Member discussion regarding the methods, varieties and merits of growing tomatoes.
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June 4, 2018 | #16 | |
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Life's too short to waste time growing tomatoes that don't taste fabulous (to me). My keepers would be: Anna Russian Blush Bulgarian Triumph Indian Stripe Little Lucky Lithium Sunset Maglia Rosa Margaret Curtain Pruden's Purple Rose my Early Annie cross Linda |
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June 4, 2018 | #17 |
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Dotson's Lebanese Heart (good fried greens)
Hardin's Miniature (A tasty true mini grows & produces inside or out) Post Office Spoonful (People who've tasted them request them) Nan |
June 4, 2018 | #18 |
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Keeper tomatoes?
It changes for me almost every year since new ones will replace some on my original list. Those who have been here quite a few years will remember when I was asked to list my all time best 5 or 10 or 20 tomato varieties and my response was always the same,new ones grown often mean deleting previous ones on my list. Carolyn
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June 4, 2018 | #19 | |
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The list below is from memory and as I am getting to that point where it isn't as dependable as it once was I may have left off a few of my must plant tomatoes. Brandywine Cowlick's Bradywine Sudduth's Pruden's Purple Giant Belgium Aunt Ginny's Purple Dester Neves Azorean Red Indian Stripe PL Indian Stripe JD's Special C Tex Spudakee Delicious Limbaugh"s Legacy Stump of the World Red Barn Marianna's Peace Henderson's Winsall ( added to the list 4 years ago) Kentucky Wonder (added last year) 1884 (added two years ago) Granny Cantrell (added 3 years ago) Donskoi German Johnson Arkansas Traveler Couilles de Taureau Since I usually plant between 30 and 45 different varieties most years there are a few others that almost always get a planting, a few old ones I used to plant and any new ones I want to try. It would be a lot simpler if I could get it down to only 10 or so but I just can't. Still it is better than when I used to plant nearly 100 different varieties over the course of each season. This way there are not nearly as many disappointments. After a few years of planting so many different varieties each year where at least 75% were not what I was looking for I started seriously culling out varieties. Eventually I got even more picky and started culling out decent but not great varieties and it is a lot easier deciding what to plant now. If I hear about a tomato that a lot of members talk highly of I will give it a try or two. Bill |
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June 4, 2018 | #20 | |
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June 5, 2018 | #22 |
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Well Neves Azorean Red has already proved itself this year. I only have one plant so far but since the 25th of May I have picked 18 ripe fruit from it. I got 9 well blushed ones today. Neves has not done that good in several years and with a lot more fruit on the plant it should be one of my top producers this year.
I just got through picking and wow were the plants putting out the fruit today. It was very hot here yesterday and the day before and they are ripening fast now. I have almost filled my ripening table on the porch and have been giving away a lot and eating a lot. I doubt I will have another day with as many fruits ready to pick as I had today so things should slow down a bit. With the amount of new tomatoes from mid plant up things will really slow down. We better put up some sauce this week. Bill |
June 5, 2018 | #23 | |
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How do you like the flavor or NAR, I love them. Worth |
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June 6, 2018 | #24 |
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Worth I am at the point in my life that if I don't love a tomato then I just don't grow it anymore. I sampled hundreds of different varieties over the years and came to realize that it was just too much work to take care of a tomato I didn't even want to eat. I have been growing Neves every year for about 10 years and it is a favorite of mine not just for the flavor but because I never know from year to year how it will do. Some years it will make really big tomatoes but not set too many fruits and other years it will set tons of fruit with lots of medium tomatoes and I am still trying to figure out what makes it do that. This year may be the best year ever for NAR because it is making a few really big ones and lots of med/lg ones. It is also one of those tomatoes that can take the southern heat where lots of the large beefsteaks do poorly as the real summer heat gets here. I set out some more plants in the middle of May and NAR was among them because most years it will still produce some good fruit despite the 90+ temps of mid and late summer.
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June 6, 2018 | #26 | |
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June 7, 2018 | #27 |
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Yep, that's what I was going to point out: NAR is one of the few varieties I have grown that definitely has some Verticillium Wilt resistance. No one owns the rights to it, so we probably won't ever see a "VNTC" next to the name, but I believe it has the V resistance.
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June 7, 2018 | #28 | |
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June 7, 2018 | #29 |
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It's been 15 days since I planted out. Everybody looks good, A few standouts so far worth mentioning are:
Crnkovic Yugoslavian Mat-Su Express Barlow Jap Momotaro Missouri Pink Love Apple Crnkovic is twice as big everybody, and has set fruit already! I've never seen that 2 weeks after planting, though it was unusually warm here at the end of May. |
June 7, 2018 | #30 |
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Considering the original source of NAR it doesn't surprise me much at all that it might have some disease tolerances.
http://tatianastomatobase.com/wiki/Neves_Azorean_Red The Azores comprise several islands we don't know which island it came from, Anthony Neves never told that to the man at Neptune's Harvest CO.But most of the islands were first settled by the Portuguese and at one time Portugal and Spain were one country, and it was the Spanish who brought back seeds from the new world and there are now about,I think 15 species known, all originated in South America. And many of those species DID have some genes related to some diseases as has subsequently been proven by DNA analyses. So when brought to Spain and Portugal there will one find the greatest diversity of tomato varieties, as those of us know already b/c some have been getting seeds from there for a very long time.Diversity b/c of spontaneous mutations and accidental crossing. Baikal,Island of Mallorca Ilex, Paco, from N Spain And now Nicolas who spoke for Baikal before since Baikal wasn't very good with English. And there was a woman,whose name I can't remember who lived on the border between France and Spain and she was considered an authority on Spanish varieties, but I was then told she got very ill and I think she passed away. And as the years went on there were some in Spain especially who were able to get seeds from the Spanish seed bank. All to say that I like NAR very much and am so glad I was lucky to find it and make it better known. Carolyn
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