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Comments (0)Another year has come and gone for our fourth annual Tomatopalooza[tm] in Raleigh, NC. We had (according to Craig) over 100 people, although I lost count after 5! Smile Needless to say, there were a lot of folks who came from as far as Ohio, Florida, and even the Caribbean! We also ended up with 192 different varieties. These are listed below for reference. The official web site and location of pictures I took is tomatopalooza 4 My impression of this year was great. It was good to see old friends and new from GW and TV. It was also good to see all the different tomatoes come pilling in! This has been a poor year for both Craig and I, so we were concerned that we might not have enough tomatoes available. In fact, I was ready to call the whole thing off since we didn't have Cherokee Purple! Fortunately someone came through with a might fine sample of them to save the day. (You can't have a tomato tasting without Cherokee Purple around!) All 9 dwarves were there! After trying them all, I must confess that I only really liked 2 of the 9. Sneezy and Sleezy A. A couple of the others were OK, but at least 4 of them were major spitters! So, here's to finding better tasting ones in the F2 and beyond. Many of Brad's varieties made an appearance. Fuzzy Cherokee Large Barred Boar Pork Chop Yellow Boar Berkley Tie Dye LBB and Pork Chop were very nice tasting. My standouts of the day were Tennesse Heirloom, Anna Banana Russian and Jefferson Davis. JD was the sweetest tomato I've ever tasted! Tenn. Heirloom was large, meaty, and had a wonderful tart flavor to it. Jerry and I did a taste competition between Sun Gold and Sun Gold Select II. SG won hands down. While SGSII is indeed very tasty, it just lacks the punch that SG has. The tastiest treet of the day was Martha's Tomato sorbets! The Sun Gold sorbet was quite tasty but the Lime Green Salad sorbet was out of this world! I'm definitely going to have to try making some of that later this year! All and all a very good day filled with tomatoes and good conversation. I hope all who came had a marvelous time and will be around for Tomatopalooza[tm] V next July! Lee Tomatopalooza[tm] 4 Varieties - 192 different Alpha Pink Aker's West Virginia Amana Orange Amish Paste Amy's Sugar Gem Ananas Noire Andrew Rahart Jumbo Red Anna Banana Russian Anna Russian Arkansas Traveler Aunt Ruby's German Green Aunt Gertie's Gold Banana Legs Bashful Beauty, Livingston's Berkley Tie Dye Better Boy BHN 444 Big Beef Big Boy Big Orange Big Rainbow Big Zac Black Altai Black Cherry Black from Tula Black Krim Black Sea Man Blue Fruit Box Car Willie Brandy Boy Brandywine Brown Berry Bucks County Hybrid Burpee's Matchless Burracker's Favorite BWxPolish F3 Campbell's 1327 Carbon Carmello Celebrity Ceresi Chadwick Cherry Cherokee Chocolate Cherokee Green Cherokee Purple Chi Quita Ciudad Victoria Cossack Pineapple Costoluto Genovese Cuostralee Devon Surprise Divine Maltese Djenna Lee's Golden Girl Doc Dora Dr. Carolyn Dr. Wyche's Yellow Dwarf Stone Earl of Edgecomb Earl's Faux Early Goliath Early Wonder Ernesto Eva Purple Ball Fresh Salsa Fuzzy Cherokee Galina's German Johnson Giant Valentine Globe Gold Ball, Livingston's Golden Honey Bunch Grandfather Ashlock Granny Bradley Granny Cantrell pink Great White Green Giant Green Giant RL Green Grape Green Sausage Green Zebra Grub's Mystery Green RL Yellow Grumpy Happy Hawaiian Pineapple Hawaiian Red Cherry Heatwave II Japaneese Black Trifele Jaune Flamme Jefferson Davis Juliet June Pink Katinka Cherry Kellogg's Breakfast Kimberly Korney's Jelly Bean Large Barred Boar Lemon Boy Lime Green Salad Little Lucky Manalucie Marmande Marvel Stripe Marvelous, Livingston's Master Caruso Matt's Wild Cherry Mayo's Delight Mexico Midget Mortgage Lifter Mule Team Mystery Orange Mystery Pink Tomato Mystery Red Cherry Nepal New Big Dwarf Noire Charbonneuse Noire de Coeusboeuf Not Ananas Noire Not Cherokee Green 1 Not Cherokee Green 2 Not Cherokee Green 3 Not Cherokee Green 4 Not Green Giant Not Noire Charbonneuse Novogogoshary Nyagous Opalka Orange Banana Orange Heirloom Paul Robeson Pineapple Pink Stuffer Pork Chop Prue Purple Calabash Purple Russian Rainbow Bi-color Rasp Red Red Barn Red Brandywine Red Grape Red Zebra Reif's Red Heart Rinaldo Roma Rose Rose Quartz Santorini Saucy Green Siletz Sleazy Sleepy Sneezy Speckled Peach Speckled Roman Stick Stone Stupice Summer Cider Sundrop Sungold Sungold Select II Super Bush Hybrid Super Marmande Super Sioux Supersonic F3 Selection yellow Supersonic F3 Selection red Sweet 100 Sweet Gold Taxi Tennessee Heirloom Texas Wild Thai Pink Egg Tiger Tom Tiny Tim Turkey Chomp Variegated Volunteer cherry 1 Volunteer cherry 2 White Oxheart Winsall Wisconsin 55 Witty F1 Yellow Bell Yellow Boar Yellow Brandywine Yellow Pear Yellow Stuffer Yellow White Yugoslavian Heart Zogla...See MoreSeed order
Comments (14)I've had good luck with Munstead lavender, even had an abandoned small pot of it winter above ground. I think the trick is extremely good drainage with plenty of small rocks mixed in the soil, or planted on top of a small rise in the soil. I ordered more seed this year, too. I'm thinking of planting some in the crushed rock over gravel areas in the yard. I started some peppers yesterday, the long sweet italian type. Also some seed for Pulsatilla vulgaris that I had forgotten I harvested. We're going on another Utah/Arizona hiking/touring trip the end of March so most of my seed starting will have to wait until early April. I will start some things earlier and move them over to mom's grow lights for the time we're gone....See MoreHitting the Century Mark
Comments (20)Jay, I am not even in the running, but it isn't because I don't want to be. I think I have about 50 or so, I guess that makes me half as bad as you. LOL I could have had more, but I use a lot of my garden for peppers and other things. Next year I will have a little more room when Al moves all of his stuff out of the end of my garden. There is a tree there so I can't plant the entire thing, but it should add about 12 x 20 feet of additional space. I could have done a little better job of planning this year, but I was kind of planting as I got an area finished and ready to plant. We actually have a fair size lot, but we have eleven very large trees and 210 feet of infiltrator lateral line. As it is, I have 18 tomatoes and 2 berry plants in a sunny spot near the south lot line. That area and the garden get the most sun, but because of the laterals I only put containers in that area. They are not over the lines, but are fairly close. I gained a little more sun for this season when the two cedar trees were cut, and there is a chance that we may take down two redbud trees. They have electrical lines running through the forks of them and they create a lot of headaches for one of my neighbors who gardens near them. He would love to see them go. I would miss the spring blooms, but must admit they are kind of a pain with seed flying everywhere. I have one more sunny spot that has potential, but I am saving it for my "wishing I had a greenhouse someday" plan. My garden area has a chain link fence, but the rest of the yard is not fenced. I only plant container edibles and flowers outside that fence because we have so many darn dogs that run loose. We have deer very close but I have never seen them come into the neighborhood. We get a lot of rain so they are probably well fed in the wild areas and don't get hungry enough to come looking for food. I am keeping my fingers crossed that they continue to stay away. They would sure find a big tomato snack if they came into my yard. It's funny because none of us have tall fences, and some have no fences, but the deer don't bother us. It is just amazing to me how much there is to do around a home. If it's new you have lawn, trees, and flowers to put in and if it's older you have to replace things and repair things, and just simply change things that don't meet your needs. A homeowners job is a lifetime career. We were in OKC today and although it was hot, there was wind so it didn't feel too bad. When we got home it was very hot with a heat index over a hundred again today. It is so humid that my tomato containers didn't need to be watered today although it was a hot day. The garden had a few things with a slight wilt, but the ground still has moisture so I'm sure they are fine now that the sun has gone down. On our last trip to Baker Creek, I bought a blackberry plant and a raspberry plant and they were little more than sticks with very few leaves in a gallon pot. The soil looked like it had just been dug from the ground. I decided that I would put them in pots for the summer and let them establish a good set of roots, then maybe put them in the ground in early fall if they looked strong enough to survive. That was just over a month ago, and they are great looking plants already. Now I have to get serious about finding a permanent home for them. The two blueberry plants that I put in last year seem to be doing very well. I need a farm, but I don't want to move to one. LOL I planted a short row of Contender beans and have picked them twice. I took both pickings and cooked them all last night with onions and crumbled bacon and they were sure good with a big hunk of cornbread. I may have to go finish the leftovers in a minute. I had zukes for a few days and I thought they were making, but they srivelled and died so I guess they aren't getting pollinated yet. I have 4 types of summer squash blooming, plus tons of blooms on the winter squash and I am seeing some bee action, so it shouldn't be long. It will be a DIY project if I don't see progress in a few days. Paula, I did not plant as many squash as you did, but I planted four zucchetta seed so that is just as bad. I had all of the squash I could use last year from three. I hope Monday is a dry day because I have lots of garden chores to catch up on....See MoreWhat is your most productive tomato?
Comments (38)If you like Yellow Pear, you should try other pear tomato varieties, too. Some of them are supposed to taste pretty good. Also, there are many strains of Yellow Pear, apparently. Beam's Yellow Pear and the version that victoryseeds.com sells are supposed to be among the best. Austin's Red Pear is supposed to be the best Red Pear strain. You can get Austin's and Beam's at seedsavers.org. Other pear tomatoes to consider include at least Honey Drop (from doublehelixfarms.com), Chocolate Pear (rareseeds.com), Green Pear (rareseeds.com), Ivory Pear (rareseeds.com), Red Fig (rareseeds.com), and Indigo Pear Drops (it's an OSU high anthocyanin tomato that may end up being PVP; up to 1000 fruits per plant). Also, I don't know if they're productive, but there's Evan's Purple Pear and Cherokee Green Pear. Honey Drop looks like Yellow Pear, and it is supposed to taste very good. Note that there's also a round cherry tomato called Honeydrop Cherry. The only place to get the pear one that I know about is at doublehelixfarms.com. Here are links to the pear tomatoes: * http://www.rareseeds.com/chocolate-pear-tomato/ * http://www.rareseeds.com/green-pear-tomato/ * http://doublehelixfarms.com/honey-drop * https://awhaley.com/seeds/vegetables/tomato-indigo/indigo-pear-drops * http://www.rareseeds.com/ivory-pear-to/ * http://www.victoryseeds.com/tomato_yellow-pear.html * http://www.seedsavers.org/beams-yellow-pear-tomato * http://www.seedsavers.org/austins-red-pear-organic-tomato * http://www.dianeseeds.com/tomato-cherokee-green-pear.html * https://www.mariannasheirloomseeds.com/heirloom-seeds-catalog/mariseeds-heirloom-tomato-seeds/green-tomatoes/cherokee-green-pear-detail.html * http://www.rareseeds.com/evan-s-purple-pear/ * http://www.rareseeds.com/red-fig-tomato/ Productivity depends on other factors besides variety, too. For instance, Park's Whopper may be productive in some areas, but where I live, I only got a few tomatoes (granted, they were good). I live in a hot, dry, desert-like area (not a long-season one, though). Varieties I've actually tried that produce well here include Early Girl, Yellow Pear, Red Pear, Husky Cherry Red, Roma, Grape, and Galapagos Island (Solanum cheesmanii). Our Roma tomatoes look like a different strain than the grocery store ones, though (they're pointy). One large variety that seems to be very productive from everything I've read about it is Mortgage Lifter. Estler's Mortgage Lifter is supposed to be the best and most productive one, but it's not easy to find right now. Napa Giant comes from Mortgage Lifter (selected for size such that it's a significantly bigger). * https://www.heritageharvestseed.com/tomatoesef.html (Canadian site; search for Estler's Mortgage Lifter) * http://www.selectedplants.com/ (This site may also have Estler's Mortgage Lifter.) * http://shop.wildboarfarms.com/NAPA-GIANT-NG.htm Siberian is supposed to be very productive (and early). Same for McGee (McGee is indeterminate, too), Glacier and Cold Set (aka Coldset). Oroma and Saucy are half Roma and half Santiam. Because Roma is pretty productive, I imagine Oroma and Saucy might be. Oroma and Saucy have the added advantage of being parthenocarpic, which should boost productivity even further. Other parthenocarpic tomatoes include (among others) Legend, Santiam and Gold Nugget. Super Sioux is supposed to be pretty productive. I've heard Opalka is very productive. Grosse Lisse should be, too. Punta Banda and Cuautli Salubong are two that are supposed to be very productive in hot, dry areas. Sweet Ozark Orange is said to be fairly productive. Yellow Ruffled is said to be pretty productive (as well as tasty and heat-tolerant). Malinovoe Chudo (aka Raspberry Miracle) is supposed to be very productive. Celebrity, of course. Matt's Wild Cherry. Sweet Million. Sugar Lump (in some areas; not mine). Park's Whopper CR Improved (probably not in my area). Barry's Crazy Cherry looks productive. :) Here are links to some of those: * http://shop.wildboarfarms.com/BARRYS-CRAZY-CHERRY-BCC.htm * http://www.victoryseeds.com/tomato_oroma.html * http://www.victoryseeds.com/tomato_saucy.html * http://doublehelixfarms.com/raspberry-miracle * http://www.timeless-tomatoes.com/grosse-lisse-aka-trophy.html * http://www.timeless-tomatoes.com/opalka.html * http://www.timeless-tomatoes.com/glacier.html * http://www.victoryseeds.com/tomato_mcgee.html * http://www.victoryseeds.com/tomato_santiam.html * http://www.victoryseeds.com/tomato_legend.html * http://goodmindseeds.org/catalog/tomatoes-2/red-tomatoes/ * http://www.victoryseeds.com/tomato_gold-nugget.html * http://www.superseeds.com/products/early-girl-tomato-f1-hybrid-60-days * http://shop.nativeseeds.org/products/tm007 * http://www.timeless-tomatoes.com/super-sioux.html * http://www.timeless-tomatoes.com/sugar-lump.html * http://parkseed.com/parks-whopper-cr-improved-tomato-seeds/p/05380-PK-P1/ * http://www.superseeds.com/products/celebrity-tomato-f1-hybrid-78-days * http://www.timeless-tomatoes.com/siberian.html * http://www.sandhillpreservation.com/catalog/tomato.html (search for Coldset) * http://www.timeless-tomatoes.com/matt39s-wild-cher39.html This is just a guess, but I'm thinking tomatoes advertised as being good canning tomatoes would be likely to be productive (since unless you have a lot of plants, you need good production to do much canning). 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