My 2012 Tomato Grow List

[Too Tall Toms]

Well I just ordered my tomato seeds for next year. I'm not growing the seeds myself but I found a woman who runs a greenhouse who's more than willing to grow the seeds I give her.
Anyway, my list is:

1) Mortgage Lifter - Radiator Charlie's
2) Wapsipinicon Peach
3) Boxcar Willie
4) Brandywine Red - Landis Valley
5) Clint Eastwood's Rowdy Red
6) Purple Calabash
7) Omar's Lebanese
8 ) Bloody Butcher
9) Black Early
10) Black Cherry
11) Cherokee Green
12) Eva Purple Ball
13) Costoluto Genovese

I'm also ordering:

1) Big Zac
2) Sungold
3) Sweet Million

A Big thanks to Tatiana and Tomatofest for having such great websites to order from.

I just have to figure out how I'm going to grow all of these varieties.

[raindrops27]

Sounds yummy!

[sirtanon]

I'm in a similar boat - There's about 20 varieties I want to grow this year but I have nowhere near enough space to grow that many.. so I have to keep my list small. Of course, I'll probably still end up starting seeds for 1 or 2 more varieties 'just because' right at the end.

Crazy thing is, in the past 2 months, I have ordered more varieties of tomato seed than I'll be able to grow this coming spring...

So here's the list I have put together so far:

Noire de Coseboeuf
Mary Robinson
Fandango
Kimberley
Brad's Black Heart
Jaune Flammee
Rosso Bruno (Kumato) F2
Campari F2
Delicious
..and a couple (hopefully) dwarf varieties from the project.

...at least for now

[gourmetgardener]

Have about 1/2 acre to plant on trellis - about 2000 plants. Here's what I've got on order:

Geronimo
Arbason
Beorange
Annelise
Granadero
Sunstream
Atavico
Montessino
Sakura
Loranne

[b54red]

Originally Posted by gourmetgardener

Have about 1/2 acre to plant on trellis - about 2000 plants. Here's what I've got on order:

Geronimo
Arbason
Beorange
Annelise
Granadero
Sunstream
Atavico
Montessino
Sakura
Loranne

Usually I recognize one or two tomatoes on a list but I'm stumped with these. Where are you ordering them from?

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by b54red

Usually I recognize one or two tomatoes on a list but I'm stumped with these. Where are you ordering them from?

http://www.tomatoville.com/showthread.php?t=19604

Bill, you'll find that Gourmet Gardener discussed most or all of them in the above thread from the Market Garden Forum in his thread about trialing cocktail tomato varieties, and also the sources.

[Riceloft]

I'll be growing the following:

Sungold f1 x2
Cherokee Purple x2
Winsall x1
Brandywine from Croatia x2
Wes x2
Iditarod Red x1
Yukon Quest x1

This will also be my first time starting from seed. So my list may end up very different if I don't have luck with that!

[kurt]

As promised.For Too Tall Toms,Kurt

[Alpinejs]

My list keeps growing with every catalog received..



Abe Lincoln
--Amazon Chocolate
--Ana Russian
--Aunt Gerties Gold
--Aunt Molly’s Ground Cherries
--Aunt Ruby’s German Green
--Beefsteak
--Berkley Tie-dye
--Big Beef
--Black Cherry
--Black Krim
--Black from Tula
--Blondkopfchen
--Boccone
--Box Car Willie
--Brad’s Black Heart
--Brandywine
--Brandywine OTV
--Cherokee Green
--Cherokee Purple
--Costoluto Genovese
--Cowlicks
--Cuostrolee
--Early Girl
--Earl’s Faux -
--Eva Purple Ball
--Garden Peach
-German Johnson
--Giant Belgium
--Golden Queen
--Green Doctors
--Green Pineapple
--Green Zebra
--Green giant
--Indian Stripe
--Jaune Flamme
--J.D.’s Spec C-Tex
--KBX
--Kelloggs Breakfast
--Kosovo
--Mariana’s Peace
--Momotoro
--Mortgage Lifter
--Neves Azorean Red
--New Big Dwarf
--Paul Robeson
--Pineapple
--Pruden’s purple
--Prue
--Riesenstab
--Stump of the World
--Stupice
--Suddath
--Sungold f1
--Sunsugar
--Super Snow White
--Terhune
--Virginia Sweet
--Wes
--Yellow Brandywine

[Alpinejs]

Kurt....as I have an ample supply of bamboo from 5 groves, I also use it for
staking. First, I use the 54" cages from Walmart and then tie to bamboo
after that. If the plants grow higher than 70', I am out of luck!!

[kurt]

I have the same problem with my cherrys.So to solve that I will train the limbs to the tie backs and let them go.Eventually some of the cherrys will go to 10-15 foot untill I stop them for as they will not ripen before my season ends around may-April when the heat sets in.My poles are at 7 foot.You can also control the leaders and suckers per plant to optimize berry growth,In my mind I beleive all the energys will go to bottom of plant if you control the plant by good pruning.Eventually I get a arbor look with tunnels of plants for easy harvest.

[ScottinAtlanta]

I have room for 10 varieties. Here are my top 15. Can anyone suggest any of these particularly suited to the hot, steamy environment of Georgia?

Ailsa Craig
Aunt Ginny's Purple
Aunt Ruby's German Green
Aunt Molly's Ground Cherry
Black from Tula
Black Krim
Bradley
Brazilian Beauty
Cherokee Green
Cherokee Purple
Green Zebra
Lime Green Salad
Prue
Red Zebra
Sungold Select

[Too Tall Toms]

Hey Kurt,

Those pictures are really cool. Thanks for posting. It's giving me some ideas for trellising my plants next year. What's the spacing on those plants? I can't tell.

Like Sirtanon said, I don't know if I'll have room to grow all of the seeds I'm getting. Heck, I won't be surprised if I order more.

At least I have a couple of months before I have to figure out the logistics of everything.

I was told that Thompson & Morgan were the ones to order Sungold from and that they are always true to the original [hybrid]. This I did: And the seeds I got are from Japan where they do the crossing.

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by WillysWoodPile

I was told that Thompson & Morgan were the ones to order Sungold from and that they are always true to the original [hybrid]. This I did: And the seeds I got are from Japan where they do the crossing.

T and M were the first to sell Sungold F1, but I've grown the same from Pinetree and I know others have grown the F1 from many other places.

http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/l...705457548.html

You might find the above link interesting. I made an error there and thought that his variety was bred by Sakata but it was bred by Tokita, both in Japan but both have US operations as well.

If a variety is F1, it's F1, and Tokita would be the source being the breeder of this variety.

In the link above the same is also said and the instance where Burpee was selling the F1 seeds and they were wrong the variety isn't the first time that Burpee has made "mistakes" with varieties, both F1 and OP.

In that above thread I said that I left Burpee in the dust many years ago and I still agree with that comment.