Member discussion regarding the methods, varieties and merits of growing tomatoes.
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March 28, 2012 | #1 |
Buffalo-Niagara Tomato TasteFest™ Coordinator
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This Year's Grow List
Last year I asked for suggestions. This year was just too nuts, and I decided very fast what to plant.
Please share your list if you would like! For better or worse, here's mine: RED large Top Sirloin PINK large Bear Claw Blue Ridge Mtn. Grosse Cotelee Prudens Purple Soldacki Stump of the World ROUND Medium Goose Creek HEART Monkey ★★★ Pastel Orange Heart BLACK Carbon Turks Muts ORANGE large Orange Minsk WHITE large Rose Beauty GREEN Humph Spears Tennessee Green BICOLOR Allegany Sunset Carter's Sunrise ~ for a friend Lucky Cross PASTE types Hungarian Oval Italian Red Pear (Giant) Gransasso Strain Joe's Plum ~ very large Polish Pastel ~ bicolor CHERRY Green Doctor Frosted Matt's Wild Cherry ODD/NOVELTY Beauty King ~ striped skin Captain Lucky - tricolor Green Skin Long Keeper ~ storage type Roughwood Golden Tiger ~ striped skin fuzzy foliage Indigo Rose DETERMINATES and DWARFS Amazing Grace ~ bicolor Black Sea Man Canadian Dwarf Frazier's Gem Golden Dwarf Champion Lime Green Salad Micro Tom Polish Dwarf Red House Free Standing Rozovyi Flamingo Sophie's Choice Southern Night ~ black Willamette Whippersnpapper Tomato RELATIVES Ground Cherry (Physallis pruinosa) Morelle de Balbis(Solanum sisymbrifolium) probably Tomatillo as I always get volunteers Oh, and my first seedlings popping up today! Remy
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March 28, 2012 | #2 |
Tomatovillian™
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i will post ,ine sometime soon except im a poor typist i find your list very inyersting animpressive remy i find it especially interesting that you do not include many of the more popular open pollinated hierlooms such as black krim , cherokee purple, black cherry,and kellogs breakfast. i am growing many more lesser known varieties this year and it will be intersting for me to compare the newer varieties with the popular hierlooms that have been my staple.......good luck with all your wonderful selections
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March 28, 2012 | #3 |
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I'll be doing:
brandywine sudduth cherokee purple indian stripe black krim paul robeson gary'o shea kbx green giant black cherry kosovo unknown sweet pink globe-shaped tomato pl 'black cherry' like tomato (several generations out from purple haze) |
March 28, 2012 | #4 |
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I transplanted these to a raised bed on Feb 15: First Prize, Better Boy, Big Beef, Sweet Million, Fletcher, Better Bush, and Lemon Boy -- all nematode resistant hybrids until I get RKNs under control. Here's what they look like today.
If the RKNs don't invade my summer squash and cucumbers, I'll be planting Arkansas Traveler, Cherokee Purple, Mortgage Lifter, Black Krim, Abe Lincoln, Honey Hybrid, and Virgina Sweets along with some of the above in late summer for a fall crop. We get two tomato growing seasons here in central Florida.
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Thanks! I like to switch things out variety wise. Last year I grew Black Cherry. The year before, I grew Cherokee Purple. I did grow Kellogg's Breakfast twice back in the 90's. I didn't like the flavor either time. When I went to CHOPTAG's tomato tasting and I had Gary Millwood's, they were fantastic. They must like KY more than here! Quote:
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March 28, 2012 | #6 |
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great list remy. are you the remy from sampleseeds.com?
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March 28, 2012 | #7 |
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I'm still waiting for the original envelopes of seeds that Marina in Russia sent as well as same from Andrey in Belarus, as well as the resends. Note that Andrey sent me the first one on Jan 28 and Marina on I think Feb 2nd.
Marina just PMed me and said the seeds were in Moscow, she's tracking this resend one and it took about a week to get to Moscow from where she lives in Russia, so I told her to let me know when they hit the US shores and also told her that I had no more fingers to cross and was moving to toe crossing. In the meantime I couldn't wait any longer so spent yesterday packing up seeds for Craig, who raises all my plants for me and separate packs go to Lee and Shoe in NC and Neil L in IL. And those were all sent off this AM. Shoe has said that if any new seeds come in if I can get them to him by mid-April that would work, bless him. So as soon as I know what my list will look like I'll post it and all I can say is that there many many new varieties that will be new to all or most.
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Buffalo-Niagara Tomato TasteFest™ Coordinator
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Thanks! Yes I am.
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I sure hope the re-sends get to you! I wonder if the originals were confiscated? I can't believe it took a week alone to get from Marina's house to Moscow. I won't complain about the postal service here again. I'm looking forward to seeing you list. I'm sure it will be quite the unusual assortment. Remy
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March 28, 2012 | #9 |
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It's another long list for me this year, but this is the last time, I'm sure. The following were started early- some new ones for container growing and some old favorites:
Amazon Chocolate Caspian Pink Copper River "Chocolate Beefsteak" Danko Favorite Holiday Fish Lake Oxheart Fruhe Liebe Giannini Granny's Heart Hawaiian Pineapple Hays' Maskotka Oleyar's German Sandul Moldovan Sibirskiy Skorospelyi Sungold F1 Terhune Zolotoe Serdste The following varieties also made the cut this year and were sown on 3/31: Alice's Egypt Amana Pink Amish Rose Antique Roman Barlow Jap Big Ben #1 Big Cheef Black Mountain Pink Blush Bobbie Brandywine, Glick's Brandywine, Heart-Shaped "Brandywine, Liam's" Brave General Brown Sugar Burning Spear Captain Lucky "Carbon Copy" Carie Claxon Yellow Chyornyi Tarasenko Daniels "Dark Striped Cherry" F2 Destor's Amish Beefsteak Dr. Lyle Dutka's Pink Eastham Pink Heirloom Everett's Rusty Oxheart First Mate "Marko's Flortis Cherry" Frank's Large Red Gaccetta Paste German Giant German Johnson German Johnson Potato Leaf Grandma Viney's Yellow and Pink Grandpap's Rose Wax Grant County Pink HeShPoLe Honeydrop Cherry Hungarian Heart Hungarian Oval Indiana Red Indian Stripe x possibly Daniels F4 Ispolin Malinovyi Italian Striped Jan's JD's Special C-Tex Josefina Kentucky Beefsteak Kentucky Cabin Koroleva Kosovo Kremlin Chiming Clock Kukla's Portuguese Heart Lee's Sweet Madame Jardel's Black Madison County Pink Maiden's Gold Maria Amazilitei's Giant Red Marianna's Conflict Marizol Purple Matt's Folly Matt's Wild Cherry Mawlenowe McClintock's Big Pink Monomakh's Hat Nature's Riddle Olena Ukrainian Orange Banana Orange Heirloom Orange Strawberry Pink Elephant Pink Honey Pink Oxheart PPP x PP C Pruden's Purple Prue Queen of Hearts Raspberry Miracle Reif Italian Heart Rose Quartz x Black Cherry Rosi Mari Seek-No-Further Love Apple Serdste Buivola Serendipity Sherry's Sweet Heart Snag's Pride Solar Flare Sweet Beverley Tarensenko 6 Tennessee Heirloom Toedebusch Pink Top Sirloin Trenton's Tiger Tsar of Bells 'Vince P1" F5 Walter's Candy Stripe Wanda's Potato Top Watermelon Beefsteak Watermelon Beefsteak Potato Leaf Wedekind Heirloom Pink West Virginia Sweet Meat Work Release Paste Worley Red Zeke Dishman "Zima" F2 Zolotaya Rapsodiya I'm really, really hoping for a not too hot, not too wet growing season. Last edited by kath; June 19, 2012 at 02:46 PM. Reason: update |
March 29, 2012 | #10 |
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Wow, Kath! Your list sure is impressive I noticed you have quite a few Russians. My seedlings from the seeds that you sent me are looking so good, very healthy. Thanks again for the amazing varieties. Goodness, is the spring ever going to get here? I am afraid to post my list because I don't want people thinking that I'm looney
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March 29, 2012 | #11 |
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What a nice list Kath and a lot of variaties that I never heard about. So it's time to post my list also I think.
The following varieties I sowed on 3/7 and (most of them) are already transplanted in little pots in the greenhouse: Anna Russian Aunt Ginny's Purple Barlow Jap Belmonte Brandywine 'Sudduth's Strain' Chianti Rose Cowlick's Brandywine Crnkovic Yugoslavian Earl's Faux English Rose Hoy Kosovo Ledoux Special Ludmilla's Pink Heart Marianna's Peace Pale Perfect Purple Prudens Purple Sandul Moldovan Stump of the World Tennessee Britches Terhune Hege German Pink Toedebusch Pink Nor(th)carolina Pink Olena Ukrainian Rose de Berne Limbaugh's Potato Top Gregori Altaï Eva Purple Ball Kardinal Mazarini Bloody Butcher Cosmonaut Volkov Cuostralée Fish Lake Oxheart Gildo Pietroboni Goose Creek Hilda Jewish Kukla's Portuguese Heart Lehrertomate Liguria Mémé Beauce Prue Reif Red Heart Wes 1884 Purple Amazon Chocolate Ananas Noir Arbuznyi Bear Creek Big Cheef Brad's Black Heart Cherokee Chocolate Cuban Black Gary O'Sena Indian Stripe JD's Special C-Tex Noire de Crimée Spudakee Vorlon Beauty Queen Captain Lucky Everett's Rusty Oxheart Gold Medal Green Copia Harvard Square Lucky Cross Nature's Riddle Marvel Striped Pink Berkeley Tie-Dye Earl of Edgecombe Favorie de Bretagne KBX Orange Oxheart Spudayellow Strawberry Medovyi Spas Summer Cider Apricot Orlov Yellow Absinthe Aunt Ruby's German Green Cherokee Green Grub's Mystery Green Malakhitovaya Shkatulka AAA Sweet Solano Black Cherry Brandywine Cherry Galina's Yellow Green Doctor's Frosted Japonaise Haute Orange Bourgoin Rose Quartz Snow White Cherry Suhkruploom Kollane Danko Gold Nugget Lime Green Salad Quedlinburger Frühe Liebe Red Robin Sophie's Choice OSU Blue P20 OSU Blue 149 OSU Blue 109 On 3/26 I sowed the following 40 varieties: Schnellfrüchtende aus Wirowsk Yellow Belgium Jagodka Douceur de Doucet Potato Leaf White Tomate de Touraine San Francisco Fog Prize of the Trials Pomodoro Pantano Romanesco Pineapple Fog Plaisir d'été Tsar's Favorite Tonnelet Fireworks Poire Rose Polish Egg Polish Perestroika Soldacki Taxi Cherry Tigr Olympic Flame Yaponskiy Krab Bychiy Lob Lotos Mamont Abakanskiy Serdtse Buivola Taps Moravsky Div Grant County Pink Iva's Pink Russian Dixie Golden Giant German Johnson Omar's Lebanese Sungold Mustang Jaune Tangerine Wisconsin 55 Gold Bilders Just like Kath I'm also hoping for a summer with a lot of sun and not to much rain (not like last year!). Eddy |
March 29, 2012 | #12 |
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Okay, here's my list at this moment. Have to put a lid on adding any more. I'm out of room.
1884 Aker's West Virginia Amazon Chocolate Amy's Sugar Gem Believe It or Not Big Beef Black Mountain Pink Box Car Willie Brandywine Brandywine, Cowlick Brandywine, Croatia Burpee Big Boy Burpee Steak Sandwich Bush Beefsteak Campbell's 1327 Caribe Cardinal Chapman Chianti Rose Church Cindy's West Virginia David's Pink Delicious Depp's Pink Firefly Dinner Plate Elmer's Old German Ethel Watkins Flame Fred Limbaugh Potato Top German Giant German Head German Queen Gigantesque Good Old Fashioned Red Grant County Park Gregori's Altai Guido Hanky Pink Heinz 1439 Henderson's Winsall Herman's Special Indiana Red Jean's Prize Kentucky Plate Kentucky Wonder Lincoln Adams Magnum Beefsteak Mexico Mr. Underwood's Pink German Giant Neves Azorean Red Olive Hill Omar's Lebanese Park's Beefmaster Park's Whopper Peron Sprayless Ponderosa Rebecca Sebastian's Bull Bag Red Barn Red Penna Richardson Rosella Purple (Dwarf) Sainte Lucie Stump of the World Tennessee Britches Tidwell German Todd County Amish Ultimate Giant Uncle Mark Bagby Vinson Watts Virginia Sweets Walter's Candy Stripe Wild Fred (Dwarf)
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March 29, 2012 | #14 |
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Kath, to grow early in the greenhouse, but not necessarily an early variety ,have you considered Pervaya Lyubov ( First Love) which for the past several years or so has been one of THE most popular varieties from my seed offers as well as from SSE requests?
About 75 days, indet, PL , round pink, and almost everyone speaks of the sweet/tangy taste. Seeds originally from Andrey. But perhaps you've already grow it? Yes, I know I'm an enabler, so deal with it.
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March 29, 2012 | #15 |
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Hi Everyone!
My list for this season is; Grandfather Ashlock Tatar of Mongolstan White Queen Uncle Mark Bagby Paul Robeson Super Sweet Cherry Big Zach Phil's Fantastic |
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