2016 Midwest Tomato Trials

Scooty · July 30, 2016

Sorry to those who tried to contact me. I was unavailable for a while, and then got caught up in non-tomato aspects of life. Then by the time I got back to tomatoes, I had a lot to catch up on.

This thread is meant as way for me to share my 2016 results.

We're growing something on the order of 70-80 ish varieties in the Northwest suburbs of Chicago, a lot of them are things I have not tried before. As such, I want to see how well they taste, yield, and aesthetics. Understandably many variables will affect taste (weather, original seed strain, hours of sun, soil quality, fertilizer frequency), and my results may greatly differ from yours. That said, as they say in the lab "ceteris paribus".... These results should at least be valid relative to one another given all the tomatoes share the same environment.

I don't have everything compiled yet, so I'll update as I have data available and time.

TY to Tormato, Cole_Robbie, Deb_FL, and ginger2778 for providing most if not all of the seeds used for the year!

July 30, 2016	#1
Scooty Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2016 Location: Chicago-land & SO-cal Posts: 583	2016 Midwest Tomato Trials Sorry to those who tried to contact me. I was unavailable for a while, and then got caught up in non-tomato aspects of life. Then by the time I got back to tomatoes, I had a lot to catch up on. This thread is meant as way for me to share my 2016 results. We're growing something on the order of 70-80 ish varieties in the Northwest suburbs of Chicago, a lot of them are things I have not tried before. As such, I want to see how well they taste, yield, and aesthetics. Understandably many variables will affect taste (weather, original seed strain, hours of sun, soil quality, fertilizer frequency), and my results may greatly differ from yours. That said, as they say in the lab "ceteris paribus".... These results should at least be valid relative to one another given all the tomatoes share the same environment. I don't have everything compiled yet, so I'll update as I have data available and time. TY to Tormato, Cole_Robbie, Deb_FL, and ginger2778 for providing most if not all of the seeds used for the year!