What's growing in your tomato garden!!!

Currently growing

-Black Cherry
-Sweet 1,000,000
-Yellow Sweet 1,000
-German Queen
-Cherokee Purple
-Triple-L Italian tree
- Yellow Italian
-Campari

And may try the UglyRipe

Black Cherry, And Cherokee Purple were my best producers last year. :)

Mad

This year I'm growing:
Bush Goliath
Cherokee Purple
Chocolate Cherry
Kellogg's Breakfast

Cherokee Purple was my best tasting tomato last year, Bush Goliath the most productive and overall great tomato.
I'm growing them from seed I saved from last year. The other two I'm trying out this year for the first time.

I am growing-
Big Boy
Better Boy
Early Girl
Beefmaster
Vivia Italia
Big Beef
Jet Star
Rutgers
Supersonic
Juliet
Sweet Million
Sungold
Sugery

http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1306787/?hl=Anna+Margaret%5C%27s+Heart

Above is a link to an earlier grow out list and I listed mine in that thread on April 10th if anyone wants to see my list as well as others who also posted their growout lists there.

Carolyn.

Burpee's Super Beefsteak Hybrid
Romanesco Pantano
Burgess Lemon
Marglobe
Belle Starr
Great White
Sugar Lump
Black Krim
Black Cherry
Farmstead Huge
Broad Ripple Currant
Juane Flamme'
BRC Has little green Tomatoes , weather is warm Some are all go !!!

I'm sorry to report, That wilt wiped out most of my tomato plants :(
I'm down to some CP, Triple-L, And Campari. And only a few of these.
I've been growing Tomatoes for years, And never had something like this before.
I think it's to late to start new seeds, So I guess I'll have to humble myself,
And be satisfied with whatever I can find left at Lowes, Or Home Depot. (cough, cough, gasp, cough)

Mad

That happens!
Several of my seedlings are not going to make it.
They just do not seem to have taken the transplanting.
But I had started way too many, thinking I would give most away.
I'll keep the sturdy ones.

I started a lot too, and ended up with 100 although I only need 48. I've got
Anna's Italian Heart (seed from a friend who got them from an old Italian as an heirloom brought from the old country)
Cornue des Andes
Petit Moineau
Reine de Ste. Marthe
Rose de Berne
Rouge d'Irak
Ste. Colombe
St. Pierre

Several of these varieties have excellent disease resistance, like Petit Moineau, Rose de Berne, Rouge d'Irak and St. Pierre. I have problems with early blight so I'm hoping these will help to prolong my harvest!

Hi all, well my grow out list is:
Brandywine Sudduth
Orange Strawberry (altho it's not looking too robust)
Black Russian
Black from Tula
Anna Russian
Cuor di Bue
Druzba
Bloody Butcher
Tasmanian chocolate
Iditarod red
black krim
Black Pear (also not looking so hot)
Big Rainbow
Aunt Gertie's Gold
Aunt Ruby's German Green
Gold Nugget
Juliet
Sun Sugar
Tim's Black Ruffles

Not sure if they are all going to make it into the ground or containers, as some were started later due to germination problems, so we'll see. This is the weekend I hope they are all going in.

Not a big selection - only 18 plants - I'm not a raw tomato fan (to my mother's dismay), but love roasted tomato sauce. Going away from my usual paste tomatoes since last year I got nothing but BER inflicted fruit.

Rosella Purple (Dwarf Tomato)
Brad's Black Heart
Lescara Heart
Dinner Plate (bonus seeds)

And 3 plants that a friend gave me, from seeds he has been saving, he's long forgotten the name. One is supposedly a yellow Beefsteak, one is a pinkish-red slicer, and one is a red slicer from seeds he got at a tomato festival (but think I got 2 of the pinkish red ones as they have the same tag).

I went a bit overboard this year - started all from seed in January and lost a few to frost but had enough extras to replant outside. So here is my list and now they are all at least 5 feet tall with fruit!! Looks like a bumper crop!

Cuore de Toro
Ambrosia Red
Giant Belgium
Hillbilly Potato Leaf
Speckled Roman
Isis Candy Cherry
Japanese Trifele Black
Purple Russian
Linda's Faux
Hungarian
Kellogg's Breakfast
Mule Team
German Johnson
Big Rainbow
Rutgers
Costelueto Genovese
Juane Flamme
Pink Berkeley Tie Dye
Hawaiian Pineapple
Green Grape
Neves Azorian Red
Early Girl
Juliet
Stupice
Kazachka
Pink Ping Pong
Defiant PHR F1
Stawberry Tiger
Mortgage Lifter Bi-color
Black Cherry
Cherokee Purple
Cosmonaut Volkov

WOW!!

Off the top of my head...

Black Cherry
Black Krim
Cherokee Purple
Eva Purple Ball
Sugar Lump
Sugar Sweetie
Grape (probably the last year for this one)
Yellow Pear (for canning)
Sungold (the only hybrid)
749 Valenciano
Lynn's Giant Yellow
Abe Lincoln
Heidi
Boxcar Willie
Sioux
Mortgage Lifter
Arkansas Traveler
Hazelfield Farm
Sherril's Watermelon
Speckled Roman
Cream Sausage
Pink Oxheart
German Johnson
German Pink
Pink Brandywine

Some are single plants and some are two. We grow around forty, maybe a little more, each year. All are from saved seed. I have been gifted seed from folks who have shared packets from seed companies over the years so the varieties are as true as they get. One friend had access to the end of the year Botanical Interest carousel in a local market. The only seed I've ever ditched is Black Prince. A really watery, seedy tomato and tasteless tomato IMO.

The photo below shows eighteen tomatoes, nine each on the left and right. There are two other designated spots that can grow up to eighteen each.

CHERRY TOMATOES
BLACK CHERRY
*CASINO CHIPS
CHAMPAGNE CHERRY
PRIZE OF THE TRIALS
VALS RED NIBBLER

LITTLE BIT BIGGER
*AAA SWEET SOLANO
FLAMME
SWEET CARNEROS PINK

PASTES
AMISH PASTE
BUDDY RUNYON
*CAROL CHYKOS BIG PASTE BLK
*HESHPOLE
KENOSHA PASTE
OPALKA
*ROSALIES PASTE
*WORK RELEASE PASTE

BLACK VARIETIES
*1884 PURPLE
*AMAZON CHOCOLATE
*BKX
*BLACK PEPPER
*CHOCOLATE BEEFSTEAK
*DANAS DUSTY ROSE
*INDIAN STRIPE-POTATO LEAF
*MDME JARDELS BLACK
*PIERCES PRIDE

PINK AND RED HEARTS
*ALICES EGYPT
ANNA MARIAS HEART
*EVERETTS RUSTY OXHEART
FISHLAKE OXHEART
GILDO PIETROBONI
HAYS
KOSOVO
*KUKLA PORTUGUESE HEART
MAYOS DELIGHT
MONKEY ASS
*OLEYARS GERMAN RED HEART
TSAR KOLOKOL
VERAS SEED

PINK AND RED BEEFSTEAKS
AFRICAN QUEEN
ASHLEIGH
AUNT LOUS UNDERGROUND
*BALI
BRANDYBOY
BRANDYWINE, COWLICKS
BRIANNA
COUSTRALEE
*CRNKOVIC YUGOSLAVIAN
*DESTERS AMISH
DRUZBA
*DUTKAS PINK
EARLS FAUX
*EASTHAM PINK
*ECKERT POLISH
GERMAN QUEEN
GRANNY CANTRELLS
GROSSE COTELEE
HOY
*IDITAROD RED (DWARF)
*ITALIAN HEIRLOOM
JEANS PRIZE
LARGE PINK BULGARIAN
*LEHRER
*LILLIAN MAJIEWSKI POLISH RED
LINCOLN ADAMS
*LIZ BIRT
LITHUANIAN
MARIANNAS PEACE
*MAYA AND SIONS
*MC CLINTOCKS BIG PINK
MORTGAGE LIFTER, HALLADAY
*ONCLE REMI
*PINK HONEY
PURPLE DOG CREEK
*REBEL YELL
ROSE
*SANDUL MOLDOVAN
SANTA CLARA CANNER
STE COLUMBE
ST PIERRE
*SEEK NO FURTHER LOVE APPLE
TENNESSEE BRITCHES
TERHUNE
VAN WERT OHIO
*WEST VIRGINA STRAW
*WANDAS POTATO TOP
*WEISNICHTS UKRANIAN

BICOLORS
*ANANAS NOIRE
BEAUTY QUEEN
BLONDE BOAR
*CAPTAIN LUCKY
*COPPER RIVER
HAWAIIAN PINEAPPLE
*OAXACAN JEWEL
OLD GERMAN
*PAMPLEMOUSE DE GRANDPERE
*PORK CHOP
*SPUNKY
*VIRGINIA SWEETS
WALTERS CANDY STRIPE

GREEN WHEN RIPE
ABSINTHE
CHEROKEE GREEN
*GREEN PINEAPPLE

WHITES, YELLOWS, ORANGES
AMANA ORANGE
*CASEYS PURE YELLOW
*COASTAL PRIDE ORANGE
*DAGMAS PERFECTION
*DAVIDS IVORY PINEAPPLE
*DJENA LEE
*KENTUCKY CABIN
*MAIDENS GOLD
*MAYLOR ROTHS
MOONGLOW
ORANGE STRAWBERRY
SHELLENBERGS FAVORITE
*ZLOTY OZAROWSKI


BACK GARDEN==LARGER QUANTITIES FOR CANNING
ORANGE
KELLOGGS BREAKFAST
KENTUCKY BEEFSTEAK ORANGE
RED
LINDAS FAUX
NEW BIG DWARF
MAGYAR PIROS BOKER
BLACK
BLACK KRIM
ROSELLA PURPLE
GREEN WHEN RIPE
GREEN ZEBRA
DWARF BERYL BEAUTY
TOMATILLO

EXPERIMENTAL VARIETIES
GREEN LATERN LIGHTS
LOOKING FOR BLUE ZEBRA
STRIPED STUDENTS
* are new to me varieties.

Hugobee, that orange strawberry may start out kinda wimpy, but it grows to a very large plant with great production. Enjoy.

What do you DO with all of those tomatoes?

That's an odd question for you to ask, GG!
P.

I thought my list was long....lol

First, we have a lot of fun with our own little mini tasting contests. We serve lots of tomatoes at family get togethers. Then we can and make roasted tomato sauce for freezing. And we give lots away. Last year was the craziest. My list was twice that long. I was told my section of the garden was cut in half, so I had to adjust the number of varieties I could grow.

Hey, I only have eight varieties and a total of 48 plants! Nancy, how many of each variety do you grow? I just grow three (one tripod) of new or iffy types, but my tried and true get three tripods. This year that's Rose de Berne and St. Pierre.

Nancy, you told me you were going to cut way back this season but from the looks of your list I guess that didn't happen. LOL

Just a few questions.

You listed Flamme as a cherry, large though it is, so it has to be Jaune Flammee , not Flame from Olympic Flame which is a gold/red bicolor..Right?

Dester Amish. Remember the thread at Tville where SSE called it Dester and Jere at Baker Creek, whopostged in that thread, called it Dester Amish, which confused the situation so at BC it was changed back to just Dester, which I love.

Green When Ripe. To me that's a class of tomatoes and I was unable to find a specific variety called Green When Ripe. The closest I could come is Dealano Green Ripe which I'm growing this year,.

Vera's?

http://t.tatianastomatobase.com:88/wiki/Veras_Paradeiser

The name Leslie
gave me when she gave me the seeds is at the bottom of Tania's page, in blue, which is the name I used and cleverly translates out to Vera's Tomato Seeds.LOL

Great looking list.

Carolyn

Carolyn, I copied and pasted my list from a word document I have on my computer. On that list, the categories of tomatoes were in bold print, but that did not seem to be copied that way and I could not figure out how to highlight it--no too tech savy here. Flamme is Jaune Flamme in my "little bit larger than cherry" list. Long time favorite. In the cherries, the Casino Chips is a great looking plant, so far larger than any of the others. I hope it tastes as good as everyone has been posting.

I am looking forward to trying quite a few of the new pinks and reds, Desters being one. Also Lehrer, Mc Clintocks Big Pink, Rebel Yell, and Weisnichts Ukranian and Pink Honey. I am also excited about some of the new-to-me bi and tricolored varieties. Copper River, Captain Lucky, Oaxacan Jewel and Virginia Sweets all intrique me.

In the always troublesome white category, Davids Ivory Pineapple holds promise. I'm a sucker for anything with Pineapple in the name after discovering the awesome flavor of Hawaiian Pineaple last season. There are quite a few new entries in the white-yellow-orange dept I look forward to. Coastal Pride Orange is the one I am most anxious to try. The Dwarf Project hasn't come out with much in the way of an orange dwarf, so I thought I'd give this one a try.

Green When Ripe isn't a variety but a category. Vera was in my garden last year and I really enjoyed her.

And, believe it or not, that is only half as many varieties as last year.

Nancy, how much room do you have? Wow what a list! I started all kinds of seeds and only planting about 20. Don't have the energy for more and I find I just can't take the heat anymore. Guess I'm getting old! Of course my son took a ton of plants and I'm giving them away.
Thanks for your comment about Orange Strawberry. I was getting concerned. Anna Russian is really frail looking and not sure if I will plant it. Bloody butcher looks like its going to be a strong one. Now I just have to hope for summer to cooperate! Good luck, I can't wait to hear how they all do!
I think we might actually no longer have to worry about frost but who knows?

hugobee: In my experience, Anna Russian always looks wispy, frail and unable to produce, but it always does. Go ahead and plant it and see what happens!

hugobee, I grow in several places but the main garden is up at the old family farm of my husband. His cousin lives there and plants and maintains the garden. It's 2 1/2 hours north of where we live in the Detroit area. Here I mostly grow in global buckets and homemade earth boxes. I'll probably grow about 40 plants here, if it ever gets dry enough to work up the garden. I also grow plants on the rooftop garden at my church and a few at our cottage, where extreme measures must be taken to protect from the omnipresent deer. The only ones I grow a few each of are the back garden varieties especially for canning. Otherwise, it is one of each variety.

Orange Strawberry and Anna Russian are heart shaped tomatoes. They always start out looking so wimpy but grow into large plants with amazing meaty tomatoes. They are, as a group, my favorites. There are some potato leaf hearts out there. This year I am growing Heshpole which is short for Heart Shaped Potato Leaf. I will be comparing it to regular leaf hearts for plant vigor.

►Mule Team
►Mortgage Lifter
►Beauty Beefsteak
►New Big Dwarf
►Virginia Sweets
►NOID (huge, orangey-pink, meaty-juicy, but not runny).
Wish I knew what it was. It's from seeds I saved. Fantastic blend...

GG can you look back and see what you grew so you know what seeds you saved? Or maybe post a pic. If it's from seeds to saved you have to remember what kind it is. Lol

How are your Virginia Sweets doing?

Well I finally planted most of my tomatoes, but it has been way too hot out there for me. Nancy, you are amazing. I'm struggling with the few in my back yard, mostly in containers. I'm trying a new container mix this year, 5-1-1 and it has been so much work I have just gone and bought Pro Mix Bx. Anyways, Anna Russian is still looking like she's on her last leg, but we had a huge rain storm last night and she took a beating. I'm happy to report that Orange Strawberry is looking stringer! Even the Cuor Di Bue looks somewhat wimpy too.

I just bought a beautiful "Silvery Fir Tree" plant at the Farmer's Market today, so that will ensure that I get SOME tomatoes this year. My self-started seedlings are not so strong (grown on a windowsill in midtown Manhattan!).
I will have: Lime Green Salad; Black & Boar; Golden Egg, Silvery Fir Tree and a growout of seeds saved from Ramapo. (Yes, I know Ramapo is a hybrid and the saved seeds won't come "true", but I've done the same experiment with other hybrids and sometimes gotten some worthwhile results, so ...).

JB I ended up buying compact flourescent grow lights which fit into any lamp and used them once I had germination. I got tired of moving them from window sill to window sill and they needed much more light consistently. Took me awhile to figure out a system but the lights made a huge difference, that and a dose I'd patience! I'm curious about the Silvery Fir tree.
Sharon

Lemon boy
Early girl
Sweet 100
Mortgage lifter
Old German
Amish paste

I start my tomatoes and other seedlings under fluorescent lights but they still get spindly. Since we've gotten a greenhouse I put them out there once they have their first true leaves and use heat at night. Any location where they can get light from a variety of directions will help to keep them growing straight and strong.

I used to grow great plants under lights, but we had a lot more space then than was available this Spring in our apartment.
I'll set up a "seedling center" with flourescent lights in our new garage, which has more windows than walls! But that's NEXT year.
hugobee: you can read about Silvery Fir Tree & see photos here: http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/98131/
It doen't seem to be too popular with DGers. I love it, though. Beautiful plant; great in containers; and I like the flavor. Makes great sauce to freeze ffor Winter.

1Lisac,
Here's a pic of my NOIDS.

They're averaging about 1/2 lb. each.

I think I've gotten only 1-2 Vs. Sweets so far. Hard to tell with branches going everywhere in the tomato jungle.

Just want to say that it's going down to 48 degrees tonight in Montreal. I'm praying my tomatoes survive! The temperature swings have been unreal.

It got (or went down to) 47 degrees here last night ,, Burn wilted the leaves on my Black Cherry Tomato plant .
The others all still good ...

Did you have wind? It was pretty windy today. I watered everything pretty well but a lot of my plants are in containers.

Oh yes ! Lots of wind ... That was jungle leafed plant , the only one with that being prominent as that about the leaves ,
The leaf structure was still much lighter than the other plants , It had taken that temperature before without that effect ..
It had rained and been cloudy the day before , but a couple of nights like that , being that it had been hot before , Gave the plant some trouble , it looks like it will recover , only "sogged" (wilted) it down , The leaves are all still green and are curled at the end of today , but they are not turning brown or black as severe burning will do ..

Well even though I consider myself an experienced gardener you folks have volume! I'm growing three varieties: Mr Stripey, Parks Whopper and Sweet Million=8 plants. Just a 1/2 acre ish suburban yard with a few raised beds. But, I've already got flowers and little tomatoes, plants are 4 feet tall already. I love summer!

It was 47 * here 3 weeks ago. Crazy weather.


GG what pic? Lol

Sorry.

Here're my NOIDS.