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6 varieties, 4 plants, 10 years. What would you plant?

15 years ago

IF, for the next ten years, you were restricted to only six

varieties at no more than four plants each, what would then

be your choices?

This question was written by AlpineJS, but they didn't know how to start a new thread. Posting it for them.

Karen in OH

Comments (7)

  • 15 years ago

    I don't have a good answer to this question because I have not grown a lot of tomatoes.

    My first picks for Arizona though this year are...

    Cherokee Purple
    Sun Gold
    Black Cherry

    Give me a few years and I may have a few more.

    If we were to use ribsyhuggins's standard for asking questions though we might as well shut down the forum.

  • 15 years ago

    Pale Perfect Purple
    Cherokee Purple
    Eva Purple Ball
    A big pink beefsteak - there are many - Mortgage Lifter, Granny Cantrell etc.
    An early - Glacier, Matina etc.
    Heidi or a heart Reif Red Heart
    I don't like cherry tomatoes but many love them.
    I make and freeze salsa but I don't need much. Some need lots and lots of tomatoes. 24 plants would bury counters and tables in my house with boxes of tomatoes.

    There are lots of threads on favorites; that is what this forum is mostly. Do a search. You will find some varieties listed over and over and someone else will hate them. Pick a few and grow them, you'll like half of them. Next year try some more. It would be boring sticking to the same ones for 10 years. I grow many to try them for fun. It is addictive to read about them and then try to get the seeds.

  • 15 years ago

    Hege German Pink
    Top Sirloin
    Spudakee Purple
    KBX
    Christopher Columbus
    Val's Red Nibbler

    All OP and available from Gleckler Seedmen.

  • 15 years ago

    The 6 that are "must-grow" varieties for us:

    Mortgage Lifter - Estlers
    Yellow Oxheart
    German Red Strawberry
    Big Zebra
    Dr. Carolyn Pink (Cherry)
    Black Cherry

    ... at least those are the top 6 for now; who knows when we may find another new "must have". We only learned how wonderful the German Red Strawberry is last year and decided that it deserved to be on our Every Year list.

  • 15 years ago

    Alpinejs, it was very nice for Kirchren to post your question for you, but it is quite easy to post new messages and you will get more information with separate threads, although I have occasionally hijacked a thread or two, LOL. Go to the main Tomato Forum page, scroll down almost to the bottom where it says "Post a Message to the Forum". It looks just like the "Post a Follow-Up" box. Let us know if you have further difficulties with it(you may have obstacles we are not aware of, disabilities, technical problems, etc). Hope this helps.

  • 15 years ago

    That was quite nice and helpful of you, Noinwi. Empowerment!

    Rain

  • 15 years ago

    24 plants would be rather inadequate when feeding 7, but to take the spirit of the question, ...

    It would depend on what turns out to grow well in this climate.

    For many years in PA and New England I was content with Early Girl, Better Boy, Jubilee, Yellow Pear, Sweet 100, and either Rutgers or a rotating choice of beefsteak varieties depending on what caught my fancy in a given year.

    Here where many of my old favorites haven't done as well as I'd hoped, I can't say until I have found the right options.

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