2010: Member Grow Lists

[Mischka]

This is the time of year when I start to compose my list of tomato varieties for the upcoming season. I've learned to do this early, so that I have plenty of time to figure out which varieties I need to order seeds for. I'm attempting several F1 crosses this year and some will be grown out just for hybridizing.

In addition to the plants I put in here at my place, I've been asked to start seedlings for gardens at a local historical farm homestead that was built in 1757. Since most farmers didn't grow tomatoes in the 1700's, I'm free to decide which heirloom/OP varieties will be planted there.

My list so far, in no particular order:

Aunt Ruby's German Green
Cheeseman's (var. cheesmanii)
Green Doctors
Cherokee Chocolate
Cherokee Purple
Malakhitovaya Shkatulka
Mortgage Lifter (Pale Leaf Strain)
Heinz 1370
Heinz 1350
Heinz 1439
JTD
Lutescent Long Red
Stick
Orange King
Brandy Boy F7
Berkeley Tie Dye
Tess's Land Race Currant (var. pimpinellifolium)
TGSC Black Cherry
Wild Tomato Lycopersicon piriforme
Wild Tomato Lycopersicon esculentum x peruvianum
Wild Tomato Lycopersicon glandulosum
Wild Tomato Lycopersicon skorospelka
Black Sea Man
Opalka
P20 F3
Stupice
Ananas Noire
Lucky Cross
Brad's Black Heart
JD's Special C-Tex
New Big Dwarf
Dr. Carolyn Pink
Pink German Tree
Lutescent
Variegated
Jersey Devil
Grandma Mary's Paste
Martino's Roma
Dr. Lyle
Moreton Hybrid F1
Marianna's Peace
SunGold F1

I'll update this as needed. I'd be very interested to see what you are all planning for your 2010 gardens.

[DeanRIowa]

My list to this point:

Amish Paste
Aunt Ruby's Green
Black Cherry
Black Seaman
Clear Early Pink
Guajito
Guker's Special
Hungarian Heart Shaped
Kellogg's Breakfast(potato leaf) KBX
Manitoba
Marianna's Peace
Matt's Wild Cherry
Mini Gold
Mystery Black
Negro Azteca
Neves Azorean Red
Omar's Lebanese
Paul Robeson
Sarnowski
Striped Cavern
Sungold
Super Sioux
Thessaloniki


Dean

[ruet]

I have a small rooftop terrace with only about 60 sq ft to work with, so I only try popular, well-reviewed varieties at the moment.

2009 Champ-Black Cherry: Best this year, back for the next! Still cranking out tasty cherries in mid-November here in sunny Madrid. A wonderful, huge plant.

Next years challengers, all new to me:
Cherry-Sungold F1 — love it or hate it, everyone talks about it
Early-Matina
Main-Big Beef F1
Late-Cowlick's Brandywine

As Gifts-Sophie's choice, for friends with birthdays in April & May who love cute lil plants. Can't wait to hear from them when fruitset rolls around

[Blueaussi]

Hey Mischka, are you going to use the wild tomatoes for hybridizing, or do they make good eating. I'm dithering over growing some for the novelty, but my space is pretty limited, so I would want them for eating, too.

[carolyn137]

Mischka, you're asking the question about three months earlier than I would ever know what I'm going to grow next summer.

Since I try to grow varieties that are new to all or most, since I can grow so few varieties now, it complicates the situation a bit so I'm always on the lookout for someone who wants to share same with me.

On hand to date I have:

Two new varieties from Macedonia
One known Red Heart, meaning variety name known
Two other hearts but I forgot if they are red or pink
One red beefsteak supposed to be coming, variety name known

And I'm going to have to regrow, I think, some that I grew this past season due to lack of fruits and saved seeds.

And I just found out that I totally forgot to list one of my newest ones from Reinhard for my SSE listings, but bcday will take up the slack on that one and is listing it.

I'll be back in a few months to post my list b'c by that time I should have a clearer picture of what the grow list might be.

[Linda10]

My garden space will decrease drastically next year, so no more over 100 tomatoes for me.

So far, this is my working list which is still too large. I will have to pare it down now and then again if I find any "must haves" before planting time.

MAIN BED:
Bulgarian Triumph
Brandywine Sudduths
Cowlick Brandywine
Earl's Faux
Fritz Ackerman
Green Giant
Hege's German Pink
Herman's Yellow
Little Lucky Heart
Milka's Red Bulgarian
Orange Oxheart
Pilarski
Pearly Pink
Sheboygan
Toedebusch
Wes

CONTAINERS:
Dwarf Pink Passion
Dwarf Rose Plum
Dwarf Scarlet Heart
Dwarf Streaked Heart
Dwarf Wild Fred
Frosty
Porky
Tasty
Red House Free Standing

Oh, this is going to be so hard. There are so many more I want to add from my favorites list, and I wish I could grow a dozen or more of my newly named dwarfs.

[Tania]

Mischka,

What a nice list you've got!
Thank you for starting this thread - I also decided to make a list for 2010 earlier than usual - here it is:

http://tatianastomatobase.com/wiki/Category:Tatiana's_2010_Growout_List

I need to add a couple of Brad's varieties to the list, and I should be all set for the next season

Tania

[cleo88]

Since I had to rip out all my plants in early September due to Late Blight, I've had nothing but time to ruminate over varieties and trade.

My semi-final draft list (can I be less committed than that?):

IN THE GROUND:
Anna Russian
Big Beef
Bobbie
Cowlick Brandywine
Earl's Faux
Eva Purple Ball
German Head
Gigantesque
Gold Medal
Goose Creek
Mrs. Benson
Orange Russian 117
Prue
Russian Rose
Wes

CONTAINERS:
Break O' Day
Dwarf Red Heart
New Big Dwarf
Pink Berkely Tie-Dye
Sophie's Choice

When can I start planting?????

[goodwin]

Mischka - Like your list - a lot of interesting varieties and an extra dose of genetic variation.
Interested in seeing what comes out of your garden this season. This summer
I trialed some wild crosses and the production was amazing.
Also found some 'new' old varieties like Lillian's Red Kansas and Bedouin.

[barkeater]

I'm gonna have a hard time keeping it down to 20 plants in 2010. So far, the plans are for:

Ramapo
Bloody Butcher
Moskvich
Momotaro
Orange 1
Cowlicks BW*
Beefsteak Plum
Wes
Gigantesque*
Black Giant
Sandul Moldovan*
Brandywine

*First Time

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by Tania

Mischka,

What a nice list you've got!
Thank you for starting this thread - I also decided to make a list for 2010 earlier than usual - here it is:

http://tatianastomatobase.com/wiki/C...0_Growout_List

I need to add a couple of Brad's varieties to the list, and I should be all set for the next season

Tania

Lovely list Tania and there are many I could comment on but one stood out that brought back some memories and that's the variety Spadaro.

It deserves to be known more and after all, it is a nice pink heart and I'm a heart person.

Here's the memory. Near where I used to live there was a large central commercial farmer's market where my father and others would line up early in the morning and the minute the gate was opened they'd drive like mad for the long sheds where the trucks were backed into that faced onto a long corridor where the buyers would walk along and examine what was available and then dicker on prices. Quite a few times I had to get up very early for that 5 AM gate opening b'c my father had back troubles from time to time and it was my job to pull the baskets towards the end of the truck bed.

I was amazed at his ability to do math calculations in his head ASAP as in a buyer saying I'll take 20 baskets at X, my father replying I'll sell them for Y, the comebacks back and forth and then a sale/

But I digress. In that same huge market Harris Seeds from Rochester had a wholesale/retail store and of course I'd go in there with my father from time to time. Fast forward to my moving back East from Denver in 1982 to take care of my parents and one day I drove down there to get I can't remember what, got talking to Joe Huth, who was the main one there, asked him, as I asked everyone, do you know of anyone who has a tomato family heirloom and he said YES. it was one of my frist conquests.

He said his barber grew what he thought was a great one, got the seeds for me and I guess the barber's name was Spadaro.

I haven't grown it since the mid-90's or so and had forgotten about it. Since I never throw away any tomato seeds I'm sure it's in a vial somewhere, but I sure would appreciate some fresh seeds if that's possible.

In return I've got quite a few nice new ones that I'll probably be offering in my seed offer here, many are the same ones I'm listing with SSE.

There are two in particular that I know will pique your interest, but I'm not telling now.

So thanks for the memory.

[frogsleap farm]

Some old favorites, a handful of brand new-to-me varieties and a continuation of selection within breeding lines from others. I went crazy with crossing last summer and will have several new F2s from winter growouts and another 60 or so F1 crosses (not listed here) to grow next summer for the first time.


AAA Sweet Solara
Airdrie Classic
Aviuri
B&B Boar
Beauty Queen
Beduin x BBBoar F2
Ben Gantz
Big Cheef
Black from Tulia
Black Krim
Blood Gulch
BloodyB x CPSun F2
BloodyB x LBBoar F2
Boar's Hoof
BHoof x Scabitha F2
Brad's Blackheart
BrandX-Septoria
BrandyLump 1-12
BrandySweet Plum
BTD
BTR 302 E38
Bychiy Glaz
BZ x Dora F2
Chile Verde
Chocolate Amazon
Cowlicks Brandywine
CP x Bradley 1-2
CP x Sun 1-1
CP x Sun 1-3
Dora
Freckled Child
Freckled Strawberry
Furry Red Hog
Gary O'Sena
Georgia Streak Salad
Green Sausage
Grubs Mystery Green
Guernsey Island
Harvard Square
Irish Stripes
IS x Sun 1-1
IS x Sun 1-3
IS x Sun 1-4
IS x Sun 1-5
JD's Special C-Tex
Kim x PBTD F2
Kim x SpudGiant F2
Little Lucky Heart
LizBert x CPSun F2
Lucky Cross
Malachite Box
Michael Pollan
Moravsky Div
NARX1 F3-3
NARX2 F3-1
NARXBolseno F1-1
NARXBolseno F1-3
NARXBolseno F1-4
Opalka
P20 Giant
P20 F2 populations
Pale Perfect Purple
Paul Robeson
PBTD
PBTD heart
Pink Floyd
Porkchop
Purple Haze F4 PL
PHF3 x BTD F2
Russian Stripe
Sabre Ukranian
Scabitha
SpudGiant 1-6
Striped Turk
Stupice x SpudGiant F2
Sungold Red MF
SGR MF x PPP
SunSugar F1
SS x SpudGiant F2
SS x PBoar F2
SS x Porky F2
Sweet Carneros Pink
Valhalla
Verde Rallado
Vorlon
Wes

[Tania]

Carolyn,

Thank you so much for Spadaro story!
You will be the first on the list to receive fresh Spadaro seeds, if everything goes well in the 2010 season .

Tania

[mjc]

Umm...probably won't have my list together until about July..., that's after I should have planted everything.

Three I know for sure, though...
Brandywine, Cowlick's
Matt's Wild Cherry (and probably a dozen more cherries)
WV '63

The rest (probably another 50 to 75) yet to be decided...

[icelord]

With all the stuff I got in trades and the hundreds spent on seeds{ It is an addiction} I dont wanna type it all, I will however be adding a couple more acres to tomatoes!! Thank you all for your gifts, I will take good care of your babies and then pay it forward!! Grate fully

Icelord a.k.a Dean Slater