2022 Tomato list

[Fred Hempel]

Originally Posted by paradajky

Hey DJ Wolf: I'm also growing Marzano Fire. What do the leaves look like on yours?


Here's my short list, almost two of each:
Start F1, Pink Cherrywine, Maglia Rosa, Marzano Fire, Benevento, Amalfi Orange, and Taiga.

Marzano Fire leaves are wispy/wilty

[D.J. Wolf]

Well, here we are in July already, and I'm starting to see some nice colors on some of the tomatoes. First picked, for the second year in a row, was a single Sun Sugar. I do see though that I have 4 Sun Gold that are almost ready as well, so only a few days behind. All the tomatoes are setting fruit good, Cherokee Purple is slower than everything else, but I think it will make up for that in the fall.

Just a couple notes on a couple tomatoes. Marzano Fire is growing great. The plants are absolutely loaded with nice sized tomatoes, and I'm looking forward to a great harvest and lots of sauce. Benevento plants are just COVERED in tomatoes and blossoms both, can't wait to try a ripe one! Thanks so much Fred!

Finally, my Giant Belgium plants. One of them seems to be in a rush to live up to the giant part of it's name, Has a tomato that is probably pushing a pound already, and no signs of slowing down.

My main concern at this point is all the rain we are suddenly getting. I'm afraid that with all this excess moisture, the flavor of the tomatoes may suffer some, and splitting may be worse than normal, but I guess we'll see.

[MrsJustice]

Originally Posted by D.J. Wolf

Well, I finally have my list of tomatoes done for the year. I've kind of surprised myself, in that there are very few red tomatoes going in this year. My tomato patch should be colorful if nothing else this year

Marzon Fire - this will be the most numerous plant, 15-20 of them to make paste, sauce, and salsa if they produce heavily like I expect

Beefsteaks/Hearts
Giant Belgium
Cherokee Purple
Rainbow Jazz Heart
Captain Lucky
Benevento F1

Slicer
Early Doll - Free gift with order from seedsnsuch.com

Cherry
Sun Sugar
Sun Gold
Sun Cherry (red version of Sun Gold)

Other than the Marzon Fire, I'll have 2-3 plants of each variety, bringing my total plants this year up to 35-40, quite an increase over the 15 I've had the last 2 years

What is everyone else growing or planning to grow this year?

(Since this is the tomato section of the forum, I'll post the other things in another thread in the miscellaneous section at some point lol)

I am Taken Photos of your Orka Plants, especially the one with a touch of Red, Amenly Beautiful . .

Thanks for the Seeds

[D.J. Wolf]

Originally Posted by MrsJustice

I am Taken Photos of your Orka Plants, especially the one with a touch of Red, Amenly Beautiful . .

Thanks for the Seeds

You have me confused with someone else I think, I didn't send you any seeds lol. In fact, I've never grown Okra at all.

[MrsJustice]

Sorry, to you D. J. Wolf and Retiree; it was Muddybucks who send me the Okra Seeds. I guess I been working in the sun to long, Amen!!

[D.J. Wolf]

Well, the cherry plants are putting out tomatoes as expected, lots of them. So far, for flavor I have to say that both Sun Gold and Sun Sugar are better than Sun Cherry in my opinion. As far as yield goes, at this point Sun Gold is hands down the winner so far, with almost twice as many ripe fruit picked than Sun Sugar has so far. All great tomatoes though.

The Early Dolls finally started to ripen, got 6 tomatoes today, largest of which was 5.1oz. Not bad for a small slicer type tomato. Will report on flavor on it later, haven't tried it yet.

Finall...WOW are the Marzano Fire tomatoes tasty! I'm trying to save them up for sauce, but had a few ripen early due to BER, and they taste SOOOOOO good!

[Shrinkrap]

First ripe tomatoes!
Dwarf Wild Fred
Dwarf Crimson Sockeye
Dwarf Choemato
Princcipe Borghese

[Koala Doug]

Very nice, shrink!

[MrsJustice]

Nice Nice, Amen!!

I love the pretty one with Red and Yellow " That is called a Dwarf Choemato" . I can not believe that is a Big Tomato from a Dwarf Plant.