Please Share Your Grow List...

[cecilsgarden1958]

Pink Beauty
Bush Big Boy
First Prize
Gregori's Altai
Valencia
Orange Minsk
Abraham Lincoln Improved Hybrid
Ultra Boy
First Ladies
Bella Rosa

2 Uu-named Red Indeterminate Cherry Growouts

Might add 2 more if I can find something I like.


CECIL

[Caspian Pink]

Here's my list for now:

Beauty King
Brandywine 'Sudduth's
Bulgarian Triumph
Giant Belgium* (this was soooo good last year that I have to grow again)
Green Doctor Frosted Cherry
Green Giant
Green Zebra Cherry
Guernsey Island Pink Blush Cherry
Indigo Rose
Kosovo
Limbaugh's Legacy Potato Top
Malkhitovaya Shkatulka
Momotaro OP
Stupice
Omar's Lebanese * (grown in less than perfect location last year. Would try again this year)
Orange Russian 117
Orange Strawberry
Peach Blow Sutton
Pink Berkeley Tie-Dye
Pink Oxheart*
Pork Chop
Purple Russian * (grown in less than perfect location last year. Would try again this year)
Rose De Berne * (grown in less than perfect location last year. Would try again this year)
Rumi Banjan
Russian #117
San Marzano Redorta
Sandul Moldovan
Sekai Ichi
Speckled Roman
Spudayellow strawberry
Sungold F1* (a must grow every year)
Wes

* variety that I have grown before

Has anyone grown Momotaro OP before? I'm wondering how similar is this to the Momotaro F1. I can't seem to find much information about it.

[Worth1]

Celebrity.
And some sort of cherry.

Worth

[camochef]

Kath,
I see your still planting a great deal of varieties and I wish you the best. I've gone the other direction, from growing hundreds of varieties to just my best of the favorites from over the years. Last year I got down to 23 tomato plants. This year I hope to reduce that number to about 10-12 at the most.
All are slicers, mostly pinks, but an occasional black still in the mix. They are:

German Johnson-Benton Strain: grafted to maxifort rootstock (seed from last years plants, which were the best tasting and most impressive tomato I ever grew).

German Johnson-Benton Strain: From original seed from Dana.

Purple Dog Creek: Last years second best, Number one the year before. (2011)

Liz Birt: A tasty pink cross between Brandywine and Cherokee Purple that has been the first to ripen last year and previous years.

Brandywine-Glicks: large pink Brandywine that surpasses most other Brandywines including Sudduth's most years.

Brandywine-Sudduth's: Another large tasty pink Brandywine that usually is a little less productive than Glick's or Cowlick's.

Cowlick's: A large pink Brandywine that has been exceptional over the years, out- producing both BW-Glick's and BW-Sudduth's most years. Original P.L. but also a R.L. variety discovered by Jon in Ala.

Barlow Jap: A large pink tomato that resembles the better pink brandywines but usually ripens earlier.

BW-CXDDR: A large pink Cowlick Brandywine-Dana's Dusky Rose cross that's been a favorite for the last five years now. The best of both, with the larger size of the BW.

Dana's Dusky Rose: The best tasting of the black tomatoes. More medium-sized than other dark favorites, but oh, so good.

Bear Creek: Another cross between Pink Brandywine and Cherokee Purple but this one is on the dark side of Cherokee Purple. Great taste but not as large as the other BW-CP crosses.

Wishing all a great growing season and lots of gardening enjoyment!
Camo

[Lorri D]

sweet pea
black cherry
sungold
sweet million
madara
sweet beverley
super sweet 100
green doctors
principe borghese
isis candy
green pearl
glacier
stupice
kimberley
early girl
moravsky div
new yorker
koroleva
white tomesol
black krim
white queen
sausage
roma
amish paste
pomadoro red
pomadoro pink
sakharnyi zheltyi
brandywine
cherokee purple
mortgage lifter
pruden’s purple

[kath]

Originally Posted by Caspian Pink

Has anyone grown Momotaro OP before? I'm wondering how similar is this to the Momotaro F1. I can't seem to find much information about it.

I'm also growing it for the first time and wasn't able to find a review either. Btw, I'm probably not the only one wondering why Caspian Pink is missing from your list.

kath

[kath]

Originally Posted by camochef

Kath,
I see your still planting a great deal of varieties and I wish you the best.
Camo

Thanks, Mike- wishing you the same. Please be patient with me and remember how many years of growouts it to get your list so small.

kath

[BigBrownDogHouse]

<pulling hair from head>

I have too many to choose from....I can't decide!

[casino]

This is too much fun, I had to chime in.
I have all these varieties in my 2013 tomato inventory shoe box.
Before the FINAL list is tweaked some varieties grown in 2012 will be slashed.
I will pick 45 varieties from 2012 as keepers and make room for all the 2013 new stuff. I need to add a few blues and my list will be complete.

This is my 2012 tomato grow list, From this list I will pick 45 varieties to re-grow in 2013.
Anna Russian
Aunt Ruby’s German Green
Babywine
Beryl beauty GWR dwarf project
Black Mauri
Black Prince
Black Zebra
Black and red boar
Blondkopfchen
Brandeva
Brazilian beauty
Captain lucky
Casino: Pat Cici Italian all purpose tomato
Casino Chips: cherry tomato (sport) from Pat Cici Italian all purpose tomato
Chocolate Beefsteak: (Joe Test)
Chocolate Cherry
Chocolate stripe
De Barao Gold
Dr. Wyche’s yellow
Earl of edgecomb
Elgum’s Red Cherry
Ernie’s Plump (red)
Ernie’s Plump (yellow)
Eva Purple Ball I have seeds in 2011 seed box
Gajo De Mellon
Gary O’ Sena
Gerry’s Green Giant … GWR beefsteak
Giant African Pink Paste
Giant Belgum
Giant Italian Paste
Grandma Vinney’s yellow and pink
Granny’s Heart
Great white … keep the best white tasting beefsteak
Green Honey: (Joe test) A natural cross found in a seed packet of Brazilian Beauty. Indeterminate, 4 ½ ft, regular-leaf, the plant yields a generous crop of 2-inch, round, lime-green, tomatoes with darker green shoulders. Outstanding, tangy-sweet flavors.
Green Zebra
Grubbs mystery green
Hillbilly
Homers German Oxheart
Hoy
Indigo Rose: Keep in inventory but don’t grow
Irish stripes
Japanese Truffle Black
Japanese Truffle Yellow
KBX
Lancaster County Pink
Lucky cross
Lurley’s Paste
Marizol Braika
Mexico
Mexico Sweetheart (test garden) sport from Mexico, lots of ruffles, prolific
Mini Mexico (test garden) sport from Mexico, few ruffles, great tasting
Moonglow
Neves Azorean Red
Pink Berkley tie die
Pink Champagne
Pink Champagne Salad
Polish Linguisa
Pop My Cherry
Prize of the trials
Prudens purple.
Rebecca Sebastian’s Bull Bag
Red House Dwarf
Red zebra
Rosella Purple Dwarf
Ruby Gold
Russian Rose
San Marzano Paste … From Phyllis garden
Sandul Moldovan
Snow White
Spudakee
Stump of the world
Super Nova (test garden) Gigantic Yellow Beefsteak
Sweet Carneros pink
Terhune
Tidwell German
Tiffen Mennonite
Toedebush Pink
UNKNOWN Volunteer: salad size pink w/ yellow stripes volunteer from tom’s garden
UNKNOWN: Volunteer: Big pleated yellow beefsteak from children’s garden
UNKNOWN: Volunteer: Striped Sausage ? “yellow and Green” plant from A.Z.C. garden superb.
White zebra
Wisconsin 55

Here is the new stuff, NEW varieties for the 2013 test garden
After this year then I can start cutting back to 80 varieties.

African Queen
Amish Canning
Annas Noir: Purchased from Ohioheirloomseeds.com ebay
Austins Black Cherry
Banded Amazon
Bernardini paste
Big White Pink Stripes
Black Mamba
Black Tiger Cherry
Brandywine Sudduth
C.T. X S.T. F3 (test garden)
Canadian heart
Ciliega: from Carols 2013 seed trade
Crnkovic Yugoslavian
Curry
Czech Bush: Purchased from sample seeds.com 2013
Davids pink
Debarao Black
Dester
Dester
Dixie Gold Giant
Dixiwine, purchased
Don’s Double delight: from Carols 2013 seed trade
Dr. Neal
Ernies Plump Large Red
Fantome Du Laos: purchased from sample seed shop.com 2013
Fireworks
Fritz Ackerman
Georgia Green
Girl Girl’s Weird Thing
Goose Creek: Purchased from sample seed shop.com 2013
Grandma josie’s amish white: Purchased from secretseedcartel.com
Granny Cantrell’s German Red
Great White: Purchased from sample seed shop.co 2013
Honey Giant: from Carols 2013 seed trade
Jack white, on its way
Jaune Flamme
Juane Coeur de Pigeon (still on my wish list)
Kickapoo creek, on its way
Kosovo
Legs Diamond purchased from Mariseeds
Little Lucky
Malachite Box: Purchased from Sample seed shop.com 2013 (bonus pack)
Malinowy Olbrzym
Marmande Garnier Rouge: Purchased from secretseedcartel.com
Mary Ann PL
Mary Ann RL
Mr. Bruno … purchased from: Ohioheirloomseeds.com ebay
Natures Riddle
Olive Hill: Purchased from sample seed shop.com 2013
Orange Fleshed Purple Smudge
Orange minsk heart: from Carols 2013 seed trade
Painted Blue
Pink Floyd, on its way
Prudens Purple: purchased from sample seed shop.com 2013
Purple Dog Creek
Purple Passion: purchased from Ohioheirloomseend.com ebay
Rebel Yell
Red Barn
Rose De Berne, on its way
Rozovyi Myod "Siberian Pink Honey" from ohioheirloomseed.com
Russian Queen
Shuntukski velican
Starfire Isis
Strawberry Tiger
Teds Pink Currant
White_Brandy, purchased from Tom Wagner web site
White snowball, on its way
Work Release Paste
Yellow Bosnian: from Carols 2013 seed trade

[Caspian Pink]

Kath,
Caspian Pink was the first tomato I grew. After growing many more varieties, there are others that I like more and there are also more new ones than I have space for. So, it didn't have a chance to get onto my grow list.

[augiedog55]

eckert polish
stump of the world
milka red bulgarian
dixiewine
purpledog creek
gary osena
vorlon
jd special tex c
carbon
kbx
hawiian pineapple

[RobinB]

My husband hasn't seen the list yet. It's best not to mention it until it's too late and they are ready to go in the ground?!?

It's a list that's still in flux as I am still acquiring a few more. Oh, my it's an agonizing process, isn't it?! I've got to keep it under 90... last year it was 87 and I WAS going to cut down the list.

NOTE: I got Momotaro OP from Wintersown in 2012. I sent some of my own saved seed to the large swap run by Heather in Canada this year. I have never grown the F1, so I can't tell you how close they are to each other. The fruit were pink, medium sized, slightly oval and really sweet. In the photo of my son in my avatar, he is holding a Momotaro OP. The plant wasn't particularly large in 2012, but it was an unusual season.

CHERRIES
yellow/white:
coyote
mini yellow (from eBay years ago, tiny yellow marble-sized fruit, compact ind.)
ambrosia gold
galina's yellow
hahm's gelbe topftomate
red/pink:
anmore dewdrop
whippersnapper
ambrosia red
koralik
pink champagne (from Casino; thanks Joe!)
pearly pink
black/blue/purple:
austin's black cherry
chocolate cherry
dancing with smurfs
NOT select blue (off type selection from 2012, deep red cherries, intense tomatoey taste, light dusting of blue)
green:
green doctor's frosted
stripey:
purple bumble bee
starfire isis
green zebra cherry
__________________________________________________ _
SMALLS: non cherry to 4 oz.
red:
kimberly
iditarod red
keepsake
mano
campari OP
orange/yellow:
utyonok
Submarine Blush
black/purple/blue:
NOT Paul Robeson (off-type selection from a packet of paul robeson seeds in 2012, small 1oz black/mahogany plum with green shoulders, very tasty)
midnight select
perth pride
sleeping lady
green:
lime green salad DWARF
stripey:
blue green zebra (thanks to Mark Tutt!)
shadow boxing ("Wavy Blue" blue striped selection from unstable seed purchased from Tom Wagner in 2012, very tasty)
__________________________________________________ _
MEDIUM > 4oz up to 1 lb
red/pink:
sasha's altai
maya & sion's airdrie classic
dwarf arctic rose
momotaro OP
yukon quest
belmonte
russo sicilian togeta
fish lake oxheart
purple/black/blue
rosella purple
brazilian beauty
tasmanian chocolate
margaret curtain
japanese black trifele
paul robeson
orange/yellow/white:
jaune flamme
dagma's perfection
woodle orange
green:
grub's mystery green
malachite box
stripey/multicolor:
pink berkeley tie dye
russian cossack (large fruited, determinate, pink/purple ruffled with green stripes, selection from unstable seed purchased from Tom Wagner in 2012)
__________________________________________________ _
LARGE 1 lb +
red/pink:
turkish ayla
sunset's red horizon
striped/multi color
ananas noire

Plus, about 30-40 plants to grow out from the Dwarf Tomato Project: Plucky, and hopefully Kiwi and Cheerful.

[checkerkitty]

I've already started my seed. I started one batch 12/19/12 and one a few days after. From memory (which is pretty bad at times), this is my list:

Brandy Boy (OP seed sent by a friend)
1884 Yellow Pinkheart
Brown Sioux (seed sent by a friend)
Yellow Sweet 100 (OP seed sent by a friend)
Rose Quartz Multiflora
Casino Chips
Big Cheef F6
Indian Stripe
Brown and Black Boar
Gary'O Sena
JD's Special C-Tex Early Black
Azoychka
Spudakee
Bloody Butcher
Lemon Boy (DH loves this one)
Sibirskiy Velikan Rozovyi
Russian Queen
Dino Eggs
Tomesol
Blush
Purple Russian
Daniels
Hege German Pink
Purple Dog Creek
Aunt Ginny's Purple
Stump of the World
NOT Stump of the World (one seed is RL. I'm growing that little plant out!!)
Ethel Watkin's Best
Paul Robeson
Haley's Purple Comet

"The Dwarfs"
Most of the released varieties from the Dwarf Project.
New Big Dwarf
Extreme Bush
Dwarf Golden Champion


I have a few runts. If they decide to grow, I'll also have:

Dice's Mystery Black
Not Black Cherry
Andrew Rahart's Jumbo
Grape

I'm also going to try my hand at grafting. I picked up a pack of Celebrity starts at Lowes. I haven't decided which heirlooms I'm going to graft. I planted WAY too many seeds, though. I think I'm sitting on 250 to 300 plants right now. I have a few extra to experiment with. I'll be using aquarium airline tubing to hold the grafts together.

Christy

PS- To those Tomatovillians who were so very generous and sent me some of the seed for the tomatoes you see listed above, I send a hearty thanks. My garden and dinner table will be all the richer for your generosity. My taste buds salute you!!

[kath]

Thanks to everyone who's posted a list so far- love to see the results of everyone's careful planning.

Joe- it's good to know that I'm not the only one who has fun looking at all these amazing lists- small or huge, it's interesting to see what everyone chooses; though I admit I'm always relieved to see that mine list is still shorter than many others but I'm encouraged by those who show more restraint. I wish you luck paring down your 2012 list and holding to your goal of 80 for next year.

Robin, thanks for your input about Momotaro op- I grew the hybrid twice and don't remember any elongation but the size was the same as in your photo. Looks like many will be growing it this year so we'll see what we get. So happy to see that there's someone that will be growing even more cherry tomato varieties than I have! I'll be trying to keep mine pruned early in the season until I taste some fruits to see which ones I like the best.

Checkerkitty, I think you've got a great list AND a great memory!

Long or short- please post it!

Thanks- kath

[marc_groleau]

Cherries:
My f3 Italian Cherry Hybrid grow outs.
2 types, probably to be named Stella Rossa and Luna Rossa.
Good luck to those TVers who will be tying it as well.

Fun project:
My own f1 cross of Ch. Purple and Pineapple.
Good luck to those TVers who will be tying it as well.

Blacks:
Black from Tula
Cherokee Purple
Carbon

Reds/Pinks:
Eva's Purple Ball
Boxcar Wille
Crnkovic Bulgarian
Dr. Lyle
Omar's Lebanese
Cuostralee
Aker's W. Virginia
Neves Azorean

Paste:
Heidi
San Marzano
Viva Italia Hybrid... An awesome producer that will stay until I find an heirloom as productive and trouble free.

Multicolored:
Old German... very nice for me last year and great taste!