Early tomatoes in Tatiana's garden 2014

[Tania]

As this is the last day of July, I thought I'd post the results of the 2014 season for early varieties trials.

We ended up with about 350 varieties planted this year, and 55 varieties ripened early.

As a reference point:

My definition of early is a tomato that ripened the first fruit on the vine in July.
Mid-season - 1st fruit ripened in August to mid-September
Late season -1st fruit ripened in late September to mid-October.

We pull out plants in mid October or late September in the bad (LB) years.

All the early varieties listed below are growing in our container garden, with a rare exceptions that are marked with *** (these were under plastic cover). Yes, they are in pots . The container garden gets sunshine approximately from noon to 6 pm in May/June/July, and from 1 pm to 6 pm in August or later. The plants were set out from early to mid June this year. The container garden was the last planted. So I am truly impressed with the performance!

So here you go! You can look up all these varieties (and pictures) at http://tatianastomatobase.com

*** BLACK Chernomor (Black Sea Man) slicer
BLACK Chocolate Champion dwarf, slicer
GREEN Big Green Dwarf dwarf, slicer
ORAN-YELL Bolivianische Obsttomate currant
ORAN-YELL Mini Orange salad
ORAN-YELL Nikolayev Yellow Cherry cherry
ORAN-YELL Ola Polka dwarf, salad
ORAN-YELL Yellow Currant currant
ORAN-YELL Yellow Russian slicer
PINK-PURP Aiapärl hanging basket, cherry
PINK-PURP Alpha Pink slicer
PINK-PURP Ditmarsher cherry
PINK-PURP Jolly cherry
PINK-PURP Rose Quartz cherry
RED 0-33 slicer
RED A.Q. Cherry container, salad
RED Belyi Naliv container, slicer
RED Cesu Agrais container, salad
RED Chibikko mini-dwarf, cherry
RED Christmas Grapes cherry
RED Detskiy Sladkiy salad, container
***RED Deviz slicer, container
RED Dubrava slicer, container
RED Glacier container, salad
RED Jasper salad
RED Johnny Jumpup salad, container
RED Joyau d'Idaho salad
RED Klusha container, slicer
RED Kobzar container, plum, slicer
RED Koralik cherry
RED Krainiy Sever (a.k.a. Extreme North) dwarf, salad
RED Marmeladnye Krasnye slicer
RED Marmeladnyi slicer
RED Minibel mini-dwarf, cherry
RED Naliv container, slicer
RED Northern Delight container , salad
RED Petit Moineau currant
RED Potato Red Skins slicer
RED Radana pear, cherry
RED Red Pear pear, cherry
RED Red Robin mini-dwarf, cherry
RED Red Rock salad
***RED Ruth's Perfect slicer
RED Sanka (=San'ka) container, slicer
RED Santorini salad
RED Spoon NOT large cherry
RED Sprint salad
***RED St. Pierre salad
RED Stupické Polní Rané salad
RED Talalikhin 186 container, slicer
RED Uspekh container, plum
RED Victorian Dwarf No.1 container, slicer
RED Zagadka container, slicer
RED/STRIPED Fuzzy Wuzzy container, woolly, salad


Tatiana

[MrBig46]

Tania, I am interested when you when you have sown and planted.
Vladimír
PS.:
Do you know?
Anmore-49° 18´ 52´´ N. Friday 30°C, clear
Brno -49° 12´ N Friday 26°C, rain
From www.yr.no

[Tania]

Hi Vladimir,

We planted in early to mid June. Seed sown between 3rd week of February and mid March.

Wow, we are on the same parallel!
If we get 26C + rain, our non-covered tomatoes will be dead within a week due to late blight. So I am very happy to have dry spell here in Anmore

Our potatoes were killed by late blight after the rain we had July 19-23. We had to pull them right away. Another rain would have been deadly!

The weather is way too hot for our area. In-ground tomatoes are wilting during the day, as they have not been watered in the last month, and I have no intention to give them any water in August. Only peppers and cukes are getting some water in our garden now. And plants in containers, of course!

Cheers,
Tatiana

[Tania]

Found several ripe tomatoes today, which also qualified to be EARLY

Shapka Monomakha - PINK, heart
Gobstopper - GREEN, cherry
Lida Ukrainian - RED, slicer, container
Ermak - RED, slicer
Stupice - RED, salad
Cherryam - RED, cherry
Austin's Black Cherry - BLACK, cherry
Nuits Australes - BLACK, slicer

Vjerino is also blushing These are huge hearts!

[JamesL]

Truly amazing Tania!

[MikeInCypress]

Tania,

Is that Jolly the F1 from around 2000? A Pink, round 1"-1-1/2"diameter large Cherry?

MikeInCypress

[KarenO]

Wonderful Tania! It is unusually humid and hot here as well. Typically we have dry heat here on the prairies and I am on high alert for blight which is not generally a problem here. |I am seeing and pruning out some yellow and spotty leaves here and there but no serious problem yet. I sure hope the humidex drops back into a normal range. heat is OK but I like a dry heat that doesn't favor fungus.
Best wishes for a lovely midseason and later season crop as well as your extensive list of earlies!

Karen

[Tania]

Originally Posted by MikeInCypress

Tania,

Is that Jolly the F1 from around 2000? A Pink, round 1"-1-1/2"diameter large Cherry?

MikeInCypress

Large oval pink cherry with a very cute tip. Was send to me as an OP by a seed collector in Quebec.

[Tania]

Originally Posted by KarenO

Wonderful Tania! It is unusually humid and hot here as well. Typically we have dry heat here on the prairies and I am on high alert for blight which is not generally a problem here. |I am seeing and pruning out some yellow and spotty leaves here and there but no serious problem yet. I sure hope the humidex drops back into a normal range. heat is OK but I like a dry heat that doesn't favor fungus.
Best wishes for a lovely midseason and later season crop as well as your extensive list of earlies!

Karen

Hi Karen,

I hope your season will go well! If late blight is not a usual problem in your area, you should be quite safe.

Even with the dry heat we have here the dews are so heavy that everything in the garden is dripping water before noon (as we do not get much morning sun here due to the large trees). This is why our potatoes never survive past mid-July.

Tatiana