Tomatoes for 2023

[Growin-Stuff]

How did they taste? Would like a paste type that has some flavor. IMO, Roma’s lack any flavor. San Marranos still lack some flavor compared to Better Boys.
Had Lincoln’s-yuck!
Amish paste-yuck!

Have you tried Campbells 1327, Rutgers 250 or J.T.D. (J. T. (John Thompson) Dorrance? None of these 3 are a paste type tomato as in looks but make good sauce.

The Rutgers 250 you may have to order them direct for Rutgers University in the early spring as I don't know off hand of any seed stores that carry it yet.

 

[ducks4you]

Just up potted 83 tomatoes from my 72 cell seed starter in the last 2 days.
This USED to be easier!!

 

[seedcorn]

I started some “improved” Better Boys. When they were looking good-along with 4 different types of peppers and the orange o hearts, I sprayed them with a carbon source. HUGE MISTAKE! Lost 1/2 of them, rest look bad. Dumb on my part.

 

[ducks4you]

@seedcorn , you still have time to start again.

 

[seedcorn]

@seedcorn , you still have time to start again.

I am hoping to plant this weekend. I’d direct sow maybe but doubtful....

 

[baymule]

I am hoping to plant this weekend. I’d direct sow maybe but doubtful....

I hope you can revive most of them.

 

[digitS']

Direct sowing is something that I think anyone with a longer growing season should try. But ... that's just me, thinkin' .

With our incredibly delayed first frost last year, I had a volunteer that was just covered (literally covered!) with small red cherries. A few fruits finally ripened and they were incredibly flavorless. Probably from a Sweet 100 F1 parent and genes were from a tasteless grandparent.

As I recall, Seed' is all-about RED tomatoes, so these may not be good choices. Coyote would volunteer and ripen year after year after year. And yet, when I tried to direct sow -- the seed didn't germinate. In fact, I had real trouble with the seed indoors. They wanted just the right conditions and made their own determination what those were.

Gold Nugget matures its fruit incredibly quick. The seeds are widely available, a 55 day tomato. Bloody Butcher is a red! It will be the earliest this year in my garden. Yesterday, as I moved it back to the greenhouse for the night, I noticed a blossom that had opened on one plant. Burpee claims that it is also a 55 day variety.

The Spruce has some ideas. I have grown Tigerella and Sub Arctic. It was a relief to move to a location where I didn't feel the need to grow Sub Arctic "the world's earliest tomato!"

Steve

 

[ducks4you]

I used to have lots of cherry tomato volunteers. The cherry tomatoes came faster than any larger ones, yet in 2022 I had a volunteer slicing tomato plant in the middle of my big garden and I couldn't bear to kill it. I had a decent harvest from it, although had I started same and transplanted I would have had more fruit.
We should learn to garden like our meals are counting on it...they may be soon!!!

 

[ducks4you]

In case anybody wants to know~

Sub Arctic Plenty, Tomato Seeds | Slicing Tomatoes

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Sub Arctic Plenty Tomato (60 Days)

Developed in Canada, the Sub Arctic Plenty Tomato is one of the world's earliest tomatoes. It sets fruit early and under cool summer conditions and is a heavy yielder; 2 oz, round, red tomatoes in clusters. The plants may be placed close together and don't require staking. 25 seeds PLANTING...

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Yeah, I KNOW it's out of stock, but should be available end of season again.

 

[ducks4you]

I was floored at how many healthy baby tomatoes I started this year. Only a handful showed any stress by getting a purple tinge.
I want to point out that even with wetting the soilless medium and using a clear dome, once I removed the dome some cells that had seed that hadn't sprouted yet dried out and I was spraying them.
Once I sprayed them the seeds sprouted.
I have pots with clear bottoms, like the kind of containers that Monical's Pizza gives you for takeout salad, and I am keeping a couple of inches of water in them bc they are on heat mats that dry them out.
This is, SO FAR, the best tomato seed starting year ever for me.
I up potted using potting soil, btw.
Wish me luck!!