Member discussion regarding the methods, varieties and merits of growing tomatoes.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Wasilla Alaska
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Speaking of Dester, I did a cross with Dester several years back and stabilized it. Unbelievable taste, I broke it into two families, Small Pink and Old School. I'm going to send them out this fall, I am offering starts of them in our retail center this Spring. Oh yeah......
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#32 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Dec 2017
Location: Metro Denver
Posts: 766
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Yay AK Mark! Love your work!
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#33 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jan 2018
Location: Steens, MS 8a
Posts: 410
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Here in Mississippi, the heat and humidity, and fungus, and nematodes make for interesting times when trying to grow tomatoes. My intent is not to disparage any variety, be they OP or hybrid, but I will say that Big Beef is absolutely the best all-around tomato that I have ever grown. It's decently early, VERY PRODUCTIVE, and has great disease resistance. We can argue the nuances of "flavor", or "taste" all day long, but Big Beef is my "go-to" tomato every year.
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#34 | |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: SE PA
Posts: 971
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Cuostralee!! And big beef, though they never get really a deep red they are my main production tomato. |
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2019
Location: CO
Posts: 6
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![]() Also cannot wait for a chance to try out these seeds - thank you again |
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#36 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Dec 2020
Location: UK
Posts: 60
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My favourite red last year was a variety called Gourmandia (F1) not sure if it’s readily available in the US or other countries?
Good well balanced flavour, good production and versatile! Went on BLTs, in soup and sauce and was nice fresh! |
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#37 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jun 2014
Location: Spartanburg, SC
Posts: 1,262
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My favorites are Aker's West Virginia and Zogola, hands down
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#38 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Victoria, Australia
Posts: 870
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My favorite the last two years running is Garrote Bicolor Aracenes, a Spanish heirloom
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#39 | |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Dec 2017
Location: Ústí nad Labem in the north of the Czech Republic
Posts: 332
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I wonder what the situation between US and UK is now that UK is not a member of EU any more. I mean in tomato seed exchange. Have there been any changes recently? Milan HP |
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Madison, OH, zone 6
Posts: 468
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#41 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Wasilla Alaska
Posts: 2,010
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We crossed Bloody Butcher, and other early producing varieties, into many quality heirlooms over the years. Bloody Butcher has proved to work very well, they are already flavorful, and are also very early. We have quite a bit of space to grow out many plants to get a good selection in each generation, that helps.
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#42 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: NC - zone 8a - heat zone 7
Posts: 4,916
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My favorite it big beef. But out of seeds.
So this year I will grow Better Boy and Big Boy.plus Marclobe and Cuostralee. Down South Big Beef Fights the heat Real well.
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#43 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Mar 2021
Location: Illinois
Posts: 199
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Ok, disclaimer before I go on...I have only grown plants from commercially available seeds, meaning mostly hybrids.
That said, my favorite for size and flavor last year was Super Beefsteak from Burpee. I can't remember what cherry tomatoes I had last year, but they were really good. I had Early Girls (I think) as well, was not impressed with the size nor number of tomatoes I got. Seems that they only grew slightly bigger than the cherry tomatoes, and didn't have a lot of flavor. This year I'm putting in 2 varieties of beefsteak, SB and Porterhouse. I love my red tomatoes, but after reading a lot of posts here, and thinking about it, I believe I'll try a heirloom or two in different colors next year. I'm not a fan of the flavor of most yellow tomatoes, but might try some purple/blue ones. |
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#44 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Madison, OH, zone 6
Posts: 468
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If you like beefsteaks try a pink heirloom beefsteak of which there are some really good ones.
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#45 | |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Dec 2020
Location: UK
Posts: 60
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As for situation with seeds from abroad, I had no problem receiving seeds from both Farmer Shawn and Craig in the USA and also Vertiloom and TomatoEden (Belgium and Poland I believe) this side of the new year, also know a friend who ordered and received seeds this week from Renaissance Farms - so either it’s not a huge problem when buying for personal use, or they just slipped through the net and we were lucky! ![]() Know a lot of sites selling plant stock like dahlias/lilies/bulbs/fruit trees etc from abroad have stopped all orders to the UK though now ![]() |
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