View Single Post
Old August 20, 2016   #16
schill93
Tomatovillian™
 
Join Date: May 2015
Location: Nevada
Posts: 269
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by MarianneW View Post
I grow my tomatoes so they only get sun between 10 and 11:30 am and then 1:30 to 3 pm. Once they get taller, the tops get more sun. I grow them under a tree in the narrow strip of land between my house and a block wall, about 6 or 7 feet wide at the most. Yes, I can grow good tasting heirlooms. This year it was black krim. The trick is I plant in January. I don't get much frost so I can do that. By April I'm picking tasty tomatoes! I can do it in the fall but the season feels too short for any of the good ones.

Have you tried any of the black cherries? Next spring I'm going to try kiss the stars and black & brown boar.
The only cherries I have grown were Sungold this year. It is my only surviving plant, and the one I seldom would eat. Actually, I pulled the plug on my Yellow Pear, as even my dog wouldn't eat them> I've ordered Ron's carbon copy and Black Cherry for next year. I also bought the Black/Brown Boar as well as a lot of other blacks and purple. This will be the first year for me in growing from seed.

The one remaining nursery here that sells veg. plants carries mostly the heat tolerant hybrids. You know the yucky tasting ones. The only one I got from there that put a smile on my face was called Cherokee Carbon. It is a hybrid (they call it a marriage) between Cherokee Purple and Carbon. I didn't get very many tomatoes off of the two I had, but what I got was so much better than the standard fare they carry. I'd rather have less of something good than more of something bad.

I lived in Ahwatukee, so I'm very familiar with your weather. What surprised me about here was how much colder it gets here in the winter. It averages about 10 degrees colder in the winter and only about 2 or 3 degrees cooler in the summer, so surviving a winter here is typically not doable without a greenhouse of some sort.

Of what I have tasted so far, I prefer the blacks, but I have not tasted enough to be knowledgeable. I'm going to try and get a jump start myself here and try and plant out in February depending on how cold it is. I've bought some Wall O Waters and a small plastic enclosure to put some plants out early.

What others have you grown besides Black Krim? Any other blacks or purple? I think I have ordered seeds for just about all of them mentioned on here with any favor. It will be interesting sharing my success and failures with someone who understands heat. (the three month long non stop 110 degree kind )

Last edited by schill93; August 20, 2016 at 10:44 PM.
schill93 is online now   Reply With Quote