Just curious...

[nosnow]

Worth,
Assymetry: def: that most perfect tomato, round but firm, slightly acidic, and having all the qualities of J-Lo's butt.

(and when DH first heard the words J-LO, he couldn't for the life of himself figure out how Jay Leno got his own moniker )


How DO these threads always get hijacked?

(sorry christine

[yotetrapper]

Oh yes, seed saving. Dozens of jars of bubbling, fermenting, stinking rotten tomato pulp sitting around in the summer heat.

Before I discovered heirlooms I planted about 12 tomatoes every year. Last year was my first year with heirlooms, and I had 48. This year I decided I didnt reallllyyyy need my corn patch, and the numbers gone up to 60.... sigh. Wonder which veggie will lose it's patch in 2011? I need a bigger yard!

[yotetrapper]

Oh, but as to what I do with them.... many get eaten, many get given away, tons get canned as various sauces, pastes, whole, etc... and when tbe tomatoes get ahead of me, which they invariably seem to, the chickens eat well.

[nosnow]

Oh Yes,
Let's not forget the chickens! In addition to all the other crazy addictions we have,
there's always the livestock.

Or could I interest anybody in some $100 a quart honey from my own hives? Seriously.
SHEEEESH!!!

[yotetrapper]

LOL. We have a few hives as well, but they dont much care for ripe tomatoes.

[nosnow]

Good lord Yole,

just what the world needs is ANOTHER beekeeper/chickenfarmer/matergrower.

anyway, it's all good for a laugh

Joan

[Tormato]

Originally Posted by cottonpicker

Eat some, give some away to friends, make sauce with some.....

Ditto, also.

Now if I was in Spain, and had some lousy varieties in my garden...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tomatina_2006.jpg

Tormato

[KLorentz]

Beware of Camo and Carolyn! They will get you even more addicted! And there are the catalogs. Evil companies like Baker Creek,Victory Seeds and Sandhill.All this will lead to seed catalog addiction too. You won't be able to escape.May as well give in cuz there is no cure. Camo is proof of that.


And just to prepare you for what is ahead here is my mater list for 2010 minus additions.


1 Thessaloniki:Grew this great Greek mater last year.About the size of Celebrity and IMO it has just as good production.And more flavor.

2 Big Rainbow: Last year was to be the first year for this one but as you know I landed in the hospital about the time you are supposed to have the garden all worked up.Oh well .Take two!!!

3 Vorlon: Been looking forward to trying this one

4 Costoluto Fiorentino

5 Costoluto Genovese

6 Stump of the World

7 Cherokee Purple

8 Abe Lincoln

9 Wisconsin 55 Gold

10 Cowlick Brandywine: This was one of the best of five maters I grew last year.And some where huge !!!

11 Watermelon Beefsteak

12 Persimmon

13 Ananas Noir

14 Purple Calabash

15 Rutgers

16 Marglobe

17 Matina

18 Goose Creek

19 Orlov Yellow

20 Gigantesque

21 Giant Belgium

22 Hazelfield Farm.

23 Earl's Faux

24 Delicious

25 Rosalita

26 Clementine

27 Guemsey Pink Blush

28 Brandywine Sudduth Strain

29 Rouge D'Irak

30 Carbon

31 Vilina

32 Guido
.
33 Giant Italian Paste

34 Triumphant

35 PALMIRA

36 JOIE DE LA TABLE

37 Red Rock

38 Goat Bag

39 GUILDO PETROBONI

40 GARY O'SENA

41 GROSSE PLATE DU PORTUGAL

42 Cosmonaut Volkov

43 Zapotec


Kevin

[KLorentz]

Remember you have been warned.



Kevin

[Tania]

We eat them raw, and we save lots of seeds.

It is never enough tomatoes for my family of 6, but I only grow about 600+ plants...

Tania

[SunnyK]

Originally Posted by KLorentz

And there are the catalogs. Evil companies like Baker Creek,Victory Seeds and Sandhill.All this will lead to seed catalog addiction too. You won't be able to escape.May as well give in cuz there is no cure.


And just to prepare you for what is ahead here is my mater list for 2010 minus additions.


1 Thessaloniki:Grew this great Greek mater last year.About the size of Celebrity and IMO it has just as good production.And more flavor.

2 Big Rainbow: Last year was to be the first year for this one but as you know I landed in the hospital about the time you are supposed to have the garden all worked up.Oh well .Take two!!!

3 Vorlon: Been looking forward to trying this one

4 Costoluto Fiorentino

5 Costoluto Genovese

6 Stump of the World

7 Cherokee Purple

8 Abe Lincoln

9 Wisconsin 55 Gold

10 Cowlick Brandywine: This was one of the best of five maters I grew last year.And some where huge !!!

11 Watermelon Beefsteak

12 Persimmon

13 Ananas Noir

14 Purple Calabash

15 Rutgers

16 Marglobe

17 Matina

18 Goose Creek

19 Orlov Yellow

20 Gigantesque

21 Giant Belgium

22 Hazelfield Farm.

23 Earl's Faux

24 Delicious

25 Rosalita

26 Clementine

27 Guemsey Pink Blush

28 Brandywine Sudduth Strain

29 Rouge D'Irak

30 Carbon

31 Vilina

32 Guido
.
33 Giant Italian Paste

34 Triumphant

35 PALMIRA

36 JOIE DE LA TABLE

37 Red Rock

38 Goat Bag

39 GUILDO PETROBONI

40 GARY O'SENA

41 GROSSE PLATE DU PORTUGAL

42 Cosmonaut Volkov

43 Zapotec


Kevin

And of course....every time someone lists something they have grown, the need to try it yourself will be unbearable

[mtbigfish]

Dar
I thought it was a 13 step program
13. Ask God what varieties he likes and see how many plants he needs.
Not to make fun of any 12 step program

Dennis

[gnut629]

Last year was my first year growing from seed. The process was what really got me hooked. I was amazed that I actually nursed these little seeds to some fairly awesome plants and fruits that I could not get enough of. I was so amazed, I ended up giving more away just so I could tell the adventurous story of how they all grew.

It is a hopeless cause now....I AM HOOKED

[habitat_gardener]

I thought the steps (which can be done in any order) were

1. Buy a tomato plant in the nursery. Wow -- you get tomatoes and you can eat them, and they're so much better than the hard red things you can buy in the store.

2. Find out about other varieties of tomatoes by joining Tomatoville, picking up Carolyn's book, or flipping through any vegetable catalog.

3. Grow more than 3 colors and 2 sizes of tomato. Decide you must have more next year. Repeat.

4. Good tomato year! You think you know something about growing tomatoes. You share your knowledge on internet forums.

5. Bad tomato year! You think you know nothing about growing tomatoes. You ask lots of questions on internet forums.

6. You taste a tomato so good that you must grow it next year, so you start saving seeds from the best ones.

7. You discover seed trading. You save seeds from every tomato, even if you're not sure you want to grow them again. You never know...someday you might have enough room to grow them all!

8. You discover seed starting, and you post daily progress reports of your seedlings' progress to fellow tomato-growing addicts.

9. At the height of tomato season, wherever you go you bring tomatoes to give away.

10. You have so many tomatoes that you come up with creative ways to use them (note: Sungold muffin recipe needs more work).

11. You think you've found a dozen or so varieties that you'd be happy growing forever, but then you hear about all the ones you haven't tried, and you think, I can find a spot for ten more.

12. When you're not eating or growing your own tomatoes, you're thinking of ways to store and inventory your seed stash, poring through catalogs to find out which tomato seeds you need, or reading tomato forums.

And that's only the first twelve steps...

[cdbva]

Originally Posted by Worth1

Well that does it she's HOOKED!!!!

True, true.

Re perfect assymetry: I was thinking about Cherokee Purple, among others. People from time to time compare something with it and praise the other tomato's admirable roundness. And I think "Huh?" What do looks have to do with it? A CP is perfect because it is what it is.

Originally Posted by klorentz

Beware of Camo and Carolyn!

Okay.

Originally Posted by tania

It is never enough tomatoes for my family of 6, but I only grow about 600+ plants...

Oh man. I'm not going to have nearly enough.

Originally Posted by gnut629

I was amazed that I actually nursed these little seeds to some fairly awesome plants and fruits that I could not get enough of. I was so amazed, I ended up giving more away just so I could tell the adventurous story of how they all grew.

I know what you mean. Logically, it makes no sense that these tiny little sprouts turn into lovely tomatoes. It's rather a marvel. If someone had told me 10 years ago I'd be having an amazing adventure growing tomatoes, I'd have thought they were out of their gourd.

Christine