I have a city yard with raised beds and pots anywhere I can fit them! So far I'm planning on growing:

1. Snow White Cherry
2. Ildi Cherry
3. Maglia Rosa
4. Sungold Cherry
5. Sugar Rush Cherry
6. Lindy's Little Krim
7. Lime Green Stripes
8. Black Krim
9. Midnight Sun
10. Dester or Granny Catrell
11. Dwarf Firebird Sweet
12. Country Taste (or other hybrid red slicer - just to compare how they do to the open pollinated types)
13. Great White Blues
14. Juanne Flamme

@AKgardener I always plant a few Early Girl because they have been my most reliable tomato. But it is indeterminate. There is also Bush Early Girl Tomato which is determinate. I wonder if it shares reliability with the indeterminate one or just a name.

I actually have both of those seeds haha I grew I early girl last year and for the couple of tomatoes I got I really liked the flavor. I’m really still learning I’ve only been gardening for the last 4 years so I don’t have the know how of what’s What so it’s basically trial and error my husband keeps saying we live in alaska you can’t grow tomatoes but I beg to differ haha I just wish I knew what I was doing wrong

@AKgardener You CAN grow tomatoes in Alaska. Many people do. In fact one year the world's largest tomato was grown in Alaska!

I have a bunch of seeds now looking forward to giving it a go this year again

I have room for 15 tomato plants in my small, suburban back yard garden using 2 raised beds and Smart Pots. So naturally, I'm growing 16 tomatoes this year. I try to do a theme every season, and this year it's a "Pink Showdown" where I'm going to compare all of my favorite Pinks (so far) in one season. I'm also growing more new-to-me varieties than usual this year.

New
TastyWine Dwarf
Red Lithium
Purple Sugar
Indian Stripe PL
Goose Creek
Benevento
Lucky Bee

Returning
Tasmanian Chocolate
Polaris
Stump of the World
Pruden's Purple
Rebel Yell

Every Year
Aunt Ginny's Purple
KARMA Miracle
Break O'Day
Iva's Red Berry

Hopefully we'll all get some cooperative weather during the spring/summer this year for a long and productive season.

Lee
Tulsa, OK

Has anyone grown the legend tomatoes I would like to give that a try as well

Since I grow exclusively in raised beds inside a High Tunnel I am rather boring with my lineup. I have over the years introduced new types some did okay but I have found that the following are tried and true and always do very well for me so I tend to stick with what works.
Rutgers
Mortgage Lifters
San Marzano
Red Pearl Grape

I had this all figured out, well mostly, then I received my package in the mail from @Tormato and I am back to square one. What a wonderful predicament to be in right now!

Except for a few varieties that I always start on New Year's day, I don't think about my grow list until I get my package from MMMM.

AKgardener wrote: ↑Tue Jan 25, 2022 1:05 pm Has anyone grown the legend tomatoes I would like to give that a try as well

Yeah, but I don't have much to tell you other than the plant was larger and more robust than Siletz's. It's also supposed to be parthenocarpic, and I think it was supposed to have have some kind of blight resistance. The plant isn't small; I'm pretty sure it's indeterminate. I checked and Tatiana's says it's semi-determinate (but it's not compact in my personal experience, even if it is in others'). Mine handled transplanting just fine.

@Shule thank you guess the only way to truly find out is to just do it!!

Looks like Hoy, Japanese Black Trifele, Pineapple, Dragon’s Eye, 1884, and Gregori’s Altai are the strongest of the contenders so far. Maybe a couple more might come through by time to set stuff out. I’ll make up the shortfall from friends and the feedstore. I’m not even sure how many plants I want. Something between 18 and 28. I’ve only grown Pineapple on the list above and that’s a proven winner here and family favorite. A lot can happen between now and the harvest. Late freezes, power outages, storms.

karstopography wrote: ↑Wed Jan 26, 2022 10:32 am B75C6FF7-3553-48F9-8CA9-0F6A647AD900.jpeg
Looks like Hoy, Japanese Black Trifele, Pineapple, Dragon’s Eye, 1884, and Gregori’s Altai are the strongest of the contenders so far. Maybe a couple more might come through by time to set stuff out. I’ll make up the shortfall from friends and the feedstore. I’m not even sure how many plants I want. Something between 18 and 28. I’ve only grown Pineapple on the list above and that’s a proven winner here and family favorite. A lot can happen between now and the harvest. Late freezes, power outages, storms.

Whoa, the mushrooms are kicking in.

I had again a grand plan last fall that this year I will not grow any new varieties and will plant just from my old seeds. Well, I have ended up getting this month seeds for 13 varieties, which i have not grown before, so naturally I have to try them this year. I picked 8 varieties from my seed box, to grow again, so now my list is at 21 varieties. Some are old seed and may not germinate and couple are same as grown last year and were so good that I will grow them again. The list may still evolve, since I will not start most of the tomatoes until end of February. Micros are already started.

This is my list now:
Ansofs Gule aka Tante Cis
Banana Legs (I found 3 seeds from 2004)
Blush 2.0
Brandyfred
Cherry-mate (Japanese hybrid)
Dwarf Saucy Mary
Early Tanana
Grinch Cherry Dwarf
Norderås Busk
Pomodoro Cuore Antico di Acqui Terme
Purple Heart Dwarf
Ropreco Paste
Rosy Finch Micro Dwarf
Sterling Old Norway
Trace of Flying Dragon
Tsjornöl Mavr (maybe same as Black Moor)
Uluru Ochre
Venus
Wisconsin 55
Wisconsin 55 Gold

I will also grow seeds from a mystery tomato, which grew last summer from seeds, which were for Weisser Pfirsich. One of the plants had flattened medium size purple tomatoes, which had excellent taste. I got the seeds in a trade and the lady who traded me had not grown anything like them. She had got the seeds from someone else, so I assume that it is some known variety and the seeds were accidentally mixed.

Sari

I have decided to just try the siletz tomato This year.. I bought a new greenhouse and will just see how it goes I will only be doing 12 plants at first and go from there..

AKgardener wrote: ↑Sat Jan 29, 2022 11:15 pm I have decided to just try the siletz tomato This year.. I bought a new greenhouse and will just see how it goes I will only be doing 12 plants at first and go from there..

If they grow for you, anything like they grow for me, you'll be loaded down with tomatoes. It's probably the most productive short determinate that I've ever trialed. My problems with it has been that the flavor ranges between a 5 (poor, disliked when eating it by itself, OK in salads with dressing), to a 6 (good, edible by itself, but virtually all indeterminates taste better). I never know ahead of time if the weather will bring a 5 or 6. Almost no varieties in my garden cross over between a 5 and a 6. I get lots of 7 to eights, and 8 to nines. The 4 to fives, or lower, don't get a return. Perhaps inside a greenhouse you can attain all sixes.

@Tormato it would be nice just to get a tomato at this point haha I mean last I got some and some were really good but the ones I really wanted to try never got ripe or they were just getting started when season was over I went back and forth last night reading rereading and until I just put a name in a box haha thanks for the input I shall share my progress as they go along still got a month before I can start anything

AKgardener wrote: ↑Sat Jan 29, 2022 11:15 pm I have decided to just try the siletz tomato This year.. I bought a new greenhouse and will just see how it goes I will only be doing 12 plants at first and go from there..

I could never grow just one variety, because some are good for eating fresh and others for cooking. There are many varieties suitable for short season and cooler areas, so you should not be limited to grow just one variety. Also by trialing with multiple varieties, you have better chances of succeeding.

Your summers in Alaska may be like ours here in Finland. Usually earliest varieties for me are cherries and other smaller fruited ones, but there are also some early ones from Siberia and also from Alaska. This year I am going to grow Early Tanana, which was bred in Alaska by Arvo Kallio, who had Finnish roots. That variety should be suitable to grow outdoors and in containers, so I will plant them in big pots, which I will keep first in the greenhouse and move outdoors when weather permits.

Growing tomatoes this far north is a bit challenging, but not impossible. I know many people who do it successfully even norther.

Sari

@ svalli I totally agree with the different varieties I’m only growing the one kind due to husband I like trying all kinds so this year I will just not be stubborn and do it his way !! I got a bumuch new variety so I might sneak a few in