Member discussion regarding the methods, varieties and merits of growing tomatoes.
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#16 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Ontario Canada
Posts: 404
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Ashleigh is my favourite red tomato. Not only is it a great tomato, there are a lot of
good memories attached to it! Thank you, Neil |
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#17 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Indiana
Posts: 1,124
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Harris' "Supersonic." Great taste when picked ripe. Vigorous, but still moderate plant size. Little cracking. Good foliage cover. This one still has better taste (IMO) than newer hybrids.
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#18 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: SC Ohio(proctorville)
Posts: 192
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My SC Ohio garden is mostly amended clay but def orange when deep plowed in the spring. Ive grown the Harris tomatoes, Parks Whopper, the B Boys, NAR, Goliath and a few others. Big Beef outproduces them all and its not even close. I mostly eat the pink and y/r varieties so I cant testify to the taste but I get no complaints from the dozens I give away each summer. Big Beef is truly an amazing cultivar.
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#19 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Vancouver Island
Posts: 5,931
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A couple of examples I think are just excellent For slicing, Mayos delight is a heart I really liked and George Detsikas Italian red is excellent.
KarenO |
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#20 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: Central California
Posts: 87
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#21 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Czech republic
Posts: 2,534
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For those interested in seeds, the event of sending seeds of Start F1 is still continuing. My friend Robert from Calgary and I still have enough seeds. Just send a mailing address and in about eight or ten days you can have the seeds at home. This tomato is really hard to find on Google, because its name is a very often used word in English, so some information is on Tatiana´s TOMATObase:
http://tatianastomatobase.com/wiki/Start_F1 Vladimír |
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#22 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Norway
Posts: 1,049
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EM-Champion is one of my favorite tomatoes regardless of color. It's a delicious and productive medium sized red heart. Tatiana lists it as determinate, but it produces from 65 days until frost here.
Steve |
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#23 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Czech republic
Posts: 2,534
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have two EM Champion seedlings behind the window. Both already have twelve true leaves and the germ of the future inflorescence can already be seen with a magnifying glass. One of them will go into the cold frame around the first day of spring and should already have some pollinated flowers and small tomatoes. I don't know yet if I can keep their height less than two feet. I have no experience with them. To be sure, I cut the top of the third plant above the fourth leaf and planted it. This will reduce the height of the plant by four floors, so the plant should bloom after the eighth leaf and should be lower. This plant has only five leaves so far and its delay is about three weeks. I don't know if it will bloom on March 20.
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#24 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Romania/Germany , z 4-6
Posts: 1,582
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Druzba was rather good for a big one, also I used to have a very big heart a long time ago which was fabulous, but I lost the seeds. Now only saladette size still impress me from the reds, and like 1 cherry.
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#25 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Oct 2019
Location: australia
Posts: 117
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I'm a relative novice but Red and Pink Brandywine are both great looking and tasting.
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#26 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Vermont
Posts: 1,001
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I totally agree on Red Brandywine. I grow the Landis Valley strain. But Pink Brandywine, though wonderful, is pink, not red.
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#27 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: N.C.
Posts: 1,827
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Shannon’s
NAR Dester Brandywine Sudduth, but never a good producer Nepal Hybrids - Beef Beef Greg |
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#28 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Virginia Beach
Posts: 2,648
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Levino
Neves Azorean Red Germaid Red Wes Prue
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#29 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: N. Texas, Zone 8A
Posts: 79
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My favorite is Large Red, but since it is a pain to search on the internet (try searching large red tomato lol) i put a link to it here. https://www.southernexposure.com/pro...ge-red-tomato/. I like the fact that it is really good and was grown before The Civil War. The biggest strength I have noticed is that they seem to handle transplanting really well.
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#30 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: MA
Posts: 4,968
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