for 2011, I hope to have the following:

Cherokee Purple
Rainbow
Pineapple
Kelloggs Breakfast
Giant Belgium
Eva Purple Ball
Cuostralee

Early Girl
Sunmaster
Better Boy
Big Boy
Celebrity
Applause
Bella Rossa
Porterhouse

I will also grow an unknown tomato. It was in with
the Porterhouse packet. Don't know what it is
but I saved some seeds. Only put on 9 tomatoes
ranging in size from 9.5 oz to 1 lb.3 oz but
according to my taste buds, they were good.

So many yummy varieties, so little room...

For 2011:

Bloody Butcher
Stupice
Moskovich
Huang Se Chieh
Cherokee Purple
Black Krim
Olena Ukrainian
Kosovo
Brad's Black Heart
Berkeley Tie-Dye
Large Barred Boar
Dagma's Perfection
Yasha Yugoslavian
Crnkovic Yugoslavian
Knin (Serbian)
Black Cherry
Big Sungold Select

OMG. I forgot the most important little bugger, Legend. This plant produced so much fruit and so late into the season. Not seeing a seed source for it though.
I kept laughing because it never grew tall like the rest of the others and my mom (who was there weekly supervising) said that I wasn't watering it enough.

Seeds arrived this week. I'll start them first or second week of February.

New for 2011:
Bradley
Church
Black Cherry
Beefy Boy

Repeats:
Cherokee Purple
Brandy Boy
Sun Gold
Sweet Tangerine
Viva Italia

Giving Another Chance:
Black Krim
Pineapple

Dropped through the years:
Arkansas Traveler
Brandywine Sudduth
Yellow Brandywine
Stupice
Eva Purple Ball
Mortgage Lifter
Kellogg's Breakfast
Virginia Sweets
Paul Robeson
Lemon Boy
Opalka
Heidi
Juliet
Big Beef
Marianna's Peace
German Red Strawberry
Stump of the World
Purple Calabash
Jaune Flamme
Druzba

I envy you all for having it figured out. I'm nowhere near finalizing my choices. So far my "Must Grow" list is still twice the amount of space that I have, and that is with some very painful cuts. Maybe I should resort to drawing names out of a hat.

I haven't made an official list yet either. The 2010 weather here was so sucky that the toms that were able to ripen had little flavor...almost as bad as store bought. I will try a few of the same ones again, to give them a second chance:

Grightmire's Pride
Hillbilly
Slovene Black(not Slovenian)

Plus the only one that actually had some flavor, Black Cherry.

Plus some "mystery" varieties, as some of the seed I got from Trudi(not complaining, BTW)produced more than one type...
Grightmire's Pride seed put out a RL oxheart(the real GP)and a large PL beefsteak, so I'm adding that beefsteak to the mix.
The Isis Candy seed produced two types, one sort of flat(cheese shaped?), light yellow and sweet. The other more egg shaped, yellow with a pink bottom, but bland tasting(I'm sure due to the weather as with all the others).
I also have a mystery Pink(which I'm calling Myss Pink for my personal use), that I originally got in a pack of Persimmon seed a few years ago from TGS, and it has come true for me. It's a nice globe shaped medium sized pink with good flavor. I doubt I'll ever be able to properly ID it, hence the made up name.
I'd like to add one or two new(to me)determinates, but haven't yet figured out where I'd put them.
List to be amended later, LOL.

Mostly new varieties this year. Many from suggestions in this forum....

Early wonder
Anana Noir
Neves Azorean Red
Black Krim
Bloody Butcher
Brandywine (Sudduth's strain)
Jet star F1
Beef Steak F1
BlackCherry
Sungold
Supersweet 100s
Big Mama Paste
Olpaka

We're cutting way back this year. Good thing I don't have to whittle the list down to 1 or 2, though!

Here's the list, in no particular order. I ordered all the seeds from Tatiana this year and am eager to see how her Estler's Mortgage Lifters compare to the ones I always grew from my Uncle Bob's seeds.

Slicers:
Mortgage Lifter Estler's (4)
German Red Strawberry (2)
Yellow Oxheart (2)
Big Zebra (2)
Mr. Stripey (New for us this year) (2)
Cherries:
Dr. Caro Pink (1)
Black Cherry (2) (we tried Chocolate Cherry last year but we're going back to these; we think BC tastes better than CC)
SunSugar (1)

I was looking at Park Seeds Biodome - anyone ever try it for seed starting?

I wanted to try Ukrainian Heart(TNMUJ) and Nicky Crain this year but Sand Hill Preservation had a crop failure so these seeds are not available from them this year. Does anyone out there know of another source for these two varieties ?

Well, just to slide in here. I now have germinated:

-8 Bush Big Boy
-47 Pink Brandywine
-14 Rutgers
have Paul Robeson, Cherokee Purple, Carbon, and Roma in soiless soil all waiting to join the party.

Damn, I forgot German Tree and Johnson. The seed came from Missouri. Thank you. Heirloom that is, Others came from Lowe's.

I don't quite have it finalized but as it stands right now I'll be growing the following.

Old Favorites:
Jubilee
Yellow Pear
Rutgers

Tomatoes I haven't tried yet in this climate zone:
Mr. Stripey
Cherokee Purple

Possible but uncertain:
Totally Tomatoes Rainbow Beefsteak Blend
Totally Tomatoes Rainbow Cherry Blend

Its a short list compared to a lot of them, but I only have room for about 20 plants. I will, however, make two plantings -- one in April and one in July -- and might change varieties mid-year.

Here's my list:
Cherokee Purple
BW Sudduth*
Anna Russian*
Earl's Faux*
Carbon
JD's Special CTex*
Hazelfield Farm*
Paul Roberson*
Stump O' World*
Yellow Red Butt*
Marianna's Peace
Gypsy*
Jap Black Trifele*
Matt's Wild Cherry*
Indian Stripe
Ashleigh*
Crnkovic Yugoslavian*
German Head*
G-Ma Viney's Yellow & Pink*
German Strawberry

Backups:
Chapman*
Red Reif Heart*

*=New for me

So far, only Red Butt and JD's have germinated. I'm starting to rotate them from the garage to a warm spot inside the computer hutch.

Still looking for a good container tomato. I purchased one of those self standing, upside down tomato grower thingies that only stands about 4 ft tall. Hoping for a smaller plant that won't grow to the ground.

1 Red Grape variety to be determined
Green Grape or Frosted Green Grape
Yellow Grape or Pear
Early Girl
Cherokee Purple
Brandywine Suddarth
Kelloggs Breakfast/KBX (LOVE KB, is KBX as reliably good?)
Aunt Ruby's German Green
Great White or White Queen
3 Heart Varities:
Kosovo
? Anna Russian
? Danko

The heart varieites are still being chosen and I don't have the seeds yet so it might have to be altered depending on availablity and how much I am swayed by my post on hearts. :)

My big question is, with 1 plant each will I have enough good red/pink tamatoes for some canning late in the season??
If not, what I can in pots/grow bags or other containers to get me there?

Here's what I have seeds for so far.

New to me

Black Branywine
Black Krim
Black Sea Man(Russian heirloom)
Cherokee Purple
Chocolate Cherry
Green Grape
Japanese Black Trifele(Russian heirloom)
Plum Lemon

Repeats

Jelly Bean
Red Cherry
Sungold Select

This is a very tentative list. I may change a few, and I'd like to trim it a bit, but I don't know if I can.

Absinthe
Aladdin's Lamp
Arbuznyi
Aunt Anna
Belyi Naliv
Berkeley Tie Dye Heart
Black and Brown Boar
Black Elephant
Brin de Muget
Crven
Eckert Polish
Gallinaro
Gary O'Sena
George's Greek Beefsteak
Grandma Viney's Yellow & Pink
Green Doctors
Haley's Purple Comet
Kentucky Pink Stamper
Kentucky Striped
Lincoln Adams
Lithuanian Crested Pink
Maria Amaziletei's Giant Red
Marizol Magic
Mary Robinson's German Bicolor
Millefleur
Orange Minsk
Preacher
Sallisaw Cafe
Spears Tennesee Green
Willard Wynn
Yasha Yugoslavian
Zolotye Kupola

Here's the 1st shot at it. At least a dozen varieties to cut and will probably add 6 or so.

RED INDETERMINATES

Early Girl 57--RL
Momotaro 65--RL
Aker's West Va. 75--RL
Neve's Azor. 75--RL
Big Beef Hybrid 75--RL
Reif's Redheart 75--RL
Red Barn 78--RL
Lil's Favorite 78--RL
Muleteam 78--RL
AWVS ERROR 79--POT
Old Virginia 79--RL
Box Car Willie 80--RL
Tefft's Old Germ.80--RL
Coustralee 82--RL
Eli Red 82--POT
Mort. Lift. VFN 85--RL
Franchi Pear 85--RL
Ruth's Perfect 85--RL
Wes 85--RL

PINKS, PURPLES, AND BLACKS

Mr. Brown's 78--RL
Cowlick's Brand. 78--POT
Pruden's Purple 78--RL
Eva Purple Ball 78--RL
Granny Cantrell's80--RL
German Pink 80--POT
Indian Stripe 80--RL
Spudakee 80--POT
Gary O'Sena 80--POT
Bear Claw 80--RL
Cherokee Choc. 80--RL
Chianti Rose 80--POT
NK Pond. Pink 80--RL
Blue Ridge Mtn. 80--RL
Brandy Boy 80--RL
Black Plum 80--RL
Rose (SSE) 85--RL

YELLOW AND ORANGE

Jaun Flamme' 55--RL
Zloty Ozarowski 70--RL
Lemon Boy 72--RL
Golden Queen 75--RL
Indian Moon 78--RL
JTT Orange 78--RL
PB'S Yel. Ox. 80--RL
Dixie Gldn. Giant80--RL
Earl of Edge. 80--RL
Dr. Wyche's 80--RL
KBX 82--POT

A FEW NEW ONES FOR TRYOUT

Money Maker
Black Brandywine
Italian Heirloom
Coure De Beau

CHERRIES

Gurnsey Island Pink Cherry
Sungella

I'm sure there will be some changes

I've added Velvet Red to my list as an experiment. Last season the deer chomped all my pepper plants(in addition to going after all my toms)except the C pubescens, which have fuzzy leaves. I'm hoping the VR leaves will be fuzzy enough that the deer won't like them...we'll see...

So I'm going a little crazy this year.....

Brandywine (My Selection from Suddiths)
Purple Russian
Black Krim
Black Prince
Chianti Rose
Red Brandywine
Eva�s Purple Ball
Purple Dog Creek
Royal Hillbilly
Brandywine (Glicks)
Brandywine OTV
Bear Claw
Hawaiian Pineapple
Summer Cider Apricot
Purple Calabash
Mikado White
Sugary Pudovichok
Tsygan Black
Amazon Chocolate
Sabre Ukranian
Sandul Moldovan
NARX
Sub Arctic Plenty
Brandywine x Stupice
Caspian Pink
Church
Pruden�s Purple
JD�s Special C-Tex
Golden Cherokee
Bianca Grande
First Light ?
Lillians Yellow Heirloom
Opalka
Yellow Brandywine
Paul Robeson
Goldmann�s Italian American
Ananas Noir
Great White?
Jack White
Novikov�s Giant-10
Little Lucky
Goose Creek
Purple Haze
Dana�s Dusky Rose?

Hey dan2647; Tomatofest has Ukrainian Heart. I have been ordering from them for several years and have never had a bad experience with them. Sampleseeds,com has Nicky Crain. I have never ordered from here, but friends that I trade seeds with have and they say that its a good source.
I am also including a great Seed Finder Search engine, see below for finding what you are looking for.

Here is a link that might be useful: Tomato Finder

Aaaaaahhhhh....(said as a drawn out sigh)...to have the room to grow 30 varieties. Please tell me that you'll send pix of all your amazing fields of tomato plants come spring/summer...LOL... I live in Los Angeles where land is at a premium. I'm pretty proud of the small plot that I've converted into a great organic tomato garden and I can grow 10 plants each season, in ground. But it does make it hard to decide which ones to grow each year. This year, I'm hoping to build a couple of Raybo's earthtainers and see how they work out. Then I can expand my selection opportunities. In the meantime, here's what I've worked it down to after 8 years of trial and error... Looking forward to sharing another growing season with you all again.
Don

Paul Robeson...my fave!!
Black Krim...pretty close 2nd.
Green Zebra...prolific and super tasty.
Cherokee Purple...most prolific of my purple/black vars.
Coustralee...meaty delicious red.
Pineapple...gorgeous and tasty yellow with bursts of red.
Goose creek... prolific, tasty, long seasoned red.
Chocolate Stripe...Gorgeous appearance, prolific and tasty.
Still deciding among:
Marianna's Peace
Indian Stripe
Pale Perfect Purple
Jaunne Flamme

Not finalized yet, but I know I have to cut wayyy back, 40 plants was way too many last year.

Repeats:
Rose
Cherokee Purple
Black Krim
Mr. Stripey
Sungold
Black Cherry
Yellow Pear
Bloody Butcher
Ramapo OP

New:
Mountain Fresh Plus
Big Beef
San Marazano (grew a couple but started too late)
Mountain Magic (maybe)

Dropping:
Paul Robeson (cracked more than Black Krim)
Supersweet100 (did really well but unremarkable fruit)
Pink Brandywine (Rose was more vigorous and productive)
Amish Paste (plants and fruits were extremely varied)
Early Girl
Rutgers
Big Boy
Hillbilly (don't think my seed was good, fruit was solid pale orange and bland, one plant barely produced)
Stupice (did well but Bloody Butcher was more flavorful)
Polish Dwarf (hearty plants, fruit similar to Stupice, plants still required support)

I'm trying to get AT LEAST 40 plants! That's how many I grew last year, and it wasn't enough since I like to make my own salsa, pasta sauce, etc. Tomatoes sure can cook down a lot when you're making sauce! I only managed to make one batch of marinara sauce and didn't have enough left for salsa.

My list:
Arkansas Traveller
Bloody Butcher
Cherokee Purple
Mini Orange
Rio Grande

The only one on that list I've already grown is Cherokee Purple, and that was years ago. But I remember it doing well, and it's very popular around here with the farmer's markets and CSAs.

I hope Arkansas Traveller is as heat tolerant as they say. That's my biggest tomato-growing issue here. Last year I didn't have any tomatoes make it through July.

Bloody Butcher is supposed to be early, so I'm going to try to double-crop that one. One in the spring before the heat sets in, and then I'll try for another fall crop of those before it freezes. I've heard that's theoretically possible but have never done it.

This is alot of tomato information to take in. This year I am planning on growing alot of herbs and vegetables. More so than any other year. My problem is that have only grown a few varieties in the past and would like to try others but i am not quite sure which ones. I guess as most of you are doing, trial and error. I definately will grow roma as I know that one is a great canning tom and makes the best sauce. What I need are cherry toms for differant uses. For salads I like a very sweet cherry and for sauted dishes I like a more firm and acidic one. I have never tried anything other than what I buy at the store and would love growing the yellows and blacks/brown and that green zebra ya'll mentioned. If anyone is willing to trade some for something on my list I would really appreciate it. Thank you, Josie

I always plant at least two of the same variety in case one is a dud. This year, since I'm trying to figure out what works best in this climate and soil, I'm not planting more than two of each. I can fit absolutely no more than 40 plants.

Out of the 51 varieties for which I have seed, I've tentatively chosen 20 for my first season (will probably do 10 additional ones for the fall season). The intent is a very wide variety of colors, shapes, and types in hopes of finding some outstanding performers.

Input and advice from people who've raised these in the southeast is welcome -- especially from others in the Sandhills.

Cherry Tomatoes:
Isis Candy
Black Cherry
Rosalita
Yellow Pear
Snow White
Green Zebra Cherry

Main Crop Tomatoes:
Cherokee Purple
Rutgers
Brad's Black Heart
Henderson's Pink Ponderosa
Aunt Ruby's German Green
White Tomesol
Copia
Jubilee
Casey's Pure Yellow
Nature's Riddle

Novelty Tomatoes:
Striped Stuffer
Zapotec Pleated
Kazachka (mini-beefsteak type)
Mr. Stripey

Here's my list for this year. I'm growing two of each variety (20 plants).

Big Boy
Brandy Boy
Rutgers
Mortgage Lifter
Sungold
Amish paste
Cherokee Purple
Mr. Stripey
Black Krim
Opalka

Sounds great all! I'm doing some of my usuals this year & also throwing in a few newbies.

Sungold Select II
Placero
Chadwick Cherry
Super Sweet 100
Black Cherry
Orange Banana
Amish Paste
San Marzano Lungo No 2
Rutgers

Probably 2-3 others i'm forgetting. I started all of them almost 2 weeks ago. Most have germinated already & some are even starting to show signs of 1st true set of leaves.

- Steve

Hi, this is my first post but have been reading all your posts for a while. I am old, tired and got no Grandpa to help me! Besides that I have over 200 seedlings that I am carrying in and out because I'm a little OCD..... I have seeded toms for years but NEVER this many at once. What was i THINKING!!!!
I love Carolyns wit and God Bless Raybo for posting pictures of his raveged toms from last year. It gives me great hope. I have been operating under the assumption that only my tomatoes turn brown and die.....

My list includes everything I ever grew and liked and everything I ever hoped to grow. when you get old you never know if you get another season! I will have to give away most as I doubt I have room for more than a few dozen. Again, what was I thinking!!!

Moskovitch
Husky Gold
Goose Creek (Pink from Gleckers)
Several kinds of Mortgage Lifters
Brandywine Red Landis and Suddath strain
Jet Star
Prudens Purple
Flamme
Costoluto Genovese
Burpees Globe
Santa Clara Canner
Marglobe
Sweet Chelsea
4th of July
Bush Goliath
Neves Azorian Red
Cherry Roma
Black Cherry
Sun Gold
Evas Purple Ball
Mexico
Organge Banana
Couple types San Marzano
Health Kick
Siux
Brandy Boy and Big Beef
Yellow pear
GoldMedal
Earl of Edgecomb
Gary 'Osena
Druzba
Dr Carolyn
Snow White
Super sweet 100
Roughwood Golden Plum
Bloody Butcher
Stump of the World
Opalka
viva Italia
Goldmans Italian
matts Wild cherry
Reifs Red Heart
Tomande

and many more that I dont have time to list because its time to start bringing the kids all in for the night.

I am still working on my list, but this is what I've tentatively narrowed it down to. I'll definitely have to pare it down a little bit more this week. I'd like to get it down to 30 varieties, but I doubt I'll be able to do it. I'm growing two of each except for a couple that we know we like and that produce really well.

*new to me
**growing more than two

absinthe*
amish paste*
arkansas traveler
berkeley tie dye*
black cherry**
black mauri*
black plum**
black russian**
bradley*
coyote
cream sausage*
chili verde*
fox cherry
gardener�s delight*
green grape
green sausage*
green zebra
isis candy*
lime green salad
martino's roma*
mer de noms*
mini orange*
orange banana*
OSU blue*
principe borghese
red fig*
reisetomate
riesentraube
rutgers*
san marzano II
silvery fir tree
striped roman*
sub arctic plenty*
sungold select II*
stupice*
tess�s landrace currant
violet jasper*
wapsipinicon peach
white currant**
yellow riesentraube

I've also ordered a couple of things from Tom Wagner's new site that I'm excited to try: churra plum and clackamas blueberry.

Here is a link that might be useful: Churra Plum and Clackamas Blueberry

Seems that everybody wants to share what they intend to grow with a very nice selection of varieties. Alamo, to answer your question:
Brandywine Sudduth, a must grow except for hot climates in the south. Incredible taste and texture.
Brandywine OTV, IMO the Sudduth variety is superior, both in taste and texture. If you want to grow another Brandywine try the Red Landis Valley strain.
Paul Robeson, very finicky, both getting plants off the ground and harvesting suffient fruit without blemish. If you want a dark variety try Black Krim or Cherokee Purple, much more reliable.
Cherokee Purple, see above
Green Giant, I suggest Aunt Ruby's German Green for best taste or Green Zebra for a fruity taste.
You should also include Marianna's Peace and Aunt Gertie Gold for best tasting red and yellow varieties.

Wow...some of you have some serious room to grow. I'm limited how many I can grow. This year is a first for me to grow from seed.

I will have:
Early Girl (2)
This is my mainstay
Cherokee Purple (2)
Can't beat the taste to me
Giant Syrian (1) New for me.
First time, and growing it from seed. Was a gift from the in-laws
Rose (1) New for me.
Also first time, and growing from seed. Also a gift.
Brandy Boy (1)
Recommendation from my local nursery last year. Loved it! Great producer and wonderful taste!
Black Plumb (1)
Has been a heavy producer for me.

i am growing:

anna russian
berkeley tie dye
pink berkeley tie dye
NAR
porkchop
beauty king
sungold
marvel stripe
aunt ruby's german green
san marzano redorta

Putting most of my tomatoes in one basket this year.
Paul Robson BLEW ME AWAY last year. It was the earliest to ripen and the first tomatoes weighed a pound each. The flavor was perfect and the plants just kept on producing until fall, even though the fruits got smaller. I just stuck those smallest ones in the freezer and am enjoying them now.

The other 10 black varieties I had planted did not impress me, although Black Krim would have been next on the list. I did like mortgage lifter and Aunt Jinnie's purple, but they took too long before production compared to Paul Robson

I will also plant Amish Paste paste this year for a paste tomato. I brought inside an Italian Grape in a planter through the winter. It is blooming now, and I am taking cuttings from it to start in containers. These were the first tomatoes at the farmers market last year, and this year, I'm aiming to get them to harvest even earlier.

I'm cutting down this year because I'm moving my tomatoes to a sunnier spot (and hopefully drier) where I was trying to grow blueberries. And I am trying to convince my husband to let me buy some of those nice texas tomato cages so I need to keep it to six plants.

1. Sun Gold (grow every year)
2. Indian Stripe (new)
3. Eva Purple Ball (grow every year)
4. Anna Russian (grew last year)
5. JD's C-tex (new)
6. German Pink (new, might be replaced by KBX, cherokee purple, NAR, or something else)

I'm happy to see that I'm not the only one with more seeds than spots.

This year I am growing:
Snow White Cherry
Super Sweet 100
Jubilee
Pink Caspian
Cherokee Purple
Mortgage Lifter
Red Brandywine
Black Brandywine
Cuore de Bu
Roma

I like many of the lists a lot. I have not grown tomatoes in many years. I remember having Brandywine Suddith in the garden growing up in NorCal. I can't wait to try them again. The rest I have never grown. My adult sun has never eaten a Brandywine but he loves BLT's. I can't wait to see the look on his face.

Brandywine Suddith
Cherokee Purple
Black Prince
Black Cherry
Sun Gold
Juliet
Husky Cherry Tomato

So far I have planted (all seeds):

Vintage Wine
Mortgage Lifter
Pink Ruffled
Emerald Apple
Fuzzy Peach
Old Ivory Egg
Mohamed
Chocolate Cherry
Strawberry Margarita
Roma Paste
Polish Pastel
Victorian Dwarf
Mister Stripey
Angelina's Italian
Omar's Lebanese
Coure di bue
Raspberry Giant
Anna Russian
Sarnowski Polish Plum
Black from Tula

Nearly all of these are new kinds that I have not grown before. Last year I was happy with Plum Lemon, Fuzzy Peach, Polish Dwarf, and Victorian Dwarf.

Hello fellow tomato lovers! So many choices and so little time! Here is what I'm growing this season as far as toms go...

CHERRY TOMATOES:
Sweet Baby Girl (2) (red)
Super Sweet 100's (2) (red)(a repeat this season)

REGULAR SIZED TOMATOES:
Sweet Tangerine Hybrid (3) (orange)(wife demanded this again)
Better Boy (red)
Golden Boy (yellow)
Celebrity (red)

BEEFSTEAK TOMATOES:
Big Beef (red)
Mortgage Lifter Heirloom (red)
Cherokee Purple Heirloom(deep purple/red)
Big Rainbow Heirloom (yellow and red)(a repeat-the best tasting IMO so far)
Brandy Boy (pink)

This is my 3rd season growing as an adult. First time around was a disaster. Last year was great. This season will be even better...

Charles

I didn't get seeds started in time this year so ended up having to buy plants. My choices so far have been limited until the garden center gets some more heirlooms in.

yellow pear (don't care what anyone says about these, I love them)

Black Prince

Mr. Stripey

Lemon Boy (bought these out of desperation as I don't really like them)

Some generic cherry toms

Red Beefsteak

Patio tomatoes (these are always good producers on pots for me)

I love green grape so hope to pick up some of those and some sort of orange cherry and maybe cherokee purple when they are available.

1st choice and a repeat is Cherokee Purple.
2nd is Brandywine Red, Potato leaf
3rd is Brandwine Pink, Potato leaf
4th is Pineapple
5th is Golden Egg
6th is Amish Paste
Egg won taste test competition in 09 &10 Pineapple was also a winner
Dropped, Morgage Lifters

Late to the party but better late than never.

Here is what has gone in from Jan - May. Still another 7 month's worth to select and plant. Glad to see I am either not crazy to plant "so many" varieties or at least not alone. Next year I will to plant 150 varieties.

Amazon Chocolate
Amy's Sugar Gem
Angora Super Sweet-Tomato Seeds
Aunt Ginny's Purple
Australian Red
Big Orange
Black Ethiopian
Black Krim
Black Pear
Black Plum
Black Russian
Black Sea Man
Black Zebra
Black, Brandywine
Blondkopfchen Yellow, Cherry
Blue Fruit
Cherokee Purple
Cherry, Clustered
crnkovic yugoslavian
Golden Keeper
Green Lantern's Lights
Japanese Black Trifele
Mystery Keeper
Negro Azteca
Nyagous
Omar's Lebanese
Paul Robeson
Pruden's Purple
Roma, Cluster
Seattle's Woolly Blue Mammoth
Tim's Black Ruffles
Yellow Giant

And finally, a plug for the amazing breeder Tom Wagner!! (see link)

Here is a link that might be useful: Some of Tom Wagner's Seeds

Oh and I forgot a series of F2 Green Zebra X OSU Blue crosses courtesy of Tom Wagner. Searching for the Blue Zebra!

last edit:

Farenheit Blues
Casady's Folly

Also late to this post, but the weather here has been crazy!

6 of each:

Aunt Gertie's Gold
Black Cherry
Black Krim
Brown Berry
Cherokee Purple
Green Zebra
Japanese Trifele Black
Jumbo Jim Orange
Kellog's Breakfast
Kovoso
Principe Borghese
Pruden's Purple
Sungold Select
W. Virginia Hillbilly
White Snowball

Some aren't really what I like (like green zebra) but should be popular at the farmer's market as they're unusual.

Ditto on the lateness due to weather

My first year gardening

Brandywine Suddih
Cherokee Purple
Husky Cherry Tomato
La Roma
Juliet

Started from seed -

Arkansas Traveler (heirloom?) 4
Golden Girl. (heirloom?) 3
Super Sioux. (heirloom?) 4
Solar Fire (hybrid?) 2

Purchased started

Black Krim (heirloom) 1
Husky Cherry Red (hybrid) 1

I want to learn how to preserve the seeds this year!

Cherokee Purple
Carbon
Sioux
Porter Cherry
Eva Purple Ball
Sweet 100 O.P.

This is my first year to grow tomatoes. I wanted to compare the CP and Carbon, so far the Carbon looks more vigorous, but no tomatoes on either one yet. I wish I'd grown Royal Hillbilly instead of the Porter, but it's supposed to be foolproof, so I'll see how it tastes. I gave my Mom a Royal Hillbilly so I'll still get to try it.

I don't post here a lot, but I do on the Canadian forums. I lurk here :-)

I don't grow a lot of tomato varieties but I do grow for quality. This year I have one plant, grown form a seed of the original Gordon Graham tomato. He has the world's record largest tomato according to the Guinness Book of World Records. Through good fortune and a friend, I was able to trade for just a few seeds from Gordon Graham's world record tomato. I got one to germinate, so I have one tomato plant that is a direct child of his original!

I do grow other tomatoes but I'm really excited about this one! We had a very bad tomato year last year with lots of BER. This year I planted the tomatoes in my good lasagne "wine" garden, dug in lots of old manure, a little lime and one Tums tablet in each hole. The same friend who gave me the seeds above, told me that a Tums will help supply the calcium the tomatoes need to help prevent BER. So I'm trying it. It's easy and cheap, so I figured "Why not?" We'll see how it goes.

Needless to say, I baby that plant!

In addition to that one, I am also growing our own heritage Portugal beefheart tomatoes (see link to pic below), San Marzano, Manitoba, Ailsa Craig, and Rev Morrow long keeper.

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I know I'm rather late in this discussion, but I can tell you what I have growing in my small garden. I only plant 4 tomato plants, so here goes...one of each of the following:

Giant Delicious (Weeks Seed Co.)
Rose (SSE)
Hungarian Heart (SSE)
Brandywine (Pink - The Page Seed Co.)

The only one I've ever grown before is the Brandywine. All the others are new to me. All of the plants look strong and vigorous right now, but the Hungarian Heart seems to like to sprawl all over the place and I have to keep after it.

Also late. This year I am growing:
Kumato f2 and f3
Naturesweet D'vine f2
Brandywine
Black From Tula
Roma
Hungarian Heart
German Queen
Stupice
Speckled Roman
Nagcarlang
Gimli f3
Mexican Queen f1
Squarehead Pink
Dirka Red
Red Target
Red Grape
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Pomadoni
Serbian Red
Yellow Pear

It's so funny how differently tomatoes perform in different gardens. Brandywine OTV, for example, was a dud in my garden, as were several others touted in the tomato world.

One tomato that's acknowledged to be a good yellow tomato, but never thought of in the same flavor category as Brandywine is Dr. Wyche's Yellow, which was nectar of the Gods in my garden. It was LUSCIOUS, and I've planted extra this year. Can't wait to see what else stands out in my small space. Here's what I have in 2011:

Dr. Wyche's Yellow
Fred Limbaugh Potato top
1882
Italian Heirloom
Kellogg's Breakfast
Cherokee Purple
Neve's Azorean Red
Caspian Pink