2021 Tomato List

[D.J. Wolf]

Well, my list is actually short. I only have room this year for 15 plant give or take. Actually, I'm almost scared to grow more than that, if they yield like mine did 3 years ago, I don't know what I'll do with all the tomatoes. 2018 was a great year for me, people for blocks away were locking their doors so I didn't fill their cars with zucchini and tomatoes lol. Last year was a rough year, but I still gave away a lot of tomatoes.

Anyway, this year I'm doing

Porterhouse: Super large red beefsteak, hybrid, 2+ pound (3 plants)
Super Beefsteak: Large 1+ pound, red, did great last year (3 plants)
Burpee's Early Pick: 5-6 oz slicer, red, fairly early (62 days)(4 plants)
Cherry Baby: New from Burpee for 2021, hope they do really well (5 plants)

[bigpinks]

Hillbilly, Mortgage Lifter, Lucky Cross, AGP, Amana Orange, SOTW, Giant Belgium, Carbon, GGWT, ARG, Sun Sugar and Choc Cherry.

[bigpinks]

I have seed for all of the above but will buy 8-12 Big Beef plants to total about 80 plants. I mis labelled Aunt Ruby's German Green in the first post. I start wit 4 flats of 18 ea of the 4" cups under shop lights in my basement, They are usually ready for outdoors 3 weeks after germination. The 4x4 cups yield good root formation without transplanting. Also aiming to try the 4-18-38 Master Blend with an 18 gal container. Still almost two weeks too early for me to get started.

[D.J. Wolf]

Thought I'd update, no pictures yet, but possibly soon. I had problems with a lot of my seedlings this year, very slow starting true leaves, then just seeming to give up. True leaves on those that survived are coming now, but slowly. Biggest problems were with the beefsteak ones it seems, Just reseeded 2 for the Super Beefsteak, may have to reseed at least 1 of the Porterhouse, we'll see. Had to replant 3 of the 6 Cherry Babies as well.

Plant are outside for the first time today, it's 69 with just a light breeze. That should help them a lot I think.

[bigpinks]

Just put a couple GGWT under the shop lights. I had about given up hope....it took six days for them to germinate.

[D.J. Wolf]

Mine all germinated quick. Even the CB I replanted came up quick. I think I'm giving up on the Jiffy Pods and going to use just starter mix from here out. Bought 2 72 cell starter mini greenhouses today for next year, or this year if I have to restart anything else lol.

[D.J. Wolf]

Well, this year has thrown me a curveball, and I was actually pretty upset about it until today.

I ended up short on tomato plants this year. Had terrible issues with what I think was damp off. Ended up with only 1 Early pick, 2 Porterhouse, and 4 Cherry Baby. Somehow ended up with 4 Super Beefsteak. Long and short of it was that I ended up 4 tomatoes short. Thanks to a buddy here though, I found a local greenhouse/nursery that I had never been to and picked up 4 plants, 3 of which I never see sold in stores around her. So I have added to the list:

Brandywine
Cherokee Purple
Mortgage Lifter
and
Sunsugar cherry

[Spartanburg123]

I too have a local greenhouse that has saved my season on occasion when I had a catastrophic event happen with my Jiffy Pods. Looks like you're off to an excellent start

[Gardeneer]

I am growing some from seeds and some supplemented from nurseries. I had bad germination. Then i mixed some of them up when repotting.

Here what i have.
---argg ' big boy, better boy' early girl , ananas noire, hilbilly, cherokee purple
--- large cherry, indigo cherry drops, cuostralee, marglobe, oregon spring , tiger grape(my own naming from store bought tomatoes years ago).
The only new comer is marglobe. .
I am late this year. Hope to get my first ripe in 10 days. That will be early girl for sure. Indigo cd will be the second.



Hope y'all have a good season/
.

[eyolf]

Here's mine:
Determinates:

Allstate
Belstar
Golden Bison
Dakota Sport

Full sized OP indeterminate:

Bonny Best
Faribo Gold Heart
Gold Medal
Heshpole
Livingston Honor Bright
Nepal
Opalka (paste)
San Marzano (paste)
Teddy Globe
Teddy Steak

Hybrid indet:
Fantastic
Better Boy
Jetsetter
Queen of Hearts

Small indeterminate:
Bloody Butcher
JSS3570
Stupice

Wild Boar Farms:
Beauty King
Blue Beauty
Brad's Atomic Grape
Cascade Lava
Cosmic Eclipse
Crushed Heart
Dark Galaxy
Pink Berk Tie-Dye

Dwarf:
Dwarf Arctic Rose
Dwarf Beauty King
Dwarf Johnson Cherry
Grushovka
Puck
Red Robin
Tiny Tim.

Cherries and grapes:
Black Cherry
Ildi
Isis Candy
Sweetie Hyb
"Grape" (this one is a mystery!)


All are planted now, a few suffered partial frost on Friday morning (covered, but touching the plastic) and I may lose 1 Belstar. There are 3 others that should recover. One Nepal looks pretty tough, but I have a spare, and I think I see a sucker forming in a leaf axil.

Mama and I should have canned tomatoes on the shelves again next autumn!

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[demead1]

Roma, Oaxaca, old German, purple Cherokee, Montserrat, black Krim, Chykos paste

[D.J. Wolf]

Well, the tomatoes are looking good. Sun Sugar, Brandywine, and Mortgage Lifter all have open blossoms now, Cherokee Purple will in a day or so. The one's I started from seed are catching up quickly, and look great.

Was just out looking things over for a quick minute and saw a few big weeds in my onions that were irritating me. So I went to pull them. Surprise, surprise, the 2 biggest weeds are....tomatoes!

Now, these have to be volunteers from last year. They are close to where I piled the plants when I pulled them last fall and then later burned them. Question is...which of the 3 varieties I grew last year are they? I can't even remember the actual names of them, one was a beefsteak, one cherry, and one I guess you could call slicer, grew fruits just slightly bigger than a cherry tomato, but didn't taste as good. With my luck, that's what these 2 will be lol. Will update later on my surprise tomatoes!

[smithmal]

Here are mine:

Cherry:
Dr. Carolyn's
Amish Cherry
Gardener's Delight
Tropical Sunset
Ambrosia Orange (a heirloom sunsugar variety)

Garden:
Celebrity
Cherokee Purple

Beefsteak:
German Orange Strawberry (Oxheart)
Omar's Lebanese
Big Rainbow

I've grown all of these before and they do well in my area (zone 6b MD).

[rhoder551]

Here is my list:


Magnus
Jaune Flamme
Purple Heart
Arctic Rose
Caspian Pink
Copper River
Juliet

Ananas Noir



All from seed and planted out beginning of May. Doing well but I rushed to plant and forgot to mark which is which...opps.

[TerpGal]

Assuming my plants survive whatever is going on with them:
Sungold
Chocolate Sprinkles
Opalka (x2)
Amish Paste (x2)
Bonny Best
Rosella Crimson (x2)
Black Ethiopian
Green Zebra
Cherokee Purple
Pink Berkley Tye Die
Black Krim
Black Beauty