My Fall Tomato Planting (pics)

rnewste · August 25, 2010

We typically get our first hard freeze in San Jose about January 15 each year (although last year it was December 22), so I've now planted a total of 28 new plants in 14 EarthTainers. Multiple plants of each variety:

Fall Tomato Varieties Planting

Beauty King
Beginner
Berkeley Tie-Dye
Berkeley Tie-Dye Pink
Big Beef
Dona
Black & Brown Boar
Goose Creek
Indian Stripe
Legend
NARX
Pink Boar
Purple Haze F5
Siberia

Some of the plants were at the recommendation of Steve Goto who gave a recent Presentation on Cool Weather Tomato Plants. Here were his recommendations (in addition to Stupice):

Tomato: "Beginner"

These "safe" varieties are meant to back-fill the Wild Boar Farms selections in case there are unexpected Fungal or cold weather situations during the next 4 months.

More cukes, corn, and snow peas will go into the remaining EarthTainers soon. The planting "cycle" never seems to end... but I guess that is a happy problem to have.

Raybo

AZRuss · August 25, 2010

I am very interested in how you rate the flavor of Beginner and Legend. I'm always on the lookout for good tasting "early" varieties for our Tucson, AZ short seasons: spring and fall.

August 25, 2010	#1
rnewste Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Campbell, CA Posts: 4,064	My Fall Tomato Planting (pics) We typically get our first hard freeze in San Jose about January 15 each year (although last year it was December 22), so I've now planted a total of 28 new plants in 14 EarthTainers. Multiple plants of each variety: Fall Tomato Varieties Planting Beauty King Beginner Berkeley Tie-Dye Berkeley Tie-Dye Pink Big Beef Dona Black & Brown Boar Goose Creek Indian Stripe Legend NARX Pink Boar Purple Haze F5 Siberia Some of the plants were at the recommendation of Steve Goto who gave a recent Presentation on Cool Weather Tomato Plants. Here were his recommendations (in addition to Stupice): Tomato: "Beginner" These "safe" varieties are meant to back-fill the Wild Boar Farms selections in case there are unexpected Fungal or cold weather situations during the next 4 months. More cukes, corn, and snow peas will go into the remaining EarthTainers soon. The planting "cycle" never seems to end... but I guess that is a happy problem to have. Raybo

August 25, 2010	#2
AZRuss Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Tucson, AZ Posts: 171	I am very interested in how you rate the flavor of Beginner and Legend. I'm always on the lookout for good tasting "early" varieties for our Tucson, AZ short seasons: spring and fall.