PNW gardener progress?

[Jeannine Anne]

Thanks for the Canadian seeds info.. I have found lots of tomatoes seeds on various sites but I now need to find other veggies.. XX Jeannine

[Tania]

I posted some of my tomato photos in the Photo Gallery: http://www.tomatoville.com/showthread.php?t=19888

[dice]

Mr. Bruno note: I did not get many fruit off of a small plant that tended
to wilt a day sooner than anything else in the same row (some kind of
root issue), but it does have good flavor, slightly sweet. Both Mr. Bruno
and Magyar Piros Boker (also slightly sweet) reminded me a lot of the
taste of Early Rouge.

[dice]

Caveats:
Though Defiant F1 is a robust, healthy plant with good production that
grew well at less than 70F and very well above 70F, flavor is kind of iffy.
When cut and eaten just when fruit start to soften, flavor is good enough.
Let it sit on the counter softening for a week, though, and it becomes
grocery store bland and tasteless. The texture does not degrade like some
fruits that do not hold on the counter, it does not become excessively
soft and mushy, but the flavor simply disappears.

Sasha's Altai has kind of uneven fruit quality (at least this plant this year
did). Some fruits are just perfect, texture, looks, flavor, etc, while other
fruits ripen unevenly, kind of blotchy, and are a watery, "big bag of
seeds" when cut open.

Victoria is kind of bland. It has slightly small, oblate fruit that look good,
have good texture, etc, but not a lot of flavor. They were not as bland
as a Defiant that sat too long, but the flavor pales beside many other
fresh tomatoes that I grow.

Maiden's Gold is absurdly late to set and ripen fruit in our climate,
but the flavor is excellent, a bit like Earl of Edgecombe, and the tomato
is very meaty, with not a lot of gel or seeds per fruit. In a warm enough
climate with a longer growing season, it is certainly worth growing.

Though I only got a couple of fruits off of a stunted plant this year,
Indiana Red is fairly sweet and delicious.

[dice]

Another end of season followup:

Siberian (real Siberian: RL determinate, not rugose, round red saladette)
was not that early. I grew two of them right next to two Cowberian plants
(a little rangier plant, PL, same size fruit), and the first Siberian plant
blushed its first fruit two weeks after the Cowberian plants. I had already
picked 80% of the fruit on the Cowberian plants (nearly as early as
Moravsky Div) by the time the first Siberian fruit blushed. It did have
excellent flavor, though, better than the rugose-leaved Siberia and better
than Cowberian, which is tasty but not as good as Siberian (sweeter and
more complex flavor to my taste buds).

Koroleva seems a bit late for this climate. Despite robust early season
plant growth in cool weather, it did not start to set fruit until the weather
warmed up in late July. It is very tasty, though, sweeter than Early Rouge,
Mr. Bruno, or Magyar Piros Boker, which all have good flavor, more sweet
than tart. Fruit were a little bigger than baseball sized, more-or-less globe
shaped with a blunt point, and they had relatively few seeds. (I only
ended up with 40-50 usable seeds after fermenting all of the seeds from
3 full-sized Koroleva fruits.) I do not know if I would grow it again in this
climate, kind of a gamble on good summer weather, but I particularly
enjoyed eating them.

[jwr6404]

jeannine
check out www.fullcircle seeds.com for Canadian veggies.

Originally Posted by Jeannine Anne

Hi Tania, you tease you.. but that is OK. I went to the garden 2 days ago and found a huge fruit on the floor, nibbled.. drat it and it had a blush on just about ready, there was evidence a bird had been in the greenhouse so I think it knocked off the vine and something on the ground then got at it.. we do have lot of squirrells and rabbits around and I had left the door open the previous day. I shooed a big black rabbit out of a covered tomato patch a few days ago and he had sampled all the fruit that were low down, but he can't reach my dwarf fruit. I intended to bring the fruit home as the seeds should have been ok but when I looked in the basket at home John said he had chucked it..

By the way, off topic.. but I need to find a list of Canadian varieties of vegetables, I have the list of tomatoes from your site, if you know any other veggies and have a minute could you let me know.

Soo good to hear you are getting a few tomatoes.

XX Jeannine

[jwr6404]

correction should read www.fullcircleseeds.com

Originally Posted by jwr6404

jeannine
check out www.fullcircle seeds.com for Canadian veggies.