Which Tomato Varieties Are the Best to Grow?
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- Опубліковано 9 жов 2024
- On this week's Row by Row Garden Show, the guys talk about growing tomatoes -- which varieties work best, growing tomato plants, trellising and pest management.
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The Amish Paste does good for us. We have planted all the other varietys with good success. Can't wait to grow The hybrids this year.
Hope y'all have a bumper crop of tomatoes this year!
This information you put out is outstanding. I will be ordering some of the tomato seeds from you soon. I am in zone 8 as well about 45 miles north of the GA/FL line off I-95. Thanks for all the great info. Will be planting red potatoes in about a week. Waiting for them to heal at the moment. Y'all work good as a team and cover all the bases. Thanks.
Thanks Buck. Glad you enjoy our content. Hope you have a great garden this year!
We've grown the Mortgage Lifter successfully. They have very good flavor and were heavy producers for us. We found they didn't last very long after being picked, so we worked them up quickly. We've gotten away from them because of so many gift seeds we planted instead of buying more seeds. The last few years we haven't had enough tomatoes to can, make tomato sauce, pizza sauce and juice, so I may be buying more Mortgage Lifter Seed this year. Yes, that sounds like a very good idea. The yellow pear tomato is also a favorite too. I took a box to church camp one year, set them in the kitchen where most all came to fix food. They were not refrigerated and lasted most of the week before they were all eaten.One year we had so many I made juice from many of them and had the pulp and skins sitting on the counter waiting for the compost pile. Mom walked by, saw them, took them and made a dandy fine marmalade out of them. Needless to say we canned many jars of that too. This is what happened in Idaho.
The mortgage lifter is a very popular variety. We can't grow them very well here because they don't handle the disease pressure very well. We can grow the Yellow Pear pretty well and we love those!
Now this one here will grow and grow and grow...GREAT...too bad you didn't tell us what variety it is.
Sorry. It's called a Yellow Pear Tomato. Here's the link: hosstools.com/product/yellow-pear-tomato/
@@gardeningwithhoss YES! I was guessing it had to be yellow pear. Those things are AMAZING for hot weather, too much rain, not enough rain... everything :-)
Great info guys. I really look forward to watching your show every week. Some of the varieties we have good luck with here in West Tennessee are Park's Whopper, Better Boys, Indian River and the ole standby Rutgers.
Rodder 204 glad you enjoy the show. Hope you have a great tomato crop this year!
I'll save room for you in the barn Greg! We'll both be there if we pull that stunt for Valentine's Day! Other than that tip, great show, as always! That tale of the Radiator Charlie's Mortgage Lifter maters is one of my favorites and some of our friends may not have heard it! I've read a lot of different accounts of it (the "legends" behind some of these varieties fascinates me!) and all agree that it was a man named Mr. Byles, who owned a radiator shop in West Virginia. There is general agreement that the German Johnson was the variety that was crossed with a Beefsteak and Italian variety and an English variety (not all agree on these other 3 varieties). He cross pollinated himself, using a baby's ear syringe and continued for 6-7 years before he got the stable variety he wanted. As for Heirloom varieties, I love them and grow a variety every year (Dester, Carbon, Brandywine (Sudduth strain), German Johnson, Cherokee Purple, Paul Robeson this year). I do grow hybrids too. As far as productivity of the heirlooms, I agree that they are generally less productive, but we have found one that produced better than any of our other large maters last year, and stood up to fungal and insect pressure as well as any, and that is Paul Robeson. I had heard about this variety for years and always said I'd get around to growing it, but as you know, you could spend the rest of your life testing mater varieties without duplicating any! PR has an almost "cult like" following of devoted fans and I'm beginning to see why. We're only one year into growing them but I promise you they have a spot on the trellis this year!
Might have to give ole Paul Robeson a try!
@@gardeningwithhoss I'll poke around, I've probably got some seeds I can send you.
Sungold was our market money maker last year, I'll have to get some seed from you guys now I know you stock them. Good excuse to order a disc harrow for the wheely. I'll tell the Mrs I needed to get a harrow for free shipping on my seed.
That's right!
seed taters for valentines - love it. You are right she will remember it and you will too.
🤣 😏
She won't ever forget it! haha
them boys are spreading knowledge here and there, thanks guys
Our pleasure!
Just found your channel and subscribed! Good info and looks like several I follow is already here. On the tomatoes I'm in zone 7 and the German Pink out perform my Cherokee Purple so far its the best tasting tomato I have ever grown.
Glad you found us Doc!
I use the cone cages and then when the tomatoes get above the cages I use the Florida weave from there on up.
Not a bad idea!
Travis I've grown them all the best tomato I've ever grown in parks whopper. It's blooms early and puts on till frost. Put you a cup of 18-46-0 in between the plants a small cup you'll be surprised what will happen!
Where do ya get that 18-46-0 fert Joel Henderson?
@@XaViEr3520 I get mine at feed store maybe where you live they will have it!
Never heard of Parks Whopper. Gonna have to look that one up.
Joel Henderson will have to look it up! Thanks!
@@gardeningwithhoss I've been planting them for 30 years. They are in South Carolina Park seed company!
Blossom end rot - I have noticed that when i water irregularly is when i have the trouble the most. Mine or growing in the ground in my high tunnel and i water with a hose from underneath. I keep the water off the leaves. This year i have watered regularly with almost no blossom end rot. Very little at the very beginning. Also i did not put any calcium on my ground this year and have not added any. Plan to use calcium over the whole garden next year.
Good to hear! That blossom end rot isn't any fun.
looking forward to the new tool in the garden. Love them tomato sandwiches too.
"mater" sandwiches are the best!
What do you use against the leaf footed bugs? They took over my garden last year and I had to net all my tomatoes to keep them off. Seems they liked breeding on potatoes, sunflowers, long beans, snow peas, and, of course, tomatoes. I had to resort to using trap crops and blasting them with the flame weeder and zapping with an electric fly swatter.
We had a bad problem with them last year too. Once the adult population gets strong, not much you can do. So we spray organic controls frequently to keep the population down enough so we can get good early harvests. And once plants are toast, pull them and get them as far away from the garden as possible. You don't want any of those eggs overwintering in the soil.
Had a problem last year with tomatoes splitting? Anything I can do to prevent the splitting
That's usually a result of too much water. We had lots of rain last year which caused that issue as well -- not a whole lot you can do about too much rain.
Do you guys plant determinant tomatoes in the fall? If so what variety and when do you go in the ground?
We have and it works okay if the whitefly pressure isn't off the charts. You won't get as big a harvest as you typically do in spring, but it's a great way to have tomatoes in the fall. Any of our disease-resistant, determinate varieties would work -- Bella Rosa, Brickyard or Mountain Glory. They need to be planted around mid-July for us down here in the south.
I own a feed store and when my customers ask about planting according to the moon I always say we are gardening on Earth not the moon. Lol.
That's a good one!
Agree
What are your favorite weaving trellis stake materials? I've been using 1/2" conduit, but always looking for better options. Cheap and long lasting are keys to my heart.
We use T-posts (which last forever) and wooden stakes (which last several seasons). We put a t-post every 5 plants or so, and a wooden stake between each plant when we do the Florida weave.
This will be my 1st year using the Florida weave. I found on Tractor Supply’s website a possible substitute for the wood stakes called Fi-shock 4ft step-in stake. It is made for electric fence wire support. Only $1.89 each and made of fiberglass. 10ft conduit is $3.52 at HD so actually a little less expensive and 5ft instead of 4ft so that may be a better option
I was just wondering what the difference in growing heirloom tomatoes in town then were you live. I live in the country surrounded by corn and beans and i have not had to much of a issue growing heirloom tomatoes but I also live in the the midwest.
Tomato viruses are carried by thrips and aphids. Some areas of the country have higher thrip and aphid pressure, which is us. The humidity makes it tough as well. So we have to grow the disease-resistant varieties if we want a decent crop of tomatoes.
I wish you guys would say what month you’re in. You Tube says “a year” but that’s not really enough information. Just a thought!
If you click on the video description below each video, it will provide the publish date of that video. It's a little tricky to find on mobile, but it's there right below the video player.
@@gardeningwithhoss thanks!
Have you guy's ever grown box car Willie?
Never tried that one. Would you recommend it?
This variety does well for me here in Arkansas zone 7
@@gardeningwithhoss yup it's a great variety
Wow thought that was a turnip at first 👀
Wooo that tomato fever is rising!!! I was just gonna grow determinate maters and now y’all getting me interested on those y’all offering!!
We always like to grow some of both
Hoss Tools check your orders! Put in a good size order! Like I said before fan for life really like what both of y’all are doing!
Hoss Tools aww man just got the email that y’all have that potato sample!!! I already made my order and didn’t see the potato sample and got confirmation that it’s ready to ship 😬
When do you start the seedlings in the greenhouse? I live in SC, so Im not that far from you.
We'll start them in the next couple weeks, mid-January or so.
love the comment" never been that cold,,dont need to be"
That's right!
love this
Thanks!
What do you do for pruning mater plants?
We've got some pruning shears with a lifetime warranty: hosstools.com/product/pruning-shears/
Cherokee purple have great flavor
Yes they do!
I solved my problem with horn worms by planting bell peppers between my tomato plants.
Good idea!
Whoa what?! Trying it!
Best cherry tomato is Sun Gold.
It has an excellent flavor!
Have you guys ever tried Sun Sugar? Curtis Stone in his video said he likes that better because there is no decrease in good flavor later in the season. Have you noticed that your Sun Golds don't taste as good as the season progresses? As a result of his video I went straight for the Sun Sugars and they are FABULOUS.
I thought it was a radish, lol. Looks good
It was a very tasty radish!
What is the perfect fertilizer balance for Cherokee purple tomatoes
We use our 20-20-20 and MicroBoost on ours.
@@gardeningwithhoss "Man"...that is a quick response, thank you so much.
Do you have a disease resistant beefsteak tomato that’ll produce nearly 1 pound fruit?
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You didn't happen to give the name of that yellow hair early or cherry tomato cuz you said is very prolific
Yellow pear
hosstools.com/product/yellow-pear-tomato/
Good handle shape and *no lacquer*
We don't lacquer our handles. It splinters over time and makes the tools uncomfortable to use. We believe in using boiled linseed oil on handles.
what was the name of the variety at 12:35 you never said the name just how good it was lol
Mortgage Lifter - hosstools.com/product/mortgage-lifter-tomato/
It wasn’t mortgage lifter,it looked like a yellow variety
@@johnanderson6879 Yellow Pear
Make sure the roof on your dog house isn’t leaking before you order her them seed taters!
Haha. Might not hurt to go ahead and put a few extra blankets and pillows in there.
I miss greg and travis together on the row by row
Have y’all ever ran into a problem with the tomatoes getting red my tomatoes last year and for some reason they would not turn red they just stayed in the green stage
Never seen that happen. Bet you had plenty of fried green tomatoes though!
My cherry tomatoes would turn red but for some reason the big tomatoes would turn the yellowish in that would be about the color they would get
You sure they weren’t tomatillos 🤣
Compared to your Love there is nothing greater....
To show my Love a gotcha Bag of Seed Taters...
Don’t cry baby I know you’re Happy
Cause you thought I was gonna get ya something crappy
Excellent love poem. Mind if we borrow it?
Sure
😂
Great information! And..... My wife's off chocolate so maybe it's taters this year!
Ken McClellan taters are a much better investment than chocolate!
Do. You. Grow. Peache. Trees. In. Ga
We don't have any, but plenty of folks do around here.
Is that a yellow pear tomato?
Sure is. One of our favorite indeterminate varieties.
So what are they called?!?!?! 12:50
That's what I'm bitching about too ! Oh, but they will grow and grow and grow !
It's called a Yellow Pear Tomato. Here's the link: hosstools.com/product/yellow-pear-tomato/
Lol if I got my wife taters for v day I be next year fertilizer
Haha. You'd be surprised how much women love planting taters on Valentines Day!
I wish that every one hade the love for the garden like that we all be better off keep up the great content love it from your garden to mine I will soon be putting out the peas I got form you guys
OK, I can't help myself, if the moon where destroyed, there would be no gravitational pull on the earth, so no waves in the oceans, and the convecting engine that is responsible for our weather pattern would break down, and probable killl the Tators..
After further research if the moon where destroyed the earth's tide would still be there, just very tiny due to the gravitational pull of the sun, the weather pattern would break down, and most concerning over time the earth's tilt would change, but I do agree with the premise that tators don't need to be planted on a full moon!
Glad you researched that more. The lunar tides are very tiny in comparison to solar tides. The moon has nothing to do with the success of planting.
Poor titles.... " which tomato to grow "... You don't speak of tomatoes till far into video
This is our weekly gardening show where we talk about many different topics. And the title can only be so long -- so it can be difficult to include everything in the title.
Seed taters? Lol
Mortgage lifters and Cherokee purple...two of the juiciest maters you'll ever eat
Makes a great mater sandwich!