Member discussion regarding the methods, varieties and merits of growing tomatoes.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Temecula, CA Zone 9b
Posts: 178
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Well, we just planted our standard heirloom tomatos.
Brandywine Brandywine Red Mortgage Lifter Kelloggs Breakfast Cherokee Purple I’ve been such a tomato rut. Is there any new heirlooms I should consider for next year? |
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jul 2019
Location: Virginia, USA
Posts: 137
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Nothing wrong with growing the ones you know you love! Have you tried Bolgarskoe Chudo, Oaxacan Jewel, Summer Cider, or Polish (Ellis)? I've also enjoyed Lucky Cross, Armenian, Rebel Yell, Italian Sweet, and Ananas Noire.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: Ontario
Posts: 3,891
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Orange Strawberry (a large heart) was the best-tasting tomato in my garden last year
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Madison, OH, zone 6
Posts: 468
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Plus one for Polish, Lucky Cross, & Rebel Yell !!!
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Fort Worth, TX
Posts: 329
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I started only purple varieties and later wished I had started some hearts also.
Went ahead and ordered some seeds for hearts for next year.
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: MA
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Brandywine (Sudduth), Kellogg's Breakfast, and Cherokee Purple are really good choices for standard, every year, varieties. I've never had much luck with any of the red Brandywines. I find Neves Azorean Red a much better tomato. Another red that I'm partial to is Bacon Lettuce and This, since it was discovered in my garden. To get out of the rut, perhaps a color change? Something like Pink Berkeley Tie Dye, or Girl Girl's Weird Thing? |
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Indianapolis
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The two that must be in my garden each year is Captain Lucky and Cosmonaut Volkov. There are so many really wonderful new varieties and ones that I haven't tried but those two will never lose a place in the line up.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Madison, OH, zone 6
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To echo our friend Tormato, Dester and Stump of the World are both superior and have been on my "grow every year" list for 7 or 8 years now.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Temecula, CA Zone 9b
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Thanks so much for your recommendations. I’m going to plant seeds for Green Giant next year, can’t find seedlings anywhere
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: MA
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My favorite green, and I generally don't like green tomatoes.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Hampton, Virginia
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That's a great list to start with each year, Amen!! But, I would add Santorini for its taste, beauty, and super yields. I must also have Hawaiian Pineapple and Hill Billy Tomatoes. I can go on and on. After last year's heat wave; I will always have "Lescana" because the heat did not affect these large tomato plants at all. nor their yields
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: MA
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Hampton, Virginia
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They are Lescna Beefstesks. I was growing them for cold-warm weather for my future Winter Tomatoes supply for my Planned Greenhouse. I was in shock to see that they also truly survived very hot weather like last Summer.
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