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In reply to the discussion: Tomato List '23 [View all]

MissB

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15. I sort of couldn't stop this year
Fri Jul 21, 2023, 06:53 AM
Jul 2023

Tomatoes:
Dwarf speckled heart (my absolute fav, thriving this year)
Sungold (best for snacking, I always have at least two plants)
Nova (my sauce tomato, super productive)
Bumblebee (multi colored sungold type)
Spoon (free seed of a micro tomato. I gave it a challenging environment to keep its growth down to manageable levels)
Phil’s 2 (my fav fun tomato this year from baker creek seeds. Looks like it was bred in Chernobyl)
Aurora (all around eating and great for dry farming. These plants are just loaded)

A bunch of tomatoes from Ukrainian seeds:
Gargamel (large with purple shoulders)
Granny’s throwing (large squat Italian heirloom)
Bulls heart gold (like dwarf speckled but not dwarf and yellow instead of red)
Batyana (another heart shaped but up to 21 oz fruit)
Ciliegia gialla (yellow orange cherry but compact/dwarf. Doing well in a large pot)
Ginger fox (yellow orange plum)


For peppers, I’m growing lots of fireball and jalapeño because I make a sauce from the former and pickle the latter. I also have a bunch of peppers that I’ve started from seed:

Aji chaparita
Peter
Brazilian starfish
Tobago
Ralph Thompson
Datil
Pumpkin jalapeño
Fish
Trepadeira Warner

I’m growing lots of fingerling potatoes in bags. Most of my winter squash is in bags. They’re all doing great. I have a big raised bed of volunteer squash. It’s possible that a squirrel relocated some of my seeds and it’s also possible that I have some pumpkin seeds from the compost, or a mixture of the two. They were growing in my garlic bed and I just left them to grow once I pulled the garlic. I just reseeded the bed with some dry bush beans, knowing that some of them will get a bit crowded out.



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