Tomatoes 2025

[Branching Out]

One of my favourite summer activities is wandering the garden and checking out the tomatoes. Pictured are Tigrella, Sasha's Altai, and Zlatava. Seeds of Tigrella were started on February 4th, and the others were sown on April 9th.

 

[digitS']

Tigrella,

... I was very pleased with Tigerella the last time I grew it . Nice little, quick, tender-skinned, flavorful tomato! DW thought the beautiful color was "weird." . . . no accounting for some people . .

 

[heirloomgal]

I'm having an interesting little adventure with a tomato called 'Fantastico' this season. I bought a small hanging basket tomato at Home Depot, it was discounted by 50% because it looked 3/4 dead. This normally would be of no interest to me, and I typically have plenty of tomatoes already growing, but what made it irresistible was the fantastic load of small, ripe red tomatoes on the plant. And I had no tomatoes close to red at that point.

So, I brought it home, repotted it and gave it some chicken manure. The leaves looked like they had been severely attacked by flea beetles and suffering with malnourishment. I cut off what bits of the plants could not be recovered. I laughed at myself once I had subjected the tomato to the 'love treatment' because I could see how futile & ridiculous this project was. (I have a bit of a thing for getting discounted half dead plants and trying to resurrect them.) I really didn't pay much more attention to the pot after I harvested the tomatoes - because they were all absolutely gross. Tasteless doesn't say it. And too firm to boot. Maybe the result of being grown in crap soil with chemical fertilizer. Anyway, this week I'm amazed to see the tomato is looking like it might actually recover! Might it produce decent tomatoes in good soil & a bit of TLC?

Leaves looked worse than this when I got it home

New growth and shockingly a whole new flush of flowers.

And in writing this post up I discovered it's......a hybrid.

 

[Decoy1]

I’d love to be able to identify this mid-sized tomato. I received it several years ago labelled ‘Wagner Blue Berries’. I think this was a guess from a vague memory. As far as I’m aware, varieties with ‘berries’ in the name are Brad Gates, not Tom Wagner. The nearest I can get to a Wagner variety is ‘Wagner Blue Green’. The online images for Wagner Blue Green are slightly variable, some showing more yellow and some more green. But my tomato is quite green internally which might also suggest this could be the variety.





If anyone can shed any further light on this I’d be very grateful. I’m very fond of my unnamed tomato!