Good luck and happy harvests, TVers.

:wnk:

This is this year's list plus the Dwarf selections that will be coming my way
BOONDOCKS
BLACK BRANDYWINE
BLACK CHERRY
BRANDYWINE(COWLICKS)
CHEROKEE PURPLE
CHURCH
DORA
DELICIOUS
EARL’S FAUX
FISH LAKE OXHEART
GARY O’SENA
GERMAN PINK
GIANT OXHEART
GLAZER’S GIANT
GRANDFATHER ASHLOCK
HEAVENLY DELIGHT (RAYSKOE NASLAZHDENIE)
HELEN’S GERMAN
JD’S SPECIAL C TEX
LEE’S SWEET
LVINOE SERDTSE
MAGNUM BEEFSTEAK
MAMMOTH GERMAN GOLD
OLD BROOKS
POLISH (ELLIS)
PORK CHOP
PROVENZANO
PURPLE DOG CREEK
TERHUNE
VOLOVIE UKHO “OX EAR”
WEST VIRGINIA STRAW
YELLOW BEEFSTEAK
ZADE WILSON

Plus whatever selections friends and family decide they want not on this list.

Of course, subject to change, almost daily between now and seed drop time in early April:



Amazon Chocolate
Amish Paste
Ananas Noire
Aunt Ruby's German Green
Big Boy F1
Black Cherry
Black from Tula
Black Krim
Black Zebra
Bloody Butcher
Blush
Brandywine From Croatia
Brandywine Pink
Brandywine, Sudduth's
Brandywine, Yellow, Platfoot
Carbon
Cherokee Chocolate
Cherokee Green
Cherokee Green Grape
Cherokee Purple
Chinese
Chocolate Cherry
Colosus
Costoluto Genovese
Crnkovic Yugoslavian
Cuore Di Bue
Dester
Dinner Plate
Dr. Carolyn
Dr. Lyle
Dr. Wyche's Yellow
DW Bendingo Dawn Cherry
DW Jaunty Lucky Swirl F4
DW Quirky Numbat F3
DW Quirky Numbat F3
DW Quirky Numbat F4
DW Rosy F4
DW Tasty Tastywine F5
DW Tipsy F4
Dwarf Wild Fred
Early Girl F1
Eva Purple Ball
Experimental
Extreme Bush
Fantome du Laos
Five Star Grape F1
Gary O'Sena
German Red Strawberry
Gold Medal
Grape F2
Great White
Green Doctors Frosted
Green Giant
Green Zebra
Green Zebra Cherry
Grub's Mystery Green
Hoy
Indian Stripe
Indigo rose
Jaune Flammee
JD's Special C Tex
Juliet F1
Kellog's Breakfast
Kimberly
Kosovo
Legenda Tarasenko
Lemon Drop
Maglia Rosa
Maiden's Kiss
Medovaya Kaplya
Moonglow
Moravsky Div
Neves Azorean Red
Opalka
Orange Banana
Orange Strawberry
Paul Robeson
Pearly Pink Orange
Perth Pride
Pink Berlely Tie Dye
Pink Honey Organic
Porkchop
Pruden's Purple
Prue
Purple Dog Creek
Purple Russian
Riesentraube
Russo Sicilian Togetta
San Marzano
Smolag
Stump of the World
Stupice
Sungold F1
Super Marzano
Tami G Hybrid grape
Tappy's Finest
Tommy Toe
Velvet Red
Vince P1 F5
Wapsipinicon Peach
Yellow Pear
Zapotec

I see posts from Vermont to Oregon. How in the world to you get tomatoes on the many heirlooms you are growing? I can't even grow them here in PA.
I once grew a Brandywine and got 0. I grew Omar's Lebanese and got 1 per plant. I grew Silvery Fir Tree , got thousands of blossoms and only 2 tomatoes. So many failures here. Are you using radioactive fertilizer?

CECIL

2013 grow list
captian lucky
purple haze
blush
amish gold
azoychka
blondkopfchen
foxy lady
carmello
caspian pink
dagmas perfection
mexico
paul robenson
aunt rubys german green
bear claw
hawaiian pineapple
oaxacan jewel
stupice
anna russian
lime green salad ****
black plum
hillbilly
purple calabash
wish i hade room for spudakee, indian stripe, big cheef, grandpa charlie, grandpa willie nepal

I have sandy soil, amended with nothing but compost. I start them indoors in April, and plant out late May, early June. I prune to one or two stems, and I believe that helps. I stake with what I think is called Florida weave, though I also stake individually, and have another tying up system I use as well, But mostly it's the Florida Weave.

[QUOTE=cecilsgarden1958;323244]I see posts from Vermont to Oregon. How in the world to you get tomatoes on the many heirlooms you are growing? I can't even grow them here in PA.
I once grew a Brandywine and got 0. I grew Omar's Lebanese and got 1 per plant. I grew Silvery Fir Tree , got thousands of blossoms and only 2 tomatoes. So many failures here. Are you using radioactive fertilizer?

CECIL[/QUOTE]

Hey, Cecil- some years are better than others and varieties can be more or less productive, but I think we're in a pretty prime growing area for tomatoes- very similar to south Jersey. I don't think fertilizer is the key but rather good soil and a bit of an appropriate fertilizer. In fact, too much fertilizer will give you too many leaves and few fruits.

A long time ago when I tried a generic "Brandywine" from a store I got only 2 or 3 tomatoes but a couple years ago I got dozens off pruned plants of the Sudduth's and Cowlick's varieties. Never tried the other two you mentioned.

I'm not sure how many tomatoes you've tried to grow but you'll find all sorts of helpful information here about tomato culture, productive varieties to try, etc. so I hope you're going to keep on trying!

kath

You all are making me feel so much better about the length of my list.

[B]Cherries[/B]
Pink Bumblebee
Black Cherry

[B]Early[/B]
Moskovich

[B]Drying/Sauce/Cooking/Canning[/B]
Jersey Giant
Chinese
Martino's Roma
Amish Paste
Russo Sicilian Togeta
Costoluto Genovese
Zapotec Pleated

[B]Sandwich[/B]
Burbank Slicing
Captain Lucky
Arkansas Traveler

I feel like I'm always on the quest for the perfect tomato, the only tomato I'm regrowing this year is Black Cherry and Costoluto Genovese, and the latter only because SunCityLinda was kind enough to share her abundance of seeds with me and it promises to be a more prolific strain than I grew last year.

My seedlings have all sprouted, this promises to be a very good year!

[QUOTE=Dak;323271]
...I feel like I'm always on the quest for the perfect tomato...[/QUOTE]

I'm on the same quest and don't regrow many either. Congrats on your sprouting success!

kath

[QUOTE=kath;323272]I'm on the same quest and don't regrow many either. Congrats on your sprouting success!

kath[/QUOTE]


Thanks, Kath! It's good to know I'm not alone. My friends think I'm nuts. (that is until harvest season arrives)

My local hydroponic store is my new best friend. This year I invested $20 in a heat mat, I'm sure that made a big difference this year. 5 day germination as opposed to 10.

Wow, these are some lists! Mine is pretty simple.

Bought plants from local nursery:
Sweet 100 cherry
Patio tomato
Bettter Boy

Then bought some seeds:
Mexico Midget cherry
Red Currant
Chocolate Cherry
Wins All (PL, thus Carolyn says not true to name), a large pink slicer
Rainbow Beefsteak seed mix from Totally Tomatoes

Then bought some more seeds:
Jaune Flamme
Lollipop (cherry)
Super Italian Paste
Egyptian (paste)
Big Ray's Argentina Paste

If I had room and time to deal with more this first season, I am intrigued by:
Cherokee Purple
Paul Robeson
some of the Brandywines I have heard praised here

... Just ate the first of the ruby ripe Better Boys, with 2 more imminent and several to follow. Pretty but kind of mild.

So far the list is:
German Johnson
Nyagous
Cherokee Purple
Black Krim
Indigo Rose
Ananas Noire
Kellogg's Breakfast
Orange Minsk
Porkchop-- bonus pack I got from remy, excited for it

[QUOTE=Dak;323275] My friends think I'm nuts. (that is until harvest season arrives)

My local hydroponic store is my new best friend. This year I invested $20 in a heat mat, I'm sure that made a big difference this year. 5 day germination as opposed to 10.[/QUOTE]

Maybe they think it and maybe we are nuts but I think my neighbors like the tomatoes too much to say it to my face.:lol:

I've got a heat mat, too, but it doesn't have a thermostat and I need to move the plants on and off/raise them up above it a bit depending on the time of day because the sun and wood stove can cause the temps to rise too high inside of those plastic covered trays. So far I only planted 3 varieties of tomatoes and 2 of them sprouted in 5 days but none of the third type are up yet on day 10 so I'll probably plant some more seed for that one soon.

Let me know if you find the perfect one this year.;)

kath

[QUOTE=kilroyscarnival;323282]
If I had room and time to deal with more this first season, I am intrigued by:
Cherokee Purple
Paul Robeson
some of the Brandywines I have heard praised here

... Just ate the first of the ruby ripe Better Boys, with 2 more imminent and several to follow. Pretty but kind of mild.[/QUOTE]

Are you able to grow a second crop for fall? Maybe Cherokee Purple would be quick enough for a late-season planting.

I'd love to know what you think about Wins All when you get a ripe one. It's intrigued me several times but I've never grown it.

kath

Cecil,you have been saying what you said for years ... anyone as good as you could grow good tomatoes if you really wanted to. Give it another try.