Tomatoes I have to choose from this year.

[KLorentz]

Well here is what I have to look through for 2011.Some are already selected and the rest of the patch has yet to be named.Lots of good stuff.And part of the fun is choosing what ones to grow.

Abe Lincoln

Al-Kuffa

Neves Azorian Red

Pervaya Lyubov

Prue ( Thanks JT)

Vee Pick

Dana's Dusky Rose

Sweet Beverly

Sophie's Choice

Piedmont Pear

Darth Mater

Money Maker

Rutgers

Marglobe

Ramapo

German Johnson

Vorlon

Chocolate Stripes

Baby Beefsteak

Polar Circle

Atkinson

Cherokee Green

Cherokee Purple

Grub's Mystery Green

Delicious

Ispolin

Gold Dust (Dean says it is supposed to be yellow but is a very nice ruffled pink.)

Paul Robeson

Michigan State

Large Ribbed Zapotec

Bear Claw

Gigantesque

Cosmonaut Volkov

Rose

Rosaleta

Berkly Tye Dye

Black and Red Boar

Siletz

Stump of the World

Earl's Faux

Indian Stripe

Spudakee

Cowlicks Brandywine

Sudduth Strain Brandywine

Gian Belgium

Red Rock

Mortgage Lifter Estler's Strain

Costoluto Fiorentino

Costoluto Genoves

Box Car Willie

Gary O'Sena

Anna Banana

Guido Pietroboni

Lincoln Adam

Siberian

Radio

The President

Great Divide

Ernesto

Sylvan Guam

Super Tasty Hyb

John's Big Orange

Homer's German Oxheart

Stone

Peach x Rouge D' Irak

Homestead

Joie De La Table

Franks Large Red

1884 Purple

Moskoviich

Torch

Guido

Gratifying

Olive Hill

Eva Purple Ball

Black Cherry

Caspian Pink

Campbell's 1327

Sandual

Rouge D' Irak

Hugh Black

Verja's Paradajz

Victory

Giraffe

Watermelon Beefsteak

Hazelfield Farm

Summer Cider (Orange)

Violetter

Black from Tula

Black Krim

Shumway's Sensation

Pink Brandywine

Marizol Purple

Goat Bag

Palmira's N Italian Heirloom

Orlov Yellow

King

Orange Persimmon

Marion

Cour di Bue

Purple Calabash

Ludmila's Red Plum

Venture

Slava

Abruzzes Red Pear

Amazon Chocolate

Argonaut

Tasmanian Blushing Yeallow

Green Grape

Heinz 1439

Katrina

Ananas Noir

Giant Italian Paste ( Lives up to the name)

Campari

Eva's Amish Stripe

Ukrainian Poet

Volgograd 5/25

Manitoba

Recruit

Giant Tree ( from TT)

Boyarsky

Celebrity

Aussie

Black Brandywine Pear

Sioux

Patriot

Better Boy

Roma

Black Brandywine

Green Zebra

Surecrop

Matina

Bi-Color Mortgage lifter

Bulgarian

Soldaki

Copia Stripe

JD's Special C-Tex

Wisconsin 55 Gold

Lucky Cross

Ace 55

Eckert Polish

Vilina

Chapman

White Princess

Mariana's Peace

Peron Sprayless

Giant De Tezier

Beefsteak

Gribovski Open Ground

Prize Winner

Omar's Lebanese

Un-known Black

Ref Red Heart

Limmony

Thessaloníki

Big Rainbow

Russian Giant

And that is all of them folks.


Kevin

[jwr6404]

Sorry you have so few to choose from. I have seven varieties and will procrastinate over them for another 4 weeks as I want to eliminate 2.

[KLorentz]

To me it is a bit on the fun side. A good many of these are ones I have never grown.The fun is in the discovery of what works for you and seeing how good they taste. I use to grow about five Better Boy, Big Boy,Roma,Celebrity and one grape tomato. One thing I want to do is share the discovery with folks. Had some pleasant surprises for the last two seasons.I really would love to see folks around my area grow and enjoy the heirlooms I have grown so far.I think they would give several Hybrids a run for their money. Hope you will have as much fun growing yours as I do.And then there are other garden goodies too.But that's for another thread and section of the board.


Kevin

[sfmathews]

What an awesome list! So many choices, so little space.

[KLorentz]

Thanks.I owe a lot of it to garden friends I have made here and on other forums.Hope to share seeds with folks for 2012. I know Carolyn has grown several on my list.I think I can manage 100 plants which could get most of the list out. Can't wait to see how everything goes.Not to mention everyone else. Could be a real exciting year.

Kevin

[newatthiskat]

That is one incredable list! YOu have to post and take pics. I want ot see all those maters growing. CUrious how big your garden is?

[KLorentz]

I probably won't get the whole list planted but hope to get out 100 plants.This will give me enough for my main tomatoes plus some to try outs with two or three plants for each variety.Hope to get plenty of pics too.I want to share what is going on in the garden with everyone.Look for pics in the non tomato section too when I get things into full swing. Got some nice garden goodies going out there.We have plenty of space but I hope to get some containers going too to try my hand at that as well.It is fun to try different garden methods so maybe something new will be in my garden post this year.


Kevin

[b54red]

Kevin I have the same problem as you. I have decided that instead of planting several of the new ones that I will try to get out more varieties of the ones I have never grown by only planting one plant each of the ones I want to try. The most fun in growing tomatoes for me is the excitement and anticipation of a new variety. I will plant several of the ones that have been productive and that I found to have the best taste. I am leaving off quite a few that have been very successful but had a taste that didn't measure up. I don't care for mild tomatoes so that makes eliminating some very easy.

I have started seed for just over 100 different varieties. Some won't germinate and some will die from damping off especially with the rainy cold weather with little sunshine that we are having right now. Some will die at plant out or get diseased early and will be pulled to be replaced by another. Hopefully I can get most of these planted but it looks like some will have to go into containers. I still like to grow some other veggies but it is getting harder and harder to find the space.

[jennifer28]

Hey KLorentz,

Did you ever grow the Gribovski Open Ground tomato? I know this is an old thread but I am curious about that tomato because I'm growing some gribovski squash and it is very easy to grow, so I am wondering if the tomatoes are like that too?

[attml]

Kevin,

Your list is almost as big as my kids Christmas list last year :-)

Here are the ones I have grown before but as always my conditions are different then yours so my observations will be a little different.

Chocolate Stripes - great flavor - love it
Cherokee Purple - great tomato - love it
Paul Robeson - 1st ripe last year - went strong all summer until my bug problem - great flavor
Stump of the World - One of my Favorites
Spudakee - Great tasting tomato
Cowlick Brandywine - Best tomato I grew last year
Costoluto Genovese - Hated it - next to no flavor for me (but was productive)
Eva Purple Ball - just fair for me
Black Cherry - Loved it
Black Krim - very good for me
Black from Tula - Great flavor
Celebrity - liked it but there are better
Brandywine Sudduth - one of my favorites
Matina- flavoer was decent but was the most productive of any plant I had
Lucky Cross- Great for yellow
Marianna Peace - Solid but not my favorite

[attml]

Kevin,

Ooops - sorry -looking back through this post it was from February so my recent comments were a little untimely! Sorry about that!!!

Agreed though - it was a great list!

Mark