Member discussion regarding the methods, varieties and merits of growing tomatoes.
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September 15, 2019 | #1 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Indiana
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Your Hardiest Varieties?
I think I found two this summer to add to my nearly "bullet-proof" varieties. Stellar and Mat-Su Express. Those get added to Burpee's Orange Wellington. Have you found any that seem to do really well, preferably year-after-year? I grow in EarthBoxes, mainly, so soil-borne diseases are not really an issue. I'm thinking primarily foliage disease tolerance.
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September 15, 2019 | #2 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Aug 2016
Location: Québec
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Petit moineau
The hardiest tomato variety I've tried may be "Petit moineau". It is an heirloom from Québec province, producing early, very small and very flavorful cherry tomatoes in abundance on (probably) semi-determinate plants. It is usually the first and the last plant from which I harvest tomatoes and has sometimes survived light frosts when nearby tomatoes died.
I did not grow it this summer because fruits are very small, but I wish I had grown one plant to eat tomatoes when I walk in the garden. David |
September 15, 2019 | #3 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: connecticut,usa
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I used to grow matt's wild cherry,the plants would be alive til frost killed them,
but the tomatoes are the size of m&m's and difficult to pick. |
September 15, 2019 | #4 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Vermont
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Juliet F1 has been bulletproof in my garden for years now, and it's my wife's favorite to can whole.
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September 16, 2019 | #5 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Dec 2016
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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Post Office Spoonful produces first, last, and in quantity, even with foliage diseases. Rampant growth outstrips the diseases. The fruits are 2/3" in diameter, and quite tasty.
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September 16, 2019 | #6 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2018
Location: Augusta area, Georgia, 8a/7b
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I have to cast another vote for Juliet. She's always the last to go.
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September 16, 2019 | #7 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: Alberta, Canada
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I have not grown Juliet F1 for a couple of years but agreed , it is a very good late producer. Interesting that you note your wife cans them - I was always impressed with how easily the skins come off.
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September 17, 2019 | #8 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: connecticut,usa
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I thought Juliet was a determinate type.
I was going to buy plants but that is what the label said. |
September 17, 2019 | #9 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Vancouver Island
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For a small tomato, the largest and healthiest plant in my garden this year and still going strong in mid September on Vancouver Island is Fred Hempel’s Green Bee.
For a large size tomato, My own Polaris is the most productive and healthy in my garden. Still producing KarenO Last edited by KarenO; September 17, 2019 at 09:02 PM. |
September 17, 2019 | #10 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Alabama
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Every year the hardiest tomatoes are usually different from the year before. Conditions make a lot of difference between varieties and of course most seasons are very different in rainfall, disease pressure, insect pressure, temperatures, wind, and humidity levels. I don't grow any cherries anymore or any really small varieties since even with large varieties I get plenty of small ones from them near the end of the plants life.
Out of twenty plants set out at the end of March I still have a few still producing nice sized fruit on really long old vines. The ones that are producing the most and biggest fruits are Arkansas Traveler, Red Barn, German Johnson PL, Giant Belgium and Kentucky Wonder RL. I'm sure next year some of these will not be on the list and others will. Bill |
September 17, 2019 | #11 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jun 2016
Location: Hudson Valley, NY, Zone 6a
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In my garden, Marglobe is pretty much bullet-proof.
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September 17, 2019 | #12 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: Indialantic, Florida
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So surprised to hear Juliet mentioned. I grew it back in the day, and it was foolproof but how does it taste?
Thick skin or thin? Sweet? ---- |
September 17, 2019 | #13 |
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Well, many of my favorites, I haven't grown that much, yet, but I can vouch for the following, for consistent year-after-year hardiness:
* Galapagos Island (the very early, yellow, marble-sized version that I have, which I got from wintersown.org in the fall of 2014) * Sweet Orange Cherry (the place I got it just calls it Orange Cherry) * Early Girl F1 It should be noted that Early Girl F1 changes a lot. The one they sell nowadays isn't the one they sold a little while ago, methinks, and it's changed in the past at least two or three times. Whatever the case, it's always worked out well, when purchased as a plant (it came from the nursury with a mild disease, this year, but it still has produced well anyway). I haven't given growing it from seed a good enough trial, yet, but I do have a seed-grown plant (which had a very late start). |
September 17, 2019 | #14 |
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Matt's Wild Cherry was probably about as big as four M&Ms for me, unless you mean the peanut ones.
I've only grown it and Coyote this year, but they seem quite hardy. Last edited by shule1; September 17, 2019 at 03:44 PM. |
September 17, 2019 | #15 |
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