January 27, 2013 | #61 |
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Here's a few I started indoors, but they usually get tall spindly and neglected.
Nothing exotic like most of you folks. |
January 27, 2013 | #62 | |
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The Wins All (potato leaf) has been a handsome plant so far. Just getting a few flowers now, so it'll be a while. They say I'll be out of business on everything except sweet potatoes and melons after about Memorial Day; too hot. Though the guy I met at the horse barn said he grows Sweet 100 all summer. |
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January 27, 2013 | #63 | |
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January 27, 2013 | #64 | |
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Todays commercial varieties taste like manure as a general rule.
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January 27, 2013 | #65 |
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We are in the process of moving off our 120 acre farm soon, and moving closer to the city. Our lot is 1 1/3 acres. So my list is teeny compared to the usual 60-90 varieties I have grown in previous years. 20+ years of growing heirlooms. Every year the list got longer and longer. Just cant do it anymore. With close to 200+ tomato plants, I loose the joy in it by midsummer..
We will dismantle my GH we recycled from used sliding glass doors and old windows a few years ago. That baby is going with me!! And I will have a very small garden outside of that. A few of my favorite returnees: Purple Dog Creek Pantano Romanesco Fish Lake Oxheart Sungold F1 (Grandsons favorite) New to me and my garden: Dester Frosted Green Doctors Cherry Hartmans Yellow Gooseberry George O' Brien Rajce Tisk Hroznove (If I get from Carolyns offer) I look forward to the 2013 growing season, and starting a new, smaller, garden plot in a new area. It will be much easier for me to maintain and enjoy!! Ginny |
January 27, 2013 | #66 |
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100 varieties! still on the hunt to see if there are a few more I would like to try to add
Amana Orange Anna Russian Aunt Molly's mos Aunt Ruby's German Green Aunt Ruby's Yellow Cherry Banana Legs Berkeley Tie Dye Bicolor Cherry Black and Brown Boar Black from Tula Blueberry Blush Brandywine Brown Berry Carbon Cherokee Chocolate Cherokee Green Cherokee Purple Cosmonaut Volkov Coyote Dester Dr Carolyn Pink Dr. Wyche's Yellow Druzba Dwarf Arctic Rose Dwarf Beryl Beauty Dwarf Jade Beauty★ Dwarf Mr. Snow Dwarf Sweet Sue Dwarf Wild Fred El Rey Tomatillo Elfin Eva Purple Ball German Johnson German Red Strawberry Giant Syrian Gold Nugget Great White Green Doctors Green Doctors Frosted Green Giant Green Zebra Green Zebra Cherry Haley's Purple Comet Husky Cherry Gold Iditarod Red Indian Stripe Indigo Rose Isis Candy LG Jaune Flamme JD's Special C-Tex KBX Kellogg's Breakfast Large Barred Boar lemon Boy Lillian's Yellow Heirloom Little Lucky Lollipop Lucky Cross Maiden's Gold mini Marizol Magic Martino’s Roma Matt’s Wild Cherry Mini Carol Yellow Mortgage Lifter Nebraska Wedding Nepal Orange Russian 117 Orange Strawberry Perth Pride Pink Berkeley Tie Dye Pink Boar Polish Dwarf Prize of the Trials Purple Russian Red Brandywine Red Centiflor Rose Quartz Multiflora Rosella Purple Sleeping Lady Speckled Roman Strawberry Margarita Striped Red Boar Stump of The World Stupice Summertime Gold Summertime Green Sungold OP SunSugar Tasmanian Chocolate Taxi Tiger Tom White Tomesol Yellow Centiflor Yellow Currant LG Yellow Pear Yukon Quest Zapotec |
January 27, 2013 | #67 |
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The eagle has landed!
I have about 1000 seedlings in seed start trays 1 and 2. This is 4 days from planting the seed. The trays were on top of my grow lights where temps average about 80 degrees. I kept them properly watered. These two trays are now under lights and looking gorgeous! I still have 4 trays of seed to plant so lots more work to do. I like having them spread out a bit because it eases the potting up steps a bit. DarJones |
January 28, 2013 | #68 |
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To try to add to the discussion about momotaro vs. momotaro OP, I became
intrigued with this tomato a couple years ago. At the time, there was a lot of discussion about the pros and cons of the two. The consensus seemed to be heavily in favor of the hybrid which is an unusual stance for many heirloom enthusiasts. I have grown (attempted) the hybrid twice now and both were disasters. The last one got a direct hit from a softball sized hailstone. I do buy the hybrid at the farmer's market in the winters here and they are worthy competition for the best of the heirlooms, IMO. |
January 28, 2013 | #69 |
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Ginny, I haven't come to your envelope yet so I'm pretty sure you'll get the Rajce one but I'm betting that it won't have the name it does now. I'll correct it with the germination thread or the Fall performance thread when the two folks looking into it come up with something.
I see many of you growing Aunt Ruby's German Green ( ARGG) For a totally separate issue which I'm not going to go into, I had a long talk with Bill Minkey yesterday about ARGG. Bill first listed it in the 1993 SSE Yearbook and in the 1994 Yearbook there were just two listing it, Bill and myself. All to say that the German part of the name is probably, well,, more substantial than that, is not correct. No sense renaming it, really, but it's amazing how wrong information gets added to a variety. There was no German grandfather that brought it from Germany. As Bill said, his Aunt Ruby could well have gotten it from a neighbor with an ethnic background or name that was of German origin. Bill and Neil Lockhart and Marianne Jones and Craig, and a few more I know well, all joined SSE in the late 80's to early 90's so we've all known each other for a very long time. Now I have to call the person who was looking into the background and tell that person no German link back to Germany at all. Oh how I love the history of heirlooms and how errors can creep in. Carolyn, who has received a huge number of new varieties for this next season, but has to get the seeds out for the seed offer first before she can even think of a growout list.
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January 28, 2013 | #70 |
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Robin,
Thanks for your input about Momotaro OP. I'm glad this is a sweet one. I like sweeter tomatoes. |
January 28, 2013 | #71 |
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I put my list on the trade forum:
http://tomatoville.com/showthread.php?t=26336 |
January 28, 2013 | #72 |
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I'm amazed! Those lists make me feel like a total amateur. I grew forty two varieties last year and simply had more tomatoes to deal with than I wanted. This year, I cut my list too twenty six to reduce the amount of tomatoes. After a lot of reading and thinking, my list grew back to thirty six varieties which I've already posted. After posting the list, I determined I had to grow Dester and Italian Heirloom which were the #1 and #2 winners of the SSE taste test. Now I am back to thirty eight varieties. I'm sure when I visit my farm supply store after he gets his seedlings delivered around march 1, I will find a few varieties I'm not familiar with and my list will be back to forty two varieties or more. I guess I will need to search harder for some folks who need some free tomatoes. Since I added ten big containers to my garden, I may actually have as many as fifty varieties.
Kath, How did your garden perform last year? I've seen the photos you posted in past years and I really do like your setup. I'm just curious if last years drought hurt you much. Ted |
January 28, 2013 | #73 |
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I think I speak for everyone that's read this thread and hasn't spoken up yet:
You guys have a PROBLEM! Here's my list: http://www.tomatoville.com/showthread.php?t=26322 |
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January 28, 2013 | #75 | |
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Anyway, to answer your question, I think the drought added to the more than usual BER I experienced but I put down a mulch layer of newspaper covered with grass clippings and shredded leaves and was able to get away without watering more than 3 times during the whole season. Never have seen a tomato plant actually wilt except once when I tried growing in 5 gal. containers- it's not for me. I actually like staking and pruning for ease of spraying and monitoring for pests. Cattle panel is my second favorite, but I like it the best for cherries because I don't prune my Sungolds as much and I can sort of espalier the plant. kath |
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