I think I have a new favorite tomato

[WaterWitchin]

Those black and red tomatoes!!!! Picture perfect. What are they?

[camille1585]

Originally Posted by SADE2020

@camille I didn't understood you actually have a garden. Great...looking good. Obviously we have such of different weather.

Yes and no, I live in an apartment so don't have any outdoor space of my own, but I do rent a garden plot from the municipality. I have about 60m2, less than 10 minutes cycling distance from home so I usually go there every other day.

This is my update:

That's a great looking harvest! What kind of tomatoes are those big ridged ones? The red and black ones look like one of the Indigo types? Indigo Rose maybe? They look delicious! And I see that you have a couple of helpers!

[SADE2020]

Originally Posted by camille1585

Yes and no, I live in an apartment so don't have any outdoor space of my own, but I do rent a garden plot from the municipality. I have about 60m2, less than 10 minutes cycling distance from home so I usually go there every other day.

That's a great looking harvest! What kind of tomatoes are those big ridged ones? The red and black ones look like one of the Indigo types? Indigo Rose maybe? They look delicious! And I see that you have a couple of helpers!

That is really cool, I actually live in a place where behind my house is a park and the government rent Veggies Garden to 3rd age group; which I found so great! When I can I go to sneak out, walk the dogs and chat with them, I really have a blast because they know their stuff . Garden Rentals are becoming very popular these days at least in Balearic.

The Blue Tomatoes, correct Indigo Kind but hybrids; we called in spanish just "Black"

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The truth is that I don't have much control over the names, because I buy the seed sprouts from the farmers in a local market dedicated to VeggyGardens and some are hybrids. Beside the black (Indigo), we have just a few plants of "heart of ox", "Rosa de Barbastro" (my favorite), "Italian Pear" and "Raft". (I am translating literally the names I know)

It's very cool because the farmers sell you the sprouts and give you all the tricks for each "category": *my assistants* are the ones who take note and also "earn" real money; I pay them for every good tomato. It is a luxury that they like it and are encouraged, because I am already entertained with the orchids and the Veggie Garde does not excite me anymore that much.

[Dollythehun]

I planted one this year called Blue Beauty. They have set fruit and the shoulders so far, are true blue. Foliage is very clean and pretty too. Too hot to go take a pic but, I will later.

[kvet]

How'd everyone's tomato season go this year?

Ours was terrible. My dwarf plants were stunted and produced very few tomatoes, died by mid august. The plants in the parental units garden were dead by mid July, trellis wasn't even used . We made a last-minute run to nursery and tried growing a bunch in a grow-bucket setup (self-watering). These showed a lot of promise early on, but by mid-august signs of disease hit them as well. They are producing tomatoes, but pretty much only one or two sets and the plants are pretty much dead at this point. One of the nursery ones was supposed to be a cherokee purple, it produced four large tomatoes, each 1.25lbs.. but, I think someone changed the tags on it, because it was orange on the outside and yellow on the inside, definitely NOT a CP. It tasted like a tomato-peach, very unique, it was more of a fruit than a tomato, delicious. Pictured.

Not sure what we're going to do next year. I'd really like to get those dwarf tomatoes another try.. the tomatoes I had from them were delicious.

[camille1585]

Sorry to hear that you had such a bad year... It happens to everyone at some point, sometimes multiple points! That big peachy tomato does look delicious though!

I had a fairly decent year. After 3 bad years, I finally have a mostly good year. I rent my garden plot from the municipality and it's sandy ground with no running water, so if there's a heatwave/drought, I have to haul all the water from home once my rainbarrel is empty.

Anyhow, this year was an excessively wet year, and all the tomato plants I was growing outside were killed by phytophtera in July. The ones is my plastic tunnel got infected too, but I manged to save them with a copper sulfate treatment. My french heirloom tomato, Saint Pierre, is the best performer as usual. Black Crim is doing ok-ish. I tried Cherokee Purple and Black Cherry (delicious!!!) this year and the CP is proving extremely sensitive to phytophtera, and even protected from the rain the fruits (but not plant bizarrely) are getting infected. I'm not going to have a single one.

In the rest of the garden it's been an exceptional year due to the high rainfall, with enormous carrots, large crops of lettuce, decent potato harvest (despite phytophtera). Lately I'm harvesting a lot of french beans, courgettes, and sweet corn. I have dahlias and sunflowers planted a bit everywhere so the garden is looking quite nice now.

[SADE2020]

Lovely Camille.
I also had a good tomatoes year, less quantity but less pets and all.

[Dollythehun]

What a beautiful tangle, Camille! I grew Roma's, which are just ripening. They were small this year. I tried a couple new kinds, Blue Beauty, which is ripening slowly, too. But, it is big and a great sturdy slicer, few seeds. I also tried a dwarf, Geranium. It lost all it's blossoms early. Being indeterminate, it grew another set. One plant is full of green tomatoes, the other had few. Right next to each other. My foliage is clean. It's been a banner year for cucumbers too! People are going to start hiding when they see me. I even canned a family heirloom recipe for candied sweet gerkins. Grapes were a bumper crop too and squash and peppers did well. But I've never had tomatoes ripen so late!

[Mr.Fakename]

Well, my seeds finally arrived, and I'm excited to join the tomato gang for 2022!
Let's hope this year's yields will be good for everyone.

[WaterWitchin]

Well boys and girls, it's almost tomato planting time here. Actually, not until mid-May but the anticipation is making me antsy.

My last year's tomatoes weren't very productive... weather related I'm pretty sure. The Purple Cherokee were particularly poor numbers-wise. I did notice last year my PC started from seed were rather puny seedlings, thus buying a few elsewhere just to see.

So this year I'm experimenting with my three favorites...PCherokee, Black Krim, and Pineapple. Have seed planted and they're growing out. Also bought a few of the same from White Flower Farms. WFF is really pricey, but depending on what you "need" I've yet to be disappointed by a plant. And their tomato starts aren't out of line compared to the stores around here.