2015 Tomato Grow List
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Comments (2)I would suggest adding Gypsy peppers for the sweet. I will not go without planting them. This will be year 3 I plant them in my garden. They handle the heat better than the bells do for me. They out produced bell by a rate of 10 to 1 both years I planted them. They stay pretty compact for the most part. I had one that grew tall that I tied to the side of a tomato cage. (Note I buy the transplants from Bonnie. Every one of them gave me my $3.58 worth, and then some.) I only do seeds for the ones I can not get transplants for to save space in my germinating area. For a mild hot MexiBell did great for me last year. It was highly productive. Some fruits were a bit small in the worst of the heat of summer. Unlike the sweet bell they ripened well with the still glossy skin, and nice crunch when biting into them. When the heat stunted them they were a bit bigger than golf balls. When the heat broke they got up to tennis ball size. (Another from Bonnie.) The only sweet I am planting from seed this year is California Wonder. It did ok for the start of the season. Once the heat wave broke it gave me 14 nice sized bell peppers that were so tasty. They were great stuffed with rice, ground pork, bacon crumbles, and cheese....See MoreHere is my list of tomatoes I am growing this year 2015
Comments (5)From your list I've grown the following: Isis Candy - was nice and fruit was super sweet but prone to cracking; prefer Sun Gold Super Snow White - not much flavor though the fruit was large (2oz); prefer Dr. Carolyn's (ping pong sized white cherries) Stupice - gave me an early harvest but flavor was mushy; my fav for early is "Kimberly" Sungold - classic home run variety. I grow it every year. Thanks for highlighting those two sweet cherry varieties. They certainly sound fabulous. This year as a little experiement I'm going to compare Sungold (F1) and Sun Sugar (F1) with their supposed OP replacements: Ambrosia (OP) and Big SunSelect (OP). Here's my tomato list: smithmal...See More2018 Tomato Grow List
Comments (34)The Ag Experiment Station in Lubbock included Shady Lady in their tomato trials back in 2007. It was in the bottom 25% for total production and at the bottom for marketable production because of its relatively high %age of fruits with radial cracking. 2007 was an odd year, very cool and wet from March thru June and continued relatively cool but drier thru the remainder of the growing season. At LBB there were no days above 100F and only 62 days got above 85F during the whole growing season, compared to the normal 120-125 days above 85F. I grew one plant in 2010 with a locally grown plant from Ivey Gardens in LBB. It is a large red, round similar in fruit size and plant growth to Celebrity. Celebrity tasted better to me, though Shady Lady gets rave reviews for taste in California. It developed tomato spotted wilt virus pretty quickly and had a shorter production life than either Celebrity or Early Girl. I live in a hotspot for TSWV, in the country 35 miles out of LBB, and since 2010 I have grown only TSWV resistant hybrids. There are just two of us well past 65 and only water and labor for 12 plants and we grow tomatoes mostly for canning and freezing for winter use. Even the TSWV resistant hybrids with crack resistance and heat setting ability taste better than store bought tomatoes . Hope this helps and let us know where you are selling this year in :Lubbock....See More2019 Tomato Grow List
Comments (44)Megan, I agree about how surprised ranchers are to learn anyone wants their empty feed tubs. The last time that Fred gave me some, he just casually told Tim "I've got about 25 feed tubs that I'm fixing to burn just to get rid of them. You can come get them if you think she wants them." If? If? Tim hopped in the truck and followed Fred home, bringing me back a big pile of feed tubs. It shocks me that someone would burn them to get rid of them, but from what I gather, that is common here. Fred is in his late 90s now and has grown tomato plants in feed tubs for about 15 years now, after he saw how well it worked for me. He puts his feed tubs up on picnic tables, a stone wall, and whatever else he has that raises the height a bit so he doesn't have to bend over to tend the plants. Jack, I have tried 5-gallon buckets and it was really hard in our July and August heat. What worked best with them was a drip line set up with several small emitters in each feed tub so that the roots were evenly watered. I had to water three times a day during the worst of the summer heat in the worst summer I remember. It is much easier if you just step up to 10 or 15 gallon sized containers, but of course, those are not as easy to find as 5-gallon buckets. If your heat isn't as bad as ours, the 5 gallons likely will work well for you. I've also grown in a galvanized metal 4' round stock tank and that worked pretty well. I had 4 tomato plants in it, plus ornamental sweet potatoes strategically planted along the edge to hang over the edge of the tank, shielding/shading the galvanized metal from the sun. And, I've even grown a lot of the weeping, cascading and patio types in one of those black cattle feed troughs that sit up on legs. I couldn't believe how many of those small to tiny plants I squeezed into that one feed trough. Where there's a will, there's a way. Dawn...See Moremadabttomatoes
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