Has any body had Amish paste tomatoes

[Jared77]

Oh no not 7 varieties!!!!! It will be ok We'll get you through this

One suggestion from the peanut gallery. Grow what you normally would grow with varieties you normally would grow. Say for example you normally grow a dozen Early Girls......plant your normal dozen Early Girls. Then plant a few extra of the new varieties. This way you have your normal in case the variety doesn't pan out your not stuck either a subpar harvest. Production might not be up yo par for some reason. Or it might be a very underwhelming variety too. Flavor, overall size, lots of reasons it just might not be what you want.

Yes it's a little more work & yes it takes up a little more space but you'll know with a couple plants if it's something you want again or you just say the heck with them & try something else next year.

It's not hard to get rid of extra tomatoes if you don't care for them or simply have more than you can use. But this way your bases are covered.

Keep us posted I'm curious to hear how things pan out for you.

 

[TheSeedObsesser]

I just went and ordered about 15 different tomato varieties (pastes, oxhearts, beefsteaks, etc.) to add to the 10 or so that I already have, and I'll be getting more from seed swaps. I blame Wishin'!

Actually... I really don't have anybody to hold accountable but myself. They were just so - IRRESISTIBLE!

 

[Wishin']

Oh no not 7 varieties!!!!! It will be ok We'll get you through this

One suggestion from the peanut gallery. Grow what you normally would grow with varieties you normally would grow. Say for example you normally grow a dozen Early Girls......plant your normal dozen Early Girls. Then plant a few extra of the new varieties. This way you have your normal in case the variety doesn't pan out your not stuck either a subpar harvest. Production might not be up yo par for some reason. Or it might be a very underwhelming variety too. Flavor, overall size, lots of reasons it just might not be what you want.

Yes it's a little more work & yes it takes up a little more space but you'll know with a couple plants if it's something you want again or you just say the heck with them & try something else next year.

It's not hard to get rid of extra tomatoes if you don't care for them or simply have more than you can use. But this way your bases are covered.

Keep us posted I'm curious to hear how things pan out for you.

I usually do one grape variety and one big variety (two plants total)

 

[Jared77]

Oh.....

I usually have 5-6 dozen plants most years but then we can pretty aggressively too.

 

[Wishin']

When I first joined I saw all you people talking about how many varieties you have, and how many you plant

I thought why on earth would you have so many tomatoes, and what do you do with them? I had no idea how many varieties there are. Now i'm starting to understand. If I had the space I would have over 20 varieties.

 

[Jared77]

That's why I only do a few at a time to sample them. 4 is usually what I plant on a variety I've never had. It's enough to get a sample size without being overrun with them. Especially if it's something that as the summer progresses I'm saying to myself "I'm sure glad I only have a few of those". It's happened a few times & Im sure it will happen quite a few more times too. I also keep a list of "at some point I'm going to try these" for the future too. It's a list of varieties that catch my eye or sound good or I think are interesting. Sometimes it takes a few years to get to that point on the list but it happens eventually.

Plus I keep adding to the list which doesn't help at all either

The nice thing is you don't have to plant everything immediately or at once either. You have the seeds, plant them as you have room and see what strikes your fancy.

 

[digitS']

You can also give your family, friends and neighbors plants. Make sure they are people with gardens you will visit or, at least, see during the season.

Try to do a 2:1 or something where they get a couple that they actually want or that you are confident of to some that just captured your interest because of the catalog description.

I have one neighbor who will not keep the plant markers near the plants! I tell him his tomato garden looks a lot like mine. Mine is in another location.

It's true but he will often have only 1 of each. That's so I can recognize and keep track of how his plants are doing!

@Wishin' , it is like that grape tomato. Just what is a grape? Some experts put the grapes in the cherry category. ILDI is a little yellow tomato. Sometimes, the fruits are pear-shape! It does much better in my garden than a yellow pear variety. DW loves it! Trouble-free, why would anyone try to even avoid growing ILDI?

Steve
does it seem really warm in here? when did all those seedlings learn to dance?