Tomatoville® Gardening Forums


Notices

Member discussion regarding the methods, varieties and merits of growing tomatoes.

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
Old March 1, 2023   #1
mcsee
Tomatovillian™
 
mcsee's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Victoria. Australia
Posts: 543
Default Aussie Grown Tomatoes

Our 2022/23 Tomato season is over and all plants now removed from the garden. Overall, we got off to a slow start, but it picked up, giving us plenty of tomatoes to eat and cook with. Standouts in the garden were numerous, with the surprise contributor being my own cross, which I named Macalister after the river that runs through our town.


Macalister was a cross I made in 2019, after finding that the Sweet Ozark Orange I got from Ozark and grew turned out too sweet for our liking, so I used its pollen on a red Romanian tomato we'd been growing for some years, the resulting fruit was the end result, a nice tasting yellow tomato. Macalister this year grew in trusses of up to 8 fruits, ranging in weight from 400 - 450 grams. The fruit has a great flavor, my wife's favourite tomato again this year. Hopefully by the time it's stable it will find its way to a few growers, but until then, we'll keep enjoying it each season.


I'll post a few more varieties that did well here that were worthy of a mention.




mcsee
Attached Images
File Type: jpg 2023-02-15 12.31.26.jpg (119.3 KB, 111 views)
mcsee is offline   Reply With Quote
Old March 1, 2023   #2
mcsee
Tomatovillian™
 
mcsee's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Victoria. Australia
Posts: 543
Default

Next on or list is a tomato we've been growing for many years, that being one we named UK2000, (but not named for United Kingdom). I guess we're hard to please with this tomato, as we grow it every year, we like it that much.


Anyway, this tomato ticks all the boxes for us, although it never seems to be grown more than once by those who have seeds.
Attached Images
File Type: jpg 2023-03-01 15.57.22.jpg (151.5 KB, 115 views)
mcsee is offline   Reply With Quote
Old March 1, 2023   #3
mcsee
Tomatovillian™
 
mcsee's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Victoria. Australia
Posts: 543
Default

A few more that we'd probably grow again are - starting top left photo, then clockwise.


Karkiano
Liz Birt
Liz Birt (Group)
Longhorn (Halved)
Longhorn
Attached Images
File Type: jpg 2023-03-01 16.34.01.jpg (119.2 KB, 108 views)
mcsee is offline   Reply With Quote
Old March 1, 2023   #4
VirginiaClay
Tomatovillian™
 
Join Date: Jul 2019
Location: Virginia, USA
Posts: 139
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by mcsee View Post
Macalister was a cross I made in 2019, after finding that the Sweet Ozark Orange I got from Ozark and grew turned out too sweet for our liking, so I used its pollen on a red Romanian tomato we'd been growing for some years, the resulting fruit was the end result, a nice tasting yellow tomato. Macalister this year grew in trusses of up to 8 fruits, ranging in weight from 400 - 450 grams. The fruit has a great flavor, my wife's favourite tomato again this year. Hopefully by the time it's stable it will find its way to a few growers, but until then, we'll keep enjoying it each season.
mcsee
Beautiful tomato! Looking forward to trying it when you decide it's ready to share and its seeds make their way over here.
VirginiaClay is offline   Reply With Quote
Old March 1, 2023   #5
ddsack
Tomatovillian™
 
ddsack's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Northern Minnesota - zone 3
Posts: 3,231
Default

+1 !!!
Macalister sounds like a delicious one! And the rest of them make me long for summer as well. It will be 5 months before I have ripe tomatoes here.
__________________
Dee

**************
ddsack is offline   Reply With Quote
Old March 1, 2023   #6
hl2601
Tomatovillian™
 
hl2601's Avatar
 
Join Date: Dec 2017
Location: Metro Denver
Posts: 767
Default

Love seeing all your photos McSee! They are some beautiful tomatoes. Glad you got some great results after a tough start too. As our season begins here, your posts lift my spirits!
Heide
hl2601 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old March 2, 2023   #7
mcsee
Tomatovillian™
 
mcsee's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Victoria. Australia
Posts: 543
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by hl2601 View Post
Love seeing all your photos McSee! They are some beautiful tomatoes. Glad you got some great results after a tough start too. As our season begins here, your posts lift my spirits!
Heide

Thanks Heide. I hope you have a good season with your tomatoes.
mcsee is offline   Reply With Quote
Old March 2, 2023   #8
Whwoz
Tomatovillian™
 
Whwoz's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Victoria, Australia
Posts: 870
Default

Some beautiful tomatoes there Mcsee. Our season here at Traf is really only just kicking into gear now, plants very late due to wet weather up until late December and limited warmth and sun since. Only a small planting this year, not able to get everything into the ground due to the wet.
Whwoz is offline   Reply With Quote
Old March 2, 2023   #9
mcsee
Tomatovillian™
 
mcsee's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Victoria. Australia
Posts: 543
Default

Thanks Woz.



Yes, the rain was something to remember here too, with the first year I can remember that we never had a ripe tomato before Christmas.
mcsee is offline   Reply With Quote
Old March 2, 2023   #10
KarenO
Tomatovillian™
 
KarenO's Avatar
 
Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Vancouver Island
Posts: 5,931
Default

The fruit you are showing look great! Glad you were able to get a harvest despite the uncooperative weather!
Karen O
KarenO is offline   Reply With Quote
Old February 8, 2024   #11
Keiththibodeaux
Tomatovillian™
 
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Louisiana
Posts: 587
Default

I am in hot, humid south Louisiana. Aussie was an outstanding performer for me last year 2023.
Keiththibodeaux is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply


Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump


All times are GMT -4. The time now is 08:24 PM.


★ Tomatoville® is a registered trademark of Commerce Holdings, LLC ★ All Content ©2022 Commerce Holdings, LLC ★