What has changed in three years?
 

Hello, I have been gone awhile. My garden was ravaged by raccoons for three years, so I didn't have any garden for awhile. They even ate the tomato plants. We saved up, bought a house in the mountains of Virginia on 10 acres. We are starting over! So excited! Looking through the forum it looks like a lot of tomato changes. What have I missed? I see Brad Gates has been breeding lots of new tomatoes. I'm not sure what these creme tomatoes are, but look they look cool. Can you fill me in? Thanks

Lindsey

Well, there are a passel of new dwarfs from the Dwarf Project.

Nan

Welcome to the Blue Ridge Mountains! We live in Floyd. Haven't had much of a raccoon problem here, just groundhogs and deer.

Tom

[QUOTE=Nan_PA_6b;684717]Well, there are a passel of new dwarfs from the Dwarf Project.

Nan[/QUOTE]

I was hoping to hear some updates on the dwarf tomatoes. Overwhelmed looking at the posts, like boy I have missed a lot. Any high light varieties come to mind?

[QUOTE=TomNJ;684719]Welcome to the Blue Ridge Mountains! We live in Floyd. Haven't had much of a raccoon problem here, just groundhogs and deer.

Tom[/QUOTE]

We were out by SML lake. Now we are in the Roanoke mountain area. We love going to Floyd. Beautiful out there. Ground hogs are real bad where I am now. We are probably going to put chicken wire underneath the whole raised bed garden to keep them out. Putting a high fence up to keep deer out.

Wow, 10 acres! Congratulations! That sounds fabulous!

[QUOTE=shelleybean;684757]Wow, 10 acres! Congratulations! That sounds fabulous![/QUOTE]

Thank you! We are excited but not sure how different it will be to grow on the top of a mountain. Sun and wind and all that. We've always been in valleys before this.

Welcome back, Lindsey, and wishing you lots of luck with gardening at your new place!

kath

Thank you!

Welcome back!

I'm not sure how long [URL="http://tomatoville.com/showthread.php?t=46543"]Marsha (Ginger2778) has been doing her seed offers but they have been great the last 3 years, so you may want to participate ;)[/URL]. Gardenboy and others have had great offers as well:

[URL]http://tomatoville.com/showthread.php?t=46557[/URL]

Multiflora varieties have become more and more popular within the last couple of seasons with one of them (Rebel Alliance) being offered in Marsha's offer! Here's some decent threads regarding multiflora's:

[URL]http://tomatoville.com/showthread.php?t=34658[/URL]

[URL]http://tomatoville.com/showthread.php?t=46515&highlight=flora[/URL]

[URL]http://tomatoville.com/showthread.php?t=46538&highlight=flora[/URL]

If my links don't work for you just include the "www." in front of the "tomatoville.com.... part..

Dwarf Metallica seems to have gained alot of attention due to it's taste grade (my impression) but I don't think it's been released yet..[URL="http://tomatoville.com/showthread.php?t=45928&highlight=METALLICA"]

http://tomatoville.com/showthread.php?t=45928&highlight=METALLICA [/URL]

Craig just posted about the Beauty line of the Dwarf Project which looks interesting and might could have been a large project all by itself outside of the enormous Dwarf Project!
[URL="http://tomatoville.com/showthread.php?t=46580&highlight=METALLICA"]
http://tomatoville.com/showthread.php?t=46580[/URL]

There's a micro-dwarf project going on that is being led by "dfollet" or Dan, and there are several members who are growing indoor micro's year round which I find interesting and there's even multiflora micro-dwarfs now!

[URL]http://tomatoville.com/showthread.php?t=42980&highlight=flora[/URL]

There are a couple of members from Spain that are sharing Spanish varieties, some of which are multiflora and so several people are growing varieties from Spain:

[URL]http://tomatoville.com/showthread.php?t=33133[/URL]

[URL="http://tomatoville.com/showthread.php?t=34658&page=8"] http://tomatoville.com/showthread.php?t=34658&page=8[/URL]

KarenO has been developing along with Marsha's help her own "KARMA" line of tomatoes which are mostly (or all) potato leafed tomatoes that grow well in the PNW:
[URL="http://tomatoville.com/showthread.php?t=38529&highlight=karma"]
http://tomatoville.com/showthread.php?t=38529&highlight=karma[/URL]

New Varieties include George Detsikas Italian Red, Sweet Ozark Orange (SOO), Girl Girl's Weird Thing (GGWT), Not Purple Strawberry, Not Chocolate Stripes or I mean [B]Mocha Splash[/B], Rebell Yell, Elgin Pink, Garnet and Dotson's Lebanese Heart which was found while growing out Omar's Lebanese. And many more I'm sure, most of these are in Marsha's offer (or were in the past).

And I'm sure that there's lots of other stuff that's happened but I'm either forgetting or leaving out..

Al

Al that is awesome! Great cliff notes thanks.

:roll:I can sum up what you've missed in 3 years, in 4 words...

Girl Girl's Weird Thing

GGWT, such a fun tomato.
Jessica Hughes the person who discovered it and shared seeds.

KarenO

Carolyn's latest offer just went up last night, with lots of tomatoes offered, many of which are mostly unknown this side of the pond. I'm helping her this year with the dirty work of stuffing envelopes.
[url]http://206.214.211.133/~tomatovl/showthread.php?t=46788[/url]
It's in the "Available for Trade" forum.
Shawn

[QUOTE=Tormato;685088]:roll:I can sum up what you've missed in 3 years, in 4 words...

Girl Girl's Weird Thing[/QUOTE]



Wow! I knew I'd get the low down. I hadn't heard of that one. I'll need to grow it for sure. I like weird.