I think I have a new favorite tomato

[camille1585]

I'm so jealous, not only do you already have ripe tomatoes, but delicious ones at that! I won't be sowing my seeds until end of March...

You guys have made me so curious about Cherokee Purple that I looked to see if I could find some seeds here. Luckily I did, and discovered that the vendor also has Cherokee Chocolate, which is a mutated Cherokee Purple... Not sure if these big beef types will ripen in the short Dutch summers, but I'll give it a try!

[WaterWitchin]

There's a cherry tomato, Chocolate Cherry, that should perform well and time for the short grow season. They're usually on my list to grow. Might get one just as insurance.

[camille1585]

Originally Posted by WaterWitchin

There's a cherry tomato, Chocolate Cherry, that should perform well and time for the short grow season. They're usually on my list to grow. Might get one just as insurance.

Excellent suggestion, and the vendor that has the Cherokee Purple also has these! I used to sow the same 2 varieties each year, and have started testing a few new types the past couple years to see what else does well here. Black Krim is one of them, and they produce fruit until quite late in the seaon. Even the last ones (harvested just before the first frost early november) were very sweet.

Looks like I'll be testing Cherokee Purple and Chocolate Cherry this year. While searching for them I found a website with another type I'm curious to try, called Currant Sweet Pea. The tomates are tiny, pea sized things, and each plant produces hundreds of them over a season.

[WaterWitchin]

Oh interesting! Current Sweet Pea ... pretty sure I need to try this. Looks like it would be good in a huge hanging basket.

[DirtyCoconuts]

Wow. That does sound awesome. I could probably hide it from the sun and have it going all year!!!

[camille1585]

So, it seems that enablement doesn't stop with orchids, thanks to you guys I now have seedlings of Cherokee Purple and Chocolate Cherry under my grow lights for the coming gardening season!

This year I have my usual Saint Pierre and Black Krim, and am also testing Outdoor Girl (UK cold tolerant variety) and Currant Sweet Pea.

[WaterWitchin]

From enabling for orchids, tomatoes, and Other Flowers You Like... you're welcome.

[Kim in CT]

I'll have to research how all of these fabulous-sounding tomatoes do in my hardiness zone. My mom lived in Florida for a few years and said she couldn't grow tomatoes. I think that's one of the reasons she moved back to zone 6!

[early]

I have grown tomatoes since I was a small child in Missouri. Also in NC and California. Never a problem, in a pot or in the ground. Here in NM, our growing season is strange, late spring at 5000 feet, hot hot summer, and very dry. I have had mucho problemas with growing tomatoes here. On East/NE screen porch...indoors in plant room with South lots of sun, but when I put the pots out to polinate, and brought back in, a day later all the leaves were gone. Grubs.....lol. So this year I am loading up my spray bottle with soapy water, spraying twice a day, planting out side in top soil to cover all my Rio Grande sand, and plants some marigolds around them. Any other suggestions. My neighbor is giving me a telephone pole, and another cut in 2 1/2 feet dividers, and making a raised sorta bed on the south with sun all day, and a small fence to keep cat and dogs out of it... Hope it works. I have lived here 12 yrs, small adobe home, and really miss having a garden. I have taken Two Master Gardening Classes, the last here in NM, but not sure I have learned how to plant a garden that grows here in this arid heat. Fortunately I have a well and lots of water.

[kvet]

Originally Posted by camille1585

So, it seems that enablement doesn't stop with orchids, thanks to you guys I now have seedlings of Cherokee Purple and Chocolate Cherry under my grow lights for the coming gardening season!

Aren't you supposed to be some tomato mad scientist or wizard or something? You should be enabling us! Good luck with them

I'd been having trouble getting the dwarf variety seeds to germinate.. finally on the fourth try, but this is a one month set back ugh. For whatever reasons, paper-towel method was required. This year going to grow only six at home, and focus on fixing last years' issues.

Meantime, long story short, 31 tomatoes destined for the parental units' yard up-potted today right on schedule. Includes 5 cherokee purple total Only two black cherry, I'm the only one who likes cherry tomatoes.