Northern Zones 2009 Tomato lists

[Gobig_or_Gohome_toms]

Ok I know there have been allot of what you are growing lists but for me in Zone 4 I am thinking I will be starting seeds on March 28th for a May15th-May 20th plant out. I am 20 miles west of Minneapolis in Zone 4. I finally mapped out the container garden and have come up with the following for this year. It was tough as there are so many others that I wanted to grow or grow out again but am trying mostly new varieties to me again this year.

2009 Tomato List

Sun Gold Hybrid (Cherry)
Big Beef VFFNTA Hybrid
Brandy Boy Hybrid
Black Cherry
Aunt Ginny's Purple
Indian Stripe
Cherokee Green
Eva Purple Ball
Solar Set VFF Hybrid
New Big Dwarf
Tomato Heatwave II Hybrid
Goose Creek

Note: the heat tolerant varities are in the list as I grow 4 containers on my small upperdeck against the house and it gets very warm, Heatwave always does well up there but this year I am trying goose creek and Solar Set along with New Big Dwarf (NBD did pretty good up there last year)

[carolyn137]

Very tentative list as of today:

Bawole Cerce
Big Sungold Select
Couilles de Taureau
Don Camillo
Geante de Hutt
Lisos Grandes
Ludmilla's Yellow Giant
Libanaise des Montagnes
Rose D Eauze
Rouge D Amagu
Green Zebra Cherry
Kazachka
Medovaya Kaplya
Gruntovyi Malinoyi
Ste. Columbe
Trapper
Maria Amazilitei's Giant Red
Sierra Leone
Cosner
Blackfoot
Jean's Prize
Libby's Pride
Unnamed Bulgarian

Most of the above should be new to all or most.

...... and if I have enough room, some combination of Green Doctors, Sungold F1, Black Cherry and Sara's Galapagos.

Gardenmama ( Martha) in VA raises my plants for me and ships them up here to me in NYS and bcday does almost all of the seed production. And that's b'c with my walker I can no longer do those things myself, so I thank both of them ever so much.

For those of you who sent other varieties to me, I didn't have the room to grow everything myself (meaning Freda does all my gardening for me) here at home but most of the others will be grown by either bcday or Martha, or both.

Martha is not an SSE member but bcday and I are and between us we'll hopefully be listing as many new ones as we can for the 2010 SSE Yearbook.

Seed sowing won't start until around the first of April. So now that Martha and bcday and I have decided on who is doing what I'll be packing up seed this weekend.

Good thing that, b'c I spent last weekend packing up lots of seed to send to Gleckler's per the thread in the Seed Wanted Forum below and what a wonderful response to my seed request appeared from so many great Tville members, and many thanks to all of them as well.

[recruiterg]

I plan to start seed tomorrow. I have quite a few more that I am going to have friends/family grow. Trying many new things this year to see what I like. I am psyched to get going. Gobig, thanks for answering my stupid questions.

Raised Beds:
Aunt Gerties Gold
Berkely Tie-Dye Pink
Black Krim
Brandywine Red
Cuostralee
Earl's Faux
Eva Purple Ball
Goose Creek
JD's Special C-Tex
KBX
Marianna's Peace
Paul Robeson
Pruden's Purple
Spudakee
Stump of the World
Tom's Yellow Wonder

Containers/ Earthtainers:
Black Cherry
Haley's Purple Comet
Purple Haze
Nicholayev Yellow Cherry
Stupice
Ben Gantz

[Gobig_or_Gohome_toms]

Recruiterg, lots of ones on your list that are on my going to try list but just did not make it this year there are just to many that I want to try and to limited of space for me. I will be started seeds on the 28th so will be about a week behind you. Here is hoping for an early warm spring in Minneapolis.

Your welcome for the answers to the questions let me know if you have any others during the growing season.

Craig

[recruiterg]

I was hoping to hold off another week, but we will be spring breaking in AZ the 28th and I have a friend who will be watching things for me...so I wanted to get things off to a good start before I leave. I would be interested to see how things go for you this season and vice versa.

Pat

[Gobig_or_Gohome_toms]

I will post periodic updates and pictures of progress throughout the season like I did last year. I agree I will be interested on your season as well.

Craig

[Sherry_AK]

This is what I'm hoping for, in addition to several Dwarf Project plants.

42 Days
Aurora
Black Cherry
Black Giant
Brad’s Black Heart
Break O Day
Chalk’s Early Jewel
Cherokee Purple
Chris Ukranian
Clear Pink Early
Cobra
Dinner Plate
Early Dwarf Cherry
Extra Eros Zlatolaska
Fireball
Grushovka
Heart’s Delight Black
Juane Flammee
Malakhitovaya Shkatulka
Mano
Native Sun
Nevsky
New Yorker
Orange 1
Paul Robeson
Pearly Pink Orange
Pipo
Polar Baby
Promyk
Red Robin
Robeson Angolan
Rocket
Sakharnyi Zheltyi
Shchelkovskiy Ranniy
Siberian Sunrise
Silvery Fir Tree
Spiridonovskie
Stupice
Sun Gold
Taxi
Totem
Tricot Czech
Tumbler
Tumbling Tom
Volgograd
White Nights
Zagadka
Zalotoe Serdtse

[outsiders71]

My full list:

Amish Paste
Costoluto Genovese
Heidi
Howard German
Hungarian Italian
Opalka
Pomadora
Italian Plum, Harry's
Wes
Goose Creek
Purple Haze F3
Cherokee Purple
Unnamed pink oxheart
Brandywine
Black Cherry

I can thank Ray for the extra additions .

[Dukerdawg]

2009 Tomato Varieties

Lillian’s Red Kansas Paste (Not a true paste – juicy and delicious)

Marlowe Charleston (Ky Heirloom – 1-3 lbs. Early, large and one of the best tasting of 2008)

Dr. Neal (Heavy crops of 1-2 lb rose-pink beefsteaks. Solid fruit with few seeds, sweet yet complex tomato flavor)

Cherokee Purple (Some years are better than others, but CP is a must grow in my garden. Introduced by Craig LeHoullier of Raleigh NC. Dusky purplish fruits with outstanding smoky flavor)

Cherokee Chocolate – (A mutation of Cherokee Purple. Very similar. Fun to grow for comparison)

Dr. Lyle (Mid-season 1-2 lb pink beefsteaks. Regular leaf, large plant and yield. A keeper!)

Pink Ponderosa (Firm, meaty low acid pink beefsteaks, up to 2 lbs. Long time favorite)

Dora (8-12 oz beefsteak. A stable, deliberate cross of Cherokee Purple and Brandywine (Sudduth) by Keith Mueller of MO)

Chalk’s Early Jewel (Extra early, 4oz red tomato. Praised in the 1920 Burpee catalog)

Anna Russian (Mid-season 10-16 oz heart shaped fruits. Knock out flavor!)

Polish (Eckert) – (Great tasting, productive 1 lb dark pink beefsteaks)

Lithuanian (Late season potato leaf 1-2 lb pink beefsteaks. Delicious flavor)

Large Pink Bulgarian (Late mid-season RL 1-3 lb beefsteaks with excellent taste, a bit on the sweet side)

Gary O’ Senna – (Deep pink, almost purplish fruit with great taste!)

Taxi – (Very early bright yellow 4-7 oz fruits. Too mild for my taste, but first ripening non-cherry variety and would be good market tomato to capitalize on that early tomato-craving crowd!)

Mortgage Lifter (Old time variety still worth growing today. Very productive for a large tomato and one of my favorites!)

Sioux (Heirloom variety released in 1944 by the University of Nebraska. Round red, perfect fruits that look like a regular tomato. But the taste! Wow! Rich tomato old-fashioned flavor you remember from childhood. If I could only grow one tomato, this is it! Productive and another great market tomato!)

Yellow Brandywine (Platfoot strain) – (Deep, rich delicious flavor in deep yellow-golden 1-2 lb beefsteak tomatoes. Not sweet, not acidic, just right! I love this one and it is another must grow every year for me)

Aunt Gerties Gold (Very similar to Yellow Brandywine, sometimes more productive depending on the year. 1st place winner at the 2005 Cincinatti Heirloom Open-Pollinated Tomato Associate Growers (CHOPTAG) taste-fest!)


Azoychka (Beautiful smooth lemon yellow small beefsteak. Sweet and matures early. Another introduction by my friend Craig Le Houllier)

Brandywine OTV (Early, potato leaf red beefsteak. 1-2 lbs. A cross between Yellow Brandywine and unknown parent. Very productive and great taste!)

The following tomatoes were obtained in 2009 from Blue Ribbon Tomatoes who was recommended by my tomato buddy Gary Millwood from Louisville Ky. I have not grown these and have approximately 20 seeds for each variety.

Calf’s Heart (Mid-season Ky heirloom. 1 lb pink heart shaped deep red flesh)

Kentucky Plate (Large pink beefsteak. Ky heirloom variety)

Kentucky Yellow Beefsteak (8-12 oz fruity tart taste. Golden yellow Ky Heirloom)

Barnes Mountain Yellow (Deep golden 1-3lb Ky heirloom beefsteak. Very prolific)

Amish Oxheart (Meaty flesh. 12-16 oz Ky heirloom)

Buckeye Yellow (Ky/Ohio heirloom – 1-2 lb pale yellow. Meaty and mild)

Frank’s Large Red (Salty sweet 1 lb Ky heirloom. Seeds found in attic at Frank’s grandma’s house if my memory serves correctly)

Kentucky Striped (Large orange/red/yellow swirled Ky heirloom beefsteak)

Lennie and Gracie’s Kentucky Heirloom (Large, mild yellow ruffled fruit – Gotta love the name!)

Monk (Mild, red and juicy – 12-16 oz)

Orange Heart (Super productive, medium round orange salad type tomatoes)

Viva (Creamy white with yellow tint and pink blush. ½ lb Ky heirloom)

Berkeley Tie-Dye – From Wild Boar Farms, introduced by Brad Gates. A multi-striped tomato that is visually stunning with supposedly great taste as well. We shall see. We shall see~!

Beauty King – Another Brad Gates introduction. Fascinating colors/striping. Should be interesting to grow and show off to fellow tomato afficianodo’s!



Cherry and smaller fruited varieties:

Pink Ping Pong (Exactly as the name suggests. Very sweet and great in salads)

Jaune Flamme (Yellow, ping pong sized fruits borne on large trellises. Pick all the ripe fruit in the summer, turn your back and another 2 dozen ripen, I swear! So productive it is tiring to pick them all!)

Black Cherry (Introduced by the late Vince Sapp from Tomato Growers Supply, this is a delicious dark purple fruit – great for snacking)

Sun Gold (hybrid) – (A very popular super sweet variety that convert even most folks who don’t like tomatoes. Too sweet for my taste, but kids especially love snacking from the garden)

Matt’s Wild Cherry – (Volumes of marble-sized fruits born in clusters. Tart flavor early and sweeter late in the season. Vigorous, indeterminate vines.)


The following will be grown to replenish seed (Received in 2009 from Dr. Carolyn Male, author of 100 Heirloom Tomatoes for the American Garden)

Indiana Red
Tennesee Britches
Anna Maria’s Heart
Chapman
Linnie’s Oxheart
Orange Minsk

Duane

[Reign]

Early for Patio Pots
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Kimberly and Bloody Butcher (*) - gives my husband hope while I'm working him to death.

Main Season
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Brandywine
Brandywine Red (*)
Brandywine Yellow Platfoot (*)
Break O' Day
Cherokee Green (*)
Cuostralee
Dr. Wyche's Yellow
Earl's Faux
Goldman's Italian American (*)
Green Giant
Green Zebra
Hugh's
Lucky Cross
Omar's Lebanese
Santa Clara Canner
Strawberry Margarita (*)
Super Italian Paste (*)
Polish (Earl's)
Carbon (*)
Wes



Cherry/Currant
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Sungold
Black Cherry
Coyote
Sara's Galapagos


Thinking About Adding -
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Jaune Flamme(*)
Opalka (*)
African Queen (*)

* New to my garden

[KLorentz]

Hi all,


I am new to Tville but not to tomatoes or the garden. Some here know me from a couple other forums.Happy to be here. This is my list for this year. Some are very new for me.

Cherokee Purple

Amish Paste

Cosmonaut Volkov

Country Taste
Giant Tree

Italian Giant Beefsteak

Thessaloniki

Al-Kuffa

Primetime

Red Brandywine

Yellow Brandywine

Rutgers

and Crimson Cushion


Kevin

[Sherry_AK]

Hi, Kevin. Welcome!

[lumierefrere]

Some I've started--some on purpose some not so purposefully, some will be started in the next week or so.

Kasachstan Rubin
Grandfather Ashlock
Beauty Queen
Little Lucky Heart
Vezha
Craig's Pink
Purple Haze F2
Honey
Moreton
Galina
Stupicke
Ben Ganz
Guernsey Pink Blush

[pooklette]

I'm scaling back big time this year and trying a few new varieties. For two years in a row, I've had major issues with...late blight maybe? Not sure what it is yet but if it happens again (probably will) I'll definitely be posting pics in the "What the heck is liquifying my plants every year" forum. We'll see if I can beat this thing this year.


Anyway, here is my list:

Aunt Ginny's Purple
Bella Rosa VFFNA Hybrid
Big Rainbow
Black Cherry
Burning Spear
Cabernet VFFNTA Hybrid
Candy Stripe
Caspian Pink
Cherokee Purple
Cuostralee
Eva Purple Ball
Georgia Peach
Giant Belgium
Legend
New Big Dwarf
Opalka
Orange Strawberry
Paul Robeson
Persimmon
Potiron
Rose Quartz Multiflora
Sungold
Viva Italia

[carpenterlady]

I don't have a very big garden, nor do I have much room to expand. I plan to add a 10'-12'x4' raised bed. I have a 12'x4' currently. I will have almost all of it for tomatoes. I started some seeds 3/17, 3/19,and 3/20. I started:

Cosmonaut Voltov
Glacier
Stupice
Ropreco
Santiam
Silvery Fir Tree
Matina
Sungold (F1)
Garden Peach
Scotia
Black Krim

Santiam, Silvery Fir Tree, Matina, Garden Peach, and a few Cosmonaut Volkov and Ropreco seeds are old seeds. They are from 2005 and 2006 seeds. None of them have germinated yet. The Ropreco, Cosmonaut Volkov, Black Krim and Glacier are almost all germinated. These are from new seed. Sungold about half are germinated. I started those on 3/19. Those seeds are from Valueseeds.com. So I guess I got what I paid for. Stupice is worse, only three from an entire seed package. There are 30 seeds in a package. So I have 10% germination so far. I started them 3/17. These seeds are from Irish Eyes Garden City, but the Glacier seed from them is doing great. Scotia has yet to germinate. They were started on 3/20. The Cosmonaut Volkov and Scotia are High Mowing seed, Ropreco is Seeds of Change, and Black Krim is SSE. I am using nctomatoman's method of seed starting, which I am very impressed with.

The main problem where I live is finding varieties that will set fruit in cooler temperatures. Ropreco, Cosmonaut Volkov, and Sungold have done well for me in the past. Black Krim is probably pushing the envelope, but they taste good. I am praying for warm weather.

Becky