This Year's Grow List - Page 8

livinonfaith · April 2, 2012

What's so cool about this thread is that, while you do see several varieties repeated pretty often, just about everyone has a very different list.

While choosing tomato varieties can be as complex as painstakingly researching each one to just randomly taking the seeds somebody else has left over, somehow it ends up being kind of personal, doesn't it?

That's kind of fascinating to me. It's also a bit scary. The idea was to try several tomatoes and then narrow them down to about ten varieties that are super tasty and work well in my garden.

But it seems like no one here actually does that. We just keep exploring and experimenting until we're forced to slow down.

kath · April 3, 2012

Quote:

Originally Posted by livinonfaith

That's kind of fascinating to me. It's also a bit scary. The idea was to try several tomatoes and then narrow them down to about ten varieties that are super tasty and work well in my garden.

But it seems like no one here actually does that. We just keep exploring and experimenting until we're forced to slow down.

I wonder how many of us are still thinking that we're doing the former and how many are resigned to the fact that we'll keep on doing the latter?

jennifer28 · April 3, 2012

Kath,

I agree with you about constantly trying new varieties, LOL. We experiment a lot in our school garden but I wanted to make sure the kids and families had some reliable producers so I also got some bloody butchers and box car willies from DarJones. I am really impressed with the cowlick's brandywine this year. It is doing better than any of the other varieties. I do tend to bag the blossoms and save seeds only from the plants that do exceptionally well for me... but then in addition to that we experiment with around 20 different varieties every year, and you're right... every year I say it will be less, but it never is!

kath · April 3, 2012

But, Jennifer, I'm among those thinking we're just working towards getting the super tasty ten!

MarinaRussian · April 3, 2012

Are you saying that the search will never be over, and I have to plant a 100 varieties each year, from now on, until I fiind the best ones?

Riceloft · April 3, 2012

Here's what I'm planing

In EarthTainers:
Wes x2
Cherokee Purple x2
Winsall
Sungold f1

In other containers:
Yukon Quest
Iditarod Red

In the Ground:
Wes
Winsall x2
Sungold f1

And I may end up finding more room in the ground for a few more of the above varieties.

celerystalksmidnite · April 3, 2012

Great looking lists, everyone. I suppose I'll get my Tomatoville toes wet and add my little patch to the fray.

In ground:
Cherokee Purple (first to set fruit; several large marble toms on the plant, as I write)
Indian Stripe (grown side-by-side w/ CP for comparison; CP is winning at everything, so far)
Brandywine, Sudduth's
Florida Pink
Peach Blow Sutton
Manyel
Dr. Wyche's (also setting fruit now, good looking plant and I'm impressed, though the weather has been lucky, very lucky, so far)
Moskvich (nursery plant; vegetative explosion but no fruit yet; surprising, as this was my 'early')
Unknown RL (came up in PL seed pellet - yes, I am a pellet believer, so to speak - suspected either stray Chapman or Hawaiian Pineapple, nearest RL's in tray; if different, will save seed)
Pruden's Purple
Kosovo
Wes (first one went down to disease; tried another one in same spot, as well as two Neve's A R's; none are thriving; seems to be a bad spot and will likely rededicate the space to non-toms)
Russian Persimmon (got an interesting plant from a package of TGS Persimmon a few years ago that I neglected to save seed from out of ignorance; I want to see if perhaps it was this variety, mixed in with true Persimmon, which came true from the same pack in proper beefsteak form the next year)

In assorted topsy turvy configurations (yes, I've read of their reputation, but I like a challenge (I have a plan!) and they were on sale at Big Lots):
Wes (in 'tomato tree' by itself; plant is doing fantastic; thought maybe drooping habit of hearts might serve well; will look for possible stem stress when fruit grows)
Indian Stripe (in 'tomato planter'; doing okay, some pest damage from tomato worms; so much for pest free!)
Yelow Pear (I hate yellow pear personally, but my five-year-old assured me she would only eat "little golden tomatoes" and I hadn't started my Sun Sugar's yet; as expected, it is doing well in a tomato planter, hanging next to Indian Stripe)
Limmony, Indian Stripe, Peach Blow Sutton, and Russian Persimmon (in one tomato tree, ala the pamphlet instructions; just to see, and because it would be a very interesting looking configuration, I think; at present, all plants are very healthy and one is blooming)

In a sunny window, awaiting a late spring transplant (around here, anyway) as an experiment to see what might beat the mid-summer heat:
Black Cherry
Sun Sugar
Porter's Pride
Martino's Roma
Big Beef

Firefyter-emt · April 3, 2012

Figured that I would set in and post up my list of starts. Most all of them have germinated, and the Louisiana Pink is by far the winner of the size race. The big looser is the San Marzano from Tomato Growers... The first batch of 6 (dual seeded) failed to grow, the next batch of 4 failed to grow... I have another 4 under cover and waiting to see if they will germnate.

* Costoluto Fiorentine
* Costoluto Genovese
* Believe it or not
* Mortgage Lifter
* Rio Fuego
* Louisiana Pink
* Donskoi
* Ashleigh
* Rio Grande
* Thessaloniki
*San Mazano
* German Giant
* Sweet Pea Currant
* Opalka
* Brandywine
* Black Russian
* Green zebra
* Yellow Pear

barefootgardener · April 3, 2012

OK, here is my list. I am growing half the varieties of what I have been growing over the last few years, so my list is shorter, but for some reason I have more plants.. hehe..

*Return's

Pink's:
African Queen * Had one that was just over #3 last season
Yasha Yugoslavian
Stump Of The World
Terhune
Olena Ukrainian
Hege German Pink *
Purple Dog Creek *
Giant African Pink Paste: A generouse Tville member sent seeds. Dont know history..But was told it makes a wonderful smooth creamy tomato soup.

Red's:
Fish Lake Oxheart
Brandywine From Croatia
Druzba *
Costoluto Genevese from BrokenBar
Costoluto Genevese * from saved seed, my garden
Chico Grande, paste/plum
Casino, paste/plum
Cow's Tit, * paste/plum failed for 2011
Kenosha Paste * paste/plum
Sarnowski Polish Plum *
Jersey Giant, paste/plum
Kukla's Portuguese Paste
Carol Chyko's Big Paste *
Lurley's Paste * failed for 2011
Giant Sicilian Paste *
Chinese, paste
Opalka, paste *failed for 2011
Sherrill, * paste
Saint Jean De Angeley *, rare paste
Nile River Egyptian, cooking/paste
Giannini
Russo Sicilian Togetta, paste/stuffing/drying
Madame Garnier Rouge * the most beautiful red tomato, never got chance to taste due to misfortune
Provenzano, canner/paste
Northern Crown
Neves Azorian Red *
Malinovyi Rog, red paste
Jet Star *
Big Boy

Green
Aunt Ruby's German Green *

Cherries
Sungold *
Flortis Cherry

Black/Purple
Wessel's Purple Pride *
Aker's West Virginia Black * failed to produce 2011

And my mom got seeds from my Uncle Walter, who went to a Amish farmers market in Southern Maryland and bought some wonderful large red tomato's..He loved it so much he saved seeds. The amish told him it was a family heirloom. ? Cant remember the name, but mom is giving me a few plants she grew out. Trying to find out more info on it..
Ginny

patty_b · April 3, 2012

For those of you who have Amazon Chocolate on your grow list, what leaf type are you getting most?? I planted two seeds and have one PL and one RL from the same traded pack. Just curious! Same with Black Elephant.. mine RL but Black Sea Elephant was PL,(I was thinking they would be the same tomato) will have to see now if they are different in color. Thanks, Patty

lakelady · April 3, 2012

Carolyn, I went back to my seed stash, and I was mistaken, thought I'd originally gotten them from Tania, but I think they were from Amishland, where I've never bought any tomato seed, just bean seeds. The label clearly says Little White Rabbit, but I also did some research and others have it listed as White Rabbit, but realize it is now just "rabbit". So I stand corrected and I'm going to cross off the first two words on the label!

Just looking forward to all these cherries this year of different colors and sizes

Yes Kath, I think I may be getting lots and lots of pots for those peppers and eggplants...especially since nothing was germinating on the peppers and then I went and planted MORE peppers only to see the original peppers peeping out. I'm going to be giving away an awful lot of plants for sure and I'll save a few extras in case I lose one or two, which doesn't normally happen, but you never know. I like the idea of a taste test / trade off ! Sounds like fun!

No one will be sunning themselves on my dock this year because it will quite likely be full of potted veggies !

**carolyn137** · April 3, 2012

White Rabbit is correct since Joe changed the name of Rabbit to White Rabbit before he distributed seeds.

Tania · April 3, 2012

Fascinating lists, I enjoyed reading the posts in this thread. Glad to see many folks growing lots of interesting varieties!

My 2012 grow list is here, almost final, as I am still waiting for a few varieties to show up - I had some tough time sprouting some of the older seeds, and also got a good share of 'blind' seedlings (which is not uncommon with very old seeds), so I had to restart a few.

http://tatianastomatobase.com/wiki/C...2_Growout_List

Mandy97 · April 3, 2012

My list for this year, thanks to several generous people here, and a few online purchases, is pretty large for me. Although I can only fit one or two plants of each.

Julia Child
Hawaiian Pineapple
Aker's West Virginia
Siberian Pink Honey
Azoychka
Nile River Egyptian
Kellogg's Breakfast
Oregon Spring
Aunt Ruby's German Green
Rhoades Family Heirloom
Carbon
New Big Dwarf
Red Siberian
Hahm's Gelbe Topftomate
Brandywine from Croatia
Zolotoy Zapas
Russo Sicilian Togeta
Ethel Watkins Best
Tobolsk
Granny's Heart
Goose Creek
Flortis Cherry
Lithuanian
German Johnson
Casino Chips
Green Zebra Cherry
Amish Paste
Costoluto Genovese
Eastham Pink (no germ. yet)
Cherokee Purple
Big Beef
Snow White cherry

I am looking forward to summer more and more every day.

Mandy

rxkeith · April 4, 2012

got mine planted tonight

this years list so far is

anna russian
azoychka
black giant
dwarf jade beauty
evergreen
fishlake oxheart
heshpole
hunt family favorite
imur prior beta
indian stripe
jd special c tex
kuklas portuguese beefsteak
medovaya kaplya
moravsky div
olomovic
orange minsk
pervaya lyubov
potato leaf
rose d' eauze
rostova
summertime gold
tarasenko 6
terhune
uncle steves italian plum
zolotoe zerdste

plus a few cherry tomatoes i'll plant in a few days.

hard to choose which ones stay on the bench.

keith

April 3, 2012	#112
celerystalksmidnite Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: SE Texas Zone 8 Posts: 101	Great looking lists, everyone. I suppose I'll get my Tomatoville toes wet and add my little patch to the fray. In ground: Cherokee Purple (first to set fruit; several large marble toms on the plant, as I write) Indian Stripe (grown side-by-side w/ CP for comparison; CP is winning at everything, so far) Brandywine, Sudduth's Florida Pink Peach Blow Sutton Manyel Dr. Wyche's (also setting fruit now, good looking plant and I'm impressed, though the weather has been lucky, very lucky, so far) Moskvich (nursery plant; vegetative explosion but no fruit yet; surprising, as this was my 'early') Unknown RL (came up in PL seed pellet - yes, I am a pellet believer, so to speak - suspected either stray Chapman or Hawaiian Pineapple, nearest RL's in tray; if different, will save seed) Pruden's Purple Kosovo Wes (first one went down to disease; tried another one in same spot, as well as two Neve's A R's; none are thriving; seems to be a bad spot and will likely rededicate the space to non-toms) Russian Persimmon (got an interesting plant from a package of TGS Persimmon a few years ago that I neglected to save seed from out of ignorance; I want to see if perhaps it was this variety, mixed in with true Persimmon, which came true from the same pack in proper beefsteak form the next year) In assorted topsy turvy configurations (yes, I've read of their reputation, but I like a challenge (I have a plan!) and they were on sale at Big Lots): Wes (in 'tomato tree' by itself; plant is doing fantastic; thought maybe drooping habit of hearts might serve well; will look for possible stem stress when fruit grows) Indian Stripe (in 'tomato planter'; doing okay, some pest damage from tomato worms; so much for pest free!) Yelow Pear (I hate yellow pear personally, but my five-year-old assured me she would only eat "little golden tomatoes" and I hadn't started my Sun Sugar's yet; as expected, it is doing well in a tomato planter, hanging next to Indian Stripe) Limmony, Indian Stripe, Peach Blow Sutton, and Russian Persimmon (in one tomato tree, ala the pamphlet instructions; just to see, and because it would be a very interesting looking configuration, I think; at present, all plants are very healthy and one is blooming) In a sunny window, awaiting a late spring transplant (around here, anyway) as an experiment to see what might beat the mid-summer heat: Black Cherry Sun Sugar Porter's Pride Martino's Roma Big Beef __________________ MCB Last edited by celerystalksmidnite; April 3, 2012 at 12:58 PM. Reason: note about Wes in Topsy Turvy

April 3, 2012	#114
barefootgardener Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Michigan Zone 4b Posts: 1,291	OK, here is my list. I am growing half the varieties of what I have been growing over the last few years, so my list is shorter, but for some reason I have more plants.. hehe.. Return's Pink's: African Queen Had one that was just over #3 last season Yasha Yugoslavian Stump Of The World Terhune Olena Ukrainian Hege German Pink * Purple Dog Creek * Giant African Pink Paste: A generouse Tville member sent seeds. Dont know history..But was told it makes a wonderful smooth creamy tomato soup. Red's: Fish Lake Oxheart Brandywine From Croatia Druzba * Costoluto Genevese from BrokenBar Costoluto Genevese * from saved seed, my garden Chico Grande, paste/plum Casino, paste/plum Cow's Tit, * paste/plum failed for 2011 Kenosha Paste * paste/plum Sarnowski Polish Plum * Jersey Giant, paste/plum Kukla's Portuguese Paste Carol Chyko's Big Paste * Lurley's Paste * failed for 2011 Giant Sicilian Paste * Chinese, paste Opalka, paste failed for 2011 Sherrill, paste Saint Jean De Angeley , rare paste Nile River Egyptian, cooking/paste Giannini Russo Sicilian Togetta, paste/stuffing/drying Madame Garnier Rouge the most beautiful red tomato, never got chance to taste due to misfortune Provenzano, canner/paste Northern Crown Neves Azorian Red * Malinovyi Rog, red paste Jet Star * Big Boy Green Aunt Ruby's German Green * Cherries Sungold * Flortis Cherry Black/Purple Wessel's Purple Pride * Aker's West Virginia Black * failed to produce 2011 And my mom got seeds from my Uncle Walter, who went to a Amish farmers market in Southern Maryland and bought some wonderful large red tomato's..He loved it so much he saved seeds. The amish told him it was a family heirloom. ? Cant remember the name, but mom is giving me a few plants she grew out. Trying to find out more info on it.. Ginny Last edited by barefootgardener; April 3, 2012 at 05:45 PM.

April 3, 2012	#116
lakelady Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: northern NJ zone 6b Posts: 1,862	Carolyn, I went back to my seed stash, and I was mistaken, thought I'd originally gotten them from Tania, but I think they were from Amishland, where I've never bought any tomato seed, just bean seeds. The label clearly says Little White Rabbit, but I also did some research and others have it listed as White Rabbit, but realize it is now just "rabbit". So I stand corrected and I'm going to cross off the first two words on the label! Just looking forward to all these cherries this year of different colors and sizes Yes Kath, I think I may be getting lots and lots of pots for those peppers and eggplants...especially since nothing was germinating on the peppers and then I went and planted MORE peppers only to see the original peppers peeping out. I'm going to be giving away an awful lot of plants for sure and I'll save a few extras in case I lose one or two, which doesn't normally happen, but you never know. I like the idea of a taste test / trade off ! Sounds like fun! No one will be sunning themselves on my dock this year because it will quite likely be full of potted veggies ! __________________ Antoniette

April 3, 2012	#117
carolyn137 Moderator Emeritus Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Upstate NY, zone 4b/5a Posts: 21,169	White Rabbit is correct since Joe changed the name of Rabbit to White Rabbit before he distributed seeds. __________________ Carolyn

April 3, 2012	#118
Tania Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Anmore, BC, Canada Posts: 3,970	Fascinating lists, I enjoyed reading the posts in this thread. Glad to see many folks growing lots of interesting varieties! My 2012 grow list is here, almost final, as I am still waiting for a few varieties to show up - I had some tough time sprouting some of the older seeds, and also got a good share of 'blind' seedlings (which is not uncommon with very old seeds), so I had to restart a few. http://tatianastomatobase.com/wiki/C...2_Growout_List __________________ Tatiana's TOMATObase

April 2, 2012	#106
livinonfaith Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina Posts: 1,332	What's so cool about this thread is that, while you do see several varieties repeated pretty often, just about everyone has a very different list. While choosing tomato varieties can be as complex as painstakingly researching each one to just randomly taking the seeds somebody else has left over, somehow it ends up being kind of personal, doesn't it? That's kind of fascinating to me. It's also a bit scary. The idea was to try several tomatoes and then narrow them down to about ten varieties that are super tasty and work well in my garden. But it seems like no one here actually does that. We just keep exploring and experimenting until we're forced to slow down.

April 3, 2012	#108
jennifer28 Two-faced Drama Queen Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital Posts: 955	Kath, I agree with you about constantly trying new varieties, LOL. We experiment a lot in our school garden but I wanted to make sure the kids and families had some reliable producers so I also got some bloody butchers and box car willies from DarJones. I am really impressed with the cowlick's brandywine this year. It is doing better than any of the other varieties. I do tend to bag the blossoms and save seeds only from the plants that do exceptionally well for me... but then in addition to that we experiment with around 20 different varieties every year, and you're right... every year I say it will be less, but it never is!

April 3, 2012	#109
kath Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: zone 6b, PA Posts: 5,664	But, Jennifer, I'm among those thinking we're just working towards getting the super tasty ten!

April 3, 2012	#110
MarinaRussian Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Russia Posts: 176	Are you saying that the search will never be over, and I have to plant a 100 varieties each year, from now on, until I fiind the best ones?

April 3, 2012	#111
Riceloft Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Parma, Ohio (6a) Posts: 299	Here's what I'm planing In EarthTainers: Wes x2 Cherokee Purple x2 Winsall Sungold f1 In other containers: Yukon Quest Iditarod Red In the Ground: Wes Winsall x2 Sungold f1 And I may end up finding more room in the ground for a few more of the above varieties.

April 3, 2012	#113
Firefyter-emt Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: NE connecticut Posts: 47	Figured that I would set in and post up my list of starts. Most all of them have germinated, and the Louisiana Pink is by far the winner of the size race. The big looser is the San Marzano from Tomato Growers... The first batch of 6 (dual seeded) failed to grow, the next batch of 4 failed to grow... I have another 4 under cover and waiting to see if they will germnate. * Costoluto Fiorentine * Costoluto Genovese * Believe it or not * Mortgage Lifter * Rio Fuego * Louisiana Pink * Donskoi * Ashleigh * Rio Grande * Thessaloniki San Mazano German Giant * Sweet Pea Currant * Opalka * Brandywine * Black Russian * Green zebra * Yellow Pear

April 3, 2012	#115
patty_b Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Ohio Posts: 487	For those of you who have Amazon Chocolate on your grow list, what leaf type are you getting most?? I planted two seeds and have one PL and one RL from the same traded pack. Just curious! Same with Black Elephant.. mine RL but Black Sea Elephant was PL,(I was thinking they would be the same tomato) will have to see now if they are different in color. Thanks, Patty

April 3, 2012	#119
Mandy97 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Paw Paw MI Posts: 89	My list for this year, thanks to several generous people here, and a few online purchases, is pretty large for me. Although I can only fit one or two plants of each. Julia Child Hawaiian Pineapple Aker's West Virginia Siberian Pink Honey Azoychka Nile River Egyptian Kellogg's Breakfast Oregon Spring Aunt Ruby's German Green Rhoades Family Heirloom Carbon New Big Dwarf Red Siberian Hahm's Gelbe Topftomate Brandywine from Croatia Zolotoy Zapas Russo Sicilian Togeta Ethel Watkins Best Tobolsk Granny's Heart Goose Creek Flortis Cherry Lithuanian German Johnson Casino Chips Green Zebra Cherry Amish Paste Costoluto Genovese Eastham Pink (no germ. yet) Cherokee Purple Big Beef Snow White cherry I am looking forward to summer more and more every day. Mandy

April 4, 2012	#120
rxkeith Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Back in da U.P. Posts: 1,845	got mine planted tonight this years list so far is anna russian azoychka black giant dwarf jade beauty evergreen fishlake oxheart heshpole hunt family favorite imur prior beta indian stripe jd special c tex kuklas portuguese beefsteak medovaya kaplya moravsky div olomovic orange minsk pervaya lyubov potato leaf rose d' eauze rostova summertime gold tarasenko 6 terhune uncle steves italian plum zolotoe zerdste plus a few cherry tomatoes i'll plant in a few days. hard to choose which ones stay on the bench. keith