I’m doing brandywine, beefsteak, Cherokee purple, brads atomic, dads sunset, sweetheart cherry, bumblebee. I have 23 growing and so far the beefsteak and brandywine are 5 ft tall already planted on May 5 and it’s June 17. This is my first time doing these varieties I bought all my seeds from bakers creek highly recommend them! Everything looks awesome! Great garden btw!
Excellent! I hope they turn out great. Cherokee Purple is my absolute fave. I really wanted to grow more tomatoes on the patio this year but just didn't have time this spring. Baker Creek is awesome! Thats where I got the Brandywine Black that I'm growing this year. Thanks for watching.
@@PepplesPotager that’s cool! I can’t wait to try the Cherokee purple! Yeah this was my first time using bakers creek. I’ll definitely stick with them everything has done wonderfully. Thanks for responding Happy Gardening from NC 😊
Beautiful harvest and beautiful garden! I'm growing for the first time this year and picked Mr. Stripey, but definitely going to try Cherokee Purple next year. I could only hope they turn out this great!
I would’ve like to see the tomatoes still on the vine just before you pick them. But it does give me hope that my Brandywine tomato plant will produce good fruit.
I managed to grow some terrific tasting Brandywine Reds in our Dry season. We live in tropical northern Australia. Thanks for the tips, I'll certainly give them another go. I love the taste and the colour of those tomatoes, like nothing we get in our shops.
Best Brandywine ? All are good BUT Brandywine Yellow , Plattfoot Strain adds beautiful color and better production to match the taste of Brandywine Pink. BW Yellow Plattfoot strain is potato leaf and manages wet seasons well.
I've never used gypsum, but Jobes Tomato and Vegetables Fertilizer has bone meal in it. Epsom salt helps with magnesium deficiency and supposedly helps tomatoes taste better.
I am growing true black brandywine for the first year and am curious if you have ever tried them? You grow all of our favorites and your plants are beautiful. Thank you.🍅
You're welcome and thank you for the great compliments. I'm actually growing black brandywine this year for the first time too. I hope they do well for both of us. Happy gardening!
@@PepplesPotager Me too but I hope to follow yours too as this as our first garden after moving from 5b to 4b and yours just might tell us alot more about them.😊 Happy Gardening to you as well!🍅
Wow great video...i grow pink Brandywine and big beef and betterboys every year with great success here in Southeast Georgia...also cucumbers, eggplant and all sorts of exotic hot peppers...keep up the good work!
Smart way to plant the two types instead of planting one type per side of the trellis. Makes it harder for them to cross pollinate. Keep the seeds from the ends just to be sure.
Good video. I did see a little bloom end rot. You should add a little gypsum powder as an amendment when you plant them. This will add calcium without changing the soil PH and BER will not occur. Many blessings and good harvests to you sir.
There's no reason to wait till fully ripe. Once they blush on the bottom, they have all they need to attain the same flavor if left longer on the vine. No need to risk the fruit.
My mom mixed the San Marzano seeds with the 1884 tomato so we won't know till the harvest, between Brandywine potatoleaf and Cherokee purple which one do you like it more? And which is the most overall resistant? I'm looking to plant just one variety next year to avoid cross pollination.
I would say that Cherokee Purple is my favorite. I think Brandywine and Cherokee Purple are both equal in the disease resistance. I prefer the darker tomatoes. I will never stop growing Cherokee Purple Tomatoes. They truly are the best tasting in my opinion. Thanks for watching!
@@PepplesPotager Do you think Cherokee purple is good enough for making tomato sauce? We use San Marzano for sauce but I'd like to grow only one variety to avoid cross pollination.
No need to worry about cross pollination unless your saving seeds. I do not make my own so I couldn't tell you whether its good for sauce or not. I know some people use them for salsa. We use them for salads and tomato sandwiches. We usually give any extras to friends or coworkers.
@@PepplesPotager that explains it. I'm growing those 2 exact with the edition of Black Kim, Big red. Let you know how they grow we have an earlier season. Just a tad earlier. Getting garden prepped for a month or so from now. Heres to our green thumbs!!
@@lifesprodject5265 Excellent! Sometimes I wish I had an ealier season. I'm always eager to get started. I may start some seeds earlier this year and try to grow some tomatoes in the greenhouse and not just use the greenhouse for seed starts. Thanks for watching!
I noticed the leaves are also sorr of curled down. Is that normal for the potato leaf? I am growing yellow brandywines and each time a bew leaf emerges it is sort of curled up downwards.
If they curl up I think it's usually physiological leaf roll. I see it every year on a few of my tomato plants wether it's potato leaf or not. Probably do to environmental conditions in the soil. It is very common.
@@PepplesPotager hi. Yeah. I rhink that's it. It's not all the leaves too. Some leaves would come out rolled downward at the tips. Some don't. The ones that are curled.down sometimes stretch out normally abd some stay curled. Anyway, I saw some in yours are that way too. Thanks for the insight!
Hi again , here looking when yours tomatoes ripe . Waiting, this year I had early blight. I just spray last weekend and waiting for the next weekend. Is being hot , I don't want to burn the plant with the spray. I just start to pick cherry tomatoes.
So far no early blight here. I have been picking a few tomatoes almost everyday this week. I usually pick them at first blush of color and sit them on kitchen counter till they ripen. I'll probably do a new video this week.
Best video I've watched. I like it when people show start to harvest.
Thank you!
Growing both of these variety this year. Thank you for the vid!
2 of my FAVORITE Heirloom Tomatoes!
Planted both of these variety’s and I’m ecstatic
Awesome! They are some great tomatoes. Especially the Cherokee Purple. It's one of my favorites.
I’m doing brandywine, beefsteak, Cherokee purple, brads atomic, dads sunset, sweetheart cherry, bumblebee. I have 23 growing and so far the beefsteak and brandywine are 5 ft tall already planted on May 5 and it’s June 17.
This is my first time doing these varieties I bought all my seeds from bakers creek highly recommend them! Everything looks awesome! Great garden btw!
Excellent! I hope they turn out great. Cherokee Purple is my absolute fave. I really wanted to grow more tomatoes on the patio this year but just didn't have time this spring. Baker Creek is awesome! Thats where I got the Brandywine Black that I'm growing this year. Thanks for watching.
@@PepplesPotager that’s cool! I can’t wait to try the Cherokee purple! Yeah this was my first time using bakers creek. I’ll definitely stick with them everything has done wonderfully. Thanks for responding Happy Gardening from NC 😊
Taking notes for this year's tomato garden
Great looking tomatoes thanks for sharing
Beautiful harvest and beautiful garden! I'm growing for the first time this year and picked Mr. Stripey, but definitely going to try Cherokee Purple next year. I could only hope they turn out this great!
Awesome! Hope everything turns out great. Cherokee Purples are the best. Thanks for watching!
I would’ve like to see the tomatoes still on the vine just before you pick them. But it does give me hope that my Brandywine tomato plant will produce good fruit.
I managed to grow some terrific tasting Brandywine Reds in our Dry season. We live in tropical northern Australia. Thanks for the tips, I'll certainly give them another go. I love the taste and the colour of those tomatoes, like nothing we get in our shops.
Excellent! They have a classic tomato flavor. I love the wide potato leaves This year I am trying out the Brandywine Black. Thanks for watching!
Great video man! I'm growing red branywines this year. Good to know that they get that tall before I build my trellis
Thank for the great compliment! And thanks for watching!
I wish I could give ten thump ups. You did a good job. Thank you for great video.
Thank you so much. I really appreciate that 😀
Love em both
Thanks, I enjoyed your video as I am anxiously awaiting my planting date. Which for me in zone 6b is 5/20.☺
I am zone 6b as well. We'll planting soon. Thanks for watching!
Thanks for the tomato growing tips!
My wife grows Brandywine tomatoes, but my dad keeps asking us for Cherokee Purples. Now I know what they look like. Lol! Thanks, my new friend!
Your welcome! Thanks for watching!
Best Brandywine ? All are good BUT Brandywine Yellow , Plattfoot Strain adds beautiful color and better production to match the taste of Brandywine Pink. BW Yellow Plattfoot strain is potato leaf and manages wet seasons well.
I've never tried any Yellow Brandywine. I may have to try it sometime. Thank you!
Love me some pink brandy wine. Soooooo damn good on sandwiches or even my crazy- I LOVE them in pico de gallo
My family loves them on tomato sandwiches too. Delicious!
I just started growing hillbilly potato leaves this spring
Never heard of them. I like the potato leaf varieties. I might have to check those out. Thank you!
Why Epsom salt and why not bone meal and gypsum ? Looking at your grow plants it is hard to argue with how healthy your tomatoes are~!
I've never used gypsum, but Jobes Tomato and Vegetables Fertilizer has bone meal in it. Epsom salt helps with magnesium deficiency and supposedly helps tomatoes taste better.
I am growing true black brandywine for the first year and am curious if you have ever tried them? You grow all of our favorites and your plants are beautiful. Thank you.🍅
You're welcome and thank you for the great compliments. I'm actually growing black brandywine this year for the first time too. I hope they do well for both of us. Happy gardening!
@@PepplesPotager Me too but I hope to follow yours too as this as our first garden after moving from 5b to 4b and yours just might tell us alot more about them.😊 Happy Gardening to you as well!🍅
Wow great video...i grow pink Brandywine and big beef and betterboys every year with great success here in Southeast Georgia...also cucumbers, eggplant and all sorts of exotic hot peppers...keep up the good work!
Thanks you for the great compliments and for watching!
Do you do any pruning of the suckers and bottom leaves???
Smart way to plant the two types instead of planting one type per side of the trellis. Makes it harder for them to cross pollinate. Keep the seeds from the ends just to be sure.
I don't save seeds. But a cross between these two may turn out good.
I would trim some of those leaves and this will help them ripen quicker
Good video. I did see a little bloom end rot. You should add a little gypsum powder as an amendment when you plant them. This will add calcium without changing the soil PH and BER will not occur. Many blessings and good harvests to you sir.
It's not always a calcium problem infrequent watering can also cause this problem..
What do you use for your lil name tags?
We recently planted 7 Heirloom Starts 🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅
Awesome! Which ones did you plant?
I’ve been watching too many gardening videos but I see you remove some suckers and leaves not right at the stem Seems like a good idea any reason?
Maybe because I planted them so close together, I decided to thin the foliage a bit.
TL;DR - The plants are doing very very well
How sweet are the Brandywine?
Did you trim them to one stem or did you let them bush out?
I usually trim them to one stem because I plant them 1ft apart.
There's no reason to wait till fully ripe. Once they blush on the bottom, they have all they need to attain the same flavor if left longer on the vine. No need to risk the fruit.
I totally agree.
You find there's no difference in flavor when doing that vs fully ripening on vine?
No. I find they still taste the same. Once they start changing color they still taste the same letting them ripen indoors.
@@SimpleSock Same. Really!
Do you prune your tomatoes?
Yes I do. I try to keep them pruned to one main stem.
My mom mixed the San Marzano seeds with the 1884 tomato so we won't know till the harvest, between Brandywine potatoleaf and Cherokee purple which one do you like it more? And which is the most overall resistant? I'm looking to plant just one variety next year to avoid cross pollination.
I would say that Cherokee Purple is my favorite. I think Brandywine and Cherokee Purple are both equal in the disease resistance. I prefer the darker tomatoes. I will never stop growing Cherokee Purple Tomatoes. They truly are the best tasting in my opinion. Thanks for watching!
@@PepplesPotager Do you think Cherokee purple is good enough for making tomato sauce? We use San Marzano for sauce but I'd like to grow only one variety to avoid cross pollination.
No need to worry about cross pollination unless your saving seeds. I do not make my own so I couldn't tell you whether its good for sauce or not. I know some people use them for salsa. We use them for salads and tomato sandwiches. We usually give any extras to friends or coworkers.
@@PepplesPotager Yeah I'd like to save the seeds for the next year as I do with corn, squash etc.
Where do you live?
What zone?
It seems to be able to seed these alot earlier
I'm in South Carolina
Maryland zone 6. I usually start my tomato seeds end of March beginning of April in the greenhouse. I put them in the ground by mid or end of May.
@@PepplesPotager that explains it. I'm growing those 2 exact with the edition of Black Kim, Big red.
Let you know how they grow we have an earlier season. Just a tad earlier. Getting garden prepped for a month or so from now.
Heres to our green thumbs!!
@@lifesprodject5265 Excellent! Sometimes I wish I had an ealier season. I'm always eager to get started. I may start some seeds earlier this year and try to grow some tomatoes in the greenhouse and not just use the greenhouse for seed starts. Thanks for watching!
I noticed the leaves are also sorr of curled down. Is that normal for the potato leaf? I am growing yellow brandywines and each time a bew leaf emerges it is sort of curled up downwards.
If they curl up I think it's usually physiological leaf roll. I see it every year on a few of my tomato plants wether it's potato leaf or not. Probably do to environmental conditions in the soil. It is very common.
Curled down could mean low nutrients or some sort of viral or fungal disease.
@@PepplesPotager hi. Yeah. I rhink that's it. It's not all the leaves too. Some leaves would come out rolled downward at the tips. Some don't. The ones that are curled.down sometimes stretch out normally abd some stay curled. Anyway, I saw some in yours are that way too. Thanks for the insight!
The corner of your trellis between the wood and the wire : how you attach? Did you bend the wood nails or use clips?
I used a staple gun. Worked great.
I got it seeds here. Come to learn how to plant this viraties
Thank you for watching
Isnt that a bit close..1 per sq ft
Brandywine, like how many per plant? . I do not had many, the heat of July was hard , but mines all around 1 - 1.5 . I had one 1.11.
Yeah! Mines around the same.
I think I get about 10 per plant.
Hi again , here looking when yours tomatoes ripe . Waiting, this year I had early blight. I just spray last weekend and waiting for the next weekend. Is being hot , I don't want to burn the plant with the spray. I just start to pick cherry tomatoes.
So far no early blight here. I have been picking a few tomatoes almost everyday this week. I usually pick them at first blush of color and sit them on kitchen counter till they ripen. I'll probably do a new video this week.
Well, how’d they taste?! 😁
It has a smokey sweet flavor. I think they are one of the best tasting tomatoes.
Do u always plant them that close?
Yes. You can plant indeterminate tomato plants one per square foot.
@@PepplesPotager how many stems they are allowed to keep? One for each?
Rodents must have good taste because they basically got all my brandywines last year and didn't touch my other tomatoes haha
They know where the good tomatoes are lol
Weird, your podcast is a blank black page. I cannot watch it.
Podcast? I don't have a podcast. Just a UA-cam and Instagram.