My 2011 Tomato Variety List

Hi Folks!,

Just ordered my tomato seeds for next season. Can't wait! Got any suggestions / feedback?

This year will easily be my most over-the-top tomato-year. I'll be planting around ~400 cherries, ~200 large fruited (in a hoop house), and over ~500 in the field. Yum.

Cherries:

Isis Candy

Black Cherry

Matt's Wild Cherry

Snow White

Sun Gold

Small-Fruited:

Jaunne Flamme

Elberta Peach

Paste-Type:

Jersey Devil

Opalka

Illini Gold

Red:

Thessaloniki

Zapotec Pleated

Momotaro

Eva's Purple Ball

Orange

Kellog's Breakfast

Golden Jubliee

Green

Chile Verde

Green Zebra

Black

Nyagous

Paul Robeson

Carbon

If anyone's interested, I should have all of these varieties available for sale as seedlings (in 4" pots started with organic potting soil) starting May 1st, 2011. PM me for more details.

Thanks!,
Josh
http://www.newtraditionsfarm.com

I would love suggestions for a flavorful slicer. Sun Golds were both delicious & prolific last year & a definite return to the garden this year, but I don't have a candidate that is bigger than the Sun Gold that can compete. The Sun Gold are hard to put on Sandwiches .

Sun Gold is great. It was a last minute decision for me last year and of course, as per it's reputation paid off mightily. I sowed them a week later than the other tomatoes and they were first I tasted of the season.

I'd strongly suggest Kellogg's Breakfast or KBX (A potato leaf version of Kellogg's Breakfast). It's a large, meaty and sweet orange tomato with bountiful yields. Last season I harvested at 20+ large fruit off of each of these beasts.

Check it out (not my photo): http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_lclVymJYsbU/T ... akfast.jpg

While I don't have a good spot for tomatoes, I really enjoyed my Speckled Romans, which were a prolific producer of very tasty paste tomatoes - or, at least, they would have been if I'd had a less-crowded, sunnier spot for them.

That's good to hear about Speckled Roman. I saw them in SSE this year and thought they would make an attractive pairing with my other paste offerings. Did you have any problems with blossom end rot?

Keep in mind, I'm not a good test case - I had a poorly-started plant (my own fault) growing in an overcrowded flower garden with barely enough sun, so I got tomatoes very, very late in the season. My first tomato had blossom-end rot, but the remaining several did just fine. Considering these were grown in nearly in the worst-case scenario for tomatoes, I wouldn't put the blossom-end rot down to the type; maybe somebody else has more experience with how they behave under more normal circumstances.

loftyendeavors wrote:Sun Gold is great. It was a last minute decision for me last year and of course, as per it's reputation paid off mightily. I sowed them a week later than the other tomatoes and they were first I tasted of the season.

I'd strongly suggest Kellogg's Breakfast or KBX (A potato leaf version of Kellogg's Breakfast). It's a large, meaty and sweet orange tomato with bountiful yields. Last season I harvested at 20+ large fruit off of each of these beasts.

Check it out (not my photo): http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_lclVymJYsbU/T ... akfast.jpg

I would second the Kellogg's Breakfast. You can get the seeds through Seed Savers I believe (or if you know some other rooftop growers on Division, they may have a few seeds). I also really like Cherokee Purple. I felt that the Cherokee Purple was a better grower in the EB though and my Kellogg's didn't do so well but that was 2009 when nothing did that well.