Member discussion regarding the methods, varieties and merits of growing tomatoes.
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February 28, 2018 | #76 | |
Tomatovillian™
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March 1, 2018 | #77 | |
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: KS 5b/6a
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Malachite Box is my favorite GWR. Last edited by sic transit gloria; March 1, 2018 at 01:07 AM. |
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March 1, 2018 | #78 |
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Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Omaha Zone 5
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This afternoon I started about half of what I want to grow. Taking a break from it all, and next step is to categorize everything so I know where I stand with orange, bi-colors, saladettes, slicers, etc. I didn't see any pastes go in the pots so need to start lots more of those. Between myself, a friend, neighbor (a benefit to me as I get to watch without the work or space), garden club exchange I'll have about 100 different plants depending on germination. Cutting down on random give aways from last year that never heard back from to produce larger transplants.
I am considering next year that I'll try fewer different varieties and instead do more side by side comparisons of different strains (Stupices, Mortgage Lifters etc.), original vs seeds saved in my main garden (I grew on a neighbors plot for the past few years and didn't keep track of which garden I saved seeds from). trying to decide which varieties I want to do the comparisons so I can start the originals now. A few new to me, many from this year's MMMM and kind trades and gifts: Dona F1 Dora Sgt. Pepper Dutchman Dipp's Pink Butterfly (seeds from 2006!!!) Mountain Princess Mary Huddleson Dikaga Roza AMH Punta Banda several crosses to compare next generation in 2019 many I can't see this late in the evening without my readers - Lisa |
March 1, 2018 | #79 |
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Join Date: Jan 2018
Location: San Diego, Ca
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Livingston's Magnus
Pork Chop Brandywine Sudduth Brandywine Joyce's Stump of the World Paul Robeson Brad's Atomic Grape Berkeley Tie Dye GGWT Barry's Crazy Cherry Yellow Ingleheart Cherry Roma Mine are in solo cups and doing good outside. So far GGWT and Paul Robeson are really cranking along. So hard making the final cuts on these in terms of what ends up in garden! Envious of all these huge grows you all are doing. As it stands with my 8 or so plants i make sure everyone at work gets sick of my tomato giveaways by end of summer. |
March 1, 2018 | #80 |
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Join Date: May 2015
Location: Nanaimo , BC
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Great looking lists !
interesting varieties mentioned from different environments .. Great !
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March 1, 2018 | #81 |
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: KS 5b/6a
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The old "best by test" varieties first...
KBX BW Sudduth Earl's Faux Malachite Box Neves Azorean Red Terhune Caspian Pink Virginia Sweets Malachite Box Azoychka Margaret Curtain Eva Purple Ball And a few new (to me) ones... Dester Mamie Brown's Pink Hungarian Heart Big Cheef Blood Gulch Green Gables Bear Creek Dana's Dusky Rose Daniels Sgt. Peppers Walt Swolka Heart Linda's Faux sic transit gloria, who would like to try the original RL Big Ben, if anyone has any seed to share (yes, I'll send you an SASE) |
March 2, 2018 | #82 |
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Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: NC - zone 8a - heat zone 7
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Here is my 2018 grow out.
ARGG ,Ananas Noire ,Brandy Boy, Brandywine Sudduth , Brown Heart , Cuostralee , Delicious , Esterina , German Queen , Hillbilly , Indigo Apple , Indogo Rose , IS-PL , Limmony , Mystry. Mat Su Small Red Grape , Tiger Heart , Tiger Grape , Stupice , Sara Black , Silvery Fir Tree. I cut back almost 50%from last year in number of plants and 40% in variety.
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March 9, 2018 | #83 |
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Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: Florence KY
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1) Berkeley Tie-Dye Green (new to me)
2) Great White (new to me) 3) Pork Chop (new to me) 4) Golden Ponderosa (new to me) 5) Ponderosa 6) Brandywine 7) Brandy Boy 8) Cosmonaut Volkov 9) Vorlon 10) Black Beauty (new to me) 11) A Grappoli D'Inverno (new to me) 12) Martino's Roma (new to me) 13) Rosella Purple 14) New Yorker |
March 9, 2018 | #84 |
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Join Date: Dec 2016
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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Capt. Neon, the taste of Berkeley Tie Dye Green was great for us with very little/no watering. I called the tomato ripe whenever the red streaks were the color of a standard red tomato.
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March 10, 2018 | #85 |
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Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: Chicago IL
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With few exceptions those are new tomatoes that have been started, still yet to do more " oldies but goodies" and cherries
Large Bacon Lettuce and this F6 polish Babushkin secret McKinley Daniels Orenburg Gran's Portuguese neighbor Joe's portugese Eli Joe Pink Oxheart Berick Elsa Ruth's perfect African Queen Russian Bogatyr Biyskaya Roza Matsu express MOPLA Severnaya Korona Brutus Tri tolstyaka Violaceum Altaysky Indiana red Zamorano Rebel Yell The Giant Tarasenko 6 Yellow Giant Orange Sakharnyi Zheltyi Tobolsk Grand Belgium Dark or darkish Sterling Old Norway Rozovyi Kilogramovyi Zhar Olimp Malinovyi Malinovyi Charodei Turkish Ayla Mikado Black Kardinal Tchornyi Tomato Not Purple Strawberry Black Bear Mendigorria Morado Chocolate Deep space Purple dog creek Eva Purple Ball Plum or paste Prue Goldman Italian American Gallo Plum Big Ray Argentine paste Carol Chyko's big paste Abbattista paste Giant Cuneo pear Dominick's paste Plum bush Banana Cream Principe Borgese Early or container Yagodka Red Siberian Uralskiy Ranniy Agatha Titan Red Knyaz 42 Days Vzryv Talalikhin 186 Kotlas |
March 10, 2018 | #86 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jun 2014
Location: Spartanburg, SC
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Wow, nice list Lindalana!!!
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March 11, 2018 | #87 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: May 2015
Location: Nanaimo , BC
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Wow all these ..lists ...remind one of interesting varieties not tried .
it sure makes it tempting to keep lastminuteitis as bay ....
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March 11, 2018 | #88 |
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Location: NC - zone 8a - heat zone 7
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I might have posted but did not find it. Anyway. I am growin anout 30 plants of 23 varieties. So 7 vars will get two of each and the rest one plant each.
ARGG ANANAS NOIRE BIG BEEF BRANDY BOY BRANDYWINE SUD. BROWN HEART.....my own CUOSTRALEE DELICIOUS ESTERINA GERMAN QUEEN HILLBILLY INDIGO APPLE INDIGO ROSE IS-PL LIMMONY MYSTRY ....my own MAT-SU EXP TIGER HEART.....my own TIGER GRAPE ....my own STUPICE SARA BLACK SILVERY FIR TREE SMALL GRAPE ....from store tomato ....I might get a plant or two that like from nurseries. This is final. As my seedlimgs are already 5 weeks old , growing under light.
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March 11, 2018 | #89 |
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Tentative Grow lists for Spring 2018
This is going to be a year of re-visiting some varieties that did well in earlier years, but were dropped due to sickliness and low production after what I now know is soil disease set in. All will be grafted onto DRO14TX rootstock.
Here's where I'm at, but I still have about 10 days to change my mind... Eating: Franchi Cherry (circa 2012) Neves Azorean Red *Kosovo *Mat-Su Express Dester Virginia Sweets Moskovich Gregori's Altai *Siletz Pastes: Franchi Giant Pear Romeo Nudi Family Heirloom Opalka Santa Maria Sulia's Heart Aunt Swarlo's Polish Plum Work Release Paste Russian 117 *(un-named family heirloom received in a trade) *Gilbertie Paste *Kim's Civil War Oxheart Russo Sicilian Togeta Costoluto Genovese * never grown before Last edited by Father'sDaughter; March 11, 2018 at 01:05 AM. |
March 11, 2018 | #90 |
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Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: Kennewick, WA (7a)
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My 2018 nightshade gardening effort is going to:
Tomatoes: Sweet Ozark Orange Orange Russian 117 Ananas Noire Aunt Ruby's German Green Brandy Boy F1 Daniel Burson Cherokee Purple Cherokee Carbon F1 Gary'O Sena Not Purple Strawberry Black Magic Blackberry Indian Stripe Potato Leaf Eva Purple Ball Esternia F1 Honey Drop Pink Princess Ambrosia Orange Peppers: Shish!to Petit Marseillais Sugar Rush Peach Chichimeca F1 Mucho Nacho F1 Biker Billy F1 Antep Aci Dolma Datil Fatalii Ground Cherries: Aunt Molly Goldie |
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