Anybody want to help me cut down my list? - Page 2

barbamWY · January 22, 2012

Gardener's Delight, Stump of the World, Aunt Ruby's German Green.
I have grown Stupice for years and always reliable. I grew Kimberly and Moravsky Div for the first time last year and have to repeat before making up my mind. Virginia Sweets I only grew because I got free seeds and I loved it. I have not grown the others under 5 because I have a short growing season. I have grown both the greens and prefer the Aunt Rubys. I think it is sweeter and has more undertones.

tgplp · January 22, 2012

Yikes, it sure is hard to cut down a list! Everyone from all over the country all have different opinions on taste, productivity, etc. etc. So, I've decided to just get a LOT of containers to grow tomatoes in! I don't know how... but I'll just start all the seeds and then when they get to big and have to go outside, I'll be forced to figure something out. Probably not the smartest idea, but sometimes a tomato crazy just has to do what a tomato crazy has to do.

So, here is my final (subject to some change, I will assume) list. The varieties that are in bold and italicized are going to be in pots. I will have sixteen plants in the garden, and fifteen in pots on the deck. Is that way to much to handle for one person? I will have to do a lot of pruning to fit all sixteen plants in my small garden...

Amazon Chocolate
Aunt Ruby’s German Green
Azoychka
Black Cherry
Brandywine Sudduth’s
Cherokee Purple
Earls Faux
Flamme
Gardeners Delight
Green Zebra
Grub’s Mystery Green
Isis Candy
KBX
Kimberly
Kosovo
Large Barred Boar
Lime Green Salad
Marianna’s Peace
Moravsky Div
Old German
Orange Russian 117
Orange Strawberry
Pink Berkely Tie Dye
Prue
Stump of the World
Stupice
Sungold
Super sweet 100
Virginia Sweets
Yellow Brandywine

any input would be appreciated... Thanks everyone for helping me out!!

Taryn

kath · January 23, 2012

I thinks it's a brilliant solution, Taryn.

Do you really think you're going to find anyone here that'll tell you 31 plants is too many for one person to care for?

Last year I pruned nearly 250- THAT was too many for one person to handle.

bitterwort · January 23, 2012

Taryn, you won't know if you like a variety until you've tried it, maybe more than once. That said, if it were me, I would put the larger-fruited ones in the soil and the smaller-fruited ones in pots. For example, swap Earl's Faux for Kimberly, pot vs. ground. In my experience, it's just easier to to grow the smaller fruits successfully in pots.

stormymater · January 24, 2012

Oh I have to say, lil old Lime Green Salad is just the prettiest plant you will ever grow - a 5 gallon pot is plenty & they look just like the trees little kids draw - a stalk then a big circular green mass covered in blooms on top. Very productive & pretty enough to stand as an ornamental. The fruits are sharp until dead ripe - make great green salsa. I think I'll grow again this year, just to have on the deck.

Virginia Sweets are delicious and beautiful beyond belief. Productive too in our horrid summers.

Flammee is a must grow - I have found variants of this - my fav are longer with deep coral inside & gold-orange outside vs. rounder & less distinctly bi-colored (the advantage of saving seed from ones that you love).

Black cherry is an absolute must grow each year here.

You can't go wrong with either GWR - Grubb's is more olive for me & ARGG is greener but both perform awesome & taste great.

Isis Candy is DH's fav cherry - disease-prone so I take cuttings & root them - the mother plant usually croaks off but the cuttings do well (go figure) - it stays sweet well into cool weather of October-Nov here. I get most of my production of the cuttings later in the season.

KBX & Cherokee Purple are also mandatory annual grows here - regardless of what else is planted. They are simply too delicious, too productive & too wonderful to ever go without - for us.

JD's Special C-Tex (not on your list) is also another mandatory down here for the same reasons.

paprika · January 24, 2012

I would second Bitterwort's suggestion to switch a couple of those around with larger fruited ones to the garden space. FWIW, Kosovo, Virginia Sweets, Earl's Faux do better in the soil for me than in containers while most cherries (with support and/or prunning) do well in containers along with Azoychka, Kimberly, and Stupice.

TimothyT

January 23, 2012	#19
bitterwort Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: MN Zone4b Posts: 292	Taryn, you won't know if you like a variety until you've tried it, maybe more than once. That said, if it were me, I would put the larger-fruited ones in the soil and the smaller-fruited ones in pots. For example, swap Earl's Faux for Kimberly, pot vs. ground. In my experience, it's just easier to to grow the smaller fruits successfully in pots. __________________ Bitterwort

January 22, 2012	#16
barbamWY Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: North West Wyoming Posts: 466	Gardener's Delight, Stump of the World, Aunt Ruby's German Green. I have grown Stupice for years and always reliable. I grew Kimberly and Moravsky Div for the first time last year and have to repeat before making up my mind. Virginia Sweets I only grew because I got free seeds and I loved it. I have not grown the others under 5 because I have a short growing season. I have grown both the greens and prefer the Aunt Rubys. I think it is sweeter and has more undertones.

January 22, 2012	#17
tgplp Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Pacific North West, zone 8a Posts: 510	Yikes, it sure is hard to cut down a list! Everyone from all over the country all have different opinions on taste, productivity, etc. etc. So, I've decided to just get a LOT of containers to grow tomatoes in! I don't know how... but I'll just start all the seeds and then when they get to big and have to go outside, I'll be forced to figure something out. Probably not the smartest idea, but sometimes a tomato crazy just has to do what a tomato crazy has to do. So, here is my final (subject to some change, I will assume) list. The varieties that are in bold and italicized are going to be in pots. I will have sixteen plants in the garden, and fifteen in pots on the deck. Is that way to much to handle for one person? I will have to do a lot of pruning to fit all sixteen plants in my small garden... Amazon Chocolate Aunt Ruby’s German Green Azoychka *Black Cherry* Brandywine Sudduth’s Cherokee Purple *Earls Faux* *Flamme* *Gardeners Delight* *Green Zebra* *Grub’s Mystery Green* *Isis Candy* KBX Kimberly *Kosovo* *Large Barred Boar* *Lime Green Salad* Marianna’s Peace *Moravsky Div* Old German *Orange Russian 117* Orange Strawberry Pink Berkely Tie Dye Prue Stump of the World Stupice Sungold *Super sweet 100* *Virginia Sweets* Yellow Brandywine any input would be appreciated... Thanks everyone for helping me out!! Taryn

January 23, 2012	#18
kath Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: zone 6b, PA Posts: 5,664	I thinks it's a brilliant solution, Taryn. Do you really think you're going to find anyone here that'll tell you 31 plants is too many for one person to care for? Last year I pruned nearly 250- THAT was too many for one person to handle.

January 24, 2012	#20
stormymater Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Pleasure Island, NC 8a Posts: 1,162	Oh I have to say, lil old Lime Green Salad is just the prettiest plant you will ever grow - a 5 gallon pot is plenty & they look just like the trees little kids draw - a stalk then a big circular green mass covered in blooms on top. Very productive & pretty enough to stand as an ornamental. The fruits are sharp until dead ripe - make great green salsa. I think I'll grow again this year, just to have on the deck. Virginia Sweets are delicious and beautiful beyond belief. Productive too in our horrid summers. Flammee is a must grow - I have found variants of this - my fav are longer with deep coral inside & gold-orange outside vs. rounder & less distinctly bi-colored (the advantage of saving seed from ones that you love). Black cherry is an absolute must grow each year here. You can't go wrong with either GWR - Grubb's is more olive for me & ARGG is greener but both perform awesome & taste great. Isis Candy is DH's fav cherry - disease-prone so I take cuttings & root them - the mother plant usually croaks off but the cuttings do well (go figure) - it stays sweet well into cool weather of October-Nov here. I get most of my production of the cuttings later in the season. KBX & Cherokee Purple are also mandatory annual grows here - regardless of what else is planted. They are simply too delicious, too productive & too wonderful to ever go without - for us. JD's Special C-Tex (not on your list) is also another mandatory down here for the same reasons.

January 24, 2012	#21
paprika Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Winston-Salem, NC Posts: 55	I would second Bitterwort's suggestion to switch a couple of those around with larger fruited ones to the garden space. FWIW, Kosovo, Virginia Sweets, Earl's Faux do better in the soil for me than in containers while most cherries (with support and/or prunning) do well in containers along with Azoychka, Kimberly, and Stupice. TimothyT