TOMATO PLANTS-What is the best type for your area??

[Mud-Dabber]

Looking for some new ideas or experiments for tomato types to plant this spring. The mainstay out in this semiarid area (Often 100 plus days in July-early September) is the Celebrity year in and year out. What are some ideas for hardiness, heat resistance and production in your areas of the country? Just about time for onions and taters to go in the ground if not already in some areas that have had some rain.

Regards,
Mud-Dabber

[crap-king]

I wish we could get some tomatoes this this time of year - I can eat rib-eye cheaper that tomato

[mudwitch]

I'm in the midwest and the Celebrity is my favorite slicer. Sauce is still the Roma.I have tried every Heirloom, Big boy , skinny girl and hand down, its the best.

[horseshoer]

Had a pretty big garden for over 10 yrs just west of Houston in Katy. I had luck with Presidente & Super Fantastic.
Feb was potato planting month but may be a tad later for you but not much if any. I planted LaSota & Pontiac red spuds and Kennebec whites. They say cut a seed potato so it is atleast as big as a hen egg and has 1 eye atleast.
I always pressed the cut side in dusting sulphur and laid them on a pop flat
for a few days before planting. Wood ash works too I hear to prevent scab rot. Good luck.

[MTM]

Just a heads up for you. We use to grow real good tomatos by digging about 1 1/2 feet below were we were going to plant our tomatos and putting the Rermains of the fish we had caught and cleaned. It sure makes for "BIG" Tomatos and good tasting ones to. We use to grow a lot of Beefstake Tomatos. Big baby's. One slice and you covered a slice of bread. YUM Ron

[crappieseeker]

ever tried upside down tomato?

[Roberta]

I've been growing Burpee Burger for several years now with excellant results. I start all my stuff from seed, but Burpee also sells plants if you don't want to do that.. They are about the least resistant I've found to blossom-end rot and splitting. Like most tomatoes, they will stop setting fruit once temps rise above 95, but recover as soon as it drops. Thankfully, here in SW Ohio, that doesn't happen too often.
This variety makes a good slicer and I can a lot of stewed tomatoes for use in chili and sauces.

Other varieties I've tried the last three years are Burpee 4th of July, an early cluster type that makes a pretty good canner and an experimental beefsteak type from Shumway. That one tends to split. I also tried Burpee's Salaa plumtype, but found it to be too mealy for my taste.

Check out the seed company Totally Tomatoes at http://www.totallytomato.com

for a wider selection.

[MTM]

Here is another site you may like my wife orders from them now and then and they will tell you what types will grow in your area to. Ron



http://www.johnnyseeds.com/catalog/s...subcategory=54

[SteveJ]

Like the acid taste in mine, what kind have you had the best luck with that taste?

[mikeg]

We plant tomatos each to sell, planted over 400 plants last year we plant tomatos for thair taist,for canning and table. We could plant the large tomatos like Big Boy or Better Boy which grow a large tomato selling them by the pound but we want to sell the best tasting tomatos that we can for or customers. These tomatos will go up to a pound or better, they dont have any core in them to throw away you don't wast any thing. They are Celebrity and Parker. They are the best. We had a good crop last year but had to water a lot we sold out with people still wanting tomatoes a long time after.We were getting a $1.00 a pound. and may go up this year. Hope this helps.

mikeg