Tomatoes planted this year

[Mireille]

Here is a list of the tomatoes in my garden this year:

42 days
Abraham Lincoln
Ace
Acme Pink
Aker's West Virginia
Aker's Oxheart
Amana orange
Amana Pink
Amateur's Dream
Anahu
Auriga
Angora
Anna Herman's
Andrew Rahart's
Anna Russe
Aunt's Ruby
Arkansas traveller
Aunt Ginnie Purple
Aunt Ruby German Green
Auriga
Aussi
Azoychka
Barbaniaka
Barne's Mountain Yellow
Basinga
Babywine
Belgium Giant
Believe it or not
Berkshire polish
Big Rainbow
Bison
Black
Black Aisberg
Black Ethiopian
Black from Tula
Black Mountain Pink
Black Sea Man
Black Zebra
Blue Fruit
Black Star
Blondkopfchen
Blue Ridge Mountain
Brandywine Black
Brandywine yellow
Budenovka
Britain's Breakfast
Brownberry
Brandywine Apricot
Bull's Heart
Burbank
Burpee Delicious
Burraker's Favorite
Camp Joy
Candy Stripes
Capriciosa
Carbon
Caro Rich
Chapman
Charlie's Green
Cherokee chocolate
Cherry Ghost
Cheesemanii
Chiapas Wild
Chio-Chio San
Chrismas Grapes
Chuck's
Church
Citron (lemon)
Cleota Pink
Cleota Yellow
Clementine
Climbing Trip-L-Crop
Cobourg
Cosmonaute Volkov
Costaluto Genovese
Coucher de soleil (sunset)
Coyote
Croustalee
Cueni
Da Chilo
Dad's Sunset
De Barrao
De Barrao Black
Dixie Golden Giant
Dorothy's Green
Double Rich
Dr. Carolyn
Dr. Lyle
Dr. Neal
Dr. Wyche
Dunkin Delight
Earl of Edgecomb
Egyptian
Elbe
Erika d'Australie
Eureka
Evergreen
First in the Field
Giant from Orembourg
Gelb Dettilwein
Garten perle
Germaid Red
German Gold
German Head
German Red Strawberry
Giant Syrian
Glacier
Glassnost
Glory of Moldova
Golden Jubilee
Golden Queen
Golden Sunrise
Golden Treasure
Goliath
Great White
Green & Gold
Green velvet
Guernesey Island
High Country
Hillbilly
Hungarian Heart
Hugh's
Ida Gold
Indische Flesche
Imur Prior Beta
Indian Moon
Ingegnioli gigante
Isis Candy
Ispolin
Ivory Egg
Jaffa
Japanese Oxheart
Jaune flammée
Jaune St-Vincent
Jersey Devil
Jerusalem
Joffre
Joyau d'Oaxaca
Kaukasische liane
Kellog's Breakfast
Kentucky Beefsteak
King Spring Early
Krasnodar Titans
Lemon Tree
Liguria
Lilian's yellow
Lime Green
Lisa King
Lutescente
Mammoth German Gold
Mandarin Cross
Manyel
Marianna's Peace
Madara
Maritime Pink
Marizol Bratka
Marizol Gold
Marizol Purple
Marizol Red
Mary Robinson
Marzipan Gold
Mom's
Matina
Maya Indian
Mexico
Missouri Pink love apple
Mohamed
Moskvitch
Mountain Gold
Moya
Muscat
Nebraska Wedding
Nectar
Neve's Azorean Red
Nepal
Noire charbonneuse
Noire de cosseboeuf
Nova
Northern Lights
Odessa
Old Glame
Old German
Old Virginia
Olena Ukrainian
Olga's Biggest
Omar Libanaise
Opal Essence
Opalka
Optimus
Orange banana
Orange oxheart
Orange polonaise
Oregon Spring
Paragon
Paul Robeson
Persimmon
Peruvian bush
Peacevine cherry
Pink Ping Pong
Pink Podland
Pokusa
Ponderosa Golden
Ponderose Pink
Portugeese
Powers
Promyk
Prize of Trials
Pruden's Purple
Qiyanaï-Huang
Radiator Charlie
Reisentraube
Richardson
Royale des Guineaux
Ruby Gold
Russe
Russian Persimmon
Russian Oxheart
Russian potato
Sandul Moldovan
Sarah Schwarze
Sébastopol
Shirley S.
Siberia
Siletz
Siniy
Sioux
Slankard Oxheart
Snowberry
Soldacki
Sophie's Choice
Spears Tennesse Green
Sputnik
Ste-Lucie
Stone
Stump of the World
Schellenberg's Favorite
Sub-arctic cherry
Sun Baby
Summer Cider
Sylvan Gaume
Tangerine
Tatar from Mongolstan
Tee Pee
Tegucigalpa
Thaï Pink
Tidwell German
Tomaquet de Penjar
Tigre
Transparent
Triffle Black
Turks Muts
Tuxhorn
Valencia
Verna Orange
Victory
Vintage wine
Visitation Valley
Watermelon
White Oxheart
White Queen
Wolford Wonder
Yasha Yugoslavian
Zhuan Hong Kiao
Zigan
Zomok

[chilhuacle]

That's certainly a who's who of tomatoes, wish I had that much space. I hope you'll give a list of the best at the end of the season!

[kimpossible]

Wow!
I count 265 varieties, Mireille. I'm curious - why so many? Do you market garden? Or are you just out of control???

[mms]

OUT OF CONTROL?

Aren't we all?

I didn't want to list my varieties for this year because I didn't want people to think I was insane. I don't feel so bad now with me meager 100+ varieties.

MMS

[Tania]

wow Mireille - what a list, great selection, and some I never heard of! 8)

How many of each are you going to plant?

Welcome to the forum!

[Mireille]

Yes, I am out of control. I will plant only 1 plant of each variety. I will see about the space available. In fact, I have approximately 625 varieties. The choice was difficult for this year. I choose the varieties that I had only 2 or 3 seeds.

[carolyn137]

I choose the varieties that I had only 2 or 3 seeds.

So lets hope they are fresh seeds.

And I'm assuming you're an SSE member or get lots of seed from Bill Minkey thru SODC based on several of the varieties you list.

Interesting list, and BTW I have it as Babanyka, not as you have it for I just happened to notice that one as I scanned thru rapidly.

Ands since folks always asked me what I was doing with 1000 plants and 200-250 varieties each season, and I told them, here's the same question back to you.

Seed selling? Fruit selling? Whatever?

[Mireille]

No, I'm not selling the seeds, I do only exchange; and for the fruits, I give to friends, my children, neighbourgs. I must tell you that it's the first year that I have as much varieties. Last year I had only 40 varieties. Then I cought the tomato sickness. That's it.

[Mireille]

May I ask what is a SSE member ? I had my seeds last fall by exchanging with people from France and Bergium. About the spelling of the varieties of tomates your can see the real spelling on www.ventmarin.free.fr It's a french site but the name of the tomates are the same in French or in English. And then you click at the left on Passion tomates.

[carolyn137]

I know Ventmarin very well and tomato names are not the same in all languages, trust me on that.

SSE stands for Seed Savers Exchange, which is the largest organization in the world whose mission is the preservation of open pollinated (OP) varieties of fruits,vegetables, grains, etc.

To learn more about it, and there are many Canadian members, go to seedsavers.org and then please do ask if you have any questions.

It is not a place to trade seeds, for varieties are listed in an annual Yearbook and you request and pay for seeds from listed members.

Currently there are about 4000 tomato varieties listed. There is also a public SSE catalog, the link is also at the site I gave you above, and anyone can order from the Public catalog, but there are only about 40 varieties offered for sale.

There are also quite a few foreign SSE members and many of the varieties found with seed collectors in Europe originated from SSE as did and do most of the varieties seen at commercial websites.

Geza, in Hungary, for instance, trades with many folks and thus has lots and lots of varieties. Herr Hahm, who sell seeds from Reinhard Kraft's excellent site also offers lots and lots of varieties, many of which came from SSE since Reinhard was for many years an SSE member.

The new white oxheart and the first green when ripe PL ( potato leaf) both came from Reinhard.

I used to get lots of varieties from Terre de Semances and St Marthe, but almost all of what they offer is also available here in the US and has been for quite a while.

I almost forgot, Terre de Semances is now known as Kokopelli and Danielle is now living in the US, last I knew.

You'll have a wonderful time with all those varieties this summer.

If at some time you want me to go thru them an indicate where names are different from what you have, I'd be glad to do that. I mean spelling differences by which several of them are better known.

Oh, and SODC is Seeds of Diversity Canada, which is a much smaller version of SSE with far fewer listings.

Hope that helps.

[clay199]

and the SODC is located in a far smaller country population wise.

and NO Jennifer, no comments today.

[bugsy]

I just planted my tomatoes for Spring 2009. My 2001 Sungold seeds from Shepherds Seeds (remember them?) were the first to sprout. I planted 12/23 and Sungold is up.

Wow.

[Mireille]

Thank you Carolyn, I appreciate your explanations.

[Mireille]

Patience, patience. Nothing is in the garden yet. Too cold. There is risk of frost tonight. But the temperature will be warmer starting thursday. So, all the tomato plants should be in the garden the next week-end.

[gwnorth]

Bonne chance, Mirielle! Peut-être l'année prochaine on pourrait faire des échanges? Je n'ài que 14 varietés de tomates que j'espère mettre dans le jardin la semaine prochaine aussi.
(Good luck, Mireille! Maybe next year we can do some trades? I only have 14 varieties that I hope to plant out next week too.)