Do you have your grow list yet (NHers)?

[Tormato]

My list is 100 different pink beefsteaks, and a cherry.

The cherry is Sungold. I've yet to really work on the 100 pink beefsteaks.

Then there's the non-list, those fill-ins that get sellected at random.

Gary

[Tania]

Originally Posted by carolyn137

Sandpoint

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Brave you Tania and I have to tell you Glenn Drowns and I have had a long standing back and forth chat about that variety.

I told him I'd only grow it again if he coated in dark bittersweet chocolate and I don't know where we're at on that b/c once I told him it was the ONLY clear spitter I'd ever grown and he disagreed with me and so it goes.

Wonderful, exactly what I was looking for!
Perfect for cool climates, I understand that it cannot taste same as Milka's BR, but I am still hoping for some taste... We'll see.

Tania

[Tania]

duplicate point - deleted.

[geeboss]

Depending on what lives this is my grow out indoors and *winter sowing.

Purple/Black
(2) Indain Stripe
(2) Cherokee Purple

GWR (green when ripe)
(2) Spear's Tennessee Green
*(2) Cherokee Green

Orange/Gold/Yellow
*(2) Golden Queen
(2) Nebraska Wedding
(3) KBX


Red/pink
(2) Applause
(2) Biltmore
(2) Momotaro
(2) Mule Team
(3) Neves Azorean Red
*(2) German Queen
(2) Jeff's Pink Mistery Oxheart
(2) Aunt Ginney's Purple


Cherry Tomatoes
(2) SunGold
*(2) Isis Candy
(2) Black Cherry
(2) Tommy Toe
*(2) Tomatoberry
(2) Green Grape

[cecilsgarden1958]

Richard & geeboss: I have never heard of Spears Tennessee Green. Is that a family heirloom?

CECIL

[geeboss]

A Spears family heirloom from Tennessee back in the 50's have links http://store.tomatofest.com/Spear_s_...p/tf-0460f.htm

http://www.organicgardening.com/newvarieties/5.html

http://rareseeds.com/seeds/Tomatoes-Green

First year growing out Green Tomatoes.

George

[daylilydude]

Originally Posted by cecilsgarden1958

Richard & geeboss: I have never heard of Spears Tennessee Green. Is that a family heirloom?

CECIL

Cecil if you want to try some PM me your address and i'll get some out to you.

NOT A GENERAL SEED OFFER!!

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by cecilsgarden1958

Richard & geeboss: I have never heard of Spears Tennessee Green. Is that a family heirloom?

CECIL

Cecil, geeboss gave you some links for that one, but there are well over 50 and probably closer to 75 varieties of green when ripes listed in the SSE Yearbooks.

If I started listing them here I bet you'd say you'd never heard of most of them.

What's happened with the green when ripes is what happened with the so-called blacks. And that's that the blacks became a fad and still are to many, and as demand increased so did the varieties, suggesting that some varieties names were changed to protect the innocent, as it were, to indicate something new, something unique.

When I first joined SSE back in about 1989 there were probably less than five black varieties listed and the same for the green when ripes.

The blacks took off quickly and now the green when ripes are doing the same thing.

What you see more and more of are varieties that are the result of accidental crossing and then someone makes selections and all of a sudden you see something like German Black Strawberry.......I made that up.

Several of us predicted the huge increase with the GWRipes and if someone starts growing out lots of them in the same season I think you'll see that many of them are not unique, which is what has happened withe blacks.

Grandma Oliver
Charlie's Green

These were two of the first GWR that I ever grew and I bet that few of you have ever heard of them.

And so it goes.

[cecilsgarden1958]

Carolyn: Yes, I checked the link. I see it is 80 days. I try to stay around 70 days around here, but I am tempted. Tasted a green zebra once--unique!

CECIL

[gssgarden]

It's looking like this so far.

Shannon's
Cherokee Purple
KBX
Coustralee
Goliath
Big Bite
Anna Russian
TYW
Toedbusch Pink
Nepal
Wisconsin 55
Heatherington Pink
Purple Russian

Sweet Chelsea
Mexico Midgit

Super Marzano
Opalka

Dwarf plants - I hope
Summertime Gold
Tasmainian Choc.
F5 Grumpy

And Two crosses from Rob Two-Hawks

Shannon's x Grub's Mystery Green
Shannon's x Azoychka

Should be a fun year

Greg

[ReaverG]

This list is close to final, I might get two more, but it's looking like this so far with more purple and orange varieties than anything else. As much as I wanted to get Amazon Chocolate, Chocolate Stripes, and Elsers Brown Derby this year I'll got to make sure I've still have room for a driveway come May.

Purple:
Cherokee Purple
Cherokee Chocolate
Black and Brown Boar
Evans Purple Plum
Black Sea Man

Red:
no named varieties.
A stray heart shaped tomato if it's stable and I'm assuming a tomato I received from Jim W. will be red as well.

Orange:
Amana Orange
Kelloggs Breakfast
Orange Strawberry
Orange Roma

Yellow/White
Super Snow White
Wapsip. Peach
Sun Gold
Yellow Furry Boar

Bi-Color:
Hawaiian Pineapple
Striped Roma


On a side note does anyone that posts here have Brown Derby from Laurel on their list?

[cecilsgarden1958]

Reaver: What no reds? Don't think I have ever seen that before on such a large list. Sometimes on a tiny list, because of space I assume, but never on one so large, that I remember.

P.S. Made an error on my list. Forgot I changed the Roma Cherry to Sweet Quartz.
I am growing atleast one of each color cherry, except white, which unless there is one better then the Dr. Carolyn I tried is not very flavorful to me..

CECIL

[daylilydude]

Originally Posted by carolyn137

Several of us predicted the huge increase with the GWRipes and if someone starts growing out lots of them in the same season I think you'll see that many of them are not unique, which is what has happened with blacks.

Grandma Oliver
Charlie's Green

These were two of the first GWR that I ever grew and I bet that few of you have ever heard of them.

And so it goes.

So what is your opinion on
Grandma Oliver
and Charlie's Green
I ask because i happen to have both of those coming (Thanks Tania) so was interested in your opinion?

[ReaverG]

I edited right before your reply went through to include the two reds that I have that I'll grow, but even now it's still an anomaly isn't it? My farmers market has some fine reds already available so I've passed them up for some that look, taste, and feel (fuzz) more unique.

Space-wise it all relies on whether I can come up with a way to deter deer that I can afford. If I had a fence I'd be in heaven.

[carolyn137]

So what is your opinion on
Grandma Oliver
and Charlie's Green
I ask because i happen to have both of those coming (Thanks Tania) so was interested in your opinion?

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Richard, they were some of the very first GWRipe varieties I grew back in the early to mid 90's and I liked them very much, and I'm sure they'll do fine for you, But as the years have passed I've grown more and more of the GWR and I've found other varieties that I like even better than those two.

To me, many of the GWR taste about the same, so when I find one that I think is a cut above the norm,based on my perception of taste, then those become my faves, and I posted some of those in a post above in this thread.