My question is about growth habits for the varieties chosen. I have researched but not found much. Any help with height and any other habits would be appreciated.

I plan to grow:

Vinson Watts

Cherokee Purple

Eva Purple Ball

Matt's Wild Cherry

Thanks in advance for any help y'all can give

When you open the link to her home page, click on shortcuts at thetop, then click on alphabetical way of finding thepage for that variety.

All of the ones you list I'm sure you'll find there since most have been known for a long time.

Hope that helps.'

Carolyn

Cherokee Purple:
Indeterminate.
Height: 5' (Rutgers); 5-6' (Ventmarin); 6' (Cultivar Finder).

Eva Purple Ball:
Indeterminate. Fruit may fall when ripe.
Height: 5' (Rutgers); 5-6' (Ventmarin); 6' (Cultivar Finder).

Matt's Wild Cherry:
Indeterminate.
Height: 6' (Cultivar Finder).

Vinson Watts:
Indeterminate.
Height: 6-8' (Cultivar Finder).

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Here are the three databases I use for height. Rutgers and Cultivar Finder give the height for every variety listed; Ventmarin gives the height roughly half the time (for the varieties I check).

Rutgers Tomato Varieties:
Roughly 500-525 varieties.
http://njaes.rutgers.edu/tomato-varieties/

Ventmarin:
http://ventmarin.free.fr/passion_tomates/passion_tomate.htm
14,536 varieties. The site is French and in French. They give height in centimeters: multiply by .39 to learn the height in inches.
[Similarly, divide the weight in grams by 28 to learn the weight in ounces.]
If you're looking up an oxheart, a large number are listed under "Coeur de Boeuf" and then the variety name (minus the word "oxheart"). However, they do have See (Voir) references for most of them (thumbs up from this librarian). There are other language idiosyncrasies which I don't remember.

Cultivar Finder:
GW doesn't like us to link to that site.
About 4,000 varieties.
They give the height in categories, and may list more than one height category. So when I say 6', you'll find the variety listed as both 4-6' and 6-8'.

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Tatiana's TOMATObase doesn't have a height category and growth info is spotty, but it's the best listing for OP varieties: currently 4,756 (a handful of which are hybrids).
http://t.tatianastomatobase.com/wiki/Category:Tomato_Variety_List

I appreciate the input and will check out the cited websites

Many thanks for the handy links. I have found it quite difficult to research the height of different varieties - specifically because I'd like to grow short ones in a container. Having to check with many different sites for this info becomes really tedious!

Linda

Also, height is strongly related to the way tomato plants are grown, as in Sprawling, containers, staking, caging, trellising, etc.

On top of that growth is also influenced by the weather in any given season, amendments used, if so how much and when, and all sorts of other variables that cannot be controlled.

If a vareity is a true dwarf or a determinate, or is descibed as an indet, you have at least some idea of height, other than that I put height in the category of DTM's which IMO are sheer guesstimates. ( smile)

Carolyn

I'm not looking for exact heights, just some clue as to whether a variety can be grown in a container.

With Sophie's Choice (as an example) lots of places state that she is short and well-suited to containers.

Dwarfs are obvious choices too.

However, when chatting to a tomato-growing friend, she told me I could grow Chadwick Cherry in a container, something that was not obvious at any of the sites I visited.

Please don't laugh, but I used to grow Moneymaker every year. That's another indeterminate, yet for me it stops growing at a certain point and I think it would do well in a pot (if I hadn't discovered that there are more tasty tomatoes out there (LOL))

Linda

Or maybe that's the advantage, that the limited space limited the plant's growth and kept it to a reasonable size? If that's the case, then it's probably just trial and error. There isn't going to be a single site that lists that, because it's not commonly done.

Another resource for you - try looking at Remy's descriptions on sampleseeds.com. She identifies several varieties with a POT after the description to indicate those that may grow well in containers. But she's not going to include things like CC for the same reason other sites don't; it's just not typically done.

That said, if you are looking for a container cherry, I can recommend Remy Rouge (sold on SampleSeeds.com), which I believe is a French heirloom. It produced an amazing harvest over a long season for me last summer, all in a 5 gal HD bucket. Easiest plant in my garden last year.

My problem is that I received a TON of tomato seeds in the recent swap and I want to grow most of them, but I only have room for 18 plants so, if I can grow any of them in containers, then they can be "extras".

Sorry to hear that Chadwick was like the blob that ate the garden (LOL). Maybe I can tame it by confining it. Ha ha!

I'll take a look though Remy's site for more ideas.

Thanks,
Linda

JMO