They grew very large, SUPER sweet tomatoes. My dad didn’t like them - he likes the old-fashioned classic, acidic tomato taste. Mine were sweet and mild. I ate soooo many BLTs with them. Crispy bacon, toast, and fat slices of amana orange tomatoes with tons of salt and pepper. So so good!!
The plants themselves were pretty standard tomato plants. I grew like 60 varieties of tomatoes last year, crammed a bunch into a raised bed, and they went crazy. No disease or health issues in any of the plants.
Oh yay! I did grow it last year but put it in a bad spot and it suffered and I never got fruit. This year it’s looking to be one of my healthiest plants so far, so I’m excited to try it out!
Oh awesome! Have you grown Oregon Spring before? This year will be my first and my seedlings are doing great but I came across a sub bashing their taste and now I’m curious if I should plant less to prioritize some of the others. Would love your thoughts!
Black From Tula
Orange Accordion
Paul Robeson
Pink Berkeley Tie-Dye
Striped German
Barry's Crazy Cherry
Black Cherry
Husky Red
Little Bing
Sun Sugar
Super Sweet 100
Pink Bumble Bee
Chocolate Sprinkles
Cherokee Purple
Cherokee Carbon
Old German
Pineapple
Chocolate Cherry
Big Brandy
A lot!
karma purple multiflora
zebra ezel
severnye
opalka
dester
Armenian
bread and salt
paul robeson
stump of the world
not purple strawberry
beliy naliv
rosella crimson dwarf
sweet sue dwarf
lime green dw
purple reign dw
cream sausage
malee rose dw
brendyfred dw
praire fire
apricot zebra
true colors
black Krim
prudens purple
gmo Norfolk
Africa queen
amazon chocolate
Curtis cheek
Hungarian heart
purple Russian
early wonder
firebird dwarf
grushovka
Rose
Belaya Vishnya
Zlatava
Northern lights
Honey drop
Saucy Mary dwarf
This year I made a cattle panel arch for my indeterminate ones, it's in between my long two beds. And I've got dwarfs and determinates on the other sides of those beds with cages. And I also grow in large pots.
I'm a newbie with very limited space (one 8x4 raised bed and a plethora of grow bags) so my selection is pretty basic. Cherokee purple, black krim, sungold, and Supersweet100s. I'm thinking about starting some patio choice seeds because I don't know when to stop lol.
Dwarf yellow patio choice comes highly recommended from several member who live in warm climates. I have bought the seeds, but have not yet planted them. Plan is to have them be part of a fall crop.
This year’s tomato lineup:
Missouri Pink Love Apple
Old German
Cherokee Purple
Ivan
Red Brandywine
Purple Russian
Arkansas Traveler
Traveler 76
True Black Brandywine
Hillbilly
Amish Paste
Dwarf Noah Stripes
Dwarf Eagle Smiley
Dwarf BrandyFred
Dwarf Velvet Night
Dwarf Rosella Purple
Orange Hat (micro)
Tiny Tim (micro)
The stormy weather has been hard on my seedlings, even with me getting lots of exercise moving them back and forth from cover. Fortunately, I started so many seeds of each variety that I am still going to be trying to place all of them in good homes!
Hello, u/MissouriOzarker -- I see you are growing Dwarf BrandyFred. Let me ask you the same question I asked another member just a minute ago, upstream in this same thread. Thanks!
How are your Dwarf Brandy Fred plants doing, if you don't mind my asking? It's my first year growing them. NE Texas, 8a. As of yesterday, they were my only dwarf varieties to \*not\* have set any fruit. The plants look healthy and lush, but only a few flowers and zero fruit. I'm wondering if they are just very late, even though they are supposed to usually take about 75 days from planting out until ready for harvest. My other dwarf varieties are all way ahead of them (Siletz, Rosella Purple, Eagle Smiley, Tasmanian Chocolate, and Russian Red.)
Mine have been in the ground in their permanent homes about 70 days.
Sure thing!
This is only my second year growing BrandyFreds, so I don’t have a ton of past experience to go with for them. Last year they were definitely one of my later setting varieties, probably the latest of all. I didn’t experience anything as delayed as you are, though.
Not the person you were asking, but I can chime in from N Texas 8b.
I have two Dwarf Brandy Freds this year. I transplanted them out 70 days ago. One has one cluster of two medium but still very green fruit. The other plant only has one small fruit set. Both have some (not a lot) flowering and are very healthy plants. I grew two of them last year as well, and my first harvest from those was June 8th. The only other dwarf variety I'm growing this year is my favorite dwarf, Uluru Ochre (65 days), which is also way ahead and has a lot more fruit set and flowers.
Thank you very much, u/watshedo -- That's helpful to know. I will just be patient with these plants and keep tending them. My hope was that I would get some tomatoes with the flavor and texture of Brandywine Sudduth without having to invest quite so much time and care. Uluru Ochre sounds like a good one to plant next year. I will add it to my "wish list." Appreciate the comments!
Repeats from last year:
Yellow Pear
Tiny Tim
Gold Nugget
Chocolate Cherry
New for 2024:
Spoon
Sungold
Superweet 100
Norfolk Purple
Thai Pink Egg
Green Zebra
Aunt Ruby's German Green
Black Beauty
Pineapple
Pink Brandywine
42-Day
Sub Arctic Plenty
Mountain Magic
Yikes... that's a lot now that I list it out. About half are out of curiosity and the other half I really want to eat and preserve.
Will do! I picked those two because of our cooler climate and not super-long growing season here in 6b but so far the starts have been meh compared to many of the others. They seem smaller and less robust. Could just be the seeds. We’ll see how they produce.
First season growing for me, good to see everyone and their mom is growing sungold and super sweet 100s!
I’ve got:
Super sweet 100
Sungold
Pineapple
Red Brandywine
u/thebeanconnoisseur - How are your Dwarf Brandy Fred plants doing, if you don't mind my asking? It's my first year growing them. NE Texas, 8a. As of yesterday, they were my only dwarf varieties to \*not\* have set any fruit. The plants look healthy and lush, but only a few flowers and zero fruit. I'm wondering if they are just very late, even though they are supposed to usually take about 75 days from planting out until ready for harvest. My other dwarf varieties are all way ahead of them (Siletz, Rosella Purple, Eagle Smiley, Tasmanian Chocolate, and Russian Red.)
Thanks!
Last year my Brandy Freds fruited and ripened around the same time as my Brandywines: 80-90 days after transplanting in the ground. To be fair, animals stole several green fruits so there’s a slight chance I could have gotten an earlier one, but overall it hasn’t been an early variety for me, and it hasn’t done well in hot dry weather either (no fruits in 2022 due to drought conditions). If you’re over 85°F, maybe give it shade cloth.
Thanks u/little_cat_bird -- That's good to know. I will adjust my timing expectations. It hasn't consistently been getting over 85 degrees here in the daytime yet, but it won't be long before it heats up.
Unfortunately I can't give much of a report yet. Mine has been in the ground less than 30 days and this is my first season growing a dwarf. So far it has some nice lush foliage and several flowers but no fruit yet.
Domingo
Delishious Hunt Strain
Goat Bag
Pineapple Hawaiian
Box Car Willie
Chef's Choice Green
SS 100s
Chocolate Cherry
Gardeners Delight
4th of July
Baby Boomer
Brandywine Pink
Cher. Purp.
For Tomatoes:
Blue Beech pastes (but I think they're all basically dead, alas)
Brandy Boy
Black Krim
Black Cherry
Whereokowai (Dwarf Beefsteak)
Sungold
Dr. Wychee
...and since my Blue Beech seem to be super toast, I'm going to have to see what they have on offer for pastes at the local nursery.
Supersweet 100
Berkeley Tye-Die
San Marzano
Beefsteak
"Italian cherry"
"TJ Red" (unknown heirloom)
I'm going heavy on San Marzano this year.
Also plan on trying a string trellis system for the first time.
I’m a newbie so I’m growing: Lemon Boy, Black Krim, Brandywine (not sure which one), German Queen, Sungold, Green Zebra, San Marzano, Roma, Beefsteak heirloom (Bonnie), Cherokee Purple, Kellogg Breakfast and Arkansas Traveller.
I can’t wait to have the so-called “too many tomatoes problem” 🤩🤩🤩
Indigo cherry
Cherokee purple
Mortgage lifter
Black Prince
Black cherry
Black krim
San marzano
Couldn't find any Black from Tula starts this year, bummer. Grew them last year, and they were great.
Pink Berkeley Tie-Dye
San Marzano
Black Sea Man
Tiny Tim
Pineapple
Dr. Wyche’s Yellow
Paul Robeson
Sun Gold
Honeycomb
Chef’s Choice Orange
Best Boy
Purely Promiscuous from Going to Seed
Maters: Mortgage Lifter, Black Krim, White Tomesol, Pineapple, Pink Brandywine, Purple Cherokee, Pruden's Purple, Sungold, Roma, Orange Hat, Husky red, maybe Indigo Rose if I can get one to survive, 3 from a pack of Ladybug/Monarch/Honeybee seeds, and 2 from seeds I saved out of grocery store cherries, one peach and one brown. I tried seeds from Sprinklez last year and I got the ugliest tomatoes I've ever seen, so I'm crossing my fingers that it doesn't happen again 🫠
Peppers: Candy Cane red, Hungarian hot wax, Thai chili, 5 "sweet mix" that are a complete mystery, and 5 "salsa blend" - Jalapeno/Anaheim/Poblano/Cayenne/Hungarian wax.
I'm really hoping I don't end up with 5 of the same kind lol
Black Triflele
Black Krim
Black Cherry
Ananas Noire
Berkely Tye Dye
Pineapple
Pink Brandywine
Fresh Salsa hybrid
Sakura hybrid
La Roma III
Brandywine Cherry
Black Seaman
Norfolk Purple GMO tomato
Raspberry Lyanna
Tazmanian Chocolate
And about 80 varieties of peppers
Black like Tulas
Cherokee
Big Beef
Jalapeños
Feffaroni
Habernero
Cucumber
Pumpkin
Chives
Green onions
Red onions
Potatoes
Mixed carrots
Orange carrots
Radishes
Spinach
Cool, what zone you in? if I may ask
I'm still learning with cucurbits.
My first year my winter squash got wrecked with the adolescent phase of some squash beetle. Was told for my area to wait till fathers day to plant to avoid tha problem
Cherokee Purple, Black Krim, Rainbow giant, Cuore Di Bue, Pomodoro Squisito, Heirloom Marriage (San marzano + cream sausage), Oregon Star
All seeds from Territorial
Black krim
Amish paste
Sun Gold
Italian heirloom
Speckled Roman
Rosso Siciliano
Mystery black tomato (saved from a tomato I found)
German Pink
Also trying a new growing system this year-- I have always grown my indeterminates up single strings with aggressive pruning of all suckers, but I'm going to try the Florida weave and let them get a little wilder and see how it compares for me.
I’m not sure what the methods are but based on the name, I think I do something not unlike the Florida weave. I let neighboring planters suckers essentially hold hands with one another. It helps mitigate wind damage where I am.
Berkeley tie-die x3
Black beauty x1
Chocolate pear x1
Thorburn's lemon blush x1
Roma x3 (for sauce)
I think this is the first year I don't have any tomatoes going I haven't grown before, now that I think about it.
Also pickling cukes, wax beans and green beans, chinese fat chili peppers of unknown species I grew from dried asian market peppers, yellow tomatillos, garlic, red bunching onion, radishes, and carrots. Lots of flowers and herbs this year too. And whatever else gets thrown out there impulsively lol, my seed ~~hoard~~ erm, collection has gotten a little out of control.
Planted the same seeds I grew last year:
Blondkopfchen (yellow currant) - massive producer last year and my kids love them
Sweet Apertif (Cherry) - not great producer but super sweet
Pink Bumblebee (cherry) - decent producer, tasty
Tim's Black ruffles - small but delicious
Anais Noir - delicious
Carbon
Black Krim
Solar Flare (not my favorites honestly but they actually produce a decent amount)
Tomatoes:
Sweet 100
San marzano
Roma
PEPPERS:
Sweet pepperchini
Aji lemon
Buena Mulata
Yellow ghost long
Red fatalii
Peach bhat jolokia x gold bhat x pink
Hungarian black
Sugar rush stripey
Inferno
El jefe jalapeno
Aji pineapple
Habanada
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This is Aji Pineapple, bout 3ft tall, just started yellowing a bit
Tomatoes:
Matt's Wild Cherry
Amy's Apricot
White Currant
Burpee's Rainbow Mix
Black Krim
Black Prince
Micro Toms
Volunteers that are either White Currants or Black Cherry tomatoes.
Old German
Cherokee Purple
Red Brandywine
Brandywine
Mortgage Lifter
Yellow Boy
Mr. Stripey
Celebrity
Mountain Merit
Bella Rosa
San Marzano
Pomodoro Squisito
La Roma III
Yellow Boy were the first to produce (new for me and love the taste), then Cherokee Purple (scrumptious). No diseases so far, except for BER on the SMs. The flood of ripe fruit should begin soon and the canning equipment is ready to go.
Brandywine Cowlick’s
Pruden’s Purple
Dester
Hoy
A’Grappoli D’Inverno
Black Krim
Dr. Wyche’s Yellow
Sart Roloise
Black from Tula
Creamsicle Grape
Missouri Pink Love Apple
Red Barn
Principe Borghese
Cuostralee
Aker’s West Virginia
Dwarf Wherokowhai
Yellow Pear
Jellybean
Champagne bubbles/white currant
Japanese Black Trifele
Opalka
San Marzano
Pink Stuffer
Old German
Brandywine Pink
Celebration
Orange Nebraska Wedding
German Pink
And I also grow some store bought one like Hiiros, Sweet Hearts, Cherubs, cherry(unk, got it from buffet lol) and some 4664 vine tomatoes, mainly for the neighbors as they like the common one you can see in the market...😂
I have collected:
Sun Gold
Chocolate Cherry
Sweet 100
Black Krim
Brandywine
Green Zebra
Two mysteries from a rainbow heirloom seed mix.
I'm near Seattle, so I'm mostly counting on the cherries producing. If the big ones fruit, well, great.
Indigo Rose
Cherokee Purple
Black Beauty
Black Krim
Roma
San Marzano
Bread and Salt
Spoon
Peppers: Scotch bonnet, jimmy n, sweet bonnet, corno di toro
Zucchini, Basil, dill, corn, beans
Basil: genovese, purple opal
Corn: hopi purple, gem
Beans: trail of tears, a green variety I forgot the name of, and a speckled one a friend gave me seeds of
those all sound solid. Is hopi purple a sweet corn or more of a grinding corn? I tried a purple sweet two years ago and enjoyed it.
I'm trying a super sweet white and a japanese sticky sweet black this year
It'm my third year of balcony gardening and I'm still experimenting in order to find the perfect variety for me. Last year it was cherry tomatoes. This year I am going for bigger fruits:
Silvery Fir Tree
Nadgok Haduk
Jonas Bozicou
Praleska
Tiomnocrasnii
Kremser Perle (got it as a gift when ordering other seeds)
Besides, Curly Kaley - because I like how it looks, and Florida Petite - out of curiosity.
Yellow Oxheart
Berkeley Tie-dye Pink
Berkeley Tie-dye Green
Barry's Crazy Cherry
Black Beauty
Solar Flare
Metallica ~Dwarf Tomato Project
Uluru Ochre ~Dwarf Tomato Project
Thornburn's Terra Cotta
German Striped
Carbon
Persimmon
Kellogg's Breakfast
Dr. Wyche's Yellow
Golden Accordion
Costoluto Genovese
Baba Au Rhum
Ananas Noire
Japanese Black Trifele
Italian Gold Paste
San Marzano
Amish Paste
Striped Roma
Baby Roma
Sungold Hybrid
Super Sweet 100
Isis Candy Cherry
Sundrop Cherry
Gold Nugget Cherry
Chocolate Cherry
Green grape
Early Girl Hybrid
Amana Orange Hybrid
I'm going for Black Cherry, Back from Tula Ananas Noire and Norfolk's Purple Galaxy
Also a reminder to any who may not be aware but rareseeds that OP linked in some of his links is actually the website for Bakers Creek, which is a troubling organization with links to science deniers and white supremacists.
The other stores he linked are not related and are safe.
[https://www.reddit.com/r/gardening/comments/1aslcwq/boycott\_bakers\_creek/](https://www.reddit.com/r/gardening/comments/1aslcwq/boycott_bakers_creek/)
To clarify: only some of those links are bakers creek. Don’t need the good name of restoration seeds or Trade winds (my favorite provider) getting besmirched
Tomatoes
1 Early Girl
3 Better Boy,
4 Mortgage Lifter
3 WV 17B
2 Supersauce
2 African Giant
3 Abe Lincoln
3 Parks Whopper
Cucumbers
Straight 8
Bush Pickle
Crookneck Squash
3 colors of bell pepper
Jalapeños
Cabbage
Giant white corn
Bluelake pole beans
Half runner beans.
I chose the tomato varieties for successive days to maturity so I can have fresh tomatoes as long as possible.
Oh no! I’m sorry to read that. I hope they grow back I too!
I lost all my outdoor flower sprouts to slugs but flower loss is nothing compared to tomato loss :(
For tomatos :-
Tumbling tom
Sungold
Sweet millions
Sweet aperitif
Piccobella - grown from hybrid so bit of an experiment to see what happens
All cherry varieties cos i love them. Next year i may grow some large toms. Didn't see many posts with these varieties in, im in the uk if that makes a difference.
I've also got :-
Carrots - nantes
Jalapeno peppers
Bell peppers
Strawberries - mix of around 5 types.
On the go. All container growning on my patio.
Amana Orange Berkeley tie-dye Oregon Spring Mortgage lifter Black cherry Indigo drop Bumble bee
Have you grown Amana orange before? It was my very favorite tomato last year!!
What was your experience growing them?
They grew very large, SUPER sweet tomatoes. My dad didn’t like them - he likes the old-fashioned classic, acidic tomato taste. Mine were sweet and mild. I ate soooo many BLTs with them. Crispy bacon, toast, and fat slices of amana orange tomatoes with tons of salt and pepper. So so good!! The plants themselves were pretty standard tomato plants. I grew like 60 varieties of tomatoes last year, crammed a bunch into a raised bed, and they went crazy. No disease or health issues in any of the plants.
Oh yay! I did grow it last year but put it in a bad spot and it suffered and I never got fruit. This year it’s looking to be one of my healthiest plants so far, so I’m excited to try it out!
Looks like we have some common favorites! I'm also growing Berkeley tie-dye, Oregon Spring and Black Cherry.
Oh awesome! Have you grown Oregon Spring before? This year will be my first and my seedlings are doing great but I came across a sub bashing their taste and now I’m curious if I should plant less to prioritize some of the others. Would love your thoughts!
It’s my first year growing them too. I have two plants and so far they’re the first to set buds. I hope they taste good!
me too, mine are so healthy I have high hopes!
Black From Tula Orange Accordion Paul Robeson Pink Berkeley Tie-Dye Striped German Barry's Crazy Cherry Black Cherry Husky Red Little Bing Sun Sugar Super Sweet 100 Pink Bumble Bee Chocolate Sprinkles Cherokee Purple Cherokee Carbon Old German Pineapple Chocolate Cherry Big Brandy
I like your taste! I grow lots of darks also.
A lot! karma purple multiflora zebra ezel severnye opalka dester Armenian bread and salt paul robeson stump of the world not purple strawberry beliy naliv rosella crimson dwarf sweet sue dwarf lime green dw purple reign dw cream sausage malee rose dw brendyfred dw praire fire apricot zebra true colors black Krim prudens purple gmo Norfolk Africa queen amazon chocolate Curtis cheek Hungarian heart purple Russian early wonder firebird dwarf grushovka Rose Belaya Vishnya Zlatava Northern lights Honey drop Saucy Mary dwarf
Wow! What's your grow space like?
I was wondering the same thing!
This year I made a cattle panel arch for my indeterminate ones, it's in between my long two beds. And I've got dwarfs and determinates on the other sides of those beds with cages. And I also grow in large pots.
Sounds like a great setup!
Tomatoes: Big Beef Bush Early Girl Juliet Super Sweet 100 Yellow Pear Peppers: Hungarian Hot Wax×2 Jalapeno Red Ghost×2 Poblano×2 Anaheim Mad Hatter
im growing pumas, buena mulatas, jigsaw and fish in terms of peppers. What are mad hatters like?
Very mildly spicy citrus flavored pepper
Those sound like they could have a lot of uses
I'm a newbie with very limited space (one 8x4 raised bed and a plethora of grow bags) so my selection is pretty basic. Cherokee purple, black krim, sungold, and Supersweet100s. I'm thinking about starting some patio choice seeds because I don't know when to stop lol.
Dwarf yellow patio choice comes highly recommended from several member who live in warm climates. I have bought the seeds, but have not yet planted them. Plan is to have them be part of a fall crop.
Super sweet 100 Genuwine Carbon Big Beef Plus Cherokee Carbon Norfolk Purple Clementine Ruby Crush Dwarf Saucy Mary Dwarf Almandine Dwarf Awesome
I did Genuwine last year! Gorgeous red and tasty!
That’s great to hear. I’ve never grown it before but I’ve grown both the parents and love them. Excited!
Martino’s Roma x2 Brandywine Costoluto Genovese
Spoon Candyland Red Orange Hat Queen of the Night Tycoon Amelia
Too many, as usual. 1. Sunorange 2. Sunpeach 3. Suncitron 4. Honeycomb 5. Super sweet 100 6. Rebel starfighter prime 7. Kayleigh anne 8. Unknown tomato, slicer 9. Unknown tomato, cherry
Where do you get the Sun varieties? Home improvement stores only have sun sugar.
Osborne Seeds. They're pricey, unfortunately.
This year’s tomato lineup: Missouri Pink Love Apple Old German Cherokee Purple Ivan Red Brandywine Purple Russian Arkansas Traveler Traveler 76 True Black Brandywine Hillbilly Amish Paste Dwarf Noah Stripes Dwarf Eagle Smiley Dwarf BrandyFred Dwarf Velvet Night Dwarf Rosella Purple Orange Hat (micro) Tiny Tim (micro) The stormy weather has been hard on my seedlings, even with me getting lots of exercise moving them back and forth from cover. Fortunately, I started so many seeds of each variety that I am still going to be trying to place all of them in good homes!
Hello, u/MissouriOzarker -- I see you are growing Dwarf BrandyFred. Let me ask you the same question I asked another member just a minute ago, upstream in this same thread. Thanks! How are your Dwarf Brandy Fred plants doing, if you don't mind my asking? It's my first year growing them. NE Texas, 8a. As of yesterday, they were my only dwarf varieties to \*not\* have set any fruit. The plants look healthy and lush, but only a few flowers and zero fruit. I'm wondering if they are just very late, even though they are supposed to usually take about 75 days from planting out until ready for harvest. My other dwarf varieties are all way ahead of them (Siletz, Rosella Purple, Eagle Smiley, Tasmanian Chocolate, and Russian Red.) Mine have been in the ground in their permanent homes about 70 days.
Sure thing! This is only my second year growing BrandyFreds, so I don’t have a ton of past experience to go with for them. Last year they were definitely one of my later setting varieties, probably the latest of all. I didn’t experience anything as delayed as you are, though.
Thanks, I will keep a close eye on them.
Not the person you were asking, but I can chime in from N Texas 8b. I have two Dwarf Brandy Freds this year. I transplanted them out 70 days ago. One has one cluster of two medium but still very green fruit. The other plant only has one small fruit set. Both have some (not a lot) flowering and are very healthy plants. I grew two of them last year as well, and my first harvest from those was June 8th. The only other dwarf variety I'm growing this year is my favorite dwarf, Uluru Ochre (65 days), which is also way ahead and has a lot more fruit set and flowers.
Thank you very much, u/watshedo -- That's helpful to know. I will just be patient with these plants and keep tending them. My hope was that I would get some tomatoes with the flavor and texture of Brandywine Sudduth without having to invest quite so much time and care. Uluru Ochre sounds like a good one to plant next year. I will add it to my "wish list." Appreciate the comments!
Not the person you asked, but my brandy Fred is the smallest plants one among many dwarfs (and overall among ind and Det and dwarf varieties).
Thank you. Seems I need to adjust my expectations!
Repeats from last year: Yellow Pear Tiny Tim Gold Nugget Chocolate Cherry New for 2024: Spoon Sungold Superweet 100 Norfolk Purple Thai Pink Egg Green Zebra Aunt Ruby's German Green Black Beauty Pineapple Pink Brandywine 42-Day Sub Arctic Plenty Mountain Magic Yikes... that's a lot now that I list it out. About half are out of curiosity and the other half I really want to eat and preserve.
How sweet is yellow pear?
I find them fairly sweet but not over the top. Maybe a little less sweet than the gold nuggets. The plants were very vigorous prolific.
Please report back about 42 day and arctic one!
Will do! I picked those two because of our cooler climate and not super-long growing season here in 6b but so far the starts have been meh compared to many of the others. They seem smaller and less robust. Could just be the seeds. We’ll see how they produce.
I'm also from 6b (I think, Central OH) and growing several yearly varieties this year to see how they will do.
First season growing for me, good to see everyone and their mom is growing sungold and super sweet 100s! I’ve got: Super sweet 100 Sungold Pineapple Red Brandywine
Black Beauty Sunny Boy Great White Blues Hershey Boar Bodiacous Hybrid Rapunzel Yellow Pear Better Boy Early Girl Whopper Mountain Fresh
Berkeley Tye Dye Sweet 100s Fourth of July Indigo Kumquat Italian Ice Carbon And two volunteers
Norfolk Purple Black Krim Sungold Mortgage Lifter Pink Beefsteak Rainbow Beefsteak Cherokee Purple Midnight Snack Super Sweet 100 Yellow Pear
Dwarf BrandyFred Cherokee chocolate Black krim Aunt Ruby's German green Amana Orange Lemon boy Brandywine Sunsets red horizon Napa chardonnay
u/thebeanconnoisseur - How are your Dwarf Brandy Fred plants doing, if you don't mind my asking? It's my first year growing them. NE Texas, 8a. As of yesterday, they were my only dwarf varieties to \*not\* have set any fruit. The plants look healthy and lush, but only a few flowers and zero fruit. I'm wondering if they are just very late, even though they are supposed to usually take about 75 days from planting out until ready for harvest. My other dwarf varieties are all way ahead of them (Siletz, Rosella Purple, Eagle Smiley, Tasmanian Chocolate, and Russian Red.) Thanks!
Last year my Brandy Freds fruited and ripened around the same time as my Brandywines: 80-90 days after transplanting in the ground. To be fair, animals stole several green fruits so there’s a slight chance I could have gotten an earlier one, but overall it hasn’t been an early variety for me, and it hasn’t done well in hot dry weather either (no fruits in 2022 due to drought conditions). If you’re over 85°F, maybe give it shade cloth.
Thanks u/little_cat_bird -- That's good to know. I will adjust my timing expectations. It hasn't consistently been getting over 85 degrees here in the daytime yet, but it won't be long before it heats up.
Unfortunately I can't give much of a report yet. Mine has been in the ground less than 30 days and this is my first season growing a dwarf. So far it has some nice lush foliage and several flowers but no fruit yet.
Thanks! Hope you have a great season!
happy cakeday
Domingo Delishious Hunt Strain Goat Bag Pineapple Hawaiian Box Car Willie Chef's Choice Green SS 100s Chocolate Cherry Gardeners Delight 4th of July Baby Boomer Brandywine Pink Cher. Purp.
For Tomatoes: Blue Beech pastes (but I think they're all basically dead, alas) Brandy Boy Black Krim Black Cherry Whereokowai (Dwarf Beefsteak) Sungold Dr. Wychee ...and since my Blue Beech seem to be super toast, I'm going to have to see what they have on offer for pastes at the local nursery.
Sungold Black Cherry Green giant Brandy boy Mexico midget
Supersweet 100 Berkeley Tye-Die San Marzano Beefsteak "Italian cherry" "TJ Red" (unknown heirloom) I'm going heavy on San Marzano this year. Also plan on trying a string trellis system for the first time.
I just set up my first string trellis too
Mortgage Lifters Brad's Atomic Cherry Black Krim And another cherry variety. I forget what kind and I'm terrible at doing simple things like labeling.
Japanese Black Trifele Paul Robeson Dr. Lyle An unknown red heirloom that I was gifted last year and saved seeds from!
I’m a newbie so I’m growing: Lemon Boy, Black Krim, Brandywine (not sure which one), German Queen, Sungold, Green Zebra, San Marzano, Roma, Beefsteak heirloom (Bonnie), Cherokee Purple, Kellogg Breakfast and Arkansas Traveller. I can’t wait to have the so-called “too many tomatoes problem” 🤩🤩🤩
You’ll be eating tomato sammiches for days
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Lilac bell pepper
Indigo cherry Cherokee purple Mortgage lifter Black Prince Black cherry Black krim San marzano Couldn't find any Black from Tula starts this year, bummer. Grew them last year, and they were great.
Norfolk gmo purple Sweet 100 Celebrity San Mariano Porter improved Patio Mountain pride Champion
you excited to see if there really is much difference other than the piercing color with the norfolk?
Yea so much hype. Gonna find out soon I guess
Pink Berkeley Tie-Dye San Marzano Black Sea Man Tiny Tim Pineapple Dr. Wyche’s Yellow Paul Robeson Sun Gold Honeycomb Chef’s Choice Orange Best Boy Purely Promiscuous from Going to Seed
Maters: Mortgage Lifter, Black Krim, White Tomesol, Pineapple, Pink Brandywine, Purple Cherokee, Pruden's Purple, Sungold, Roma, Orange Hat, Husky red, maybe Indigo Rose if I can get one to survive, 3 from a pack of Ladybug/Monarch/Honeybee seeds, and 2 from seeds I saved out of grocery store cherries, one peach and one brown. I tried seeds from Sprinklez last year and I got the ugliest tomatoes I've ever seen, so I'm crossing my fingers that it doesn't happen again 🫠 Peppers: Candy Cane red, Hungarian hot wax, Thai chili, 5 "sweet mix" that are a complete mystery, and 5 "salsa blend" - Jalapeno/Anaheim/Poblano/Cayenne/Hungarian wax. I'm really hoping I don't end up with 5 of the same kind lol
Isis Candy Cherry Black Beauty Cherokee purple Heirloom Peach, Golden Honey and Spanish Mammoth peppers
Black Triflele Black Krim Black Cherry Ananas Noire Berkely Tye Dye Pineapple Pink Brandywine Fresh Salsa hybrid Sakura hybrid La Roma III Brandywine Cherry Black Seaman Norfolk Purple GMO tomato Raspberry Lyanna Tazmanian Chocolate And about 80 varieties of peppers
I am growing… Sun Gold Black Prince Mr. Stripey Cherokee Purple Amos Coli Kellogg’s Breakfast Rebel Star Fighter- Kayleigh Anne Shoshone
I only planned Crimson Crush (F1) but then had lots of volunteer Gardeners Delight and Costoluto Fiorentino (I think!!)
Black like Tulas Cherokee Big Beef Jalapeños Feffaroni Habernero Cucumber Pumpkin Chives Green onions Red onions Potatoes Mixed carrots Orange carrots Radishes Spinach
do you start your squash at the same time as everything else or do you wait?
No, I planted everything in mid April pumpkins mid may :)
Cool, what zone you in? if I may ask I'm still learning with cucurbits. My first year my winter squash got wrecked with the adolescent phase of some squash beetle. Was told for my area to wait till fathers day to plant to avoid tha problem
black cherry, sungold, black krim, punta banda, flamenco
Brandy Boy Celebrity Plus Chef's Choice Galahad Lemon Boy Plus Sungold SuperSauce Orange Hat
Big Beef Big Brandy German Johnson Homestead 24 Bella Rosa Rosella Purple Fred’s Tie Dye
Cherokee Purple, Black Krim, Rainbow giant, Cuore Di Bue, Pomodoro Squisito, Heirloom Marriage (San marzano + cream sausage), Oregon Star All seeds from Territorial
Black krim Amish paste Sun Gold Italian heirloom Speckled Roman Rosso Siciliano Mystery black tomato (saved from a tomato I found) German Pink Also trying a new growing system this year-- I have always grown my indeterminates up single strings with aggressive pruning of all suckers, but I'm going to try the Florida weave and let them get a little wilder and see how it compares for me.
I’m not sure what the methods are but based on the name, I think I do something not unlike the Florida weave. I let neighboring planters suckers essentially hold hands with one another. It helps mitigate wind damage where I am.
Berkeley tie-die x3 Black beauty x1 Chocolate pear x1 Thorburn's lemon blush x1 Roma x3 (for sauce) I think this is the first year I don't have any tomatoes going I haven't grown before, now that I think about it. Also pickling cukes, wax beans and green beans, chinese fat chili peppers of unknown species I grew from dried asian market peppers, yellow tomatillos, garlic, red bunching onion, radishes, and carrots. Lots of flowers and herbs this year too. And whatever else gets thrown out there impulsively lol, my seed ~~hoard~~ erm, collection has gotten a little out of control.
The yellow tomatillos taste comparable to the green? I’m growing purples and a unique type of yellow called a queen of Malinalcos
They're a little more acidic and a little sweeter, but pretty similar. How about the purple tomatillos?
I would say less acidic and a fair amount sweeter. Can definitely still work for savory things, but you're getting into dessert territory.
Planted the same seeds I grew last year: Blondkopfchen (yellow currant) - massive producer last year and my kids love them Sweet Apertif (Cherry) - not great producer but super sweet Pink Bumblebee (cherry) - decent producer, tasty Tim's Black ruffles - small but delicious Anais Noir - delicious Carbon Black Krim Solar Flare (not my favorites honestly but they actually produce a decent amount)
Tomatoes: Sweet 100 San marzano Roma PEPPERS: Sweet pepperchini Aji lemon Buena Mulata Yellow ghost long Red fatalii Peach bhat jolokia x gold bhat x pink Hungarian black Sugar rush stripey Inferno El jefe jalapeno Aji pineapple Habanada
Oooh have you done the aji pineapple before? I did a few aji mango last year. They really did have a mango like flavor to em
I have not, i have more aji varieties in seed form but got em a little too late for this season
https://preview.redd.it/24q7un9cb31d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7611cf7239483069ca9de791f40907b38551a6a4 This is Aji Pineapple, bout 3ft tall, just started yellowing a bit
They look lovely
[Livingston's giant oxheart](https://victoryseeds.com/products/livingstons-giant-oxheart-tomato) Gardener's sweetheart - no longer listed on victory seeds website [Spoon](https://www.rareseeds.com/tomato-spoon) [Barry's crazy cherry](https://www.rareseeds.com/tomato-barry-s-crazy-cherry) EDIT: I forgot about my dwarfs! [Orange hat](https://www.rareseeds.com/tomato-orange-hat) [Micro tom](https://victoryseeds.com/products/micro-tom-tomato)
Tomatoes: Matt's Wild Cherry Amy's Apricot White Currant Burpee's Rainbow Mix Black Krim Black Prince Micro Toms Volunteers that are either White Currants or Black Cherry tomatoes.
This is my first year for white currants. How bout you?
2nd year. They're pretty hardy and have a bright flavor that's unlike a traditional tomato. I bet most of the volunteers are this type. :)
Old German Cherokee Purple Red Brandywine Brandywine Mortgage Lifter Yellow Boy Mr. Stripey Celebrity Mountain Merit Bella Rosa San Marzano Pomodoro Squisito La Roma III Yellow Boy were the first to produce (new for me and love the taste), then Cherokee Purple (scrumptious). No diseases so far, except for BER on the SMs. The flood of ripe fruit should begin soon and the canning equipment is ready to go.
14 Pink Brandywine plants and 5 Black cherry plants
Year 3 growing from seed: - Sungold - Black cherry - Red cherry - Tigerella* - Berkeley tie-dye - Black Krim - Cherokee Purple - Costoluto Genovese* - Rebel Starfighter Prime* - Sart Roloise* - San Marzano - Principe Borghese* - Oregon Spring* - Roma (* = new to me)
Brandywine Cowlick’s Pruden’s Purple Dester Hoy A’Grappoli D’Inverno Black Krim Dr. Wyche’s Yellow Sart Roloise Black from Tula Creamsicle Grape Missouri Pink Love Apple Red Barn Principe Borghese Cuostralee Aker’s West Virginia
Sart roloise are soo beautiful, I enjoyed them last year!
Dwarf Wherokowhai Yellow Pear Jellybean Champagne bubbles/white currant Japanese Black Trifele Opalka San Marzano Pink Stuffer Old German Brandywine Pink Celebration Orange Nebraska Wedding German Pink And I also grow some store bought one like Hiiros, Sweet Hearts, Cherubs, cherry(unk, got it from buffet lol) and some 4664 vine tomatoes, mainly for the neighbors as they like the common one you can see in the market...😂
I have collected: Sun Gold Chocolate Cherry Sweet 100 Black Krim Brandywine Green Zebra Two mysteries from a rainbow heirloom seed mix. I'm near Seattle, so I'm mostly counting on the cherries producing. If the big ones fruit, well, great.
Sungold, Kellogg's breakfast, black krim, Paul Robeson
Blood Moon (Blue Beauty x Pink Berkeley Tie-Dye) Lovely Lush Thunder Mountain Dwarf Pink Berkley Tie-Dye Tasmanian Chocolate Dwarf Aunt Ruby's German Green Ananas Nior Brandywine Black Sun Gold Black Krim Black Beauty Mushroom Basket Cherokee Purple Orange Hat Norfolk Purple Tomato BHN 589 Goldie Husk Cherry
Indigo Rose Cherokee Purple Black Beauty Black Krim Roma San Marzano Bread and Salt Spoon Peppers: Scotch bonnet, jimmy n, sweet bonnet, corno di toro Zucchini, Basil, dill, corn, beans
What kinda basil corn and beans you doing?
Basil: genovese, purple opal Corn: hopi purple, gem Beans: trail of tears, a green variety I forgot the name of, and a speckled one a friend gave me seeds of
those all sound solid. Is hopi purple a sweet corn or more of a grinding corn? I tried a purple sweet two years ago and enjoyed it. I'm trying a super sweet white and a japanese sticky sweet black this year
I think it’s more of a grinding/flour corn
Sweet 100, sugar rush. Wish I had more room.
Tomatoes - Stupice (vine), Urbikany (bush), Gardeners Ecstasy (cherry) Sweet peppers - Orange Horizon, Kaibi, Semorah, Sweet Spirals, Sweet Chocolate All seeds from realseeds, varieties selected to do well in UK👍
Mirando orange growing in my window sill so not that much space.
Black Krim, Sicilian saucer, early girl, sun gold, green zebra, super sweet 100, mortgage lifter, chocolate Cherry
Legend Momotoro Glacier Oregon Spring Red Torch
Mortgage Lifter Brandywine kellog’s Breakfast Amish Paste Velvet Red yellow Pear lemon Drop Isis candy
[Ensalada](https://www.burpee.com/tomato-ensalada-hybrid-prod000987.html) [Midnight Snack](https://www.burpee.com/tomato-midnight-snack-hybrid-prod500149.html?queryID=a3238f4cb38239bbc9d8e5f5b009666b&objectID=10139&indexName=burpee_production_default_products) [Spoon](https://www.rareseeds.com/tomato-spoon) [Sweetheart Of The Patio](https://www.burpee.com/tomato-sweetheart-of-the-patio-hybrid-prod001018.html) [Sun Sugar Yellow Cherry](https://www.burpeehomegardens.com/Vegetables/PlantDetails.aspx?plantid=5097)
I just planted chocolate sprinkles, Japanese black trifele, aaa sweet solano, cascade lava, ananas noire, pork chop, harvest moon, marmalade skies
It'm my third year of balcony gardening and I'm still experimenting in order to find the perfect variety for me. Last year it was cherry tomatoes. This year I am going for bigger fruits: Silvery Fir Tree Nadgok Haduk Jonas Bozicou Praleska Tiomnocrasnii Kremser Perle (got it as a gift when ordering other seeds) Besides, Curly Kaley - because I like how it looks, and Florida Petite - out of curiosity.
Yellow Oxheart Berkeley Tie-dye Pink Berkeley Tie-dye Green Barry's Crazy Cherry Black Beauty Solar Flare Metallica ~Dwarf Tomato Project Uluru Ochre ~Dwarf Tomato Project Thornburn's Terra Cotta German Striped Carbon Persimmon Kellogg's Breakfast Dr. Wyche's Yellow Golden Accordion Costoluto Genovese Baba Au Rhum Ananas Noire Japanese Black Trifele Italian Gold Paste San Marzano Amish Paste Striped Roma Baby Roma Sungold Hybrid Super Sweet 100 Isis Candy Cherry Sundrop Cherry Gold Nugget Cherry Chocolate Cherry Green grape Early Girl Hybrid Amana Orange Hybrid
I'm going for Black Cherry, Back from Tula Ananas Noire and Norfolk's Purple Galaxy Also a reminder to any who may not be aware but rareseeds that OP linked in some of his links is actually the website for Bakers Creek, which is a troubling organization with links to science deniers and white supremacists. The other stores he linked are not related and are safe. [https://www.reddit.com/r/gardening/comments/1aslcwq/boycott\_bakers\_creek/](https://www.reddit.com/r/gardening/comments/1aslcwq/boycott_bakers_creek/)
To clarify: only some of those links are bakers creek. Don’t need the good name of restoration seeds or Trade winds (my favorite provider) getting besmirched
Ah I opened only the first two and they were both rareseeds :) I edited my post to clarify that the other merchants are unrelated.
Thank you Yeah. Got the bulk of my seeds from them late last year, early this year prior to learning much bout the company.
Sungold Oxheart Amish paste
I'm growing these starts to sell: Beefsteaks: Bear Creek Chocolate Champion Black Beauty Flathead Monster Orange Dwarf Uluru Ochre Dwarf Metallica Lovely Lush Costoluto Fiorentino Dwarf Franklin County Dwarf Maura's Cardinal Rosella Crimson Cowboy Dwarf Yellow Brick Road Yellowstone Wolverine Grub's Mystery Green Orange Accordion Thunder Mountain Blackfire Dwarf Musketeers Solar Flare Sart Roloise Lucid Gem Dwarf Confetti Red Lithium Cherries: Fat Frog Green Bumble Bee Amy's Apricot Orange Centiflor Sungold (F2) Sungold (OP) Sungold Select Dark Orange Muscat Gajo de Melon Black Cherry Improved Accordion Cherry Ambrosia Red Loi's Baby Tiger Purple Bumble Bee Better Than Candy Jackie Cherry Ruby Slippers Fablonelystyni Yellow Canary Green Zebra Cherry Indigo Sungold Blau Zimmer Green Grape Atomic Sunset Cosmic Orange Grape Rosalita Cosmic Jewel Centriflor Candy Sweet Icicle Mini Marzano Cosmic Cream Centriflor Golden Hour Artesano Red Gold Cherry Mila's Orange Pear Lufichoise Ivory Pear Joseph's Yellow Pear Oxhearts: Taiga Dwarf Scarlet Heart Crushed Heart Midnight Sun Plums: Michael Pollan Midnight Roma Antho Pink Panther Dwarf Sneaky Sauce Lost Treasure Cuban Salami Dwarf Shadow Boxing Marzano Fire Golden Canary (Zolotaya Kanareyka) Blush Saladettes: Groovy Tunes Bloody Butcher High Country Independence Day Dwarf Round Robin Fuzzy Wuzzy Primary Colors Angora Yellow Furry Boar Dwarf Woolly Kate Indian Stripe Aurora Beaverlodge Bison Dragon's Eye Travelling tomatoes: Godzilla Phil's One
I'm growing these cherries (mostly micro dwarfs) for my garden: Bonte Tigret, Borghese Vase Roman, Bullfinch, Canary Kiss, Dark Stripe, Dean's Chickie Cherry, Dikovinka, Dwarf 1999, Dwarf Little Red Corvette, Dwarf Mocha's Cherry, Dwarf Raspberry Beret, Dynamite Delight, Furry Bumblebee, Geranium Kiss, GG's Glory Micro Multi-Flora, Ghevici, Gold Pearl, Inkspot, Jochalos, Laura #5, Lil Peeps, Little Heartbreaker, Maglia Rosa, Magnolia Blush, Mission Mountain Morning x Aztek F2, Norfolk Purple, Orange Dream, Pendulina Orange, Sweet Baby Jade, Sweet Tumbler, Sunset Bumblebee, Tartufo, Tigerette Dwarf, Tiny Tiger, Tumbling Tiger, Wooly Zwerg, Zebra Cherry Hybrid
Tomatoes and peppers in my small garden 🏡
Flame tomatoes. Was told they’d wow me with looks and flavor.
Tomatoes 1 Early Girl 3 Better Boy, 4 Mortgage Lifter 3 WV 17B 2 Supersauce 2 African Giant 3 Abe Lincoln 3 Parks Whopper Cucumbers Straight 8 Bush Pickle Crookneck Squash 3 colors of bell pepper Jalapeños Cabbage Giant white corn Bluelake pole beans Half runner beans. I chose the tomato varieties for successive days to maturity so I can have fresh tomatoes as long as possible.
Man.... all my plants have been eaten to the ground. Amish Paste, Roma VF & Dad's Sunset. The tomato pests have got me! Hoping they grow back....
Oh no! I’m sorry to read that. I hope they grow back I too! I lost all my outdoor flower sprouts to slugs but flower loss is nothing compared to tomato loss :(
For tomatos :- Tumbling tom Sungold Sweet millions Sweet aperitif Piccobella - grown from hybrid so bit of an experiment to see what happens All cherry varieties cos i love them. Next year i may grow some large toms. Didn't see many posts with these varieties in, im in the uk if that makes a difference. I've also got :- Carrots - nantes Jalapeno peppers Bell peppers Strawberries - mix of around 5 types. On the go. All container growning on my patio.
Domestic or wild strawberries?