What varieties should be more well-known?

[pmcgrady]

Originally Posted by Cole_Robbie

Nice job with the mulch.

Thank You!
I am impressed with your setup also!

[AlittleSalt]

A couple we enjoyed last year were

Oranje Van Goeijenbier
Pink Ping Pong

[Kazedwards]

Originally Posted by pmcgrady

If it wasn't such a pain in the @ss to post a picture from an IPad or IPhone here...

I would have tons posted...

Resize them, then plug into my Windows laptop, synchronize / download /ad nauseum

To post pictures easier you can download the app tapatalk. It will upload the photos straight from your library. Makes it super easy. It is also free and easy to use on the iPhone. It all I use anymore.


-Zach

[pmcgrady]

Originally Posted by Kazedwards

To post pictures easier you can download the app tapatalk. It will upload the photos straight from your library. Makes it super easy. It is also free and easy to use on the iPhone. It all I use anymore.


-Zach

Thanks! I'll try it!

Pat

[JosephineRose]

Originally Posted by Andrey_BY

It's better to avoid Amishland, because this lady is fond of renaming of original variety names and like to write extraordinary blurbs

I ordered there too. How can we know what the original names are?

[M.SeanF.]

Originally Posted by Cole_Robbie

Regarding the question in the original post, I can see myself working on the answer for decades to come.

Here's what I am trying this year.
Outdoor plants: http://www.tomatoville.com/showpost....&postcount=158
High Tunnel: http://www.tomatoville.com/showthread.php?t=40692

Standouts from previous years include Cosmonaut Volkov, Ten Hung Tan Chieh, Pink Rose, and Northern Lights. And although their works may not be quite as obscure, it's hard to go wrong with anything bred by Fred Hempel, Tom Wagner, or Brad Gates.

Hi Cole_Robbie,

Thanks for the suggestions. Cosmonaut Volkov is definitely on my grow list for 2017, and the other three are in the running. I'd actually already read your plant lists after reading your http://www.tomatoville.com/showthrea...ewpost&t=36006 thread and I planted a Skyreacher because I saw it on your list. It was the first thread I read all the way through after joining T-ville. I admire your no-nonsense mix of organic and non-organic, but sensible, practices. If more farmers were as adaptive and willing to try innovations as you are entire food-system would be in a much healthier state.

I'm lucky enough to live just one county over from Brad Gates so his tomatoes grow very well in my local conditions. I was also lucky enough to hear Fred Hempel give a talk on tomato breeding at the Heirloom Festival here in Sonoma County. His Blush has become a must-grow for me.

Keep up the good work.

-Sean

[M.SeanF.]

Originally Posted by ginger2778

My favorite pink heart- Grightmire's Pride, my now next to favorite, Iraqi Heart

My newly introduced this year Chris's Greek Mama- a beautiful red somewhat ribbed beefsteak, delicious, made lots of fruit.

Hi Ginger2778,

I'm becoming a fan of the heart shaped varieties. I'm growing Cour Di Bue and Orange Russian 117 this year, the O.R.117 for the first time. Iraqi Heart looks interesting, I'll probably try it soon. I've never heard of Grightmire's Pink, where did you find it?

-Sean

[Cole_Robbie]

Thank you, Sean, for the kind words and encouragement.

[ginger2778]

Originally Posted by M.SeanF.

Hi Ginger2778,

I'm becoming a fan of the heart shaped varieties. I'm growing Cour Di Bue and Orange Russian 117 this year, the O.R.117 for the first time. Iraqi Heart looks interesting, I'll probably try it soon. I've never heard of Grightmire's Pink, where did you find it?

-Sean

Sean, I sent you a pm.

[parah]

Originally Posted by b54red

Couilles de Taureau..... amazingly good at setting in the heat of summer down here and the fruit will be large especially for late summer. Most of all they are beautiful looking fruits that taste wonderful and rich. They may be the consistently best tasting red tomato I have ever grown. I have been growing it for several years now and absolutely love it. Bill

Wow!
That is very high praise.
I will buy seeds for Couilles de Taureau right now.

Thanks for sharing the results from your years of testing.

[AlittleSalt]

Japanese Pink Cherry

[Gardeneer]

One way to answer the original question is like catch 22.
They are not well know because they are not well know.

[zipcode]

I think one of the reasons something is popular is partly due to what plants you can find locally. Sungolds and brandywines and black cherrys etc. And of course they sell those mostly because they know people have heard of them because they are popular. It's tough to escape the circle. Especially nowadays I think, when there's a flood of new bred tomatoes and still many varieties from Russia and other places, everyone just tries more every year, and there's no more 'mainstay' in the garden, it's all just fading popularity because you want to try that new 'must grow'.

[Gardeneer]

Originally Posted by zipcode

I think one of the reasons something is popular is partly due to what plants you can find locally. Sungolds and brandywines and black cherrys etc. And of course they sell those mostly because they know people have heard of them because they are popular. It's tough to escape the circle. Especially nowadays I think, when there's a flood of new bred tomatoes and still many varieties from Russia and other places, everyone just tries more every year, and there's no more 'mainstay' in the garden, it's all just fading popularity because you want to try that new 'must grow'.

That is right. The big commercial growers and nurseries make the names popular. Most of which are hybrids OR very old heirlooms.
We are lucky to have forums like this that we get introduced to NEW and BETTER varieties. More than 80 percent of what I am growing now, I had not even heard the names 15 years ago.

Gardeneer

[Lindalana]

Originally Posted by JosephineRose

I ordered there too. How can we know what the original names are?

most times those are original names, just sometimes they are marketed with superstories...