What tomatoes are you growing this year?

[nerp]

I'm doing:

Early girls, beefsteak, brandywyne, celebrity, burgermasters, delicious and some Mr. Stripey. I might have to hunt down a farmer's market this week and see if I can find any golden raves. Going to be too late for that though!

Tomatoes are really fun to grow, mainly because of all the varieties that offer such an amazing array of flavors and colors. I can't wait to start harvesting these babies. But that would be much later in the season and there's so much stuff in between so maybe I can wait a little.

 

[Newbian]

Ok... who named tomatoes after porn videos?

 

[waggy]

we have osme beefsteak, porterhouse globe's and some just titled "tomatoes"

 

[msi1337]

Originally posted by: nerp
I'm doing:

Early girls, beefsteak, brandywyne, celebrity, burgermasters, delicious and some Mr. Stripey. I might have to hunt down a farmer's market this week and see if I can find any golden raves. Going to be too late for that though!

Tomatoes are really fun to grow, mainly because of all the varieties that offer such an amazing array of flavors and colors. I can't wait to start harvesting these babies. But that would be much later in the season and there's so much stuff in between so maybe I can wait a little.

wish I hard a garden

 

[GagHalfrunt]

I've got some Better Boy, Early Girl, Jet Star, Celebrity and SuperSweet 100 cherry. Those are the varieties that grow best in the northeast and it's a good mix to get some that mature early and some that mature late so that there's a steady supply all season.

 

[zerocool84]

I don't have any tomatoes but have squash, carrots, and cucumbers.

 

[moshquerade]

Originally posted by: msi1337

Originally posted by: nerp
I'm doing:

Early girls, beefsteak, brandywyne, celebrity, burgermasters, delicious and some Mr. Stripey. I might have to hunt down a farmer's market this week and see if I can find any golden raves. Going to be too late for that though!

Tomatoes are really fun to grow, mainly because of all the varieties that offer such an amazing array of flavors and colors. I can't wait to start harvesting these babies. But that would be much later in the season and there's so much stuff in between so maybe I can wait a little.

wish I hard a garden

you have a place for a flower pot? you can grow patio tomatoes pretty easily in one of those.

 

[effowe]

I wanted to try getting one of those hanging tomato plants that have been advertised recently, but I have two things working against me. First I have all sorts of squirrels in my neighborhood that eat up anything you may have. Second, my back porch faces West, so the only real sunlight they would get would be between about 3 and 6 pm. I think I'm just going to try to find some farmers markets around town so I can get some fresh ones.

 

[FelixDeCat]

We grew tomatoes for the first time last year after a 6 year hiatus. Planted late, it produced two for eating. I dont remember the type it was, but it was the juiciest and sweetest thing I could remember in a long time.

 

[DayLaPaul]

Originally posted by: moshquerade

Originally posted by: msi1337

Originally posted by: nerp
I'm doing:

Early girls, beefsteak, brandywyne, celebrity, burgermasters, delicious and some Mr. Stripey. I might have to hunt down a farmer's market this week and see if I can find any golden raves. Going to be too late for that though!

Tomatoes are really fun to grow, mainly because of all the varieties that offer such an amazing array of flavors and colors. I can't wait to start harvesting these babies. But that would be much later in the season and there's so much stuff in between so maybe I can wait a little.

wish I hard a garden

you have a place for a flower pot? you can grow patio tomatoes pretty easily in one of those.

I concur. All you need is a 5 gallon bucket with some holes drilled through the bottom for drainage.

 

[compman25]

Lemon boys

 

[Chaotic42]

Just celebrity and red bell peppers.

 

[SonnyDaze]

Roma and better boy.

 

[aircooled]

Big Boy, Better Boy, and some Cherry Tomatoes. Also got cucumbers, squash, peppers and watermelon growing.

 

[DrPizza]

Probably a dozen cherry tomatoes, maybe 60 of some variety of roma tomatoes, then a half dozen beef steak or some other such slicing tomato.

 

[0roo0roo]

http://earthtainer.tomatofest.com/

 

[DrVos]

I'm growing an Early Girl, a Yellow Pear, and some heirloom variety that is supposed to fruit through December! :Q

 

[troytime]

celebrity and better boy

this is our very first time growing tomatos (actually, first time growing ANYTHING)

 

[guyver01]

WTF? tomatoes have variety and names? lol... i always called them tomatoes.

 

[uli2000]

Im doing some green zebras, yellow plumbs, cherokee purple, brandywine, and San Marzano. Love them tomatoes.

 

[nerp]

Originally posted by: uli2000
Im doing some green zebras, yellow plumbs, cherokee purple, brandywine, and San Marzano. Love them tomatoes.

I wanted to to do green zebras but everyone around here is chock out of them, it seems. I guess I'll just have to plan earlier next year. I think I'm going to get a grow lamp and start my own tomatoes in the basement next year so I can just plant whatever I want. Plus it's so fun flipping through seed catalogs in Jan/Feb planning what you're going to do.

Originally posted by: guyver01
WTF? tomatoes have variety and names? lol... i always called them tomatoes.

You betcha. And each variety has some sort of story and history. Some are hundreds of years old and originated in asia, the middle east, old europe. Others are more recent concotions bred in private gardens and named by the children of the family and grew to be wild hits in the gardening community.

In fact every veggie is sorta like this. I can't wait to see my Ghostbuster white eggplants later this summer.

The best part about having such variety is that each type has a different flavor and virtually anything you grow will be SOOOOO much more delicious than any store-bought generic breed engineered for packing/shipping and longevity. A lot of times, the flavor has been bred out in favor of marketablility.

Take one fat heirloom, slice it, drizzle just a little olive oil and some basil, cracked pepper and a pinch of salt. OMFG. Your whole world changes.

Originally posted by: DrVos
I'm growing an Early Girl, a Yellow Pear, and some heirloom variety that is supposed to fruit through December! :Q

Where do you live?

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt
I've got some Better Boy, Early Girl, Jet Star, Celebrity and SuperSweet 100 cherry. Those are the varieties that grow best in the northeast and it's a good mix to get some that mature early and some that mature late so that there's a steady supply all season.

I might grab some supersweet 100 cherries from a local garden stand as a last-minute addition. I'm still going through a learning process here so I'm hoping to get a good sense about staggering my choices so I can have a consistent and steady harvest. It's fun to make an attempt one year and see how it goes and refine your technique the next. I live in the northeast too, so whatever knowledge you have on the topic -- feel free to fill me in.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Originally posted by: nerp

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt
I've got some Better Boy, Early Girl, Jet Star, Celebrity and SuperSweet 100 cherry. Those are the varieties that grow best in the northeast and it's a good mix to get some that mature early and some that mature late so that there's a steady supply all season.

I might grab some supersweet 100 cherries from a local garden stand as a last-minute addition. I'm still going through a learning process here so I'm hoping to get a good sense about staggering my choices so I can have a consistent and steady harvest. It's fun to make an attempt one year and see how it goes and refine your technique the next. I live in the northeast too, so whatever knowledge you have on the topic -- feel free to fill me in.

My knowledge on the subject is to know that I'm no gardener. When I started growing I grabbed one of everything the store had and just hoped for the best. Believe it or not that worked out pretty well. It became clear which ones did well and which ones didn't. A lot of varieties need very hot or long growing seasons and they don't do well in this area, so the nurseries don't carry those. The ones they do carry have information on little plastic skewers that are stuck into the pot. It'll list temps, watering schedules, sunlight and most importantly, maturation period. Some will grow and ripen in 40 days and some in 80 days. Start the quickest ones like early girls first to take care of getting some fruit soon. Then stagger out the planting and varieties so that some mature in July, some other in August and others in September. As the early blooming plants to their thing fast and shut down other varieties mature to take their place and when those stop you'll have others that are just getting going. It's actually pretty easy to plan it all out.

 

[spidey07]

JD Texas special (Brandywine cross), Kellog Breakfast, Brandywine, Cherokee Purple and some others I can't think of the names right now including two heirloom cherries. 12 plants in all so I'm going to be up to me ears in maters. All plants have open flowers now after being planted 3 weeks ago but I nipped some of them off. The only hybrid I have is a Better Boy and he's huge.

 

[dullard]

Other than a rare salad, I only eat cooked tomatoes. From what I've found, Romas cook better than anything else (least watery of any tomato I've had). So, I planted a few romas and one cherry tomato plant for salads. If you know of any tomatoes with less water than a roma, I'd be glad to plant those next year.

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: dullard
Other than a rare salad, I only eat cooked tomatoes. From what I've found, Romas cook better than anything else (least watery of any tomato I've had). So, I planted a few romas and one cherry tomato plant for salads. If you know of any tomatoes with less water than a roma, I'd be glad to plant those next year.

What you're looking for are called "Paste" tomatoes, of which Romas are very popular.