Best tomato varieties for Seattle
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Comments (7)There are quite a few tomatoes that do well here, the most important thing to maybe remember is.. days to harvest.. shorter harvest days obviously means, you will end up with more tomatoes when is all said and done. But sometimes you just cant beat a brandywine or beefsteak type tomato. Be prepared to wait 80+ days (sometimes in the 70ish range) to pick those beasts. Siberian and san francisco fog are good seeds to start, they are more cold tolerant then alot of varieties, which means you can get em in the ground earlier, they also mature early. Olives, sweet 100's or million's, Lrg Red cherries, all do well, and would be up to you. You'll find what works best for you by trial and error :) There is a nursery in the "arcadia area"(not sure im allowed to put a name down) that usually has a great selection of varieties ;) tips from my experience in growing tomatoes... -inconsistant waterings can lead to cracks on fruit. So don't forget to check moisture, evenly moist at all times, but not sopping wet like a sponge full of water. Remember there is no schedule to water, you water when the plants need it. Weather, humidity, and soil structure will determine a "schedule" for you. -calcium, do not worry about it, our soil has it, if you are unsure, get a soil test to determine if needed. -To establish more of a root structure, and you have plants already started, try stripping the leaves almost half way up, including side shoots at leaf stem base, and planting it up to where the leaves you didn't strip are. Tomatoes develop very adventurous roots from the stem. -Once the tomatoes get some height to them, i like to strip some of the older leaves at the bottom of the plant to allow air circulation through the plant, and prevent stangnant air and fungi build up. -If growing indeterminate tomatoes (grow and produce fruit until killed by frost) a tomato cage usually wont cut it, think bigger, and know that it will want to grow like a vine. -If growing a determinate variety (grow to a certain height, bloom, fruit, ripen all at once, and then usually dies, or will notice decreased vigor in plant usually) You will notice they tend to be more upright and bushy, usually max would be 4' or smaller depending on variety, and you wouldn't need a cage necessarily. -Tomatoes are hungry plants,so feed regularly, and not when you happen to remember to fertilize them. -High alkalinity in the soil and water CAN create an environment in the soil where a plant can't uptake certain nutrients, so try to keep the pH reasonable by adding compost, and organic type fertilizers. -Rotate your tomato beds every year, a build-up of harmful organisms can be bad for next years crop of tomatoes. (wont get scientific, google can help ya with that.)...See Morebest varieties of tomatoes to plant
Comments (2)Welome b'c I see you just joined GW today. There are many many many threads here that are devoted to cannning and paste tomatoes, etc. Perhaps someone will come along and link to some of those threads, but even if you look below on this first page I think you'll find some, and the search feature is at the bottom of this first page and you can do that as well. You can grow any variety you want to in Ohio, it's a great place to grow tomatoes so no special varieties are needed. You asked for varieties that were resistant to insects, but regardless of what insects you have problems with, and what are they BTW, I know of no varieties that have those kinds of tolerances. You also asked for varieties that were disease tolerent, but didn't mention the diseases you were concerned with. In Ohio you don't have the systemic diseases that much and probably what you're referring to are the foliage diseases, which everyone has problems with b'c there are no varieties, hybrid or OP that have any significant tolerance to the foliage diseases, but there are ways of controlling some of them. And while you said you didn't know much about heirloom tomatoes I'm wondering if you're looking primarily for hybrid varieties with a sprinkling of OP heirlooms thrown in. Did you have any specific varieties in mind from looking at seed catalogs or websites of seed companies or perhaps even reading here at GW about the varieties that others have grown and recommended? Carolyn...See MoreBest rootstock for grafting tomatoes? What varieties do the pros use?
Comments (2)Here's a good site; http://content.ces.ncsu.edu/grafting-for-disease-resistance-in-heirloom-tomatoes Both Maxifort and Estamino seeds are sold online and I've seen others on an auction site....See MoreBEST TASTING HARDY HYBRID VFN+ TOMATO VARIETIES
Comments (2)Florida is one of the leading states for commercial tomato production and they don't use containers or grafted plants. Better Boy and other hardy hybrids have performed satisfactorily for me in Florida sandy soil. There are numerous VFN varieties and I am planting at least another dozen of them this fall for evaluation. They should all perform ok, but looking for VFN maters that have good flavor also as well as good production. First Prize, Tomande, Big Beef are all possibles And no eliminating the nems, using containers or grafted plants does not answer my question of what are the best tasting VFN varieties are. And yes nematodes are an issue for the entire State of Florida and most of the deep south. If they weren't millions of $$ wouldn't have been spent over the last 50 years to develop nematode resistant varieties. In Florida N resistance is probably the #1 factor between having tomatoes to pick and almost none at all. After you have tried to grow maters south of zone 6b/7a let me know. Didn't realize you had been elected as the official comment Nazi....See Moremuddydogs
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