Tomato List 2011

[Botany]

Black Krim .... been growing them for 2 years

Caspian Pink ..... 1st time

Old German ..... really good taste and multicolored too

Sweet 100s Cherry Tomato ..... something to eat when outside already has about 20 tomatoes

Brandywine ...... has replaced Jet Star as my favorite tomato ..... best taste and best colors

San Marzano Italian Tomato .... ?????????

Mortgage Lifter ..... second year was recommended to me through DU garden group .... huge ass tomato

Old Brooks ..... ?????

Cherokee Purple

Lemon Boy .... most productive I have ever seen .... low acid

other garden plants; Red Cayenne, Better Bell Green Pepper, Serrano Pepper, Red Skins Potatoes (gonna grow 3.2 million this year why didn't anybody tell me that fresh
dug spuds make your taste buds have a party good?), Walla Walla White Sweet Onions, Garlic, Cilantro, Flat Leaf Parsley, and Basal




gonna try to can some salsa this year.

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. Nice list.....

Reminds me of the type of list (esp. # of plants) before I joined the Seed Savers Exchange and developed my heirloom tomato obsession! Old Brooks was one of the very first heirlooms I grew (back in 1988) - just a nice red tomato. Cherokee Purple...always happy to see people growing it! (I named it back in 1990). And Lemon Boy was another of the first tomatoes I grew for my heirloom vs hybrid comparison, back in 1986! An interesting tidbit....USDA did a major test some years ago, hundreds of different tomatoes of all shapes, sizes and colors. pH (acidity) was essentially the same, certainly within the same ballpark - and there was no correlation between the pH and particular colors! Those tomatoes that seem lower in acid actually just have a higher sugar content....

This is my most ambitious garden yet in terms of plant number (I am in between consulting contracts, so actually have time to tend it better this year) - about 150 tomato and 150 pepper plants, all in pots! I am going to spend my summer watering!

[Botany]

4. I have been growing tomatoes in 10 to 15 gallon ....

.... nursery pots for years now ..... I make a good mix of compost, soil, manure, container medium, silica sand, and native soil aka clay ...
I put the pots about 3/4s of the way into the ground .... I add an organic fertilizer too. very productive and lots less water and work too.

BTW what do you know about Old Brooks?

Thanx for the update on acidity and tomatoes .... I had to cut back on the # of lemon boys .... too many tomatoes.

[NRaleighLiberal]

7. Old Brooks seems to have no clear history -

it was listed in the Seed Savers yearbooks from the late 1970s/early 1980s - but there is no real background to speak of, which is frustrating...and not uncommon with many of the heirloom varieties.

[trud]

2. my three favorites -

after much experimentation - Brandywine, Stupice, and Dona. The Dona (hybrid) seeds are now only sold in France, but I still have packets of the ones that used to be sold here and they still germinate. Stupice is an early very prolific small tomato, fruit about 3 times the size of a cherry tomato but tastes like a real tomato.

[NRaleighLiberal]

3. Next year remind me to send you some other varieties to try!

I have so much seed and am happy to share. If you love Stupice, you will really love Kimberly. And you need Sungold on your list!

[Botany]

5. I couldn't find any sungolds this year ... as plants

to me they are the very best of the cherry tomatoes

[NRaleighLiberal]

6. Yes...they are a desert island tomato!

Since it is a hybrid, I actually bought a few thousand seeds....it is the most popular seedling we sell in the spring. We find so many uses for it....since last year my wife seemed to eat them all before I got any, I have five growing this year!

[trud]

9. thanks, Lib

But I've had as any as 30 varieties at a time growing. I settled on just these three I like the best in my old age :-) I live in the boonies and so have no one to unload tomatoes on (the local food bank doesn't accept produce.)

[Lugnut]

8. I have a small raised bed garden.

My space is limited and two of us can only consume so much. This year I tried 4 Rostova Oxheart plants I got from a grower in AL and 3 Mountain Magic campari plants from Burpee. I picked up some Eary Girl and Beefsteak plants from a local greenhouse and also planted two pickle cucumber and 6 Italian basil plants. My daughter asked for a corner space to plant a spaghetti squash so we'll see what that yields.

The Early Girls already have flowers as do the cukes after being in the ground for less than two weeks. I hope this signals a good harvest.

[Retrograde]

10. My list for this year

Tiny Tim: a mini variety for containers

Yellow Plum: yellow cherry tomato

Christmas Grape: a largish cherry tomato

Abe Lincoln: the last of the seeds from several years ago

Rutgers: my favorite all-purpose tomato

Cream Sausage: because it has a funny name!

Aunt Ruby's German Green: for variety

Red Alert: I've read mixed reviews, but the seeds were free

New Yorker: an old canning variety

Striped Stuffer: my novelty for the year: it looks like a pepper but tastes like a tomato

Stephanie's Orange Volunteer: my name for it. It showed up in my friend Stephanie's yard a couple of seasons ago: it's a rangy plant that produced over a bushel of tasty, small orange fruits. I saved some seeds, and it will be interesting to see what turns up this year.

The peppers are still pouting about the weather.

[Botany]

11. Nice list

in the midwest my 3 modern hybrid types have beeen:

1) Jet Star

b) Mariglobe

iii) Rutgers

thanx for posting