2024 Grow List
 

It's strange to not see anyone's grow list posted yet, do I guess I'll post mine to get some of you people out of the woodwork.

GWR: Absinthe, Malachite Box
Yellow: Buckeye Yellow, Aunt Gertie's Gold
Orange: KBX, Orange Heirloom, Pederson's Beefsteak
Black: Brad's Black Heart, Grandma Oliver's Chocolate, Sokolades, Gary O'Sena
Red:Wes, Bloody Butcher, Cuostralee, Neves Azorean Red, Goose Creek
Pink: Hoy, Kolb, Daniel Burson, Brandywine Sudduth, Aunt Ginny's Purple, Tsar Kolokol, Caspian Pink, Purple Dog Creek, Marlowe Charleston, Fred Limbaugh's Potato Top, Eva Purple Ball, Dester

After 45 years of growing tomatoes my list has finally shrunk down to these 6 varieties for 2024: SOTW, Dester, AGP, Rebel Yell, Daniel Burson, and Rosovye Krupnye. The older I get the shorter my list gets. I only have 4 or 5 varieties left on my Bucket list.

I was just telling my partner the other day that if I had to, I could whittle my list down to these favorites: Benevento F1 and Polaris for tomato sandwiches, Purple Boy F1 for a reliable tasty medium tomato, and for cherries, Rosella cherry and Chocolate Sprinkles F1. All of these did very well last year despite the root-knot nematodes in some beds. A month ago I planted Kodiak mustard, which is nematocidal if it's chopped and incorporated into the soil at the right time.


Here's what I'm actually seeding this year, in addition to those 5:

striped/multi: Belle du College, Magic Bullet, Pink Berkeley Tie Dye, Prairie Fire, Talvez F1, Thorburn's Terra Cotta, Maglia Rosa, Taste Patio, Girl Girl's Weird Thing

dark: Black Plum, Carolina Dusk, Cowboy, Daifuku, One Trick Pony, Raya Rey, Reinhard Kraft's Purple Sugar

pink: Damsel F1, Pink Champagne, Pink CherryWine F!, Pink Jazz, African Queen, Pruden's Purple, Raspberry Lyanna

red: Franchi's Red Pear, Granny's Throwing, Jersey Breeze, Sheboygan, Bush Early Girl F1, Cherry Falls, Picus F1, Ruby Slippers, Beefy Red, Belmonte Pear, Legend, Sweet Aperitif, Tommy Toe

yellow/orange: Goldie, Moon Child, Orange Jazz, Sunrise Bumble Bee, Thorburn's Lemon Blush, Woodle Orange, Orange Hat, California Sungold, Hawaiian Pineapple, Kellogg's Breakfast, Taxi

GWR: Sweet Baby Jade, Bo Mango, Green Bee F1

I don't think I've ever grown so many indeterminate cherry tomato varieties before! My list of reds also looks much longer than usual.

[QUOTE=habitat_gardener;772052]

striped/multi: Belle du College, Magic Bullet, Pink Berkeley Tie Dye, Prairie Fire, Talvez F1, Thorburn's Terra Cotta, Maglia Rosa, Taste Patio, Girl Girl's Weird Thing

dark: Black Plum, Carolina Dusk, Cowboy, Daifuku, One Trick Pony, Raya Rey, Reinhard Kraft's Purple Sugar

pink: Damsel F1, Pink Champagne, Pink CherryWine F!, Pink Jazz, African Queen, Pruden's Purple, Raspberry Lyanna

red: Franchi's Red Pear, Granny's Throwing, Jersey Breeze, Sheboygan, Bush Early Girl F1, Cherry Falls, Picus F1, Ruby Slippers, Beefy Red, Belmonte Pear, Legend, Sweet Aperitif, Tommy Toe

yellow/orange: Goldie, Moon Child, Orange Jazz, Sunrise Bumble Bee, Thorburn's Lemon Blush, Woodle Orange, Orange Hat, California Sungold, Hawaiian Pineapple, Kellogg's Breakfast, Taxi

GWR: Sweet Baby Jade, Bo Mango, Green Bee F1

I don't think I've ever grown so many indeterminate cherry tomato varieties before! My list of reds also looks much longer than usual.[/QUOTE]

So many I've never even heard of. Nice list.

Cutting my list down each year
 

I have cut my list to Brandywine Suddith, Marianna's Peace, Rebel Yell, Irish Liquor and Stump of the World.

Dwarfs - New Bid Dwarf, Rosella Purple, Tasmanian Chocolate and Beaver Lodge Slicer (this is the early one)

[QUOTE=habitat_gardener;772052]I was just telling my partner the other day that if I had to, I could whittle my list down to these favorites: Benevento F1 and Polaris for tomato sandwiches, Purple Boy F1 for a reliable tasty medium tomato, and for cherries, Rosella cherry and Chocolate Sprinkles F1. All of these did very well last year despite the root-knot nematodes in some beds. A month ago I planted Kodiak mustard, which is nematocidal if it's chopped and incorporated into the soil at the right time.


Here's what I'm actually seeding this year, in addition to those 5:

striped/multi: Belle du College, Magic Bullet, Pink Berkeley Tie Dye, Prairie Fire, Talvez F1, Thorburn's Terra Cotta, Maglia Rosa, Taste Patio, Girl Girl's Weird Thing

dark: Black Plum, Carolina Dusk, Cowboy, Daifuku, One Trick Pony, Raya Rey, Reinhard Kraft's Purple Sugar

pink: Damsel F1, Pink Champagne, Pink CherryWine F!, Pink Jazz, African Queen, Pruden's Purple, Raspberry Lyanna

red: Franchi's Red Pear, Granny's Throwing, Jersey Breeze, Sheboygan, Bush Early Girl F1, Cherry Falls, Picus F1, Ruby Slippers, Beefy Red, Belmonte Pear, Legend, Sweet Aperitif, Tommy Toe

yellow/orange: Goldie, Moon Child, Orange Jazz, Sunrise Bumble Bee, Thorburn's Lemon Blush, Woodle Orange, Orange Hat, California Sungold, Hawaiian Pineapple, Kellogg's Breakfast, Taxi

GWR: Sweet Baby Jade, Bo Mango, Green Bee F1

I don't think I've ever grown so many indeterminate cherry tomato varieties before! My list of reds also looks much longer than usual.[/QUOTE]

Very nice list, lots of variety! I hope you will enjoy mine and Its nice to see a number of Fred Hempel tomatoes on your list. I’ll be growing out quite a few as well.
Have a wonderful season!
KarenO

That's a nice list. Daniel Burson is a dark tomato. You have it listed as pink.

Also, Goose Creek is a pink tomato, not red.


I have about 50 varieties started so far and will start another 100 or so over the next few days.

I already have seedlings outside the window at home, which I will plant under glass in a cold frame around March 25. The larger ones at the back are the parthenocarpic varieties Gold Nugget, Oregon Spring, Oregon Eleven, Oroma, Santiam and Siletz. The ones in front are shrubs Sophie's Choice, Maglia Rosa, Jagodka, Sarayev Shtambovyi, Mongolian Karlik, Lyana Rozovaya and Vspyschka.
In a fortnight I will sow the seeds of Indeterminate varieties, which I will plant freely in the garden beds after May 15. I have the following seeds ready:
Cherry:
Datlo, Medovaya Kaplya, Primabella, Goldkrone, Picadilly, Lucky Tiger

Tomatoes for long-term storage from Mallorca:
Ramallet Pequeňito Mallorquin, Bombeta, Ramallet Mugró, Ramallet Saint Llorenc des Cardassar. Ramallet de Figueral, ramallet Ibiza Bianca, ramallet Flor de Artagna

Tomatoes for long-term storage from the area under Vesuvius:
Re Umberto, Primcipe Borghese, Pienollo del Vesuvio, Pienollp x LA 4

Spanish steaks:
Rosado de Ayerbe, Pombriego, Rosa de Huesca, Valenciano, Rosa Sierra Aracena, Rosado Zapaton, Rosa de Huesca, Rosa Aragon, Zamorano, salobre, Cor de Bou, Gordo Extremeňo, Rosa Melillerd

Big hearts:
Fresa, Alice. Kuklas Portuguese Heart, Wes, Brad's Black Heart, Orange Russian 117, Mom's Heart.

Tomatoes for heat treatment:
Opalka, Amish Paste, Gilbertie, Saint Jean d'Angely, Smiley Works, Alter Komunist, Cows Tit, Auria, San Marzano Gigante

Different:
Zogola, Mountaineer Pride, Zena's Gift, Hardin's Miniature, Manitoba, Cherokee Jumbo, Golden Königsberg, Noire de Crimée, Bejbino F1, Start F1, Mikado.

Vladimir

I thought my list was posted somewhere but here goes. There have been a few additions and subtraction since the first list.

2023 was so bad if I didn't show some early enthusiasm I may not even try gardening for a while. So earliest ever list of tomatoes and peppers:

Reds: Box Car Willie, Fred Limbaugh's Potato Top, Neve's Azorean Red, Domingo, Tsarskiy Lubmets

Pinks: Big Ben #1, Cowlick's Brandywine, Brimmer, Butterbaugh, Dot's Delight, Giant Belgium, Soldaki, Willow's Bulgarian

Yellow/Bi-color: Jeanine's Heart, Orange Russian #117

Black: Carbon, Kan-Tex Sweetheart(? is this correct), Maggie Mater.

Red Heart: Amizilettii's Giant Red Heart, Anzhela Gigante, Bobbie, Linnie's Oxheart, Rozovyi Kilogrammov

Pink Heart: Anna Russian, Mom's Heart, Pappy Kerns Pink Heart, Kukla Portuguese Heart

Salad Size: Stupice, Compari (grow out from store bought tomato)

Peppers: Giant Aconcagua, Chablis, Corno Di Toro Yellow, Fat-n-Sassy, Peppi Red, Peppi Yellow, Red, Yellow and Red Snacker from store bought hybrid, Giant Sweet Devil's Horn Orange, KL-C red

I will try zucchini, some decorative gourds and Orange-glo watermelon without much hope for getting a crop, but I try anyway.

Mrs PaulF ordered a whole pile of flowers that will get an early start along with the tomatoes and peppers

[QUOTE=MissS;772062]That's a nice list. Daniel Burson is a dark tomato. You have it listed as pink.[/QUOTE]

Ah. Thanks. I haven't grown it before, and somehow thought it was pink.

[QUOTE=Fusion_power;772065]Also, Goose Creek is a pink tomato, not red.


I have about 50 varieties started so far and will start another 100 or so over the next few days.[/QUOTE]

Yes, I think it is pink, but know there was some thread on here a long time ago about whether the original source was red or pink. I think the one I have is actually pink (translucent skin), but I had it in my spreadsheet as a red (yellow skin). I haven't grown it in years, so I'll confirm it this season.

Pink: Stump Of The World, Aunt Ginny's Purple, Brandywine SS, Damsel F1, Tiffen Mennonite(Tiffen came as a substitute and I'm debating as to whether or not if i have room for it).

Dark: Bear Creek, Indian Stripe

Red: Lynnwood, Wisconsin 55, Ramapo F1, Atkinson, Rutgers, Pan America, Marglobe, Break O Day, Big Beef F1

Sun Gold F1

Edit* i also grow jalapenos, cucumbers, onions, garlic, beans, letuce, various herbs, raspberries, thornless blackberries, grapes and lots of flowers

Tomatoes:
Gloria's Treat, Stump of the World, Black Cherry, Sophies Choice, Rosella Crimson,
Dwarf Vince's Haze, Dwarf Pink Passion 65 days, Zade Wilson
Peppers:
Bounty sweet pepper, King of the North pepper, Early Summer pepper, Pepper Gourmet,
Lesya, Orange Lesya.

Copied from my garden plan

Tomatoes

5 Arkansas Traveler 1 Amish Gold Slicer 1 Rebel Yell 1 Margaret Curtain


1 Captain Lucky 1 Druzba 1 Boxcar Willie 1 Cherokee Purple 1 Dester 1 Kellog's Breakfast


2 Danko

Happy growing!