Aww, come on Luke, the coolest tomato backstory has got to be your Giant Crimson! Who else can say their tomato was grown from 80 year old seed? Mine are already 5" tall and in the ground here in California! Oops, I wrote too soon...I should have known you wouldn't forget it!
@@NonieK2267 Vinegar, citric acid or lemon juice or break down and pressure can it. All depends what you're making but if not a salsa I feel safer pressure canning if just plain tomatoes.
Lol, out of the 29 varieties I started this year we only have Dr. Wyche's in common. There are so many varieties of tomato! Such an adventure every year 💕💕
I can't wait to have your experience man. This year was my first year starting with seeds and everything. I did so many mistakes lol, and the whole process was very stressful I wanted everything to be perfect. Anyway, still had fun in the process and next year will be much smoother.
Its ok! That's how you learn. I still make mistakes.. and I've certainly learned a lot over the last 20 or more years. Luke's channel is really helpful and his family sells great and affordable seeds 💚🌿💚🍀
@@Im-just-Stardust think about buying them before summer. Luke has a big sale around the new year I think? I bought tons of seeds at $1 a pack! This helps people a lot. I love this company and channel 💙🌿💙
LOVE the Hillbilly tomatoes! They're also from my home state of WV! I hadn't been able to find them for a while.I ordered from you for the first time this year and have been very pleased with the seeds and their growth so far! Great prices and excellent germination rate. Thank you for all your hard work!
I love your excitement over tomatoes. This is my first year to garden and I am limited to a balcony so I chose to try a Brandywine tomato, and I just started my first seeds yesterday. I only have space for a couple of plants, but it's okay, I am just learning. I definitely want to get some of those Giant Crimson seeds when they come back in stock. I want to share them with all my family and friends who garden and bring this variety back. I have one in mind that would especially love the gift of these seeds along with the backstory.
I love the varieties you’re growing this year! Of course you must have the Giant Crimson, as do we. I’m putting those in, along with the Abe Lincoln, Thorburn’s Terracotta, sweet Million, Super sweet 100, Cream Sausage, and Dr. Neal’s (also known as General Grant), which is another fairly rare heirloom. I can’t even tell you which is my favorite, as I simply love tomatoes!
After watching your video last fall on how to save tomato seeds, I saved from my Pineapple and two other varieties. I started them this spring and they are all doing great! I can’t wait to plant them out in my garden 😊
I live in zone 4B with a 90 day growing season. The Giant Crimson was the best tasting tomato I grew last year. Took a while, but they were beautiful and incredibly tasty!
I was debating whether or not I would start the Giant Crimson this year, but after hearing you talk about it in this video I decided I have to do it! Thanks for the amazing work you do to help us grow bigger!
Project recommendations: - olive oil from plant to bottle. - rice from seed to plate - Fruit to alcohol (although I myself don't drink) - a variety of quality mushrooms
I'm growing Pineapple, Great White, Kellogg's Breakfast, Big Pink (which is a hybrid my daughter saw and asked to grow). I'm also growing a couple determinate varieties for the first time...Roma and San Marzano.
Small space gardener here. This year I am trying the Tiny Tim tomato, which is going in my new Greenstalk; Paul Robeson, Geranium Kiss, and the Giant Crimson tomato. I split the Giant Crimson seed packet with my friend that has a bigger space so she’ll be growing them too. 😊
I tried Brandywine pink last year for the first time. It was really good! Hubby is very traditional, so he prefers red tomatoes, so when I saw that Brandywine was available in red also, I had to grab a packet. So, this year,I'm planting the pink and the red varieties. I'm always very happy woth the germination rate of the seeds from MIGardener!
So happy to see Giant Crimson is back👏🥰. I was already following you on TH-cam when you started that whole project with the shadow box, so it's been a long time.🍅
LOL the song was great, and made me smile. Thanks for that. For this year I don't have as much space in my garden as I used to as I'm in the process of moving things around and rearraigning the layout of things. I went with the red centiflor, and 42 day cherry tomatoes. I can't wait to see how they do here in my yard.
When I discovered there was an entire world of there of 1000's of different varieties of tomatoes, peppers, etc., your website was the 1st website I discovered! (From Jess at roots & refuge I am almost certain) I ordered about 26 different tomato varieties my first year! 😆 I never realized there were others besides the ones you found in packets at home depot, Lowe's, etc.!?! I'm still in search of the best beefsteak, but I've found the best Cherry tomato- that's the sungold. I don't think it's possible (or worth the waste of space) to search any further. They're sooooo sweet! Last year I trialed about 5 different cherries & I was mad at myself for "wasting" the space, b/c I didn't like them at all compared to the sungolds! 😄
I didn't know there were so many varieties of tomatoes until my local nursery was out of Kelloggs. They suggested I try a nursery 20 Mike's away that grows over 200 varieties of tomatoes! Who knew? When I go there I can never decide which ones. to grow....always end up with too many and give some away. I'm planting g from seed this year and they are my backup of anything fails.
@nancy spruiell I tried a current tomato last year, & I didn't like the one I tried, because every time I picked them, they were difficult to get from the stem, & it ripped the skin. OK for fresh eating, off the vine, but not for picking to eat later...
Husband thinks there are only Rutgers in tomatoes. Actually he says they are the best. As for apples here likes the standard red delicious. Boring! I like them all!
I've grown many of these with seeds from you! The only disappointment I had was that my vintage wine tomatoes were red and green, not red and gold. They looked a lot like the chocolate stripes variety and I actually wondered if somehow the seeds got mixed up. They were still delicious, but I was sad not to have the red/gold tomatoes. Thanks for everything you do!
@Melissa M How would I have done that? I got the seed packet and started them indoors before planting them outside. I didn't save seeds from them and plant them the second year, it was a brand new unopened packet.
@Tabitha B cross pollination doesn't happen often with tomatoes as they're self pollinating. Even if it does happen though, the tomatoes are true to the parent plant. It's only the seeds that won't grow true the following year, so the seeds in the packet should have been correct the first year.
I grew your watermelon beefsteak last year - and it was SO good, it is now one of my top picks. Growing again this year - and can't wait. So meaty, so delicious.
Love your tomato seeds and the rest! Bought all my seeds from you last year. Didn't buy local plants at all. All of the seeds I planted for the garden except my sweet peas came from you and I swear every one came up! Had lots of tomatoes peppers cucs and such! They transplanted well even tho June was so nasty I had to wait til the last week of June to plant out. Love your products and seeds! Thankyou !!!
Always enjoy watching your vids brother, this year im growing Jersey Devil's + Comstock paste/slicer for paste, Beauty King for slicers, a yellow (forgot the name) + Sun Gold for cherry's. Selling these plants starts at your store, the surrounding community is in for a flavor/variety EXPLOSION!
There are a couple of these tomatoes I’m going to add for next year, since I already have my seats for this year. But yeah, love the little ditty at the beginning!
Love all your stories about these tomatoes. I started Amish paste and opalkas for paste. I have Ananase noir, cherokee purple, brandywine, german pink, Ace 55, A grappoli D'Inverno, Kelloggs breakfast, and terracota Thornburn. I went tomato crazy this year trying so many, but they have all sprouted. I live in TN. Thanks for sharing!
Got my very own Giant Crimson growing in my garden right now! I planted 2 seeds, hoping to get one plant. Both germinated. I enjoy giving away tomato plants to people who need them at church. One lady in her 80's asked for 2 red tomato plants, and told me how her family commercially grew tomatoes when she was a child and how much she missed it. I told her the story of the Giant Crimson and gave her my extra plant. I think I saw a tear in her eye. :) As for tomatos, wow, I grow a lot! 2023: Giant Crimson, Giant Belgium, Lincoln 1923, Vint Wine, Sunrise BB, Isis Candy, Napa Chardonney, Terra Cotta, Hillbilly, Carbon, Cherokee P, Rebel Starfighter, Roma, Mortgage Lifter, Pink Brandy, Great White, Dr. Wyche's, Blood Moon, Dark Galaxy, Sart Roloise, and my 2 faves: Green Giant and Purple Bumblebee. Funny how people's tastes differ so much when it comes to tomatoes! I grow them vertically 16" apart on cattle panels.
Luke, the problem is I want them all! It's a real problem because there's only so much room to grow! lol. Here is my 2023 list: German Johnson, Cherokee Chocolate and Purple, Dr. Wyche's, Whopper, San Marzano, Orange Hat, Paul Robeson, Centriflor, Hillbilly, Chocolate Stripe, Dad's Sunset, Black Beauty, Polish, Pink Jazz, Ferris Wheel and one from the old 1950s Detroit neighborhood called Early Detroit..(I can send you seeds if you want them)...also, a variety my brother brought back from Germany that we think is a Mountain Vesuvius from Italy...probably the best tasting tomato I've ever had seriously. Thank you for all the wonderful videos. Your knowledge and hard work is a true gift to us all.
Brigadier General Francis Marion ( c. 1732 - February 27, 1795), also known as the Swamp Fox, was an American military officer, planter, and politician who served during the French and Indian War and the Revolutionary War.
love watching you sow these seeds. It helps me understand how to do it correctly. Thank you for all you do. You gave me the confidence to feed my family and we barely go to the grocery store for produce anymore!
I'm so thrilled that all 5 of my Giant Crimson Tomato seeds have germinated and are awesome little seedlings that I'll be potting up this weekend in the Sprout House!
I got some giant crimson seeds from you. My seedlings are about 2” tall now. I can’t wait to watch them grow and taste them this summer. Thanks for bringing them back.
Tomato starting time, my favorite! I am doing the Paul Robeson, Cherokee purple, green zebra, Kellogg breakfast, a cherry tomato called rosella, and a family favorite the sungold. We can barely get them to grow before they're being picked off right in the garden for snacks!
I have some pretty neat heirlooms this season for tomatoes and peppers! I would LOVE to be able to send you guys some to try! If it would be acceptable, at the end of the season. The first is Wild Galapagos tomato and the second is Capsicum Flexuosum which is the most cold hardy pepper in the world! Up here in Zone 3b/4a Canada this is very handy hahaha so I thought I'd give it a run!
Bought your Roma seed for canning last year and they were amazing producers! Then saw your video on saving tomato seed and tried it out. They just sprouted this week, so I must have followed along correctly! I have always admired the fact you are willing to share seed saving tips when you could just plug your website.
Love this video I hope you get a ton of hits on it. Your channel is such a blessing. I would love to see you do a garden tour with Jess from roots and refuge where she does a tour with you and then you go and do a tour of her garden. I know it’s unlikely, but maybe it would get you both a bunch of traffic. Anyway, I’m a big fan and I buy 90% of my seeds from y’all. Love the trifecta plus. I’ll keep my eye out for that collaboration between you, Cindy, Jess, and Jeremiah.
We are growing San marzano, the vintage wine variety, Amish paste, better boy and gold medal this year. I've grown Amish paste San marzano, and gold medal before. I'm excited for vintage wine, and better boy 🤞.
Wow. Lots of great tomatoes I am just learning about. Thanks a bunch!!! I need to try these. I'm starting Roma, San Marzano and Sun Gold. I can step up my heirloom game with these varieties. I believe the name is Paul Roberson instead of Paul Robinson for one of the first tomatoes you mentioned.
My giant crimson didn’t do well. Due to weather , bugs and how I had them planted. However I was able to save seed and they look great! Excited to plant them properly, I’ve switched to raised beds and will have less plants so I can focus on disease prevention and care. I’m in Delaware it’s very humid here.
A few of my favorites are Blue Gold Berry, as it has a delightful acid pop and color combo I love. Green Zebra is a lateripening green type that ripens enmass right around the same time my Aji Lemon Drop peppers ripen, and together they make on of the best citrusy salsas ever with lime basil and cilantro! Purple Cheroke is one of the first heirlooms I grew, and seems to be just smokey enough for people to notice it's different without too much dark smokey "purple" flavor lol. Blush is one of my favorite cherry types, along with Black Cherry. Magic Mountain is a great plum type that I use extensively in salads, but it's a hybrid so I just gather stem cuttings all winter. Kellogg Breakfast is one of the most robust heirlooms ive grown with decent low acid flavor and they don't get super huge (lots of yellow beefsteak heirlooms are prone to giant craters in the center bottom and get gross).
you are spot on about hillbilly/pineapple. One or the other performs for me every year but not both! I live in a dry climate and retried Hillbilly last year and am definitely switching back to pineapple this year!
Hi Luke! LOVE the Crimson story!!!! Incredible!! QUESTION: I know you sell all the seeds but of all these tomatoes you talked about, do you sell any of the starts at your store?
I love the pineapple tomato. I bought some from you a few yrs back and i put them in a pot. I didn't get that many i think because it was in a pot. But the ones i did get were delicious and so worth it! Also the plant was huge! Obviously I didn't know much about tomatoes and things then but I'm still glad I did it!
Thank you for this video. I really appreciate the detailed information on the plants themselves in addition to the fruits - all of which I take into consideration when planning my garden. So nice to learn from your experience/expertise!!
I bought the Rose Tomato from your site because of the story that is a Pennsylvania Amish tomato. I thought it would be cool to grow a variety native to my state. It is also the first time I’m attempting to start my own tomatoes as opposed to buying them from the greenhouse. So far they are doing great! You should try to cross and make your own tomato variety! Although bringing back the Crimson tomato is just as amazing!
Love this video, Luke. I love the Ananas Noire. Growing that for the 2nd time this year. This year: Barred Boar Ananas Noire Aunt Ruby's German Green Carbon Paul Robeson Dwarf Hannah's Pride Thorburn's Terra Cotta Uluru Ochre Boronia I'd really love to try that Giant Crimson. That's amazing that you made it available again. It's a miracle tomato!
I know this is totally off-topic, but I can’t find my cucumber seeds! I planted a couple the other day, because my husband wanted some cucumbers, and they germinated, but something ate them, (I direct sewed them in the garden). Now I can’t find them to put more seeds in the ground. 🤦🏼♀️ Good thing I ordered some more seeds last week and they should be arriving today in the mailbox. Thank God for MIGardner. ❌⭕️🙏🏽♥️
I omly have a small urban garden, only 600 sq ft, plus 4 raised beds on the perimeter. I also do up a few grow bags for some of the cherries. I'd grow 50 different tomatoes if I could! This year will be: sungold, gold nugget, yellow pear, sweetie, tigerella, jubilee, kelloggs, and giant crimson! I did my own little experiment this spring. Not as astounding as the giant crimson saga, but still fun! I found an old pack of beefsteak tomato seeds. "Big Beef" was the name. I threw 4 seeds in a 4-cell tray. Three germinated and are growing nicely!
Paul Robeson sang the Congo lullaby and my dad sang it to me but changed the words to white dove. He really love Paul’s singing. I tried the Paul Robeson tomato in Colorado and didn’t care for it.
I bought Giant Crimson Red from you last year and saved the seeds! We will have it in our garden every year. The story is just too cool, I have to grow it!
Loved Opalka when we lived in NY - it is indeed very large and sweet, actually really good for sandwiches. However, here in Colorado just couldn't seem to overcome the blight pressure, even with pruning. May try again in a year or two, but right now am growing mostly hybrids with disease resistance.
I was watching your show, & the story behind the Giant Crimson Tomato, I must try it in Sacramento. I don't have a large place - a mobile home park - but I have some space to garden. I have already started some tomatoes & in a few more weeks, I hope to take them outside. I should have planted some peppers too, but I only have so much sun inside, choices made.... BTW, I love your videos, your Purpose, Passion, & Persistence of growing in impressive. Thank You :-)
I’m growing a few of the same varieties too. I’m glad to hear that the watermelon beefsteak is a winner - I don’t know much about it, but I got a packet of those in your grab bag last fall, so I decided to give it a try!
I have 5 giant crimson starts just waiting till the weather is right to get them out in the garden. They're growing more vigorously than any of my other varieties!
Love the channel as I’m in Michigan as well. I always plant Black Krims and have had good luck with them. Not familiar with the back story as the flavor is good enough for me to continue
I did my first order of seeds from you guys, but was sad that none of my varieties are what you're growing. However, I'm in Hawaii, so I picked varieties that are disease and heat resistant. I'm starting out with the Arkansas traveler, black cherry, creamy sausage (testing the determinate tomato succession sowing vs indeterminate growing), Peron sprayless, and Kellogg's Breakfast.
Kelloggs Breakfast is our favorite! I'm growing Dr. Wyche's too. this year because Jess at Roots and Refuge says they are very similar...so consider the Kelloggs a close one to the Dr. Wyche. Hope you love the Kelloggs! We do!
@@nancyspruiell347 I hope so too. I hope it produces. Another favorite is Cherokee purple, but when I planted it, I got 3 tomatoes and a ton of dropped fruit (I was hand pollinating everyday) before the plant succumbed to wilt. I saved seeds and will give it another go maybe later this year
Luke, I find it humorous that I'm not growing even one of all those varieties you mention. I will give serious consideration to Giant Crimson. I enjoyed the vid. Thanks 👍
I will be growing: Kellogs B, Old German, Amana, Sweetie, Blush, Big Rainbow, Gold Nugget, Sunsugar, Sweet 100, Moby Grape, Great White, Black Krim, Honey Drop, Genovese, German Johnson, Hillbilly, Regular Beefsteak, Mr.Stripey, Tropical Sunset, Gold Medal, Dr.Wychee, saved stuffer, Amur Tigert, Pineapple, Tigerella, Vintage Wine, Green Zebra, and some Ferrymorse Rainbow Mix. I may grow a few other varieties as a test, or to replace failed plants I run out of replacements for. At the rate the weather is going I might just pull out the Christmas tree again and turn the lights back on. snowing at the end of March and early April is frustrating.
You got my thumbs up for the singing part alone. Darn champ.
Green thumb AND he can sing!!
Aww, come on Luke, the coolest tomato backstory has got to be your Giant Crimson! Who else can say their tomato was grown from 80 year old seed? Mine are already 5" tall and in the ground here in California!
Oops, I wrote too soon...I should have known you wouldn't forget it!
My question is if you are going to water-bath for canning that needs to be higher acid what do you suggest? I live in the Phoenix Az area.
@@NonieK2267 Vinegar, citric acid or lemon juice or break down and pressure can it. All depends what you're making but if not a salsa I feel safer pressure canning if just plain tomatoes.
Lol, out of the 29 varieties I started this year we only have Dr. Wyche's in common. There are so many varieties of tomato! Such an adventure every year 💕💕
I can't wait to have your experience man.
This year was my first year starting with seeds and everything. I did so many mistakes lol, and the whole process was very stressful I wanted everything to be perfect. Anyway, still had fun in the process and next year will be much smoother.
Its ok! That's how you learn. I still make mistakes.. and I've certainly learned a lot over the last 20 or more years. Luke's channel is really helpful and his family sells great and affordable seeds 💚🌿💚🍀
you’re trying! Keep it up!
Thx for the support folks ! Yes I was thinking of buying his seeds next summer.
Tip, last year they had a seed sale at the end of the season (like September?) so watch for that.
@@Im-just-Stardust think about buying them before summer. Luke has a big sale around the new year I think? I bought tons of seeds at $1 a pack! This helps people a lot. I love this company and channel 💙🌿💙
LOVE the Hillbilly tomatoes! They're also from my home state of WV! I hadn't been able to find them for a while.I ordered from you for the first time this year and have been very pleased with the seeds and their growth so far! Great prices and excellent germination rate. Thank you for all your hard work!
I love tomatoes, this reminds me of how many varieties I have yet to try!
You brought a little sunshine to my otherwise crappy day, thank you🤗
What an AMAZING story with the golden crimson! I love that story and how you care so much!
I was in the store this morning. I purchased Sweetie, Tiffen Mennonite, Germsn Johnson and Mushroom Basket tomato seeds. We planted them this evening.
I love your excitement over tomatoes. This is my first year to garden and I am limited to a balcony so I chose to try a Brandywine tomato, and I just started my first seeds yesterday. I only have space for a couple of plants, but it's okay, I am just learning. I definitely want to get some of those Giant Crimson seeds when they come back in stock. I want to share them with all my family and friends who garden and bring this variety back. I have one in mind that would especially love the gift of these seeds along with the backstory.
My kids are now running around singing the “seed starting season song” 😂 thanks for the quality tips and content!
I love the varieties you’re growing this year! Of course you must have the Giant Crimson, as do we. I’m putting those in, along with the Abe Lincoln, Thorburn’s Terracotta, sweet Million, Super sweet 100, Cream Sausage, and Dr. Neal’s (also known as General Grant), which is another fairly rare heirloom. I can’t even tell you which is my favorite, as I simply love tomatoes!
Thanks so much Luke! Your enthusiasm is infectious! I appreciate the knowledge you share with us!
After watching your video last fall on how to save tomato seeds, I saved from my Pineapple and two other varieties.
I started them this spring and they are all doing great! I can’t wait to plant them out in my garden 😊
I live in zone 4B with a 90 day growing season. The Giant Crimson was the best tasting tomato I grew last year. Took a while, but they were beautiful and incredibly tasty!
I was debating whether or not I would start the Giant Crimson this year, but after hearing you talk about it in this video I decided I have to do it! Thanks for the amazing work you do to help us grow bigger!
The first video you did of the series with the shadow box tomato was the first video I've ever seen. Been following ever since. Thanks for everything
Can’t wait starting mine on Monday ,got the seed from you. I will still look for one or two new to me varieties to try in local stores.
Project recommendations:
- olive oil from plant to bottle.
- rice from seed to plate
- Fruit to alcohol (although I myself don't drink)
- a variety of quality mushrooms
I'm growing Pineapple, Great White, Kellogg's Breakfast, Big Pink (which is a hybrid my daughter saw and asked to grow). I'm also growing a couple determinate varieties for the first time...Roma and San Marzano.
Small space gardener here. This year I am trying the Tiny Tim tomato, which is going in my new Greenstalk; Paul Robeson, Geranium Kiss, and the Giant Crimson tomato. I split the Giant Crimson seed packet with my friend that has a bigger space so she’ll be growing them too. 😊
I tried Brandywine pink last year for the first time. It was really good! Hubby is very traditional, so he prefers red tomatoes, so when I saw that Brandywine was available in red also, I had to grab a packet. So, this year,I'm planting the pink and the red varieties. I'm always very happy woth the germination rate of the seeds from MIGardener!
Brandywine is a favorite. I didn't get a lot of tomatoes per plant but they were all massive and sweet.
So happy to see Giant Crimson is back👏🥰. I was already following you on TH-cam when you started that whole project with the shadow box, so it's been a long time.🍅
LOL the song was great, and made me smile. Thanks for that. For this year I don't have as much space in my garden as I used to as I'm in the process of moving things around and rearraigning the layout of things. I went with the red centiflor, and 42 day cherry tomatoes. I can't wait to see how they do here in my yard.
When I discovered there was an entire world of there of 1000's of different varieties of tomatoes, peppers, etc., your website was the 1st website I discovered! (From Jess at roots & refuge I am almost certain) I ordered about 26 different tomato varieties my first year! 😆 I never realized there were others besides the ones you found in packets at home depot, Lowe's, etc.!?!
I'm still in search of the best beefsteak, but I've found the best Cherry tomato- that's the sungold. I don't think it's possible (or worth the waste of space) to search any further. They're sooooo sweet! Last year I trialed about 5 different cherries & I was mad at myself for "wasting" the space, b/c I didn't like them at all compared to the sungolds! 😄
I didn't know there were so many varieties of tomatoes until my local nursery was out of Kelloggs. They suggested I try a nursery 20 Mike's away that grows over 200 varieties of tomatoes! Who knew? When I go there I can never decide which ones. to grow....always end up with too many and give some away. I'm planting g from seed this year and they are my backup of anything fails.
oh, and totally agree about Sungolds...although going to try a Currant style tomato this year too
@nancy spruiell yeah... sometimes too many options are overwhelming!
@nancy spruiell I tried a current tomato last year, & I didn't like the one I tried, because every time I picked them, they were difficult to get from the stem, & it ripped the skin. OK for fresh eating, off the vine, but not for picking to eat later...
Husband thinks there are only Rutgers in tomatoes. Actually he says they are the best. As for apples here likes the standard red delicious. Boring! I like them all!
Love the Blues Clues reference!
You just got an A+,
You just got an A+,
You just got an A+.
For your little song!😊
Go glad I found your channel! The information you share is so helpful. Thank you 🙏🏽
I've grown many of these with seeds from you! The only disappointment I had was that my vintage wine tomatoes were red and green, not red and gold. They looked a lot like the chocolate stripes variety and I actually wondered if somehow the seeds got mixed up. They were still delicious, but I was sad not to have the red/gold tomatoes. Thanks for everything you do!
You probably inadvertently cross pollinated them.
@Melissa M How would I have done that? I got the seed packet and started them indoors before planting them outside. I didn't save seeds from them and plant them the second year, it was a brand new unopened packet.
@@amynadeau2838 pollen from one tomato ended up in the flower of another tomato variety. Did you grow more than one variety?
@Tabitha B cross pollination doesn't happen often with tomatoes as they're self pollinating. Even if it does happen though, the tomatoes are true to the parent plant. It's only the seeds that won't grow true the following year, so the seeds in the packet should have been correct the first year.
I've planted so many of these I purchased from MI Gardener. I wish all 5 of the Crimson look but I have 3 to try.
I grew your watermelon beefsteak last year - and it was SO good, it is now one of my top picks. Growing again this year - and can't wait. So meaty, so delicious.
Love your tomato seeds and the rest! Bought all my seeds from you last year. Didn't buy local plants at all. All of the seeds I planted for the garden except my sweet peas came from you and I swear every one came up! Had lots of tomatoes peppers cucs and such! They transplanted well even tho June was so nasty I had to wait til the last week of June to plant out. Love your products and seeds! Thankyou !!!
So excited to add vintage wine, pink brandywine and moonbeam to my garden this year!
Always enjoy watching your vids brother, this year im growing Jersey Devil's + Comstock paste/slicer for paste, Beauty King for slicers, a yellow (forgot the name) + Sun Gold for cherry's. Selling these plants starts at your store, the surrounding community is in for a flavor/variety EXPLOSION!
I enjoyed the story about the seeds. Thank you!
I gotcha on the the Marion tomato. My maiden name is Redman so I grow Redman Zinnias! They are a pretty red! Happy gardening!
There are a couple of these tomatoes I’m going to add for next year, since I already have my seats for this year. But yeah, love the little ditty at the beginning!
I love hearing the stories behind the seeds! Thank you
Love all your stories about these tomatoes. I started Amish paste and opalkas for paste. I have Ananase noir, cherokee purple, brandywine, german pink, Ace 55, A grappoli D'Inverno, Kelloggs breakfast, and terracota Thornburn. I went tomato crazy this year trying so many, but they have all sprouted. I live in TN. Thanks for sharing!
Got my very own Giant Crimson growing in my garden right now! I planted 2 seeds, hoping to get one plant. Both germinated. I enjoy giving away tomato plants to people who need them at church. One lady in her 80's asked for 2 red tomato plants, and told me how her family commercially grew tomatoes when she was a child and how much she missed it. I told her the story of the Giant Crimson and gave her my extra plant. I think I saw a tear in her eye. :)
As for tomatos, wow, I grow a lot! 2023: Giant Crimson, Giant Belgium, Lincoln 1923, Vint Wine, Sunrise BB, Isis Candy, Napa Chardonney, Terra Cotta, Hillbilly, Carbon, Cherokee P, Rebel Starfighter, Roma, Mortgage Lifter, Pink Brandy, Great White, Dr. Wyche's, Blood Moon, Dark Galaxy, Sart Roloise, and my 2 faves: Green Giant and Purple Bumblebee. Funny how people's tastes differ so much when it comes to tomatoes! I grow them vertically 16" apart on cattle panels.
Luke, the problem is I want them all! It's a real problem because there's only so much room to grow! lol. Here is my 2023 list: German Johnson, Cherokee Chocolate and Purple, Dr. Wyche's, Whopper, San Marzano, Orange Hat, Paul Robeson, Centriflor, Hillbilly, Chocolate Stripe, Dad's Sunset, Black Beauty, Polish, Pink Jazz, Ferris Wheel and one from the old 1950s Detroit neighborhood called Early Detroit..(I can send you seeds if you want them)...also, a variety my brother brought back from Germany that we think is a Mountain Vesuvius from Italy...probably the best tasting tomato I've ever had seriously. Thank you for all the wonderful videos. Your knowledge and hard work is a true gift to us all.
Brigadier General Francis Marion ( c. 1732 - February 27, 1795), also known as the Swamp Fox, was an American military officer, planter, and politician who served during the French and Indian War and the Revolutionary War.
love watching you sow these seeds. It helps me understand how to do it correctly. Thank you for all you do. You gave me the confidence to feed my family and we barely go to the grocery store for produce anymore!
I'm so thrilled that all 5 of my Giant Crimson Tomato seeds have germinated and are awesome little seedlings that I'll be potting up this weekend in the Sprout House!
I got some giant crimson seeds from you. My seedlings are about 2” tall now. I can’t wait to watch them grow and taste them this summer. Thanks for bringing them back.
Oooh! Interested in the Rio Grande. I'm hispanic and use roasted tomatoes weekly.
Hey Luke, Marion SC was named for Revolutionary War hero Francis Marion, the Swamp Fox. There was a Disney mini series about him in the '50s.
Tomato starting time, my favorite! I am doing the Paul Robeson, Cherokee purple, green zebra, Kellogg breakfast, a cherry tomato called rosella, and a family favorite the sungold. We can barely get them to grow before they're being picked off right in the garden for snacks!
I have some pretty neat heirlooms this season for tomatoes and peppers! I would LOVE to be able to send you guys some to try! If it would be acceptable, at the end of the season. The first is Wild Galapagos tomato and the second is Capsicum Flexuosum which is the most cold hardy pepper in the world! Up here in Zone 3b/4a Canada this is very handy hahaha so I thought I'd give it a run!
I got firework and druzba tomato seeds from your site a month or so ago, they've sprouted & I'm excited to see how they do. ✌️
Bought your Roma seed for canning last year and they were amazing producers! Then saw your video on saving tomato seed and tried it out. They just sprouted this week, so I must have followed along correctly!
I have always admired the fact you are willing to share seed saving tips when you could just plug your website.
Love this video I hope you get a ton of hits on it. Your channel is such a blessing. I would love to see you do a garden tour with Jess from roots and refuge where she does a tour with you and then you go and do a tour of her garden. I know it’s unlikely, but maybe it would get you both a bunch of traffic. Anyway, I’m a big fan and I buy 90% of my seeds from y’all. Love the trifecta plus. I’ll keep my eye out for that collaboration between you, Cindy, Jess, and Jeremiah.
Totally Awesome video for us Tomato Heads !!! Thank You Luke ✊✊✊
Many of those you mentioned are my faves too. Will be planting them this year. Im trying not to overdue it like I did last year.
We are growing San marzano, the vintage wine variety, Amish paste, better boy and gold medal this year. I've grown Amish paste San marzano, and gold medal before. I'm excited for vintage wine, and better boy 🤞.
Wow. Lots of great tomatoes I am just learning about. Thanks a bunch!!! I need to try these. I'm starting Roma, San Marzano and Sun Gold. I can step up my heirloom game with these varieties. I believe the name is Paul Roberson instead of Paul Robinson for one of the first tomatoes you mentioned.
My giant crimson didn’t do well. Due to weather , bugs and how I had them planted. However I was able to save seed and they look great! Excited to plant them properly, I’ve switched to raised beds and will have less plants so I can focus on disease prevention and care. I’m in Delaware it’s very humid here.
A few of my favorites are Blue Gold Berry, as it has a delightful acid pop and color combo I love. Green Zebra is a lateripening green type that ripens enmass right around the same time my Aji Lemon Drop peppers ripen, and together they make on of the best citrusy salsas ever with lime basil and cilantro! Purple Cheroke is one of the first heirlooms I grew, and seems to be just smokey enough for people to notice it's different without too much dark smokey "purple" flavor lol. Blush is one of my favorite cherry types, along with Black Cherry. Magic Mountain is a great plum type that I use extensively in salads, but it's a hybrid so I just gather stem cuttings all winter. Kellogg Breakfast is one of the most robust heirlooms ive grown with decent low acid flavor and they don't get super huge (lots of yellow beefsteak heirlooms are prone to giant craters in the center bottom and get gross).
you are spot on about hillbilly/pineapple. One or the other performs for me every year but not both! I live in a dry climate and retried Hillbilly last year and am definitely switching back to pineapple this year!
In my case the Pineapples out performed most of my other varieties, but they turned out more like an orange lookng Golden Jubilee.
Hi Luke! LOVE the Crimson story!!!! Incredible!! QUESTION: I know you sell all the seeds but of all these tomatoes you talked about, do you sell any of the starts at your store?
I love the pineapple tomato. I bought some from you a few yrs back and i put them in a pot. I didn't get that many i think because it was in a pot. But the ones i did get were delicious and so worth it! Also the plant was huge! Obviously I didn't know much about tomatoes and things then but I'm still glad I did it!
Thanks for the posting. I ordered tom seeds from you this morning, now I wish I had waited. Ship em Quick my friend.
Thank you for this video. I really appreciate the detailed information on the plants themselves in addition to the fruits - all of which I take into consideration when planning my garden. So nice to learn from your experience/expertise!!
I bought the Rose Tomato from your site because of the story that is a Pennsylvania Amish tomato. I thought it would be cool to grow a variety native to my state. It is also the first time I’m attempting to start my own tomatoes as opposed to buying them from the greenhouse. So far they are doing great! You should try to cross and make your own tomato variety! Although bringing back the Crimson tomato is just as amazing!
You're killing me😂
Just placed another order.
I have soooo many of your seeds.
Love them all!
Love this song !! You're a good sport!
I have 3 of these. I have Annanas Noir,Vintage wine and Dr. Wyches. I can't wait!
Love this video, Luke. I love the Ananas Noire. Growing that for the 2nd time this year.
This year:
Barred Boar
Ananas Noire
Aunt Ruby's German Green
Carbon
Paul Robeson
Dwarf Hannah's Pride
Thorburn's Terra Cotta
Uluru Ochre
Boronia
I'd really love to try that Giant Crimson. That's amazing that you made it available again. It's a miracle tomato!
I know this is totally off-topic, but I can’t find my cucumber seeds!
I planted a couple the other day, because my husband wanted some cucumbers, and they germinated, but something ate them, (I direct sewed them in the garden).
Now I can’t find them to put more seeds in the ground. 🤦🏼♀️
Good thing I ordered some more seeds last week and they should be arriving today in the mailbox.
Thank God for MIGardner.
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I was thinking it might be too late to still start tomatoes. I'm glad it's not gonna start some more today ❤
Been waiting for that Giant Crimson! Always sold out. Can't believe I scored today! Thank you.
Your song made me wish there was a Gardening kids show.
LOL! Nice song Luke.
I omly have a small urban garden, only 600 sq ft, plus 4 raised beds on the perimeter. I also do up a few grow bags for some of the cherries. I'd grow 50 different tomatoes if I could! This year will be: sungold, gold nugget, yellow pear, sweetie, tigerella, jubilee, kelloggs, and giant crimson! I did my own little experiment this spring. Not as astounding as the giant crimson saga, but still fun! I found an old pack of beefsteak tomato seeds. "Big Beef" was the name. I threw 4 seeds in a 4-cell tray. Three germinated and are growing nicely!
Paul Robeson sang the Congo lullaby and my dad sang it to me but changed the words to white dove. He really love Paul’s singing. I tried the Paul Robeson tomato in Colorado and didn’t care for it.
Amazing info as always! I remember the shadow box and the seeds Great job❤️🙏
Bought your giant crimson seeds. My plant is about 2 inches tall here in NJ. Can’t wait!
I'm trying the tropical sunshine..they looked yummy
Automatic like lol I have a 3 year old and grew up on that tune! Can’t wait to see how my Trip-L-Crop and Homestead tomatoes from you do!
I bought Giant Crimson Red from you last year and saved the seeds! We will have it in our garden every year. The story is just too cool, I have to grow it!
Nice video!😊
Loved Opalka when we lived in NY - it is indeed very large and sweet, actually really good for sandwiches. However, here in Colorado just couldn't seem to overcome the blight pressure, even with pruning. May try again in a year or two, but right now am growing mostly hybrids with disease resistance.
was the jingle & dance moves "part of the bet" ??? nice info ! Thanks
Thank you for sharing so many varieties. Off to buy more packs 😊
Yessss ❤ Cus when we use our minds, take a step at a time, we can do anything... that we wanna do!! 🎵 ❤
That song right in the beginning. . 👏😂 💚🍅💚
I was watching your show, & the story behind the Giant Crimson Tomato, I must try it in Sacramento. I don't have a large place - a mobile home park - but I have some space to garden. I have already started some tomatoes & in a few more weeks, I hope to take them outside. I should have planted some peppers too, but I only have so much sun inside, choices made.... BTW, I love your videos, your Purpose, Passion, & Persistence of growing in impressive. Thank You :-)
I'm growing several... but I'm excited to try Manitoba here in NM to try to beat the heat this summer It was my favorite when I lived in Michigan.
Omg i never thought about Steve until you started singing
I’m growing a few of the same varieties too. I’m glad to hear that the watermelon beefsteak is a winner - I don’t know much about it, but I got a packet of those in your grab bag last fall, so I decided to give it a try!
Please do a top 5 tomato video. Slicer, beefsteak, cherry.
Love you channel!
Small garden selection. Say, 15 x 15.
Thank you!
Paul Robeson is my fav!!
I have 5 giant crimson starts just waiting till the weather is right to get them out in the garden. They're growing more vigorously than any of my other varieties!
Love the channel as I’m in Michigan as well. I always plant Black Krims and have had good luck with them. Not familiar with the back story as the flavor is good enough for me to continue
I live in Michigan and stopped growing them. Always came down with blight. Glad you have better luck.
I hear you on the green tomatoes with the exception of Green Dr cherry tomatoes - probably my favorite cherry tomato I’ve had
I'm starting Pineapple Tomatoes, Cherokee purple , green zebra , green giant , Genevieve, and classic beef heart ❤
Best opening ever!
I did my first order of seeds from you guys, but was sad that none of my varieties are what you're growing. However, I'm in Hawaii, so I picked varieties that are disease and heat resistant. I'm starting out with the Arkansas traveler, black cherry, creamy sausage (testing the determinate tomato succession sowing vs indeterminate growing), Peron sprayless, and Kellogg's Breakfast.
Kelloggs Breakfast is our favorite! I'm growing Dr. Wyche's too. this year because Jess at Roots and Refuge says they are very similar...so consider the Kelloggs a close one to the Dr. Wyche. Hope you love the Kelloggs! We do!
@@nancyspruiell347 I hope so too. I hope it produces. Another favorite is Cherokee purple, but when I planted it, I got 3 tomatoes and a ton of dropped fruit (I was hand pollinating everyday) before the plant succumbed to wilt. I saved seeds and will give it another go maybe later this year
I grew both Kellogg’s and Dr. Wyche’s last year and personally preferred the taste of Kellogg’s. The production was better also
Luke, I find it humorous that I'm not growing even one of all those varieties you mention. I will give serious consideration to Giant Crimson. I enjoyed the vid. Thanks 👍
I will be growing: Kellogs B, Old German, Amana, Sweetie, Blush, Big Rainbow, Gold Nugget, Sunsugar, Sweet 100, Moby Grape, Great White, Black Krim, Honey Drop, Genovese, German Johnson, Hillbilly, Regular Beefsteak, Mr.Stripey, Tropical Sunset, Gold Medal, Dr.Wychee, saved stuffer, Amur Tigert, Pineapple, Tigerella, Vintage Wine, Green Zebra, and some Ferrymorse Rainbow Mix. I may grow a few other varieties as a test, or to replace failed plants I run out of replacements for. At the rate the weather is going I might just pull out the Christmas tree again and turn the lights back on. snowing at the end of March and early April is frustrating.