Due to my current job situation I'm a week behind starting my mater seeds. Hopefully with get them and my pepper seeds all planted this weekend. Like always having a hard time keeping numbers down. And that is after I eliminated over 250 varieties from my collection. Seems I receive too many new ones I feel I must try. Jali great to see your list. You have some interesting ones. I'm leaving off some this year in order to grow a few new ones and old ones I hadn't grown in a few years. They will be back next year including your Rainy's Maltese. If you haven't tried Dana's Dusky Rose I need to send you seeds. The same for you Bonnie. I really liked it last year and it did well here. Hopefully it will continue. I shared seeds with a few and it seemed to do well for everyone. I also plan on trying my hand at grafting this year. There will be a learning curve and no better time to start. I will limit it somewhat due to my work demands. Hope to graft 20-25 using 3 different grafting rootstocks and compare results to non grafted plants of the same variety planted side by side. Below is a rough list of what I will start. Not all will find a home in my garden. Some I will be give away for others to try. Jay 2011 Tomato List All Around Types Amish Canner Atkinson Glick's 18 Mennonite Heinz 1439 Heinz 1350 Kanora - Kansas variety Mozark - A University of Missouri variety - Det #670 Hunt's Family Favorite Bi-Colors Arkansas Marvel Pink Berkeley Tie-Dye Texas Star Beefsteak/Slicers Barlow Jap - Pink Big Cheef - Brandywine Cross Brandywine OTV Carmello OP Cleota Pink Costoluto Genovese County Agent - Red Cowlick Brandywine - Pink Earl's Faux Ed's Millenium - Brandywine selection Germaid Red Grandma Suzy's Beefsteak Hege's German Pink Lancaster County Pink Make My Day Pomodoro Costoluto Genevese Purple Haze F5 - One of the top 3 I grew last year. A very good pink selection from a PH grow out. Feel it is about stable now. Royal Hillbilly Strawberry Margarita Sweet Corners Pink - Don't know anything about this one. Sent to me and sounds nice Todebusch Pink Cherries Aunt Rubys German Green Cherry Black Cherry Black Mystery Pear - Checking to see if it is stable yet Blondkopfchen Camp Joy Cherokee Green Pear Green Doctors Frosted cherry Mountain Magic Hybrid Smarty F1 hybrid Sungold Hybrid Sungold Select OP Sweet Treats Hybrid - A very good cherry I grew last year Texas Star Cherry cross - Checking for stability. The best cherry I grew last year. A bicolor WOW Cherry Hybrid - Have extra seeds for anyone wanting to try this new cherry Darks Amazon Chocolate Black from Tula Black Goosecreek Carbon Cherokee Chocolate Cherokee Purple RL & PL Dana's Dusky Rose - One of my top 3 last year Indian Stripe JD's Special C-Tex PPP x P "C" - Pale Perfect Purple x Purple Price Purple Haze - I will be growing the real PH along with at least 3 different selections from grow outs and attempts to stabilize them.One is named Haze and supposedly stable now. One is a pink and listed under the pinks Spudakee - PL strain of CP True Black Brandywine Vorlon Green when Ripe Absinthe Cherokee Green Emerald Evergreen Oxhearts Guildo Pietroboni JD's Special Pink Heart Plum/ Paste/Other small types Cody's Paste Grandma Mary's Paste Heinz 2653 Paste Hog Heart Paste Malinowski Yellows/Orange 1884 Yellow Pink Heart - Darrell Merrell variety Belarus Orange 1 Casey's Pure Yellow Golden Queen non USDA Juane Flammee' Kellogg's Breakfast KBX Lillian's Yellow Orange Minsk Woodle Orange Others OSU Blue Fruit Tomasil - White Suppose to receive some other new varieties to try from a breeder. If they arrive in time I will eliminate some on the list to make room for at least a few of them. Grafting Rootstock Emperador He-Man Maxifort Hybrids other than cherries - Will pick 5-8 from this list Big Beef Big Zac Brandyboy Geronimo Goliath Heritage Hybrid Jetsonic Jet Star Moreton Momotaro - Nematode tolerance Old Fashioned Goliath Pear Goliath Porterhouse Pink Beauty Prime Beef Goliath Ramapo Red Defender Security Sunny Goliath

To say I am planting in 2009 I guess is rather premature but I am planting a wish list in 2009. I am most certainly a novice and have been combing this and other websites for a wide variety of tomatoes. When I do plant it will most likely need to be a small garden with vegetables only for my own enjoyment and sustenance. Any advice, suggestions would be greatly appreciated. My dream garden is awaiting in the future... an organic block style raised bed sort of thing. The list (I keep adding but it needs to be shortened) Yellow: Willard Wynn Hybrid: Mountain Pride F1, Ramapo F1 Oxheart: Anna Russian Cherry: Black Cherry Orange: Kellog's Breakfast Bi-color: Hillbilly Beefsteak: Brandywine Sudduth's Strain, Marianna's Peace, Mortgage Lifter Black: Cherokee Purple By the way I am a sucker for the cool names - I haven't actually tried any of these. I grew up with Big Boy tomatoes and other more "traditional" plain looking ones. Thanks, Rachael

Oh, this is such an old thread... but at least I won't be the only one still posting in it! I was gifted a Sungold and a Brandywine (no idea which version) from a friend years ago, stuck them in a patch I dug out of the front yard... and they were amazing! I haven't been able to bear to eat grocery-store tomatoes since. But the intervening years have been focused on other things; my one attempt at gardening 3 years ago was a failure when I didn't find time to water (or weed) anything for three weeks at the end of June. Anyway, this year I finally have the right mix of time and space so I spent the winter reading up and dreaming, and... well, let's just say my family and local food shelf will have lots of tomatoes in August... Most seeds from SandHill, but the Sungold Select II and Green Zebra from Bakers Creek, and a handful are from cherrygal.com Cherry Types Blondkopfchen Sungold Select II (soooo excited to have snagged these!) Black Cherry Green Doctors Snow White Cherry (gift from SandHill) Hawaiian Mexican Cocktail "Regular" (I can never keep the beefsteak/medium/etc apart in my head) Brandywine, Sudduths Gogosha Green Zebra Black Krim Black Sea Man Rosabec Purple Calabash (gift from SandHill) Lucky Cross Potato Leaf "Other" Riesentraube (we'll see what tomato wine tastes like...) Yellow Pygmy Costulato Genovese When I got the two extra varieties from SandHill, I couldn't decide whether to jump up and down for joy (yay, two more flavors to try!) or despair - I spent weeks choosing my list, how could I fit 2 more?? But I decided joy was the right reaction. :) I'm sure it'll be more than a jungle in the yard this summer, but it'll be an edible jungle... and I have never been so grateful for the half-acre lot we have as this year. :) Good thing my husband is here to talk me out of cutting down our trees so I can have even more sunlight... Unfortunately, the cutworms have already been busy - but fortunately, although I only planned to grow 2 plants of each variety, I actually PLANTED 7-10 seeds... and almost all of them came up...and then I couldn't bear to cull since they all looked so healthy... so I ended up with lots of seedlings to give away. :) And to replace cutworm-killed plants. And then to give away some more! And still have replacements on hand in case my popsicle sticks don't do the trick with the cutworms... I'm just lucky Minnesota had an incredibly early and mild spring, my seedlings have been outside since the first week of March (with short breaks inside overnight until April) - there was no way I had enough grow-lights or space in the basement for them all! The seeds that I saved from those unknown Brandywines years ago still germinated three years later, so I'm really hoping to increase my seed from every one of these varieties this summer. Just need to cross my fingers and toes that I can get at least one tomato of each variety to survive and ripen enough to collect their seeds! Watching the cutworm decimation last week made me doubt I'll have luck that good, but hope springs eternal...

I've limited myself to 24 varieties of tomatoes and 18 varieties of peppers for 2010 and will be growing 24 plants of each, for a total of 576 tomatoes and 432 peppers. Here's my motley mix: Tomato - Aunt Gertie's Gold Tomato - BHN-624 F1 Hybrid Tomato - Dachilo Tomato - Earl's Faux Tomato - Ernie's Plump Tomato - Gallo Plum Tomato  GoldmanÂs Italian American Tomato - Gold Medal Tomato - Granny Cantrell's German Pink Tomato - JD's Special C Tex Tomato - KBX Tomato  Limmony Tomato  Long Tom Tomato - Mary Reynolds Tomato - Mexico Tomato  Neves Azorean Red Tomato  OmarÂs Lebanese Tomato  Paul Robeson Tomato - Pink Berkeley Tie Dye Tomato - Pruden's Purple Tomato  SlankardÂs Tomato  Solid Gold F1 Hybrid Tomato - Sunset's Red Horizon Tomato - Wild Sweetie Sweet Pepper  Ariane Hybrid Sweet Pepper - Datil Sweet Sweet Pepper  Early Sunsation Hybrid Sweet Pepper  Hershey Hybrid Sweet Pepper  Jimmy Nardello Sweet Pepper  Oriole Hybrid Sweet Pepper  Piquillo Sweet Pepper  Red Knight X3R Hybrid Sweet Pepper  Socrates X3R Hybrid Sweet Pepper  Super Heavyweight Hybrid Sweet Pepper  Tawny Port Hybrid Sweet Pepper - Zavory Hot Pepper  Assam Bhut Jolokia Hot Pepper - Devil's Tongue Hot Pepper  Georgia Flame Hot Pepper  JoeÂs Long Hot Pepper  Mitsi Lea Hybrid Hot Pepper  Piment dÂEspelette Basque Assuming next year we're spared the never-ending rains that we've had so far this Spring and early Summer in Maine, I'll be watering by means of a drip irrigation system and planting through black plastic in raised beds. Everything will be certified organic and grown for market. John Here is a link that might be useful: