Best variety with high acid taste - Tomatoville® Gardening Forums
Mar 7, 2014 · In the black tomatoes Berkley Tie Die Pink is fairly tart. One of my favorite reds that falls in that category is Druzba and it has been very productive as well as tasty. I'm growing Atkinson for the first time in a very long time. It used to be one of the favored tomatoes around here before fusarium got so bad.
OP tomatoes that don't crack & split? - Tomatoville
Oct 6, 2020 · From my experience, many smaller tomatoes don't have a lot of cracking, but they still may be susceptible to splitting. "Even watering" is a good objective, but one can't control the rain, and many varieties crack and split very badly in containers, especially earthtainers (with constant high moisture).
Hybrid tomatoes - Tomatoville® Gardening Forums
Apr 7, 2024 · I grew Brandy Boy last year -- plant was huge and production was amazing, but I didn't love the flavor of the tomatoes, and there was a fair amount of cat-facing. Steak Sandwich tasted good but the tomatoes were smallish after the first few, and tolerance to disease and heat wasn't great. I have seeds for Think Pink but haven't tried it yet.
Wind effect on tomatoes- what does it do? - Tomatoville
Feb 21, 2009 · I have large cages,which I fabricated, for my tomatoes. I cover them with 6 mil, clear plastic,that comes in large rolls at HD and/or Lowes. It provides heat as well as wind protection. Last year I did not use this,or any other, method and wound up with a Grand total of ZERO ripe tomatoes. Thought I'd let mother nature work her magic.
tomatoes & oyster shells - Tomatoville® Gardening Forums
Apr 21, 2009 · i have had in the past a problem w/ my tomatoes rotting from the bottom about the time they get ripe. i have been told the stuff ya spray on em to prevent this is calcium, and that if ya will put some oyster shells (like for chickens) in the ground around your tomatoe plants, that it will prevent the rotting from the bottom.
2021 dwarf tomato results, and plans for 2022 - Tomatoville
Jan 13, 2022 · And while I will still grow the two San Marzano varieties that I found do well for me, I'm also transitioning the paste section of my tomato garden over to dwarfs. My goal is enough canned purée to use on pizza throughout the year, and a stash of "sun" dried tomatoes. The new paste dwarfs are able to do this, so I will stay with them.
Holy Land Tomatoes - Tomatoville® Gardening Forums
Dec 23, 2014 · Although I got my Holy Land, yellow strain seeds from Susan Anderson, when I grew them out, the tomatoes did not look as fully red as what she shows in the photographs on that page in the tomatobase. Mine were dark yellow with yellow shoulders. The body of the tomato had a heavy red blush from the blossom end then about halfway up the sides.
Favorite red tomatoes? - Tomatoville® Gardening Forums
Feb 13, 2021 · There are several very good red tomatoes though they tend to have more robust flavor than pink varieties. For a large slicer, I enjoy Cuostralee, Neves Azorean Red, Nepal, and Akers West Virginia. For an early variety, Bloody Butcher is hard to beat.
tomatoes alive plus fertilizer - worth buying? - Tomatoville
Mar 11, 2011 · I found this review of Tomatoes Alive on the internet: So I tried Tomatoes Alive next. It contains a mixture of key nutrients and micronutrients essential to the well-being of tomatoes. Unlike Miracle-Gro, it did not need diluting or endanger my tomatoes from getting burned by an overdose.
Delectation of Tomatoes - Tomatoville® Gardening Forums
Jan 20, 2016 · And also still hangs out at the BIG Pumpkin site with the big tomato folks since Dale also has a section at his website that's all about big ones.When I was last at his site I went there to see if he was listing a particular variety someone wanted but couldn't find elsewhere,but couldn't find the place where the BIG tomatoes are listed,my fault ...