and cold tolerant.

These varieties sound very interesting. I must try & get hold of some seeds to try on our allotment & even on my balcony at home. I’ve grown a few plants there for at least 10 years.

Nickyn—I will try arbruznyi—thanks! The ribbed tomatoes are “pineapple” and “emerald evergreen” all from seeds you sent—the funny thing is that the description and pictures of the ones you grew were not ribbed.
arw01—do you have a lot of green ones? Or just not much fruit?
doubledug—I’ll add those to my list to try too.

Here in the UK, I’ve just started a crazy experiment.

In early summer, before I’d even got them planted into growbags in my greenhouse, all my tomato plants died of a combination of underwatering (my fault), a dull damp chilly early season and then blight got them too.

So I sowed a variety called ‘Glacier’ from Thompson and Morgan last last month
“http://www.thompson-morgan.com/vegetables/vegetable-seeds/tomato-seeds/tomato-glacier/676TM”:

Planted out nine small plants in growbags last weekend and they seem to have settled in and be growing away well. They’re determinate too so I’ll just stake them and let them get on with growing.

If we get a mild autumn and early winter, I might just get a few fruits. Last year my ‘Gardeners Delight’ were still producing a few ripe fruit at Christmas so there’s hope!

My Evergreens were (and are) definitely not that yellow – more amber yellow typical of green when ripes when ready to pick. That is the shape that I got though! They are very green on the inside. Not citrusy – more of a rich almost spicy taste. Weird!

Your pineapple sounds like a lot of my later in the summer Pineapples – some were more yellow/orange/red bicolours at the height of the season but more green later in the year. Very pretty & quietly sweet – mine were prone to splitting. I found the taste of a few of the other bi-colours more intense.

I wonder too – environmental, genetic mutation, seed mixup?? In any case – I hope that you are enjoying them. If you grow out the Evergreen & it turns out to be a cross “Anelson” would make a great name for a tomato! Hee Hee!

I added a pic of Grandma Oliver’s Green – this is about the yellowest I have seen Evergreen get to – but I don’t have a pic of a more yellow/amber Evergreen.

It’s very interesting to read about people’s opinions on these varieties of tomatoes. :-))

@ Armorel: Your links don’t work, you have extra characters on the end of them! So I did a search on the T&M site & I found the page you referred to:

“http://www.thompson-morgan.com/vegetables/vegetable-seeds/tomato-seeds/tomato-glacier/676TM

I would have to say that my seasons are very short, but this year was a hot summer.

“Bison” was the earliest and produced all summer for me in a container. “Yellow Pear” and “Sweet Pea Currant” are tied for second as far as being early and productive.

Opps, I just noticed that you’re looking for large tomato varieties. I would say Bison is a “medium”. The other 2, not so much!