Westelle: Wrapping bird netting around the cages keeps the squirrels and possums out of my tomatoes.

I am growing:

Brandywine (2)
Neves Azorean Red (1)
Noire Charbonneuse (1)
Abe Lincoln (1)
Mariannas Peace (2)
Carolyn's Gold (1)
Copia (1)
Bush Celebrity (1)
Early Girl (1)
Hawaiian Pineapple(1)

and one that right now I cannot remember...but I DO have it marked at the community garden that I grow my veggies at!

Duchess

I'm growing too many! This year, I have 2 Marianna's Peace, 2 Cherokee Purples, 2 Black Cherries, 1 Green Grape, 1 Isis Candy, and 1 Lemon Boy. The latter two are for the last time, though, unless things look much better this year than last.

Silvery Fir Tree
Tonadose des Conores
Purple Calabash
Ping Pong Pink
AUnt Ruby's German Green
Siberia
Momotaro
Early Girl
Indische Fleisch
Sun Sugar
Galinas
Ernie's Round
Vesuvio
Speckled Roman
Aunt Ginny's Purple
Black Plum
Japanese Black Trifele
Riesenstraube
and a couple volunteers

Early Girl
Bush Early Girl
Brandywine
2 Costoluto Genovese
2 Milano
Red Grape
SunCherry

Tangerine
Snow White
Carbon
Cherokee Green (DH accidentally smashed replaced w/Black Sea Man 6/11)
Lucky Cross
Black Cherry (store bought)
Aunt RubyÂs German Green
Aunt GertieÂs Gold
Aunt RubyÂs Green Cherry
UnaÂs Yellow Cherry Pulled
Mexico
Cabot
Earl de Edgecombe
Kimberly
SFT
Kosovo
Sugar Lump
Moldovan Green
Peacevine Cherry
GrubÂs Mystery Green
Berkeley Tie Dye
AnnaÂs Russian
Stick

From O.C.;
Champion (prolific)
Early Girl (prolific)
Roma (boring)
Omars Lebonese (huge, no, enormous)
Supersteak (jury is out)
Patio (pots and ground)
Sun Gold
Super Sweet 100

I am suprised no one else listed "champion", where im at it produces (Sunset zone 23) A great backbone plant.

At this time I have an Omar that is 7-8 inches across

I have:

Siberia
San Diego
Early Girl
Brandywine

Seedlings started for fall:
Stupice
San Francisco Fog
Persimmon
La Roma
also 2 suckers rooted and potted up of Siberia

Here is a link that might be useful: calzone's tomatoes

Hello! New to the forum AND gardening, I dug a deep bed this year. I live around Mariposa and have planted the following tomatoes:

* Giant Belgium (1)
* Matina (1)
* Pinapple (2)
* Burbank Slicing (2)
* Sweet Million (2)
* Sun Gold (2)

I am growing one Early Girl and one the birds planted ?? I am wondering what you all do with so many tomatoes!!!

Ace
Betterboy
Black Cherry
Brandywine
Caspian Pink
Dixie Gold
Early Girl
Jetsetter
Mortgage Lifter
Polish Elis
Red Barn
Roma
San Marz
Stupice
Sungold
Sweet 100

I had to buy some transplants because of all of the rain. So there are some more hybrids in the garden this year. Usually Sungold is the only one. Almost 30 plants total..

How many are members of Tomatoville.com? On that website, there are lots of members that are from CA.

Hey everyone. Right now we're growing Beefsteak and cherry tomatoes and a few others Im not sure about ( my bf and our roommate are into the plants)... they bought some kind of hawaiian tomato, but the flowers are turning brown and falling off.. does anyone know what we should do to fix this or can they just not be grown here in southern CA... any help would be appreciated. thank you.

I don't even know the type growing in my garden. Odd thing is that I never set any tomatoe seeds and all of a sudden it showed up. Sprinkler system has been giving it water and I've done nothing other than pick the tomatoes. It's actually the only vegetable in the garden. Lots of little ping pong sized tomatoes which we've really enjoyed.

Black 2
Black Prince 1
Brandywine 7
Early Girl 6
Husky Cherry 6
Burpees Supersteak 7

BTW, I see two posters saying they are growing ACE. The state of California has/had it on their recommended list because its supposed to do well under low humidity conditions like we have in southern California. Any opinions on its taste, productivity, and disease resistance? I never tried it myself.

Last year I had luck with a couple of Early Girls so I thought I'd try her again. My one Early Girl has been giving us about 3 tomatoes daily for about a month.... which is just perfect for our needs.

I only grow a few tomatoes in pots. Every week I go to the farmers market and buy heirlooms. It's too cold and shady where I live for most tomatoes to do well.

We always grow Sungold cherry tomatoes. They turned my husband from a tomato-hater to a tomato-lover!

I've tried Early Girl but although it ripens here, the taste is flat and bland. Celebrity was much better but I couldn't find any plants in the garden center (I prefer container plants, since I usually only need 2-3 of them).

This year I figured since I have to grow the Sungolds from seed, I might as well try a regular tomato as well. I have 2 Burpee's Early Pick Hybrid bush tomatoes, so we'll see how they do.

This is the first year I've tried the red plastic mulch, which supposedly encourages fast growth on tomato plants. So far I've been impressed - even with our extremely cool nights and windy days, both types of tomatoes have set fruit very quickly.

Cherry /in pots ; cause I believe if we eat anything out of the ground here in LA we will all start to "glow" ! lol

I'd like to try BeefSteak but will pots support them ??

I don't get the heat that toms need, so I'm trying a different mix this year.

Ones doing great so far
- Brandywine
- Stupice
- Large red cherry
- Black Knight
- Paul Robson
- Mortgage lifter
- Druzba

So so
- Isis Candy; very slow setting fruit, not vigorous
- Black cherry; planted late, slow to get growing
- SF fog; small plant, lots of fruit

Deceased
- Early girl; planted in March, by early June wilt killed large plant in 2 days

=^,,^= diana

Champion VFNT

Sungold
San Francisco Fog
Shady Lady
Champion
Better Boy
Sungold

I was surprised to see Copia in S. Ca. I have 3 of them. They are slow to set fruit so I 0-10-10 them yesterday. The tomatos are to die for.

I also have San Marzano and it has fruit on it. I brought seed back from Italy thinking I would never find this tomato in the US and I did. They are wonderful and what was used in the sauces in Sorrento.

Have 2 cherries. Penny

just 3 - Champion, Celebrity and Health Kick (planted only yesterday)

AREA 1:
koralik
AREA 2:
2 volunteers, who knows?
AREA 3:
1 volunteer, quien sabe?
AREA 4:
brandywine sudduth
brandywine OTV
druzba
AREA 5:
koralik
pink ping pong
rahart's red
kellogg's
pruden's purple
sungold
matt's wild cherry

STATUS: the plants in AREA 4 developed some foliar disease, but 2 sprayings 10 days apart with horticultural oil has seemed to reverse the problem. All other AREAs report "plants going bonkers."

only two tomato plants this year, but they are both doing great, have been harvesting deep red fruit for about a month now.

1. Juliet (small paste type, big bush, lots of fruit, can handle our heat)

2. SC 100 (cherry, big bush, lots of fruit, slows during the hottest days, but does not stop)

also growing other solanums, pepino dulce, naranjilla, and cocona. No fruit yet.

-Ethan

My 2007 list:
Kellogs Breakfast
Little Brandywine
Brandywine
Red Cherry
Cherokee Purple
Jubilee
Jet Star
Better Boy
Lemon Boy
Mortgage Lifter
Jet Setter
Celebrity
Sungold
Sweet 100
Black Prince
Granny Smith
Green Zebra
San Marzano

I planted a Caspian Pink that came down with some kind of crud so I jerked it. And I can finally say every plant has set fruit- Kellogs Breakfast and Mortgage Lifter apparently don't like the cool nights we have here- they both just set fruit this week. Cherokee Purple and Lemon Boy are both just going gangbusters.

Champion (monster indeterminate vines, loads of fruit with great flavor, skins a little thick)
Roma (boring but predictable)
Some grape and cherry varieties that leave my socks firmly ON so far

already pulled out -- Forest Fire (45 d early), seneseced
giving these away, mostly--
unknown (labeled Black from Tula, wasn't)
Martino's Roma
Pink Cherry
Black Pearl

keeping some, giving some away --
Black Plum (another mislabeled one, was supposed to be Black Cherry)
Black Krim, very prolific

eating these every day --
Momotaro
Pruden's Purple
Green Grape
Sungold
Chadwick Cherry

just started producing --
Heidi
Arkansas Traveler
Opalka
Polish Linguisa

Beefsteak
Lemon Boy (2 plants)
Japanese Pink
Yellow Pear
Russian Purple Heirloom

"BTW, I see two posters saying they are growing ACE. The state of California has/had it on their recommended list because its supposed to do well under low humidity conditions like we have in southern California. Any opinions on its taste, productivity, and disease resistance? I never tried it myself."

Here's an answer (3 1/2 months late): I grew Ace two seasons ago and it produced very well for me. However, I found its taste rather mild and unassuming. In other words, it tasted ok. It's a great tomato for making salsa and putting on sandwiches, but I rarely ate it in a salad or by itself. It just wasn't exciting enough. It's pretty reliable, though. My dad grew Ace every year when I was a boy and neither of us have ever had any disease problems with the variety.

Hillbilly (the most vigorous)
Aunt Gertie's Gold
Mortgage Lifter
Purple Calabash
Brandywine (mislabelled... it's some kind of Roma tomato)
Aunt Ruby's Green
Paul Robeson
Early Girl (yes, it is early.. that's the best you can say for it - next year I will do Stupice for an early tomato)
Purple Cherokee
Mr. Stripey

cherries (all great)
Sungold
SunSweet
Sweet 100
Black Cherry

Black Cherry
Mystery cherry that was supposed to be Sun Cherry but isn't! :(
Snow White
Sungold
Sun Sugar
Coyote
Sweet 100
Sweet Million
Ladybug
Jenny

Marianna's Peace
Red Brandywine
Cherokee Purple
Ace
Lemon Boy
Better Boy
and I'll be getting Opalka, Brown Berry, Carbon, Paul Robeson, True Black Brandywine (from Baker Creek), Brandywine Suddeth strain, Riesentraube, galinas and the real Sun Cherry soon just for fun. Not worried about production given how late it is :)

Big Beef's all I need. Size, taste, productivity, all there.
5 miles inland, Oceanside.

Black Tula-had first one- really good!
Black Triffle
Roma
Grape
Sweet 100
Sunmaster
Homestead
(Had a pink Brandywine- until gopher got it) :(

Marvel Stripe
Big Beef
Mexico
Caspian Pink

A lot less ambitious than I was when I posted three years go!

Pink Brandywine
Mr. Stripey
Yellow Pear
Sweet 100
Lemon Boy
Black Prince
Better Boy

I live in a duplex (house) and the unit the owner lived in is vacant (property is bank owned now) so I am guerilla gardening the empty back yard with:

Kellogg's Breakfast
Lennie and Gracie's Kentucky
Spark's Yellow
Azoychka
Green Zebra
Carbon
Rutgers

In my own yard:
Momotaro
Japanese Black Trifele
Early Girl (from last year and soon to be pulled)

In 15 gal squats:
San Marzano
Principe de Borghese
Black Sea Man

Seedlings I have to squeeze in somewhere:
Taxi
Sweet Baby Girl
Opalka
Black Krim

I noticed my local nursery has much fewer varieties of heirloom tomatoes this year so I had to grow them from seed - much more fun and rewarding I'll never go back to buying plants!

In norcal, marin. 1st year gardening in 2 raised beds and some containers:

12 tomato plants total

Big beef
San marzano
Black krim
Oaxacan jewel
Marvel striped
Sun gold
Sun sugar
Stupice
Sugar snack

Fruit set 1 month from plantout:
Black krim
Stupice
Sungold
Sunsugar
Sugar snack

Here is a link that might be useful: 1 month progression pics

Big year, things are looking good!

marvel striped
druzba
soldacki
chadwick cherry
prize of the trials
sungold
sun sugar
german head
marglobe
omar's lebanese
early girl
la rossa
brandywine

My neighbor gave me an early girl, a celebrity and a sweet 100, all from Costco...those were some big plants!

I gave away 11 seed starts that I couldn't use.

Has anyone seen any Bingo plants/seeds? I'd found a plant last year in Visalia and it was a great plant. I can't find a seed company or any nursery with this plant.

Concord, CA

Celebrity
Ace
Better Boy
Sweet 100
Roma

Hi all, I am in Central California, looking to trade tomatoes for fresh canned spaghetti sauce. I love to can and it seems like a fair trade :)

hey y'all!

i'm in hercules (ccc) and i've got:

romas (2)
yellow pear (we call it the MONSTER! because it's taking over)
sweet 100 (2)

more/different ones next year. happy gardening!

Here in Simi it has been a good year for tomatoes. I have:

Monster Sungold
Stupice that I finally figured out how to water correctly to get sweet fruit
San Marzano Plum
Legend (1/4 plant- grrr- gophers)
Early Girl

I love Stupice. Small plant, very productive, good size tomato.

Renee

Pink Boar, Rutgers Heirloom, Paul Robeson, Roma, Black Krim, Indigo Rose, Green Zebra, Mortgage Lifter, Amish Paste, Red Current, Cherry

Rutgers in a pot (looks scrawny but has quite a few tomatoes)

Black Cherry (bush very small, hope it wakes up soon)

Unknown tiny orange tomato (very tasty, bush still small also)

It's going to be a while before I see any ripe tomatoes.

Also 3 peppers, 2 zucchini, 2 kinds of pumpkin (just for fun)

Healthy Kick (starting to change color)
Better boy (still green)
BeefSteak (Starting to change color)
Early Girl (Began Harvesting)

Sun Gold - starting to harvest
Sweet Baby Girl - starting to harvest
Sprite - changing color
Lime Green Salad - lots of green tomatoes
Legend - lots of green tomatoes
Cherokee Purple - handful of tomatoes, this plant has been stunted compared to others
Big Beef - lots of small tomatoes

Sun Gold (yum)
Sweet 100
One of the nematode resistant hybrids- can't remember the name- Celebrity? Better Boy?

Black Prince (1)
Sungold (1)
Giuseppe's Big Boy (1)
Improved Mortgage Lifter (6)
Grape(6)
Better Boy(6)