Kimberley is likely to be ready by beg of July. Second pic is 0-33 which look like delightful small beefs, probably the most blooming plant now, very compact too. Beliy Naliv decided to be a heart for change LOL Kibitz on the last pic has always been very productive on short plant. It is growing in somewhat shady location too...

Lindalana, I like how 0-33 looks like. Please keep us updated about this tomato. I may consider growing it next year.

I have Legend and Lida Ukrainian tomatoes, both are determinate and bushy. They were the first to set fruits. I think they should be ready in the beginning of July.

This is Lida Ukrainian above, big fruit, there are also several smaller ones.

Legend is above.

Last year I had Malachite box loaded with tomatoes in the beginning of July. This year it set only one fruit and then stopped for a while. Well, at least this one fruit will be early.

Japanese truffle pink will be my next early tomato, I found no information about it, but from my last year experience it is an early variety

Antmary, will do. Lida Ukrainian sounds interesting, wonder if it is acidic? I have grown Legend in the past too.

Japanese trifele pink is nice, people most like gold/orange- not sure if it the same and black. I only grown black and loved it. I do not see sources for pink in US though.

My veggie community garden changes day to day- initially it was Red Ruffles that grown like crazy and bloomed and now I have one tiny tomato on it. Donskoi not even one, although big plant by now. But Sen Say now looking really good. Hopefully those hearts will be as tasty as they look.

Lindalana, I bought my seeds of Japanese pink truffle from Amishland seeds website. Tatiana also has Pink truffle tomato, but it looks a little different than mine. I planted it last year and liked it. I've never tried Lida Ukrainian before, so we'll see how it tastes like. This year is very weird one, many tomatoes are VERY slow to set fruits. I also have some plants that are huge with no fruits on them. The next year I'll try the heart-shaped tomatoes too.

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Am glad to hear I am not only one with weird pattern of fruit setting, never had it before and do not have near the house where I have few protected tomatoes on south wall of the house. How was the yield on Pinks? I was told it could be so so... I do love Jap black and had good yields in the past.

A few Sun Gold showing color here in zone 6. I expect to pick next week. I gambled and set out some plants in mid April. Sometimes you get lucky.

PatWinterrowd zone6 central PA

Just picked 2 Stupice & 3 Sungold today, happy, set out in wow on May 5.

Summer is here ! June 21st.
It seems that my Mini Roma (similar to Juliet) is coming strong and might be the winner in EARLY category. It has fruits in 3 trusses and some of them are getting close to final size. Surprising !

Sey

Hi lindalana,

I grow them in a self watering bucket system I built. Since they are Dwarfs I start them indoors early. I don't have a pic of them this year but its the same as last year... They are very consistent in these buckets..

I have many trusses of Sungold. How long do they take to ripen? I am hoping for that July 4th trophy.. though I am not sure if Sungolds count. :)

The Sweet Tangerine determinates I planted have lots of fruit but they aren't even full sized yet. I think another month maybe or close on the regular tomatoes.

The bumble bees have been enjoy my profusely flowering tomatoes.

I've had about a dozen Early Girl's ripened. Several other varieties coming along nicely I will take some pics in the next couple of days.

I picked my first Sweet Olive today. It was a bit under-ripe, but close enough. I wasn't sure of it's final color, but it still needs a day or 3 to go to a deeper red.

Gold Nugget - picked yesterday!

First tomatoes of the year: 3 sun sugar & 1 big beef picked today.

Yes. happy dance here, Kimberley, container, planted about April 20

Tomorrow, July 1.

How are you July 4 tomatoes ?

My early tomatoes this year that I am eating currently, June 30, are Big Beef, Indian Stripes, Rutgers, BFBS, Sun Sugar and Sweet 100s.

ncrealestateguy, you're in North Carolina ?
When did you start your tomatoes ?

UPDATE:
I want to yell at and curse my early varieties like SILETZ, LEGEND, WILLAMETTE, FORTH-OF-JULY... lol
My CP, Mini Roma, Big Beef, Brandy Boy .. beat them all the way to the bushes.

Mini Roma

CP
Big Beef
Brandy Boy
Sey

With all this heat here in the West, I had my first ripe June tomatoes, ever. Two, in fact. Bloody Butcher.

There is nothing too unusual for them to be first but never BB or anything else this early. There will be a #3 ripe by the Fourth.

Sungold will be along soon. I have Kimberley in a bit of shade ... she might appreciate that considering how much hot sunlight has been raining down on the plants.

Steve

My third cherry plant to ripen fruits was Sunsugar; this photo was taken Friday. I was quite worried about this plant, which seemed stunted, and has grown into a very short bush compared to its cousin Sungold. The Sungold is about 9 feet tall and the Sunsugar is about 3 feet. Both producing yummies though!

Just heard Mike McGrath say that there's new research out saying that tomato plants that suffer through many nights in the 40s can delay ripe fruit by up to a month. So ironically, the people trying to push the season may unintentionally delay their fruit. That is exactly what happened to me last year when I planted in April without protection.

No sign of larger tomatoes ripening YET... but plants are getting loaded up!

Jenn

I have never planted an early tomato, as our growing season is so long. And earlies don't get great taste reviews. This year I planted one by mistake. My mystery orange potato leaf cherry turned out to be a red salad size. This shows my inexperience to not wait long enough until it was fully ripe to know it was red! So now we are thinking it is a crossed seed and probably Kimberley. Craig is growing it out now, so we should be able to confirm it was a stray seed in a couple of months. I am now hoping it was a stray so I can save seeds from this gem. Oh man is this a good tomato! And throughout June we have had probably 2 - 3 pounds of these small 1.5 a 1.7 ounce beauties. And it keeps setting fruit, even in our heat wave. First tomatoes weren't anything to write home about, as I have found with all tomato varieties that set fruit in cold weather. But with a little warmth they are wonderful. We even sliced these little guys up for our first BLT of the season! (Took a number of them to get an equal ratio of T) This is definitely a keeper for me.

Jennie

OK, tomorrow... 4 of July.

Let's see pictures of your... 4 of July tomato variety.

I have two real early determinate tomatoes. And they proved to be early. First ripe tomato Legend on June 28. 116 days from seeds, 60 days from planting outside. Taste was good too.

It is susceptible to septoria so it deflated quite a bit.

The second ripe tomato is Lida Ukrainian, it will be ripe in two days completely. So it's around 123 days from seeds and 67 days from planting outside. It is very big fruit for the early tomato.

Lida Ukrainian (left) and Legend for the comparison.

Jennie - this sure is a plot twist! So they were starting to turn color before reaching full-size? Or perhaps the first fruits were smaller? How did you discover that it actually got bigger and red?

Jenn, this shows that I still have lots to learn! :-) They are a little bit larger than a cherry, what Tatiana calls a salad. Maybe 1.5 to 1.7 ounces. But what I still consider small, so I called them a cherry. So they didn't get bigger after starting to turn. First they were orange, and ripened to what I considered a deep dark orangey red. I just didn't let them ripen long enough before jumping the gun. Craig confirmed they were red, and I think he knows better than me. :-) If these are Kimberley, you should try them next year in your PNW garden. They truly are a delicious tomato. I have already saved seed!

Jennie

Wow, Jennie! So they might just be a stray seed then? Or a cross?

Carolyn certainly speaks very highly of Kimberly, it is one of her favorites among the early varieies. You are confirming they have really good flavor (unlike some earlies) so I will defnitely have to try!

Continuing with original topic -

Here's my first CP, Jaune Flamme, along with yellow & orange cherries. Darnit, I thought I knew how to turn it sideways but it didn't work. Jaune Flamme next to the CP at the bottom. It had a matte skin, and it was rather thick - I wondered if that is normal?

The CP is maybe 4 oz. Still ripening on the counter.

First Black Krim! Also still ripening. Maybe 3 oz. Need a scale. :)

My scale

Kimberley is a keeper, loaded and great taste. One con it is not really compact, albeit small

Awesome, thanks Daniel!

You're welcome, wormgirl.

I have a similar one, I bough at Bed and Bath, last year. It is very handy.
If you wants to weigh like liquids, put the container on it empty, before turning it on. Then add whatever you want. Then it will show the weight of net contents.

On the subject of Early.. once again I want yell and curse at mine.hehe

Sey

sey, am I wrong or last year you - like me - were not very happy with the early tomatoes ?

Picked out today my first Zolotoye Serdse- i.e. Golden heart, VB Russia and Indische Fleisch. Still only blushing, so no taste. It has been rainy anyway so bummer too...

This morning's harvest. That little red one at the bottom? The first Stupice. Not super impressively early but it was started later than all the others pictured.

I have a mystery black tomato. This spring one of the two Black from Tula tomatoes developed potato leaves and the other one had regular. I thought that may be Brandy Boy seed was mixed in. But now my mystery tomato has its first ripe fruit and what a good tomato it is! It is VERY early for the indeterminate and the fruits look really nice smooth, round to heart shaped, pinkish-purple, the first one was 255 g.

It looks somewhat like Cherokee purple but with potato leaves and the round shape. I do realize that it is possibly a cross between Black from Tula and the other tomato, but I'll save the seeds anyway. I like early varieties.

Here is the other early indeterminate winner Malachite Box tomato. I liked this variety very much last year, it had very big crop of tomatoes. This year it is not so prolific due to problems with fruit set. But it is early anyway.

You guys have me so jealous, I still haven't eaten a single tomato. There are a good 2 buckets of green ones out there.... taking their time as they do. I have a handful of Sungolds finishing off on the counter just about ready.

Peter, I just sow mine in the beginning of March. And despite the common opinion that the early planting does not help, it helps me to get tomatoes earlier anyway.

By the way this is my first ripe Flavorburst pepper.

antmary, do you direct sow them?

Do you use WOW or any other temperature protection?

Jenn

Wormgirl, I started my tomatoes indoors, March 5th, this year. I have DIY low tunnel covered with plastic sheets, where they stayed for the couple of weeks before I planted them in the ground on April 27th. It was earlier than usual since there was no frost issues this year. No protection after planting into the ground.
Next year I am going to make a better tunnel and plant them into the ground earlier with the protection.

Woot! Finally got something good to post about. Yesterday I was complaining to Antmary that nothing was ripening in my tomatoes. Should have paid closer attention to my tomatoes lol. Today I spent 9 hours in the tomato garden, cleaning out weeds, laying down cardboard, and removing infected leaves. That's when I saw this baby. Then found 4 more just like it :)

4th of July. All 5 of them. This was the most ripe, but I picked all 5 to ripen inside so the critters don't eat them.

My 4OJ , on one truss is about the same size but they are still green.
Today I picked my first Juliet , just blushed. More to come soon.

Sey

Congratulations, Say and Carriehelene, first tomatoes are the most precious.

Had some VB Russia, Pravda, Pearly Pink Orange and Kibitz changing colors. Managed to wait and eat ripe Kimberley- yum yum yum.

First harvest, very wet, lots of cracking. Picking at first blush everything. Hoping for much more but first yield got lots of blossom drop this year.

carriehelene wrote: > Today I spent 9 hours in the tomato
garden, cleaning out weeds, laying down cardboard, and removing infected leaves.

carriehelene, imho 9 hrs. is… TOO MUCH to spend in the
garden. The next day, ankles will hurt, knees will hurt, back will hurt…

Been there, done that !

Daniel, yup, every thing hurt lol. Was back out there on Sunday, but didn't get a lot done. It was so hot it was making me ill. Still have a lot more to do. With all that rain, even with spraying every week, I'm having a hard time keeping ahead of diseases. It just got to much of a head start of me. Picked 13 more 4th of July on Monday. So for early tomatoes, this variety is definitely a winner in my garden. Nothing else is ripening yet.

These are my two earliest varieties this year, grown under WOWs. Nothing else is ripe yet, but some of the brandy boys are getting huge!

The one on the right is Anna Russian, the middle ones are Black Krim. They've been in the cabinet for about a week (due to critters, including the cat, who will eat them if I leave them on the counter). The two to the left are my first two tomatillos, which are going wild this year, literally. There are volunteers everywhere in the garden.

Caryl

Caryltoo, does your cat eat the tomatoes in the garden also, or just if they are on the counter? Looking good btw.