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I'm wondering how everyone's tomatoes were this year?  
Many, too many of mine split, I guess from too much rain. But they split bad, had to compost too many of them  
Of course the ones I could use were delicious as always  
Experiences?

I tried a new tomato plant this year called Manitoba tomato. Not sure if it is the type of plant or growing season we’ve had but all the tomatoes are small. I’ve only had a dozen ripen so far. Nice tasting tomato though. I’m leaving them in the vine as long as possible. Only a few have split.

My tomatoes this year are awesome. Good sized, tasty and no blight. Splits are caused by fluctuations in water-I watered mine heavily all summer so no fluctuations. I fertilized once.

Ended up having a decent year for tomatoes but had to water a lot to ensure that we had a good crop. They seem late to ripen but overall they are healthy tomatoes with the exception of the occasional spot of blossom end rot.  
@spades!! - I spent 3 years trying to get Manitoba tomatoes to grow properly, I'd get the odd one that was a decent size but struggled to get them to grow bigger and had lots of issues with zippering and splitting so I gave up on them this year.  
I've found the varieties I've had the best luck with are Big Beef and Roma. I also tried Italian Special Red Paste this year and am loving the results!

I've had some great tomatoes depending on their location in my yard. I have a total of 8 raised beds scattered around my property.  
 
In one general location, mostly romas, they were small but tasty. Overall quality was good with very little blight.  
 
In other location, mostly beef steak and while there's been some cracking they are decent sized but slow to ripen.  
 
In a third location, it's black krim and san marzano. They did insanely well, the krim gave me some monster tomatoes! There was a fair amount of cracking and some insect damage however. The san marzano produced prolifically with good sized fruit and very few blemishes and no cracks.  
 
All the cherry tomatoes did well no matter where they were planted.  
 
It was hard to water them enough. The ones that did really well were more densely planted with more intercropping with other plants. All my plants had a heavy layer of mulch for water conservation.

Best crop in awhile, except for some cracking and odd rot at bottom. Large fruit, size of palm or larger, wondered if that was reason for cracking, or the watering, as they got a drowning , twice a week, community garden.

Alot of mine had end rot I think it's called..and some are split..bad year for my tomatoes too

I' so jealous that you had Black Krim tomato! I had purchase a single plant but had to ask for a different one and when I went back the greenhouse was all out of that variety.  
 
For the second year in a row there was not blossom end rot. I had a couple of Roma tomato with BER but that's it..  
 
Anyway..... there's always next year

42 tomatoes of various sizes from my Super Fantastic patio plant I got from Greenspot. Sprayed the leaves with Epsom salts and the plant just took off. Never even come close to this kind of success with patio plants before.