My first year really with fun tomato varieties and pretty excited about my lineup!
•san marsano
•super sweet 100
•purple cherokee
•berkley tie dye
•virginia sweet
•pink brandywine
•black cherry
•sungold

@SarahNoel; if yer experience is anything like mine, that there Super Sweet 100 will crank out beau coup fruit as it crawls upwards of 11'/~2.8 meters and sprawls all over whatever's nearby.

Virginia Sweets will be a 1st timer here, this spring.

The Gotch

Grin we had ONE super sweet 100 plant that was so wide and tall we could not wrap our arms around it... pumped out cherry tomatoes that vanished as soon as they were ripe into the 3 boys that helped me grow it. When the first snow fall came we the ropes holding it to the trellis and laid it down on the ground, few days latter picked it up and only the top had been frozen. That thing continued to pump out tomatoes for another month...

I'm definitely excited for the super sweet 100!! Still planning on how I'm really gonna contain it later in the year

SarahNoel wrote: ↑Wed Feb 14, 2024 6:45 pmI'm definitely excited for the super sweet 100!! Still planning on how I'm really gonna contain it later in the year

Good God! By then it may be TOO LATE...

The Gotch

Still working on my list but I think I am pretty close to set...

repeats for me
Large Barred Boar
Alaskan Fancy - smaller plant yummy roundish red tomatoes
Marbled Mystery - a bi color cherry from Bunny Hop last year my two plants never got transplanted from their 9 oz cups and were left totally neglected on my front porch. Every thing else died these still produced a single tomato each. This year I will plant them out and see what I get.


Etsy finds that looked too interesting to pass up:
Rebel starfighter: Kayleigh Anne - I think the name says it all... white with antho saladette should be interesting
Dean's Brad Gates - a dwarf bi color with variegated potato leaf
Woolly Kate Yellow - looked interesting not sure if dwarf or indet there is conflicting information
Petite Peach Tomato a yellow cherry that becomes dusted with bronze when ripe. supposedly has notes of peach in its taste...
Accordion Cherry - a ruffled multiflora according to the description how could I pass it up

For a project...
Charlene - a new dwarf release found at Bunny Hop is a pink with gold striped tomato with chartreuse potato leaf
Dwarf Mandurang Moon - a potato leaf white from the Dwarf Tomato Project

Other possibilities are Velvet Red cherry, Shimofuri, Rossa Sicilian, or Sart Roloise

SarahNoel wrote: ↑Wed Feb 14, 2024 5:16 pm My first year really with fun tomato varieties and pretty excited about my lineup!
•san marsano
•super sweet 100
•purple cherokee
•berkley tie dye
•virginia sweet
•pink brandywine
•black cherry
•sungold

That's a very good list in order to experience a wide range of flavors (and sizes), with a minimum amount of varieties.

Two suggestions:

1) swap Pink Berkeley Tie Dye for BTD, almost all agree that PBTD has superior flavor.

2) "perhaps" swap Stump of the World for Pink Brandywine. Both are excellent tasting tomatoes, but PB is extremely finicky and often doesn't produce great tasting tomatoes unless growing conditions are near perfect. If you have the room, I recommend growing both.

@Tormato Stump of the World?? Whoa, I thought that one was extinct or something. How's it like?

Tormato wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15, 2024 8:04 am

SarahNoel wrote: ↑Wed Feb 14, 2024 5:16 pm My first year really with fun tomato varieties and pretty excited about my lineup!
•san marsano
•super sweet 100
•purple cherokee
•berkley tie dye
•virginia sweet
•pink brandywine
•black cherry
•sungold

That's a very good list in order to experience a wide range of flavors (and sizes), with a minimum amount of varieties.

Two suggestions:

1) swap Pink Berkeley Tie Dye for BTD, almost all agree that PBTD has superior flavor.

2) "perhaps" swap Stump of the World for Pink Brandywine. Both are excellent tasting tomatoes, but PB is extremely finicky and often doesn't produce great tasting tomatoes unless growing conditions are near perfect. If you have the room, I recommend growing both.

I just double checked and it is actually Pink BTD!! So hey, that's a plus! And I'll definitely look into obtaining some Stump of the World.
I appreciate the feedback!

Everyone has great lists this year yeah u switched out 506 bush with emerald city and switched out northern lights with yellow brick road

I posted some free but no-ID red tomato seed in the seed offer forum if anybody wants to give them a loving home. ❤

TomatoNut95 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15, 2024 9:12 am @Tormato Stump of the World?? Whoa, I thought that one was extinct or something. How's it like?

To me, SOTW is the benchmark for judging all other beefsteaks, having a very rich balanced flavor.

Tormato wrote: ↑Fri Feb 16, 2024 3:28 pm

TomatoNut95 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15, 2024 9:12 am @Tormato Stump of the World?? Whoa, I thought that one was extinct or something. How's it like?

To me, SOTW is the benchmark for judging all other beefsteaks, having a very rich balanced flavor.

Sounds like I need to get some!

AKgardener wrote: ↑Mon Jan 08, 2024 2:08 pm I’m gonna kick off with my official mater list !! I’m going for it mater dance will be happening.in 2 months
pink siberian honey
Siberian
Sasha Alta
Crimson sprinter
Silver fir tree
Clear pink
azoyshka
For my hubby
Spoon tomatoes
Aberta shatters.

Awesome. I'd love to hear how it goes.

Me to haha February 23 official start date

Sweetie
Prairie Fire (new to me)
Delicious
Oregon Spring
Roma VF

Tentatively Wisconsin 55 is on the list. It was fine, I guess, for my mid sized slicer last year. It was my first time with them. The year was much cooler than normal with above average rain. Taste and production were off for the varieties I'd grown before although the Oregon Spring managed better for output. There's a seed swap this weekend. I'm giving away most of the Wisconsin 55 seeds I saved and looking for something else to possible replace it for the mid size role. If not it gets one plant worth of second chance.

I'm going to look for something else in the paste tomato as well to share space with the Roma VF.

Anybody have experience with Super Sioux? I bought a packet of that today; apparently it's suitable for our Texas heat and drought.

Last year - ISPL, Rebel Yell, Vorlon, Earl of Edgecombe, Fish Lake Oxheart, Dester, KBX, Tommy Toe, ARGG and Matt's Wild Cherry.

A lot of problems with fruit cracking in my soil, more spoiled tomatoes than I was happy with. KBX was an exception. Earl of Edgecombe was too but it was unproductive. Making some adjustments this year and growing these:

Crnkovic Yugoslavian (supposedly blemish free and crack resistant)
Aker's West Virginia (also supposedly blemish free and crack resistant)
Wes
Prue
KBX, again

Hey all. I see some familiar names here. I wondered where you all went. Anyway, here's 2024. * are new to me.

GWR: Absinthe, Malachite Box
Yellow: Buckeye Yellow, Aunt Gertie's Gold
Orange: KBX, Orange Heirloom*, Pederson's Beefsteak*
Black: Brad's Black Heart, Grandma Oliver's Chocolate, Sokolades, Gary O'Sena*
Red:Wes, Bloody Butcher, Cuostralee, Neves Azorean Red, Goose Creek
Pink: Hoy*, Kolb*, Daniel Burson*, Brandywine Sudduth, Aunt Ginny's Purple, Tsar Kolokol*, Caspian Pink, Purple Dog Creek, Marlowe Charleston, Fred Limbaugh's Potato Top*, Eva Purple Ball, Dester, Stump of the World

@sic transit gloria Hello and welcome to the Junction. We are happy to have you here. How about introducing yourself in the 'Introductions' so that everyone else knows that you are here!