My 2013 heirloom tomato garden

efisakov · August 12, 2013

I started with 38 varieties, 48 plants in total: 44 in ground and 4 in containers. 10 plants have died too early. Few more at about the same point, I am letting tomatoes to start showing some color to be picked and than the plants will have to go. Old German grew to be huge plant that refuses to set fruit, same thing was last year. I guess our season is to short for it. The most productive are Purple Dog Creek, Black Master, Sara Black, MARLOWE CHARLESTON, Carbon, Black Cherry, Egyptian (in container). Pretty good were/are Indian Stripe, JD's Special C-Tex, Anna Russian (now almost dead), German Queen (gave quiet few big maters but got sick, got pulled), Omar’s Lebanese, BARLOW JAP (same as German Q), Brad’s Black Heart. The rest of them are not too many tomatoes per plant. I started counting pounds than gave up.
Purple Dog Creek, Black Master, Sara Black, MARLOWE CHARLESTON gave easily 10 pounds each.
KBX is not as productive for me this year (3 tomatoes so far) as it's RL brother was last year, I did plant it in a different location with a bit less sun.

August 12, 2013	#11
efisakov Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: NJ, zone 7 Posts: 3,162	I started with 38 varieties, 48 plants in total: 44 in ground and 4 in containers. 10 plants have died too early. Few more at about the same point, I am letting tomatoes to start showing some color to be picked and than the plants will have to go. Old German grew to be huge plant that refuses to set fruit, same thing was last year. I guess our season is to short for it. The most productive are Purple Dog Creek, Black Master, Sara Black, MARLOWE CHARLESTON, Carbon, Black Cherry, Egyptian (in container). Pretty good were/are Indian Stripe, JD's Special C-Tex, Anna Russian (now almost dead), German Queen (gave quiet few big maters but got sick, got pulled), Omar’s Lebanese, BARLOW JAP (same as German Q), Brad’s Black Heart. The rest of them are not too many tomatoes per plant. I started counting pounds than gave up. Purple Dog Creek, Black Master, Sara Black, MARLOWE CHARLESTON gave easily 10 pounds each. KBX is not as productive for me this year (3 tomatoes so far) as it's RL brother was last year, I did plant it in a different location with a bit less sun. __________________ Ella God comes along and says, "I think I'm going to create THE tomato!”