Awaiting final transplanting

[clara]

Now here's my list. Most of the varieties are new to me:

100’s & 1000’s
Admiralteyskie Serdtse
Ahmet Taiwanese
Al Kuffa
Andrew’s Long Seychelle
Angora Orange
Aunt Ruby’s Yellow Cherry
Basket King F4
Beutelförmige aus Persien
Big Sungold Select
Black Magic
Black Master
Black Pear
Blueberry
Carbon
Champagne Cherry
Cowlick’s Brandywine Pink
Coyote
Cynthia’s Black Heart
Ditmarsher
Doubloon
Dunn’s Golden Goose
Early Cascade F3
Eva Purple Ball
Evan’s Purple Pear
Everett’s Rusty Oxheart
Finca Somia
Florida Basket
Gary’s Beauty
Giannini
Green Doctors Frosted
Green Zebra Cherry
Grushovka
Guildo Pietroboni
Hawaiian White Cherry
Hays’
Health Kick
Hege German Pink
He-Man Rootstock
Holy Land
Husky Pink
Ildi
Irakische Herzförmige
Italian Plum
JD’s Special C-Tex x Belmonte/Guido
Jeff’s Mystery Pink Oxheart
Juicy
Kootenai
Kosovo
Krasnyi Mayak
Lady Fingers
Ladybird
Lehrertomate
Lollipop
Lucky Leprechaun
Lyc. Macrocarpum Lutea
Lyubimyi Prazdnik
Lyubitel’skiy Rozovyi
Mashenka
Medovaya Kaplya
Menryka
Monomah’s Hat
Moravsky Div
Mrs Pinky
Nctom 05-69
Noire de Coseboeuf
Ogni Moskva
Orange Fleshed Purple Smudge
Pearly Pink
Pendulina Orange
Pink Tumbler
Podarok Fei
Poranek
Prinz der Bretagne
Promyk
Razzle Dazzle
Red Cluster Pear
Red Target
Red Tumbler
Reinhards Goldkirsche
Resista Ampel
Rose Quartz Multiflora
Schwarze Pflaume
Sensey
Solyaris
Spiridonovskie
Stabobsttomate des SamenArchivs
Strawberry
Stupice
Subarctic Cherry
Sugar Snack F2
Sun Baby
Sweet Cluster
Tatar from Mongolistan
Tomatoberry
Truffaut Précoce
Tumbling Tom Yellow
Vesennij Mieurinsky
Violet Jasper = Tzi Bi U
West Virginia Sweet Meat
Whippersnapper
Yellow Submarine
Zagadka Prirody
Zuckerbusch

Thank you once more to all Tomatovillians who provided me with new little treasures! Can't wait to have the first fresh homegrown tomato! And I'm wondering which variety it will be. clara

[camochef]

Originally Posted by amideutch

Camo, Ed's Millenium is a very good Pink Brandywine. My top 3 Pinks are Cowlick's, Hege German Pink and Toedebusch Pink.
Camo, what is the brand name of the electronic pressure cooker you have. Thanks, Ami

Ami,
I tried Hege German Pink last year and wasn't overly impressed, but then too, last year was not a good year here for tomatoes. Not familiar with Toedebusch Pink but I've heard a lot of good things about Cowlick's.

The pressure cooker is a Montel Williams 6 qt. It was a today's special value at QVC.com item # K27814 and I've been using it almost everyday for about 2 weeks or more now. I love it. Saves so much time and makes great meals. Did a chuck roast yesterday in 17 minutes! came out tasty and oh so tender. I quick marinated it in teriyaki sauce for 20 minutes using the foodsaver quick marinator first. The day before I did corned beef and cabbage in 1 hour! Best I ever had too! Doing a boneless center cut pork roast tomorrow. It is 120 Volts though, no 220 toggel!
Camo

[camochef]

Clara,
That's quite a list! How many of each variety are you planting? What do you do with them all? That's gonna be a lot of tomatoes! Good Luck!
Camo

[carolyn137]

I can't remember if I posted this list here at Tville, but I don't think so.

Here's what I'm expecting to grow this summer and some have only temporary names at this point:

Portuguese ( heart)
Portuguese ( beef)
Portuguese (paste)
Mala Bishka, from Macedonia and the one below
Zleovo
Malinovyi Rog, from Andrey and the two below, this one from farmer in Tula
Brandy Zolotoy, CV
Olesya, indet, Siberia
Ste Colombe, I SSE listed it, it's exc, but never had much seed, for stock
Orange Angora, from Adam, those who donated seeds were sent as a freebie
Meme Beauce, wrongly listed as a yellow in the Yearbook
Gildo Petriboni
Fish Lake Oxheart
Hay's, a Bulgarian one new to me, listed by Jeff Casey at his website
Bobbie, new red heart for me
Eastham Pink Heirloom
Carrie Claxon Yellow
Dinah, person's name with the ? CP she calls "primitive", Craig will grow as well
Irish Pink
Trees Bottom Yellow
Burning Spear, for stock so I can list it and offer seeds, I love it
Striped Sweetheart, from Lee, a selection from the X that gave Lucky Cross and Little Lucky and with this one you really can see the one parent Tad, which is striped. Brandywine is the other parent, natural X
Josephine
Fritz Ackerman, RL, asked to compare it with the PL that it once was
Kenosha Paste
Dr. Wyche X GRS F1 seeds
Aunt Lou's Underground Railroad
Black Cherry
Sungold F1
Two F2 experimental hearts from R. Kraft , one purple, one green when ripe
Mt Magic F1, if room, will have plant raised locally, my seeds
Smarty F1, ditto
3 new F1's from Dr. Randy Gardner , forgot the names right now, for a look see b'c I don't think they're stable yet. At least one with heirloom genetic input, as I remember

An interesting year b/c the person who has raised my plants for me since I fell and have to use this walker couldn't do it this year and the person who normally does most of the seed production for me couldn't do it either.

So Craig ( nctomatoman) is raising all my plants and shipping them up to me, first shipment next week, and he's doing seed production for the three Portuguese ones, and Lee, also in NC is doing seed production for three of them, and Melody in KY is doing seed production for a few and ta da, Shoe in NC is doing lots of seed production.

There are a couple of varieties that I'm the only one with the plants so seed production is up to me, which I can do if someone is here to help me set up the fermentations , etc., which can be a problem in terms of monitoring the process. So I'll see how that goes. The last two summers have been horrible and last year I didn't even get fruits from half my plants, so fingers crossed for this season.

I'm deeply indebted to Craig, Lee, Melody and Shoe for pitching in and helping on relatively short notice. And I wouldn't ask them to do it next year, so beyond this summer I'm not sure what's going to happen.

[clara]

Camo, from most varieties I'm just growing one plant (always looking for the perfect tomatoes and I think I've already found some), from some others, there are two or three. And yes, there are lots of tomatoes - hopefully! - and I'm already looking forward to the time, when every day we have a big bowl of salad or a tomato-bread etc. Many of my colleagues don't have the possibility to grow tomatoes themselves - they get my surplus.

But to be honest: I wanted to limit myself this year because of health reasons, but as you see, I wasn't very successful! I do hope that I will be able to manage this quantity; at the moment I have some doubts, but hope that my son will help me. clara

[camochef]

Carolyn,

I'm hoping that your year goes much better than last! I wish that every tomato on your list outperforms your greatest expectations. Enjoy each and every one!
Camo

[camochef]

Clara,
I've suffered from the same! I really wanted to cut back from the hundreds I usually plant each year, and I've done pretty well paring my lists down to the best of the best, and then adding a few new ones to try.
It's becoming more and more difficult to grow what I used to, but this is a significant improvement for me. I don't have anyone nearby to draft as a helper...son lives 1300 miles away. In the area, most think I'm just that crazy old man that grows all those tomatoes! Enjoy and good luck!
Camo
PS: just curious, where in Germany are you located?

[clara]

Hi Camo,
I'm living in the Western part of Germany, in a small town about 15 kilometers from Cologne/Köln where I'm still working - can't wait for my retirement... about 1,5 -2 hours from where Ami lives.

I HAVE already cut back: From about 600 seedlings to now 444! But that's still more than enough. My additional seedlings are for family, neighbors, friends, colleagues with garden or balcony. Therefore I grow a lot of cherries and det. varieties. And cherries are much earlier than the slicers, so I don't have to wait that long. My son has built a kind of wooden tree where I can put at least 8 hanging baskets - this "tree" worked perfectly last year and needs not much space.

Yes, in some way, we are crazy, but in this way, I like to be crazy! Good luck to you as well! clara

[camochef]

Clara,
Thanks for information. I was curious as I was stationed in Germany back in 1966-67. clear across the country from where your at. I was in Fulda, which is a little northeast of Frankfort near what was the east/west German border. Lots of farmland there, back then.
I'm hoping to get mine into the gardens this week. Have a great season!
Camo

[clara]

Camo,
I hope you have good memories of Germany! In 1966/67 I was living in Aachen at the Dutch/Belgian border and still going to school...

Me, too, I want to start my transplant this weekend, but it will take several days, as my back is aching too much at the moment. If I manage 30 - 35, I will be satisfied. I'm already glad that I can thin out the rows of the seedlings (transplanted into cups) as my colleagues are asking for "their" plants; tomorrow I will give away 21, on Friday even 35 - that helps me a lot! I only have to pay attention that there is at least ONE plant for me - good book-keeping is needed!

Good luck to you, Camo, and pay attention to your back! clara

[camochef]

Clara,
Very good memories of Germany, not so good of the Army, but wouldn't do without either! Even back then, it was the food that interested me the most. Well maybe second to the most.
I've looked forward to giving plants away other years, with a different method this year, many locals will be disappointed as I have nowhere near the amounts I usually start.
Last year I was planting my very last row, when my back went out. Mrs. Camo had to plant the last 4-5 for me as I couldn't do anything. It has never recovered fully, but if have to crawl, I'll get them planted.
I've learned the past few years to pace myself, but it seems every year the pace gets slower.
Enjoy, and have a great season, and of course keep us informed on your results!
Camo

[amideutch]

Clara, this IS plant out weekend. Sunny weather forecasted and I'm getting my planting mix and perlite tomorrow. Since Monday is a holiday I may go to my surrogate garden at work and put in my remaining plants. Ami

[BigdaddyJ]

Camo you have been a big influence on greyghost and therefore on me! You are cordially invited down to my place later this summer, along with greyghost, and my Weber is all yours for the day! LOL Here's my list:

New varieties

1. OSU Blue
2. Hege German Pink
3. Granny Cantrell’s German PL
4. Cowlick’s Brandywine
5. Claude Browns Yellow Giant
6. Orange Minsk
7. Goose Creek
8. Spudakee Purple
9. Vorlon
10. Dana’s Dusky Rose
11. Big Cheef
12. Brandy/NAR F4 Cross PL

Old Must Grows:

Sudduth Brandywine
Brandy Boy
Gary O Sena
KBX
Momotaro
Big Beef
Sun Gold
Big Zac (Germination failure)
Porterhouse
Marianna’s Peace

Juliet for baseball batting practice

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by camochef

Carolyn,

I'm hoping that your year goes much better than last! I wish that every tomato on your list outperforms your greatest expectations. Enjoy each and every one!
Camo

Me too Camo.

The first 26 plants that Craig raised for me arrived yesterday and were in excellent shape and were transferred to a standard nursery tray with an insert with cells to keep for maybe a week or so more before being set out by Freda.

The rest of the plants should arrive in a couple of more weeks. They were a bit later b'c germination took longer.

And since there are a couple of varieties where I'm the only one growing them b'c germination wasn't the best with some of them that the others had as well, the folks I mentioned in my post above, my fingers are doubly crossed that all will go well and that I'll be able to get seeds off those one of a kinds that I'll have. For some there just are no more seeds to be had.

[camochef]

[quote=BigdaddyJ;169404]Camo you have been a big influence on greyghost and therefore on me! You are cordially invited down to my place later this summer, along with greyghost, and my Weber is all yours for the day! LOL Here's my list:

BigdaddyJ;
Thanks for the invite! But I don't travel that far anymore! As you can see from my listing, Greyghost has been quite an influence on me also. I think Kath from this forum will be another!
I hope you have a great season ahead and lots of wonderful tomatoes to discuss when it's over.
I'll be waiting patiently to hear what you think of Cowlick's Brandywine and Dana's Dusky Rose. I'm looking forward to trying Vorlon and Orange Minsk. I had Gary O'Sena last year (and am growing it again this year), but it's sister, Dora impressed me more. Trying Bear Creek and Liz Birt this year too, thanks to Greyghost.
Enjoy! and Thanks again!
Camo