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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Jul 16, 2015 21:55:40 GMT -5
It's hard for me to tell exactly, because with access to a greenhouse this year I planted many different varieties of tomatoes at many different ages and times. With that written, my earliest tomatoes this year were:
Stupice
Jagodka
Matina
Potato Leaved Bradley
Something out of Joseph's earliest landrace (not Matina or Jagodka)
Solanum pimpinellifolium, the most total fruits eaten so far, but very small.
SunSugar
I missed planting SunGold this spring. Boo Hoo. But I do have some dehybridized segregates of it growing.
The earliest slicing tomato was "Wispy-leaved Slicer"... It was earliest last growing season as well.
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Post by reed on Jul 17, 2015 8:01:27 GMT -5
Aside form a volunteer pear and currants my first tomato was Stupice and a couple small sized Lofthouse landrace. Lots are finally ripening now but with rain & clouds, rain & clouds, they taste like store bought and many bigger ones are cracking just when they start to ripen.
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Post by Al on Jul 25, 2015 5:12:32 GMT -5
 IMG_1419 by Alex Taylor, on Flickr Stupice has been earliest to ripen, first one was about a week into July. Often I have not had a ripe tomato until August so am delighted to have found this variety thanks to this forum. Tigerella was the next earliest but just one small fruit 24 July. Have heard good things about Maskotka; early & tasty so might try that next year. And Bloody Butcher is on the "to-try" list if I can find it in the U.K. |
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Post by galina on Jul 27, 2015 17:21:24 GMT -5
Galina's cherry was the first one here. Oh it was good! There are several more turning colour. Why is it always the first one that makes us wait soooooooooooooooo long? Then they all follow in short order. Tomato time is here again  |
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Post by littleminnie on Jul 31, 2015 6:33:54 GMT -5
I'm really disappointed with the tomatoes I did in the low tunnel. I finally got ripe ones this week; just scouts. They are Stupice but beat the cherries even. The plants are huge and loaded with fruit but it is ripening so slow. Some had some BER.
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Post by mcool61 on Jul 31, 2015 20:49:07 GMT -5
My earliest & a personal best is 6-6-15 stupice, a week later, silvery fir tree, & next was a cross, not sure of what all but it was in seed for what I believe is russian 117 tomatoes & they are big & late. They are just now getting ripe. I had one plant in the row that appears to have crossed with an pink plum cross so I think it is a combination of amish paste, traveler & russian 117. They have been real handy filling the gap until the big ones ripen. I've been getting 3 or 4 tomatoes off of it every day for a couple of weeks now. It is sort of an orange paste tomato with slight ridges. I may keep some seed & see what it comes out like next year.
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Post by galina on Aug 2, 2015 10:33:28 GMT -5
Our tomatoes started ripening just over a week ago. Galina's, Auntie Madge's, Prairie Fire, Bloody Butcher and Alpatieva (a dwarf variety). Alpatieva in the greenhouse is not yet ready, but one of the outdoor ones is!
All a bit late this year due to late spring, but not a problem, if blight stays away for a bit longer please. Some years I spot the first ripe tomato on the same day the first signs of phytophtera infestans, late blight. Fingers crossed for this year.
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Post by RpR on Aug 15, 2015 23:19:59 GMT -5
My tomatoes are now coming in strong, but I found that about one third of the plants I bought are not what the label said they were.
I do not buy cherry type tomatoes but now have three plants of that type.
I bought three Green Zebra plants, I killed on by being clumsy, one is only doing fair, and theother is really a paste tomato.
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Post by steev on Aug 18, 2015 23:28:06 GMT -5
Tomatoes are so often a mixed bag; well, so long as one gets good salad, isn't it good?
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Post by 12540dumont on Aug 20, 2015 12:22:39 GMT -5
This year's winner for the best beefsteak tomato is Xodos de Europa from Paco, in Spain. Yummy and delicious. Yoder's Yellow was pretty good as well, but cracks more. Oxbow's Eva Nar, continues to pump out tomatoes. And finally a Strawberry Margaritta is beginning to color up. Leo's 2 favorites this year are Costoluto Genovese and Black Kalabash. These last 2 have performed well in the god awful heat.
The tomatoes like these 3 digits as much as I do. The bean, well they croaked.
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Post by DarJones on Aug 20, 2015 23:21:33 GMT -5
if you get some seed from the Strawberry Margarita, I'd appreciate a pack. I had a disastrous year with germination on this variety and wound up with no viable plants and no remaining seed.
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Post by RpR on Aug 21, 2015 14:06:43 GMT -5
Question to you who are better informed on tomato hows and whys.
I have been planting Green Zebra for quite a few years now. This year the plant is setting some tomatoes at minimum twice the size of any in the past.
Fluke of weather or because I fertilized with manure last fall?
All plants this year are growing foliage at an annoying rate also.
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Post by philagardener on Aug 21, 2015 16:40:19 GMT -5
Excess foliage may result from the nitrogen in that manure; good compost should be more balanced in its nutrients.
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Post by galina on Sept 13, 2015 9:16:08 GMT -5
"minimum twice the size of any last year" I have never seen quite that much variation in fruit size from one year to the next with medium sized tomatoes. Are you sure they are Green Zebra? (see your post above)
If they really are, then keep doing what you have been doing this year (manure). Foliage is the power-plant of any tomato. Lots of foliage can sustain more fruit. If there is an imbalance - too much foliage/hardly any fruit - then the plants may have had too much n and not enough p.
Maybe you got it just right this year.
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Post by littleminnie on Sept 15, 2015 20:06:20 GMT -5
My June planted Stupice put out much larger fruit than the May planted ones- the fruit being one month later.
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