Tomato List 2014

[Botany]

Cherokee Purple
Brandy wine
Mr. Stripey
German Johnson
Black Prince …. I couldn’t find Black Krim
Big Hybrid one
Jet Star Oldie but goodie Developed by Ohio State for central Ohio
Sun Gold knock off

Peppers
Serrano
Big Bertha
Joe’s Long Red Cayenne

Herbs
Thai Cinnamon Basal
San Genovese

Chard
Potatoes
Cilantro

[Diamond_Dog]

1. That sounds like an awesome garden!

What do you do with all those tomatoes?

Our garden isn’t quite as extensive

Tomatoes -
Beefsteak
Brandywine
Moby Grape
Rutgers
Healthy Kick

Leaf Lettuce, Green and Purple

Hungarian Hot Wax peppers

Green Beans, Desperado

Eggplant, Black Beauty

Straight Eight Cuke

[Brother Buzz]

2. You can thank DUer, NewHendoLib (formerly known as NRaleighLiberal) for the Cherokee Purple

In 1990 John Green of Sevierville, Tennessee mailed heirloom tomato expert Craig LeHoullier seeds of an unnamed purple tomato. Green said that the tomato had originated with the Cherokees more than 100 years previously. LeHoullier named the tomato "Cherokee Purple" and sent seeds to the Southern Exposure Seed Exchange (SESE). Jeff McCormack, the owner of SESE, said that the tomato "tasted fine, but was kind of ugly -- people may not like it." SESE featured the Cherokee Purple in the 1993 seed catalog. LeHoullier distributed Cherokee Purple seeds to several market growers and one of them, Alex Hitt, who lived in North Carolina, had an immediate success growing and selling the tomato despite its ugly appearance. The tomato was described "as looking like a leg bruise."

In 2014, Cherokee Purple was named one of the top ten tomato heirloom varieties by the Seed Savers Exchange.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee_Purple_(tomato)

[happybird]

3. Got one started from seed that's about a foot tall now

I always think of NewHendoLib when watering it.

[wiggs]

4. Looks like a good tomato year in socal. plants loaded, no disease yet, just need some more warmer

days for ripening up. Tried to keep to 7-8 plants, but currently have 13:

...Summer of Love (2)
...Black and Brown Boar (2)
...Black Krim
...Black Sea man
...Blood Moon
...Lucky Bee (2) first time trying, loads of cherry size, picking already
...Bronze Torch
...Madam Marmaunde
...Thornberg's Terra Cotta
...Negrillo de Almoguera (first time trying)

Most are in 15 gallon pots, several overhead tall already. I'll likely start a Green Zebra soon