Dwarf Tomatoes 2020
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Comments (12)Here is a nice selection of 16 true micro tomatoes from Heritage Seed Market. https://heritageseedmarket.com/index.php/product-category/dwarf-tomatoes/micro-dwarf-tomatoes/ Lime Green Salad is not a micro, but a 2.5 feet tall dwarf which produces 4 oz wonderfully tasty tomatoes (grew it last year, and growing it again)! I chose these 4 micros to grow next on our window which gets 7+ hrs sunlight: ------------------------------- seed on --- Plant on: 1. Birdie Rouge ---------------- 1/01* ..... 3-10 1. Yellow Balcony -------------- 1/01* ..... 3-10 1. Gold Pearl ------------------- 1/01* ..... 3-10 1. Pinocchio Red -------------- 1/01* .... 3-10 these 4 micros look great already in about 2 weeks they'll be planted on our daybed window which is 7' long and gets 7+ hrs of direct sunlight --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Lime Green Salad dwarf -- seeded 12/18/2017 -- already big in 1/2 gal pot will grow it as big as possible then plant it end of March under a dome like last year to get a month's jump start outside ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Here are the Red Robins I grew this Winter: 1-20-2018 update: Red Robin tomatoes are getting more plump, juicy and better tasting (getting 7+ hrs direct sunlight now). Stood by our 7' long daybed window this morning -- the first sun rays hit the plants at 9:33 am, and now this afternoon, the last sun rays ended at 4:45 pm -- equals 7 hours and 12 minutes of direct sunlight, plus couple of morning hrs of indirect light !!! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If interested --- read the links below: 2018 Winter Tomatoes -- what, when and where are you planting? - Lime Green Salad dwarf tomato --- is anyone else growing it? - Hope this helps, Tony...See Morewhat are some good dwarf tomatoes to grow?
Comments (20)sleevendog, I was replying to the OP. However, I didn’t know that any of the varieties other people besides myself were talking about were dwarf indeterminate. I don’t know how I missed that when looking at some of those varieties in the past. Thanks for the tip. However, some of the breeds mentioned in this thread aren't indeterminate, but rather determinate: i.e. Arctic Rose, Dwarf Purple Heart, Extreme Bush, Tennessee Suited, and Sweet Scarlet Dwarf. (Some I mentioned in my own posts are probably determinate and/or semi-determinate, too.) The followed varieties mentioned in this thread are supposed to be indeterminate: Dwarf Beauty King, Dwarf Black Angus, Dwarf BrandyFred, Dwarf Mr. Snow, Dwarf Wherokowhai, Dwarf Wild Fred, Rosella Purple, and Tasmanian Chocolate. I don't see whether Snow Fairy is determinate or indeterminate, but when I grew it, it had a tree-type shape, and the fruits didn't ripen all at once. Dwarf Beauty King is said to be a dwarf semi-determinate on one site (and a dwarf indeterminate on another). I’m guessing a lot of those listed are probably semi-determinate. Some people don’t believe in semi-determinate tomatoes, though; so, maybe that’s why they call them indeterminate, since they like to draw the line between the two. But, people don’t all draw the line in the same place for the same characteristics (so you never really know what you’re going to get if all you know is the growth habit). I looked at this site: https://loghouseplants.com/plants/shop/tomato-tasmanian-chocolate-super-dwarfs/ It says, speaking of super dwarfs, which include Tasmanian Chocolate and probably a bunch of others, “Finally, a collection of dwarf tomato plants that combines the best characteristics of both the determinate and indeterminate plant habit.” That sounds like semi-determinate. IMO, Dwarf indeterminates should be almost (if not) exactly like miniature versions of indeterminates in the way they grow and produce, with the exception of potentially having rugose foliage (not like a mix between determinate and indeterminate, nor like a best of both worlds scenario). But yeah, people will call them what they will, and I don’t mean to try to stop them. I think there are ways to handle the ambiguity issue without having to change anyone’s mind about anything. To add more context to my other post, it's good to realize that some people consider all determinate tomatoes to be dwarfs. So, whether or not you were talking about dwarf indeterminates, it’s still a reasonable thing to have said in a thread about dwarf tomatoes (unless the OP specified dwarf indeterminate)....See MoreCraig LeHoullier's Reviews of Dwarf Tomatoes
Comments (7)Jamie - thanks for posting this link! And I hope you continue to post links to the remaining articles. I didn't read all of the reviews yet but did read the reviews for the dwarfs I grew this season if he listed them. Beauty King, Tasmanian Chocolate, Wild Fred, Mr. Snow, Brandyfred( in a 5 gallon bucket), and Rosella Purple. I was most impressed with Beauty King, Brandyfred, and Mr. Snow. I think I let Wild Fred set too many fruit and they didn't size up very well for me. Rosella Purple had a nice early fruit set and ripened earliest of all the dwarfs. All 5 of my dwarfs in raised beds eventually succumbed to Septoria but the Brandyfred that was about 100 yards from my garden and any other tomatoes and was protected by a tree line never got Septoria. It did get knocked over by wind 3 times and lost a few green fruit each time. I'm going to grow all of my dwarfs in containers next year but I need to figure out a better way to keep them upright when a storm rolls through. Maybe a large rock in the bottom of each container. I have saved seeds for 4 varieties and purchased seeds for 8 varieties if would like some for next season. I'm fermenting seeds from the last 2 Brandyfred right now. ETA: the other varieties I have seed for that I didn't list are Iditarod Red and Sleeping Lady that Heritage Seed Market included as a bonus. I also bought some of my dwarfs from Victory seeds....See MoreCan you still get to The Kitchen Table through GardenWeb???
Comments (83)@Lars Right, what you're experiencing is what I'm experiencing. Are you using an adblocker? If you are, which one? I've been using Ublock Origin for so long I don't remember how to add a filter to Adblock Plus but it should be just as easy. In Ublock Origin, to add a filter that I was given, I would click my Ublock Origin icon, open the dashboard, paste the filter at the bottom of "My Filters", and click "Apply Changes". For Adblock Plus, there should be a similar way to accomplish the same thing. (there is, I just don't have it right here in front of me :) )...See Moreediej1209 AL Zn 7
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