Look over my Early/Midseason list for 2012?

Chris_NH · September 7, 2011

Mark,
We have similar, if not generally cooler growing weather than you do. We set out 150'ish plants, starting about mid May, in Wall-o-waters, using red plastic as a mulch. Glacier is almost always first to ripe fruit, but taste is only maybe a 6 out of 10. Stupice is typically next as is the best tasting very early tomato I've found to date, and I've tried quite a few. Bloody Butcher is a close second. We've had good results with the early and productive oxheart Anna Russian - I'll be growing more of these next year as they're wonderful for sauce making. We've also had surprisingly good luck with Black Krim for being an early (only a week or two behind Stupice), bigger-sized tomato, and they're very tasty and handsome fruits.

Even though we had a decent year with the big indeterminates like Mortgage Lifter (had one fruit a tad over 3 pounds), next season I'm going to grow more determinates and fewer indeterminates. The gross production of the indeterminates is below the determinates in our growing area. The season just isn't long enough, even starting early.

September 7, 2011	#13
Chris_NH Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2011 Location: NH, zone 4/3 Posts: 28	Mark, We have similar, if not generally cooler growing weather than you do. We set out 150'ish plants, starting about mid May, in Wall-o-waters, using red plastic as a mulch. Glacier is almost always first to ripe fruit, but taste is only maybe a 6 out of 10. Stupice is typically next as is the best tasting very early tomato I've found to date, and I've tried quite a few. Bloody Butcher is a close second. We've had good results with the early and productive oxheart Anna Russian - I'll be growing more of these next year as they're wonderful for sauce making. We've also had surprisingly good luck with Black Krim for being an early (only a week or two behind Stupice), bigger-sized tomato, and they're very tasty and handsome fruits. Even though we had a decent year with the big indeterminates like Mortgage Lifter (had one fruit a tad over 3 pounds), next season I'm going to grow more determinates and fewer indeterminates. The gross production of the indeterminates is below the determinates in our growing area. The season just isn't long enough, even starting early.