2024 Grow List

[MrsJustice]

Originally Posted by seaeagle

Copied from my garden plan

Tomatoes

5 Arkansas Traveler 1 Amish Gold Slicer 1 Rebel Yell 1 Margaret Curtain


1 Captain Lucky 1 Druzba 1 Boxcar Willie 1 Cherokee Purple 1 Dester 1 Kellog's Breakfast


2 Danko

Happy growing!

The Amish Dester I cannot keep in Stock. I have increased my Plants for 2024.

They are just Delicious, Amen!!!!!

[BakedIn]

burpee early treat
burpee early girl
burpee super sauce
kumato (saved seed some years ago from grocery store)
marglobe
jubilee
big daddy (originally burpee seed but have been growing saved seed for years)
opalka
ace 55
homestead
cherokee purple
nyagous


main concentration will be on that super sauce. anyone grown it before? i think it is a fairly new variety. 2lbs few seeds, i think i heard them say lol.

[vanalpaca]

I'm trying to get my list down to 40 but I don't see that happening. That's all I usually get into the ground. Meanwhile my SOW list is:
Abe Lincoln 1923
Aker's West Virginia
Amish Canner
Amos Coli
Anna Russian Oxheart
Aunt Gertie's Gold
Aussie
Belmonte Pear sauce
Belgian Beauty
Big Gig paste
Big Mack/Mac's Pride
Black Mountain Pink
Brandyberry
Brandysweet Plum
Butler Skinner
Butterworth PL pink
Chadwick's Cherry/ Camp Joy
Chuck's Yellow
Clayton Purple
Copia
Cosmonaut Volvokov
Cow's Tit
Daniel's
Dester pink
Diva de Diva
Dot's Delight
Dr. Lyle
Dragon's Eye Cherry
Earl of Edgecomb
Earl's Faux
Early Girl BUSH 54 days
1884
Eckert's Family Oxheart
Ernesto
Forest Fire Cherry Determinate
Gajo de Melon
Galina Cherry
Gandolf Cherry
Georgia Streak
Gold Medal
Goose Creek
Granny Cantrell's
Grunge in the Sky Cherry
Hahnstown Yellow 3 foot tall
Jersey Devil
Kapia Red Paste
Korean Long
Kozula 136
Lambert's General Grant
Lopatinskie
Martha Logan
Norwood's Louisiana Red
Oaxacan Jewel
Opal's Homestead
Orange Russian 117
Oregon Spring
Ozark Pink
Polish
Pruden's Purple
Prue
Rinaldo
Romeo
Rose, Amish
Rose de Berne
San Marzano Redorta
Santa Maria
Selwyn's Yellow
Shuntusky Bogatir
Solar Flare Red
Star
Stump of the World
Stupice
Sweet Chelsie
Sweetie Cherry
Taiwan Goddess
Texas Star
Texhorn's Red and Yellow
Thai Pink Egg
Tiffin Mennonite
Top Sirloin
Tropical Sunset Cherry
Uncle Steve's Italian Plum
Vechnyi Zov
Vinson Watts
Virginia Sweets
Yoder's German Yellow
And I did some germination tests last month so there are about 20 varieties...I may just give those seedlings away to a homesteading group of ladies... I am in NW Ohio and we get that really hot/humid spell in July that stops tomato production so about a 3 week delay. SOTW had huge production last fall and most of them were still green in Oct. Overall, I had 4-6 5 gallon buckets of tomatoes in late season and cherries in August off of 40 plants.

[Patihum]

[QUOTE=PaulF;772070]I thought my list was posted somewhere but here goes. There have been a few additions and subtraction since the first list.

2023 was so bad if I didn't show some early enthusiasm I may not even try gardening for a while. So earliest ever list of tomatoes and peppers:

Reds: Box Car Willie, Fred Limbaugh's Potato Top, Neve's Azorean Red, Domingo, Tsarskiy Lubmets

Pinks: Big Ben #1, Cowlick's Brandywine, Brimmer, Butterbaugh, Dot's Delight, Giant Belgium, Soldaki, Willow's Bulgarian

Yellow/Bi-color: Jeanine's Heart, Orange Russian #117

Black: Carbon, Kan-Tex Sweetheart(? is this correct), Maggie Mater.

/QUOTE]


It's TexKan Sweetheart

[seaeagle]

What I ended up with. Added and changed a bit. Stalk Borer got my one Amish Gold Slicer which was one of my best performers last year. Replaced with Rebel Yell which I was surprised wasn't root bound.

6 Arkansas Traveler
2 Danko
2 Cherokee Purple
2 Boxcar Willie
2 Captain Lucky
2 Druzba
1 Kellog's Breakfast
2 Margaret Curtain
1 Dester
2 Rebel Yell

[rxkeith]

here is what i have going
cherrys

alston everlasting
black cherry
medovaya kaplya
sungold


adelia
chalks early jewel

honey and sugar
jds special c-tex
karma apricot
kotlas
lempi chocolate f7 from my anna russian cross
maglia rosa

marlowe charleston from 16 year old seeds
milkas red bulgarian
pervaya lyubov
petrusha ogorodnik
polaris
subartic plenty
sylvan gaume
uncle steve italian plum
wladecks, supposed to be a tasty pink from poland


still on the side lines is anna russian, took four weeks to sprout
redfield cherry, this one had a terminal leaf, but grew a new sprout from a
cotyledon. looks weird, but is growing.


gave away one too many bulgarskoye chudo, now i have none.




keith

[VirginiaClay]

Originally Posted by rxkeith

gave away one too many bulgarskoye chudo, now i have none.

keith

Nice list. Too bad about Bolgarskoe Chudo; that was my favorite tomato last year. Have you grown it before?

[VirginiaClay]

What I ended up with for 2024 ("R" means repeat - I've grown it at least once before):

Pink
Aunt Ginny's Purple
Bolgarskoe Chudo (R)
Crnkovic Yugoslavian
Dino's Portuguese Heart (R)
Joe's Portuguese
Rose

Red
Belmonte
Bulgarian Tri-Fanova
Grasa de Calina
Italian Heirloom
Red Penna

Yellow/Orange/Bicolor
Dr. Wyche's Yellow
Gold Medal
Oaxacan Jewel (R)
Virginia Sweets

Black/Dark
Cherokee Purple
1884 Purple

Cherry
Black Hole Sun
Iva's Red Berry
Sunchocola
Sungold (R)
Mike's Sungold growout
Pink volunteer cherry growout

Red Hybrids
Better Boy (R)
Big Boy (R)
Big Daddy
Fourth of July (R)
Supersonic (R)
Whopper (R)

[rxkeith]

i grew bulgarskoe chudo a few years ago. i remember it being late ripening,
big, and juicy with lots of seed cavities. might have been from one carolyns
seed offers.




keith

[VirginiaClay]

Bolgarskoe Chudo was mid-season for me last year, 76 days to maturity. Others last year, for comparison:
Brandy Boy 65 DTM
Polish (Elles) 65 DTM
Summer Cider 68 DTM
Amish Paste 73 DTM
Gallego 75 DTM
Better Boy 76 DTM
Lucky Cross 81 DTM
Rebel Yell 81 DTM
Pineapple, Italian Sweet, Blue Ridge Mountain & Bulgarian Old Sort were later but I didn't write down the dates.

In my garden last year, Bolgarskoe Chudo was large but not huge, nicely shaped, juicy and delicious. Plant was very healthy and productive.

[eyolf]

My list is somewhat embarrassing: no real rarities or oddballs. 35 years ago Mama and I moved onto the farm I grew up on. That first year there wasn't time for much of a garden, but after a few years...

I decided that by the time I retired I would have selected perhaps 10 favorites and maintain them.

Fat chance.
Superscript ¹ means every year.
"²" denotes every other year
"³" means every 3-5 years to ensure l don't lose it.
Beauty King ²
Burpee Big Daddy ²
Big Zac ³
Bison ³
Black Plum ¹ (best flavor for sauces)
Brad Atomic Grape ¹
Buzau 22 ² (unexcelled reliability and yield)

#5 Cherry (no note: experimental)
Chocolate Cherry ¹ (preferred over black cherry)
Cosmonaut Volkov (first time)

Efimir ² (one of two favorite early determinates
Fantastic ¹ (reliable older hybrid)
Faribo Goldheart ¹

Glacier ³
Gold Medal Yellow ³
Golden Treasure ² (best long-keeping sort)
Green Zebra ³

Hahms Gelbe yellow micro ²
Heshpole ¹ (selected from seeds obtained from Darrel "fusionpower" Jones 20 years ago.

Ildi ³

Johnny's 3570 ³
Johnson Dwarf Cherry ¹

Kitayskiy Oksamitovyi ¹
Korolaeva Rynke ²
Kotlas ²

Long Keeper³

Martin's Super Roma ² (one of my most productive pasters, think determinate, larger, more ready at once Striped Roma)
Midnite Sun ²

Orange Glacier (not certain if a chance cross or mutation)
Orange U Glad ²
Orange Russian (Doukhobors)¹

Parika ²

Swoon² (l think this is another selection from Darrel Jones cross...slightly fewer tomatoes, larger, and not quite as good low temp blossom retention...but still a very very good tomato)

Tiny Tim³ (one of a half-dozen container/microbes)
Tomatoberry (daughter asked for transplants, so I might as well try, too)

UEOO¹ a thoroughly weird, knobby multiple-fused-ovary type received as a free gift from Delect-O'-Tom's. Originally "Unknown Evil Olive Off type" I contracted the name. It has the best, vibrant, even strong, tart flavor. None make it inside...which is OK because my bride doesn't really like it.

Usabec ¹ (in a cold damp year, this one shines. Otherwise, it's just another determinate)

Wisconsin 55³ (a reliable favorite; this is a seed replenishment year.)

Yeah...I said paring down my list. So I'm weak...

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[VirginiaClay]

Originally Posted by eyolf

My list is somewhat embarrassing: no real rarities or oddballs. 35 years ago Mama and I moved onto the farm I grew up on. That first year there wasn't time for much of a garden, but after a few years...

I decided that by the time I retired I would have selected perhaps 10 favorites and maintain them.

Fat chance.
Superscript ¹ means every year.
"²" denotes every other year
"³" means every 3-5 years to ensure l don't lose it.
Beauty King ²
Burpee Big Daddy ²
Big Zac ³
Bison ³
Black Plum ¹ (best flavor for sauces)
Brad Atomic Grape ¹
Buzau 22 ² (unexcelled reliability and yield)

#5 Cherry (no note: experimental)
Chocolate Cherry ¹ (preferred over black cherry)
Cosmonaut Volkov (first time)

Efimir ² (one of two favorite early determinates
Fantastic ¹ (reliable older hybrid)
Faribo Goldheart ¹

Glacier ³
Gold Medal Yellow ³
Golden Treasure ² (best long-keeping sort)
Green Zebra ³

Hahms Gelbe yellow micro ²
Heshpole ¹ (selected from seeds obtained from Darrel "fusionpower" Jones 20 years ago.

Ildi ³

Johnny's 3570 ³
Johnson Dwarf Cherry ¹

Kitayskiy Oksamitovyi ¹
Korolaeva Rynke ²
Kotlas ²

Long Keeper³

Martin's Super Roma ² (one of my most productive pasters, think determinate, larger, more ready at once Striped Roma)
Midnite Sun ²

Orange Glacier (not certain if a chance cross or mutation)
Orange U Glad ²
Orange Russian (Doukhobors)¹

Parika ²

Swoon² (l think this is another selection from Darrel Jones cross...slightly fewer tomatoes, larger, and not quite as good low temp blossom retention...but still a very very good tomato)

Tiny Tim³ (one of a half-dozen container/microbes)
Tomatoberry (daughter asked for transplants, so I might as well try, too)

UEOO¹ a thoroughly weird, knobby multiple-fused-ovary type received as a free gift from Delect-O'-Tom's. Originally "Unknown Evil Olive Off type" I contracted the name. It has the best, vibrant, even strong, tart flavor. None make it inside...which is OK because my bride doesn't really like it.

Usabec ¹ (in a cold damp year, this one shines. Otherwise, it's just another determinate)

Wisconsin 55³ (a reliable favorite; this is a seed replenishment year.)

Yeah...I said paring down my list. So I'm weak...

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Only an obsessive tomato person could have a list like that and apologize for having "no real rarities or oddballs." ;-)

What has been your experience with Big Daddy? I'm growing it this year for the first time. Plant looks great so far, pretty similar to the other red indeterminate hybrids we're growing, but maybe a little bushier.

[eyolf]

Originally Posted by VirginiaClay

Only an obsessive tomato person could have a list like that and apologize for having "no real rarities or oddballs." ;-)

What has been your experience with Big Daddy? I'm growing it this year for the first time. Plant looks great so far, pretty similar to the other red indeterminate hybrids we're growing, but maybe a little bushier.

My daughter looked through the list of seeds "in stock" and asked to start that one.

Big Dad is a reliable performer, ripens not long after celebrity for me. This was the last of a fairly old packet, and likely won't be repeated because it isn't radically different than a few others. I purchased it and Brandy Boy off the rack at the same time. BB was a dissapointment a lot like the original Brandywines for me: rather late, and not particularly productive.

I would compare it to Celebrity: a good tomato, reliable and way better than store tomatoes...but not quite as much fun as an heirloom.


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[VirginiaClay]

Originally Posted by eyolf

My daughter looked through the list of seeds "in stock" and asked to start that one.

Big Dad is a reliable performer, ripens not long after celebrity for me. This was the last of a fairly old packet, and likely won't be repeated because it isn't radically different than a few others. I purchased it and Brandy Boy off the rack at the same time. BB was a dissapointment a lot like the original Brandywines for me: rather late, and not particularly productive.

I would compare it to Celebrity: a good tomato, reliable and way better than store tomatoes...but not quite as much fun as an heirloom.


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Thanks. I'm expecting it to be pretty similar to Big Boy, Better Boy, Whopper and Supersonic, all of which I have trouble telling apart once the tomatoes are off the plants. I haven't grown Celebrity.

I'll be watching for Big Daddy's relative tolerance to early blight and septoria, its ability to set fruit in the 90+ summer heat, and its overall productivity compared to the other hybrid reds. I'm guessing it isn't anything all that special because it has been available for quite awhile now and hasn't become very popular/common.

Brandy Boy was early/mid-season (65DTM) and super productive for me here, but I wasn't crazy about the taste or texture, so I doubt I'll grow it again.

[seaeagle]

My first Kellogg's Breakfast weighed 15.24 ounces And tastes great! I wasn't going to post a sliced photo but it was so meaty. had to. The two trees in the pots are Pecan seedlings the squirrels planted in the garden last fall.


Apologies if they post upside down