2025 home garden tomato plans are finalized 👍- 24 plants, 15 varieties (including cherry as well as heirloom like these Reisetomate), 4 new-to-me varieties & 16th year in
2025 home garden tomato plans are finalized 👍- 24 plants, 15 varieties (including cherry as well as heirloom like these Reisetomate), 4 new-to-me varieties & 16th year in
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I’ve finalized the home garden 2025 tomato plans for this year. Will be planting the seeds indoors this weekend. I’m not late but it’s after many in this sub already. Here’s the tomato list & details, lmk what you think & enjoy.
24 tomato plants this year, pretty much the same amount as last year (one less)
15 different tomato varieties
7 cherry tomatoes, 2 different varieties
* 4 Sun Gold (regular top favorite for the last 3-5 years) * 3 Super Sweet 100 (aka Supersweet 100) – a newer reportedly improved hybrid of the Sweet 100 (sweeter, more productive, more disease & crack resistant)
17 heirloom tomatoes, 13 different varieties
* Ispolin 1X – heirloom beefsteak style originally from Siberia * Reisetomate 2X – German heirloom originally from from Peru / Guatemala * Ferris Wheel (1898) 1X – beefsteak style, introduced by the John A. Salzer Seed Company of La Crosse, Wisconsin in 1894, and nearly disappeared from availability until rediscovered in the 1990s by author and tomato authority Craig LeHoullier * Pineapple 2X – from the Kentucky area & first named by Merlin W. Gleckler of “Glecklers Seedman” in the early 1950s * Great White 2X – the Great White tomato was introduced to the public in the early 1990s. In 1987, a woman sent a collection of orange and yellow Oxheart tomato seeds from her home garden to Gleckler Seeds Company for trial purposes. Gleckler grew the seeds, and one plant unexpectedly came to produce a white beefsteak tomato, most likely the result of a genetic mutation. Beefsteak style * Manitoba 1X – developed in the mid-1950s at the Morden Experimental Farm in Manitoba, specifically for short growing seasons, and was first released for sale in 1956. * Pink Brandywine 2X – its origins are shrouded in some mystery, but widely believed to have been cultivated by the Sudduth family in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, for at least 80 years. It gained prominence in 1982 when seeds were submitted to the Seed Savers Exchange by Ben Quisenberry. Beefsteak style. * True Black Brandywine 1X – Originated with William Woys Weaver of Pennsylvania who claimed that his grandfather obtained seed from breeder Dr. Harold E. Martin in the late 1920s, a dentist and plant breeder from Westtown, Pennsylvania. Eventually released in 2008. Beefsteak style. * Black From Tula 1X – a notable heirloom variety believed to have originated in Ukraine, although it’s named after the Russian city of Tula for an unknown reason. Was introduced to American seed savers in 1996 by Marina Danilenko.
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I’ve finalized the home garden 2025 tomato plans for this year. Will be planting the seeds indoors this weekend. I’m not late but it’s after many in this sub already. Here’s the tomato list & details, lmk what you think & enjoy.
24 tomato plants this year, pretty much the same amount as last year (one less)
15 different tomato varieties
7 cherry tomatoes, 2 different varieties
* 4 Sun Gold (regular top favorite for the last 3-5 years)
* 3 Super Sweet 100 (aka Supersweet 100) – a newer reportedly improved hybrid of the Sweet 100 (sweeter, more productive, more disease & crack resistant)
17 heirloom tomatoes, 13 different varieties
* Ispolin 1X – heirloom beefsteak style originally from Siberia
* Reisetomate 2X – German heirloom originally from from Peru / Guatemala
* Ferris Wheel (1898) 1X – beefsteak style, introduced by the John A. Salzer Seed Company of La Crosse, Wisconsin in 1894, and nearly disappeared from availability until rediscovered in the 1990s by author and tomato authority Craig LeHoullier
* Pineapple 2X – from the Kentucky area & first named by Merlin W. Gleckler of “Glecklers Seedman” in the early 1950s
* Great White 2X – the Great White tomato was introduced to the public in the early 1990s. In 1987, a woman sent a collection of orange and yellow Oxheart tomato seeds from her home garden to Gleckler Seeds Company for trial purposes. Gleckler grew the seeds, and one plant unexpectedly came to produce a white beefsteak tomato, most likely the result of a genetic mutation. Beefsteak style
* Manitoba 1X – developed in the mid-1950s at the Morden Experimental Farm in Manitoba, specifically for short growing seasons, and was first released for sale in 1956.
* Pink Brandywine 2X – its origins are shrouded in some mystery, but widely believed to have been cultivated by the Sudduth family in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, for at least 80 years. It gained prominence in 1982 when seeds were submitted to the Seed Savers Exchange by Ben Quisenberry. Beefsteak style.
* True Black Brandywine 1X – Originated with William Woys Weaver of Pennsylvania who claimed that his grandfather obtained seed from breeder Dr. Harold E. Martin in the late 1920s, a dentist and plant breeder from Westtown, Pennsylvania. Eventually released in 2008. Beefsteak style.
* Black From Tula 1X – a notable heirloom variety believed to have originated in Ukraine, although it’s named after the Russian city of Tula for an unknown reason. Was introduced to American seed savers in 1996 by Marina Danilenko.