Attention OCD Folks / What Are You Growing for 2010?

Lamb Abbey Orchards · July 2, 2009

I have a feeling somebody would start this thread eventually, so being a bit OCD and a compulsive planner, and given the fact that I'm up in the wee hours of the morning praying for sun and riding a substantial caffeine buzz, I thought I'd kick it off.

We set a limit for ourselves in 2010 of a combined total of 30 varieties of tomatoes and peppers. Given what we've chosen, this breaks down into 18 varieties of tomatoes and 12 varieties of peppers. The tomatoes we'll be growing will all be open-pollinated varieties. We'll have a total of 36 plants of each variety for a total of 648 tomatoes and 432 peppers.

Here's our motley mix:

Tomato / Sauce - Berkeley Tie Dye Heart
Tomato / Sauce – Coeur d’Albenga
Tomato / Sauce – Ernie's Plump
Tomato / Sauce – Goldman’s Italian American
Tomato / Sauce - Long Tom
Tomato / Sauce - Russian 117
Tomato / Sauce - Slankard's
Tomato / Sauce - Speckled Roman

Tomato / Slicer - Berkeley Tie Dye
Tomato / Slicer - Berkeley Tie Dye Pink
Tomato / Slicer - Cuostralee
Tomato / Slicer - Dr. Lyle
Tomato / Slicer – Earl's Faux
Tomato / Slicer – JD's Special C Tex
Tomato / Slicer – KBX
Tomato / Slicer - Mexico
Tomato / Slicer – Neves Azorean Red
Tomato / Slicer - Porkchop

Sweet Pepper – Ariane F1 Hybrid
Sweet Pepper – Early Sunsation F1 Hybrid
Sweet Pepper – Hershey F1 Hybrid
Sweet Pepper - Peperoni di Senise
Sweet Pepper – Piquillo
Sweet Pepper – Red Knight X3R F1 Hybrid

Hot Pepper - Etna
Hot Pepper – Georgia Flame
Hot Pepper - Piccante di Cayenna
Hot Pepper – Piment d'Espelette Basque
Hot Pepper - Pimientos de Padron
Hot Pepper - Stromboli

We'll be canning sauce with all of the sauce tomatoes we produce as well as a full batch of sauce (18 quarts) of each of the slicer varieties to see which tomatoes ultimately make the best sauce. We'll be selling the bulk of our slicers at the local farmers markets. If Mother Nature is on our side next year <knock on wood>, we'll be canning 756 quarts (63 cases) of sauce.

Our tomatoes and peppers will be watered by means of a drip irrigation system and planted through black plastic in raised beds. Everything will be certified organic.

Anybody else on here obsess about this stuff this far in advance? Are you aware of any 12-step meetings to help us?

John

Wi-sunflower · July 2, 2009

Well I'm not OCD, in fact pretty much the opposite. More of a roll with the dice type.

But I do like to TRY to make a few plans for the future.

I feel like all the plants I have out in the field right now are in a sence "for 2010" as I hope to have seed from as many of them as I possibly can so I will have new varieties for my seed sales and lots of new plants for my market customers next year. i made trades for over 100 varieties new to me this year.

We just finished planting out over 8,000 plants last week. Only about 10 days later than we should have finished. But we had weather issues and then a crew that didn't show up for a week. So unfortunately we finished up during some awful weather. 90s, windy and dry. We've been hauling tanks of water to try to keep them alive ever since. Hard to get other things done right now.

My hope for next year is to make trades this winter for what other members consider "must grows" that I don't already have. Or what members think are good varieties but have yet to show up in a seed catalog.

Just some thoughts about what I hope will happen the rest of this year and into next.

Carol

Lamb Abbey Orchards · July 2, 2009

Carol:

You planted 8,000 tomatoes? Sweet Jesus, that's going to be a lot of fruit.

John

Wi-sunflower · July 2, 2009

Actually about 25 - 75 each of at least 200+ varieties. I don't have the final count of varieties yet.

If the weather co-operates, yes it could be a lot. But around here the last few years, the weather hasn't been co-operative at all. Last year we didn't have a whole lot of selable tomatoes other than cherries. But I had a whole lot of cracked tomatoes that made about 10 lbs of seed.

I do hope to have more good tomatoes this year, but so far the weather has been hard. Too much rain early, now next to no rain for the last 3 weeks. Too hot, now too cold. Like a roller coaster.

Carol

newatthiskat · July 2, 2009

OK Not OCD about anything but raising tomatoes. I am going to grow about 8 of Atkinson; 8 of Pink Sweet; 5 of Brandywine suddeth; 3 of Bulgarian Triumph; 3 Sandul Moldavan; 2 Pineapple; about 10-12 of my wierd cross Pineapple X Italian Tomato Tree; 8-10 of the bicolor growout of BrandywineXTad; 4 Black Krim; 2 Black From Tula; and who knows what else. I have been really pleased how many brandywine suddeths and Pink Sweet I have gotten from 2-3 plants each. Atkinson and Pineapple X Italian tomato Tree have been a very big taste supprise.
Kat

Lamb Abbey Orchards · July 3, 2009

Kat,

I'm curious what the fruit from your Pineapple x Italian Tree tomatoes look like. Do you have any photos you could post?

John

newatthiskat · July 3, 2009

Here you go John. It tasted as good as it looked. I took that pic inside so it was a little off on the coloring
Kat

Lamb Abbey Orchards · July 3, 2009

Kat,

That's an intriguing looking tomato. How would you describe the taste profile? Into the direction of which parent would you say it leans?

John

newatthiskat · July 3, 2009

well I am not very experienced at descriptive tomato taste reports. I would say it is very meaty and handles a sandwich well. It is a balanced flavor not too tart or sweet. I like putting it in tomato sauce.
Kat

Lamb Abbey Orchards · July 4, 2009

Kat:

You described it as "a very big taste supprise."

Clearly you enjoyed it. I was just curious what in particular was surprising to you about the taste.

John

Lamb Abbey Orchards · October 14, 2009

Anyone else planning out their garden yet for 2010?

John

geeboss · October 14, 2009

Well this will be the 2010 grow out starting seeds late February. The pathway in the backyard of our townhouse will have Dwarfs to reduce the jungle tunnel effect.

New Big Dwarf
German Extreme Dwarf Bush
Lucky Leprechaun
Sprite
Golden Dwarf Champion
Citron Comact

Returning from "09
Tom's Yellow Wonder
Cherokee Green
Opalka
KBX
NAR
Goose Creek
Indian Stripe

New for 2010
Spukakee
Lucky Cross
Northhern Lights
Busztyn
Manyel
Chapman
Cuostralee
Dr. Lyle
Donskoi
Cowlick Brandywine
Pink Sweet
Sibirskiy Skorospeiyi
Toedebush Pink
Yellow Submarine
Tomatoberry
Summer Cider
Early Ssubakus Aliana

Hybrids
Pink Brandymaster
Momotaro
Brandy Boy

George

cottonpicker · October 15, 2009

Here's my list for 2010:

Sun Sugar, hyb.
Champion II, hyb.
Super Fantastic, hyb.
Jet Star, hyb.
Santa Sweets
Cuor di Bue
Anna Russian
Iraqishe Hertzformig
Earl's Faux
Brandywine-Sudduth
Eva Purple Ball
Kellogg's Breakfast
Stump of the World
a large red cherry..saved seeds from a 'mystery plant' that appeared in '09.

LarryD

GIZZARDFARM · January 18, 2010

Well I tried a whole bunch of new varaties last year an weeded alot of them out. This year im still putting out 400 plants just not 40 or 50 varities. Im sticking with KBX,Brandywine,Sungold,Black Cherry,Earls Faux,Rutgers,Better Boy and celebrity (the last three just for mass production and canning) Carbon,German Johnson and Stump of the World.

dave · January 18, 2010

we're going to plant 125 standard tomatoes & 75 cherry for the market.
Early Rouge, KBX, Nebraska Wedding, Cherokee Purple, Carbon, Mule Team, Red Brandywine, Early Girl, Celebrity, Break O Day, Purple Russian, Pink Ice, Jaun Flammee--cherry tom's: Black Cherry, Dr. Carolyn, Amish Salad, Sun Gold, Sun Sugar & Sweet million. Of course, we always road test some new varaities to see if they do well here. dave

July 2, 2009	#1
Lamb Abbey Orchards Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Union, Maine / Coastal Zone 5 Posts: 44	Attention OCD Folks / What Are You Growing for 2010? I have a feeling somebody would start this thread eventually, so being a bit OCD and a compulsive planner, and given the fact that I'm up in the wee hours of the morning praying for sun and riding a substantial caffeine buzz, I thought I'd kick it off. We set a limit for ourselves in 2010 of a combined total of 30 varieties of tomatoes and peppers. Given what we've chosen, this breaks down into 18 varieties of tomatoes and 12 varieties of peppers. The tomatoes we'll be growing will all be open-pollinated varieties. We'll have a total of 36 plants of each variety for a total of 648 tomatoes and 432 peppers. Here's our motley mix: Tomato / Sauce - Berkeley Tie Dye Heart Tomato / Sauce – Coeur d’Albenga Tomato / Sauce – Ernie's Plump Tomato / Sauce – Goldman’s Italian American Tomato / Sauce - Long Tom Tomato / Sauce - Russian 117 Tomato / Sauce - Slankard's Tomato / Sauce - Speckled Roman Tomato / Slicer - Berkeley Tie Dye Tomato / Slicer - Berkeley Tie Dye Pink Tomato / Slicer - Cuostralee Tomato / Slicer - Dr. Lyle Tomato / Slicer – Earl's Faux Tomato / Slicer – JD's Special C Tex Tomato / Slicer – KBX Tomato / Slicer - Mexico Tomato / Slicer – Neves Azorean Red Tomato / Slicer - Porkchop Sweet Pepper – Ariane F1 Hybrid Sweet Pepper – Early Sunsation F1 Hybrid Sweet Pepper – Hershey F1 Hybrid Sweet Pepper - Peperoni di Senise Sweet Pepper – Piquillo Sweet Pepper – Red Knight X3R F1 Hybrid Hot Pepper - Etna Hot Pepper – Georgia Flame Hot Pepper - Piccante di Cayenna Hot Pepper – Piment d'Espelette Basque Hot Pepper - Pimientos de Padron Hot Pepper - Stromboli We'll be canning sauce with all of the sauce tomatoes we produce as well as a full batch of sauce (18 quarts) of each of the slicer varieties to see which tomatoes ultimately make the best sauce. We'll be selling the bulk of our slicers at the local farmers markets. If Mother Nature is on our side next year <knock on wood>, we'll be canning 756 quarts (63 cases) of sauce. Our tomatoes and peppers will be watered by means of a drip irrigation system and planted through black plastic in raised beds. Everything will be certified organic. Anybody else on here obsess about this stuff this far in advance? Are you aware of any 12-step meetings to help us? John Last edited by Lamb Abbey Orchards; October 13, 2009 at 06:00 PM.

July 2, 2009	#5
newatthiskat Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: texas Posts: 1,451	reply OK Not OCD about anything but raising tomatoes. I am going to grow about 8 of Atkinson; 8 of Pink Sweet; 5 of Brandywine suddeth; 3 of Bulgarian Triumph; 3 Sandul Moldavan; 2 Pineapple; about 10-12 of my wierd cross Pineapple X Italian Tomato Tree; 8-10 of the bicolor growout of BrandywineXTad; 4 Black Krim; 2 Black From Tula; and who knows what else. I have been really pleased how many brandywine suddeths and Pink Sweet I have gotten from 2-3 plants each. Atkinson and Pineapple X Italian tomato Tree have been a very big taste supprise. Kat

July 3, 2009	#9
newatthiskat Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: texas Posts: 1,451	reply well I am not very experienced at descriptive tomato taste reports. I would say it is very meaty and handles a sandwich well. It is a balanced flavor not too tart or sweet. I like putting it in tomato sauce. Kat

July 4, 2009	#10
Lamb Abbey Orchards Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Union, Maine / Coastal Zone 5 Posts: 44	Kat: You described it as "a very big taste supprise." Clearly you enjoyed it. I was just curious what in particular was surprising to you about the taste. John Last edited by Lamb Abbey Orchards; October 14, 2009 at 10:51 AM.

October 15, 2009	#13
cottonpicker Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: SE PA..near Valley Forge Posts: 839	Here's my list for 2010: Sun Sugar, hyb. Champion II, hyb. Super Fantastic, hyb. Jet Star, hyb. Santa Sweets Cuor di Bue Anna Russian Iraqishe Hertzformig Earl's Faux Brandywine-Sudduth Eva Purple Ball Kellogg's Breakfast Stump of the World a large red cherry..saved seeds from a 'mystery plant' that appeared in '09. LarryD __________________ "Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause". Victor Hugo

July 2, 2009	#2
Wi-sunflower Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 2,591	Well I'm not OCD, in fact pretty much the opposite. More of a roll with the dice type. But I do like to TRY to make a few plans for the future. I feel like all the plants I have out in the field right now are in a sence "for 2010" as I hope to have seed from as many of them as I possibly can so I will have new varieties for my seed sales and lots of new plants for my market customers next year. i made trades for over 100 varieties new to me this year. We just finished planting out over 8,000 plants last week. Only about 10 days later than we should have finished. But we had weather issues and then a crew that didn't show up for a week. So unfortunately we finished up during some awful weather. 90s, windy and dry. We've been hauling tanks of water to try to keep them alive ever since. Hard to get other things done right now. My hope for next year is to make trades this winter for what other members consider "must grows" that I don't already have. Or what members think are good varieties but have yet to show up in a seed catalog. Just some thoughts about what I hope will happen the rest of this year and into next. Carol

October 14, 2009	#11
Lamb Abbey Orchards Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Union, Maine / Coastal Zone 5 Posts: 44	Anyone else planning out their garden yet for 2010? John

October 14, 2009	#12
geeboss Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Fairfax, VA Z7 Posts: 524	Well this will be the 2010 grow out starting seeds late February. The pathway in the backyard of our townhouse will have Dwarfs to reduce the jungle tunnel effect. New Big Dwarf German Extreme Dwarf Bush Lucky Leprechaun Sprite Golden Dwarf Champion Citron Comact Returning from "09 Tom's Yellow Wonder Cherokee Green Opalka KBX NAR Goose Creek Indian Stripe New for 2010 Spukakee Lucky Cross Northhern Lights Busztyn Manyel Chapman Cuostralee Dr. Lyle Donskoi Cowlick Brandywine Pink Sweet Sibirskiy Skorospeiyi Toedebush Pink Yellow Submarine Tomatoberry Summer Cider Early Ssubakus Aliana Hybrids Pink Brandymaster Momotaro Brandy Boy George

January 18, 2010	#14
GIZZARDFARM Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: COMFORT TENNESSEE Posts: 300	Well I tried a whole bunch of new varaties last year an weeded alot of them out. This year im still putting out 400 plants just not 40 or 50 varities. Im sticking with KBX,Brandywine,Sungold,Black Cherry,Earls Faux,Rutgers,Better Boy and celebrity (the last three just for mass production and canning) Carbon,German Johnson and Stump of the World.

January 18, 2010	#15
dave Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Broken Arrow, oklahoma Posts: 23	we're going to plant 125 standard tomatoes & 75 cherry for the market. Early Rouge, KBX, Nebraska Wedding, Cherokee Purple, Carbon, Mule Team, Red Brandywine, Early Girl, Celebrity, Break O Day, Purple Russian, Pink Ice, Jaun Flammee--cherry tom's: Black Cherry, Dr. Carolyn, Amish Salad, Sun Gold, Sun Sugar & Sweet million. Of course, we always road test some new varaities to see if they do well here. dave