Early Season, Mid Season Recommendations?

[keithaxis]

ah, I feel spring coming in the future with the TGS mag showing up in mail last night.

I live in a zone 5 area where I grow from June 1 til October 15 or so...

Last year I had all last season varieties which all come in ripe from early septebmer til mid october...

I would love some varieties to try that may ripen a little earlier this year to go along with my 40 or so late season types. I have read Kimberly is one to try but I would like to try others for early and mid season that are not Early girl, ( been there done that)...Last year I only grew OP varieties but will add some hybrid this year for the early and mid season types...it would be nice to see some ripeness in august this year...

[Andrey_BY]

Hi Keithaxis!

You can find many early and ultra-early varieties (for growing in open soil in Zone 3-5) in my list in Available For Trade section here at Tomatoville :wink:

[bonekittyslug]

I really like Boney M from Andrey's trade list.

I grew them in '05 & '06 in 5 gal. buckets. Good for containers. Plants were about 2 ft. tall with many good tart/assertive salad size maters. They were very early, but I can't say how many days 'cause I really don't keep track of such things.

Here is blurb from Andrey's list:

Boney M ultra-early, det. (40-50 cm high) dwarf plant with an abundant yield of round to oblate, red 60-80 g fruits, good taste 40/60 from Russian CV Gavrish 5 seeds

I can only speak for myself, but if I could only grow two varieties of tomatoes, Boney M would be one of them.

[barkeater]

Keith, Bloody Butcher and Silvery Fir Tree are excellent very early varieties for me. Last year I had my first BB turn ripe July 19, 52 days after set out!

Moskvich was my earliest big tomatoes, around August 1, and one of the best tasting of all last year.

E-mail me if you'd like seeds for these 3.

[spyfferoni]

I've had good results with Kimberly last season and Early Goliath. I've also grown Oregon Spring and it was very meaty, and good, better than Early Girl, but not as good as Kimberly and Early Goliath. New Big Dwarf set fruit early, but it seemed like it took awhile to ripen, very good flavor, and a very pretty, compact plant. I think Kosovo is pretty early too, for a heart type tomato. I planted out in the middle of May and got ripe fruit early in September. I have also had great results with Polish. It isn't exactly early, but earlier than most of the other beefsteaks I've tried. I have also heard good things about Campbell 1327, but I haven't tried it yet. It is on my list to try in the next couple of years.
My main focus will be early/mid season tomatoes this Spring, so hopefully I'll know more this time next year.

Early/mid season Tomatoes I'll be trying out:
Kotlas
Stupice
Aurora
Bush 506
Silvery Fir Tree
Juane Flamee
Lime Green Salad
Siletz
Gregori's Altai (I tried it 2 years ago and it didn't do very well, so I'm trying it again)
Taxi
Azoychhka
Moskvich
Eva's Purple Ball
I will grow Kimberly again also. It was early, tasty, and did well in the heat.

I'm in a zone 5 also.

Tyffanie

[Mantis]

For an early Gregoris Altai is an absolute winner for me. Early, large beefsteak fruit with great taste. Grow these and you will never grow Early Girl again

[missionrandy]

keithaxis,

Try Sibirskiy Skorospelyi(Siberian Fast-Ripening) from Andrey. They were first ripe in my garden and produced right thru to mid September.

"*a standard early Russian det. regular leaf plant with a good yield of round-oblate red 50-120 g fruits, good taste, suit. for growing in open soil in Zone 3-4"

Another that produces early is Moskovich, even Black from Tula. They produced from second week of July untill mid September. Cosmonaut Volkov was a good mid season producer as well. Gregoris Altai didn't ripen for me until end of August. Druzba didn't ripen untill into September, which isn't good for my needs, since late blight always hits.

Randy
Fraser Valley, British Columbia
Canada
Zone 7b