My List - what made the cut & survived.

[BVGardener]

Below is my list for this spring. Some varieties I will be growing more than one plant. With exception to the dwarf project varieties, all varieties are about 6" tall not including Chapman and Rodger's Best Black - these two had a slow start. I had a bit of a disaster happen when potting up the seedlings. I was working outside with potting up and one of my 72 cell seed trays somehow slipped off the side of my table and landed upside down on the ground (imagine a great deal of profanity when that happened). The good news is that I had already potted up most of that tray which included the really important varieties but no way was I going to use the ones that landed on the ground....most came out of their cells and were therefore unidentifiable.

I also always leave a few slots open for something that I might see locally that I want to trial.

These selections will give me a good mix of color. I did have more white varieties but lost those in the seed tray disaster.

1884
Aker's West Virginia
Amish Potato Leaf
Andrew Rahart's Jumbo Red
Arkansas Traveler
Aunt Gerties Gold
Aunt Ruby's German Green
Beefsteak
Berkeley Tie Dye - Black/Red Striped
Berkeley Tie Dye - Green/Red Striped
Berkeley Tie Dye - Orange/Red Striped
Berkeley Tie Dye - Red/Green Striped
Berkeley Tie Dye - Red/Green Striped
Big Zac
Black Cherry
Black Early
Black Giant
Bradley
Brandy Boy
Brandywine (sudduth)
Bruno
Bucks County
Burpee's Globe
Champion
Chapman
Cherokee Green
Cherokee Purple
Dorothy's Green
Dr. Wyche's Yellow
Druzba
Dwarf Champion
Earlianna
Earl's Faux
Ed's Millennium
Extreme Bush
Fordhook First
Golden Ponderosa
Golden Queen
Goliath
Granny Cantrell's German Red
Green Giant
Green Grape
Green Pineapple
GRS x CP
Grubs Mystery Green
Hillbilly
Huge Black
Husky Gold
Husky Red
Indian Stripe
JD's Special C-Tex
JD's Special Pink
Kentucky Beefsteak
Kosovo
Lemon Boy
Lillian's Yellow Heirloom
Little Brandywine
Little Lucky
Livingston's Favorite
Livingston's Globe
Lucky Cross
Lucky Cross Pink
Main Crop Pink
Marianna's Peace
Matchless
Missouri Pink Love Apple
Mortgage Lifter (tgsc)
Nepal
Neves Azorean Red
New Big Dwarf
Noire Charbonneuse
Nyagous
Old Timey Yellow
Omar's Lebanese
Orange Heirloom
Orange Russian 117
Orange Strawberry
OTV Brandywine
Polish Dwarf
Porterhouse
Pouce de Picardie
Red Brandywine (Landis)
Red Brandywine (VS)
Reif's Red Heart
Rodger's Best
BlackRussian
BlackRussian Red
Schellenberg's Favorite
Tabletalk
Tennessee Britches
Tidwell German
Valena Pink
Watermelon Beefsteak
WES
White Beauty
Wisconsin 55
Wood's Famous Brimmer
Yellow Brandywine (platfoot)
Yellow Brandywine (VS)

Dwarf Project
Kangaroo Paw Brown (F4) vial 2193 - 5 plants
Kangaroo Paw Brown (F4) vial 1996 - 5 plants
Dwarf Russian Swirl (F3) vial 07-46 - 5 plants
Wishful (F2) vial 07-8 - approx. 5 plants (pending number of germinated dwarf seedlings)
Cheeky (F2) vial 07-3 - approx. 5 plants (pending number of germinated dwarf seedlings)
Chilhuacle (F3) vial 1892 - 10 plants
Patty's Pink Potato Leaf (F3) vial 2068 - 10 plants
Shellby's Pink (F3) vial 2101 - 10 plants

[kimpossible]

That is a huge list, and alot of plants! How big is your garden?

[creister]

I see Earliana on your list. Is this the first time you have grown it? I am growing it for the first time this year. What are your impressions of it if you have grown it before?

[BVGardener]

My garden has grown in "sections" over the years and depending on how many plants I grow determines the number of sections used. With RKN now being a problem in one section, I'll now start letting certain sections go fallow for a year. This year I plan on using a 51' wide x 96' long section but due to the relocation of my hoophouse and avoiding a 16' x 24' area where RKN was observed, I may widen the area a bit to accomodate the hoophouse.

I grew Earliana about three years ago but it did not do well and I wanted to give it another trial. It had disease issues early in the season and I was not able to sample any decent fruit so hopefully things will go better this time.

Jay

[feraltomatoes]

Jay,

Do you have any pictures of your different Berkeley Tie-Dye variation that you can post or send me?

Are these variations that you are selecting from a large grow-out? Not sure if I have seen an orange variation in my garden.

thanks,

Brad.

[BVGardener]

Brad, I received about five samples of different variations of that variety from Ray (rnewste) late last year and have not grown them yet. He included a photo of them in the envelope. I'll bring the photo with me tomorrow and scan it and post here.

Jay

[BVGardener]

Brad, here is the scanned photo. Because I scanned it,the color is not represented exactly as it should be. Plus, the scanner added a lot of noise. I edited it pretty close. To give you an idea of how the color is off, note that the two yellow fruit at the right side of the photo with the topside up should have some green shoulders.

If you look at the fruit with "1" by it located at the bottom, middle area, that is one that has orange coloration and so does the one just above #4. But I mostly see the orange color on the one at the bottom.

Jay

[feraltomatoes]

Jay,

I sent Ray home with a box of tomatoes from my garden I guess I should have been specific on the variety names.

Here are the names by number,

1=Beauty King
2=Berkeley Tie-Dye Heart
3=Berkeley Tie Dye
4=Pink Boar
5=Pink Berkeley Tie-Dye

Hope this helps,

Brad....

[kimpossible]

Sorry - my mistake - trying to send a PM!

[BVGardener]

Awesome!! Thanks, Brad.

[gssgarden]

Great picture. Growing PBTD this year and looking foward to it.
I'd love to see cross cuts of those. Very nice.

Greg

[feraltomatoes]

First I will say that Ray is too nice of a guy to have done this with bad intention, he must have thought they where all BTD's.

I guess in hind site I would have been more specific on the names and winked at Ray as he left while reminding him that I have a $10 an hour job in the off season selling seeds.

Brad.......

[BVGardener]

The temps are dropping back down tonight. It's forecasted to get down to 49 degrees.

My fatigue level is telling me that the transplants will be fine tonight in the hoophouse. The digital temperature readout is telling me it's currently 44 degrees outside and don't be so lazy....so off to the hoophouse to move the plants indoors.

It always gets 8 to 10 degrees cooler than what they forecast where I live. Of course this only applies to the winter temps.

Jay