Thanks for posting this! I took notes on varieties I want to try growing next season! I’m in Fayetteville, NC so I really appreciate all the knowledge and content you share.
@@JessicaHolmes I took note of the 'Siletz' variety he had growing in the containers. I'm above 8000+ feet with drastic temperature fluctuations. I need something smaller like that for container portability and which matures quicker also for the short growing season we have here.
Oh my goodness! You are the king of tomatoes! Here I am just wanting to plant some tomatoes (beefsteak, Cherry and Roma) how boring am I? 😂 You have opened up a whole new world of tomatoes for me now!
Bella Rosa’s produce tons of big beautiful tomatoes. I’m trying other Sakata determinate tomatoes this year as well, Roadster, Charger, Mountain Gem, Resolute, BHN 602, Camaro, Red Bounty, and Rocky Top. All determinate tomatoes. As for cherry tomatoes, sun sugar is my favorite. The taste is great and the production is overwhelming. I started some green zebra, dark galaxy, Matt’s wild berry, black krim, Anais Noire, Japanese Black Trifle, and New Yorker, all for the first time just to see how the production and taste is.
Beautiful garden! Great video thanks for sharing. The tomatoes look so healthy. My family and I have also started a small backyard garden. We're learning how to homecan, seed save, make compost, and preserve what we grow. Every penny saved helps. Less than 2 years in our new home and we've completely transformed the backyard. We are beginner gardeners, growing and learning along the way. Recently I started a gardening channel to help encourage others to begin growing as well. No time better than now to learn self sufficiency.
Good to know I’m not the only one with dozens of varieties going! Sungolds, Tommy Toes, White Cherry, Blue Berries, chocolate cherries, and super sweets. On the slicers, there are Paul Robesons, black beauty, Stupice, Kelloggs breakfast, Amish pastes, Miss Terrys (put the name together, they came with no tags or identifiers), Cherokee purple, Mortgage Lifters, Pineapples, as well as seven I forgot to label. Even still, with my small raised bed gardens, I think I can fit in a few more, and our first frost isn’t projected until November, so I feel safe getting more!
Very nice! Lots of heirlooms in there. I've thrown in the towel on most heirlooms. Aside from Brandywine Yellow and Arkansas Traveler, they just don't work out there. If you can grow them, they're really fun. Moving here from New Jersey was a gut punch. NJ and PA where i used to live were so easy to grow tomatoes. Down here, it's a war zone 😂
@@TheMillennialGardener Same here at 8000+ feet in the Rockies! Anxiously awaiting my first tomato blossoms to open this week. Just pulled the 4 and 5 gallon containered plants out of the 'hot house' plant starter A-frame cabin and into the sun shaded area (for now to prevent shock from the powerful sun) of the main garden area. Still a pretty barren garden area it is. The tomato plants will be headed up to the house to winter in the sun room in four short months. (Edit); Just a fun fact for you and all your readers, the aspen, willow, and cottonwood finally leafed out here last week. (I think they are all beginning to turn already!) Ha ha.
I'm in the North of England so grow Tomatoes in a small greenhouse together with some figs, chillies, cucumber and Aubergine (eggplant). This year I have Owen's purple, Dark green, Black Beauty's, Brad's atomic grape and Rebel Starfighter prime. So far it looks like it's going to be a good season, fingers crossed.
Loved this video. Can you please do a video discussing the diseases you showed on the tomatoes in this video? It would be so helpful when trying to identify when my tomatoes get something. Thanks so much.
A lot of diseases are difficult to identify. It's pretty easy to identify early blight, but it's hard to identify what various spots and discolorations are, let alone things like wilt. There are so many different problems and diseases that affect tomatoes that it's almost impossible to accurately identify the problem.
I really, really enjoy your videos. You've introduced me to some varieties I never even knew existed. I've always had such a hard time growing tomatoes. This year I was finally able to grow Roma's, sungold cherry and my brandywine produced 2 massive fruit but that was it. I was still very grateful. I have a few more varieties that I started in cups that are ready for transplant. Thank you for always sharing with us. Your garden is beautiful.
YES!!! Be thankful. I'm a new gardener and while my cherry tomatoes did quite well my slicers did not produce anything yet they each have 5 green fruit -so eventually --obviously not prolific for the year but I am very very thankful for what I have already gotten and what I hope to mature before first frost! 🎉🎉🎉❤
I am in South Florida and we kick your ass in terms of heat and humidity. Blondkopfchen has been a very happy surprise. It is still setting fruit while every other tomato is conking out. And it is super sweet and delicious!
I started a dwarf variety from Baker Creek called Purple Reign this and it is a stocky hardy plant putting on fruit. Watermelon beefsteak is another variety im growing that is a heirloom indeterminate that is supposed to produce fruits up to 2lbs. Both are doing well so far here in Alabama.
Shade cloth is helping this year so far. We had 10 days in early May of nearly 100° and it killed my early fruit set. Got shade cloth up now and seeing better fruit set. Now we're in a long stretch of nearly 100°. Jersey Devil was one of my Dad's favorite
I am in Sacramento CA and I shade every year. We will have multiple triple digit weather starting the next few days and all of my veggies will get shaded.
@@TheMillennialGardener you got some nice Tom plants, Ive not Heard of most! Going to try more but I only just started eating Tom's and sungold made me like tomatoes before, shop bought were horrible.👍
I almost passed out thinking you didn't grow any Siletz tomatoes this year! Glad to see them at the 25min mark. This will be the first year I'm growing them and can't wait to see how they pan out based on your rave reviews. No pressure!
Siletz is usually a star of my garden, but it was a total bust this year thanks to our awful late spring. That tomato just doesn’t like temps over 75. Next year, I’m starting my seed first week of January for Siletz and I’ll just cart it indoors at night if need be. If it is still cool your way, they’re amazing. Here in the South, you can’t plant them after last frost on a bad year. It gets too hot for them by May 1. Planted as a patio tomato, they’re incredible.
Siletz turned out to be the shiztz out here in AZ. It’s not an early produce and the tomatoes are taking forever to grow and ripen. I picked one green because it was splitting. I won’t grow it again and will look for real early producing tomato plant.
I would love to see a tomatillo video in the future if you ever want to grow them. They aren't self-fertile so I've been cross-pollinating my two plants but they still refuse to set fruit. They seem to be very sensitive to temperature. I've dropped probably 30-40 flower buds. The ones that stuck are just empty husks. I'm central NC.
sry to hear about your tomatillos. They are far more heat tolerant than tomatoes. The problem may be your humidity, unlike the Southwest where I am even though both areas experience triple digit temps, we have a dry heat whereas you guys have that humid heat. I suspect the flowers struggle to get pollen in the air and pollinate in the sticky hot sauna.
Everyone in my family go crazy for the black cherry tomatoes. That is all the ask for every year. The tomatoes are just so good, just like bite sized Cherokee Purple in terms of flavor without the cracking and deforming issues of the Cherokee Purple.
Great looking plants. I will need to get seeds for Berkeley Tie Die Heart next year. I grow primarily hearts and they are notorious for having a wispy habit. My favorite tomato of all is Prue and it just flops over like it needs water. But it’s just a trait of the hearts. Another trait of hearts is that they, in the mean, are very tasty. Anyway, great video and tremendous plants. Thanks for sharing.
It's incredibly productive and disease resistant. It's one of the only heirloom tomatoes I've grown that actually holds up to rain and disease pressure.
Looks like you will have a good harvest! I understand in south Alabama same thing at least two weeks late getting things in garden because of cold now in the mid 90's blooms dropping just now starting to see disease on the heirlooms. The bella rosa is doing great as usual also you need to try the hossinator determinate I have it growing by the bella rosa and I didnt think the bella rosa could be beat but I was wrong the hossinator has proven a spot for next year in size and productivity. Thanks for all your great content
Very impressive garden! I hope to have one like you one day once I can find a good piece of land to start this up on. I am doing what I can at the house I live in now in Las Vegas, but I'm sure you realize it's more difficult to grow many things out here, but not impossible as I've seen some great gardens out here.
I had really great luck with everything I grew from Wild Boar Farm last year, no disease issues at all and produced all the way through frost, when a lot of my other tomatoes were dying off due to tons of rain alternating with abnormally high temps here (>95F). The Berkeley Pink Tie-dye was a favorite for taste, and was crazy productive. I’m growing a lot of the chef’s choice varieties this year, after your recommendations from last year. Sun sugar was my husbands favorite cherry. Can’t wait for more tomato progress videos!
I tried growing Pork Chop before, and it didn't work out for me. This Lucid Gem looks really productive, as does the Berkeley Tie Dye Heart. The taste remains to be seen, though. I'm optimistic. I hope you're growing Chef's Choice Pink. It is *incredible.*
I have over 90 varieties. I have about 150 plants. I would have had 50 more, but with my last mix, my plants began to die within 24 hours. Since it was my last batch, I treated myself to the higher priced components. Never again. I am disabled and my Dr's insist that I stop my inground garden and switch to containers. I decided to go all out. Several varieties were started due to your videos: Abu Rawaan, Rosella Purple, Tomesol, etc. I am also using the toothbrush to increase fruit set. Most of my heirlooms are hanging in although I Live in Central Texas and it is HOT. Love your videos.
I bought Bella Rosa seeds based on one of your video recommendations! I’m really excited to see how well it does in our 5b zone! 😃 your garden looks so lush!
Thank you. You can definitely have a garden like mine! I've been building out my garden and yard slowly over 4 seasons. Every weekend, you do a little more. After a few seasons, you look back and you can't imagine what you've accomplished.
Even with my small garden space I’m planting a lot of varieties. Surprisingly, only two of the ones you mentioned, (Brandywine Red and Sungold cherry). My favorite is Black Krim. I heard many good things about Kellogg Breakfast and German Green so I’m trying those this year. I’m really curious about the one you’re growing that had a cool name and picture. I’m looking forward to a review on those! I’m starting my determinates in about a month.
I've tried quite a few yellow varieties and Kelloggs Breakfast is amazing. Black Krim is my best purple producer. Brandywine Red has made the absolutely best tomato I've ever eaten but it only gave me like 3 tomatoes total on the plant, lol. It went for quality over quantity...
this was so exciting seeing all your tomato varieties! I'll have to try that new sungold type. and it would be fun to have a purple cherry tomato! I've been wondering how long you could grow the same tomato plant by trimming off suckers and using them to grow the same plant again. trim a sucker- use it to grow a plant, trim a sucker from the sucker- and grow a plant... and so on
Oh wow, that is amazing. What a selection. What you are going to do with so many tomatoes? How come you don't plant companion plants that will help with the diseases? As always u love to watch your videos and learn from them. Good luck with them.
Big Beef was my 2nd best last year. Siletz was the second worst behind Legend, both OSU varieties, last year. I keep hoping the need to not be pollinated would help with production, but they were plagued by disease and poor production here in Central Arkansas. Enjoyed the video. Plants look great.
Blessings really delighted with your tomatoes variety and all the information you share. Just have a question when you have blossom enrod in the tomatoe you can still eat them? Thanks
Awesome collection of tomato varieties! I'm curious to know if you're still fogging your tomatoes with a hydrogen peroxide spray for disease protection, and also, what do you think about treating tomato plants with a mixture of 2 tablespoons of baking soda, 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil, and a few drop of dish detergent/gallon of water to ward off late blight...some tomato enthusiasts recommend this type of treatment? Thanks in advance for you answer and keep the videos coming!
Can you tell me please, do you have a video on pruning tomatoes and is there a difference in pruning between cherry tomatoes or full size tomatoes? Thank you so much
Thank you! Please feel free to copy it all you want! I have experimented with so many over the years, and this is by far the best in my opinion. The parts I use are linked in my Amazon Storefront in the video description and are pretty inexpensive if you need a source.
Hi!...thanks for all you do!!...I would like to ask you a question. Do you have problems this year producing flowers? Where I live (MS) we have had a mean of 86F on May-2022, compared to 80F on May-2021. My plants are barely surviving, and I have them under shade. No flowers at all in zucchini and tomatoes, only potatoes are doing decently. I think is the extreme heat because I grow anything for more than 20 year. If possible, I would like to have your opinion. If not it's ok, I know you are busy. Blessings!
It's addicting. I always grow more than I can handle. They're so much fun when they're 24 inches tall, and then the heat, humidity and rains come and they're impossible to maintain 😂
I love your tomato videos since we have a similar climate. I live on the Gulf Coast in Texas zone 9. I planted mine late this year so they're struggling and will probably be stunted if they make it through the summer. So far my best ones are Edox F1 hybrid from Johnny's Seeds, Super Sweet 100's, German Johnson, and Floradade are my best looking plants that seem to be doing the best even though our heat index has been over 100°F here for about a week. Those were all started from seed. I have a bush Goliath that I bought from Home Depot that is still setting fruit but it is getting blight really bad now. I have a few dwarf and micro dwarfs growing too. So far Mary's Cherry and Bonté Tigre are doing the best. My favorite kind, Tiny Tim is struggling this year.
I forgot to add we grew Bella Rosas in the community gardens. They set a ton of fruit. I think it's been close to 40 lbs that we've donated to the local food pantry.
I grew costoluto genovese two years ago. They made gorgeous instagram pictures, but I didn't care for the taste. I don't think I would grow another accordion style tomato again. I am trying buratino and Korean long tomatoes this year. Both are spindly but are producing pretty well. Thanks for giving a tour of your tomatoes. You have given me some new varieties to consider.
I just wanted to try it for sauce, not fresh eating. Unfortunately, I lost one plant to (probably) bacterial wilt, so they may not work out for me at all. We'll see how the lone survivor performs, but it already has more disease than almost any of my other plants. Most heirloom tomatoes are just no good here.
Hey neighbor! I am in Porters Neck in Wilmington, and I’ve had the hardest time with my tomatoes for the past few years. How have you dealt with tomato taste washout when it rains heavily? I am going to try some of these varieties, since my tomato plants are getting taken out by disease quickly prior to producing any fruit. Other plants only have 1-2 fruits on them. So frustrating…
Do you have any recommendations for me in the triangle where I only get six hours of direct sun when I move my container plants across my backyard to follow the sun ?
QUESTION: Do you not pluck the suckers off your plants? I'm pretty new to gardening for mass production (not just a few plants here and there for fun) and have seen mixed thoughts on that. I've been taking off ANY suckers I see, except on the bush varieties with teeny tiny cherries.
Did Chef's Purple, Chef's Pink, Sun Gold, SS100, Early Girl, Mortgage lifter, and 1 Cherokee purple.... Everything has lots if tomatoes on them except the Cherokee purple. .. still waiting on one of those to set lol
I quit on Cherokee Purple. 6 years, I'm throwing in the towel. I think you'll be surprised with Chef's Choice Purple. It may scratch the itch. I also recommend you try Rosella Purple. I think it's BETTER than Cherokee Purple. It's so delicious.
I've mostly given up on heirlooms. They just don't work out here, unless they're the very rare disease resistant heirloom like Arkansas Traveler. The conditions here just don't work out.
I have a tremendous number of videos on planting, fertilizing, pruning, supporting and pollinating tomatoes over the years. ua-cam.com/users/TheMillennialGardenersearch?query=tomatoes
Tomato envy again! I’m going to plant mostly hybrid heat set varieties next year and might try Dark Star and Purple Boy. My dwarfs only have a few tomatoes and rather small. I tried a few new dwarfs varieties, but they’re nothing to write home about. Prescott Cherry, Flamenco, Black Cherry, Daifuku, Celebrity, Hoss 2255, and Roadster have the most tomatoes but nothing compared to your plants. The Chef Choice Black have only a few tomatoes, but hopefully they’ll survive the monsoon and produce more fruit when temperatures cool down. It’s too bad there’s no black or purple hybrid dwarf variety. Maybe I’ll try Big Beef and Arkansas Traveler next time. I have several Sakata heat set varieties I just started to plant in July. I hope to have luck with a second crop. Growing tomatoes in AZ is tough deal, but the couple of Hoss 2255 tomatoes we tried were excellent. Cheers!
Do you do 2 rotation of determine tomatoes? I planted my first set April 9 and I’m planning on planting the second ones end of July. I’m in Charleston SC.
I just started some seeds for a second planting in July and hoping to get lucky when temperatures cool off a bit. I’m on the opposite side of the country in the southwest desert.
San Antonio TX zone 8B here. Heat and high humidity. Surprised Cherokee Purple doesn't work out for you, it's doing one the best disease wise out of the 24 varieties that I'm growing. Big beef (thanks to you) Cherokee Purple, Chefs Black and Orange. Carbon, Homestead, Green Zebra, Arkansas Traveler are doing better than the others. You should consider some of these one of your zone! Lmk what you think :)
Try shading your tomatoes. I live in Missouri,and temps and humidity have been horrible here! I use old sheer white curtains. My tomatoes are setting fruit, even with hundred degree temps. Also try moving your emitters more away from the stem. The roots will be further away. I mulch VERY heavily. Love your channel!
Glad it was helpful! Your area, while hot and humid, is not nearly as persistently hot, humid and wet as mine. Because your nights average anywhere from 5-10 degrees cooler than mine depending on where you are located in the state, your tomatoes will still maintain some level of fertility throughout the summer. Anything I grow will do fine for you, and you can grow many things that won't do well for me. Standout performers are: 1. Big Beef. 2. Arkansas Traveler. 3. All four of the cherries: Super Sweet 100, Sun Gold, SunSugar, Black Cherry. 4. Margherita VF determinate is an incredible producer of plum tomatoes if you like plums and seems to be BER-resistant. 5. If you want a Brandywine-type plant, Chef's Choice Pink, Big Brandy and Brandy Boy are all excellent hybrids to grow with nearly identical flavor to the old Brandywine Sudduth tomato. 6. Bella Rosa determinate always outperforms.
Love this video. Always follow what you're growing. Please give us an update later in the growing season and can't wait to see what you plant next year.
@@TheMillennialGardener BTW, all the way over here in Cali, we had the exact same problem...an unseasonably cool spring then smacked us with heat. So, my Siletz and most of my early-ish determinates ran into the same problem as yours. So, I'm feeling vindicated.
My favorite variety so far is better boy. Someone gave me a tomato once which was actually better than better boy it had a sweetness to it and less liquidy inside more fiber. Would you have any idea what that variety might be or do you have a recommendation for a tomato that is more solid and sweet and little to no acid.
I'm getting yellow spots all over my tomatoe leaves. I transplanted them 1 month ago. 15 different tomatoe plants, 3 different beds, but all have it. Do you have any clue what this could be from?
OK for next year in Cherry category: RON'S CARBON COPY (some places call it Carbon Copy) - black/purple cherry that's the only one I'll grow going forward. Sad that it seems White Tomesol didn't seem to float your boat
If I saw this video before I wouldn't but Cherokee Purple, got my seeds today. I am in Central fl and will plant late summer . Your varieties looks interesting. Looking forwarding to the taste tests
Cherokee Purple is a delicious tomato, but the plants are pathetic. I've grown it in Pennsylvania and on two different properties in North Carolina with identical results. I've even tried buying seed from multiple different sources. It doesn't matter. They do great until the plants get to be about 4 feet tall, then they just stop growing, set one or two fruit clusters, and as soon as it hits 80 degrees, the plants just give up. Definitely give it a shot, because your winters may be friendlier to them than the summers in the places I've lived, but if you find the plants difficult, try Chef's Choice Purple and the dwarf tomato Rosella Purple. Grow Rosella Purple to mature when temps are in the 70's. It doesn't like heat. It's a fantastic cool weather tomato with incredible flavor.
This is my list this year… 4 “Celebrity” 1 Cherokee Purple 1 Florida 91 2 Chefs Choice Pink 1 Sun Gold 1 Super Sweet 100 2 Black Krim 2 Bella Rosa 2 Red Snapper My Bella Rosa are currently loaded the most of them all. All are supported by Cattle panels on green T-posts. Not support issue what so ever. I even have pumpkins and water melons hanging on the vine
@@esavanessa I got my seed last year from Hoss Tools online… this year I added Black Beauty, Abe Lincoln, and Kellogg’s Breakfast from Baker Creek. The CC Pink were a big fail last year. Very diseased and died young.
Awww! What a sweet pup party!🥳 I totally enjoyed your tomatoes tour.😃 It's cool to see so many interesting varieties! I'm looking forward to the cherry tomato taste test video. This is my second year growing tomatoes to make into sauces, chopped, etc. I'm grew romas from seed and I have super small fruit on all 5 plants! I'm using grow bags for the first time...last year I grew cherry and San Marzano in my totes and had great production. Since we can plant tomatoes in July for another harvest I'm thinking of going back to the San Marzano to make sure I get some tomatoes. Any advice? I am in zone 8a, Central Texas.
I'm glad you enjoyed the tour. If you're looking to make sauce, I recommend you purchase a good stainless steel food mill if you don't already have one. All you need to do is remove the tomato cores, process them in a blender for 5-8 seconds, then pass it through the food mill. It will remove all seeds and skins. I grew San Marzano years ago, and I was disappointed with the fruit size. While they did tolerate the heat better than most, they are just such small tomatoes that I couldn't get much sauce from them. This Margherita hybrid determinate is blowing my mind. The production, heat tolerance, disease resistance package and fruit size is incredible. I am going to definitely plant another round of them. I just hope the flavor is good. Also, make sure you have cherry types like Super Sweet 100 all year. They make excellent fresh sauce. Simply halve them, fry them in a little olive oil with garlic and a sprig of basil while pressing them with a spatula to release the juices, add a pinch of salt and you have a good fresh sauce base quickly.
@@TheMillennialGardener Wow! Thanks for all the great advice! If the Margerita one taste good to ya, I might give it a go next year. The San Marzano size was good for our small household because I got loads of fruit from 3 plants.
30 here. 10 accross the street in Pops garden, 50 given away to friends, 20 on the street that lasted 5 minutes. lol. cherokee Purple, BRANDYWINE ( 2 types), Cherokee Carbon, Carbon, Rosella Purple, Black Krim, Beefsteak VF, Mortgage Lifter (cause some peeps have to have red) and sungold and chocolate cherry.
Love it! I’m growing Marglobe Tomatoes as well amongst others. I’ve been looking for a compact Cherry Tomato variety. Sweet 100’s are awesome but too big for my space. I’ve been growing “Tiny Tim” dwarf tomatoes for two years now. Looking for an additional variety though.
You may want to look into determinate cherry types. Totally Tomato has an enormous selection of determinate cherry types here: www.totallytomato.com/category/150
Where I live in CA is having similar issues. My hybrids are all thriving. My heirlooms, not so much. Although the tops of the plants are starting to look a lot better with the consistent weather so I've got my fingers crossed things will turn around. (Our season goes until Nov so I've got plenty of time.)
Heirloom tomatoes are better in theory than in practice. 20 years ago, there were good reasons to grow heirlooms, since there weren't a lot of hybrids out there and what did exist had pretty mediocre flavor. Nowadays, hybrids are artisan tomatoes. Modern breeders are literally artists, blending incredible heirloom strains to develop stronger, hardier plants with no sacrifice in fruit quality. Today's hybrids are so good that there is little reason for the average backyard gardener to grow an heirloom tomato. Unless you're into seed-saving and lineage preservation, grow hybrids. Varieties like Brandy Boy, Big Brandy, the Chef's Choice line, Big Beef and many others are so good that it's tough to justify growing the original heirloom strains and deal with the problems.
I start my seeds in early February. Normally, I plant my tomatoes around March 20-25, but this year was a very late spring and many didn’t make it out until early April. That’s why my production is lower this year. They got a late start, so things flowered when it started getting hot and that prevents pollination where I live.
@@TheMillennialGardener thanks for responding. Also what month does beefsteak tomatoes get planted out if planted later in season (I know you mentioned since it got/gets really hot for the spring/summer months).
My Chef's Choice Pink (from seed & per your recommendation) oddly instantly died. Leaves appeared grey/fuzzy almost. Happened within a week or 2 of planting out. Really odd. I had another one neglected one in a tiny pot I replaced with and hope I can try this darned tomato. Chicago area.
Unfortunately, there isn't much to show on the fig trees this year. Everything is way behind from the horrible winter. I barely even have figlets on in-ground trees yet. I'd estimate I'm an entire month behind.
@@TheMillennialGardener Very sorry to hear that! Everything here is behind a bit from the usual years it seems. My fig twigs are still alive but very slow to progress with leaves popping out on the tips of two of them so far. Doing my best to not burn them up outside in the sun in the morning with a solar shade and then taking them in at early after noon for some sun room filtered sunlight. They're doing okay, just very slow. Has not hit the 70's degree mark in my naturally air conditioned house yet so they are still experiencing cooler nights to slow down the progress. July will warm them up some to what they really like.
They are the Peredovik sunflower featured in my Trap Crop video here: ua-cam.com/video/j8N4rwnM92I/v-deo.html They are very attractive to pests and keep them off my tomatoes.
Does the insect netting protect from spider mites, aphids and white flies? We don't have frost so those pests thrive all year round specially when beneficial insects are taking their winter vacation.
The problem here is the summers are too hot for them to last past July. They either get disease or have 100% blossom drop, so it is useless to maintain them. I can plant a second crop, but if I plant them too early, they get disease before they even flower. If I plant too late, the frost gets them before they ripen. I’ve found after my main crop, all I can do is plant a couple cherries and a succession planting of determinates. Something like Margherita may mostly mature in time. It is tough here.
I am in Southern California. After trials my top 3 cherry tomatoes are Sakura, black cherry and sun gold. My favorite slice tomatoes are blue beauty, dr wyche and Paul Robeson. This year I tried hybrids. Kakao from Johnny seeds is very good. Tons tons of fruits are on plants now and the color looks like Paul Robeson. I plant two paste tomatoes, Roma and san marzano. Roma is strong and bearing many many tomatoes and can have fruits until January, but attract white flies. San marzano is good looking but not vigorous, seems not like California weather. I tried many blue purple indigo tomatoes, good looking but bad taste in SoCal weather.blue beauty is the only keeper I grow every year.
Siletz was early and awesome for us last year, but this year they are so slow & small compared to almost all of the other varieties we're growing. I started 6 plants weeks before I started the full tray of tomato seedlings, & right as it was nearing the time to harden them off to risk early planting, they all got really sickly & I dumped them. I sowed 2 in the main tomato tray a few weeks later, and those stayed healthy, but now that they've been outside almost a month, they're no bigger than the dwarf tomato project plants we're growing next to them. Also, they didn't flower/fruit earlier than every other non grape/cherry variety this year like they did last year.
Excellent interesting collection. How exciting to have so many varieties to taste & enjoy. I only have 3 varieties this year but most of the plants are loaded, especially the Better Boys. (Which look suspiciously like a bush patio variety. 🤔?) Interestingly, my Super Sweet 100s are lagging far far behind - I'm so jealous of yours! Otherwise, very happy with overall production this year :) (Also plucked the first big squishy tomato hornworm of the season ~ not so happy, blech! 🐛🤪)
That's interesting on the Super Sweet 100's. They are absolute beasts. Did you buy the plants or start seeds? I'm always concerned about mislabeled plants when buying transplants. I grow everything from seed, and I personally believe seed-grown plants do better since they grow up adapted to your environment.
@@TheMillennialGardener I started them from seeds, Burpee brand. The BBs are really puzzling me, short & stocky plants, lots of fruit. Have grown them before & they tend to be tall & lanky. The SS100s are new for me so not sure what to expect yet. But yours are gorgeous!It's OK though, surprises can be nice sometimes :)
@@levanera Sometimes I wonder if certain popular varieties can be over-hybridized? To where the plant ends up weakened & unproductive? It happens with some super popular tree varieties. Developed well for one purpose or climate, but wonky & susceptible to other issues.🤔
I actually planted my tomatoes later this year than ever before since I moved down here. I *usually* plant my tomatoes somewhere around March 20-25, but this year they went in 1-2 weeks late depending on the bed. Normally, I'm harvesting my first non-cherry tomato around May 20. This year, I was about a week behind.
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If you found this video helpful, please “Like” and share to help increase its reach! Thanks for watching 😊TIMESTAMPS per variety:
0:00 Garden Tour Of All My Tomato Plants
0:40 SunSugar Tomato
1:24 Sun Gold Tomato
1:53 Super Sweet 100 Tomato
2:39 Black Cherry Tomato
3:16 Costoluto Genovese Tomato
4:17 Ceylon Tomato
5:00 Pozzano Tomato
5:51 Chef's Choice Purple Tomato
6:38 Chef's Choice Bi-Color Tomato
7:25 Chef's Choice Red Tomato
8:03 Chef's Choice Pink Tomato
8:29 Big Brandy Tomato
9:06 Brandy Boy Tomato
9:28 Brandywine Yellow Platfoot Heirloom Tomato
10:39 Arkansas Traveler Tomato
11:30 Indigo Blue Beauty Tomato
12:09 Big Beef Tomato
13:02 Patty's Striped Tomato
13:42 Jersey Devil Tomato
14:50 Berkeley Tie Dye Heart Tomato
15:29 Rebel Starfighter Prime Tomato
16:35 Lucid Gem Tomato
DWARF TOMATO PROJECT TOMATOES
17:33 Tasmanian Chocolate Tomato
19:04 Dwarf Emerald Giant Tomato
20:13 Rosella Purple Tomato
20:41 Adelaide Festival Tomato
21:03 Dwarf Snakebite Tomato
21:31 Fred's Tie Dye Tomato
21:51 Rosella Crimson Tomato
DETERMINATE TOMATOES
22:29 Retractable Hoop House Cover
23:30 Margherita Tomato
23:47 Marglobe Tomato
24:23 Bella Rosa Tomato
25:35 Siletz Tomato
26:53 Tomato Tour Conclusion & Tips Growing Tomatoes
28:56 Adventures With Dale
Blossom end rot is because of your drought! Water has the calcium the Tom needs. You could add crushed egg shells to help.👍
Thanks for posting this! I took notes on varieties I want to try growing next season! I’m in Fayetteville, NC so I really appreciate all the knowledge and content you share.
@@JessicaHolmes I took note of the 'Siletz' variety he had growing in the containers. I'm above 8000+ feet with drastic temperature fluctuations. I need something smaller like that for container portability and which matures quicker also for the short growing season we have here.
I have a problem with wasps. I am scared of wasps and I want to trap them. You have any plants or suggestions to trap them?
@@JessicaHolmes I'm in leland. I'm late on my garden but I want to get one started.
Oh my goodness! You are the king of tomatoes! Here I am just wanting to plant some tomatoes (beefsteak, Cherry and Roma) how boring am I? 😂 You have opened up a whole new world of tomatoes for me now!
I am totally addicted to watching Tomato videos. Thanks for feeding my addiction!
I'm happy to hear that! That's one of the healthiest addictions 😅 I think my blood is about 0.5% tomato sauce this time of year.
Bella Rosa’s produce tons of big beautiful tomatoes. I’m trying other Sakata determinate tomatoes this year as well, Roadster, Charger, Mountain Gem, Resolute, BHN 602, Camaro, Red Bounty, and Rocky Top. All determinate tomatoes.
As for cherry tomatoes, sun sugar is my favorite. The taste is great and the production is overwhelming.
I started some green zebra, dark galaxy, Matt’s wild berry, black krim, Anais Noire, Japanese Black Trifle, and New Yorker, all for the first time just to see how the production and taste is.
Wow! Impressive amount of variety.
Beautiful garden! Great video thanks for sharing. The tomatoes look so healthy. My family and I have also started a small backyard garden. We're learning how to homecan, seed save, make compost, and preserve what we grow. Every penny saved helps. Less than 2 years in our new home and we've completely transformed the backyard. We are beginner gardeners, growing and learning along the way. Recently I started a gardening channel to help encourage others to begin growing as well. No time better than now to learn self sufficiency.
Best gardening tutorial on UA-cam, kudos!
Pineapple tomato's are my favorite slicer but my go to is sun gold ❤️
Good to know I’m not the only one with dozens of varieties going! Sungolds, Tommy Toes, White Cherry, Blue Berries, chocolate cherries, and super sweets. On the slicers, there are Paul Robesons, black beauty, Stupice, Kelloggs breakfast, Amish pastes, Miss Terrys (put the name together, they came with no tags or identifiers), Cherokee purple, Mortgage Lifters, Pineapples, as well as seven I forgot to label. Even still, with my small raised bed gardens, I think I can fit in a few more, and our first frost isn’t projected until November, so I feel safe getting more!
Very nice! Lots of heirlooms in there. I've thrown in the towel on most heirlooms. Aside from Brandywine Yellow and Arkansas Traveler, they just don't work out there. If you can grow them, they're really fun. Moving here from New Jersey was a gut punch. NJ and PA where i used to live were so easy to grow tomatoes. Down here, it's a war zone 😂
@@TheMillennialGardener Same here at 8000+ feet in the Rockies! Anxiously awaiting my first tomato blossoms to open this week. Just pulled the 4 and 5 gallon containered plants out of the 'hot house' plant starter A-frame cabin and into the sun shaded area (for now to prevent shock from the powerful sun) of the main garden area. Still a pretty barren garden area it is. The tomato plants will be headed up to the house to winter in the sun room in four short months. (Edit); Just a fun fact for you and all your readers, the aspen, willow, and cottonwood finally leafed out here last week. (I think they are all beginning to turn already!) Ha ha.
Wow
TOMMY TOES! I CALL TOMATOES THAT GENERALLY
I want Kellogg breakfast
You are a great Gardener MAN👍✌️ awesome channel! Thanks for the informations friend 👍
I'm in the North of England so grow Tomatoes in a small greenhouse together with some figs, chillies, cucumber and Aubergine (eggplant). This year I have Owen's purple, Dark green, Black Beauty's, Brad's atomic grape and Rebel Starfighter prime. So far it looks like it's going to be a good season, fingers crossed.
Loved this video. Can you please do a video discussing the diseases you showed on the tomatoes in this video? It would be so helpful when trying to identify when my tomatoes get something. Thanks so much.
A lot of diseases are difficult to identify. It's pretty easy to identify early blight, but it's hard to identify what various spots and discolorations are, let alone things like wilt. There are so many different problems and diseases that affect tomatoes that it's almost impossible to accurately identify the problem.
I really, really enjoy your videos. You've introduced me to some varieties I never even knew existed. I've always had such a hard time growing tomatoes. This year I was finally able to grow Roma's, sungold cherry and my brandywine produced 2 massive fruit but that was it. I was still very grateful. I have a few more varieties that I started in cups that are ready for transplant. Thank you for always sharing with us. Your garden is beautiful.
YES!!! Be thankful. I'm a new gardener and while my cherry tomatoes did quite well my slicers did not produce anything yet they each have 5 green fruit -so eventually --obviously not prolific for the year but I am very very thankful for what I have already gotten and what I hope to mature before first frost! 🎉🎉🎉❤
I am in South Florida and we kick your ass in terms of heat and humidity. Blondkopfchen has been a very happy surprise. It is still setting fruit while every other tomato is conking out. And it is super sweet and delicious!
I started a dwarf variety from Baker Creek called Purple Reign this and it is a stocky hardy plant putting on fruit. Watermelon beefsteak is another variety im growing that is a heirloom indeterminate that is supposed to produce fruits up to 2lbs. Both are doing well so far here in Alabama.
Shade cloth is helping this year so far. We had 10 days in early May of nearly 100° and it killed my early fruit set. Got shade cloth up now and seeing better fruit set. Now we're in a long stretch of nearly 100°. Jersey Devil was one of my Dad's favorite
I am in Sacramento CA and I shade every year. We will have multiple triple digit weather starting the next few days and all of my veggies will get shaded.
I'm growing sungold, they're massive already. Some have 5 Trusses with lots of flowers and a few Tom's forming. I'm in England 👍
That’s excellent! They’re a great tomato for cool summers and hot summers alike.
@@TheMillennialGardener you got some nice Tom plants, Ive not Heard of most! Going to try more but I only just started eating Tom's and sungold made me like tomatoes before, shop bought were horrible.👍
Sun sugar is delicious! I tried it for the first time two years ago. Hands down my favorite!
I will have a face-off with all 4 cherry types for next week! It's all filmed. It just has to be edited together. Results pending!
This is a great rundown!
I almost passed out thinking you didn't grow any Siletz tomatoes this year! Glad to see them at the 25min mark.
This will be the first year I'm growing them and can't wait to see how they pan out based on your rave reviews. No pressure!
Siletz is usually a star of my garden, but it was a total bust this year thanks to our awful late spring. That tomato just doesn’t like temps over 75. Next year, I’m starting my seed first week of January for Siletz and I’ll just cart it indoors at night if need be. If it is still cool your way, they’re amazing. Here in the South, you can’t plant them after last frost on a bad year. It gets too hot for them by May 1. Planted as a patio tomato, they’re incredible.
Siletz turned out to be the shiztz out here in AZ. It’s not an early produce and the tomatoes are taking forever to grow and ripen. I picked one green because it was splitting. I won’t grow it again and will look for real early producing tomato plant.
@@TheMillennialGardener cant you grow them in your hoop house with plastic cover?
I would love to see a tomatillo video in the future if you ever want to grow them. They aren't self-fertile so I've been cross-pollinating my two plants but they still refuse to set fruit. They seem to be very sensitive to temperature. I've dropped probably 30-40 flower buds. The ones that stuck are just empty husks. I'm central NC.
Me too
sry to hear about your tomatillos. They are far more heat tolerant than tomatoes. The problem may be your humidity, unlike the Southwest where I am even though both areas experience triple digit temps, we have a dry heat whereas you guys have that humid heat. I suspect the flowers struggle to get pollen in the air and pollinate in the sticky hot sauna.
Great verity of tomatoes I just have 3 verity's Roman tomatoes super sweet 100 and cherry tomato that's it so far.
Everyone in my family go crazy for the black cherry tomatoes. That is all the ask for every year. The tomatoes are just so good, just like bite sized Cherokee Purple in terms of flavor without the cracking and deforming issues of the Cherokee Purple.
There are a lot of varieties to try. I'm interested in Sunchocola for next year.
Awesome tour. Very informative. You produce some of the best 🍅 content on YT. Keep up the great videos!
Great looking plants. I will need to get seeds for Berkeley Tie Die Heart next year. I grow primarily hearts and they are notorious for having a wispy habit. My favorite tomato of all is Prue and it just flops over like it needs water. But it’s just a trait of the hearts. Another trait of hearts is that they, in the mean, are very tasty. Anyway, great video and tremendous plants. Thanks for sharing.
My favorite slicers are Black Krim, Mortgage Lifter and Orange Jubilee tomatoes here in Arkansas.
I bought the Arkansas traveler after your video last year and I have to say it's just my best producer so far
It's incredibly productive and disease resistant. It's one of the only heirloom tomatoes I've grown that actually holds up to rain and disease pressure.
@@TheMillennialGardener its doing just amazing in the desert as well
Good job👍👍Nice sharing. 👍👍Stay connected🔔🔔👍🤝😍😍😍
Looks like you will have a good harvest! I understand in south Alabama same thing at least two weeks late getting things in garden because of cold now in the mid 90's blooms dropping just now starting to see disease on the heirlooms. The bella rosa is doing great as usual also you need to try the hossinator determinate I have it growing by the bella rosa and I didnt think the bella rosa could be beat but I was wrong the hossinator has proven a spot for next year in size and productivity. Thanks for all your great content
Amazing tomato garden.
Thank you!
I love also the sunflower, gorgeous.
Thank you. It's the Peredovik variety I featured in my Trap Crop video here: ua-cam.com/video/j8N4rwnM92I/v-deo.html
Very impressive garden! I hope to have one like you one day once I can find a good piece of land to start this up on. I am doing what I can at the house I live in now in Las Vegas, but I'm sure you realize it's more difficult to grow many things out here, but not impossible as I've seen some great gardens out here.
I had really great luck with everything I grew from Wild Boar Farm last year, no disease issues at all and produced all the way through frost, when a lot of my other tomatoes were dying off due to tons of rain alternating with abnormally high temps here (>95F). The Berkeley Pink Tie-dye was a favorite for taste, and was crazy productive. I’m growing a lot of the chef’s choice varieties this year, after your recommendations from last year. Sun sugar was my husbands favorite cherry. Can’t wait for more tomato progress videos!
I tried growing Pork Chop before, and it didn't work out for me. This Lucid Gem looks really productive, as does the Berkeley Tie Dye Heart. The taste remains to be seen, though. I'm optimistic. I hope you're growing Chef's Choice Pink. It is *incredible.*
Very helpful information and beautiful tomatoes! Thank you for sharing! 😊👍
You're welcome! Thanks for watching!
I have over 90 varieties. I have about 150 plants. I would have had 50 more, but with my last mix, my plants began to die within 24 hours. Since it was my last batch, I treated myself to the higher priced components. Never again.
I am disabled and my Dr's insist that I stop my inground garden and switch to containers. I decided to go all out. Several varieties were started due to your videos: Abu Rawaan, Rosella Purple, Tomesol, etc. I am also using the toothbrush to increase fruit set. Most of my heirlooms are hanging in although I
Live in Central Texas and it is HOT.
Love your videos.
EXCELLENT video! What fertilizer do you use on your tomato plants?
I bought Bella Rosa seeds based on one of your video recommendations! I’m really excited to see how well it does in our 5b zone! 😃 your garden looks so lush!
Bella Rosa is great here in Texas too
Bella Rosa is a great tomato. The production is awesome, and every tomato is picture perfect.
I love your videos wish I had garden like yours
Thank you. You can definitely have a garden like mine! I've been building out my garden and yard slowly over 4 seasons. Every weekend, you do a little more. After a few seasons, you look back and you can't imagine what you've accomplished.
Even with my small garden space I’m planting a lot of varieties. Surprisingly, only two of the ones you mentioned, (Brandywine Red and Sungold cherry). My favorite is Black Krim. I heard many good things about Kellogg Breakfast and German Green so I’m trying those this year. I’m really curious about the one you’re growing that had a cool name and picture. I’m looking forward to a review on those! I’m starting my determinates in about a month.
I've tried quite a few yellow varieties and Kelloggs Breakfast is amazing. Black Krim is my best purple producer.
Brandywine Red has made the absolutely best tomato I've ever eaten but it only gave me like 3 tomatoes total on the plant, lol. It went for quality over quantity...
Terrific. Sooo many ,, sorry about late start ..
It's fun to grow so many tomatoes...less fun to maintain them during the heat, humidity and rain. But I just love variety.
this was so exciting seeing all your tomato varieties! I'll have to try that new sungold type. and it would be fun to have a purple cherry tomato! I've been wondering how long you could grow the same tomato plant by trimming off suckers and using them to grow the same plant again. trim a sucker- use it to grow a plant, trim a sucker from the sucker- and grow a plant... and so on
Oh wow, that is amazing. What a selection. What you are going to do with so many tomatoes? How come you don't plant companion plants that will help with the diseases? As always u love to watch your videos and learn from them. Good luck with them.
I have Sungolds this year, black Krims, Rutgers, I grow smaller tomatoes cause of my pecan trees... 😋😀, not enough sun...
The Ceylon and Arkansas Traveler varieties may be interesting to you. Small, fast ripening and prolific.
@@TheMillennialGardener the STRUGGLE is seeds selling out! Am I right? Oy Vey!
@@TheMillennialGardener I really dig you man... timely videos... I am a hack...you are a genius
Big Beef was my 2nd best last year. Siletz was the second worst behind Legend, both OSU varieties, last year. I keep hoping the need to not be pollinated would help with production, but they were plagued by disease and poor production here in Central Arkansas. Enjoyed the video. Plants look great.
Blessings really delighted with your tomatoes variety and all the information you share. Just have a question when you have blossom enrod in the tomatoe you can still eat them? Thanks
Your plants look fantastic
Thank you! The humidity is getting really bad and storm season has begun, so hopefully they stay healthy long enough for a decent harvest.
Awesome collection of tomato varieties! I'm curious to know if you're still fogging your tomatoes with a hydrogen peroxide spray for disease protection, and also, what do you think about treating tomato plants with a mixture of 2 tablespoons of baking soda, 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil, and a few drop of dish detergent/gallon of water to ward off late blight...some tomato enthusiasts recommend this type of treatment? Thanks in advance for you answer and keep the videos coming!
Can you tell me please, do you have a video on pruning tomatoes and is there a difference in pruning between cherry tomatoes or full size tomatoes? Thank you so much
Lime is great for bottom rot !!!
I love your system...
Thank you! Please feel free to copy it all you want! I have experimented with so many over the years, and this is by far the best in my opinion. The parts I use are linked in my Amazon Storefront in the video description and are pretty inexpensive if you need a source.
Hi!...thanks for all you do!!...I would like to ask you a question. Do you have problems this year producing flowers? Where I live (MS) we have had a mean of 86F on May-2022, compared to 80F on May-2021. My plants are barely surviving, and I have them under shade. No flowers at all in zucchini and tomatoes, only potatoes are doing decently. I think is the extreme heat because I grow anything for more than 20 year. If possible, I would like to have your opinion. If not it's ok, I know you are busy. Blessings!
Prudens Purple is a good variety to try. It's VERY early
Love the variety
I still have room
Must try some new variety
Thanks
It's addicting. I always grow more than I can handle. They're so much fun when they're 24 inches tall, and then the heat, humidity and rains come and they're impossible to maintain 😂
I have 15 going great!!! Awesome show brother.
Outstanding! I wish you the best of luck. Thanks for watching!
How much would you pick off cucumber and tomato leaves with early blight? I'm an obsessive pruner but I'd love to find a balance.
I love your tomato videos since we have a similar climate. I live on the Gulf Coast in Texas zone 9. I planted mine late this year so they're struggling and will probably be stunted if they make it through the summer. So far my best ones are Edox F1 hybrid from Johnny's Seeds, Super Sweet 100's, German Johnson, and Floradade are my best looking plants that seem to be doing the best even though our heat index has been over 100°F here for about a week. Those were all started from seed. I have a bush Goliath that I bought from Home Depot that is still setting fruit but it is getting blight really bad now. I have a few dwarf and micro dwarfs growing too. So far Mary's Cherry and Bonté Tigre are doing the best. My favorite kind, Tiny Tim is struggling this year.
I forgot to add we grew Bella Rosas in the community gardens. They set a ton of fruit. I think it's been close to 40 lbs that we've donated to the local food pantry.
I grew costoluto genovese two years ago. They made gorgeous instagram pictures, but I didn't care for the taste. I don't think I would grow another accordion style tomato again. I am trying buratino and Korean long tomatoes this year. Both are spindly but are producing pretty well. Thanks for giving a tour of your tomatoes. You have given me some new varieties to consider.
I just wanted to try it for sauce, not fresh eating. Unfortunately, I lost one plant to (probably) bacterial wilt, so they may not work out for me at all. We'll see how the lone survivor performs, but it already has more disease than almost any of my other plants. Most heirloom tomatoes are just no good here.
Hey neighbor! I am in Porters Neck in Wilmington, and I’ve had the hardest time with my tomatoes for the past few years. How have you dealt with tomato taste washout when it rains heavily? I am going to try some of these varieties, since my tomato plants are getting taken out by disease quickly prior to producing any fruit. Other plants only have 1-2 fruits on them. So frustrating…
Do you have any recommendations for me in the triangle where I only get six hours of direct sun when I move my container plants across my backyard to follow the sun ?
Cherry tomatoes are happy in partial sun
I love my Adelaide festival. Delicious
It’s a great tomato. And beautiful!
I, too, got a late start - but you've got WAY more tomato action than I do! (So far, Zero!). Thanks for the tour!
QUESTION:
Do you not pluck the suckers off your plants? I'm pretty new to gardening for mass production (not just a few plants here and there for fun) and have seen mixed thoughts on that. I've been taking off ANY suckers I see, except on the bush varieties with teeny tiny cherries.
Did Chef's Purple, Chef's Pink, Sun Gold, SS100, Early Girl, Mortgage lifter, and 1 Cherokee purple.... Everything has lots if tomatoes on them except the Cherokee purple. .. still waiting on one of those to set lol
I quit on Cherokee Purple. 6 years, I'm throwing in the towel. I think you'll be surprised with Chef's Choice Purple. It may scratch the itch. I also recommend you try Rosella Purple. I think it's BETTER than Cherokee Purple. It's so delicious.
@@TheMillennialGardener thank you!
The woods famous brimmer is a good variety for the mid atlantic. Pretty cool history as well
I've mostly given up on heirlooms. They just don't work out here, unless they're the very rare disease resistant heirloom like Arkansas Traveler. The conditions here just don't work out.
Sigh... that is why i mentioned it was made for the Mid-Atlantic 🤷♂️
Beautiful !!!! However, we need your sharing with us how to start , taking care of .... ti get that result!!!!!
I have a tremendous number of videos on planting, fertilizing, pruning, supporting and pollinating tomatoes over the years. ua-cam.com/users/TheMillennialGardenersearch?query=tomatoes
Tomato envy again! I’m going to plant mostly hybrid heat set varieties next year and might try Dark Star and Purple Boy. My dwarfs only have a few tomatoes and rather small. I tried a few new dwarfs varieties, but they’re nothing to write home about. Prescott Cherry, Flamenco, Black Cherry, Daifuku, Celebrity, Hoss 2255, and Roadster have the most tomatoes but nothing compared to your plants. The Chef Choice Black have only a few tomatoes, but hopefully they’ll survive the monsoon and produce more fruit when temperatures cool down. It’s too bad there’s no black or purple hybrid dwarf variety. Maybe I’ll try Big Beef and Arkansas Traveler next time. I have several Sakata heat set varieties I just started to plant in July. I hope to have luck with a second crop. Growing tomatoes in AZ is tough deal, but the couple of Hoss 2255 tomatoes we tried were excellent. Cheers!
Do you do 2 rotation of determine tomatoes? I planted my first set April 9 and I’m planning on planting the second ones end of July. I’m in Charleston SC.
I just started some seeds for a second planting in July and hoping to get lucky when temperatures cool off a bit. I’m on the opposite side of the country in the southwest desert.
San Antonio TX zone 8B here. Heat and high humidity. Surprised Cherokee Purple doesn't work out for you, it's doing one the best disease wise out of the 24 varieties that I'm growing. Big beef (thanks to you) Cherokee Purple, Chefs Black and Orange. Carbon, Homestead, Green Zebra, Arkansas Traveler are doing better than the others. You should consider some of these one of your zone! Lmk what you think :)
Try shading your tomatoes. I live in Missouri,and temps and humidity have been horrible here! I use old sheer white curtains. My tomatoes are setting fruit, even with hundred degree temps. Also try moving your emitters more away from the stem. The roots will be further away. I mulch VERY heavily. Love your channel!
This video may help you: ua-cam.com/video/iifj4qDW9xM/v-deo.html
It works very well.
bravo.this is incrediblle shots- ;)
Thank you! It is really hard to make videos like this, so I’m glad it was worth it!
Awesome tour 😎
Thank you!
Do you change out your dirt every year or do you put a different family of plants every couple of years in the same box or area?
He got more production in a season than I have my whole life
This is such great information. Thank you. Learned a lot . Ready to try some new ones. I live in Kentucky... What the do you recommend for my area?
Glad it was helpful! Your area, while hot and humid, is not nearly as persistently hot, humid and wet as mine. Because your nights average anywhere from 5-10 degrees cooler than mine depending on where you are located in the state, your tomatoes will still maintain some level of fertility throughout the summer. Anything I grow will do fine for you, and you can grow many things that won't do well for me. Standout performers are:
1. Big Beef.
2. Arkansas Traveler.
3. All four of the cherries: Super Sweet 100, Sun Gold, SunSugar, Black Cherry.
4. Margherita VF determinate is an incredible producer of plum tomatoes if you like plums and seems to be BER-resistant.
5. If you want a Brandywine-type plant, Chef's Choice Pink, Big Brandy and Brandy Boy are all excellent hybrids to grow with nearly identical flavor to the old Brandywine Sudduth tomato.
6. Bella Rosa determinate always outperforms.
Love this video. Always follow what you're growing. Please give us an update later in the growing season and can't wait to see what you plant next year.
Thanks! I will try, but in 30 days, things will be looking pretty beat up. I will have a cherry tomato taste test video next week!
@@TheMillennialGardener BTW, all the way over here in Cali, we had the exact same problem...an unseasonably cool spring then smacked us with heat. So, my Siletz and most of my early-ish determinates ran into the same problem as yours. So, I'm feeling vindicated.
My favorite variety so far is better boy. Someone gave me a tomato once which was actually better than better boy it had a sweetness to it and less liquidy inside more fiber. Would you have any idea what that variety might be or do you have a recommendation for a tomato that is more solid and sweet and little to no acid.
Soooo many varieties 😱 Where do you buy your seeds from?
I'm getting yellow spots all over my tomatoe leaves. I transplanted them 1 month ago. 15 different tomatoe plants, 3 different beds, but all have it. Do you have any clue what this could be from?
OK for next year in Cherry category: RON'S CARBON COPY (some places call it Carbon Copy) - black/purple cherry that's the only one I'll grow going forward. Sad that it seems White Tomesol didn't seem to float your boat
If I saw this video before I wouldn't but Cherokee Purple, got my seeds today. I am in Central fl and will plant late summer .
Your varieties looks interesting. Looking forwarding to the taste tests
Cherokee Purple is a delicious tomato, but the plants are pathetic. I've grown it in Pennsylvania and on two different properties in North Carolina with identical results. I've even tried buying seed from multiple different sources. It doesn't matter. They do great until the plants get to be about 4 feet tall, then they just stop growing, set one or two fruit clusters, and as soon as it hits 80 degrees, the plants just give up. Definitely give it a shot, because your winters may be friendlier to them than the summers in the places I've lived, but if you find the plants difficult, try Chef's Choice Purple and the dwarf tomato Rosella Purple. Grow Rosella Purple to mature when temps are in the 70's. It doesn't like heat. It's a fantastic cool weather tomato with incredible flavor.
Are there tomato plants that do well in the fall? From say now until October? I'm in zone 7B
This is my list this year…
4 “Celebrity”
1 Cherokee Purple
1 Florida 91
2 Chefs Choice Pink
1 Sun Gold
1 Super Sweet 100
2 Black Krim
2 Bella Rosa
2 Red Snapper
My Bella Rosa are currently loaded the most of them all.
All are supported by Cattle panels on green T-posts. Not support issue what so ever. I even have pumpkins and water melons hanging on the vine
Hi, where do you get your seeds from?
@@esavanessa
I got my seed last year from Hoss Tools online… this year I added Black Beauty, Abe Lincoln, and Kellogg’s Breakfast from Baker Creek.
The CC Pink were a big fail last year. Very diseased and died young.
@@great0789 thank you
Awww! What a sweet pup party!🥳
I totally enjoyed your tomatoes tour.😃 It's cool to see so many interesting varieties! I'm looking forward to the cherry tomato taste test video.
This is my second year growing tomatoes to make into sauces, chopped, etc. I'm grew romas from seed and I have super small fruit on all 5 plants! I'm using grow bags for the first time...last year I grew cherry and San Marzano in my totes and had great production. Since we can plant tomatoes in July for another harvest I'm thinking of going back to the San Marzano to make sure I get some tomatoes. Any advice? I am in zone 8a, Central Texas.
I'm glad you enjoyed the tour. If you're looking to make sauce, I recommend you purchase a good stainless steel food mill if you don't already have one. All you need to do is remove the tomato cores, process them in a blender for 5-8 seconds, then pass it through the food mill. It will remove all seeds and skins.
I grew San Marzano years ago, and I was disappointed with the fruit size. While they did tolerate the heat better than most, they are just such small tomatoes that I couldn't get much sauce from them. This Margherita hybrid determinate is blowing my mind. The production, heat tolerance, disease resistance package and fruit size is incredible. I am going to definitely plant another round of them. I just hope the flavor is good. Also, make sure you have cherry types like Super Sweet 100 all year. They make excellent fresh sauce. Simply halve them, fry them in a little olive oil with garlic and a sprig of basil while pressing them with a spatula to release the juices, add a pinch of salt and you have a good fresh sauce base quickly.
@@TheMillennialGardener Wow! Thanks for all the great advice! If the Margerita one taste good to ya, I might give it a go next year.
The San Marzano size was good for our small household because I got loads of fruit from 3 plants.
30 here. 10 accross the street in Pops garden, 50 given away to friends, 20 on the street that lasted 5 minutes. lol. cherokee Purple, BRANDYWINE ( 2 types), Cherokee Carbon, Carbon, Rosella Purple, Black Krim, Beefsteak VF, Mortgage Lifter (cause some peeps have to have red) and sungold and chocolate cherry.
What is the name of the sunflowers your growing, they are gorgeous!
Love it! I’m growing Marglobe Tomatoes as well amongst others. I’ve been looking for a compact Cherry Tomato variety. Sweet 100’s are awesome but too big for my space. I’ve been growing “Tiny Tim” dwarf tomatoes for two years now. Looking for an additional variety though.
You may want to look into determinate cherry types. Totally Tomato has an enormous selection of determinate cherry types here: www.totallytomato.com/category/150
Where I live in CA is having similar issues. My hybrids are all thriving. My heirlooms, not so much. Although the tops of the plants are starting to look a lot better with the consistent weather so I've got my fingers crossed things will turn around. (Our season goes until Nov so I've got plenty of time.)
Heirloom tomatoes are better in theory than in practice. 20 years ago, there were good reasons to grow heirlooms, since there weren't a lot of hybrids out there and what did exist had pretty mediocre flavor. Nowadays, hybrids are artisan tomatoes. Modern breeders are literally artists, blending incredible heirloom strains to develop stronger, hardier plants with no sacrifice in fruit quality. Today's hybrids are so good that there is little reason for the average backyard gardener to grow an heirloom tomato. Unless you're into seed-saving and lineage preservation, grow hybrids. Varieties like Brandy Boy, Big Brandy, the Chef's Choice line, Big Beef and many others are so good that it's tough to justify growing the original heirloom strains and deal with the problems.
Hi Just wondering when do you plant your beef steak tomatoes out and when do you start seeds
I start my seeds in early February. Normally, I plant my tomatoes around March 20-25, but this year was a very late spring and many didn’t make it out until early April. That’s why my production is lower this year. They got a late start, so things flowered when it started getting hot and that prevents pollination where I live.
@@TheMillennialGardener thanks for responding. Also what month does beefsteak tomatoes get planted out if planted later in season (I know you mentioned since it got/gets really hot for the spring/summer months).
My Chef's Choice Pink (from seed & per your recommendation) oddly instantly died. Leaves appeared grey/fuzzy almost. Happened within a week or 2 of planting out. Really odd. I had another one neglected one in a tiny pot I replaced with and hope I can try this darned tomato. Chicago area.
Could we get a quick short video of the fig tree progresses if you have some time please?
Unfortunately, there isn't much to show on the fig trees this year. Everything is way behind from the horrible winter. I barely even have figlets on in-ground trees yet. I'd estimate I'm an entire month behind.
@@TheMillennialGardener Very sorry to hear that! Everything here is behind a bit from the usual years it seems. My fig twigs are still alive but very slow to progress with leaves popping out on the tips of two of them so far. Doing my best to not burn them up outside in the sun in the morning with a solar shade and then taking them in at early after noon for some sun room filtered sunlight. They're doing okay, just very slow. Has not hit the 70's degree mark in my naturally air conditioned house yet so they are still experiencing cooler nights to slow down the progress. July will warm them up some to what they really like.
What kind of sunflower is that behind u? It is awesome!
They are the Peredovik sunflower featured in my Trap Crop video here: ua-cam.com/video/j8N4rwnM92I/v-deo.html
They are very attractive to pests and keep them off my tomatoes.
Does the insect netting protect from spider mites, aphids and white flies? We don't have frost so those pests thrive all year round specially when beneficial insects are taking their winter vacation.
Great update. Question are your seasons too hot then snap to cold for succession plant tomatoes?
The problem here is the summers are too hot for them to last past July. They either get disease or have 100% blossom drop, so it is useless to maintain them. I can plant a second crop, but if I plant them too early, they get disease before they even flower. If I plant too late, the frost gets them before they ripen. I’ve found after my main crop, all I can do is plant a couple cherries and a succession planting of determinates. Something like Margherita may mostly mature in time. It is tough here.
I am in Southern California. After trials my top 3 cherry tomatoes are Sakura, black cherry and sun gold. My favorite slice tomatoes are blue beauty, dr wyche and Paul Robeson. This year I tried hybrids. Kakao from Johnny seeds is very good. Tons tons of fruits are on plants now and the color looks like Paul Robeson. I plant two paste tomatoes, Roma and san marzano. Roma is strong and bearing many many tomatoes and can have fruits until January, but attract white flies. San marzano is good looking but not vigorous, seems not like California weather. I tried many blue purple indigo tomatoes, good looking but bad taste in SoCal weather.blue beauty is the only keeper I grow every year.
Have u ever tried a sun filter, Amazon has them.
Siletz was early and awesome for us last year, but this year they are so slow & small compared to almost all of the other varieties we're growing. I started 6 plants weeks before I started the full tray of tomato seedlings, & right as it was nearing the time to harden them off to risk early planting, they all got really sickly & I dumped them. I sowed 2 in the main tomato tray a few weeks later, and those stayed healthy, but now that they've been outside almost a month, they're no bigger than the dwarf tomato project plants we're growing next to them. Also, they didn't flower/fruit earlier than every other non grape/cherry variety this year like they did last year.
Can u please let me know what sort of soil is under the mulch.
Excellent interesting collection. How exciting to have so many varieties to taste & enjoy. I only have 3 varieties this year but most of the plants are loaded, especially the Better Boys. (Which look suspiciously like a bush patio variety. 🤔?) Interestingly, my Super Sweet 100s are lagging far far behind - I'm so jealous of yours! Otherwise, very happy with overall production this year :)
(Also plucked the first big squishy tomato hornworm of the season ~ not so happy, blech! 🐛🤪)
That's interesting on the Super Sweet 100's. They are absolute beasts. Did you buy the plants or start seeds? I'm always concerned about mislabeled plants when buying transplants. I grow everything from seed, and I personally believe seed-grown plants do better since they grow up adapted to your environment.
I also have both Better Boy and Supersweet 100, and my Better Boys are definitely doing better than the Supersweet
@@TheMillennialGardener I started them from seeds, Burpee brand. The BBs are really puzzling me, short & stocky plants, lots of fruit. Have grown them before & they tend to be tall & lanky. The SS100s are new for me so not sure what to expect yet. But yours are gorgeous!It's OK though, surprises can be nice sometimes :)
@@levanera Sometimes I wonder if certain popular varieties can be over-hybridized? To where the plant ends up weakened & unproductive? It happens with some super popular tree varieties. Developed well for one purpose or climate, but wonky & susceptible to other issues.🤔
I see u trim a lot of foliage off ur tomatoes. I tried it here in Texas but got terrible sunscald.
BTW, my dwarves r doing fabulous
When did you plant those tomatoes to already be having ripe tomatoes by may 31st?
I actually planted my tomatoes later this year than ever before since I moved down here. I *usually* plant my tomatoes somewhere around March 20-25, but this year they went in 1-2 weeks late depending on the bed. Normally, I'm harvesting my first non-cherry tomato around May 20. This year, I was about a week behind.