I’m curious how many tomato plants you’re growing, and what varieties they are! I’m fascinated with watching plants grow, and I love growing a bunch of different varieties and seeing and tasting the differences between them. I only have two people in my household, but I have 27 tomato plants so far. I have a few mystery tomatoes, but here are the 25 I know:
Paul Robeson
Paul Robeson
Black Krim
Sweet Million
Sweet Million
Yellow Pear
Black Cherry
Heirloom
Heirloom
Orange Brandywine
Black Brandywine
Yellow Brandywine
Green Zebra
Carbon
Lemon Boy
Berkeley Tie Dye
Ukrainian Plum or Sungold
Ukrainian Plum or Sungold
Ukrainian Plum or Sungold
Cherokee Purple
Aunt Ruby’s Green
Copa (Oxheart?)
Pineapple
Beefsteak
Cherry Bomb
by junctiongardenergirl
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I’ve got like 23 growing. The varieties are Yellow Pear, Lemon Boy, German Queen, Cherokee Purple, Pink Brandywine, Boxcar Willy, Midnight Snack, Sweet 100, Sweeties, Salsa, San Marzano and Mr. Stripy. I also have two that are a mystery and won’t know until they start producing fruit.
No offence but hose pots look very small for standard indeterminate tomatoes. Do you manage to get much from them, particularly big beefsteak varieties?
Great variety list. I’m growing many of those too. I’m most excited about Rosella Purple and Brandywine Sudduth.
I think I have around 33-35 plants or so, 2 people:)!
– black Krim
– Carbon
– mortgage lifter
– Paul Robson
– green zebra
– early boy
– indigo rose
– yellow pear
– chocolate cherry
– Cherokee purple
– pink dye die brandywine
– Lucca
– super sweet 100
– pineapple
– sungold
– Aubrey’s special pinks
– Aunt ruby’s german green
– blush tomato
– Goldie tomato
– Japanese black trifele
– magic bullet
– striped German
– sweat pea currant (self sowed from last year)
– Apricot zebra
My Goldie and Magic Bullet look a bit stunted and sad, the rest is looking very healthy and the super sweet 100 is 4ft already and is probably the first one to harvest. Zone 6a. Rain rain rain. Cold May.
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I have 16 plants in pots with 7 different tomatoes.
Orange Datterino x 10 ; Tondo Con Pizzo x 10 ; Tivoli x 3 ; Susina x 3 and hopefully some San Marzanos that I don’t quite have yet.
Home Depot had a sale on seedlings for 99 cents and I picked out the ones with 2 growing from each cell. Early girl, large cherry, and beefsteak is what I’m working with this season at USDA hardiness zone 10A bought on April 21st.
24 slicers — Big Beef, Damsel, Momotaro 93, Momotaro Gold, Strawberry Fields, and Purple Boy. Not sure how many of each without looking at my garden map; I think three each of Purple Boy and Damsel, and at least six Big Beef.
4 cherries — two each of Apero and Yellow Mimi.
Not a very exciting year, to be honest; the theme for me was “nothing but nematode resistant varieties” this year.
[I started maybe fifteen(ish) other varieties for other folks, but didn’t grow any of them myself….I was insistent on only doing stuff with labeled nematode resistance, so no “heirloom” or other open-pollinated varieties for me this year]
6a I’m growing Berkeley pink tie dye, carbon, better boy, sweet 100, black cherry and sungold.
Just curious, what does everyone do with all the tomatoes you harvest in such large quantities. Do you sell them, give them away, make recipes with them, save them in some type of way. They all sound so good!! Very interested in hearing
27 tomato plants, 21 varieties
Sun sugar, black beauty, white beauty, brandywine yellow, white tomesol, large barred boar, aunt ruby’s German green, black strawberry, queen of the night, green zebra, thorburns terracotta, Mr stripey, cream sausage, glacier, speckled Roman, Georgia streak, creole, garden peach, ananas noire, pineapple and faelens first snow.
I have:
(3) Sun Sugar
(3) Isis Candy
(2) Black Cherry
(2) Husky Red Cherry
(1) Chocolate Sprinkles
(2) Green Zebra (though one was a sucker I planted so it’s still teeny)
(2) Cherokee Carbon (same thing with one was a sucker)
(2) Kellogg’s Breakfast (you guessed it, one’s a sucker)
(1) Mortgage Lifter
(1) Early Girl
(1) Early Girl Plus (is this actually different than Early Girl? no clue)
(1) Gold Medal
(1) Black from Tula
Sungold cherry tomatoes, black cherry and my all time favorite Mortgage Lifter.
Sungold cherry, marzano, beefsteak, golden jubilee, chefs select orange.
San marzano and sun gold. Got 4 of each.
I am growing Mortgage Lifter x 2, Black Krim x 2, and Chocolate Cherry x 2. Have never tried any of them before, looking forward to seeing how they do.
Brandy Boy,
Chapman,
Braga,
Ozark Pink,
Royal Hillbilly,
Ananis Noir,
Giant Belgian,
Caspian Pink,
Blush Tiger,
Vintage Wine,
Gardener’s Delight (cherry),
Cherokee Carbon,
Rosella (cherry),
Big Green (dwarf), Lillian’s Yellow,
Rose,
Girl Girl’s Weird Thing,
Kosovo,
Super Beefsteak,
Aunt Lou’s Underground Railroad,
Viziry,
Dester,
Goose Creek,
Jerusalem,
Arkansas Traveler,
Black Krim,
German Johnson,
Sungold (cherry),
Burpee’s Big Boy,
Thorburn’s Terracotta,
Black Cherry,
Uluru Ochre (dwarf),
Beauty King (dwarf),
Boronia (dwarf),
Better Boy,
Ananis Noir,
Black Cat,
Chocolate Chestnut,
*and*
One mystery mater
One that I’m growing from seeds I gathered from a previous volunteer that I hope grows true to what it was!
I have multiples of Dester, Goose Creek, Jerusalem, German Johnson, Sungold and Black Cherry because those are my favorites.
I lost the following to bunnies or cutworms – Berkeley Green Tie Dye, Homer Fike, Kellogg’s Breakfast, Tropical Sunset, Aunt Ginny’s Purple, Tastywine dwarf and Carbon (which is in my top three favorites so that one REALLY hurt. 😭)
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Yellow Oxhart
New girl
San Marzano
Granadero
Supersweet
Sun peach
Sun gold
Cherry bomb
So far? I’ve got these in the ground with a few more to add. I have multiples of a few of them. I really want midnight snack and starfighter prime
Atomic fusion
Brad atomic grape
Black cherry
Black Krim
Blueberry Cherry
Blue beauty
Barry’s crazy cherry
Cosmic eclipse
Pineapple
Pineapple pig
Purple Cherokee
Sun gold
Pink brandywine
Beefsteak
Yellow taxi
Chocolate cherry
Yellow pear cherry
Sungold
Honeycomb
The theme of the garden this year is “purple,” so I tried to work in several anthocyanin varieties this year.
– Purple Tomato (4)
– Cherokee Purple (1)
– Black Prince (3)
– Celebrity (4)
– Sunset Torch (4)
– San Marzano (2)
– Mr Stripey (1)
– Pineapple (1)
– And one volunteer that I think is probably a cross-pollinator from last year’s Mr Stripey
Black Krim, Mortgage Lifter, Berkeley Tie Dye, Oaxaca Jewel, Early Girl, and Sungold.
For me it’s:
Jaune flamme – 3
Kelloggs breakfast – 1
Opalka – 5
San marzano lunga – 4
Martinos Roma – 3
Moskvich – 1
Rosso Sicilian – 2
Hillbilly potato leaf – 1
Blue beech – 2
Principe Borghese – 1
The last four are new for me this year. I actually really don’t like tomatoes, just by themselves. They need carbohydrates – salsa & chips, BLTs, pasta & sauce. That way, I like them plenty!
Moreton, Ramapo, Black Brandywine, Black Krim, Japanese Truffle, Costoluto Genovese, and a Bush Beefsteak for something sooner.
My 6a grow list for this year (bold are ones I’ve grown before):
**Apricot Zebra**
Black Cherry
Black Krim
Blush Tiger
Cherokee Carbon
Cherokee Purple
Cherokee Purple Cherry
Early Treat
Honeycomb
Honeydrop/Honey Drop
Kellogg’s Breakfast
Mr. Stripey
Rebel Starfighter Prime
**Rosella**
Sungold
**Sunsugar**
Federle (paste style), Kellogg’s Breakfast, Red Brandywine, Barry’s Crazy Cherry, Large Barred Boar, Dr. Wyche’s Yellow, Yellow Brandywine, Black Krim, Chef’s Choice Yellow, Chef’s Choice Orange, Carbon, Porterhouse, Big Beef Plus, Wisconsin 55, Aunt Ruby’s German Green, Rutgers, Abe Lincoln, Mortgage Lifter, Lemon Boy Plus, Celebrity Plus, Black Plum, Ace 55, San Marzano, Amish Paste, Bushsteak, Mamie Brown’s Pink, and the dwarf/micro-dwarf varieties Tasmanian Chocolate, Sarandipity Dwarf, Andrina, and Summertime Green.
Sungold
Black Cherry
Coyote
Big Beef
Amish Gold
Girl Girls Weird Thing
Only one I’ve grown before is Sungold!
Ananas Noire, Copper River, Rebel Starfighter Prime, Pineapple, Metallica, Golden Cherry, Cherry Grape, Chocolate Cherokee, Cherokee Green, Matt’s Wild Cherry
Sun Gold
San Marzano
Roma
Korean Long
Black Krim
Green Zebra
Jet Star
Peron
Wood’s Famous Brimmer
27 plants in total, most are finally starting to rip, but this New England spring has not been great.
REGULAR
-Big Zac
-Moonglow
-Verna
-Marmonde
-Rebel Starfighter Prime
CHERRY
-Brass Balls
-Candy Hearts
-Sweet Aperitif
-(2) Broad Ripple
-Sugar Plum Raspberry
PASTE
-Fun
-Opalka
-Yellow Fire
-(5) Variegated Amish Gold
DWARF
-Great Scott
-Penny Lane
-Uluru Ochre
MINI
-Duckling
-Lizzano
-Raspberry Placer
MICRO
-Allure
MISC OFF TYPES
-Big Momma Potato Leaf
-(3)Rebel Starfighter Beefsteak
-Rebel Starfighter VT16 Red
-Kayleigh Anne ?
-Kayleigh Anne Red
-Blue Follies
Amish Paste. 1
Ananas Noire 1
Apricot Zebra 1
Banana Noire 1
Beefy Purple 2
Be Orange 5
Berkeley Pink Tie Dye 1
Big Boy 15
Black Cherry 1
Black Krim 2
Brown Sugar 1
Bumblebee Pink 1
Bumblebee Sunrise 1
Caspian Pink 3
Champion II VFNT Hybrid 1
Cherokee Purple 2
Chefs Choice Orange Hybrid 1
Don’s Delightful Heart 1
Dr Wyches Yellow 1
German Giant 2
German Johnson 1
Giant Belgium 4
Green Zebra 1
Heart of Compassion 2
Hungarian Heart 2
Hillbilly 1
Kelloggs Breakfast 2
Lauren 1
Malinówka 6
Missouri Love Apple 1
Mortgage Lifter 3
Mystery 6
Old German 1
Opalka 1
Paul Robertson 1
Pink Brandywine 1
Pink Oxheart 2
Polish Linguisa 2
Red Cherry 2
Red Thrash Panda 1
Speckled Roman 2
Stonybrook Dwarf 2
Sungold 2
Yellow Pear 1
43 Kinds Not Counting Mystery
I have 4 plants: Isis Candy, Yellow Pear, San Marzano, and Roma. my partner usually does the tomato growing but this year I’m in charge of the tomatoes. So we’ll see.
I’ve got:
(1) Sweet 100
(1) Honeydrop
(1) Sweetie
(1) Jaune Flamme
(1) Siberian
(2) Gold Nugget
(2) Pink Berkeley Tie Dye
(2) Manitoba
All Dwarf Tomato Project varieties. I’m growing Dwarf Wild Fred, BrandyFred, Fred’s Tie Dye, Gloria’s Treat, Purple Heart, Malee Rose, Uluru Ochre, Crimson Sockeye, and I think Perfect Harmony. Dwarf Awesome is another one of my favorites, but it was stunted for some reason so I pulled it.
Some are good for cooking, and I like sandwiches and salads okay, but a lot of them end up in gazpacho.
I was distracted this year as I started my seedlings. I had them on a heat mat with grow lights, but did not factor in the ambient temperature or humidity. I was concentrating on paste tomatoes, but ended up burning up the seedlings. I ended up planting Cherokee purples, Contender, and another variety I can’t remember that us supposedly an all around variety that is also good for sauces.