2008 line-up

[Dukerdawg]

Okay, I know a lot of you are sick to death of growing lists....but since I haven't posted a new thread in eons I am going to bore you all with my list for '08.

Anna Russian
Marianna's Peace
Aunt Gerties Gold
Yellow Brandywine
Pygmy
Extreme Bush
German Bush
Dwarf Stone
Siberian Bushy
Bush Lebanon
Jd's Special C-Tex
Woodle Orange
Polish (Ellis)
Polish (Eckerts)
Pink Ping Pong
Dr. Lyle
Brandywine (Sudduth)
Kosovo
Sherrill
Sungold
Chadwicks Cherry
Black Cherry
Yellow Pear (what was I thinking?_
Golden Nugget
Marlowe Charleston
Gary 0'Sena
Large Pink Bulgarian
Lithuanian
Lillian's Red Kansas Paste
Prue
Pink Ponderosa
Taxi
Silvery Fir Tree
Mortgage Lifter
Cherokee Purple
Sioux
Ruby Rakes Yellow
Red Paragon
Dora
Red Tree
Russian 117
Earl's Faux



Now...where am I going to plant almost 400 tomato plants?



Duane

[TomatoDon]

And who's gonna keep the weeds out?

D

[elkwc36]

Duane,
Very nice list. I was going to start a new thread to post mine in but hope you don't mind me adding it too yours. Hoping you have a great year. The x's were just my way of marking the ones that germinated. I also made a notation of the ones I've noticed that are wrong leaf type or mixed leaf type. I have done a second planting in a different tray of most of them to confirm the results of the first planting. So far all have been the same the second time. Thought maybe I had made a mistake. Waiting for one variety to leaf out. But for the number of varieties and sources I feel good about the low numbers. JD

2008 Tomato List-Open Pollinated

1.Adelia -x
2.Akers West Virginia-x
3.Amazon Chocolate -x-mixed RL and PL

4. Amish PL-x
5.Anana’s Noire-x
6. Andrew Rahart-x
7.Ashleigh-x
8.Azoychka Yellow-x
9.Black from Tula-x
10. Box Car Willie-x
11.Brandywine Glick’s -x
12.Brandywine Sudduth-x
13.Buckeye Yellow-BR-x
14. Burcham’s -x-PL
15.Carbon -x
16. Caspian Pink -x
17.Chapman- x
18.Cherokee Chocolate -x
19.Cherokee Purple -x
20.Cherokee Purple PL -x
21.Condine Red -x
22. Depp’s Pink Firefly- No germination yet on two plantings
23. DeWeese Streaked -x
24. Ernie’s Plump -x
25. Ernie’s Round-x
26. Ethel Watkins Best-x
27.Eva Ball Purple -x
28.Flamme’ -x
29.Florida Pink -x
30. Franks Large Red-x
31.German Breault -x
32.German Johnson-x mixed RL and PL in two different plantings
33. Glick’s 18 Mennonite-x
34. Godlove -x
35. Goosecreek-x
36. Grandma Viney’s Yellow and Pink-x
37. Green Giant- 1-8 so far and lost it to stuck seed coat.
38.Grub’s Mystery Green -x
39.Guido-x
40.Hege’s German Pink- -x
41.Indian Stripe- -x
21.JD’s Special C Tex -x
42. JD’s Special Pink-x
43. Kanora-USDA P163636 - Developed by KSU in the 20’s-x
44.KBX PL-x
45.Kellog’s Breakfast -x
46. Large Barred Boar-x
47. Lillian’s Red Kansas Paste-x
48. Limbaugh Potato Top-x
49.Little Lucky -x.
50 Magnum Beefsteak-x
51. Marizol Red -x
52.Matt D Imperio -x
53. Mexico-V-x
54. Millet’s Dakota-x
55.Missouri Pink Love Apple -x
56.Mr Bruno- Brenton George-x
57.Mule Team -x
58.Mystery Black-x
59 . New Big Dwarf-x
60. Noire DeCrimmee’- no germination as of 4-17-08
61. Old Brooks-x
62. Orange Heart-x
63Pink Berkeley Tie Dye-x
64.Pineapple -x
65. Red Penna-x
66.Roughwood Golden Plum PL -x
67. Sabre-x
68 . Belize Pink Heart
69. Spear’s Tennessee Green -x
70.Stump O’ the World -x
71.Sunset’s Red Horizon -x
72. Tennessee Britches -x
73.Texas Star -x
74. Tidwell German -x
75. Todd County Amish-x
76.Tom’s Yellow Wonder -x
77.Turk’s Mut-x
78.Wes-SF -x
79.William’s Striped -x



Hybrids

1. Rampao
2. Brandyboy
3. Porterhouse
4. Buck’s County
5. BHN 444
6. Momotaro
7. Old Fashioned Goliath
8. Goliath
9. Big Zac
10. Jet Star
11. Heartland
12. Country Taste
13. Dombito

[matereater]

Duane, thanks for posting your list, now I have some idea of what you 'might' have available for DATE. If you have spares I would LOVE to have the following;
Marianna's Peace
JD's Special C-Tex
Brandywine
Sungold &
Earl's Faux

Thanks so much, hope to see you at DATE !!

[coronabarb]

"Yellow Pear (what was I thinking?_"

Yes, Duane, what WERE you thinking??

Maybe you plan on crossing it with something else to get a cute, flavorful tomato?

[rxkeith]

well duane, you do have a pretty big drive way to put those grow bags on, and there is always the front yard. all that grass just taking up space. you just gotta think outside the box. a guy in my old neighbor hood uses his driveway to grow roses in pots. he had several hundred roses. he puts them in his garage during the winter. takes a few weeks moving them in and out. he had a pretty extensive hosta collection too. kinda hard to miss his house.

keith

[gardengalrn]

Great list, Duane. I know the feelings of guilt associated with Yellow Pear. I do the same thing with Silvery Fir Tree because I just don't like it yet it's a pretty plant and early. Yellow Pear is just cute so I try to find room for that one as well. I've actually had good luck with Yellow Pear, the ones I've tried have not been mealy or totally bland. I have also found that non-believers tend to go wild over them so that opens the door to maybe getting them to try other varieties.

[Dukerdawg]

Elk, I don't mind you posting your list on my thread at all. Makes me look almost normal compared with your enormous grow-list !

Weeds? What weeds?

Steve, I don't know if I am going to make it to DATE or not. But if I can't I will PM you my address if you want to stop over sometime. 20 minutes away via 696/275 (on a weekend). I know I will have extras of Marianna's Peace, Earls Faux and Sungold. I only have 2 plants each of JD's Special C-Tex and Brandywine. Only had 5 seeds of each (Thanks Jay and Carolyn!).

Barb and GardenGal, I have actually never grown Yellow Pear before, but several years ago a co-worker brought in buckets of them and I sat at work and must have ate 100 at a stretch. They were good! So I hope mine are like that and not the bland, mealy tomato that so many seem to find with the variety.

Keith, you read my mind sir! I am doing grow-bags and containers this year, most around the greenhouse and outside perimeter of the fenced in garden area, but the driveway and the deck could certainly get a few squeezed in. This hobby...err..compulsion/obsession does some strange things eh?

[bully]

Where to begin...hmm

I do believe #2 should be Marianna's Conflict..yes?

ha ha Yellow Pear ..a mild version of sugary.

All in all a very nice list..I can't wait to get over their and raid those seedlings.

I'm sure you'd appreciate it if I did sooner than later...I should wait till June 1st when you're completely at your wits end ...

P.s Make sure you pot them up 3 times..I like a nice sturdy plant with a good root base


bully

[Earl]

Well, my goodness! Nice to see Dukerdog and Bully on the same thread. Hope all is going well for you guys.

Duane, you had me worried [thinking your taste bubs had gone haywire] as I read your list until I got to the very end. :-)

[drhuey]

Now you all are really making me envious!! Just having a spell from pulling out this year's crop. Had a little snack on the last tomatoes on Black Cherry and saved the best till last (Aunt Ginny's Purple). Flavor almost gone but still better than store-bought. Best wishes to all for a great N.H. season. Next I'll spread 10 bags of sheep and horse manure on next season's bed.

[Dukerdawg]

Bully, you know I can't afford those gold-plated growing containers you use, but I will do my best on those root systems for ya!

...a mild version of Sugary indeed! Sugary...what can I say....even the bugs wouldn't touch 'em. They rotted on the vine and the flies much preferred whatever dung-delicacy they could find rather than zoom anywhere near that 'award winner'!


Earl, no worries my good man. Taste buds are intact. Earl's Faux may have been missing the last couple of years but it's back on the schedule for '08 so all is right with the world. And isn't it nice to see Bully on Tville again? It took 3 consecutive days of sun and temps in the '70's to get him back to the board.

..and thanks Dr Huey for the words of encouragement. The end of the season is sad to be sure. We have a loooong winter this year and it's nice getting back to playing in the dirt again.

Best wishes,
Duane

[kelleyville]

I am still planting yellow pear, mostly because they are cute! This years lineup is sparse because my first batch of seeds got drowned in soapy water leaving me not a lot to plant! But thanks to a fellow gardner here I did have seed to start with and thanks to my best friend who ordered seed this year I have plants started for me too! I started a limited number of plants this year:
From Tomatoville pal:
Earl's Faux
Purple Cherokee,
Green Cherokee,
Chocolate Cherokee,
Green Giant,
Kimberly,
Black from Tula,
Big Zac,
White Tomesol,
Mortgage Lifter,
Kellog's Breakfast,
and Pink Potato Top
From my friends plants I got Wisconsin 55, Black Brandywine, Pineapple and a mix called heirloom mix, Suprises I guess!

From my own seed I have Juliet Hybrid, Yellow Pear and Roma.

Now to figure out how the heck to keep them standing upright since they are not in a garden but lined up and down the driveway!

I am envious of some of the lists here!

Kelley

[dice]

Is there yard beside the driveway? Stakes could be driven
into that. If you stake into the containers, wind can be a
problem (can blow container, plant, stake and all over).

Another idea: two tall T-posts driven into the yard beside
the driveway at the ends of the row of containers; a cable
or rope strung between the tops of them; plants suspended
on twine that is looped over the top of the cable at the
top. As the plants grow, you untie their twine at the end
farthest away from the plant, wrap the twine around them,
loop it back over the top, and retie it. At the beginning, allow
enough extra twine for each plant to reach about halfway
back down to the plant after you loop it over the top. This
extra gets used up as you wrap twine around the plant as it
grows.

Here is a photo of a suspension system using pvc pipe
and twine over top of containers (this has the advantage
that you don't need a place to drive in any T-posts, but
I mainly posted it to show the string supports in action):

http://s183.photobucket.com/albums/x...t=S7300142.jpg

[kelleyville]

My driveway is only gravel so up and down the driveway is actually ground. Just happens to be a nice sunny spots on either side of the driveway that I decided would be a good place for pots! I am going to show my husband that link! I was thinking maybe I could use some scrap lumber to build a long frame for supporting the pots at the bottom, like a raised bed just without the dirt! Also wondered if I ran a dog tether between two trees if I might support the tomatoes upright that way!