AKgardener wrote: ↑Tue Feb 01, 2022 12:55 pm @svalli I would love to get new variety but my mail system is so messed up where I live I literally have to have my daughter order things for me so I get them .so if you could just give me the names of the varieties you grow I’ll save it on my to get list . Our mail goes into other people mail mix we get there and just recently I went to get a package and someone put a stop to all our mail. To frustrating

I have kept records of what I have sown since 2017 and when looking through that list these ones I remember being early and producing well:

42 days
Aurora
Benewah
Bärnsten
Dwarf Shadow Boxing
Jantarnoi
Kibits
Native Sun
New Yorker
Pink Passion
Ropreco Paste
Safari Dwarf
Sanka
Sasha's Altai
Skorospelka
Sweet Linda
Uralskiy Ranniy

There are also many others, which are early and great. I grow many dwarf varieties every year and New Big Dwarf has been my favorite. It is late ripening, but it is something I every year wait for. This year I am planning to replace it with Brandyfred, because last summer it ripened a bit earlier and taste of the tomatoes was awesome.

Sari

AKgardener wrote: ↑Mon Jan 31, 2022 2:35 am @svalli my husband’s only pet peeve is the tomatoes he knows better than to step on my toes when it comes to my garden simply because like you said it’s my domain and knows if I need something I’ll ask .I think it’s more him doesn’t like me struggling and is trying to make it easy for me to succeed rather than fail each time ! I see his point I just don’t agree

Tell hubby it's the struggle that makes you happy.

Your domain, but I recommend one Pervaya Lyubov plant, even if you have to top it, or train it to grow sideways to fit in the greenhouse.

I like to do comparisons of tomatoes that share a set of common characteristics, grow favorites, try new to me varieties, grow experimental stuff. * reflect having grown previously, some for many years consecutively.

For 2022 (and every year my list is influx until the seeds hit the mix), but as of now I'm lining this up.

KBX*
Amalfi Orange F1 (Artisan seed)
Sudduth Brandywine*
Polish
Lillian's Yellow Heirloom*
Lillian's Yellow Heirloom x Cherokee Purple F2 PL (2)
Polaris
Gary O'Sena
Brad's Atomic Grape
Piennolo x Lorelei
Ladies of the Manor
Sungold F1*
Wisconsin 55 Stripes F3*
Black Krim*
Rosella Cherry*
Dwarf Eagle Smiley Cherry*
Dwarf project Teensy Chocolate and GWR leads*
Dwarf Emerald Giant*
Dwarf Emerald Giant x Multiflora Microdwarf F1
Dwarf Vince's Haze*
Dwarf Rosella Purple*
Some microdwarfs as well

Your list looks great! Tell us about Ladies of the Manor?

It is from another gardener that has been working on dwarf project Teensy family cherries. She found the Teensy chocolate lead that will likely be sent off after this growing season for release. I don't think she's on TJ (was on TV), but could be as I'm not on a ton.

Ladies of Manor is her find from a bee cross of Brandywine and Black Cherry, at F5 this year I believe. Her description from our email exchange:
"I also had one very good B'wine x Black Cherry that seemed resistant to the weather-related nonsense. I grew three of them, and they were consistent in terms of being potato-leaved, manageably sized plants that bear smallish, somewhat flattened, pink beefsteaks. I've decided to name the developing variety in advance -- I'm calling it Ladies of the Manor, after a long-running joke between my gardening friends and me."

With parents like that I was intrigued to give it a try, especially since she said her 2021 was very wet and had a lot of fungal pressure, but this one seemingly resisted a lot of that. Fungal foliage issues are my biggest nemesis, although last year was quite dry, which resulted in the best tomato year I had ever had.

@Tormato you are right that its half the fun! I will most definitely be getting that tomato sounds delicious!

Somehow, i need to trim to 8. I will mull it over for a while and then probably chop the list after reading more reviews.

Wisconsin 55
Subarctic Plenty
Mrs Schlaubaugh’s Famous Strawberry
Blood Moon
Butterscotch Heart
Amish Yellowish Orange Oxheart
Frog Princess
Reinhard Kraft’s Green when Ripe Heart
Homer German White Stripe
African Brown Beefsteak
Reinhard Kraft’s Chocolate Heart
Abraham Brown
Lavender Lake
Cold Black Brandy
Chornyi Slon Black elephant
Wild Thyme Purple
Stump of the World
Blue Ridge Mountain
Matsu Express
Fatima

Julianna wrote: ↑Tue Feb 08, 2022 12:21 pm Somehow, i need to trim to 8. I will mull it over for a while and then probably chop the list after reading more reviews.

Wisconsin 55
Subarctic Plenty
Mrs Schlaubaugh’s Famous Strawberry
Blood Moon
Butterscotch Heart
Amish Yellowish Orange Oxheart
Frog Princess
Reinhard Kraft’s Green when Ripe Heart
Homer German White Stripe
African Brown Beefsteak
Reinhard Kraft’s Chocolate Heart
Abraham Brown
Lavender Lake
Cold Black Brandy
Chornyi Slon Black elephant
Wild Thyme Purple
Stump of the World
Blue Ridge Mountain
Matsu Express
Fatima

Find a few people in town who would take, and care for, a plant.

@Tormato i tried that last year with no results. People were not helpful in my attempt to proxy garden .

Julianna wrote: ↑Tue Feb 08, 2022 1:17 pm @Tormato i tried that last year with no results. People were not helpful in my attempt to proxy garden .

Likely due to your local weather.

@Tormato mostly life. People took stuff and had a huge number of dog or gopher casualties. One had a husband casualty. Then some people reported a good harvest and then never pulled through on letting any filter my way. But those people actually needed food and so I felt pretty good about those results. Then some were in other states which was a logistics issue . I gifted like 25 plants to Ok and Ar. I did about 40 here.

Julianna wrote: ↑Tue Feb 08, 2022 12:21 pm Somehow, i need to trim to 8. I will mull it over for a while and then probably chop the list after reading more reviews.

Wisconsin 55
Subarctic Plenty
Mrs Schlaubaugh’s Famous Strawberry
Blood Moon
Butterscotch Heart
Amish Yellowish Orange Oxheart
Frog Princess
Reinhard Kraft’s Green when Ripe Heart
Homer German White Stripe
African Brown Beefsteak
Reinhard Kraft’s Chocolate Heart
Abraham Brown
Lavender Lake
Cold Black Brandy
Chornyi Slon Black elephant
Wild Thyme Purple
Stump of the World
Blue Ridge Mountain
Matsu Express
Fatima

My Cold Black Brandy turned out to be quite unstable in fruit shape, taste, and production when I grew it again in 2021. There's a chance it'll be super awesome, but I wouldn't count on it.

@Shule oh that helps. It means it is one for when i have more space. That gives me one down!

Shule wrote: ↑Tue Feb 08, 2022 9:32 pm

Julianna wrote: ↑Tue Feb 08, 2022 12:21 pm Somehow, i need to trim to 8. I will mull it over for a while and then probably chop the list after reading more reviews.

Wisconsin 55
Subarctic Plenty
Mrs Schlaubaugh’s Famous Strawberry
Blood Moon
Butterscotch Heart
Amish Yellowish Orange Oxheart
Frog Princess
Reinhard Kraft’s Green when Ripe Heart
Homer German White Stripe
African Brown Beefsteak
Reinhard Kraft’s Chocolate Heart
Abraham Brown
Lavender Lake
Cold Black Brandy
Chornyi Slon Black elephant
Wild Thyme Purple
Stump of the World
Blue Ridge Mountain
Matsu Express
Fatima

My Cold Black Brandy turned out to be quite unstable in fruit shape, taste, and production when I grew it again in 2021. There's a chance it'll be super awesome, but I wouldn't count on it.

Seeds of CBB should probably get out to T'junction's one Newfie. I'm (somewhat) confident that I can say that term, knowing the Newfie's sense of humor.

Julianna wrote: ↑Tue Feb 08, 2022 12:21 pm Somehow, i need to trim to 8. I will mull it over for a while and then probably chop the list after reading more reviews.

Wisconsin 55
Subarctic Plenty
Mrs Schlaubaugh’s Famous Strawberry
Blood Moon
Butterscotch Heart
Amish Yellowish Orange Oxheart
Frog Princess
Reinhard Kraft’s Green when Ripe Heart
Homer German White Stripe
African Brown Beefsteak
Reinhard Kraft’s Chocolate Heart
Abraham Brown
Lavender Lake
Cold Black Brandy
Chornyi Slon Black elephant
Wild Thyme Purple
Stump of the World
Blue Ridge Mountain
Matsu Express
Fatima

I could easily see many requests for Butterscotch Heart and Wild Thyme Purple seeds, later in the year. How I know will remain a mystery.

@Tormato have you grown either one?

Julianna wrote: ↑Wed Feb 09, 2022 7:20 am @Tormato have you grown either one?

Neither. But, I have heard very good things about WTP, and never heard of BH at all.

Tormato wrote: ↑Wed Feb 09, 2022 8:02 am

Julianna wrote: ↑Wed Feb 09, 2022 7:20 am @Tormato have you grown either one?

Neither. But, I have heard very good things about WTP, and never heard of BH at all.

I got BH from Dean Slater. I had been looking for Gunmetal Grey after reading its praises from an English grower, and when I saw the list of what he had, I decided i may as well get that too. So i basically know very little to nothing about it and have not seen more than one teeny picture. Seemed like an adventure.

I'm growing one each of about 24 varieties. I've got to trim the list a little bit.

Virginia sweets
Soldacki
Chocolate cherries
Sunrise bumblebee cherry
Curtis cheek oxheart
Midnight sun oxheart
Jersey devil Roma/paste
Patty's striped beefsteak
Big beef plus f1
Pineapple
Black strawberry cherry
Cherokee carbon hybrid
Iva's red berry cherry
Stump of the world
Arkansas traveler
Aunt Ginny's purple
Chef's choice pink
Chef's choice orange
Purple calabash may be awful
Rose de Berne
Amish paste Roma
KBX
Dester grow two
Eugenia oxheart
Altaiskiy Oranzhevyi
Galahad f1 hybrid
Horizon f1

I'm planting only seven plants. I didn't start any from seed this year, so these are all purchased plants. They are outside sunning themselves now.

Black Prince
Carmello
Cherokee Carbon
Pigletwillie's French Black
Purple Boy
Sunrise Bumblebee
Tami G's Grape