What's on your 2022 tomato growlist?

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Tue Sep 21, 2021 8:30 am

@Shule and @Rockoe10 OH my goodness! ENABLERS BOTH OF YOU! So many choices! Thank you so much! Fortunately I have time to plan this <3
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Tue Sep 21, 2021 8:52 am

rxkeith wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 7:35 pm the only for sures every year are

my uncle steve italian plum
pervaya lyubov
matina
sun gold or equivalent

everything else is up in the air not even thinking about it at this stage.


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sun gold or equivalent

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA ;)

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Fri Sep 24, 2021 5:09 pm

Less tomatoes and less varieties next year. Grew 42 varieties this, year, 70 in total and only a few will return.

I need 75 day or less varieties, as they need to produce most of their fruit before either Late Blight or frost gets them by mid-Sept. (Have tried resistant varieties, but they are basically a supermarket tomato).

30 Varieties. Thinking about the following. Any input greatly appreciated. Also thinking of participating in the MMMM swap if Canadian entries won’t get stopped by Customs.

Cherries
Sunrise Bumblebee (returning)
Pink Bumblebee (returning)
Sunshine Yellow (returning)
Candy Sweet Icicle (returning)
Sweet Aperatif
Rosella
Gardener’s Sweetheart or Gardener’s Delight ?
Iva’s Red Berry ?

Container:
Boronia (returning)
Dwarf Scarlet Heart (returning)
NBDwarf (returning)
Dwarf Emerald Giant
Wild Fred
Blazing Beauty
Uluru Ochre ?
Whereokwhai ?
Sophies’ Choice

In-Ground:
Oxacan Jewel
Arbuzyni
Grub’s Mystery Green
Kosovo or Sylvan Guamme
Paul Robeson ?
Thornburn’s Terra Cotta
Caspian Pink
Pervaya Lyubov
Lucid Gem ?
Carbon
Woodle Orange or Dr Wyche’s Yellow
Striped Sweetheart Dark
Too many tomatoes, not enough time.

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Sat Sep 25, 2021 12:01 am

@MissTee That looks like a great list to me.
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Sat Sep 25, 2021 7:47 am

@MissTee, Clear Lake Heirloom is a nice early black beefsteak; I’ve grown it the last 3 years.
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Sat Sep 25, 2021 10:15 am

PlainJane wrote: Sat Sep 25, 2021 7:47 am @MissTee, Clear Lake Heirloom is a nice early black beefsteak; I’ve grown it the last 3 years.
Thanks I’ll look this variety up. I didn’t have enough dark tomatoes this year.
Too many tomatoes, not enough time.

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Sat Sep 25, 2021 6:16 pm

I want to try the Chef Choice varieties, I got Chef Choice Orange (2017) as part of last year's MMMM. I am hoping to acquire Chef Choice Pink before seed sowing time.

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Sat Sep 25, 2021 6:29 pm

agee wrote: Sat Sep 25, 2021 6:16 pm I want to try the Chef Choice varieties, I got Chef Choice Orange (2017) as part of last year's MMMM. I am hoping to acquire Chef Choice Pink before seed sowing time.
There are some Chef's Choice varieties listed in the MMMM Hybrid thread so it looks easy enough for you to get some. Pink is there too. https://www.tomatojunction.com/viewtopi ... 117&t=2801
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Tue Sep 28, 2021 9:36 am

Miss Tee
I grew Thorburn’s Terracotta for the first time this summer. Probably one of the best tasting and produced all summer. Was reasonably early so could enjoy it for a long period.

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Tue Oct 05, 2021 11:40 am

Wish I could decide! Too many options.

Anyone have recommendation for tomatoes that are similar in taste to my current favorites?

Dester
SOTW
Yoders German Pink Oxheart
Cuore di Bue (another pink oxheart)
GGWT

Probably growing 1 green beefsteak (Evergreen, Malachite Box or Aunt Ruby's German Green?), 1 bicolor beefsteak (Virginia Sweets or Thorburns Terra-Cotta?), 1 white/yellow beefsteak (Lillian's Yellow Heirloom, White Tomesol or Hugh's?) and 15 or so pink/red oxheart/beefsteaks. In Ontario zone 6b.

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Post: # 55105Unread post Rockoe10
Tue Oct 05, 2021 11:54 am

@Toomanymatoes
Ones i could recommend are Warren Bees and Pomodoro Cuore Antico di Acqui Terme. Both i grew this season. Both a sweet and flavorful.
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Tue Oct 05, 2021 1:44 pm

Toomanymatoes wrote: Tue Oct 05, 2021 11:40 am Wish I could decide! Too many options.

Anyone have recommendation for tomatoes that are similar in taste to my current favorites?

Dester
SOTW
Yoders German Pink Oxheart
Cuore di Bue (another pink oxheart)
GGWT

Probably growing 1 green beefsteak (Evergreen, Malachite Box or Aunt Ruby's German Green?), 1 bicolor beefsteak (Virginia Sweets or Thorburns Terra-Cotta?), 1 white/yellow beefsteak (Lillian's Yellow Heirloom, White Tomesol or Hugh's?) and 15 or so pink/red oxheart/beefsteaks. In Ontario zone 6b.
The only one on your list that I haven't grown is Yoders. If it's like a typical heart it's likely sweet and meaty. All of the others I really like, with SOTW as my second all-time favorite, and Dester in the top 10, out of 1,500+ varieties trialed.

I generally do not like green tomatoes. Green Giant is the only one I think of highly. White Queen is supposedly the only white with any flavor.

Lillian's Yellow Heirloom is about as good as it gets for a true yellow, but it is quite late. Hugh's, which I like, is mild, sort of like very sweet watered-down lemonade.

Pink beefsteaks and pink or red hearts make up most of my garden.

My first recommendation would be Pervaya Lyubov, a very early pink beefsteak, the earliest great tasting tomato that I know of.

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Tue Oct 05, 2021 2:40 pm

@Rockoe10
@Tormato

Thanks for the suggestions! Guess I know what will be going on my MMMM want list.

I have seeds for Green Giant, so maybe I will try that one in 2022.

I don't mind late tomatoes, as I usually still get several to try. As long as I can try one, I am happy.

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Wed Oct 06, 2021 8:17 am

I can fit in 16 plants and have spent this past week making up my grow list for next year - haven't even pulled all my plants form this year's garden.

My list... *** is new to me 2022.... comments welcome...
Sunsugar
Sunrise Bumblebee (was torn between it and Karma Purple Multiflora) ***
Start S F1
Buffalosteak (hybrid)
Neves Azorean Red (a staple)
Aunt Ginny's Purple
SOTW (a staple)
Dester (was new to me 2021, nice tomato, seems late)
Girl Girl's Weird Thing ***
German Red Strawberry
Anna Maria's ***
Kosovo (a staple)
Polaris *** (this year I had both Cherokee Carbon and Paul Robeson - not sure if I will miss them)
Rozovyi Myod ***
Girthmire's Pride ***
Cour di bue ***

Of course in ordering seed, I couldn't decide so I have potential alternates, these are all unknown to me....
Midnight Sun
Reif Red Heart
German Orange Strawberry
Prue
Curtis Cheek
Reinhard Kraft's Giant Astrakhansky

I had a horrid year in 2021 and decided to switch out a bunch of things. Best plants in years of starting went into the ground then got hit with the oddest conditions in years - it was my toughest in the last 11 years of tracking my tomatoes.
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Wed Oct 06, 2021 4:46 pm

Somewhere a bit south of me, you likely got all of that rain, all summer long.

I'm currently left with one SunGold plant, out of 180 total plants. It still has about 50 green tomatoes on it.

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Wed Oct 06, 2021 8:07 pm

Tormato wrote: Wed Oct 06, 2021 4:46 pm Somewhere a bit south of me, you likely got all of that rain, all summer long.

I'm currently left with one SunGold plant, out of 180 total plants. It still has about 50 green tomatoes on it.
WHAT!!!! You grew ALL of those SunGolds that were meant for the MMMM. :o :o :o :o :o :o :o
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Wed Oct 06, 2021 10:12 pm

i will add alston everlasting to my list.
it is a very good red cherry tomato that doesn't split.
seeds are fermenting. hint, hint.


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Thu Oct 07, 2021 12:55 pm

MissS wrote: Wed Oct 06, 2021 8:07 pm
Tormato wrote: Wed Oct 06, 2021 4:46 pm Somewhere a bit south of me, you likely got all of that rain, all summer long.

I'm currently left with one SunGold plant, out of 180 total plants. It still has about 50 green tomatoes on it.
WHAT!!!! You grew ALL of those SunGolds that were meant for the MMMM. :o :o :o :o :o :o :o
I grew 2 SunGold plants, and 178 of other varieties. With 180 SunGold plants, I would have had to recruit a lot of help from under a bridge in Del Rio.

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Thu Oct 07, 2021 2:05 pm

Miss Tee,

From your list, I can recommend Rosella Cherry and Dwarf Wherokowhai. Sweet Aperitif is sweet, although small. You should also try EM Champion for an early, compact, determinate pink heart.

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Sun Oct 24, 2021 12:25 am

My husband decided he wanted a big tomato contest I grew 35 plants this year winter came early so I had to pick all tomatoes green plants were over 6 feet but hardly any tomatoes!!! It was an epic fail this year for everything so bummed hopefully things will turn around next year.less tomato’s next year just got to overcrowded in the greenhouse.


Big zac x4
Cuostralee x4

For the smaller ones it’s gonna be
Early boy bushx2
Bush early girlx2
Goliath bushx2
I haven’t grown these varieties yet except the big zacs
For my indoor winter tomatoes I just started are
Micro toms
Pineapple tomato
White beauty or snowball
Variety I have not grown yet either!!
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