My 2021 Tomato Grow List
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My 2021 Tomato Grow List
You'd think in a pandemic with so much home time, I'd be online more than ever, but somehow the opposite has been true in 2020 and continuing into 2021. I've got my 2021 garden plans nearly finalized and wanted to share my tomato list for 2021, just because! I have micro dwarf tomatoes just sprouted, those grow in pots by the patio door and start going outside as soon as days allow in March/April before moving out for good in May, they always make for a 4-6 week jump on the tomato harvest which is so very much appreciated!
On to the main list:
Garden Beds
KBX (every year)
Sudduth Brandywine (every year)
Sungold F1 (every year)
Tundra (grew it last year for the first time and wowed by flavor!)
Rosella Cherry (another grew it for the first time last year and very wowed with flavor and production)
Polish (new to me)
Lilian's Yellow Heirloom (new to me)
Black Krim (every year)
Dikovinka (new to me)
Brad's Atomic Grape (new to me)
Cherokee Purple x Lilian's Yellow Heirloom F1 (new to me)
Not Wisconsin 55 Gold F2 (had an apparent F1 bee cross last year with Wisconsin 55 Gold and an unknown striped tomato--the F1 was a gold saladette with green stripes, tasty, productive, and foliage was rather healthy)
3 more slots with about 6 varieties on my short list.....still giving myself some wiggle room
Dwarfs in 5 gal buckets
Eagle Smiley Yellow Cherry (every year--my selected and named tomato, will be released in 2022, part of the Cross Hemisphere Dwarf Project--Teensy family)
5 different Teensy family lead plants
Dwarf Mr. Snow (new to me)
Dwarf Emerald Giant (grew it last year and loved it)
Dwarf Grinch (new to me)
I hope everyone has great luck with their gardens in 2021!
On to the main list:
Garden Beds
KBX (every year)
Sudduth Brandywine (every year)
Sungold F1 (every year)
Tundra (grew it last year for the first time and wowed by flavor!)
Rosella Cherry (another grew it for the first time last year and very wowed with flavor and production)
Polish (new to me)
Lilian's Yellow Heirloom (new to me)
Black Krim (every year)
Dikovinka (new to me)
Brad's Atomic Grape (new to me)
Cherokee Purple x Lilian's Yellow Heirloom F1 (new to me)
Not Wisconsin 55 Gold F2 (had an apparent F1 bee cross last year with Wisconsin 55 Gold and an unknown striped tomato--the F1 was a gold saladette with green stripes, tasty, productive, and foliage was rather healthy)
3 more slots with about 6 varieties on my short list.....still giving myself some wiggle room
Dwarfs in 5 gal buckets
Eagle Smiley Yellow Cherry (every year--my selected and named tomato, will be released in 2022, part of the Cross Hemisphere Dwarf Project--Teensy family)
5 different Teensy family lead plants
Dwarf Mr. Snow (new to me)
Dwarf Emerald Giant (grew it last year and loved it)
Dwarf Grinch (new to me)
I hope everyone has great luck with their gardens in 2021!
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It looks like another great list. I like hearing about how they do for you since you are fairly close to me. I know how much you enjoy working with the Dwarf Project tomatoes. Your doing wonderful work too.
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Sounds good! How about your Jaune Flammee cross? IDK if you grew it or posted about it in 2020, I didn't see it.
That Not Wisconsin 55 Gold F2 sounds like treats and fun for 2021.
There's a part of me that would just grow F2's and F3's every year, just for the surprises.
That Not Wisconsin 55 Gold F2 sounds like treats and fun for 2021.
There's a part of me that would just grow F2's and F3's every year, just for the surprises.
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I grew 5 F2s in 2019, but didn't save seed from anything, nothing overly exciting. Last year I grew 2 F2s, and one of the plants I thought had tremendous flavor, big sweet and acid, I saved seed from it. It had orange fruit, about tennis ball sized, and the plants seemed to have healthier foliage than the all the rest of the F2s I've grown (which have been rather susceptible to Septoria) with good production into September. Thanks for the reminder, I'm thinking a plant of the F3 might just have to fill one of my last 3 slots!Bower wrote: ↑Tue Feb 02, 2021 8:34 am Sounds good! How about your Jaune Flammee cross? IDK if you grew it or posted about it in 2020, I didn't see it.
That Not Wisconsin 55 Gold F2 sounds like treats and fun for 2021.
There's a part of me that would just grow F2's and F3's every year, just for the surprises.
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Hey jmsglaff, what micro dwarfs are you starting? I really loved the Dwarf Mr. Snow for the last 2 years - good to eat and produced heavy all year - I gave it a late feed and produced till frost!
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They are in development, it was a cross made by Dan Follett. 19x is the number, it was a cross of Ambrosia Orange UBX and I forget the micro dwarf parent, it's in my notes somewhere. Anyway, I grew the F1 and saved a bunch of F2 seed. I now have a lead at F5, I will be growing 3 plants, trying to see any differences--last year I grew 3 F4 and saved seed from 1 plant with best flavor and also had habit I liked best. It is a multi flora micro dwarf, produces smallish red cherries by the bowl fulls. Flavor is very good, yet still short of excellent, but I usually start picking in late May and gives me lots of tasty tomatoes until the others start coming around July 1.
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A picture of one of the plants from 2020.
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Plucked out 3 micro dwarf plants to pot up. At F5, very little if any differences in height at this stage. Nothing like that tomato plant smell on a -2F snowy day!
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Wonderful garden list. KBX is a repeat every year for me too. Like you grew Rosella Cherry for the first time last year. Not a fan of growing too many cherries but that is a keeper and will return this summer! Tundra disappointed last summer so hoping for better results in 2021. I have grown Lilian’s Yellow Heirloom and loved it. Many of the rest are old favorites as well. Don’t know Polish or Dikovinka and have not tried the Atomic ... one yet. I grow very few Dwarf but know Mr. Snow. Think I need to try that one again. Looking forward to hearing your results.
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As one does in the winter, some tweaks and decisions had to be made, but my tomato lists for 2021 are complete.
Garden Beds
KBX (every year)
Sudduth Brandywine (every year)
Sungold F1 (every year)
Tundra (grew it last year for the first time and wowed by flavor, from Karen O.)
Rosella Cherry (another grew it for the first time last year and very wowed with flavor and production)
Lilian's Yellow Heirloom (new to me)
Black Krim (every year)
Dikovinka (new to me, Carolyn's Last Seed Offer)
Cherokee Purple x Lilian's Yellow Heirloom F1 (new to me)
Not Wisconsin 55 Gold F2 (had an apparent F1 bee cross last year with Wisconsin 55 Gold and an unknown striped tomato--the F1 was a gold saladette with green stripes, tasty, productive, and foliage was rather healthy)
Lindy's Little Krim (new to me, small fruited Black Krim, sport (mutant?) from a seed pack from Baker Creek from Lindy A.)
Lorelei (new to me, red cherry, selection followed by Darrel J. for excellent septoria resistance, from USDA seed bank lot of wild Peru tomatoes)
Cherokee Jumbo (new to me, similar to Cherokee Purple, but larger fruited, a bee cross of unknown tomato and Cherokee Purple, from Darrel J.)
Prairie Star (new to me, PL, large fruited yellow with pink star, from Martin L., from BKX mutant or cross?)
Start S F1 (new to me, early, delicious red slicer from Czech Republic, from Vladimir G.)
Sudduth BW x Black Cherry F3 (new to me, PL pink 4-6oz slicer with excellent flavor, from Jackie K.)
Dwarfs in 5 gal buckets
Dwarf Eagle Smiley Yellow Cherry (every year--my selected and named tomato, will be released in 2022, part of the Cross Hemisphere Dwarf Project--Teensy family)
3 different Teensy Chocolate leads
2 different Teensy Pink leads
Dwarf Mr. Snow (new to me)
Dwarf Emerald Giant (grew it last year and loved it)
Dwarf Grinch (new to me)
Garden Beds
KBX (every year)
Sudduth Brandywine (every year)
Sungold F1 (every year)
Tundra (grew it last year for the first time and wowed by flavor, from Karen O.)
Rosella Cherry (another grew it for the first time last year and very wowed with flavor and production)
Lilian's Yellow Heirloom (new to me)
Black Krim (every year)
Dikovinka (new to me, Carolyn's Last Seed Offer)
Cherokee Purple x Lilian's Yellow Heirloom F1 (new to me)
Not Wisconsin 55 Gold F2 (had an apparent F1 bee cross last year with Wisconsin 55 Gold and an unknown striped tomato--the F1 was a gold saladette with green stripes, tasty, productive, and foliage was rather healthy)
Lindy's Little Krim (new to me, small fruited Black Krim, sport (mutant?) from a seed pack from Baker Creek from Lindy A.)
Lorelei (new to me, red cherry, selection followed by Darrel J. for excellent septoria resistance, from USDA seed bank lot of wild Peru tomatoes)
Cherokee Jumbo (new to me, similar to Cherokee Purple, but larger fruited, a bee cross of unknown tomato and Cherokee Purple, from Darrel J.)
Prairie Star (new to me, PL, large fruited yellow with pink star, from Martin L., from BKX mutant or cross?)
Start S F1 (new to me, early, delicious red slicer from Czech Republic, from Vladimir G.)
Sudduth BW x Black Cherry F3 (new to me, PL pink 4-6oz slicer with excellent flavor, from Jackie K.)
Dwarfs in 5 gal buckets
Dwarf Eagle Smiley Yellow Cherry (every year--my selected and named tomato, will be released in 2022, part of the Cross Hemisphere Dwarf Project--Teensy family)
3 different Teensy Chocolate leads
2 different Teensy Pink leads
Dwarf Mr. Snow (new to me)
Dwarf Emerald Giant (grew it last year and loved it)
Dwarf Grinch (new to me)
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Micro dwarf tomatoes, onions and baby peppers in the basement under lights!
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Nice list! I have been adding "must grows" and trying a few new ones each year for so long now that my "must grow" list is bigger than my garden!
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It's such the hard part isn't it? I keep a running subjective taste log and I have a whole bunch of 9s and a bunch more 8.5s that I'd love to grow but the list of good tomatoes is too long! KBX, Sungold, Sudduth Brandywine, and Black Krim are my 4 every year have to grows, the first 3 are my only 9.5s on my list. Although I really do need to make a point of getting Aunt Ginny's Purple back into the garden, that is one of my 9s that in the right year might elevate to 9.5, it was a really good tomato when I grew it a couple years ago.
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A good day today! Onions and microdwarf starts got an hour and change of sunshine up against the south side of the house in the low 50s and indoor sowed broccoli, kale, lettuce, spinach, and summer savory tonight.
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Every year is different. This year I’m early, onion seedlings and trying transplanting tiny spinach plants to combat long germination time and spotty germination. Also sowed sugar snap pea seeds that were plumped after an overnight soak.
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Your off to a great start and you have that soil in perfect condition. It seems you are all set for another fabulous year.
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Thanks Patti! If you look closely there are rabbit pellets mixed in. They burrowed under the snow and ate our yuccas all winter and left obscene amounts poop. I shoveled it off the yard and into the gardens. Trying to make lemonade as it were.
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Dwarf seeds were sown on 3/23 and are under lights in the basement putting on tiny first true leaves. Indeterminates were sown 4/4 and the first ones should be popping up in the next day or two, always an exciting time. Spring has been nice and warm and not too wet so far, I've got an early start with onions, spinach, peas, lettuce, orach and radishes all out in the garden growing nicely. I did an overnight soak of my peas before planting this year, never have done that before, by far the fastest and most consistent germination on peas I've had. I know a big part of that has been the nice mild weather, but I'll keep on doing that until I find a reason not to.
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I guess we plant tomatoes about the same time - mine popped up on 3/24. I have a lot of peas planned but haven't thought about planting them soon - it's still very cold and wet here. What peas are you growing, jm?
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I’ve tried a few varieties but for many years now I only grow Super Sugar Snap. They are wonderful. A few years ago I was lazy and didn’t pull my peas when they were done in very late June/early July, to my surprise they put on a second flush of flowers and produced a nice second crop. Since then I always let them make that second crop. It is 1/2 to 2/3 of the first but still tasty and well worth it, especially because I never had anything to grow on the trellis that was worthwhile and starting that late.