What tomatoes will you grow this year?

[mrsg47]

Garden peach is a delightful novelty I have grown it on and off for years . The tomatoes aren’t very large but they have a good non-acidic taste; you have to laugh at a fuzzy tomato!

[smatthew]

I love juliet. Super productive, easy to harvest, and a great tomato for drying.

[clarkinks]

A friend gave me these heirloom green tomatoes and let me say they are excellent! Taste just like a really good red. Decided I would have one of these tomatoes for supper!

[Drew51]

Looks good! I still like the dark better, but agree the greens can be excellent.

[TheGrog]

I found Super Sweet 100 to be a good cherry tomato. The fruits are both sweeter and more tender than any of the mixed cherry herilooms I buy at the farmer’s market.

It does seem rather blight prone for my area, as it suffered from what I think was blight withering away branches almost all year. It also grows very tall, tall enough that I needed a bigger cage than what I had.

[Drew51]

It does seem rather blight prone f

Blight was all over this year, even struck the industry that produces plants for sale. I agree for cherries hybrids rule. For regular tomatoes some good hybrids too. Hybrids are just a cross of two heirlooms, somebody has to check what the heirlooms offer, as it may lead to better hybrids.

[northwoodswis4]

I planted about 25 plants of about six varieties in a new area on our rural acreage with wonderful soil this year. When we left for a vacation in mid-August, there were about a bushel or more of wonderful green tomatoes. I told a friend they could pick any getting ripe while we were gone. Well, the whole bed suddenly got late blight. When I returned two weeks later the vines were all dead! The tomatoes got big rotten spots before they would ripen. My friend and I were able to salvage parts of tomatoes, but there wasn’t ONE good whole tomato. My question is, next year I expect there will be a lot of volunteers coming up in that area. Is there any point in letting any of them grow?
A number of longtime-gardening friends had the very same problem with their tomatoes, but a couple people I know did not. Next year I will try putting straw around the plants to prevent backsplash. Since I have never gotten late blight that bad before I am not sure I want to just routinely use chemical sprays. Was it mostly the humid weather (though drier than usual August and September) or is there another cause? It was sure disappointing to lose them all after such a promising start. Or should I plant two different areas, one with sprays and one without, then give away all the sprayed ones if the unsprayed ones do fine?

[Drew51]

Some tough questions I’m not sure I have the answers for? It sounds like multiple problems because the blight didn’t damage my fruit. Spots is bacterial spot. Or possibly BER? I’m still getting tomatoes. The plants are dead except for the tops. I’m almost done though.
Chemicals offer little help only if sprayed all season every 7-10 days. Agri-fos can be used for late blight, it is Mono and dipotassium salts of Phosphorous Acid. It is systemic. I have no worries about this chemical.
I was gone for the weekend. I came back and picked anything that started to turn. I like to ripen inside when night temps get low, as tomatoes will not ripen in these cold temps, or at least slows them down.

[northwoodswis4]

My friends who had blight said someone took a sample in to have it analyzed, and the result was late blight. Their fruits did the same, get a glassy patch on them that then rotted and spread through the fruit. Picking them early didn’t seem to help much. I don’t think I want to use a systemic chemical.

[northwoodswis4]

I am familiar with blossom end rot, but it wasn’t that.

[Drew51]

I may not have late blight, it looked like it. I use Phosphorous Acid (OMRI listed organic) as it is not considered toxic Organicside is one organic product. Although I do like to look at organic products the same as chemical products, as they are one in the same as far as I’m concerned. I don’t get why one chemical is organic and another is not? Even if both occur in nature.

[tonyOmahaz5]

This is my last harvest of veggies for the year.

Tony

[RobThomas]

Not bad for your final haul, Tony. We’ve had some light frosts, but still getting a few tomatoes. Probably done after this next cold front, though.

[Drew51]

Yeah I have a few to pick and time is almost up here too.

[tonyOmahaz5]

Just harvested these tomatoes today.

Tony

[SMC_zone6]

Has anyone else grown King of Siberia? For me, it has a unique dough-like taste to it. I’ve never tasted that in another tomato. It was fairly surprising the first time I tasted it, but it seems to be consistent in all the KoS’s I’ve had this year.

[subdood_ky_z6b]

I think King of Siberia translates to Korol Sibiri, which I did grow a couple years ago. I believe it was a yellow oxheart variety?

Anyway, what i remember is that the plant was kinda weepy looking, but quite productive. I don’t remember it having a dough like flavor though. To me it was OK, just a mild yellow variety, not real flavorful. But, I didn’t get to try too many of them as the plant got hit with disease and didn’t ripen enough of them.

[northwoodswis4]

As a follow-up to my earlier post. This year I planted the tomatoes in a new area. We have tomatoes coming out of our ears. There are also some volunteers that came up where the blighted ones grew last year. They are also fine. I didn’t do anything any differently than I did last year, and the weather was similar. Go figure!

[Joe]

Looks good. This site says it’s “disease resistant”. How is it for you in that regard? I’m most worried about early and late blight.

[subdood_ky_z6b]

Not to answer for Maria, but I grew Romeo tomatoes this year for the first time. Just about all my heirloom varieties get blight due to our growing conditions- warm, rainy and humid. But Romeo seemed to have better disease resistance than most of the varieties I have tried.

The fruit was huge Roma-type tomatoes. The plants had very dense foliage, usually not good to have in these conditions, but seemed to do pretty well. The two plants were on average about 4ft tall, and somewhat productive. We will probably try them again next year.

We tried another Roma type variety, San Marzano, and it had a similar form to Romeo, short and dense, but was always was a blight magnet, seemed like it got disease sooner than other varieties. Hence we haven’t grown it anymore after 3 years of trying.