Name Your Heirloom Tomatoes For This Year!

[vfem]

Well assuming my plants make it until it is safe to put out in the garden I have the following started from seed ....

cherokee purple
paul robeson
gold medal
neves azorean red **** my favorite ****
brandywine sudduth strain
black krim
mortgage lifter
san marzano paste
kellogg's breakfast
anna russian
stupice
german red strawberry
cherokee green
tidwell german
omar's lebanese
lime green salad **** my bf's favorite ****

 

[digitS']

Welcome to TEG, jab91864 !

I am adding a Mr. Stripey (the big Bonnie version) to my heirloom list, as of today. . . .

You made me go back and look, Whitewater. I need to add Mr. Stripey or rather Tigerella to my heirloom tomato list.

You probably have the American Mr. Stripey. I bought "Mr. Stripey" from a Canadian source. Their and the British "Mr. Stripey" is what Americans call Tigerella.

Anyway, I overlooked it in the flats so didn't list it and these names keep coming up and I finally broke thru the fog . . . okay, I'll stop now.

digitS'

 

[1chichi]

Pruden's Purple
Black Krim
Cherokee Purple
Tigerella
German Orange Strawberry
Anna Russian
Yellow Pear
Aunt Ruby's Green
Big Rainbow

Most of the heirloom seedlings I initially started died (not Pruden's,Krim, or Russian).

Only 2 Yellow Pear, 1 Tigerella, a few German Orange Strawberry, & 1 Cherokee Purple survived.
Even these are spindly. I was very dissapointed, but I'll just chalk it up as a learning experience.
I reseeded all in peat pots, but I don't know if there's enough time to get them to 6" in order to transplant & still have enough time to be productive.

All of those darn hybrids (Early Girl & Juliet Grape) I grew in peat pots are doing very well. They are about 8-12". I've been planting just a few in the garden and enjoying giving some to co-workers.

Even though Wal- Mart has 6 pack tomatoes (4") for .84 now, folks really appreciate the home-grown seedlings.

 

[barefootgardener]

Hi everyone, It has been a while since I posted, but I still lurked from time to time..I have been busy w/life..New job, youngest graduated and went off to college, became a first time grandma, DIL had thyroid cancer, helping Son and DIL remodel their new Fixer Upper, which they moved into 2 days before she gave birth..and other every day life moments..

The hubby and I are almost finished building my long awaited Recycled window/patio door greenhouse ...The roof is now on, and other than a few more touchups..paint... trim..building potting tables, raised bed. etc..I now have room for plenty of plants..

I started all varieties of Heirloom tomato plants from seed,

Here is my list of Heirlooms I am growing:

Aunt Ginny's Purple.
Arbuznyi
Anna Russian
Amish Paste (Fav. Grow every year)
Aunt Gertie's Gold
Angora Orange
Aunt Ruby German Green (One of my fav's..grow every year)
Bear Claw (Ben Q.)
Big Black Heart
Black Krim (Fav.grow every year)
Black From Tula (fav. grow every year)
Black Mountain Pink
Brandywine Cowlicks (sport of Brandywine)
Brandywine Suddath
Burstztyn
Black Pineapple
Cherokee Purple (Fav. grow every year)
Couilles De Taureau
Costoluto Genovese
Crnkovic Yugoslavian (struggling)
Caspian Pink
Carol Chyko
Druzba
Delicious
Denofrio's German
Earl Of Edgecomb
Frank's Large Red
Golden Queen
Gajode Melon Cherry
Goose Creek
Giant Sicilian Paste
Hege German Pink
Indian Stripe
Japanese Black Trifele
JD Special C-Tex
Joe Thieneman Australian
Jerry's German Giant
Kentucky Plate
Kellog's Breakfast (Fav..grow every year)
KBX
Lillian Maciejewski
Ludmilla's Pink Heart
Lennie and Gracies Yellow
Ludmilla's Red Plum
Mortgage Lifter
Noir De Crimee
Old German (Fav., Grow every year..bad germination..seedling struggling)
Orange Oxheart
Olayer's German
Omar's Lebanese
Purple Dog Creek
Pantano Romanesco (fav. grow every year)
Reif Red Heart
Riesentraube
Rebecca Sebastians Bull Dog
Rose De Berne
Rutgers Select
Russian #117. (one seed germinated, struggling)
Sandul Moldovan
San Marzano
Soldacki
Sierra Leone
Sicilian Saucer
Thessalonki
Virginia Sweets
Vinson Watts
Wessel's Purple Pride
White Current.
Wes (only one seed germinated, struggling)
Yellow out Red In

Germination failure, Very old seed: Rose, Zogola, Kosovo..From seed trades

Many of the seeds I grow out and save seed myself, and a number are new to me varieties I aquired in seed trades or ordered from seed co.'s

I took lots of pics of the plant's a few weeks back..if anyone would like to see pic's of any varieties, all have diff. growth spurt's, but most doing well..Except a few that are still struggling...I can post a few pic's when I go to library later this week..

I typed this pretty fast so hope the spelling is right for each one..

Ginny

 

[simple life]

Wow! You have more varieties than most seed catalogs!
Glad to hear things are starting to settle down enough that you have time to post.
Wishing you lots of luck with your garden, I would love to see pictures when you get all those tomato plants going gangbusters.

 

[barefootgardener]

Wow! You have more varieties than most seed catalogs!
Glad to hear things are starting to settle down enough that you have time to post.
Wishing you lots of luck with your garden, I would love to see pictures when you get all those tomato plants going gangbusters.

Thanks, I will post pictures when they go gangbusters Keeping fingers crossed I have a better garden year than last, for tomatoes..

Ginny

 

[digitS']

. . . Keeping fingers crossed I have a better garden year than last, for tomatoes..

Ginny

for you Ginny!

Please do the best you can keeping track of your varieties in the garden. An heirloom could be defined as "handed down in the family" or "unique to a particular part of the the world." Knowing the performance of these could and should be of interest to your gardening neighbors and family members - maybe, for years and years to come.

Don't be like me last year and get the Yellow Submarines mixed up with the Ildi's in a hopeless situation . And, I was looking forward to establishing the Yellow Submarine as a family heirloom .

I've had good tomato gardening years for about the last 3 or 4. That's what lures me into having 29 varieties of heirlooms and hybrids this year. (That and the example and encouragement of others .) It would take courage to make a commitment like you have after 1 or 2 bad seasons. Bravo!

for your tomatoes!

Steve

 

[vfem]

Its official, next year I will plant no less then 30 tomato plants because you guys have me interested in SOOOOOOO many new types now!!!!!!!

 

[Greenthumb18]

Here's my list:

Sweet Million Cherry
Romas
Pantano Romanesco
Pink Ponderosa
Rei Dos Temporoes (Portuguese means "King of the Earlies")
Royal Hillbilly
Cherokee Purple
Flame or Hillbilly

Just hope i have room for them all .

 

[DawnSuiter]

How do I know if they are heirloom or not?

I know the Brandywines & Roma are...I have some of those

I also have some
"jelly bean"
"cold set"
1 yellow pear and 1 pink lady

thats all...