2017 tentative grow list

[Gerardo]

Originally Posted by MuddyToes

Thanks for the cherry suggestions, CR. Now I have even more choices.

I'll toss a few into the ring:

Reverend Michael Keyes, a red cherry multiflora with larger tomato flavor, sprawling and productive. 15-20+ on the good trusses.

Another in the big tomato in a small package is Green Tiger, equal parts beauty and flavor.

Chang Li, productive, yellow cherry, egg shaped, slightly grainy in a really good way.

[jmsieglaff]

My grow list for 2017 is:
Black Krim
Noire De Crimee
Daniel Burson
Aunt Ginny's Purple
KBX
Big Beef F1
Blush
Black Cherry
Chocolate Cherry
Jaune Flammee
Earl of Edgecomb
Sungold F1
Sunsugar F1
Wisconsin 55
?
?

In buckets:
dwarf project Teensy F4 yellow cherry and F3 chocolate cherry
remaining buckets will be something from: more dwarf project and/or a few released dwarf project varieties.

In small pots:
some experimental microdwarfs

[JosephineRose]

Originally Posted by carolyn137

That would be Yellow Brandywine Platfoot, which was sent to me by Garry Platfoot.

http://tatianastomatobase.com/wiki/B...b=General_Info

It is NOT a version of the red Brandywine as someone said.Rather,it's a smoother more high yielding version of the original Yellow Brandywine.

http://tatianastomatobase.com/wiki/Brandywine,_Yellow

Carolyn

I'm going to take that as a recommendation for it over Mennonite Orange, then.

OK, I'm confirming that one. This is the ever evolving list - and it is open to suggestions. I'm in the SF Bay Area.

I have 8 spots in my raised beds for:
sungold F1
Brandywine Sudduth's Strain
Jazz (or Big Beef?)
BKX
Daniel Burson
Earl's Faux
Granadero
Orange Jazz

at the community garden I have one EB and two R&V for
Spike
Sugary Pounder
Jen's Mystery tomato (given by a friend - acclimated to this climate, but unknown. I suspect it's Ananas Noire)

In the yard of the shop I have EBs for:
Margaret Curtain
Girl Girl's Weird Thing
Black Krim
New Big Dwarf
Virginia Sweets
Rainbow Dwarf
Sweet Scarlet Dwarf (or Dwarf Sweet Sue?)
Rosella Purple
Dwarf Purple Heart
EM Champion
Sart Roloise
Brandywine, Platfoot Strain
Eva Purple Ball
Rebel Yell
Red Viper Dwarf

[Gardeneer]

Good selection,JMS
I think I have 7 of those in your list in mine too.
Have you grown Black Krim and Noire De Crimee during the same season ? If so what are the differences between them ? My best and favorite black has been Black from Tula. Very productive, fairly early and with very good taste. I grew one Daniel Burson last year and it turned out s dud. I might try it again in my new location. I will try Black Cherry
Jaune Flammee for the first time.

[Cole_Robbie]

Jazz (or Big Beef?)

I like Big Beef, but I think Jazz is far superior to it in regard to flavor. Big Beef probably edges it on production, and certainly on fruit uniformity. Jazz will tend to make some whopper-sized fruit under certain weather patterns, same with Orange Jazz.

[jmsieglaff]

Originally Posted by Gardeneer

Good selection,JMS
I think I have 7 of those in your list in mine too.
Have you grown Black Krim and Noire De Crimee during the same season ? If so what are the differences between them ? My best and favorite black has been Black from Tula. Very productive, fairly early and with very good taste. I grew one Daniel Burson last year and it turned out s dud. I might try it again in my new location. I will try Black Cherry
Jaune Flammee for the first time.

Thanks! I've grown Black Krim every year for many years now (still my fav after a year growing a handful of different black tomatoes), but after reading Carolyn's book I decided to had to grow BK and Noire De Crimee side-by-side, so I will be doing that this coming year.

I'm growing DB based on many favorable reports here--it does well for Patti who also lives in southern WI.

Black and Chocolate cherry will be firsts on both--and they too will be grown side-by-side.

I haven't grown Jaune Flammee or Earl of Edgecomb and those flavor descriptions intrigue me hence this year.

Last year was the first time I grew Big Beef F1 and was very pleased with the plant vigor, health and production. Flavor was very good, not as good as some, but still quite good. I picked a TON of green fruits and they slowly ripened in my basement this fall--which made a first for me--a garden grown tomato on Thanksgiving.

[BigVanVader]

Black and Chocolate cherry will be firsts on both--and they too will be grown side-by-side.

I'm almost 100% certain they are the same. I could tell no difference.

[MuddyToes]

Originally Posted by Gerardo

I'll toss a few into the ring:

Reverend Michael Keyes, a red cherry multiflora with larger tomato flavor, sprawling and productive. 15-20+ on the good trusses.

Wow! That's a lot of tomatoes! The parentage looks interesting, too. Black plum was one of my favs 2 summers ago but it didn't do well last year. I think I transplanted it too many times.

[oakley]

GGWT and SunGold should be on every top ten list.

Last week, the weekend before the Thanksgiving holiday, with 2 inches of snow accumulating, i tossed four 5 gallon pots of not-so-ratty but un-attended tomato containers into the potting shed...a rinky dink 'greenhouse' that just stores soils and such to keep it all out of the garage. And dry. It gets some sun now that leaves have fallen.

With my phones flashlight this morning i picked and enjoyed a dozen SunGold, November 29th, !!

[jmsieglaff]

For my remaining buckets, I'm leaning toward these dwarfs: Summertime Green, Emerald Giant, Jade Beauty (to see which GWR I like best) as well as dwarf Beauty King.

For my remaining two garden spots I'm leaning toward Orange Jazz and Garnet. The last couple buckets and spots in the garden always ebb and flow until the last possible minute--just too many varieties I keep obtaining and wanting to try.

[Cole_Robbie]

I haven't had Emerald Giant, but I have grown Jade Beauty next to Summertime Green. Jade Beauty makes medium-sized round fruit that are intensely sweet when ripe. Summertime Green makes bigger, beefsteak style fruit, sometimes ugly ones. The flavor is less sweet, but lighter and more balanced, still quite tasty. It just depends on what you prefer.

[txtstorm]

Hi, All. I'm in Dallas, TX. I'm growing in some in-ground native-soil beds that total about 700 sqft or so, plus some raised beds, aquaponic units and hydroponic buckets (dwc) at the college where I work.

Tomatoes

Early Girl
Black Krim
Green Zebra
Japanese Trifele
Momotaro
Striped Roman
Roma
Bison
Grandma Mary's Paste (maybe)
Sungold F1 (maybe)
"Pleated" Texas Wild Cherry
Texas Wild Cherry

Peppers

Violet Sparkle
Brazilian Starfish
Red Cheese
Ciliegia Piccante
Chile Pequin

Eggplant

Black Beauty
Gretel Hybrid

Other Nightshades

Garden Huckleberry
Ground Cherry

I'm also going to try some grafting using Supernatural rootstock and Texas Wild Cherry as a rootstock. The latter survived the entire 2016 Texas summer along the fence in the weeds with pretty much zero attention. That's my kind of tomato.

Cheers,

Adam

[Hoosier]

My tentative list for 2017

New:

Momotaro
Hungarian Heart
Boondocks
Aunt Ginny's Purple
Brandywine OTV
Church
Stump of the World
Sungold
Ananas Noir
Indian Stripe

Returners:

Big Beef
Big Mama
Celebrity
Chapman
Aunt Ruby's German Green
Azoychka
Russian 117
Brandywine Sudduth

[Gardeneer]

Good list, Hoosier.
I see some familiar popular varieties. I am also growing a few of them.
When do you start germinating ?

[Hoosier]

Originally Posted by Gardeneer

Good list, Hoosier.
I see some familiar popular varieties. I am also growing a few of them.
When do you start germinating ?

I would like to wait until around the first of April, but I don't know if I can hold out that long. Plant out should be mid to late May. I am going to try to get a few containers out earlier.