Core in greenhouse tomato varieties
nineallday00
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cole_robbie
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Greenhouse tomato variety recommendation?
Comments (14)Joel, I may not live all that far from you if you are in the interior of BC. If you are on the coast - a lot of your problem is with low light/low temperature . . . come to think about it, that is certainly a problem here in the spring. Later, with the sunny summer, comes low overnight temperatures. All that is fairly tomato-unfriendly. While I have a greenhouse, and have one robust Sungold in there right now, I don't usually have anything growing in there during the summer. I did, however, grow a new-to-me variety outdoors this year: Tigerella. There is another variety that is standard-sized but I'm not talking about that one. This Tigerella is about silver dollar size and, apparently, grown in the UK for about the last 70 years in greenhouses. Anyway, it is a very early ripening variety in my garden. It has good flavor and a tender skin -- also, very pretty with its red and yellow stripes. Thompson and Morgan and others sell the seed. Here's wishing you the best of luck! Steve Here is a link that might be useful: Tigerella Tomatoes...See MoreCoring green tomatoes for salsa?
Comments (8)I think you are reading it correctly, just perhaps over-defining the core. Core size is basically determined by growing conditions so some years the core will be substantially bigger than normal. In those cases yes, it may require removing a great deal especially in small tomatoes. But in most years with tomatoes normal for their variety size the core is basically what fits in the center of a tomato corer (scroll down to see pics below). I can't really give you a specific size. Just don't remove any more than is necessary but only you, with tomato in hand, can determine that. Dave Here is a link that might be useful: Tomato corer...See MoreTomatoes varieties for greenhouses/high tunnels.
Comments (3)In the high tunnel, I am growing Big Beef, Cherokee Purple, Lemon Boy, Estiva, Polbig and Florida 91. I have a few Mountain Magic and Indigo Rose too. I also have been very happy with the BHN series too. Later plantings include some of these. I like to plant a variety of maturity dates so I am never flooded with tons of tomatoes at once. This year I have 4 plantings of tomatoes, in different high tunnels. First planting went in in Mid March, then May 1, June 1 and July 1(hopefully June 25thish on the last planting. The reason I am doing this is to keep my tomato size up. I always sell just about every tomato I can produce, so this year we are producing more, hopefully bigger ones, and trying to keep our customers happy. Jay...See MoreTomato variety summary 2009
Comments (11)Scott, I still have tomatoes producing heavily, and a few slow-pokes (planted late because of weather) that haven't produced a ripe one yet. And, there's no way I am going to list every single variety because I plant too many, but I'll give a brief synopsis of the ones that have produced well. Better Bush--earliest tomatoes...picked ripe ones in late April from plants set out in containers in mid-February. The flavor was very good considering these ripened in cool weather. The one in the ground in the garden produced one of the earliest ripe fruit in the garden too. Early Girl--early, lots of fruit, average flavor Jet Star--earlier than Early Girl, heavy bearers, better than average flavor Supersonic--very heavy yields of very large tomatoes, great flavor Prime Time--very heavy yields of large tomatoes, great flavor Ramapo--heavy yields of medium to large tomatoes, great flavor Moreton--heavy yields of medium to large tomatoes, very good flavor Momotaro--heavy yields of large pink tomatoes, excellent flavor Livingston Gold Ball--Heavy yields of golf-ball sized golden-yellow fruit with great taste. I like these so much they seldom make it indoors because I eat them while working in the garden. Indian Stripe--moderate yields (not as good this year as last year) of tomatoes similar to Cherokee Purple in flavor (excellent flavor) and appearance Chocolate Stripes--moderately heavy yield of red and green stiped tomatoes with average flavor Brandywine--low yields--so far 2 tomatoes from one plant and 5 from the other, but the flavor is great, and they are blooming now so hoping for more fruit set during the cool spell (which hasn't arrive here yet--it was 84 degrees here at 7:30 a.m. and felt like 89) Nebraska Wedding--Moderate yields of orange beefsteaks with outstanding texture and flavor Royal Hillbilly-moderate yield of fruit with amazing flavor--did not produce huge numbers like last year Tess' Land Race Currant--One of these is all you need. The plant currently is 8' tall and about 4' wide and I've had trouble keeping it upright. It currently is staked with 3 8' tall metal fence posts and 3 shorter wooden stakes. This produces tiny, red, round, tasty 1/2" wide tomatoes in great profusion....I'd say I've easily picked a thousand of these so far and it will produce until frost is heavy. A lot of flavor in a tiny tomato. We use these in salads and also I dehydrate tons of them. Sweet Million--heavy producer of red cherries with very good flavor Rose Quart--heavy producer of pink oval cherry types (not really as oval as most grape tomatoes) with very good flavor SunGold--as always, a heavy producer of golden-orange cherries with great flavor. Less cracking than most years. Black Cherry--superb as always and ties with SunGold in terms of great flavor and great productivity Ildi--a very prolific yellow grape tomato with amazing flavor. I've tried other yellow grapes and none of them can touch it in flavor. Some of the others are late to ripen.... Red Defender and Scarlet Red both have very heavy loads of large tomatoes. I am just about to start picking them. I think I picked a couple of Scarlet Red last week, but sent them to work at the fire station with DS, so can't comment on the flavor yet. These plants (and Moreton) have just about more fruit than foliage, and their foliage is heavy. I've never had plants in 7 to 10 gallon containers produce as many tomatoes per plant as these are producing. I can't wait to see how they do in the ground next year. Arkansas Traveler is producing medium-sized pink tomatoes with great flavor as always. Box Car Willie is just now ripening fruit. San Marzano Redorta is slow to ripen this year. Viva Italia has been a heavier producer and earlier and with fine flavor Black Plum was wonderful but both plants---one in a container and one in the ground--died of bacterial wilt. Mountain Princess produced heavy loads of pink, tasty fruit early on but was the first to die....of bacterial wilt. It was in a container too, and in fresh soil. (sigh) Some plants that won't be back: Dr. Carolyn (ivory cherry), Snow White (ivory to yellow large cherry) and Yellow Pear (kids love them). All three struggled with disease and died about the time they're producing heavily. That's all I can think of off the top of my head. I didn't grow a lot of my real favorites this year because I was worried about drought and wanted some heavy-producing hybrids. Next year (Jay, do you think I'll stick to this plan?) I am determined to grow only the best-of-the-best of the plants I've tried, and maybe allow myself to try 5 or 10 new varieties. I think I'll do a 50-50 split between heirlooms (better flavor, but usually lower productivity in our climate) and hybrids (flavor can be iffy, but heavy production). Dawn...See MoreK K
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