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tessa
head gardener
Australia
3682 Posts |
 Posted - 04/02/2009 : 07:53:32
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what were the top five tomato varieties in your garden this year?
i ask...because i am trying to whittle down the variety of known (to me) tomatoes to 5 for next year. then i'll add 5 new varieties to explore...plus a few of my dwarves from the TV dwarf project...and THAT'S it. i really need to reign in the tomatoes. i grew so many this year that the freezer is full of sauce (not a bad thing) and there are so many rotting on the kitchen counter at the moment.
thankfully...i'm at the end of round one of production...so not much new stuff coming in.
anyway...my top five from this year as i see them today:
1) black krim
2) big beef
3) accidental cross now named 'tessie's treat'
4) guernsey pink blush (cherry)
5) big white
if those were all i was growing next year...i'd be pretty darned happy.
on the list for 5 new varieties for next year are:
1) lucky cross
2) aunt ruby's german green
3) ?
4) ?
5) ?
so nice to have three spots left to decide on...and two white varieties from betty to choose from.
gosh.
it's starting to feel tight already!!!!
cranky people live longer. i'm going to live forever! perth, wa
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The Estate
head gardener
Australia
3676 Posts |
Posted - 04/02/2009 : 08:06:21
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Boring I know, but my cherry and mini romas/grape cherry varieties  been either too hot or too cold for the others  but picking enough for salads which is the main thing 
My basic weeding rule: if they grow in rows they're flowers;
if they don't they're weeds.
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Di Taylor
assistant gardener
New Zealand
188 Posts |
Posted - 04/02/2009 : 09:24:43
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My freezer is bare  Oh well maybe next year
A good year is when more things get harvested than die! |
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Betty
assistant gardener
Australia
159 Posts |
Posted - 04/02/2009 : 10:19:08
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I am definitely planting Cherokee Purple, Tom's Yellow Wonder and Snow White next year, also Pink Ping Pong and Yellow Submarine. Like you, Tessa, I found Grub's Mystery Green a lovely tasting tomato BUT first to die in the heatwave. I will go on with it, in a very shaded, sheltered spot maybe.The seeds I got and either couldn't germinate because it was too hot, or decided not to try because it was too late, I will start early next season.
A question for you, Tessa. What colour are your Black Krim? Do you have a photo of them? The one Black Krim plant I got off Mantis was producing (very nice) red fruit. |
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The Estate
head gardener
Australia
3676 Posts |
Posted - 04/02/2009 : 10:39:12
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Pink Ping Pong ROFL 
My basic weeding rule: if they grow in rows they're flowers;
if they don't they're weeds.
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tessa
head gardener
Australia
3682 Posts |
Posted - 04/02/2009 : 11:50:36
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uh-oh.
i have a problem.
i think i'll have to give big white the flick...because i forgot to put kimberley on the list.
*doh*!
hope the snow white will be a good substitute for them!
here's a piccy of a black krim. it's on the left...and is in comparison to 'perth pride', a purple tomato.
and still on the left...here it is opened
cranky people live longer. i'm going to live forever! perth, wa |
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Pamela
head gardener
Australia
3949 Posts |
Posted - 04/02/2009 : 15:04:54
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I have to say roma. Picking about a - well you know those plastic storage bins that are bigger than a bucket - every day and giving them to everyone and making oodles of sauce ,,, and they are soooooooo tomatoey in taste it is divine. Just some tommies and basil and I am happy - add a few boiled duck eggs. Even Sam steals tomatoes and so do the chooks. We are all like pigs in mud with these tommies. I have 12 bushes and a few are roma and they have been the best - hundreds hanging like over ripe red lanterns each afternoon ... sorry I have not posted before just so busy helping animals and plants to survive here in the heat .
Figs getting ready and starting to turn black. Nashi pears are JUST ready and are the most juicy thing I have ever eaten. Think I will walk down now and eat one off the tree and dribble it down my shirt :-))) Love this part of summer if not the heat.
"The air of heaven is that which blows between a horse's ears." |
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Mary-Anne
garden sage
Australia
10809 Posts |
Posted - 04/02/2009 : 15:15:51
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Roma are the best paste tomato for Sauce.
I may grow some again I could do with some home made it always tastes better.
I love your little helper Pamela..
Friends are the flowers in the garden of life
Love Your Enemies... It Will Drive Them Nuts |
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medburygardens
gardener
New Zealand
639 Posts |
Posted - 04/02/2009 : 17:34:09
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M A & Pamela i grew two paste tomatoes this season Pink heart and red heart 7/10 for flavor but they were big 700g ,can get to over a kg.
My top five-Black krim
Lucky Cross
Scotland yellow (NZ heirloom)
Brandywine pink
Beryl beauty(from Tomatoville dwarf breeding programme)
Next season this list may change thanks to receiving some other seed from tessa,also i need to grow some of my older varieties from my tin again as some of these are about four years old now,i have forgotten how they rate for flavor. |
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Mary-Anne
garden sage
Australia
10809 Posts |
Posted - 04/02/2009 : 19:27:56
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Thanks Richard the paste tomatoes seem to grow ok here.
San Marzano is another one I have grown a few times..
Sorry Tessa we did not grow any varieties last year.
They were all volunteers..
Friends are the flowers in the garden of life
Love Your Enemies... It Will Drive Them Nuts |
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tessa
head gardener
Australia
3682 Posts |
Posted - 04/02/2009 : 21:43:07
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sometimes it's the volunteers that do best, mary-anne.
well richard, i see that i have some scotland yellow seeds...and i see them on your top 5 list.
that leaves one spot on the list for next year!
i've got a few beryl beauties growing at the moment. put them in for round two on the tomato season so they haven't got to fruit set stage yet. hopefully they'll survive my absense and i'll come home to some fruit starting.
glad to see you rate them highly!
cranky people live longer. i'm going to live forever! perth, wa |
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tessa
head gardener
Australia
3682 Posts |
Posted - 04/02/2009 : 21:46:09
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pamela...that's a crazy amount of romas. good onya. they will go nicely into a pot with that all that basil. isn't basil a miracle food?
sam's looking too cute, btw. i can almost smell the puppy breath from here. gosh. it's been so long since xena had puppy breath.
cranky people live longer. i'm going to live forever! perth, wa |
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Gail
garden sage
Australia
7707 Posts |
Posted - 05/02/2009 : 04:19:29
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Nice crop there Pamela cute helper too 
As I mentioned in the other post, I don't grow the different varieties much as I need a reliable suppply so I usually have a few romas as they are such strong growers. Often have san marzanos and green zebras too - the kids love that one and also throw in a few from a mixed heirloom packet and if there are any extra good growers I will keep some seeds - I never know what they are but that doesn't worry me. Doesn't help your decision though Tessa 
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to use it in a fruit salad.
A ounce of common sense is worth more than a ton of intelligence.
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lorraine
assistant gardener
Australia
144 Posts |
Posted - 05/02/2009 : 05:26:53
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hi
the tomatoes here that perform best for us in the heat
Rainys Maltese
Grubs Mystery green
Black Krim
Ida Gold
Pink Ping Pong
rainys loved the heat(45 deg) better than them all for us |
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tessa
head gardener
Australia
3682 Posts |
Posted - 05/02/2009 : 06:52:50
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that's interesting, lorraine.
GMG was the first to pack up in the heat for me. too bad...cuz it's a really nice tomato.
cranky people live longer. i'm going to live forever! perth, wa |
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lorraine
assistant gardener
Australia
144 Posts |
Posted - 05/02/2009 : 07:37:12
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last season we were actually away on hols and a neighbour was going to water and take the veg , but he forgot so they survived in the heat and also without much water at all
we came back to mainly rainys and grubs still fruiting and ripening all over the place with no effect
just picked a rainys a couple of days ago and it weighed 500grams a good meaty tomato , not acidy at all
its a late tomato |
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