2015 Grow lists - Is it Time??

[Catherine+twin]

I have been rather boring in the tomato department for years. When I first started growing toms in my yard, I knew the varieties that grew for my family in my childhood out on the plains of eastern Colorado (hot, long summers) wouldn't work in the cool, short summers on a New Mexico mountain. I bought some seeds from High Altitude Gardens/Seeds Trust (then in Idaho), some from Seeds of Change (then mostly in Santa Fe, NM, similar climate), and some from SSE, and found a few that were reliable for me. Those were my stand-bys for the next 20 years. Then I went a few years buying plants at the spring farmer's market in town, but that didn't work well in my garden. This year I'm finally back to starting my own plants, and I'm going to explore some new ones.

I always have at least one plant of each variety under the eaves on the south side of the house, to keep them warm at night and protect them from hail. Spares may get planted in the bean garden or sold to neighbors.

Tried and True

Amber Colored (SSE)
Maritime Pink (Seeds Trust)
Glacier (hmmm, maybe Plants of the Southwest, local)
Yellow Stuffer *

New this year

Douchoua Pepper (yellow tom, freebee from Baker Creek)
Perth Pride (Tatiana's Tomatobase)
Yukon Quest (TT)
Sleeping Lady (TT)
Iditarod Red (TT)
Volgogradsky 323 (TT)
Talalikhin 186 (TT)
Tatjana (TT)
Klusha (TT)
Siletz (TT)
Pipo (Freebee from TT)

* Yellow Stuffer is a running joke between dear daughter and me. Year after year we MAY get 2-3 tomatoes to ripen, enough for one stuffed tomato salad meal for the 3 of us. We give it the warmest location, the biggest pot, the best care, but it just doesn't like our cool mountain. And sadly, the deer seem to love this plant the best, too, so now it gets a chicken wire cage and a wind chime to keep the monsters from eating our almost-ripe prizes as the summer ends. Truth is, I wouldn't know what to do if it was more productive.

Catherine

[Riceloft]

With the arrival of a new baby I have lost my seed starting area, so I have a local greenhouse starting seed for me this year. I'll be converting an area in the basement to start my own seed again starting next year.

Anyway, here is my grow list.
* indicates its new to me

Indet Tomatoes:
Big Beef x2
Cherokee Purple x2
Costoluto Genovese x2
Bloody Butcher x2
*Berkely Tie Dye
Super Sweet 100 x2
Red Beacon
Beefsteak

Dwarf Project Tomatoes:
*Dwarf Purple Heart x3
Sweet Sue x2
Tasmanian Chocolate x3
Rosella Purple x2
*Boronia x2
*Dwarf Blazing Beauty x2

Peppers:
(generic) Orange Bell x4
(generic) Red Bell x4
*Yummy x2
*Round of Hungary x2
*Biscayne x3
Mini Belle mix x4
Jalapeno Tam x4
Santa Fe Grande x8

[Father'sDaughter]

Originally Posted by Father'sDaughter

I haven't seen a thread yet, so maybe it's too early. But if I don't make a declaration, I'll just keep changing my mind! So here we go.

Eating, in ground:

Franchi cherry*
Barlow Jap
Dester*
Giant Belgium*
Russian 117
Russian 117 NOT*
Tarasanko 6*


Pastes in Ground:

Antique Roman*
Buddy Runyon
Casino*
Chico Grande
Costoluto Genovese*
Federle*
George Ditska's Italian Red
Hog Heart Paste*
Nudi Family Heirloom*
Santa Maria*
Shedra Sliva Tarasenka
Super Italian Paste
Venetian Marketplace


Five Gallon Grow Bags:

Morovsky Div
Early Wonder Pink*
San Marzano Nano
Whichever Dwarf Project Varieties I'm assigned

* Repeats

I've had rotten luck with every San Marzano variety I've tried, but I'm going to give the Nano's a try in a grow bag.

Not even a month since I started this thread, and I have two changes:

Seek No Further Love Apple is replacing Tarasenko 6. It was such a tasty tomato that I was going to give it another try despite the fact that it was was stingy with fruit and very late to ripen in my garden. Since our favorite enabler's reviews of SNFLA have convinced me I really do need to try it, something had to go to make room for it.

And, as the Dwarf Project is on hiatus for a year, there will be no dwarfs. However, I do have four or five seeds left from a previous project grow out, so I may grow one plant of Dwarf Pink Passion. I believe the final selection of this one is off for seed production for release. If you are into rich and well balanced pink tomatoes, I recommend keeping an eye out for seeds for this one next year.

I'm still seven weeks away from starting tomatoes. Waiting to see if I can make it without any more changes.

PS - I just discovered Dwarf Pink Passion has been released -- Tania and The Sample Seed Shop have seeds.

[kath]

Ok, since we're talking changes, I decided to do a small dwarfish cherry tomato trial in the greenhouse to help with cabin fever...and I also added back some others from last year to compare to the new varieties...and I ordered one yesterday after reading a thread here that mentioned it...and I forgot to list one of the new ones from Secret Seed Cartel...and I hope this will be it because it's too many plants for me this year.

So the little plants for the greenhouse are:

Aiparl
Ditmarsher
German Extreme Dwarf
Jagodka
Pearly Pink Orange
Russian Cherry

...and the extra in-ground plants are:

Barlow Jap*
Blackberry*
Blue Tears*
Grosse Verte Rose*
Indian Zebra
Orange Russian 117*
Pepe Jose
Terhune*
Top Sirloin*

kath

Originally Posted by kath

My 2015 tomato list is very small for me because my gardening/canning time may be quite limited. So as not to get overwhelmed, I'm only growing a few faves(*) and the newly acquired non-paste types, which I'm very excited about.

Belle Maurinoise Jaune
Elgin Pink*
Gigant Kuby
Hippie Zebra
Moya*
Muddy Mamba
Negrillo de Almoguera*
Not Purple Strawberry
Pamplemousse De Grand Pere
Rebel Yell
Rozella
Sungold*
Wild Thyme

[Alpinejs]

This is my list for my Canada garden which is all in 5 gal. buckets on floating
docks in my lagoon as my land is heavily forested with pine trees and it is
all shade, so.........

Most of the cherries will be in topsy-turvy containers due to space limitations.

Also, last year, I planted 3 honey berry plants so am eager to see and taste the
fruit.

Amazon Choc. Aunt Gerties Barlow Jap
Ananas Noir Berkeley Tie-dye Big Beef (4)
Aunt Ruby's German green Big Rainbow BW Landis (2)
Anna Russian (E) Big Zac Black & Brown Boar
Black Pear Black from Tula Black Krim
Black BW Black Cherry Black Sea Man
Bloody Butcher (2) (E) Blue Ridge Mtn. Blue Ridge Black
Brad's Black Heart Sudduth Large Pink Bulgarian
Capt. Lucky Caspian Pink Cherokee Purple
Cherokee Green Cherokee Choc. Cherokee Lime Green
Cowlicks Crimson Cushion Copper River
Dana's Dusky Rose Desters Daniels
Dr. Neal Dr. Lyle Dr. Wyche
Eva Purple Ball (E) Eastham Pink Cuostrolee
Fish Lake Oxheart Fred Lumbaugh BW OTV
Chocolate Stripes Gary Ibsen Gold Gary Osena
Gary Osena Green German Giant German Johnson
German Red Strawberry Goose Creek Granny Cantrell
Granny's heart Green Doctors frosted ## Green Doctors ##
Green Giant (E) Grubb's Myster Green Haley's Purple Comet
Hawaiian Pineapple Hoy Humph
Indian Stripe Isis Candy ## Hearts Delite
JD Spec. C-Tex Japanese Trifele Blk Kimberley (E)
Lincoln Adams Lucky Cross Malachite box
Maiden's gold KBX Kelli's Heart
McKinley Mama's Heart Marianna's Peace
Marizol Gold Max's Lg. Green Missouri Love Apple
Mortgage Lifter New Big Dwarf (E) Neves Azorean Red
Olena Ukraine Orange Strawberry Ozark Sweet
Paul Robeson Peron Strayless Pineapple
Prudens Purple Purple Bumblebee ## Red Siberian
Snag's Spudakee Strawberry Margarita
Stump Stupice (2) (E) Sungold (2)##
Sunsugar ## Sweet Linda ## Tappy's Finest
Terhune Van Wert Ohio Virginia Sweet
Weisnichts Wes Wisc. 55
Yoder's Winsall Italian Gold
Dances w/Smurfs ## Orange Russian Raspberry Miracle
Peaches and Cream

(E)= early. ##= cherries

[Father'sDaughter]

Alpinejs, that's quite an impressive list. I hope 2015 is kinder to you than 2014 was!

[pinklady5]

I might be moving this summer but here is my tentative list.

Cuostralee (2)
Black Cherry
Sungold
Eva Purple Ball
Barlow Jap
Earl's Faux
Black Krim or Indian Stripe - Black Krim more productive in my garden but love the taste of Indian Stripe.
NAR (2)
KBX (2)- undecided. Does anyone have an alternative. Last year they were so late in my garden.
Prudens Purple

[Alpinejs]

pink lady....as to KBX, I think I would make ever effort to start it early in a window
sill in a 32 oz. styrofoam coffee cup as KBX is such an outstanding tomato. In
the spring, I sell seedlings and my most requested repeat is not Brandywines or the Cherokees, but good old KBX.

[gourmetgardener]

Beefsteaks

Geronimo F1 (Johnnys)
Bigdena F1 (Johnnys)
Rebelski F1 (Johnnys)

Italian
Granadero F1 (Johnnys)
Pozzano F1 (Johnnys)

Cocktail
Kierano F1 - Performed better than Campari (Norseco)
Bellini F1 (Orange Cocktail) (Norseco)
Yellow Sun F1 (Yellow Cocktail) (Norseco)

Kumato Types
Kakao F1 (Johnnys)
Espresso F1 (Paramount)

Small Tomatoes
Sunstream F1 (Lindbloms)
Sakura F1 (Johnnys)
Montessino F1 (Johnnys)
Santaorange F1 (Johnnys)

[Stvrob]

This year I am growing:

Opalka
Lil Lucky
Stump of the World
Sandul Moldovan
Fish Lake Oxheart
Spudokee

I will be grafting them on Big Beef rootstock

I also want to plant a few Neptune plants, they are supposed to do well in the south, so I will give them a try. (Unless someone tells me not to bother...I haven't started any seed yet)

Peppers include

Jimmy Nardello
TAM (a mild jalapeno which I've never grown before)
Apple (pimento)

Eggplant
Rosita

[barefootgardener]

Here is my list for this growing season . A few more than I planned on this year, but some new to me varieties that I ordered from Secret Seed Cartel, SSE, or generous Tvillers shared with me. New to me will have a *

Abbittista Paste .. *
Morado Vejer De La Frontera *
Rebel Yell *
Grandma Mary's Paste *
Margaret Curtain *
Amish Paste .. (Hoping I get the big blocky fruit from this pack that I used to get when I first grew AP years ago. Planting at least 20 + plants. From SSE)
Marianna's Peace *
Kentucky Cabin*
Rebecca Sebastian's Bull Bag ( New seed source.. trying for third time)
George Detsikas Italian Red *

Lurley's Paste.. The performance was outstanding for this paste last season. The plants were healthy and extremely productive. The fruit avg. Medium to large in size , meaty with few seeds and no blossom end rot!! Made an excellent sauce. That was my third time growing it out, and my first successful season.. Keeping fingers crossed for 2015 cause I am planting a lot.

Favorites I have grown for years that I love. Just 2 plants each:
Aunt Ruby's German Green
Old German
Kellogg's Breakfast
Black Krim

I am trying to restrain myself from growing out a few other fav's this year. So if I add a few more, I reserve that right.. This is a small list from my usual, but I
am growing out more greens like kale, spinach, chards etc. More garlic, potatoes, sweet potatoes and winter sqush. Also ordered strawberries, raspberries, various fruit trees from our county conservation seedling sale. I also ordered fig and banana plants.. Glad to be back on the farm. Hee hee.. Baby chicks are coming too

Ginny

[nwheritagegrdn]

I am growing less plants this year, but more varieties! Only 3 varieties are coming back from last year as I try to figure out what works best in my little urban garden.

Determinates
Cole
Northern Delight
Willamette
Martino's Roma
Italian Roma

Indeterminates
Wentzell
Italian Heirloom
Neves Azorean Red
Indian Stripe
Amish Paste
Heidi
Black Cherry
Costoluto Genovese
Japanese Trifele Black
Julia Child
Gardener's Sweetheart

[MrBig46]

Cherry tomatoes:
Green Zebra cherry
Sweet as Linda
Pink Bumble Bee
Purple Bumble Bee
Ildi
Sungold F1
Mexico Honey
Piccadilly
Black cherry
Ania
Gardener´s delight
Bibi
Datlo
Mini
Valdo
Goldkrone
Mini Kumato
Chera Perry Kumato
Chocmande
Zebra Pera Sol

Hearts (most seeds from Mysterry Mailing):
Alice
Brad´s Black Heart
Bychie Serdce Rozovye
Fish Lake Oxheart Pink
Fish Lake Oxheart Red
Fresa
German Red Strawberry
Kosovo
Kakula´s Portuguese Heart
Lemon Oxheart
Orange Russian 117
Orange Strawberry
Rozovyi Flamingo Heart
Ukrainian Heart
Wes
Anna Russian
Herodes

Beefsteaks:
Brandywine Sudduth´s
Brandywine cowlick´s
Cherokee Purple
Costoluto Genovese
Cuor di Bue
Indian Stripe
KBX
Kosmonaut Volkov
Middle Tennessee Low Acid
Neves Azorean Red
Black andBrown Board
Brutus Belmonte
Pink Bulgarian Giant
Maria Amazilitei Giant

Dwarves:
Perth Pride
Sleeping Lady
Summer Sunrise
Sweet Adelaide
Wherokowhai
Mountain Princess
Golden Dwarf champion
Big Green Dwarf
Dwarf Blazing Beauty
and 26 Czech tomatoes, 31 Spanish tomatoes and ten varieties of Pienollo - Ramallet
Vladimír

[carolyn137]

Kakula´s Portuguese Heart

Vladimir, the above is Kukla's Portuguese Heart and there's a beefsteak and a paste one as well.

http://tatianastomatobase.com/wiki/K...rtuguese_Heart

You can see that I was the origin for all three , initial seeds from Jackie Tarbox, and I think the beefsteak and heart ones are the very best.

I'm glad you will be growing the heart one.

Carolyn

[Fred Hempel]

I love the floating tomato garden!