I had a not great year with tomatoes. First off, the container-bush slicer seeds turned out to be a weird determinate cherry, boo. Rugby did ok, but I do not have lots of sun, so it was slow. A few years back I tried Costoluto Genovese seeds and they also were mismarked, turned out to be something else and I got 3.. I will probably go back to Early Girl and Ace or Champion starts from the garden center. The July heat wave definitely had a negative impact on production, but the plants did survive to fruit in august. I grew Crimson Carmello a few years back and they were very good. But generally, I have a small yard, so I will not be growing from seeds anymore. just buying starts. I always go for the VFN, and am not thrilled with heirlooms.
I just took out my Chocolate Sprinkles tomato plant a couple days ago! I’d stopped harvesting about a month ago, but when it came time to finally chop it up, I ended up harvesting more than a hundred tomatoes ! This is a hybrid nematode-resistant large dark crunchy cherry tomato. At least a third to half had developed some color ; the rest were full size and still green, but not rock-hard.
I had a not great year with tomatoes. First off, the container-bush slicer seeds turned out to be a weird determinate cherry, boo. Rugby did ok, but I do not have lots of sun, so it was slow. A few years back I tried Costoluto Genovese seeds and they also were mismarked, turned out to be something else and I got 3.. I will probably go back to Early Girl and Ace or Champion starts from the garden center. The July heat wave definitely had a negative impact on production, but the plants did survive to fruit in august. I grew Crimson Carmello a few years back and they were very good. But generally, I have a small yard, so I will not be growing from seeds anymore. just buying starts. I always go for the VFN, and am not thrilled with heirlooms.
I just took out my Chocolate Sprinkles tomato plant a couple days ago! I’d stopped harvesting about a month ago, but when it came time to finally chop it up, I ended up harvesting more than a hundred tomatoes ! This is a hybrid nematode-resistant large dark crunchy cherry tomato. At least a third to half had developed some color ; the rest were full size and still green, but not rock-hard.