Tomato Crazy

[markfield rover]

I am only growing-
Green Grape
Japanese Trifle Black
Red Alert
Balconi Red
Wladek's
Tigerella
Blaby Special
White Wonder
Costoluto Fiorentino
Gold Rush Current
Gardener's Delight
Prudence Purple
Garden Peach
Fuzzy Peach
Grace Lahmans Pink
Oilrose
San Marzano 2
Chocolate Cherokee
Maskotka
La Roma 2
Fablonelistnys
Bijskij Zeltyi

I planted four of each thinking some may not germinate and you can guess what has happened.
Do you find that one year you give plants away and the next people start looking expectant, grow bags at the ready?
We do spread happiness.

[markfield rover]

[goodlife]

Luckily I haven't "adverticed" too much...I have some regurlars who get plants from me and I've been happy to keep to that...actually I have found some people almost scared to grow something which name doesn't sound "English"..or in line moneymaker etc.. ;D

[chriscross1966]

Our outside night temps have been running 3.3 to 7 degrees C. (38-45 F.) and
our tomatoes have been planted outside a couple weeks now. Most of them
are looking like they're holding their own- of course covered with plastic milk jugs
at night. "Cherokee Purple" are especially bushy and growing strongly, but strangely
"Subarctic" are just sitting there  despite their brave and boastful name.

I thought Sub-arctic Plenty's trick was being developed by the US armed forces to handle the insanely long days they get in midsummer in their Alaskan and Greenland bases (if they still ahve Greenland bases), most plants can't exploit the daylength because their CO₂transprt system gets clogged up with oxygen, they need a dark spell to sort themselves out....SAP is just more efficient (rather than having the alternate transport systmes that some plants do)

chrisc

[antipodes]

I am being reasonable also so have:
Marmande beefsteaks (haven't had luck with them previously but hoping this year for no blight)
Moneymaker (why do people moan about this? I am trying them, if they are tasty, the seeds are cheap enough, if not, guess I haven't lost much)
Gardener's Delight (trying on A4A recommendations  ;D)
Tigerella, which i grew last year and loved
Totem, which is a bush type with small tomatoes
Pannovy which need pricking out now
Herzfeuer which i got from Lidl but which gave me lovely sweet salad toms in the past couple of years
and something called an Ananas, which is a yellow beefsteak, someone saved seed for me, so it's a bit of a gamble, might turn out totally weird.

I stopped doing the long Italian types as I found they got the rot too much. Also I really love eating them raw rather than cooked  ;D

[cleo]

My `display` has been out for a couple of days now.

If I had the room on the blackboard I woud have chalked..

Tomato* Plants 60p

Cucumbers £1.15

*But if you want Moneymaker keep driving as they sell them at the Garden Centre three miles away for 79p.

As it is it`s just the top two lines without the asterisk ;)

[cleo]

Ananas

Ananas noir?--it`s on probation this year,it didn`t perform well last year but I`m not perfect so it`s getting a second chance

[Jeannine]

I have Ananas the orginal pineapple and Ananaa Noir the more recent black pineapple Cleo, which one is being baughty XX Jeannine

[Jayb]

OK,, did I miss some thing here!!!! JayB you started this thread but where is your list?? Come on...
Your list please Jayb
XX Jeannine

I don't mean to be avoidant, but I can't cope with a list at the moment as I'm evading how many I've got growing in the hope it will help them all fit in! It does seem to be a ridiculous amount of varieties though and several grow outs  :o I don't know what I'm thinking of, just obsession I guess. If I'm brave enough I'll add some in later.

What I'm most looking forward to changes on a daily basis and seeing flowers starting to open is just a tease, but brings it all that little bit closer  ;D

Liking your lists though Jeannine and MarkfieldR. I can't wait to hear how quickly they progress.

Cleo that's a fab idea, just wish I had some people going past.

[brownowl23]

looking like  I may have to try Japanese Black Trifele as so many of you have this on your lists

[grannyjanny]

I had a look on ebay, can't remember what I was looking for. A Femspot cucumber sold for £4.20 + £1.99 P&P. Amazing.

[SusanJ]

Hi everyone from sunny Portugal! 

I have sown three types of tomato this year - Tigrella, Black Cherry, and some seeds I bought in Crete around 5 or 6 years ago!  The Tigrella have been slow to germinate and not so strong looking.  The Black Cherries are doing well and as for the Cretian ones!  Well, I thought that as I had had these big beefsteak type seeds for SO long, I had better sow quite a few as they may have poor germination.  NO WAY !!  They popped up first from their slightly larger reddish seeds, in large quantities and now I have grown them on in pots, they are really big strong plants!  I just hope they taste as good as the ones we found in the restaurants out there !  I am looking forward to our first summer and first veg here in Portugal!

[goodlife]

SusanJ....I can just see you picking your salad plate in restaurant ..just to save some seeds into a napkin ;D ;D....did it happen like that?
Good luck for you firs harvest...I  bet you are a little ahead with season over there :)

[saddad]

Welcome to A4A Susan.... hope you enjoy the challenge of gardening in Portugal!  :)

[ruud]

This is my list till now;Giant red
                                  Stupice
                                  Norms cross
                                  Rhodes heirloom
                                  Allicante
                                  Caspian pink
                                  Basinga
                                  Native sun
                                  Buckbee new
                                  Chapman
                                  Wayahead
                                  Early kus ali
                                  Chudo rinka
                                  Woodle orange
                                  Thessalonili
                                  Crimson cushion
                                  Eli
                                  O.S.U blue fruit
                                  Georgische fleischtomate
                                  Wes
                                   Sebastopol
                                  Moneymaker
                                  Beefmaster
                                  Tomberries
                                  Koral rannikh
                                  Wapsipinicon peach
                                  Murhurlu
                                  Volovsko srce
                                  Wins all
                                  Spudakee purple
                                  Bloody butcher
                                  Beijing yellow
                                  Tlacolula pink
                                  Clint eastwood rowdy red
                                  Palmiras northern italian
                                  Clear pink early
                                  White oxheart
                                  Hong yuen
                                  Jeffs mystery pink oxheart
That is all maybe i will sow some dwarves,for in the border.You cant have enough toms. ;D ;D ;D   
     
       

[goodlife]

Oh Ruud..your list looks delicious ;D...let me know when you are ready for few swaps ;) Some of those names are truly weird...can't even twist my tong to try say them.... ;D

[ruud]

Goodlife you havenot to pronounce them,just eat them and enjoy ;D ;D ;D ;D

[goodlife]

mother allways told not to eat and talk same time... ;D but pronouncing some  of those will sound same...
Oh boy..I do not need encouraging for to eat....some times I have enjoyed too much and felt like there is shloshing sounds coming from my tummy..so much toms in one go... ;D ;D...and the enjoyment factor?....over the the scale! ;D ;D

[goodlife]

Not crazy..getting mad :o..I have just sorted my greenhouses...all toms are grouped by where they are going to and cordons and bush ones separated..now I only have my own plants left...ahh..pressure off..... ::)...or is it...?
OH came back from work and asked if I have some spare outdoor toms for a mate...?..nope...."surely our of all that?" ::)
So I ended up going back to lottie and taking some cuttings... ::)..I've done with  tom seeds for this season..for sowing I should say.. ;D

[ginnyknit]

 well I was worrying about my tomato plant addiction! I can stop worrying now  :o i really really want some Box car Willy seeds, i read about them the other day and am now determined to get them but cash flow probs are preventing me. I will not be defeated!

[grannyjanny]

Ginny, Heirloom seeds in America have box car willie.