Tomato Grow Lists 2013

[TZ -OH6]

I looked back and didn't see a grow list for this year, so what are you all planting this year?


Here's mine.

Early:
Fourth of July -- red hybrid -- one plant bought from nursery to hold us over until good tomatoes start to ripen.

Cherry:
Black Cherry
Green Grape

Favorite eating tomatoes:
Goose Creek -- pink
Brandywine Sudduth -- pink
Kokosing Giant -- red

Sauce collection:

Blacks-
Black Krim
GaryO Sena
Black from Tula
Indian Stripe

Oxhearts-
Wes - red
Kosovo - pink

Flavor enhanser-
Limmony - yellow-skin white-flesh - adds hint of citrus to sauce

[gixxerific]

Great list, I am working on mine. I figured it was futile to plan so I have been writing down as I go.

By the way I must thank you for goose creek pink. I grew it last year from seeds I got from you a few years ago. They were amazing even in the super drought we had. One of the last three remaining in the garden. It is HIGHLY recommended by me. Super productive even in the hard-core relentless heat, than produced till frost.

Thanks TZ

[TZ -OH6]

I really hate it when a hyped up tomato turns out to be as good as the hype. It almost makes me want to believe the story behind it, but I was told so many 'stories' as a child that if a tomato was handed down in my family the seed was probably bought from Burpee in the 1960s but the story would include a well traveled Eskimo hacking seeds out of the ice of a glacier in the Andes.

It's a sweet tomato so I'm sure it isn't to everyone's taste.

[vinyl217]

Here's my tomato list for the year:
Buckbee's Abraham Lincoln
Mule Team
Amish Paste
Fantastic Hybrid

This will be the first time in about 8 seasons I've grown a hybrid tomato, I'm anxious to see how it does compared to the heirlooms. I've grown Amish Paste and the Abe Lincoln for 5 seasons now, the Mule Team will be the third year I've grown them as all three do very well here.
I grow my maters up a trellis, with all sucker branches removed, about 18" apart in raised beds. Taking seedlings outside today to start hardening them off for planting next week

[TZ -OH6]

Vinyl217,

You have four there that I haven't gotten around to growing. Amish paste is fairly juicy for a paste tomato if my memory serves me from what I have read, That usually means more flavor coming from the seed gel. Is that right?

[digitS']

Gary O Sena
Rainy's Maltese
Dagma's Perfection
Earl of Edgecombe
Casey's Yellow
Thessaloniki
Bloody Butcher
Kimberley
Pink Pearls
Porter
Buisson
Gold Dust*
Cold Set*
OTV Brandywine*
Pantano Romanesco*
Fireworks*
Legend
Early Girl
Goliath
Dr. Carolyn
Sun Sugar
Sungold
Super Sweet 100

*new to me

As you can see, there aren't too many new-to-me's and I've only got 1 or 2 of each. This year, I will try my big clumsy digitS' at hybridizing: Kimberley to other smaller-sized tomatoes.

Good to have you back, TZ !

Steve

[rainbowgardener]

I don't have a lot of room for tomatoes, but I have Wayahead, Sophie's choice, Red Barn, Goose Creek, Better Boy hybrid, Big Cheef (thanks gixx!). I started some seeds of Amos Colis, but for some reason none of them sprouted.

[rainbowgardener]

sigh...

[JayPoc]

Rainbow...are you double posting again? Lol...what causes that glitch?

Anyway, here's mine:

German Johnson
Pruden's Purple
Cherokee Purple
Big Beef hybrid
VF Supersweet 100 cherry hybrid
Sleeping Lady dwarf
and a really healthy looking potato leaf volunteer that I dug up and re-potted for later transplant...

I truly have no idea what this last one is. I know 2 years ago I had an awesome heirloom potato leaf...big pink beefsteak type whose variety name has been lost by this absent minded gardener. Would seeds survive in an old mulch pile for 2 years? I did plant a potato leaf type last year as well, but I can't figure out how seed from those could have ended up in this place. Either way, its an interesting experiment.

[TZ -OH6]

Seeds can sit underground for years if they don't have oxygen to sprout -- or on top if they don't stay wet long enough to sprout so I don't see a problem with your volunteer being from two years ago.

[vinyl217]

Vinyl217,

You have four there that I haven't gotten around to growing. Amish paste is fairly juicy for a paste tomato if my memory serves me from what I have read, That usually means more flavor coming from the seed gel. Is that right?

Yeah, fairly juicy for a paste tomato but still pretty solid. They can very well and cook to a very tasty sauce. This variety also yields larger fruit and resists blights and blossom end rot better than the other paste types I've grown. Hit me up if you want some seeds for next year's garden.

[gixxerific]

Rainbow Amos Coli took forever for me. Give it some time.

[gixxerific]

Rainbow Amos Coli took forever for me. Give it some time.

[TZ -OH6]

Thanks Vinyl. I appreciate the offer, but I quite "collecting" and now have a big backlog of stuff to regrow. Seed is getting old.

[PunkRotten]

I got:

Totem
Red Robin
Jersey Devil
Amos Coli
Juane Flamme
Black Krim

[gixxerific]

Here is my final (for now ) list, these are all in the ground either at my place or over at my satellite garden.

Planting list 2013

Dwarfs:
Anmore Dewdrop
Balkan Tiger F3
Balkon Star
Belyi Naliv
Beryl Beauty
Boloto
Bushy Chabarovsky
Caught In A Mosh F3 (high antho)
Cherokee Tiger Black
Cherokee Tiger F5 (striped plum)
Cherokee Tiger Large Red
Coorong Red F4
Coastal Pride Orange
Coastal Pride Red
Cyril’s Choice
Czech’s Bush
Demidov
Dwarf Jade Beauty
Dwarf Stone
Emerald Green Giant
Golden Dwarf Champion
Husky Pink Hybrid
Jackass Yellow F5
Kecskemeti Jubileum
Lime Green Salad
Lucky Leprechaun
Mano
Minibell
New Big Dwarf
Orange Pixie
Orange Tree
Perfekta
Rainbow Dwarf
Red Dwarf
Resista Dwarf
Roughwood Golden Plum
Roza Linda
Roza Vetrov
Russian Red
Shadow Boxing
Sleeping Lady
Summertime Gold
Tasmanian Pink F4
Tasmanian Chocolate
Yellow Dwarf
Utyonok
Victorian Dwarf


Indys:

Arbuznyi
Aussie
Beauty King
Black Krim
Brad’s Black Heart
Brutus
Big Cheef
Big Cheef Stripes
Bison
BWT – 212
Captain Lucky
Cherokee Lime
Crazy Horse Giant Brown
Crazy Horse Giant Red
Dalmatiner
Dester
Donomater F3 (Applestar)
Donomater F# (Counselor)
Donskoi
Eva’s Purple Ball
Faelan’s First Snow
Flathead Monster
Garden Pride Red (Deneka Heirloom)
Girls Girls Weird Thing
Grandma Oliver Chocolate
Greenbush Italian
Hunky Dory F3
Indigo Apple
Japanese Black Trifele
Juanne Flamme
Kleopatra
Korol Gigantov
Korol Siberi
Lehrertomate
Long Keeper
Lucky Cross
Lush Queen
Marianna’a Peace
Marizol Maroon
Marmande Garnier Rouge
Mason Dixon F2
McKinley
Mocross Carneal
Mocross Elgin #9
Nighthawk x OSU Blue
Rebel Yell
Rozovyi Myod (pink honey)
Russ Family Heirloom #1
Russ Family Heirloom #2
Peter Glazebrook Special
Orange Bull’s Heart
Orange Russian #117
Oxheart Giantissmo
Pink Berkley Tie Dye
Pink Delice (Deneka Heirloom)
Purple Dragon
Purple Reign
Pusztakolosz
S312 F2
S613 F2
San Marzano
Sgt. Peppers F3
Siberian Tiger
Spears Tennessee Yellow
Spudatula
Spudyellow Strawberry
Strawberry Leopard
Terhune
Yellow Dragon
Weapons Mass Destruction (pink 2 siblings)
Weapons Mass Destruction (White Sport)
Wildthyme Bicolor

[TZ -OH6]

Splain pleez.

Girls Girls Weird Thing

[Brandywinegirl]

Paul Robeson
White Lady
Early Girl
Sungold

Slowing down on tomatoes - I used to grow 25 every year, but the blight took most of them out the last two years. This year, I am not even putting the plants close to each other - they will be 5 feet apart and I will fertilize more often.

[gixxerific]

Splain pleez.

Girls Girls Weird Thing

This is a mutant of green zebra that was captured last year.

[TZ -OH6]

I'm more curious about the origin of the double plural "girls girls" part of the name.

[gixxerific]

I'm more curious about the origin of the double plural "girls girls" part of the name.

Hard to say really. We were talking in a chat room one night a while back, than the name thing came up and this is what she settled on. Other than that I am not sure. I would put up a link to a thread all about this tomato but this forum will not allow it.

Dono

[applestar]

LOL
Correct name is "Girl Girl's..." and I remember it as that they have a dog named "Girl Girl" and this dog likes to eat (I.e. steal) tomatoes and particularly favored this tomato.

...I have the seeds, but somehow managed to overlook this variety when I was in frenzy of seed starting. I'm in the process of more-or-less final tally of what will definitely get planted, then Once I have that locked down, I'll be able to really see what's left and what I can or can't do to plant some more, etc.

[gixxerific]

Yes Apple is right I was thinking wrong. Her dog is Girl Girl and the mutant is a weird thing. She stating that she wasn't creative and that is all she could come up with. But I happen to love the name.

Here is a pic of what a friend of mine Blane came up with last year. Definitely not Green Zebra that is for sure, but was stated as being very good flavor wise and the color is so awesome. Here's to a great run with this one and the many other variety's I have. Never fear I will be flooding the forum with pics and info this season.

[Juliuskitty]

Gixxerific, how did you like Cherokee Lime? I have not been able to locate it, but did get seeds for Cherokee Lemon, and Cherokee Lime Stripes both from Marianna's. I started seed for both last Saturday, since our season is just about to start. Any opinion on either or both of these?

[gixxerific]

Cherokee lime was pretty dang good, though I am not a big fan of greenies. I have not grown the others you mentioned but most everything from the "Cherokee" line has been outstanding. I have heard good things about the Lemon not much on the Lime Striped though.

Good luck

[Juliuskitty]

Thank you for the info. Would you know of a public seed source for C. Lime so I can buy some?