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Post by garrett on Mar 4, 2015 20:46:39 GMT -5
whaTZ YA'LLS DOING NEW OR DIFFERENT FER THIS YEAR?SMILES GET ER DONE!
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Post by gulfcoastguy on Mar 4, 2015 22:41:40 GMT -5
Well the only new thing is that all of the maters will be at Dads, Waldo is a digger. The big problem is the the spinster sisters down the road have a large flick of ducks. Said ducks go foraging through Dads yard . They eat my seedlings and I breakout the cookbooks and firearms.
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Post by LinFL on Mar 5, 2015 9:23:28 GMT -5
Duck is delicious. Hopefully you can train Waldo not to dig in the garden, though. Having to grow everything at Dad's place will get old. So, what kinds of tomatoes are you growing?
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Post by gulfcoastguy on Mar 5, 2015 11:16:44 GMT -5
Japanese Trifele and Cour di Buo(sic?). as far as Waldo's digging I normally plant tomatoes in a large circle around a slow compost pile. He has dug the complete circumference of the circle. The previous dog saw me planting tomatoes and she started digging planting holes for me.
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Post by camochef on Mar 6, 2015 9:00:02 GMT -5
I really wanted to reduce my tomato gardens to just ten plants . I guess we all knew that wasn't going to happen. It's way too early and the snow is way too deep to even consider starting tomato seeds yet, but my plan is to have 25 tomato plants: German Johnson-Benton Strain German Johnson Benton Strain cross-P.L. black (Barlow' Best Black) Cowlick Brandywine Brandywine-Glicks Bear Creek Barlow Jap Cherokee Purple Red Brandywine Dana's Dusky Rose Earl's Faux Tarasenko6 Mt Fresh plus Purple Dog Creek Sandul Moldovan and new to me varieties from D.S. Margaret Curtain Not Purple Strawberry Rebel Yell Dester Mckinley Texwine Dixiewine Weisnicht's Ukrainian Turkey Penn Red and Mt. Fresh-f-1
Right now I have a tray full of shallots, leeks, scallions and chives growing as well as another tray with cabbages, Chinese Cabbage, kale, broccoli, cauliflower, beets and 6 varieties of spinach. We just got another foot of snow yesterday on top of the 8 inches or so of snow and ice that was on top of the frozen ground. So it's gonna be awhile before starting warm weather seeds like beans, cucumbers, squash, and other crops like...tomatoes. Hoping this winter ends soon...it was -2 degrees below zero this morning but we've warmed up to 4 degrees above now. Enjoy! Camo
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Post by LinFL on Mar 6, 2015 10:09:54 GMT -5
Nice list! I have not grown most of those, but I can say that Not Purple Strawberry is very good, and Rebel Yell is the best tasting tomato I have ever grown. That is why even though I an trying to grow new-to-me tomatoes this year, I am repeating Rebel Yell. I hope spring arrives soon in your area.
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Post by directsunlight on Mar 7, 2015 7:38:58 GMT -5
Going to try the Easter rule this year. Supposedly if you plant before Easter here, frost will take out everything. We'll see... New this year for me are glacier and a yellowkeeper variety I got from SESE. It's interesting how different tomatoes do well in different places. For example Rutgers's is good most places but here was a dumpster fire. Mountain pride was my best fulltime tomato in the end last year but based on the name you'd think it would hate the extreme heat.
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Post by cliffrat on Mar 7, 2015 16:14:53 GMT -5
Let's see.....I started the following: Matt's Wild Cherry, Orange Banana Plum, Black Plum, Moskovich, Smarty's Grape, and tried to go for two of each. Then I had germination problems, so I started another round of the Matt's and the two plums. Then everything came up at the same time. Then I had leggy seedlings and tried transplanting some into bigger pots and gave them more sunlight. Then some died, so I started another round and got the seeds all mixed up. Now, I have about 15 tomato plants out in the pots and I have no idea which ones made it.
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Post by directsunlight on Mar 8, 2015 13:15:38 GMT -5
Matt's is the gift that keeps on giving. I planted it 3 years ago and still had volunteers everywhere last year. Fruit is tiny but comes in droves. I usually have an easy time getting tomatoes started or changing pots but it's getting them hardened off that I have a hard time with.
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Post by cliffrat on Mar 9, 2015 23:41:56 GMT -5
Yeah the Matt's seem to be the hardiest of the lot, I think. I seem to remember getting very good germ rates and stronger seedlings than the orange or black plums. I wish I kept better notes. Hmmm. sounds like another thread brewing.......
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Post by camo on Mar 11, 2015 12:14:24 GMT -5
Nice list! I have not grown most of those, but I can say that Not Purple Strawberry is very good, and Rebel Yell is the best tasting tomato I have ever grown. That is why even though I an trying to grow new-to-me tomatoes this year, I am repeating Rebel Yell. I hope spring arrives soon in your area. This is the first time in years that I'm trying some new to me tomato varieties. I usually stay with what has been my favorites out of the thousands of varieties that I've grown. I also hope things thaw out here soon, I just started another tray of cabbages, beets and spinach on Monday and a tray of lettuce's, arugula, Pak Choi, Swiss chard, and other greens yesterday. Really wish I could start some beans, cukes, squash, zukes and other warm weather crops, especially tomatoes...but there's no way this year. I've started tomatoes as early as Jan 31 in the past. Not about to happen or even be close this season, won't even consider it till the snow and ice are gone and the ground has thawed. Someday, hopefully soon! Enjoy Camo Ps: Thanks for the good word on Rebel Yell and Not Purple Strawberry.
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Post by nightmist on Mar 14, 2015 8:21:45 GMT -5
I'm just growing a few varieties this year, naught but 25 plants or so. Cosmonaut V, Paul Robeson, and Kellog's Breakfast. I really wanted to throw some oxhearts into the mix, but I just don't have the space this year as DH has some roots he wants me to try. I generally avoid root veg because of our clay soil (great big tops, teeny tiny roots), but the onions and leeks did well last year so we'll give it a go this year.
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Post by desertrat on Jun 29, 2015 12:09:44 GMT -5
I had a very ambitious list this year but my community garden plot was hi jacked so a lot of the seedlings didn't make it into the ground. These did:
Rebel Yell planted Feb. 6 and picked the first ripe on May 6, a very late maturing variety for me here but worth the wait! Beautiful large pink very tasty fruit, so far I've gotten 46 from 1 plant so production was very good. Early fruit was around 12 oz. each, later 6 to 8 oz. Starting seeds soon for fall planting.
Nature's Riddle A very large bi-color, yellow with peach blush outside and peachy stripes through the inside. An amazing tasting tomato, slightly sweet with silky smooth luscious texture. The best tasting tomato I've had so far, not as productive as Rebel Yell but will always have a spot in my garden. Also very late to mature, planted Feb. 6 picked first ripe May15. Most fruit from 12 to 16 oz. Blush An elongated sort of cherry type, yellow with peach blush if fully ripened on the plant. A very good tasting and fairly productive tomato, also returning to my fall garden.
Vernissage Pink A small pink with yellow stripes, pretty good tasting but not very productive for me. Probably won't grow again.
Zarca, another larger cherry fruited type, not as productive as hyped. Taste was okay but won't grow again.
Flamenco, an offering from Native Seed Search supposed to be heat tolerant bred for the desert. The plant itself has stood up to the heat but still waiting for the first tomato to set. Blooming but may not get fruit until fall if then.
Zluta Kytice, a small yellow cherry type with pretty good tasting fruit. A multi flora with tons of blooms but not very good fruit set. The plants are amazingly heat tolerant but probably won't grow again as I've had much more productive cherry types.
Rosella Purple, a dwarf tomato reported to produce fruit as tasty as Cherokee Purple. Only produced 8 fruit around 4 oz each, a dark tomato with green shoulders that are pretty good tasting. Definitely not a heat tolerant variety, even under shade cloth it burned to a crispy critter very early on, grown next to zluta kytice that isn't under shade. I'll try it again in the fall. Before the heat set in it was a beautiful "tree" tomato.
Orange Pixie, another dwarf that took the heat better than rosella purple but only produced a few fruit that tasted okay. It also may be better grown in the fall.
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Post by directsunlight on Jul 4, 2015 2:01:24 GMT -5
Major discovery this year was that tomatoes can drown. Plants are a month or two behind. For those not in TX we got 17 inches of rain in May here, enough to leave half my garden under standing water when it was done.
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Post by garrett on Jul 11, 2015 0:50:33 GMT -5
gonna gear up for this falls mater crop
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Post by bluelacedredhead on Jul 15, 2015 18:38:47 GMT -5
9 large plants this year: Rinaldo (3) Moreton's Hybrid (dehybridized)(2) Rumii Banjaan Stupice Hoskins Barger Pruden's Purple Containers with House Micro Tom Chocolate Champion Ena Mae I finally did it! I downsized
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Post by gulfcoastguy on Jul 16, 2015 12:42:46 GMT -5
Just Japanese Black Trifele and Cor Di Bou this year. To much rain so the tomatoes taste watery.
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Post by bluelacedredhead on Jul 16, 2015 21:59:04 GMT -5
Too much rain here too although my tomatoes aren't ripe yet so not sure what the outcome will be with them? Hopefully things dry out a bit so not all is lost to fungal infections and blight.
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Post by garrett on Jul 21, 2015 4:06:24 GMT -5
hey lace o red.smiles good to sees ya.smiles
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