Bill's Garden in June - Page 4

dustdevil · July 7, 2014

Really nice harvest Bill!

wildcat62 · July 8, 2014

Yes, you have had a great harvest.

efisakov · July 9, 2014

Bill, can you name the varieties that you are choosing to grow. I know that every ones region changes what tomatoes taste the best... never the less, you are choosing the most resilient to disease tomatoes that still taste good.
thanks

b54red · July 9, 2014

Quote:

Originally Posted by efisakov

Bill, can you name the varieties that you are choosing to grow. I know that every ones region changes what tomatoes taste the best... never the less, you are choosing the most resilient to disease tomatoes that still taste good.
thanks

I'll list the ones I go to in the major spring and early summer plantings. Fall plantings are so iffy I hate to list those. I'll try to group them by type and list the ones I will probably grow again next year.

Indian Stripe reg & pl
JD's Special C Tex
Spudakee
Brandywine Sudduth's & Cowlick's
Stump of the World
Giant Belgium
Marianna's Peace
Limbaugh's Legacy
Pruden's Purple
German Johnson
Barlow Jap
Henderson's Winsall (new for me this year)
Royal Hillbilly
Neves Azorean Red
Red Barn
Tarasenko-6
Druzba
KBX
Virginia Sweet

Since I have around 35 varieties planted now this is not all of them but it is a list of the ones I will replant due to how well they have done the past few years and how good they taste. Of course I withhold the right to cut this list even more since I really want to narrow down the number of varieties I am using. All of these varieties in my garden have been grafted onto hybrid rootstock that is resistant to all three races of fusarium. Despite that I still have a few plants that have early fusarium but I can live with that. Usually by the first of July at least half my heirlooms are dead and the other half are sick. The grafting along with TTF has improved my production by at least double so I actually have too many tomatoes for our uses. Next year my plan is to plant half the number of plants and have a more leisurely growing season. You know what they say about "best laid plans".

Bill

ScottinAtlanta · July 9, 2014

Bill, That is a wonderful list, but you have got to get Mule Team back on there.

MissS · July 10, 2014

Great list Bill and I am so happy that you have had such wonderful results this season.

Dewayne mater · July 10, 2014

Bill - have you ever grown Terhune? I have and always liked it, but haven't been as impressed with it as I was Cowlicks. This year, my first full season with TTF, and Terhune has been a champion. It has produced more than any other non cherry type, and that includes beating big beef and super sioux, along with several other heirloom types. The next closest was JD's, but, JD's quite producing earlier than Terhune, which has some recent fruit set in temps that it is "impossible" for tomatoes to flower and "impossible" for fruit to set. I'm happy that Terhune doesn't know about that! Sadly, my squirrel population has also enjoyed Terhune quite a bit, even while fully green.

To a larger point, you may want to try other previously tested varieties because they may produce better with TTF than they did with other fertilizers. I'm considering giving Cherokee purple and others I'd tried, liked, but decided their production didn't warrant keeping them in the garden another chance to test out this possibility.

Dewayne Mater

efisakov · July 11, 2014

Dewayne Mater
Did you try Carbon? You should. Just once.

b54red · July 11, 2014

I have one Terhune that went out on May 31 and it is setting some fruit. The last two or three years it hasn't done so good for me but four years ago it was my best beefsteak. I also have one Carbon plant that went out in the garden the same day. Carbon is one of my favorite fall tomatoes but I won't be using it this year in the fall due to me leaving the young seedlings out in a storm about a month or so ago and they got demolished.

Bill

efisakov · July 12, 2014

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Originally Posted by b54red

I have one Terhune that went out on May 31 and it is setting some fruit. The last two or three years it hasn't done so good for me but four years ago it was my best beefsteak. I also have one Carbon plant that went out in the garden the same day. Carbon is one of my favorite fall tomatoes but I won't be using it this year in the fall due to me leaving the young seedlings out in a storm about a month or so ago and they got demolished.

Bill

I love Carbon. It survived even hurricane 2 years ago. Sorry to hear that your seedlings are gone, Bill. Carbon usually is the last tomato in the fall that is still producing.

efisakov · July 12, 2014

Bill, how is Tarasenko-6? Production, taste, disease...?

b54red · July 12, 2014

Quote:

Originally Posted by efisakov

Bill, how is Tarasenko-6? Production, taste, disease...?

Tarasenko-6 is a great red tomato. It produces some real monsters and it is generally a large juicy tomato but it does have more than the normal convoluted fruits from time to time. The plants are larger than most and very vigorous with good leaf cover. I got the seed from Camo years ago and set out at least two or more every year.

Bill

mari.beth · July 19, 2014

Nice!!! I am jealous!

July 9, 2014	#48
efisakov Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: NJ, zone 7 Posts: 3,162	Bill, can you name the varieties that you are choosing to grow. I know that every ones region changes what tomatoes taste the best... never the less, you are choosing the most resilient to disease tomatoes that still taste good. thanks __________________ Ella God comes along and says, "I think I'm going to create THE tomato!”

July 10, 2014	#51
MissS Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Pewaukee, Wisconsin Posts: 3,150	Great list Bill and I am so happy that you have had such wonderful results this season. __________________ ~ Patti ~

July 11, 2014	#53
efisakov Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: NJ, zone 7 Posts: 3,162	Dewayne Mater Did you try Carbon? You should. Just once. __________________ Ella God comes along and says, "I think I'm going to create THE tomato!”

July 12, 2014	#56
efisakov Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: NJ, zone 7 Posts: 3,162	Bill, how is Tarasenko-6? Production, taste, disease...? __________________ Ella God comes along and says, "I think I'm going to create THE tomato!”

July 7, 2014	#46
dustdevil Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: WI, USA Zone4 Posts: 1,887	Really nice harvest Bill!

July 8, 2014	#47
wildcat62 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2014 Location: Zone 6 Northern Kentucky Posts: 1,094	Yes, you have had a great harvest.

July 9, 2014	#50
ScottinAtlanta Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Atlanta, Georgia Posts: 2,593	Bill, That is a wonderful list, but you have got to get Mule Team back on there.

July 10, 2014	#52
Dewayne mater Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2008 Location: DFW, Texas Posts: 1,212	Bill - have you ever grown Terhune? I have and always liked it, but haven't been as impressed with it as I was Cowlicks. This year, my first full season with TTF, and Terhune has been a champion. It has produced more than any other non cherry type, and that includes beating big beef and super sioux, along with several other heirloom types. The next closest was JD's, but, JD's quite producing earlier than Terhune, which has some recent fruit set in temps that it is "impossible" for tomatoes to flower and "impossible" for fruit to set. I'm happy that Terhune doesn't know about that! Sadly, my squirrel population has also enjoyed Terhune quite a bit, even while fully green. To a larger point, you may want to try other previously tested varieties because they may produce better with TTF than they did with other fertilizers. I'm considering giving Cherokee purple and others I'd tried, liked, but decided their production didn't warrant keeping them in the garden another chance to test out this possibility. Dewayne Mater

July 11, 2014	#54
b54red Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Alabama Posts: 7,068	I have one Terhune that went out on May 31 and it is setting some fruit. The last two or three years it hasn't done so good for me but four years ago it was my best beefsteak. I also have one Carbon plant that went out in the garden the same day. Carbon is one of my favorite fall tomatoes but I won't be using it this year in the fall due to me leaving the young seedlings out in a storm about a month or so ago and they got demolished. Bill

July 19, 2014	#58
mari.beth Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2013 Location: Knoxville, TN Posts: 54	Nice!!! I am jealous!