2010: Member Grow Lists

[Blueaussi]

I'm far from finished with my catalog fondling, but I did decide that I would grow Georgia Streak and Virginia Sweets based on recommendations from here. I also want to try Neves Azorean Red and Andrew Rahart's Jumbo Red. I'm pretty sure I'm going with Cherokee Purple and Black from Tula for blacks. Bella Rosa will be the only hybrid, but I always have at least one TSWV variety.

I'm thinking of maybe giving Legend a try for an early/cool season tomato.

I'm dithering over Dr. Wyche's Yellow and/or KBX as yellow/orange selections.

The rest is still up in the air.

[tjg911]

here's my 2010 list:

brad's black heart *
cherokee purple
jd's special c-tex *
linnie's oxheart **
prue ***
reif's red heart **
spudakee *
sun gold ***

* new never grown before
** grew last year but might as well say new never grown before
*** there'd be no reason to grow tomatoes if i did not grow this, i hope to say this about the * and ** tomatoes

[OmahaJB]

I haven't made a final decision regarding what to start for sure, but most will be from the list below. Will being going heavy with containers & grow bags versus in-ground. Hopefully I'll have better vegetative growth and better production.

Eggplant:
Applegreen (Need to buy)
Diamond
Ichiban F3
Italian White
Rosita (Need to buy)
Rossa Bianca

Tomatoes:
Andrew Rahart's Jumbo
Aunt Ruby's German Green (for sure)
Black Cherry
Bloody Butcher
Bonnie Best
Box Car Willie
Brandywine Cowlick's (for sure)
Brandywine Pink
Brandywine Sudduth's
Caspian Pink
Cherokee Chocolate (for sure)
Cherokee Purple
Cuostralee (for sure)
Earl's Faux (may be the year)
German Queen
Giant Syrian
Gregori Altai
Guido (for sure)
Hillbilly
Italian Heirloom (for sure)
Kellogg's Breakfast (for sure)
KBX
Lucky Leprechaun
New Big Dwarf
'Not' Emma Pink (unintended cross/for sure)
Omar's Lebanese
Orange1
Palmira's N. Italian (for sure)
Pruden's Purple (for sure)
Ray Tefft's Red
Sioux
Stump of the World
Stump/Guido (F1 seed) (for sure)
Sungold
Sunset Red Horizon (for sure)
Sweet Million Hybrid
Tappy's Finest
Toedebusch Pink (for sure)
Tommy Toe red (for sure)
Valena Pink
Wes

Will have to see what germinates and makes it to plant out stage. Some of the seed traded to me is from 2001, but most 2003 or later. Wish I had room for much more to try all the different varieties I have. The ones listed are only the ones I'm considering. Actually have over 200 tomato varieties. Most are just a few seeds or even less.

Definitely will not be buying seed this year! Except for a couple eggplant varieties.

Jeff

[creister]

Charleston,

I've grown some of the varieties you mentioned.

Break O'Day - good old fashion flavor, very productive
Early Rouge - grew it one year in a container, and it did well, I liked the flavor, just too many others to try though
JD's- must grow, great taste, productive
Lime Green Salad - very productive, taste was not what I was looking for, but not bad
Sophie's Choice - very productive and good flavor for an early variety

[KLorentz]

Well I just got word Summer Cider is coming. First saw it listed on Ebay.



Kevin

[sic transit gloria]

I think I'm going to pull in the flaps this year and regrow some of my favorites that I haven't grown recently due to the all-consuming desire to grow "new" varieties. Plus, I have dozens of varieties I've never grown, so I think I'll dip into those.

[KLorentz]

This is what I have right now. Gonna be very busy growing out stuff. An exciting year with everything I am growing next year but then this is a mater thread.Don't want to hijack the thread

Brandywine,Cowlicks,Sudduth and Pink

Carbon ,Delicious

Rutgers , Goose Creek

Thessaloniki ,Watermelon Beefsteak

Vorlon , Wisconsin 55

Charokee Purple, Costoluto Fiorentino

Giant Belgium ,Rosalita

Abe Lincoln, Yellow Orlov

Earl's Faux

Stump of the World

Summer Cider(Orange)

Ananas Noir

Guemsey Pink Blush Red

Hazelfield Farm



Kevin

[Mt.Imagine]

These are the new to me varieties I'm just about to order:

Dr. Wyche’s Yellow
Caspian Pink
Black Krim
Egg Yolk
Cowlick Brandywine (I hope!)

These are the varieties I'm already growing/still have seed for:

Pink Brandywine
True Black Brandywine
Black Prince
Great White
Moskvich
Wonderlight
Gold Nugget
*Small yellow F-2 a friend gave me
*Weird sports that volunteer in my garden

As the year goes on I'm sure I'll decide to try more new varieties, depending on how these go.

[chalstonsc]

Creister...Thanks for the feedback, looks like I'm mostly on the right track. Many of the varieties I plan to grow aren't mentioned much here, so it's good to know my research seems OK from the ones you've grown... thanks again

[Mojo]

Ah yes, the first of December, the nastiest day of the season so far, snow projected for the end of the week, and seed catalogs appearing in my mailbox! So I did an inventory of what I have on hand:

B/B Boar
ATKINSON!
Bloody Butcher
Earl's Faux
Tony's Italian
Golden Gem
Sweet Quartz
Persimmon Orange
Jetsonic
Black Krim
plus one or two others that I cannot remember off-hand.

I will be hitting up Roy and Shelly for some Cherokee Purple, but my main thing is that I'm not going to have room for more than one or two of each variety --unless I give up entirely on cukes peppers and squash. I may omit the Persimmon from the grow-out list; plus I need either Early Girl or Early Goliath.

[Zana]

Snow in Houston? Holy Schmoley! Can't wait til I get there in January....lol We still don't have any on the ground...although we had some flurries overnight that melted when they hit the ground. Toronto or rather the GTA set a record for the first November in over 70 years where there was not trace of snow. After the past few years that sounds good.

I'm still wading through my list, trying to decide what to grow....if I'm allowed to grow. I may stick with smaller plants, not just the dwarves. But I have a serious craving for some deep rich blacks and purples....almost out of the sauce I made of them.

I hate not knowing if I'll be able to grow out here at home....sighhhhhh. And using a surrogate garden is okay, but I'll have to find an alternative that doesn't have a resident dog that eats the ripe fruit from the vines!

[clara]

Poor Zana! A dog eating tomatoes... we had a (human) thief picking the most beautiful fruits (and probably taking seedlings from the terrace when I was not at home). You can imagine what I had liked to do... Next year there will be a camera! clara

[flipt]

Here's my list. They were set out here in S Fla in early Oct and they're mostly all with fruit (90%). I've been picking Giannini, Orange Minsk and Serdtse Buivola over the past week.

Orange Minsk
Serdtse Biuvola
Ludmilla's Red
Giannini
Moravsky Div
Tennessee Britches
Black Cherry
Ukrainian Heart
Red Brandywine (Landis)
Dr Neal
Pink Boar
JD's Special C-Tex
Neves Azorean Red
(Sudduth) Pink Brandywine
Black and Brown Boar
Hege
Moreton F3
Royal Hillbilly
Chello
Sugar Lump
Chapman
Brianna
Cherokee Green
Sherrill
Tsar Kolokol
Ethel Watkins
Aunt Gertie's
Yellow Brandywine (Platfoot)
Green Zebra
Mortgage Lifter
Earl of Edgecomb
Lillians Yellow Heirloom

Flip

[Zana]

Originally Posted by clara

Poor Zana! A dog eating tomatoes... we had a (human) thief picking the most beautiful fruits (and probably taking seedlings from the terrace when I was not at home). You can imagine what I had liked to do... Next year there will be a camera! clara

Poor Clara! I'm just imagining the camera catching the culprit. That dastardly thief is going to have some explaining to do.

When my mother used to bring home baskets of tomatoes and peaches or nectarines from the farmers' market, we used to have lock it up away from her two chocolate labrador retrievers. It taught us to either lock them up, or expect to have to turn on the lights before you got out of bed. Those dogs would snack on the peaches/nectarines and leave the pits beside your bed - whomever's they were sleeping beside that night. Nothing like swinging out of bed in the middle of the night to answer the call of nature and stepping on one of those pits in your barefeet!!!! Yikes! But the down size is it gave both of them the runs. You could tell how bad it would be before hand, by how bad the flatulence was preceding it. So if the dog started to make noises about wanting to go outside, you didn't hesitate to hustle them out the door as fast as you could. LOL Ahhhhh yes. The tomatoes worked the same on either of them. As they say, they could "defecate" through the eye of a needle at 50 paces when they gorged on all that fruit! Lovely thought....but cleaning up wasn't lovely.

[cecilsgarden1958]

Mischka: What an unusal responsibilty and some great choices.

I listed mine somewhere, but since there has been sevreral revisions and I'm not sure if what I started with matches my current list. here is mine

MAIN GARDEN:
2 Celebrity
2 Hill Top
2 Mt.Pride
2 Mt. Fresh
2 Carolina Gold
2 Sun King
2 Empire
2 John Baer

IN BAGS:
1 Gurney Girl
1 First Prize
1 Better Boy
1 Big Beef
1 Beefy Boy
1 Super Beefsteak

ON LATTICE:
1 Scarlet Red
1 Beefmaster