Member discussion regarding the methods, varieties and merits of growing tomatoes.
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November 10, 2016 | #1 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: May 2016
Location: West Los Angeles
Posts: 203
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2017 tentative grow list
What's everyone thinking of growing next year?
Sunsugar Ggwt Are for certain but everything else is up in the air. |
November 10, 2016 | #2 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Illinois, zone 6
Posts: 8,407
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Girl Girl's Weird Thing is on my list, too.
I also want to try Esterina F1 from Johnny's. I may order a pack of Marbonne F1 as well to grow in the high tunnel. And there's always new stuff from Wild Boar Farms that looks fun. |
November 10, 2016 | #3 |
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Join Date: May 2014
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In our main garden, we are going to grow some of the varieties that have grown and produced very well for us in the past. They are ones I saved seeds from.
Ambrosia Red Helsing ★★★★★★★★ Blue Japanese Pink Cherry Matt's Wild Cherry Medovaya Kaplya Porter Sweetie Texas Wild Cherry WOW & maybe a few others. In raised beds - Sungold F1, Suncherry Extra Sweet F1, and others. |
November 10, 2016 | #4 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: NC - zone 8a - heat zone 7
Posts: 4,919
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Tentatively speaking I will grow close to 30 varieties.
I will post my grow out list in another post later. I will have lots varieties for the first time plus my favorites.
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November 10, 2016 | #5 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Southeast Texas
Posts: 287
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Tentative List
Eva Purple Ball Pruden's Purple Carbon Black and Brown Boar Beefsteak Gregori's Altai Mexico Mortgage Lifter German Johnson Marianna's Peace Better Boy Big Beef Pots Summertime Gold Rosella Purple Sweet Scarlet Dwarf Tasmanian Chocolate Early Wonder Beaver Lodge Slicer |
November 10, 2016 | #6 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: May 2016
Location: Williamsburg VA Zone 7b
Posts: 1,110
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OK. I got bit hard by the tomato bug this year so I have space for about 50.
I also plan to plant some rootstock seed to try grafting for the first time. I'll use any extra seedlings that I would otherwise throw out. So far, the disease pressure in my garden is fairly low but I have limited space and I will not always be able to rotate. Here is my tentative list but I'm hoping Seed Swap Santa will bring me a few substitutes: Kapidag Red Kopek Hayasi Tekin’s Bugarian Pink Aunt Ruby’s German Green Girl Girl’s Wild Thing Idaho Hillbilly Pineapple Orange Jazz^ Ruby Gold Casey’s Pure Yellow Brandywine Cowlicks^ Cosmonaut Volkov Large Red^ Rosso Sicilian^ Costolulo Genovese^ German Johnson, Benton p Weisnichts Ukranian p^ Rebel Yell p^ Pruden’s Purple p^ Caspian Pink p^ Omar’s Lebanese p Red Barn Old German Chocolate Stripe Black from Tula JD’s Special C-Tex Daniel Burson Brad’s Black Heart Black Sea Man Black Krim Black Prince Black Plum Paul Robeson PASTE: Polish Linguisa Opalka Paste CHERRIES: Galina’s Sun Gold F1 TMV Chadwick’s Cherry Isis Candy Black Cherry Ron’s Carbon Copy Purple Bumblebee Sunrise Bumblebee Pink Bumblebee Pink Princess Blue Chocolate Cherry Blueberry Cherry CONTAINER: Dwarf Artic Rose Tasmanian Chocolate Wherokowhai Willa’s Cariboo Rose |
November 11, 2016 | #7 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: NC - zone 8a - heat zone 7
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Here it is, my tentative grow list :
RED /PINK : BIG BEEF >>>BRANDY BOY >>> BW SUDDUTH >>>COEUR DE BOEUF >>> CUOSTRALEE >>>DELICIOUS >>>FRANCHI >>> GEORGE DETSIKAS IR >>> MORTGAGE LIFTER >>> PRUDENS PURPLE >>> STUPICE >>> RIESENTRAUBE{{12}} DARK /BLACK / PURPLE: BLACK CHERRY >>> BLACK FROM TULA >>> INDIGO ROSE >>>INDIGO CHERRY DROPS >>> MYSTERY BLACK (*?!) {{6}} ORANGE / YELLOW / BI COLOR ANANAS NOIRE >>> BIG RAINBOW >>> DIXIE GOLDEN GIANT >>> ESTERINA F2 >>> GOLDEN JUBILEE >>> HILLBILLY >>> KELLOGGS BREAKFAST >>> SUNGOLD >>> TIGER GRAPE (*) {{9}} EDITED: To add Boxcar Willie, Big Beef , Jaun Flamme' based on Fusion's recommendation ffor the south.
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November 11, 2016 | #8 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: MA/NH Border
Posts: 4,919
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This year's plan:
I'm grafting all my in ground tomatoes for the first time, I've scaled back my raised bed plants by three (one row), and I'm eliminating all grow bag plants except for the dwarf project grow outs (these will not be grafted) As for what I'm growing, this is as far as I'm going until I see what the Swap adds to my seed collection -- Eating (going for variety again this year): One cherry (Franchi cherry) One early (probably Moskvich) Hearts - Yellow/orange (TBD) Pink (probably Cuor Di Beau) Red (probably Donskoi) Beefsteak/Round - Yellow/orange (probably Azoychka) Pink (probably Seek No Further Love Apple) Red (TBD) Repeat Pastes: Santa Maria Nudi Family Heirloom Oroma Buddy Runyon San Marzano Redorta Russian 117 (also good for eating) New pastes - five varieties TBD |
November 11, 2016 | #9 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Norway
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Here's my tentative list. (Original T'ville source in parentheses, otherwise purchased)
Greenhouse AK Sunrise (AKMark) Altajsky (Altajskij) Urozajnij Bradley (Cole_Robbie) Brandywine, Cowlick’s Daniel Burson (MissS) George Detsikas Italian Red (Ginger2778) Girl Girl’s Weird Thing (Ginger2778) Indian Stripe PL (looking for source) Joe’s Pink Oxheart Malakhitovaya Shkatulka Rosado de Ayerbe (ilex) Sakharnyi Pudovichok (ContainerTed) Summer Sweet Gold Outdoors Altaiskiy Oranzhevyi Biyskaya Roza (Ginger2778) Black Krim Carbon Copy [Ron’s] (Ginger2778) Cosmonaut Volkov George Detsikas Italian Red (Ginger2778) Goliath F1 Mat-Su Express (AKMark) Maya and Sion’s Airdrie Classic Mikhalych (ContainerTed) Sakharnyi Pudovichok (ContainerTed) Sun Gold (2) Steve Last edited by sjamesNorway; November 11, 2016 at 11:06 AM. |
November 11, 2016 | #10 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: zone 6b, PA
Posts: 5,664
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Pretty sure about all of these repeats, except the ones followed by a ?. Not sure if I'll add any new varieties- hope not.
Barlow Jap Blackberry Black Star Heidi? Indian Zebra? Not Purple Strawberry Sungold F1 Santa Maria? Terhune Work Release Paste |
November 11, 2016 | #11 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Finland, EU
Posts: 2,550
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Too hard to try to narrow down a list.. Waiting to see what the MMMM swap will bring.
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November 11, 2016 | #12 | |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: NC - zone 8a - heat zone 7
Posts: 4,919
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Quote:
So I will try F2 to see what I get. I like them sweet.
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November 11, 2016 | #13 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Aug 2015
Location: Port St Lucie, Florida
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All for pots or grow bags
Medovaya Kaplya
Big Beef Rebel Yell Sweet 100 STUPICE Druzba Peron Sprayless Eva Purple Ball |
November 11, 2016 | #14 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Mar 2016
Location: SF Bay Area
Posts: 219
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I decided to limit the number of tomatoes in my garden next year. I'm thinking 4 varieties, 1 plant each. Here is my tentative list:
1.Ananas Noir 2.Bull's Heart 3.Canestrino 4.Unknown red slicer, seeds saved from unknown variety. I know it will be difficult for me to keep my tomatoes at a minimum since I have seeds for several new varieties but, this year, I felt like a slave to my tomato plants, not fun.... |
November 14, 2016 | #15 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Fort Worth, TX
Posts: 329
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10 favorite tomatoes and 10 new to me's, and some peppers
Variety Plants Anna Russian 2 Big Cheef 2 Black Cherry 4 Black Altai 2 Black Mauri 2 Black Prince 2 Carbon Copy 4 Cherokee Carbon 2 Chyornyi Tarasenko 2 Coyote 2 Defiant PhR 7 Delicious 2 Eva Purple Ball 2 Fish Lake Oxheart 2 Gregori's Altai 2 Indiana Red 2 Nyagous 2 Paul Robeson 2 Pink Honey 2 Prudens Purple 2 Variety Giant Marconi 6 Shi★★★★o 6 Pepperoncini 6 Sahuaro 6 Beaver Dam 4 Hungarian Yellow 4 Quatro Milpas 4
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500 sq ft of raised rows zone 8a |
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