Member discussion regarding the methods, varieties and merits of growing tomatoes.
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January 15, 2008
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Texas
Posts: 542
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All of these are not necessarily in my top 10 but I really must grow them this year...
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January 16, 2008
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Chicago
Posts: 91
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Here's mine in no particular order.
Matina Old Brooks Opalka Yellow Brandywine-Platfoot Pruden's Purple Stump of the World Aunt Ginny's Aunt Gertie's Gold Olena Ukrainian Sungold |
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January 16, 2008
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Baltimore, MD
Posts: 53
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Lets see..
Mariannas Peace - best overall one for me two years in a row. Rich, luscious and sweet. Brandywine Sudduth - have not grown for last couple of years so need to try again Brandywine OTV - an excellent tangy tomato for me. Prue - love that unique smokey flavor. JD's Special C-Tex if I can round up a seed or two in time Black Cherry - my favorite cherry tomato even if it splits a little too readily. Aunt Gerties Gold - Aunt Gertie always comes through for me in the end. Cherokee Purple - even though I have been disappointed in its size and yield the last two years. Stump of the World - not sure about this one actually - low yield for the last two years. Carbon - very not sure for the same yield reasons. The last three I may pass on, I am trying to cut way back so rather than doing a bad job growing many varieties I would like to do a good job on a few varieties. Scott |
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January 16, 2008
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: SW Michigan
Posts: 73
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I start with a "must grow every year" list and then add the experiments and varieties that I want to grow out for seed production. My "must grows" include (in no particular order):
Hugh's Lillian's Yellow Heirloom Tiffen Mennonite Aunt Ruby's German Green Nepal Isbell's Golden Colossal Lucky Cross Mayo's Delight Sungold (F1) Cherokee Purple I'll probably add a couple others to the "must grow" list: last year had great success with two (Slankard's, a large pink) and Ernie's Pointed (very similar to, may be same as Opalka?) So even when the experiments don't turn out as well as I hope, I've got a core group of these to provide certain satisfaction. Just thinking about it, I can't wait!!!
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January 24, 2008
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Bulgaria
Posts: 260
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"Your top 10 list" thread has ground to a halt, last post a week ago and I have assumed that nobody else wants to play.
 I wanted to know which was the most popular variety so I have run them onto a spread sheet and counted them.  I had to make some decisions: People who just could not bring themselves to obey the rule for 10 have all been included even if they had 20.  I made an exclusion of Tomatoaddict’s other vegetables and herbs,  likewise Nctomatoman’s Dwarf cultivars which are excluded because they are not in the public domain.  Also included were entries such as ‘player to be chosen’ or similar and ‘other sorts to be grown’ each as a single variety. In all there were 185 entries of which 51 were duplicated, so 134 different varieties.  Comments following any selection are as written, I just couldn’t be bothered to remove them! Possible errors: “Aunt Ginny’s” and “Aunt Ginny’s Purple” may be the same plant and makes AGP a 3.  If so, let this just be a warning to you for the future to be accurate in your naming. You never know what some ill informed person will do with your data if you don’t put it down properly. Just as well I discovered what KB was early on.  Cherokee Purple - of course. FIRST WITH 13 8) Black Cherry 9 Brandywine (suddath) 9 JD’s Special C-Tex 9 Kellogg's Breakfast and/or KBX 9 Sungold 7 Kelloggs Breakfast - always a winner 6 Chapman (Giving it another chance) 5 Green Giant ( haven't tried GMG yet. Is it really better?) 5 Aunt Gerties Gold 4 Brandy Boy 4 Cherokee Green - my fave until Green Giant came along.4 Neves Azorean Red 4 Prudence Purple 4 Tom's Yellow Wonder - this was great. Thanks Tom! 4 Aker's West Virginia 3 Aunt Ruby's German Green 3 Black Fom Tula - always a winner 3 Black Krim 3 Brandywine 3 Carbon 3 Coustralee 3 Galina 3 Green Zebra 3 Grub’s Mystery Green 3 Mortgage Lifter (want to try Estler's this year) 3 Snow White 3 Stupice 3 Amish Paste 2 Aunt Ginny's Purple 2 Beauty King - Brad is the King! 2 Big Zac 2 Bloody Butcher 2 Caspian Pink 2 Dr Lyle I know that's 11, 2 Earl's Faux 2 German Red Strawberry 2 Indian Stripe 2 Kosovo - better than Anna Russian 2 Linnie's Oxheart 2 Lucky Cross 2 Mariannas Peace Rich, luscious and sweet.2 Mazarini 2 New Big Dwarf 2 Old Brooks 2 Ramapo 2 Red Brandywine 2 Red Penna 2 Wes 2 WinsAll, Henderson's 2 Last edited by phreddy; January 24, 2008 at 05:06 AM. Reason: Tidy |
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January 24, 2008
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Saumarez Ponds, NSW, Australia
Posts: 946
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So, does this mean that Kellogg's Breakfast effectively gets 15 votes?
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January 24, 2008
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January 24, 2008
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Saumarez Ponds, NSW, Australia
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Ah yes. I get KBX 9 and Kellogg's Breakfast 7, equal to Sungold. I counted that Kellogg's Breakfast and/or KBX as one vote for each.
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January 24, 2008
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: MS
Posts: 1,523
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Thanks Phreddy, and good idea. Seems I did a similar list of "winners" last year. It was one way I began to learn the favorites here, and therefore what I might want to consider growing. I think JD's is the main newcomer this year since it was pretty new in 2007 and obviously quite a few tried it and liked it. I have it on my 2008 list.
Don
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January 24, 2008
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: MA
Posts: 4,966
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Stump of the World would like a recount.
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January 24, 2008
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: NY
Posts: 2,618
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for yor reference, last year's (2007) combined list:
dcarch ----------------------------------------------------------- I have combined 33 grow lists posted so far, and tabulated the varieties being grown. Interesting to see which are the most popular ones: dcarch ------------------ 33 lists 460 varieties 4th Of July 2 Abe Lincoln Adam Adelia Aker's West Virginia 9 Alicante 2 Alisa Craig Alston's Everlasting Amana Orange 2 Amish Gold Amish Old Red Amish Potato Leaf Ananas Noire 2 Andes Horn Andrew Rahart's Jumbo Red 3 Anna Banana Russian 3 Anna Russian 3 Arkansas Traveler 5 Ashleigh Aunt Gertie's Gold 13 Aunt Ginny's Purple 6 Aunt Ruby's German Green 5 Aurora AUSSIE Austin's Yellow Pear Austrailian Heart 2 Azoychka 4 Bali Beauty King 2 Belgium Giant 3 Belie Nochi (White Nights) Believe it or Not 2 Berkeley Tie Dye 6 Better Boy Better Boy improved hybrid 2 BHN Big Beef 3 Big Bite Big Rainbow Big Sungold Big Zac 8 Bisignano # Black Boar Black cherry 15 Black from Tula 10 Black Giant 2 Black Krim 3 Black Sea Man 3 Black Zebra Bloody Butcher 7 Bookie Box Car Willie 7 Brad's Black Heart 7 Brandy Boy 10 Brandywine 4 Brandywine Red 7 Brandywine Sudduths 14 Brandywine, OTV Brandywine, Pink(Sudduth's) Brandywine, Quisenbury Brandywine, Yellow 2 Branscomb's Orange Break o' Day 4 BRIMMER PINK Brown Boar brown cherry Buckbees New Day Bucks County 2 Bulgarian # 3 Burbank Slicing Burpee Early Pick VF Burpee's Supersteak hybrid Burpee's Tabletalk Burracker's Favorite 2 Bush Big Boy 2 Bushy Charborovsky Cabot Campbells 2 Canadian Dwarf Canestrino di Lucca Carbon 12 Carmello Caspian Pink 2 Ceylon 2 Chapman 5 Charm Cheesmans Cherokee Chocolate 2 Cherokee Green 13 Cherokee Purple 14 Chibikko Church Citron Compact 2 Clear Pink Early Cmkovic Yugoslavian Colossal Red, Burgess Improved Cosmonaut Volkov 2 Cossack Pineapple Costoluto Genovese Country Orange 3 County Agent Coustra Lee Coustralee 7 Coyote 2 Creole 2 Crimean Crnkovic Yugoslavian Crven Cuor di Bue Cuostralee 2 Dad's Sunset Dafel Dakota Gold Delicious 4 Demidov Depp's Pink Firefly (Also another go) Dixie golden Dora 2 Dr. Carolyn 2 Dr. Carolyn Pink DR. Lyle 5 Dr. Neal Dr. Wyche's Yellow 2 Druzba 5 Dwarf Champion Dwarf Champion Improved Earl of Edgecomb 2 Earl’s Faux 16 Early Annie Early girl Early Girl Bush Early Goliath Early Pick 2 Early Rouge Ellis Island Ensalada Estiva F Ethel Watkins 2 Eva's Purple Ball 5 Evergreen Explosion Faribo Gold Heart 2 Fingers of Naples First Prize Florida Petite Fox Cherry Fred Limbaughs Potato Top Gajo de Melon Galina's 2 Gallo Plum Gary O'Sena 5 GER JOHNSON PL Germaid Red German Giant German Johnson German Red Strawberry 7 Gezahnte Tomate Buhrer-Keel GIANT BELGIUM GIANT SICILIAN Giant Syrian GIANT SYRIAN Gingersnap Gioia della Mensa Giraff Glasnost 2 Glory GMG 2 Gold Ball Golden Dwarf Champion Golden Monarch Golden Queen 2 GOLIATH HEIR Goose Creek Grandfather Ashlock 5 Grandma Mary's Grandpa Willie 2 Grandpa's C0ck's Plume 2 Granny Cantrell 3 GREAT WHITE Greek Asemina Green Gage Green Giant 8 Green Grape 4 Green Pineapple Green Zebra 5 Greenwich Gregori's Altai 4 Grub's Mystery Green 4 Grushovka Guernsey Island Guido Hahms Gelbe Topftomate Haley's Purple Comet Hanky Red Hawaiian Cherry Healthkick (Highest in lycopenes.) Heatherington Pink Heinz Hillbilly HOG'S HEART Homestead Hughs Yellow Humph 2 Hungarian Oval Hungarian/Italian Paste Indian Moon Indian Stripe 6 Isis Candy 5 Italian Heirloom Italian Sweet 2 Japanese Black Trifele Japanese Trifele Black Jaune Flamme 3 Jaune Negib JD's Special C-Tex (black) Jerry's Unknown Salad Pink F Jersey Devil Jet Star F Jimmy Joe Joe's Portugese 2 Juane Flamme Julia Child Jumbo Jim Orange Kalman's Hungarian Pink KBX 3 Kelleher's Oxheart Kelloggs Breakfast 14 Kentucky Heirloom Kimberly 13 korny's jelly bean Kosovo 4 Kremser Perle Kristina Bulgarian # Kroska Pink Bulgarian 4 La Roma II's Large Barred Boar 2 Large Pink Bulgarian Latah Lemon Boy 4 Lemony Levino Lillian's Yellow Heirloom Limbaugh's potato top Lime Green Salad 5 Linnie's Oxheart Lithuanian Little Brandywine Hybrid Little Lucky 3 Livingston's Perfection Livinston's Paragon Lucky Cross 7 Lucky Leprechaun Lumpy Red Magnum 2 Maiden's Kiss Mama Leone 2 Manitoba 4 Manyel Marianna's Peace 14 Marizol Magic Mark Twain Marmande 2 Martino's Roma Mary Ann Matina 3 Matt d'Imperio 2 Mayo's Delight Mexico 2 Mexico Midget 2 Micro-Gemma Midnight in Moscow Missouri Pink Love Apple Moldovan Green Momotaro 6 Monomakh's Hat Montreal Tasty Mortgage Lifter 5 Moskvich 3 Mr. Stripey Mule Team 2 Napa NEVES AZOREAN 9 New Big Dwarf 6 New Girl F New Italian Heirloom Noir de Crimee 3 Northern Lights 3 Novikov's Giant Nyagous Oaxacan Pink Ocharovanie Old Brooks 3 Old German Olena Ukrainian 2 OLEYARS GERMAN Olomovic Omar's Lebanese 7 Opalka 5 Orange Heirloom 2 Orange Oxheart Orange Russian # Orange Strawberry oxheart Pallo di Fuoco Pantano Romanesco Paul Robeson 9 Pearson Pendulina Orange Perito Italian 4 Persimmon 6 Picardy 3 Piccolo Pierce's Pride Pink Potato Top POLISH 3 Polish (Ellis) 3 Polish C 3 Pomme d' Amour Ponderosa Red Porterhouse 4 PORTUGESE MONSTER 2 Portugese Neighbour Power's Heirloom Provenzano Pruden's Purple 4 Prue 5 Purple Calabash 2 Purple Dog Creek Quarter Century QUEDLINBURGER FRUE LIEBE Ramapo 3 Rasp Large Red Red Barn 4 Red Cherry Red from Amish 2 Red Glow Red Pair 2 Red Penna 6 Red Robin Red Rose 2 Regina's Yellow Reif Red Heart Resista Richardson 2 riesenstraube 3 Rocky 2 Rose Rostova 2 Royal Hillbilly Russian 3 Russian Bogatyr 2 Russian Red Rutgers Sandul Moldovan Santa Santa Ana Beuteltomate Santa Clara Canner Santorini Paste Sarah's Galapagos 2 Sarnowski Polish Plum Sausage Savaro Savignac Scotia Shuntukski 2 Sicilian Plum Silvery Fir Tree 5 Sioux 5 Sixth Avenue Slovenian Black Small Lap Sneezy F x 2 Soldacki 3 Sophie's Choice 2 Southern Night Spear's Tennessee Green Speckled Roman Spuda yellow 2 Stick Stor Gul Stump of the world 9 Stupice 6 Sugarsnack Sulia's Heart Summer Cider Sun Cherry 2 Sun Gold 16 Sunny Goliath Super Choice Super Marmande 2 Super Sioux Super Sweet Supersonic 2 Sweet Baby Girl 2 Sweet cluster VFNT Sweet Hundred/Sweet Million Sweet million 2 Sweet Pea Currant Sweet Tangerine Sylvan Gaume 2 Tangella Tangerine Tasmanian Blushing Yellow 2 Taxi Tennessee Heirloom 2 Tennessee Surprise Thai Pink Egg Tibet-Appel Tidwell German 6 Tiffen Mennonite Tiny Tiger 2 Tlacalula Pink Todd County Amish 3 Togo Trefele Tomande tommy toes Toms Yellow Wonder 8 Tony's Italian Traveler 2 Tricot Czech Tropic Tsars Favorite 2 Turk's Mut Uncle Charlie's Giant Italian Pear Uncle Mark Bagby Valencia 2 VB Russia Vehza 2 Virginia Sweets 2 Vjerino Paradajiz Sjeme Vodar Vorlon 2 Wapsipinicon Peach 2 Watermelon Wayahead Werlioka Wes 6 West Virgina ' White Potato Leaf White Queen Wild Rose Wins All 3 Wisconsin Gold Wuhib 2 Yasenichi Yabuchar 2 Yasha Yugoslavian Yellow Beneraby Yellow Pear 2 Yellow Pygmy ZAPOTEC Zapotec Pleated Zogola 9 Zolotoe Serdtse Zolotoy Korol Zomak Zong Shu #
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January 24, 2008
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Florida
Posts: 55
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my top ten would be
1.cherokee purple 2.lucky cross 3. snowball 4. aunt g's gold 5. county agent 6. smokey mountain red 7. wonder light 8. cherokee green 9. golden egg 10. brandywine suddith |
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January 24, 2008
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Austin, TX Zone 8b
Posts: 531
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My list is so small I’m to embarrassed to post.
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January 24, 2008
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: MS
Posts: 1,523
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Dcarch, did you also do a sort that listed them in order of preference? The top vote getters, in order?
Thanks! Don
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January 24, 2008
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Warm Springs, GA
Posts: 1,421
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I saw Stump many times! I refuse to make a list it actually makes me face reality and
 at this point I feel like denial is my only option. I just do not have enough room.
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