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Luckly for me, at the new to us house, my husband has given me the go ahead to do what I want in the backyard. 2016 will be the biggest year for me.
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November 19, 2015 | #47 |
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17 in ground
15 in Pots Sungold Jasper Lucid Gem Big Beef Garden Treasure Brandywine OTV Giant Belgium Mexico Stump of the World Marianna's Peace Neves Azorean Red Blue Ridge Black KBX Prue Crnkovic Yugoslavian Lucky Cross Fruity Cherry Matt's Wild Cherry Black Sea Man Bella Rose Dice's Mystery Black Dwarves Boronia Dwarf Mr. Snow Uluru Ochre Sleeping Lady Yukon Quest Chocolate Champion Sweet Adelaide Tasmanian Chocolate Sweet Scarlet Dwarf Dwarf Pink Passion Dwarf Mahogany Tomato |
November 20, 2015 | #48 |
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My ‘tentative’ list also includes Big Beef
Angelos Red Big Beef F1 Bola Macizo Box Car Willie Burcham New Gen Carbon County Agent Cossack Dakota Sport Dana’s Dusky Rose Daniels Fruit Punch cherry Mikado Mule Team Tangerine Woodle Orange
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November 20, 2015 | #49 |
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I'm planning on growing several medium-sized red/pink tomatoes such as:
Abraham Lincoln Red Brandywine Livingston's Favorite Livingston's Magnus Sioux Cosmonaut Volkov Rutgers Bradley Greater Baltimore Wisconsin 55 A few hearts/ovals I'm considering: Ashleigh Kosovo Mediterranean Amish Paste Santa Maria Prue A few beefsteaks such as: Aker's West Virginia Brandywine Sudduth Marianna's Peace Maybe one or two cherries: Sun Sugar hybrid possibly A few others I'm considering are: Porter Amish Salad and maybe a medium to large orange variety. I'm hoping to cut back to somewhere around 30-35 plants next year. If anyone has any other suggestions for the categories above, or comments on the varieties I've listed, feel free to PM me. Last edited by Douglas14; November 20, 2015 at 01:37 AM. |
November 20, 2015 | #50 |
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Quick Glance :
A) SunGold is the top choice, so far B) Big Beef , Rosella ., KBX< Indian Stripe @ Paul Robson are mentioned often About half of those on my list is at least on your list. ( ~ 40% ). But as the numbers keep growing, everything on my list will be found at least in one other list. How many varieties you are growing ? I have not tabulated yet. But I estimate so far close to 200 varieties. This is a very diverse community. Everybody seems to grow something different : ( MY OWN THING !!). I have couple of those ( MY OWN THING !!). Statistics is amazing mathematics. Gardeneer |
November 20, 2015 | #51 |
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Tomatoes for 2016 -New seeds for Mendoza desert trials, Should be able to get most of these in the garden if not, 2017.
1. Cole 2. George Detsikas Italian Red 3. Chang Li 4. Tasmanian Chocolate 5. Titan Red 6. Pink Rose 7. Mano 8. fahrenheit blues 9. Qinyanai Huang 10. Cyril’s Choice 11. Belmonte 12. Idatarod red 13. Sweet Sue 14. Dwarf Arctic Rose 15. Krasnodar Titans 16. Sakharnyi Pudovichok 17. Deep Space (snickers)- moose faced paste 18. Danko 19. Napoli a Fiaschetto 20. Petrusha Ogorodnik 21. Ron's Carbon Copy 22. Indigo Cherry drops 23. Bumblebee cherries 24. Tiger cherries 25. Lucid Gem 26. Black Beauty 27. Chestnut Chocolate 28. Secret Sauce (short version) 29. Sweet Tooth 30. Blush 31. Rosella Purple 32. Freds tie dye 33. Hahms Gelbe Topflomate 34. Lemon drop 35. Remy rouge 36. Orange minsk 37. NAR 38. Mrs schlaubaugh’s famous strawberry 39. Maglia rosa 40. Whippersnapper 41. Kosovo 42. Kim's Civil War Oxheart Tomato 43. Indian Stripe Tomato 44. Rosella Crimson Tomato 45. Sweet Scarlet Dwarf Tomato 46. Summer Sunrise Dwarf Tomato 47. Sarandipity Dwarf Tomato 48. Super Sioux Tomato 49. Jazz 50. Orange Jazz 51. Manzano Fire 52. Orange Caprese 53. Saraev M-22 54. Saraev Gruntovyi 55. Saraev Druzhnyi 56. Saraev Bezrassadnyi 57. Sanka 58. Kalinka 59. Lime Green Salad 60. Sasha's Altai 61. Sleeping Lady 62. Yukon Quest 63. EM-Champion 64. Rebel Yell 65. Porter, Charles Herring Strain 66. Taxi 67. Black and Brown Boar Too early to make a list for returning tomatoes from 2015, another 6 weeks and I should have a pretty good idea what is coming back. I have 70 types in now , I would say around 20 will get an invite back. |
November 21, 2015 | #52 |
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Tomato Varieties 2016
1. Hunk Papa - Brown - L - Beefsteak - 80 - PL 2. Gigant Kuby - Black - M - Globe - 80 - RL 3. African Black Mystery PL - Brown - L - Beefsteak - 78 - PL 4. Cherokee Black Heart - Black - L - Oxheart - 85 - RL 5. Reinhardt Kraft's Purple Heart - Purple - L - Oxheart - 90 - RL 6. Chernoe Serdtse PL - Black - M - Oxheart - 75 - PL 7. Japanese Black Trifele - Black - M - Pear - 78 - PL 8. Black Mountain Pink - Pink - XL - Globe - 85 - RL 9. Joe's Pink Oxheart - Pink - XL - Oxheart- 75 - RL 10. Morado de Aretxabaleta - Pink - L - Globe - 80 - RL 11. Marianna's Peace - Pink - L - Beefsteak - 80 - PL 12. Grosse Verte Rose - Black Bi-color - L - Beefsteak - 70 - RL 13. Everett's Rusty Oxheart - Brown Bi-color - M - Oxheart - 75 - RL 14. Mammoth German Gold - Orange Bi-color - XL - Globe - 85 - RL 15. Orange Russian 117 - Orange Bi-color - L - Oxheart - 80 - RL 16. Piedmont Pear - Orange Bi-color - S - Pear - 75 - RL 17. Cherokee Green Pear - Green - S - Pear - 72 - RL 18. First Mate - Green Bi-color - XL - Globe - 85 - PL 19. GWR Wildthyme - Bi-color - L - Beefsteak - 85 - PL 20. Damascus Steel - Blue Bi-color - M - Globe - 75 - RL 21. Summer Cider - Apricot - L - Beefsteak - 85 - PL 22. Wessel's Purple Pride - Purple - M - Elongate - 78 - RL 23. Abbattista Paste - Red - L - Elongate - 75 - RL 24. Andine Cornue - Red - M - Horn - 80 - RL 25. Cherry Brandywine - Pink - S - Beefsteak - 70 - RL 26. Fablonelystyni - Yellow - S - Beefsteak - 70 - RL 27. Piennolo del Vesuvio - Red - S - Pear - 75 - PL 28. Ania - Green Bi-color - S - Globe - 65 - PL 29. Cinnamon Pear - Brown - C - Pear - 75 - RL 30. Galapagos Pear - Pink - C - Pear - 70 - RL Last edited by Growing West; November 21, 2015 at 11:12 PM. |
November 22, 2015 | #53 | |
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I have only grown one of those : >>>>> 7. Japanese Black Trifele - Black - M - Pear - 78 - PL I am only familiar (name recognition) with the following 2 : Call me Newbie 11. Marianna's Peace - Pink - L - Beefsteak - 80 - PL 15. Orange Russian 117 - Orange Bi-color - L - Oxheart - 80 - RL One day I might grow those two. Gardeneer Last edited by Gardeneer; November 23, 2015 at 06:34 AM. |
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November 22, 2015 | #54 |
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Thanks, I need to have a little more info than the name on my lists to assure that I get the bases covered each year, or that I am not trialing on top of a variety that isn't a candidate for replacement. Most of my list is comprised of varieties I've grown for years, but about one-third is recent or new to me in 2016 trials. I like to keep that approximate balance. Its good to have new curiosities to look forward to, but even more important to go back to the one's that have continually proven to be stars in the garden and on the table.
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November 22, 2015 | #55 | |
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Certainly your description can be valuable for others to choose from. Info like fruits size, color, DTM are deciding factors for most of us. For example, say I want a beefsteak size yellow /orange with short DTM : 26. Fablonelystyni - Yellow - S - Beefsteak - 70 - RL Bingo. I should've done similarly with my list. Gardeneer |
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November 22, 2015 | #56 |
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DTM isn't real reliable in my list, or likely in anyone else's. Some I have taken from the couple of sites I consider the most reliable. I have adjusted some based on how they have related to others I have grown. My earliest tomatoes this year were mostly my latest. We got extremely hot weather early that suspended pollination of those that were ready to go. I didn't adjust for this event.
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November 23, 2015 | #57 | |
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November 24, 2015 | #58 |
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Hi, I live on a sunny bench above the Missouri River near Great Falls. This is truly a hardiness zone 4 area as every few years our Alberta neighbors get uncomfortabley low on Molson, and in stress, they send us innocent bystanders one of their famous clippers. Our growing seasons are usually about the warmest and longest in all of USDA hardiness zone 4, though. I've found over six growing seasons that many long season tomatoes can do okay here. My slightly more than anedoctal guess is that the one's that do the best are more adapted to cool nights.
Mammoth German Gold is one of my stars. I even got a few consistently in the shortest season area of Zone 4 along Lake Superior in Northern Minnesota. I got about fifteen from one plant this year. I have delivered plants to my elderly relatives in Kansas and Oklahoma, and they raved all about their flavor over the dozen or so other types. I like tomatoes with a good balance of tanginess and sweetness in the flavor. My wife and my mother both prefer sweet, my well decorated chief friend in San Fransisco prefers tangy and complex. All of us like really like Mammoth German Gold. I have tried Wagon Wheel, Pineapple, Hillbilly, Lucky Cross, Orange Russian 117, and Arkansas Traveler. Mammoth German Gold has universally beat them all in yield and in flavor amongst my divese group of tasters. I also like Japanese Black Trifele and Morado de Aretxabaleta a lot for flavor. The latter started to come on near the end of the season and ripened well off the vine. The Cinnamon Pear yields great for me. I don't like really sweet or gel filled cherries. I prefer the meatiest textured ones I can find. I am still looking for the perfect cherry to my taste. The one's on my list are the closest I've trialed, but I am apparently the only odd person in the world who doesn't swoon over sungold types. Black Mountain Pink is sort of a every second or third year trophy for me. I get a couple of perfectly formed giant one's at that interval when the season is long and the nights are mostly warm. I hope to get a cross from it with more northern reliability and just a little more zing. Most of my list is now available from a combination of Marianna's and Secret Seed Cartel. A few I got from a couple of orders a few years ago from Tatiana. I ordered Joe's Pink Oxheart from the propriety source as seeds and as plants. The seed pack never germinated well and the few plants I got didn't thrive. I saved seeds from the plants that produced a lot of tasty, near perfect in form, but smaller than advertised tomatoes. Hopefully these do a lot better than those from the seed pack purchased a few years earlier. Last edited by Growing West; November 24, 2015 at 12:08 AM. |
November 24, 2015 | #59 |
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Hi Growing West, and thanks for the information. I also like balanced taste, and I'm not crazy about Sun Gold (nice candy). For tomatoes I consider my hardiness zone to be 3, mostly because of the shortness of the season. We had a very bad season this year, and only got a few tomatoes from supposedly early outdoor plants. I'll be rigging up some makeshift high tunnels next year. Mammoth German Gold sounds very good, and I'll have to try it in my small greenhouse. Cinnamon Pear would probably do OK in a tunnel here. I have Joe's Pink Oxheart on my definite "have to grow" list. If you find your perfect cherry, please let me know.
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November 24, 2015 | #60 |
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That is a glowing recommendation for Mammoth German Gold, that you like it better than OR 117 and Lucky Cross, both of which are very sweet and popular varieties.
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