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Old February 20, 2012   #1
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Default My final grow list, hopefully :)

Well, here it is. There's about ten more plants than I have room for, but if I start all the plants I'll have to find somewhere to put them, right? Well, that's my theory at least.

Comment on any of the varieties, please!
Taryn
P.S. the plants in bold I'll grow in containers

Amazon Chocolate
Aunt Ruby’s German Green
Azoychka
Black Cherry
Brandywine Sudduth’s
Cherokee Purple
Earls Faux
Flamme
Gardeners Delight
Green Zebra
Grub’s Mystery Green
Isis Candy
KBX
Kimberly
Kosovo
Large Barred Boar
Lime Green Salad
Marianna’s Peace
Moravsky Div
Old German
Orange Russian 117
Orange Strawberry
Pink Berkely Tie Dye
Prue
Stupice
Sungold
Super sweet 100
Virginia Sweets
Yellow Brandywine

In pots:
15

In side garden:
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Old February 20, 2012   #2
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If you like plants that have thick dark green rugose foliage on stalks that make them look like the trees little kids draw - then Lime Green Salad is for you! IThese plants are so pretty in pots they can sub for any 2 foot high potted ornamental on my deck anyday. They get covered in blossoms & grow sharp, citrusy bigger-than-golfball sized fruits that make PERFECT salsa and do well with watermelon & feta in summer salads.

Love them! Put that KBX near a south facing wall - it is my FAVORITE gold-orange beefsteak of all time! Annual must grow - multiple plants, save seed off supper plate - that good!

Flammee is late season for me but oh-so-good I would drag it into the living room if DH (aka the quartermaster) hasn't banned me from doing so (& from taking in any more starving semi-feral cats LOL).

I grow blighty Isis Candy every year for DH - when it inevitably gets sick from the bottom up, I take big old cuttings from up high & root them (takes about 5 days in water in the shade down here). Mother plant then withers but the cuttings do not catch whatever the initial plant inevitably gets. Go figure. I am trying Marizol magic, Bi-color Cherry & one other supposed bi-color cherry to see if they are more resistant to whatever Isis Candy is not down here.... & if Mr. Discernment will gravitate to them.

Black Cherry - must have every year, multiple plants -

Virginia Sweets - love it! Put that one near that south facing brick or stone wall if you can. Late season & oh-so-fabulous!

Aunt Ruby's German Green - a disease resistant god producer of wonderful tomatoes - a grow every other year or so here. It & Grubb's Mystery Green have been the healthiest & best producing for me so far. (Note - my weather is not your weather - we are horribly hot, humid & droughty - I still pine for my open windows, no screens or ac & light summer quilt from living in Seattle)

DH demands Cherokee Purple annually. Can actually pick out the slices of CP when they are served on a plate of mixed blacks. He who loathes the garden is quite the tomato specialist. Eat them when you pick them - they soften fast (not rot just soften).

Gardener's Delight is a great cherry tomato.
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Old February 20, 2012   #4
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(Note - my weather is not your weather - we are horribly hot, humid & droughty - I still pine for my open windows, no screens or ac & light summer quilt from living in Seattle)
Y ou got me on that one, S.
I remember when we moved here over 18 years ago, and I was looking at an apartment that had no screens and said that they'd have to replace them, and they asked me what for, since they had no bugs. When I asked about June bugs, Japanese beetles and mosquitos, they looked at me as if I was crazy.

Bet you miss us. I use my down comforter all year long.

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My "final list" is 178 varieties and doesn't even contain the breeding stock I have to grow. I'm looking at over 500 plants just to get the "must grow" stuff in.

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Taryn,

Good luck with all that. I hope we have the hot summer we deserve this year.
I've decided to go with a bunch of late-season maters, too, for that 'reason.' I'll have the hoop house over the largest ones by the time September coolth comes around. I hope this strategy works for both of us this year. We have about a dozen in common.
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Taryn,

Great list! Exciting time, eh?

Just wanted to note that Kimberley, Pink Berkeley Tie Dye and Stupice will likely do better in containers than Earl's Faux or Kosovo or Virginia Sweets.

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Stormymater,

Good to finally find someone who lives in the same climate as we do. Hatteras Island and finding experienced growers here is impossible. Growing tomatoes here for 14 years and still have trouble growing them. As you said " my weather is not your weather - we are horribly hot, humid & droughty". Growing on a barrier island is different from any other place.
I'm going to try and get hold of some of the tomatoes you suggest and try them here. I've tried some of the heirlooms here before and not had much luck.
My best luck has been a non-heirloom hybrid "Solar Fire VFFF" developed by the University of Florida for high temperatures.
Currently trying to decide what to start for my 2012 tomato crop.
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If you like plants that have thick dark green rugose foliage on stalks that make them look like the trees little kids draw - then Lime Green Salad is for you! IThese plants are so pretty in pots they can sub for any 2 foot high potted ornamental on my deck anyday. They get covered in blossoms & grow sharp, citrusy bigger-than-golfball sized fruits that make PERFECT salsa and do well with watermelon & feta in summer salads.

Love them! Put that KBX near a south facing wall - it is my FAVORITE gold-orange beefsteak of all time! Annual must grow - multiple plants, save seed off supper plate - that good!

Flammee is late season for me but oh-so-good I would drag it into the living room if DH (aka the quartermaster) hasn't banned me from doing so (& from taking in any more starving semi-feral cats LOL).

I grow blighty Isis Candy every year for DH - when it inevitably gets sick from the bottom up, I take big old cuttings from up high & root them (takes about 5 days in water in the shade down here). Mother plant then withers but the cuttings do not catch whatever the initial plant inevitably gets. Go figure. I am trying Marizol magic, Bi-color Cherry & one other supposed bi-color cherry to see if they are more resistant to whatever Isis Candy is not down here.... & if Mr. Discernment will gravitate to them.

Black Cherry - must have every year, multiple plants -

Virginia Sweets - love it! Put that one near that south facing brick or stone wall if you can. Late season & oh-so-fabulous!

Aunt Ruby's German Green - a disease resistant god producer of wonderful tomatoes - a grow every other year or so here. It & Grubb's Mystery Green have been the healthiest & best producing for me so far. (Note - my weather is not your weather - we are horribly hot, humid & droughty - I still pine for my open windows, no screens or ac & light summer quilt from living in Seattle)

DH demands Cherokee Purple annually. Can actually pick out the slices of CP when they are served on a plate of mixed blacks. He who loathes the garden is quite the tomato specialist. Eat them when you pick them - they soften fast (not rot just soften).

Gardener's Delight is a great cherry tomato.
Yum! That all sounds great, except for the Isis Candy, but I bet you and I have different diseases anyway. I can't wait for all the gwrs, and that watermelon, Lime Green Salad, feta salad sounds deeelish! Thanks for all the great info. I'm excited!!!
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If I had a nickel for every time I heard [or said] this... I could buy a thousand acres of prime tomato-growing land.
LOL! That sure is true.
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Taryn,

Good luck with all that. I hope we have the hot summer we deserve this year.
I've decided to go with a bunch of late-season maters, too, for that 'reason.' I'll have the hoop house over the largest ones by the time September coolth comes around. I hope this strategy works for both of us this year. We have about a dozen in common.
Happy gardening,
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Awesome! We can compare varieties. When are you starting your seeds? I'm probably starting my container plants in a week or so, and my main crop of tomatoes in March sometime. I already started my hoophouse seeds.
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Taryn,

Great list! Exciting time, eh?

Just wanted to note that Kimberley, Pink Berkeley Tie Dye and Stupice will likely do better in containers than Earl's Faux or Kosovo or Virginia Sweets.

Tatiana
Thanks Tatiana! I'll change all those.
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I like your strategy of timing the plantings. I've never done this before, so I'm agonizing over it daily. I finally went with "Plant early, plant often." If my first set of seeds doesn't do well at any time, I'm hoping to have backups that are only 2-3 weeks behind to take their place. All those that make it but aren't needed in my garden will go to the local food bank. Clients can take them home and grow their own. Most of those are pot-sized, so I'm really interested in your reasoning for what goes in the ground, and what doesn't. Feel free to answer here or in a pm, if at all.
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PM'd you, Jane!

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