"Nuances" is the understatement of the year! I've never seen anything like the weather down here. How you can get 4-7 inches of rain in a couple days as a low pressure system sits on top of you and drowns your entire garden is something I never experienced up north. The disease pressure here is off the charts, and no matter what you do, you simply cannot defeat it. Sometimes, I think the best way to garden is to just pack up, move to Florida, build a greenhouse and grow in the winter, then vacation from June to September 😂 I'm trying to manage the struggles as best as I can. Thanks for watching!
Yes, thank you for being a southern grower channel! I watch so many channels from all over and the closest to resemble our crazy SC weather was someone in FL... So thank you! And your content is amazingly informatitve and so relevant!!
Ya it’s the same for Americans. It’s like when I watch a Canadian or UK or European video some videos uses just the metric system. Some uses feet or miles cause they maybe traveling Americans, but some TH-camrs use both systems. I’ll tell ya this. If you’re American hearing the temperature in C degrees means absolutely nothing. It’s like kilometers and cm I can visually sort of reference cause I somewhat know how close they are to what we use in the U.S. but like for C degrees haha it’s like oh hell. I remember in physics there’s a big equation you have to use to convert C into F or ferenheit or whatever but you can’t visually do it or guess at least I’ve not been exposed to using Celsius enough to do that. It’s like -80 C is absolute cold or something for storing mushroom cultures I think and 0 C is freezing so it’d be 32 F but other then that it’s like haha hilarious.
Ya it’s the same for Americans. It’s like when I watch a Canadian or UK or European video some videos uses just the metric system. Some uses feet or miles cause they maybe traveling Americans, but some TH-camrs use both systems. I’ll tell ya this. If you’re American hearing the temperature in C degrees means absolutely nothing. It’s like kilometers and cm I can visually sort of reference cause I somewhat know how close they are to what we use in the U.S. but like for C degrees haha it’s like oh hell. I remember in physics there’s a big equation you have to use to convert C into F or ferenheit or whatever but you can’t visually do it or guess at least I’ve not been exposed to using Celsius enough to do that. It’s like -80 C is absolute cold or something for storing mushroom cultures I think and 0 C is freezing so it’d be 32 F but other then that it’s like haha hilarious.
My Dwarf Tomato Project tomatoes are doing great so far for me up her in Maine. I still can't thank you enough for introducing me to them! I also just plain love your channel! lol
I'm glad to hear they're working out for you. They're a great "cheat" to get heirloom-indeterminate-quality tomatoes in places with short summers. The high value beefsteaks can now be grown in all 50 states! Thanks for watching. I appreciate it.
I am growing Geranium Kiss and Wherokowhai (try pronouncing that!) Dwarf tomatoes this year. I am growing in one gallon, 3 gallon and 5-gallon containers just to see if there is a difference in performance. So far there is a clear difference in size! Let's see how the fruiting measures!
I also got my free packet of of White Tomesol from Baker Creek. Like you I wouldn't have thought about choosing it. I was amazed how prolifically it produced good sized very flavorful fruit. I'm growing it again this year.
I'm here in Southern California zone 9b and I got my plants in the ground a little late this year at the middle/end of May. Pleased to say besides two indeterminate the rest of my tomato plants and night shades are doing fantastic. But the real champ in my Champion determinant tomato. It's literally been producing for over two months with another literal 30-40 more tomatoes with them being in all stages of fruit development. Also have a SS 100vf that is doing insanely good. Love the videos keep up the good content !
I have had amazing luck with cherokee purple in missouri! One of the best out of about 30+ varieties I've grown. Super production and quite a few fruits that are close to and sometimes over 1 lb. I've even had several here and there that are upwards of 2 pounds. Enormous. Although when they get really big sometimes they have a weird shape
Cherokee purples don't like the full sun, they need a half day of shade, I've grown them 4 years in a row with early fruit but once it's gets hot they withered. My friend had his beside his house and got half a day of sun and they exploded with fruit. Unfortunately I only have full sun in my garden but I guess I could put a shade over them.
A most excellent demonstration !!! Expert craftsmanship based on detailed knowledge base. Was so pleased --will view this one over again and keep as reference. No one else has really portrayed the spectrum of the new dwarf varieties nor summarized the clear limitations of most lg. heirloom types with their low production. Please keep bringing us your garden experience. Many thanks. Kathy Komp Cleveland Ohio.
Glad it was helpful! It's a real pain to reset the camera dozens and dozens of times to take all these individual shots, so when I hear this is helping so many people, it really makes me happy. Thank you for watching!
Could not agree more! After viewing this video when it was first published, I purchased the Summer Sweet Gold & Emerald Giant dwarf tomato seeds. These seeds are not Walmart cheap......so only planted 1 of each in my raised bed. I have been blown away by both plants; so beautiful and covered with blossoms. Even my neighbors have taken notice of these extraordinary plants. Thank you, MG.
The Chef's Choice varieties are so productive that it becomes redundant and pointless to grow the heirlooms. Unless you have to save the seed, there isn't much point in growing heirlooms anymore, in my opinion.
I grew chefs choice orange two years ago and it has been by far my most productive and healthy tomatoes I’ve grown to date. Great flavor from an almost softball size tomato. I’m growing some Black Sea Man tomatoes this year. I’ve heard they are maybe the best tasting tomatoes there are.
I’m growing Big Beef for the first time this year, glad to hear yours are doing so well. I’m up north so a little behind you, but the plants look great and the fruit that has set so far looks great as well. I’ve been growing Celebrity for 3 years now, overall great tomato. Perfect size.
Thank you for loving on the dwarfs and determinates. they do much better with my season of 97% humidity and I have so much fun discovering the breeding.
They absolutely do. I find indeterminate tomatoes to be the least productive per square foot. Indeterminates have the best selection, but there's a reason why they aren't grown commercially very often except in commercial greenhouses. The determinates are more productive and less work.
Sun Gold tomatoes bring an umami that the sweet 100s tend to lack which is why they present as more complex on the tongue. Growing for the kiddo’s lunchbox, the 100s are amazing. Want something that will stand up to some garlic and basil on bruschetta, the sun golds are your fruit. I grow both for the reasons above. That and both of them are intense in their yields as you mentioned.
I agree. The Super Sweet 100's are good, but they're more like eating grapes. They're great eating fresh off the vine. The Sun Gold, on the other hand, are acidic and complex. I think they'd be fantastic in tomato sauces and salads, because they have so much bite. I am going to look for a purple cherry for next year and grow a red-yellow-purple mix.
The brandy wine sudduth are what grows best in my sw Mn garden. 2 miles away at my parents house it doesn’t grow well. I start tomatoes every year indoors but it’s the volunteer Brandywine in my garden that end up producing massive huge fruits
@@TheMillennialGardener Have you tried the yellow pear cherry tomato? I grew the Sun Gold and the Yellow Pear last year and the I liked the Yellow Pear better. Love your videos. Thanks for all the information.
Your garden is looking great! Wait till you see my beast tomatoes. I have some heirloom tomatoes that have been in my family since they migrated from Italy. Last year I grew one 3.5 lbs., in that one tomato had 20 seeds. Blessings 🙏
I love Sun Gold. They’ve been very reliable, productive, and the critters have not bothered them. I’ll be trying Purple Rosella this year per your recommendation. Thanks!
The only negative I can say about Sun Gold is they're splitting in the heavy rain. But most tomatoes do that. I think you'll enjoy Rosella Purple. It is, in my opinion, superior to Cherokee Purple.
About to start my Siletz seedlings in Melbourne. Thanks to this video, I planted one last Summer and it was a Superstar. So glad I did. It didn't grow too tall (2 feet), so I just placed bricks all around the base and allowed it to sprawl on the ground. It just kept producing. I stopped weighing after I harvested 13lbs, and wouldn't be surprised if it produced 20lbs, as the birds ate quite a few also. Took up little space, needed no attention, produced a heap, and was by far the earliest producer. Handled the cold very well, and although the fruit was more acidic than I normally like, it was still pleasant. Will plant 4 this season.
Extremely interesting. I live in central Florida and the soul is very sandy. I enjoyed the part of the determine tomatoes very much. I grow my tomatoes in containers. Thanks for all the information.
I have a very wet, humid climate, and our rainfall may even exceed yours in the summer. We average over 60 inches of rain a year, which is higher than anywhere in Florida except the panhandle, so if they do well for me, they'll probably do well for you.
Thanks so very much for always being so detailed videos telling us everything gardeners need to know. I don't think I need to watch anyone else. You are superb!
Thanks so much for this video. I really enjoy that content you create. You are easy to listen to and break things down in a simple manner. Your content is very engaging and I usually watch your videos from start to finish. You are a no nonsense person - and unapologetic about the choices you make in your gardening style, which is really great. Thanks so much, I have learned a lot from you.
Thank you. I really appreciate it. I try and get the point across that I really do these things in real life in my own garden. I do promote products on occasion, but only the ones that I use in real life and I feel are responsible for my success. I don't want to keep any secrets. My dream is that you all outproduce me! I want as many gardeners growing their own food as possible. Thank you for watching!
Love tomatoes with high acid taste. I eat the plain tasting ones , but not because I like them. Your tomatoes look so good. You can tell you are a good gardener.
I think you will love Chef's Choice Pink, Sun Gold, and, most of all, Dwarf Emerald Giant. Dwarf Emerald Giant is the most acidic tomato I've ever had by far. It is like someone squeezed lemon juice all over the tomato. Its bite is incredible. Easily a Top 5 tomato for me. You have to try that one.
I grow most of my tomatoes hydroponically. I love the big beef for its high production and awesome texture and flavor. I'm sure you will enjoy it. One tomato that I am growing for an indoor tomato under lights is the Tiny Tim. It is supposed to be dwarf. It has taken over my basement grow area (not so tiny) and has the most incredible, firm, attractive bright red tomatoes. I put one outside in my Dutch bucket system and it is blowing me away. It easily has 70 tomatoes set and well over 300 blossoms. It seems to be self-pollinating and sets fruit without intervention both indoors or outdoors. For me it has outperformed the sweet 100 variety, which was incredible. Try the Tiny Tim, I am sure you will love it.
I've seen Gary Pilarchik grow Tiny Tim, and it is a wild looking plant. If you like that variety, you should seriously browse the Dwarf Tomato Project selections over at Victory Seed. They have a similar growth habit, but you'll get an enormous selection of heirloom-quality fruits with amazing colors and patterns. It will blow your mind. The fruit quality is off the charts with many of the varieties.
Thanks. I live in Southern California. Could never figure out why my Brandywine tomato bush never gave me more then a couple of fantastically delicious tomatoes. Always thought I was doing something wrong especially since my other varieties did so well. Will continue to grow a couple of Brandywine bushes, but now I won’t get disappointed when all they produce are a couple of tomatoes. Again, thanks.
Poor Dale LOL...didn't want the strawberry today! Thanks for what I think as a new gardener is a great video. Just ordered a bunch of different varieties of tomatoes mostly determinate and container varieties because the seeds I got here locally in Florida and have been growing just are not producing anything but flowers and the plants look sick. I finally got 1 tiny little mater growing on one of my plants, I think its a beefsteak and I started them all indoors way back in March. People I watch have been harvesting theirs and here I am waiting on 1 little mater LOL
We love super sweet 100 here in Cary, NC. Tried Sun Gold last summer it was good too, but we grew Honeycomb hybrid this year and it's our absolute favorite ever! Soooooo good! Thank you for your videos!
I’m on the exact opposite side of the state from your location and it is much cooler on my end. My best producer in my climate is a variety called vivacious hybrid which only came out last year. I harvested 75+ tomatoes off of a single plant last year that I threw in my compost pile as an extra tomato plant after planting. Just let it grow wild.
@@TheMillennialGardener I grew Big Beef last year. The plant was the biggest, most robust in the garden, however the flavor didn't hold a candle to the Better Boy plant I had. Big Beef also had a woody core that had to be cut out before eating. I have the free White Tomasol seeds too from Baker Creek when I ordered Thornburn's Terra Cotta Tomato. The White Tomasol seems a very robust plant and had a very high germination rate. I think they probably include it because it grows easy and you will have some luck should the other varieties you order be more "tricky." Last Year my Cherokee Purple slumped down the pole and pinched the base setting it back a month, I only got a few small tomatoes from it in September. This year I have two White Tomasol, three Thornburn's Terra Cotta Tomato, and one Better Boy from the box store. All 6 plants are growing well and putting out flowers now with a dozen small fruits starting to grow. I'm right at 40 N 88W so just coming out of a rather cold spring.
I was cruising the tomato starts in my local family-run ACE Hardware today and found Celebrity (not listed here, but I've heard you mention it favorably), Super Sweet 100, Roma, and Cherokee Purple, which is on your 'not recommended' list. As I paused to look at the Cherokee Purples the garden section manager asked if I needed any help. I asked if he grow tomatoes and he replied that he puts in about 300 plants each season, and that his personal favorite sandwich and slicer tomato is...Cherokee Purple. He said they grow great up here in North Carolina's Piedmont at nearly 1000' elevation NW of Charlotte, and have terrific flavor.
Wow , who knew there were so many different tomatoes, you're so full of information and I'm sharing in hopes that my Facebook friends will watch and learn along with me.
There are, literally, thousands of varieties. Maybe tens of thousands. You could grow 100 different tomato varieties a year and barely scratch the surface during your lifetime. It's fun shopping, but it can be hard making a decision. Thank you for sharing my videos! I really appreciate it!
Hi I lived in Texas, and only got a few mediocre tomatoes from my brandywine plant. I live in WA state now, and my single brandywine is huge and full of flowers! Really goes to show that trial and error for your specific garden is necessary. Previously, I thought it was a cursed sickly plant overall lol
DUDE! LOL I told you about White Tomesol last year. I understand if you missed it. Literally I had a WT last year that made me CRY cuz it was THE best tomato I've had in my life. I will ALWAYS grow White Tomesol! Tomatoes are smaller and I limit to single or double stalk and frankly might remove flowers on another to try to increase size. But I'm not kidding you.... I call them 'My Elegant little babies'. Such true balanced lovely high end, top shelf flavor. No kidding. I can't wait for you to try them. Growing Great White this year now to see but I find it difficult to coprehend it will best the Flavor of White Tomesol. IMO - prune that one. Keep it healthy and maybe get some larger tomatoes. Do not take this plant for granted. it's a damn GEM. (it made Midwest Gardener top 5 for flavor list)
Sorry, I get so many suggestions that I can only recall the ones that are overwhelming (like Sun Gold, Sun Sugar and Black Cherry, which seems to be recommended by the dozens). Unfortunately, I haven't had a ripe one yet. The plant is incredibly productive and disease resistant, but the now TEN INCHES OF RAIN we've had since June 2nd is destroying the fruits. And we have more heavy thunderstorms rolling in tomorrow 😓 We are *easily* going to wind up with 12-15 inches of rain this month. It's just horrible. Since it's a smaller-fruited plant, I may start another plant for my fall garden. If I can get it to produce by September 15, I should be able to ripen fruits when life gets better here post-thunderstorm season. Assuming we don't set a September/October hurricane, we dry out big time after September 15.
@@TheMillennialGardener wow. Sorry re the rain! I think for WT I might've double stem'd it. I've had some good sized ones. after you get some, perhaps try to limit the fruits to get some big ones. One plant I let go crazy last year only produced small fruits. Great tomato! And don't judge it on the first one! (So is Virginia Sweets LOL)
I always plant a sacrificial sweet 100, my husband and son keep it picked clean of fruit, an oh look snack while outside. It is a requirement in the garden! If I want anything for myself I have to plant one out of the way of outside snack range
I share your like of Big Beef tomatoes. To me it is the best all around hybrid tomato out there right now. I have planted them for 3 years straight now and they are consistently the most disease resistent tomato in my garden. One year one of my Big Beef tomato plants survived from the spring all the way to December. I picked the last tomato off of it Dec 12th. Usually you can either have a tomato type that produces lots of tomatoes or one that produces nice sized tomatoes but rarely both. Big beef is the exception. It is very productive and the size of the tomatoes on it are very nice. You need to stake or cage it well because it will produce clusters of very large tomatoes from top to bottom. It also produces tomatoes pretty early often beating varieties like Early Girl in my garden for the first ripe tomato.
Yea Cherokee purple is a Deep South tomato, doing great in Mississippi. Getting tons off of just 2 plants. Still growing too. A great indeterminate, and a very sweet tasting tomato.
That's interesting, because my climate is identical to the Deep South. My latitude is exactly in between Huntsville and Birmingham (at 34.1N), and my growing season is longer than both with a higher dew point because of the coastal influence. I'm just not seeing any luck. It only sets in the cool temperatures. After growing this for 4 years, I think Cherokee Purple is better suited for northern climates with short growing seasons because it only sets in cool temps and ripens early.
Interesting comparing Northern CA climate for tomatoes. I've been growing tomatoes for 25+ years. I also have great results with Big Beef and the Chef's Choice hybrids. I've only grown the Chef's Choice pink and orange. The CC orange is my absolute FAV - so perfect and productive! This year, the garden center sold GRAFTED Suddeth Brandywine, on a hybridized root stock with the heirloom plant on top. I planted a heirloom Suddeth Brandywine next to the grafted variety and what a huge difference. The grafted is doing twice as nice. Cherokee Purple is prolific here but I'm not a fan of the taste. My other favorites are the Orange Strawberry - 1-2 lb orange beefsteaks, Maryianna's Peace - similar to Brandywine without the blight and more productive. For cherry tomatoes, I grew Sun Gold until I tried Isis Candy. Isis Candy had strong stems, super productive, sweeter and the tomatoes can be dried or roasted if you cant eat them all - plants always 7-8 ft tall! Happy Gardening!
He is already enjoying them, for sure. He loves his fresh veggies. Brandywine Pink would definitely benefit from hand pollination. It is a tricky variety. If you’re not familiar with the toothbrush trick, it works dramatically well: th-cam.com/video/x2zoorfpZ50/w-d-xo.html
@@TheMillennialGardener - I get very good pollination of Brandywine Pink and every other variety just from wind and insects. Maybe the weather difference.
Thank you. Keep in mind I'm in a very humid, subtropical climate. If you're in a drier, less humid climate, some of these varieties that are failing me may do better for you. If you're in a soupy, wet climate like mine, this video should help.
South Jersey here! I’m still gonna try ur winners, they check off everything i want in my plants to have success👍👍 my 42 different varieties are just getting going here
Your garden is so pleasing to my eye that it's almost Zen for me. I could look at it for hours. I've written down some the varieties you mention and hope to try them next year. As for AWD, this is the funniest episode so far. All this is the reason you have almost 100K subscribers in the relatively short period I've been watching your channel. Well done!
Thanks. Unfortunately, it has done nothing but rain since I filmed this video, and now all my tomato plants are pretty much ruined. The fruits are mostly okay (except the ones that split in this horrible weather), but the plants won't survive much longer. It's pouring right now, so that'll likely push us into the 5+ inch range for the past few days. It's completely devastating. I have been working very hard to film as much tomato footage as I could while we were stuck in a light drought, because I knew once it ended, my season would be over.
@@TheMillennialGardener I know from the TV weather reports you are getting terrible weather. I hope sincerely that you can salvage much of your harvest, even if the plants fail. It was such a beautiful crop. You always work hard and the quality of your videos show it.
@@TheMillennialGardener NC is absolutely terrible state for gardening... we had lots of rain here in Cary too (probably less than you though) and now my eggplants covered in mushrooms and my petunias are dead and some tomatoes are breaking too :( oh and both my zucchini plants are dead (thank you borer...)
I am growing 1 variety of determinate tomato, 16 plants, and just like you say, they have been the easiest to grow. Staking is the easiest, early flowering, little maintenance… My indeterminate varieties, 29 different types take up so much space with a large trellis, and will now require regular maintenance. Barely any maintenance for determinate varieties. It’s always nice to see someone pointing out what I have found. it reinforces my thought process: find a great determinate tomato to can or fresh or pickle, and grow in indeterminate for fun.
Determinates, I think, should be the backbone of the tomato garden, because they are easier to grow and more reliable. Sure, grow indeterminates, too, but they're not as easy to count on. I grow indeterminates for the interesting varieties and determinates for reliability. Thanks for watching!
I grow both determinate and indeterminate every year. I like to can the first determinate tomatoes and grow the others for eating , canning and saving seeds, just in case. Almost all my veggies are heirloom except for determinate tomatoes.
@@fancythat5136 I am growing one heirloom determinate: Fiaschetto. Although, many do not realize that Roma tomatoes are heirloom, too. Here’s a few websites for Fiaschetto tomato: www.fondazioneslowfood.com/en/slow-food-presidia/torre-guaceto-fiaschetto-tomato/ heritageseedmarket.com/index.php/product/fiaschetto-napoli-fiaschetto/ sustainableseedco.com/products/organic-fiaschetto-di-manduria-tomato?variant=3171173793832
You keep making my seed wishlist longer and longer every video! You know Dale's a good guy through and through because he could've taken your fingers at any point! 😂 I can't get Rosie to eat the strawberries this year either! Her first summer I shared strawberries with her and didn't get another one all season. Once she knew they were there, she just kept sneaking them when I wasn't looking! I guess she prefers the mulberries, idk. More for me!
It’s funny. When I planted the strawberries last year, Dale actually started eating them off the ground. I had to put a fence around them to keep him out. Now, he doesn’t seem to want them. He eats virtually everything, but won’t touch a strawberry, blackberry or raspberry, it must be a texture thing 🤷♂️
Try figs. Dale gushes drool over them. The only thing that makes him drool harder than figs is cheese. He won't drool for a piece of meat like he will for cheese and figs. If it weren't for the darn grape issue, we could have a fig, cheese and wine party 😂
If you found this video helpful, please "Like" and share to help increase its reach! TIMESTAMPS for varieties are here: 0:00 How To Grow Tomatoes For Heavy Production 1:15 My Most Productive Determinate Tomatoes 2:00 Siletz Tomato 3:49 Abu Rawan Tomato 4:31 Bella Rosa Tomato 5:16 Rosella Purple (Dwarf Tomato Project selection) 6:21 My Most Productive Indeterminate Tomatoes 6:22 Super Sweet 100 & Sun Gold (Cherry Tomatoes) 7:47 Big Beef Tomato 8:36 White Tomesol Tomato 9:43 Precious Pink Tomato 10:33 Chef's Choice Bicolor Tomato 11:15 Chef's Choice Purple Tomato 12:10 Chef's Choice Green Tomato 12:45 Arkansas Traveler Tomato 13:33 Chef's Choice Red Tomato 14:07 Big Brandy Tomato 14:47 My Least Productive Tomatoes 14:56 Big Raspberry Tomato 15:53 Brandywine Yellow Tomato (Platfoot Strain) 16:55 Cherokee Purple Tomato 17:48 Brandywine Pink Tomato (Sudduth Strain) 18:48 My Standout Favorite Tomato Varieties So Far 20:20 Adventures With Dale
Cherokee Purple is a gulf coast tomato. It grows well here in Houston. We've gotten some solid yields but nothing to brag about. Indeed it is a fantastic tasting tomato.
I really appreciate this video. I currently have 93 tomato plants in the ground searching for my favorite tomatoes and I don't have any of your favorites! My current favorites are Early Cascade because they ripen mostly at the same time & I do a lot of canning and German Pink for flavor.
I have to locate heat-resistant, disease resistant varieties. I have to be very careful with my selections. Since filming this on Tuesday, we have had 5 inches of rain and all the beautiful plants in this video have been ravaged by disease. It happens, literally, overnight here. So, I have to hope this rainy pattern finally ends and what's left of the plants are strong enough to ripen the crop that's on there. My climate is incredibly unforgiving and miserable in the summer for gardening, so I have to be very selective of what I grow or nothing will survive.
I've enjoyed your videos and presentation. You share your information straight to the point without fluff, and keep it interesting. I subscribed to both of your channels. Looking forward to enjoying all your future videos. Thanks for sharing all your knowledge!
Incredible tomatoes plants in your garden😍. We are growing some tomatoes this year too. Home growth tomatoes is the best . My favorite is cherry tomatoes. Amazing collection of variety tomatoes. Thanks 🙏
This year I'm growing ace 55 bush, bushsteak , Italian Roma and supremo I also grew 2 big rainbow 1 black Krim and assorted cherry tomatoes. I grew moneymaker pole last year and it had less and smaller tomatoes then all my other types. Determinate seem more productive in my climate.
Determinates are more productive, in general. They put much more of their energy into fruit production than indeterminates. Best of l luck, and thanks for watching!
I would love to try Sun Gold, super sweat 100, and others. One I don't see anyone mention is Rapunzel. Give it a try! It is a CRAZY growing hybrid and it produces what it wants too honestly. Mine grew about 8ft tall and destroyed my cage lmao. She fell to the floor but kept on going anyways and I just let it do its thing.
Wow, you have the biggest variety of tomatoes I’ve ever seen in one place and they look great! I’m trying to grow the Beef Steak Tomatoes for the second year, whereas it’s late September here in southeast Texas and most of them are finally getting loaded with beautiful tomatoes. Last year, which was my first year growing them across a trellis where they finally did okay very late in the fall as I’ve been told the extreme heat that we have here prevents them from producing and keeps many of the leafs with a scorched appearance. Nonetheless, I have 6 plants for my family use which now has more than 50 tomatoes of various sizes and I’m keeping close watch on them after finding a Caterpillar eating away on one of them. I’m hoping they stay pretty and grow as large as they should but most importantly hoping they have a great taste! Thanks for the informative videos and keep them coming.
The Cherokee purple does well north Ga and Tennessee where it was supposedly given to a gentleman by the Cherokee. I would try some shade cloth , it might keep it from dropping flowers and not producing. Good Luck 😊
I'm about 4 weeks behind you, but I also got the free White Tomesol packet and it's been the fastest growing plant out of about 9 varieties I've got this year (and healthiest growing in the sense that the stems are thicker compared to the other kinds). Supposedly the taste is more mild (my family prefers low acid and sweeter tomatoes), but the other characteristics it has going for it have me considering cross pollinating it with the varieties we like to see what kind of diy hybrid tomatoes we may get next year
My White Tomesol is still producing and actually has set some fruit despite peak heat, but I haven't gotten one that tasted good yet. It's just been too wet. Because the tomato is so mild, rain will wash out the flavor quickly, it seems. Hopefully, I get some fruit that ripen in the dry weather.
Mine are in the bedding yet. Even Porter Improved will not produce with the temps over 90 F, but come the monsoons (Arizona) they'll turn yellow with blooms, then bright red with fruit. Same with chilis and others. Eggplant, wow, very impressive no matter how hot. The pepino melon stopped blooming for now but has plenty of fruit.
Eggplant is such a fun and easy plant to grow. They take the heat so well. I wish I liked the taste more. Generally, one plant is enough for me because they're not my favorite, but they're such cool plants.
@@TheMillennialGardener Yeah, they look good and do well even grown on a brick, like our adobe here. 2 plants keep me in all I want and enough to give some away. My sisters will add it to anything they're cooking, but my best is eggplant parm. It's good in Indian dishes and some Asian food, as well. But, 2 are more than I need :) Keep up the good work.
For a currant tomato, I like Everglades. They fruit well and are very prolific. In south FL, they are considered invasive; they go everywhere. Definitely good for salads and snacking out of the garden. They'll also take our hot, humid summers like a champ.
I've never had them. Are they any good compared to a "standard" tomato? Often, the more wild varieties don't have the flavor and sweetness. If they grow in the Everglades, they're obviously pretty bulletproof.
@@TheMillennialGardener I'm not fond of tomatoes, but I like them. They're about the size of a dime, with good flavor, at least to my palette. Not as tart or sour as what I would expect from most tomatoes.
I would advise you try Chef's Choice Purple. You'll find them very similar, but with hybrid yields. They'll outproduce the heirlooms 2-3x. The plants were loaded.
I just found a tomato called Cherokee Carbon I'm trying out this year. I've had no success with Cherokee purple tomatoes 2 years in a row so I'm hoping the Cherokee Carbon is a winner it's from Bonnie plants.
I really appreciate just how much you put into these videos. I nerd out on technicalities and fine details. You most definitely provide all of the essential information needed to execute fantastic growing practices and comprehend exactly what you're doing. Thanks for helping me take it to the next level. Also, I just got a VDB fig tree! The brown turkey was all I knew and grew prior to discovering your channel.
I'm glad to hear it's helpful. It takes a ton of time resetting the camera dozens of times to take all the shots, then edit all those tiny clips together, so hearing how useful these videos are makes it all worth it. I'm also glad to hear that you got yourself a fig tree. Don't let it be your only new tree! Growing figs is the most addicting thing in the garden to me.
A very interesting type of tomato to grow that I never see people talking about is a Litchi Tomato! They are a type of cherry tomato that has a husk and is covered in thorns so harvest can be a pain without gloves but it was very fun to grow such a unique tomato, it even has two colors, red on the outside and yellow on the inside! Its been a few years and I only grew it one year so I can't say much about the taste but I remeber enjoying it! Could be another video idea if you grow it this year! :)
So many varieties. So I'm curious what you do with all those tomatoes? I also grow many different varieties but for the most part it's only me and my father eating them at home. The rest I take to work and share with my coworkers. I also freeze some but I can only use so many. I love the challenge of growing different varieties. I live in central FL where heat, humidity, dieseas and insects are a problem so I stick to the cherry varieties and small to mid size varieties. Plus I have to container garden cuz the soil here is crap. All of my tomatoes are grown in 5 gallon buckets. And I still have a fabulous yield. Some of my favorite that you mentioned are the super sweet 100 and the sun gold. I'm going to now try the chef's varieties which I haven't tried before but gonna now. I enjoy your content. Keep it coming.
Grew "Super Sweet" last year. They were very prolofic and I used to take containers of them into work to share. My coworkers raved about them! Like candy they said. I wish I had kept some sseds.
Thank you! Dale is only patient when he knows the appearance of being a Good Boy is going to lead to the immediate reward of a treat. Suddenly, he can win any staring contest. When he wants something and your back is to him, he will pester you in the sweetest, most annoying way possible. He will walk up to you, put his paw on you, if you don't acknowledge his paw, he will repeatedly tap you, then sit like a statue and stare. If you don't acknowledge him, he will leave the room, re-enter the room and begin the process all over again, as if exiting and re-entering the room creates some kind of time warp where you rewind time and you forget the first encounter ever happened. He has more personality than most people. It's unbelievable.
I'm in Pa, BUT, lately we've been having short spring weather. In other words, it's spring for a few weeks and then BAM, it's freakin 80 and 90F out. We even had a few days of 100F or a 102F last summer. I want to grow mostly determinates this coming growing season. That Abu Rawan looks good. Bella Rosa too. I have seen Celebrity around my area last year. The rest of these I haven't seen before, nor do I know where I would even get them at. I've had Super sweet, and they are good, and very productive. Cherokee Purple didn't do very well for me last year. I can only think my potting soil sucked bug time. I grow tomatoes in 5-6 gallon plastic pots. I see how important phosphorus is to fruit set or growing, and pollinating by shaking the plants. If I'm going to find any of the varieties you have here, besides the few I've seen and bought here, I'm going to have to go out of town to an actual nursery instead of the big box stores in my area where I usually get my tomato and pepper plants. I see Cherokee Purple sucked for you too.
Both are good, but in my opinion, Sun Gold are much better. They're larger, sweeter, tangier and equally productive. The Super Sweet's are good, but I may look into replacing them with a more acidic red tomato because I like a good acid bite.
I put FISH in the holes. I sprinkle powdered garden lime over fish then a little of dirt. Then plant the tomato. There is a huge difference! We freeze our scraps from cleaning fish. When It is time to plant we thaw and plant.
I wish I had good pictures or video to show of my Brandywine Pink, Brandy-boy and Cherokee Purple tomatoes. They get huge and bushy with dozens of large fruit and are are what I plant to get massive yields for making lots of salsa. I have get more pounds of tomatoes from one pair of plants than what you showed in your whole video. I always thought the weather and longer growing season such as yours would be so much easier to grow big crops of tomatoes than what I have to work with in Montana.
This makes me feel a lot better. This is my first year in a very long time trying to grow tomatoes (I have huge pots on my front porch) and I picked Cherokee Purple on a whim. They're doing awful and I thought I was doing something wrong. Sounds like though they're just not great producers. Next year I'll try a determinate variety.
From my experience, indeterminate varieties haven't done well in pots for me. They get too tall and it's hard to support them. The determinate tomatoes are shorter and might do better in a pot. We make our own tomato cages.
Wow just wow. Everything you had said about determinate tomatoes 🍅 I didn't know. Just the opposite. But you get more in long term. This year I'm growing more indeterminate . Thank you. I have to self educated myself on tomatoes. Lol. Funny thing I'm growing from seeds from Baker Creek Seeds ..
I'm glad the video was helpful. Definitely grow determinate tomatoes next year. They're the backbone of my garden. They are always reliable. Indeterminate tomatoes are hit-or-miss, and this year, I lost close to 1/3 of them to bacterial wilt. The determinates were rock-solid, always producing. They produce their crop quickly and are giving you food before the indeterminates roll out of bed.
Great Vid... I am definitely going to try a couple of the Varieties you suggest... I'm in South Florida and do all Container gardening, so some of these Determinates would work well for me..
Bella Rosa is really impressing me. We just got 5 inches of rain and the fruits are perfect. No cracking. I picked 3, but they need some time to finish ripening on the counter. I hope they taste good, but the fruit itself is impressive.
That is a good practice in places with shorter growing seasons. If you have a longer growing season, topping them may quit production early. It's hit-or-miss, here, depending on disease pressure. Topping them requires proper timing, so the dryness of the season means everything in a climate like mine. Thanks for watching.
Try dwarf red profusion has lots of early tasty toms I have been picking since June so could easily sow some in April to overwinter in sunny place very tasty indeed a large cherry type by Thompson and Morgan very prolific !!
This might be the best tomatoe video yet. Well made. Im in central FL and looking forward to trying a few of these. I never really thought about it but determinate really do produce better. Thanks for making this video.
Thank you! Determinate tomatoes are often a better selection for Florida and other Southern zones. They are often more disease resistant, and flower better in heat. Some good varieties are Bella Rosa, Celebrity and Margherita VF.
@@TheMillennialGardener Awesome thank you for the tips! I started some Celebration Hybrid seeds a few days ago. Are they the same as celebrity? Thanks again!
I need to get White Tomesol. It’s supposed to be one of the very best tasting white tomatoes. After you saying how productive it is. A guy who grows a lot of varieties did a vid of his top 5 for taste and it was included. His favorite for taste is Black Krim which is also mine until I find one better.
I've never had a white tomato. From the description on websites, it says it's a mid-size, 8oz tomato with mild flavor. Given how productive it is, I should be able to have plenty of tasting opportunities. For an open pollinated tomato, the yields are absurd.
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Thanks for growing in the south. So many online channels aren't addressing the nuances of southern growing
"Nuances" is the understatement of the year! I've never seen anything like the weather down here. How you can get 4-7 inches of rain in a couple days as a low pressure system sits on top of you and drowns your entire garden is something I never experienced up north. The disease pressure here is off the charts, and no matter what you do, you simply cannot defeat it. Sometimes, I think the best way to garden is to just pack up, move to Florida, build a greenhouse and grow in the winter, then vacation from June to September 😂 I'm trying to manage the struggles as best as I can. Thanks for watching!
@@TheMillennialGardener I'm planning to depart Virginia and return to upstate NY sometime in the next year or two. Nuances, indeed!
I wish channels & commenters stated zones and made zone related tips.
Wow. I grow in Tennessee. Just toss the seeds on the ground and let it go. Get enough to can every year.
Yes, thank you for being a southern grower channel! I watch so many channels from all over and the closest to resemble our crazy SC weather was someone in FL... So thank you! And your content is amazingly informatitve and so relevant!!
It's really great you tell the heights and lengths in meters as well, easier for us Europeans to understand.
Ya it’s the same for Americans. It’s like when I watch a Canadian or UK or European video some videos uses just the metric system. Some uses feet or miles cause they maybe traveling Americans, but some TH-camrs use both systems.
I’ll tell ya this. If you’re American hearing the temperature in C degrees means absolutely nothing. It’s like kilometers and cm I can visually sort of reference cause I somewhat know how close they are to what we use in the U.S. but like for C degrees haha it’s like oh hell. I remember in physics there’s a big equation you have to use to convert C into F or ferenheit or whatever but you can’t visually do it or guess at least I’ve not been exposed to using Celsius enough to do that. It’s like -80 C is absolute cold or something for storing mushroom cultures I think and 0 C is freezing so it’d be 32 F but other then that it’s like haha hilarious.
Ya it’s the same for Americans. It’s like when I watch a Canadian or UK or European video some videos uses just the metric system. Some uses feet or miles cause they maybe traveling Americans, but some TH-camrs use both systems.
I’ll tell ya this. If you’re American hearing the temperature in C degrees means absolutely nothing. It’s like kilometers and cm I can visually sort of reference cause I somewhat know how close they are to what we use in the U.S. but like for C degrees haha it’s like oh hell. I remember in physics there’s a big equation you have to use to convert C into F or ferenheit or whatever but you can’t visually do it or guess at least I’ve not been exposed to using Celsius enough to do that. It’s like -80 C is absolute cold or something for storing mushroom cultures I think and 0 C is freezing so it’d be 32 F but other then that it’s like haha hilarious.
For me, the favorite thing to do is a combination of determinate and indeterminate varieties, plus experimenting with seeds from F1 hybrids.
I grow Sungold tomatoes every year for my grandkids. They LOVE them!!!
My Dwarf Tomato Project tomatoes are doing great so far for me up her in Maine. I still can't thank you enough for introducing me to them! I also just plain love your channel! lol
I'm glad to hear they're working out for you. They're a great "cheat" to get heirloom-indeterminate-quality tomatoes in places with short summers. The high value beefsteaks can now be grown in all 50 states! Thanks for watching. I appreciate it.
I am growing Geranium Kiss and Wherokowhai (try pronouncing that!) Dwarf tomatoes this year. I am growing in one gallon, 3 gallon and 5-gallon containers just to see if there is a difference in performance. So far there is a clear difference in size! Let's see how the fruiting measures!
Yore videos are perfect. No fluff just information. Your information is really well laid out also. Thanks a lot! Love your work!!!
Glad you like them! Thanks for watching!
I also got my free packet of of White Tomesol from Baker Creek. Like you I wouldn't have thought about choosing it. I was amazed how prolifically it produced good sized very flavorful fruit. I'm growing it again this year.
I'm here in Southern California zone 9b and I got my plants in the ground a little late this year at the middle/end of May. Pleased to say besides two indeterminate the rest of my tomato plants and night shades are doing fantastic. But the real champ in my Champion determinant tomato. It's literally been producing for over two months with another literal 30-40 more tomatoes with them being in all stages of fruit development. Also have a SS 100vf that is doing insanely good. Love the videos keep up the good content !
Best tomato plant video! Hands down! Thank you for the info 😊
I have had amazing luck with cherokee purple in missouri! One of the best out of about 30+ varieties I've grown. Super production and quite a few fruits that are close to and sometimes over 1 lb. I've even had several here and there that are upwards of 2 pounds. Enormous. Although when they get really big sometimes they have a weird shape
Cherokee purples don't like the full sun, they need a half day of shade, I've grown them 4 years in a row with early fruit but once it's gets hot they withered. My friend had his beside his house and got half a day of sun and they exploded with fruit. Unfortunately I only have full sun in my garden but I guess I could put a shade over them.
A most excellent demonstration !!! Expert craftsmanship based on detailed knowledge base. Was so pleased --will view this one over again and keep as reference. No one else has really portrayed the spectrum of the new dwarf varieties nor summarized the clear limitations of most lg. heirloom types with their low production. Please keep bringing us your garden experience. Many thanks. Kathy Komp Cleveland Ohio.
Glad it was helpful! It's a real pain to reset the camera dozens and dozens of times to take all these individual shots, so when I hear this is helping so many people, it really makes me happy. Thank you for watching!
Could not agree more! After viewing this video when it was first published, I purchased the Summer Sweet Gold & Emerald Giant dwarf tomato seeds. These seeds are not Walmart cheap......so only planted 1 of each in my raised bed. I have been blown away by both plants; so beautiful and covered with blossoms. Even my neighbors have taken notice of these extraordinary plants. Thank you, MG.
The chefs choice black is incredible.
Heirloom quality taste
The Chef's Choice varieties are so productive that it becomes redundant and pointless to grow the heirlooms. Unless you have to save the seed, there isn't much point in growing heirlooms anymore, in my opinion.
@@TheMillennialGardener this was my 1st year with the chefs choice. I was very impressed. I am going to try the others as well
@@johnmalatesta751 I’m going to try Chef’s Choice Black next year. I was disappointed with the dwarfs and might grow mostly hybrids next year.
@@archstanton9703 this was my 1st year and they were awesome. I grow both heirlooms and hybrids.
I grew chefs choice orange two years ago and it has been by far my most productive and healthy tomatoes I’ve grown to date. Great flavor from an almost softball size tomato. I’m growing some Black Sea Man tomatoes this year. I’ve heard they are maybe the best tasting tomatoes there are.
I’m growing Big Beef for the first time this year, glad to hear yours are doing so well. I’m up north so a little behind you, but the plants look great and the fruit that has set so far looks great as well. I’ve been growing Celebrity for 3 years now, overall great tomato. Perfect size.
New Jersey grower here -also have a huge problem with humidity.
The best variety I have ever grown Box Car Willie FANTASTIC!🍅
I haven't grown that variety. I've seen it. It looks to be a mid-sized slicer if memory serves.
Thank you for loving on the dwarfs and determinates. they do much better with my season of 97% humidity and I have so much fun discovering the breeding.
They absolutely do. I find indeterminate tomatoes to be the least productive per square foot. Indeterminates have the best selection, but there's a reason why they aren't grown commercially very often except in commercial greenhouses. The determinates are more productive and less work.
YAY for Sungold tomatoes and talking TASTE!!! Thank you!
They're excellent. Thanks for watching!
Sun Gold tomatoes bring an umami that the sweet 100s tend to lack which is why they present as more complex on the tongue.
Growing for the kiddo’s lunchbox, the 100s are amazing. Want something that will stand up to some garlic and basil on bruschetta, the sun golds are your fruit.
I grow both for the reasons above. That and both of them are intense in their yields as you mentioned.
I agree. The Super Sweet 100's are good, but they're more like eating grapes. They're great eating fresh off the vine. The Sun Gold, on the other hand, are acidic and complex. I think they'd be fantastic in tomato sauces and salads, because they have so much bite. I am going to look for a purple cherry for next year and grow a red-yellow-purple mix.
The brandy wine sudduth are what grows best in my sw Mn garden. 2 miles away at my parents house it doesn’t grow well. I start tomatoes every year indoors but it’s the volunteer Brandywine in my garden that end up producing massive huge fruits
@@TheMillennialGardener Have you tried the yellow pear cherry tomato? I grew the Sun Gold and the Yellow Pear last year and the I liked the Yellow Pear better. Love your videos. Thanks for all the information.
I learn more here than almost any other gardening channel. Two thumbs up!
I discovered Chef’s Choice in 2020 regrowing this year. I’m in zone 10. Love all of the various colors.
They're really awesome hybrids! Thanks for watching!
Thanks for all the hard work on these videos, not to mention the garden work and research. Dale reminds me of my Sam.
Super fantastic was my favorite variety this year. Fruity notes, low acidity and big!
Your garden is looking great! Wait till you see my beast tomatoes. I have some heirloom tomatoes that have been in my family since they migrated from Italy. Last year I grew one 3.5 lbs., in that one tomato had 20 seeds. Blessings 🙏
That's a big tomato. I always go for quantity, so my tomatoes rarely get over 1 lb. One year, I should try to grow a monster. Thanks for watching!
I love Sun Gold. They’ve been very reliable, productive, and the critters have not bothered them. I’ll be trying Purple Rosella this year per your recommendation. Thanks!
The only negative I can say about Sun Gold is they're splitting in the heavy rain. But most tomatoes do that. I think you'll enjoy Rosella Purple. It is, in my opinion, superior to Cherokee Purple.
About to start my Siletz seedlings in Melbourne. Thanks to this video, I planted one last Summer and it was a Superstar. So glad I did.
It didn't grow too tall (2 feet), so I just placed bricks all around the base and allowed it to sprawl on the ground.
It just kept producing. I stopped weighing after I harvested 13lbs, and wouldn't be surprised if it produced 20lbs, as the birds ate quite a few also.
Took up little space, needed no attention, produced a heap, and was by far the earliest producer.
Handled the cold very well, and although the fruit was more acidic than I normally like, it was still pleasant. Will plant 4 this season.
Extremely interesting. I live in central Florida and the soul is very sandy. I enjoyed the part of the determine tomatoes very much. I grow my tomatoes in containers. Thanks for all the information.
I have a very wet, humid climate, and our rainfall may even exceed yours in the summer. We average over 60 inches of rain a year, which is higher than anywhere in Florida except the panhandle, so if they do well for me, they'll probably do well for you.
I live in central Florida, as well. I ,too, grow in containers.
Thanks so very much for always being so detailed videos telling us everything gardeners need to know. I don't think I need to watch anyone else. You are superb!
Thanks so much for this video. I really enjoy that content you create. You are easy to listen to and break things down in a simple manner. Your content is very engaging and I usually watch your videos from start to finish. You are a no nonsense person - and unapologetic about the choices you make in your gardening style, which is really great. Thanks so much, I have learned a lot from you.
Thank you. I really appreciate it. I try and get the point across that I really do these things in real life in my own garden. I do promote products on occasion, but only the ones that I use in real life and I feel are responsible for my success. I don't want to keep any secrets. My dream is that you all outproduce me! I want as many gardeners growing their own food as possible. Thank you for watching!
I have 4 big beefs and 2 cuttings in a jar ready for transplant. Yea your tomatoes are producing they look loaded. Cool garden.
Thanks for watching!
Great vid ty so much!!
I just tap all my flowers with my ✋🏻 to pollinate.
Love tomatoes with high acid taste. I eat the plain tasting ones , but not because I like them. Your tomatoes look so good. You can tell you are a good gardener.
I think you will love Chef's Choice Pink, Sun Gold, and, most of all, Dwarf Emerald Giant. Dwarf Emerald Giant is the most acidic tomato I've ever had by far. It is like someone squeezed lemon juice all over the tomato. Its bite is incredible. Easily a Top 5 tomato for me. You have to try that one.
I grow most of my tomatoes hydroponically. I love the big beef for its high production and awesome texture and flavor. I'm sure you will enjoy it. One tomato that I am growing for an indoor tomato under lights is the Tiny Tim. It is supposed to be dwarf. It has taken over my basement grow area (not so tiny) and has the most incredible, firm, attractive bright red tomatoes. I put one outside in my Dutch bucket system and it is blowing me away. It easily has 70 tomatoes set and well over 300 blossoms. It seems to be self-pollinating and sets fruit without intervention both indoors or outdoors. For me it has outperformed the sweet 100 variety, which was incredible. Try the Tiny Tim, I am sure you will love it.
Where did you get the Tiny Tim seeds????
@@simonadunn7168 Here's a link. They were all good seeds from this vendor, www.ebay.com/itm/184380684502?hash=item2aedf1f8d6:g:vWgAAOSwByFfHaEb
I've seen Gary Pilarchik grow Tiny Tim, and it is a wild looking plant. If you like that variety, you should seriously browse the Dwarf Tomato Project selections over at Victory Seed. They have a similar growth habit, but you'll get an enormous selection of heirloom-quality fruits with amazing colors and patterns. It will blow your mind. The fruit quality is off the charts with many of the varieties.
Brunswick County resident here. Good to see local growers here
It's certainly not easy to grow in our summers, but the other 8 months a year aren't too shabby 😀
Thanks. I live in Southern California. Could never figure out why my Brandywine tomato bush never gave me more then a couple of fantastically delicious tomatoes. Always thought I was doing something wrong especially since my other varieties did so well. Will continue to grow a couple of Brandywine bushes, but now I won’t get disappointed when all they produce are a couple of tomatoes. Again, thanks.
Poor Dale LOL...didn't want the strawberry today! Thanks for what I think as a new gardener is a great video. Just ordered a bunch of different varieties of tomatoes mostly determinate and container varieties because the seeds I got here locally in Florida and have been growing just are not producing anything but flowers and the plants look sick. I finally got 1 tiny little mater growing on one of my plants, I think its a beefsteak and I started them all indoors way back in March. People I watch have been harvesting theirs and here I am waiting on 1 little mater LOL
I like the determinate too. This is my 2nd year with dwarfs and I love them. Blossom Booster is my friend!
We love super sweet 100 here in Cary, NC. Tried Sun Gold last summer it was good too, but we grew Honeycomb hybrid this year and it's our absolute favorite ever! Soooooo good!
Thank you for your videos!
Thanks for the suggestion! I'll definitely be growing more cherry types next season. I really appreciate you watching.
I’ve been growing big beef for the last 10 years. Only tomato that I grow. Excellent.
Thanks for watching!
I’m on the exact opposite side of the state from your location and it is much cooler on my end. My best producer in my climate is a variety called vivacious hybrid which only came out last year. I harvested 75+ tomatoes off of a single plant last year that I threw in my compost pile as an extra tomato plant after planting. Just let it grow wild.
What a wonderful collections of tomatoes varieties! Love how you have so many varieties.
Thank you. I really enjoy it. It is a lot of fun. Thank you for watching. I appreciate it.
@@TheMillennialGardener Thank YOU for sharing so I can enjoy watching your wonderful garden.
My pleasure!
I'm growing Big Beef right now and yes, great producer, amazing.
Have you gotten to taste Big Beef yet?
@@TheMillennialGardener Yes, its the best one in my garden so far this year.
@@TheMillennialGardener I grew Big Beef last year. The plant was the biggest, most robust in the garden, however the flavor didn't hold a candle to the Better Boy plant I had. Big Beef also had a woody core that had to be cut out before eating. I have the free White Tomasol seeds too from Baker Creek when I ordered Thornburn's Terra Cotta Tomato. The White Tomasol seems a very robust plant and had a very high germination rate. I think they probably include it because it grows easy and you will have some luck should the other varieties you order be more "tricky." Last Year my Cherokee Purple slumped down the pole and pinched the base setting it back a month, I only got a few small tomatoes from it in September. This year I have two White Tomasol, three Thornburn's Terra Cotta Tomato, and one Better Boy from the box store. All 6 plants are growing well and putting out flowers now with a dozen small fruits starting to grow. I'm right at 40 N 88W so just coming out of a rather cold spring.
@@Nightowl2548 juju in
I was cruising the tomato starts in my local family-run ACE Hardware today and found Celebrity (not listed here, but I've heard you mention it favorably), Super Sweet 100, Roma, and Cherokee Purple, which is on your 'not recommended' list. As I paused to look at the Cherokee Purples the garden section manager asked if I needed any help. I asked if he grow tomatoes and he replied that he puts in about 300 plants each season, and that his personal favorite sandwich and slicer tomato is...Cherokee Purple. He said they grow great up here in North Carolina's Piedmont at nearly 1000' elevation NW of Charlotte, and have terrific flavor.
Wow , who knew there were so many different tomatoes, you're so full of information and I'm sharing in hopes that my Facebook friends will watch and learn along with me.
There are, literally, thousands of varieties. Maybe tens of thousands. You could grow 100 different tomato varieties a year and barely scratch the surface during your lifetime. It's fun shopping, but it can be hard making a decision. Thank you for sharing my videos! I really appreciate it!
Hi I lived in Texas, and only got a few mediocre tomatoes from my brandywine plant. I live in WA state now, and my single brandywine is huge and full of flowers! Really goes to show that trial and error for your specific garden is necessary. Previously, I thought it was a cursed sickly plant overall lol
My favourite is "Gardeners delight", super tasty and amazing producer
DUDE! LOL I told you about White Tomesol last year. I understand if you missed it.
Literally I had a WT last year that made me CRY cuz it was THE best tomato I've had in my life. I will ALWAYS grow White Tomesol! Tomatoes are smaller and I limit to single or double stalk and frankly might remove flowers on another to try to increase size.
But I'm not kidding you.... I call them 'My Elegant little babies'. Such true balanced lovely high end, top shelf flavor. No kidding. I can't wait for you to try them.
Growing Great White this year now to see but I find it difficult to coprehend it will best the Flavor of White Tomesol.
IMO - prune that one. Keep it healthy and maybe get some larger tomatoes. Do not take this plant for granted. it's a damn GEM. (it made Midwest Gardener top 5 for flavor list)
Sorry, I get so many suggestions that I can only recall the ones that are overwhelming (like Sun Gold, Sun Sugar and Black Cherry, which seems to be recommended by the dozens). Unfortunately, I haven't had a ripe one yet. The plant is incredibly productive and disease resistant, but the now TEN INCHES OF RAIN we've had since June 2nd is destroying the fruits. And we have more heavy thunderstorms rolling in tomorrow 😓 We are *easily* going to wind up with 12-15 inches of rain this month. It's just horrible.
Since it's a smaller-fruited plant, I may start another plant for my fall garden. If I can get it to produce by September 15, I should be able to ripen fruits when life gets better here post-thunderstorm season. Assuming we don't set a September/October hurricane, we dry out big time after September 15.
@@TheMillennialGardener wow. Sorry re the rain! I think for WT I might've double stem'd it. I've had some good sized ones. after you get some, perhaps try to limit the fruits to get some big ones. One plant I let go crazy last year only produced small fruits. Great tomato! And don't judge it on the first one!
(So is Virginia Sweets LOL)
I gave all my White Tomesol plants away and wish I’d kept at least one.
@@archstanton9703 Oh no! Well, do try again next season. it's a great tomato.
I always plant a sacrificial sweet 100, my husband and son keep it picked clean of fruit, an oh look snack while outside. It is a requirement in the garden! If I want anything for myself I have to plant one out of the way of outside snack range
I share your like of Big Beef tomatoes. To me it is the best all around hybrid tomato out there right now. I have planted them for 3 years straight now and they are consistently the most disease resistent tomato in my garden. One year one of my Big Beef tomato plants survived from the spring all the way to December. I picked the last tomato off of it Dec 12th. Usually you can either have a tomato type that produces lots of tomatoes or one that produces nice sized tomatoes but rarely both. Big beef is the exception. It is very productive and the size of the tomatoes on it are very nice. You need to stake or cage it well because it will produce clusters of very large tomatoes from top to bottom. It also produces tomatoes pretty early often beating varieties like Early Girl in my garden for the first ripe tomato.
Yea Cherokee purple is a Deep South tomato, doing great in Mississippi. Getting tons off of just 2 plants. Still growing too. A great indeterminate, and a very sweet tasting tomato.
That's interesting, because my climate is identical to the Deep South. My latitude is exactly in between Huntsville and Birmingham (at 34.1N), and my growing season is longer than both with a higher dew point because of the coastal influence. I'm just not seeing any luck. It only sets in the cool temperatures. After growing this for 4 years, I think Cherokee Purple is better suited for northern climates with short growing seasons because it only sets in cool temps and ripens early.
Rosella Purple 🌹💜🍅. Can't wait to try.
It's one of the best! Very sweet, and very low acid. If you like sweet tomatoes, it's a winner.
Thank you. Great content. I like how you grow so many varieties and then take the time to tell us what worked and what did not work.
I learn so much from your Channel about growing tomatoes.Thank you for what you do.
Thank you for watching! I couldn't do it without viewers like you tuning in!
Interesting comparing Northern CA climate for tomatoes. I've been growing tomatoes for 25+ years. I also have great results with Big Beef and the Chef's Choice hybrids. I've only grown the Chef's Choice pink and orange. The CC orange is my absolute FAV - so perfect and productive! This year, the garden center sold GRAFTED Suddeth Brandywine, on a hybridized root stock with the heirloom plant on top. I planted a heirloom Suddeth Brandywine next to the grafted variety and what a huge difference. The grafted is doing twice as nice. Cherokee Purple is prolific here but I'm not a fan of the taste. My other favorites are the Orange Strawberry - 1-2 lb orange beefsteaks, Maryianna's Peace - similar to Brandywine without the blight and more productive. For cherry tomatoes, I grew Sun Gold until I tried Isis Candy. Isis Candy had strong stems, super productive, sweeter and the tomatoes can be dried or roasted if you cant eat them all - plants always 7-8 ft tall! Happy Gardening!
Hi Thank you for your detailed information. I’m growing ISIS Candy this year. Just wondering if it’s heirloom??
@@soby123 There's a tomato called ISIS candy??!
@@dross10001 Yes 😃
Dale is going to enjoy the tomatoes this season!
Also I'm hoping Brandywin Pink does well for me in Zone 6, Michigan.
He is already enjoying them, for sure. He loves his fresh veggies. Brandywine Pink would definitely benefit from hand pollination. It is a tricky variety. If you’re not familiar with the toothbrush trick, it works dramatically well: th-cam.com/video/x2zoorfpZ50/w-d-xo.html
@Nick Clarke " I'm hoping Brandywine Pink does well for me in Zone 6, Michigan." DITTO!
@@TheMillennialGardener - I get very good pollination of Brandywine Pink and every other variety just from wind and insects. Maybe the weather difference.
If you like Pink Brandywine, you have to try Marianna's Peace. I love Pink Brandywine, but Marianna's Peace beats it for me.
Awesome selection on varieties that’s are winners! Will be trying some of your proven success top picks! Thank you
Thank you. Keep in mind I'm in a very humid, subtropical climate. If you're in a drier, less humid climate, some of these varieties that are failing me may do better for you. If you're in a soupy, wet climate like mine, this video should help.
South Jersey here! I’m still gonna try ur winners, they check off everything i want in my plants to have success👍👍 my 42 different varieties are just getting going here
@@cassandraberger9146 I was born and raised in Egg Harbor City. Lived in Atlantic County most of my life.
Your garden is so pleasing to my eye that it's almost Zen for me. I could look at it for hours. I've written down some the varieties you mention and hope to try them next year. As for AWD, this is the funniest episode so far. All this is the reason you have almost 100K subscribers in the relatively short period I've been watching your channel. Well done!
Thanks. Unfortunately, it has done nothing but rain since I filmed this video, and now all my tomato plants are pretty much ruined. The fruits are mostly okay (except the ones that split in this horrible weather), but the plants won't survive much longer. It's pouring right now, so that'll likely push us into the 5+ inch range for the past few days. It's completely devastating. I have been working very hard to film as much tomato footage as I could while we were stuck in a light drought, because I knew once it ended, my season would be over.
@@TheMillennialGardener I know from the TV weather reports you are getting terrible weather. I hope sincerely that you can salvage much of your harvest, even if the plants fail. It was such a beautiful crop. You always work hard and the quality of your videos show it.
@@TheMillennialGardener NC is absolutely terrible state for gardening... we had lots of rain here in Cary too (probably less than you though) and now my eggplants covered in mushrooms and my petunias are dead and some tomatoes are breaking too :( oh and both my zucchini plants are dead (thank you borer...)
Sun Gold Tomatoes are my absolute favorite to grow. So good.
They’re my favorite so far this year.
I am growing 1 variety of determinate tomato, 16 plants, and just like you say, they have been the easiest to grow. Staking is the easiest, early flowering, little maintenance…
My indeterminate varieties, 29 different types take up so much space with a large trellis, and will now require regular maintenance. Barely any maintenance for determinate varieties.
It’s always nice to see someone pointing out what I have found. it reinforces my thought process: find a great determinate tomato to can or fresh or pickle, and grow in indeterminate for fun.
Determinates, I think, should be the backbone of the tomato garden, because they are easier to grow and more reliable. Sure, grow indeterminates, too, but they're not as easy to count on. I grow indeterminates for the interesting varieties and determinates for reliability. Thanks for watching!
I grow both determinate and indeterminate every year. I like to can the first determinate tomatoes and grow the others for eating , canning and saving seeds, just in case. Almost all my veggies are heirloom except for determinate tomatoes.
@@fancythat5136 I am growing one heirloom determinate: Fiaschetto. Although, many do not realize that Roma tomatoes are heirloom, too.
Here’s a few websites for Fiaschetto tomato:
www.fondazioneslowfood.com/en/slow-food-presidia/torre-guaceto-fiaschetto-tomato/
heritageseedmarket.com/index.php/product/fiaschetto-napoli-fiaschetto/
sustainableseedco.com/products/organic-fiaschetto-di-manduria-tomato?variant=3171173793832
You keep making my seed wishlist longer and longer every video!
You know Dale's a good guy through and through because he could've taken your fingers at any point! 😂 I can't get Rosie to eat the strawberries this year either! Her first summer I shared strawberries with her and didn't get another one all season. Once she knew they were there, she just kept sneaking them when I wasn't looking! I guess she prefers the mulberries, idk. More for me!
It’s funny. When I planted the strawberries last year, Dale actually started eating them off the ground. I had to put a fence around them to keep him out. Now, he doesn’t seem to want them. He eats virtually everything, but won’t touch a strawberry, blackberry or raspberry, it must be a texture thing 🤷♂️
@@TheMillennialGardener That's so funny! What is going on with these weirdos? Maybe they're ashamed of their thievery? No, probably not.
Dale!! 🐶🥰 My dog wouldn’t eat it either. She doesn’t like fruit but LOVES veggies!
Try figs. Dale gushes drool over them. The only thing that makes him drool harder than figs is cheese. He won't drool for a piece of meat like he will for cheese and figs. If it weren't for the darn grape issue, we could have a fig, cheese and wine party 😂
@@TheMillennialGardener More wine for me! Haha! I will definitely try figs. Scout might like it. Her new latest obsession is lettuce and edamame! 🐶😋
I love all of your tomato plants.
Thank you for your garden tours!!! So informative. I have difficulty growing tomatoes. Will try some new varieties 😄
If you found this video helpful, please "Like" and share to help increase its reach! TIMESTAMPS for varieties are here:
0:00 How To Grow Tomatoes For Heavy Production
1:15 My Most Productive Determinate Tomatoes
2:00 Siletz Tomato
3:49 Abu Rawan Tomato
4:31 Bella Rosa Tomato
5:16 Rosella Purple (Dwarf Tomato Project selection)
6:21 My Most Productive Indeterminate Tomatoes
6:22 Super Sweet 100 & Sun Gold (Cherry Tomatoes)
7:47 Big Beef Tomato
8:36 White Tomesol Tomato
9:43 Precious Pink Tomato
10:33 Chef's Choice Bicolor Tomato
11:15 Chef's Choice Purple Tomato
12:10 Chef's Choice Green Tomato
12:45 Arkansas Traveler Tomato
13:33 Chef's Choice Red Tomato
14:07 Big Brandy Tomato
14:47 My Least Productive Tomatoes
14:56 Big Raspberry Tomato
15:53 Brandywine Yellow Tomato (Platfoot Strain)
16:55 Cherokee Purple Tomato
17:48 Brandywine Pink Tomato (Sudduth Strain)
18:48 My Standout Favorite Tomato Varieties So Far
20:20 Adventures With Dale
I’m in set texas just west of Houston. Appreciate your advice on heat and humidity. Love the Dale video
Cherokee Purple is a gulf coast tomato. It grows well here in Houston. We've gotten some solid yields but nothing to brag about. Indeed it is a fantastic tasting tomato.
You may want to try Chef's Choice Purple. I think it's pretty much identical, but the yields are far superior.
I love the tomato info but I watch mostly cause of Dale! Reminds me of my boy Moose 😍
I really appreciate this video. I currently have 93 tomato plants in the ground searching for my favorite tomatoes and I don't have any of your favorites! My current favorites are Early Cascade because they ripen mostly at the same time & I do a lot of canning and German Pink for flavor.
I have to locate heat-resistant, disease resistant varieties. I have to be very careful with my selections. Since filming this on Tuesday, we have had 5 inches of rain and all the beautiful plants in this video have been ravaged by disease. It happens, literally, overnight here. So, I have to hope this rainy pattern finally ends and what's left of the plants are strong enough to ripen the crop that's on there. My climate is incredibly unforgiving and miserable in the summer for gardening, so I have to be very selective of what I grow or nothing will survive.
@@TheMillennialGardener I know you must be devastated, it has happened to me in past. So sorry !
I've enjoyed your videos and presentation. You share your information straight to the point without fluff, and keep it interesting. I subscribed to both of your channels. Looking forward to enjoying all your future videos. Thanks for sharing all your knowledge!
Bella Rosa and sun gold are 2 of my go to tomatoe plants for the garden. Sun golds flavor is exceptional 👌
Sun Gold is awesome. I also added Sun Sugar this year. We'll see which is better!
Incredible tomatoes plants in your garden😍. We are growing some tomatoes this year too. Home growth tomatoes is the best . My favorite is cherry tomatoes. Amazing collection of variety tomatoes. Thanks 🙏
Thank you! I appreciate you watching. Best of luck with your varieties!
This year I'm growing ace 55 bush, bushsteak , Italian Roma and supremo I also grew 2 big rainbow 1 black Krim and assorted cherry tomatoes. I grew moneymaker pole last year and it had less and smaller tomatoes then all my other types. Determinate seem more productive in my climate.
Determinates are more productive, in general. They put much more of their energy into fruit production than indeterminates. Best of l luck, and thanks for watching!
I would love to try Sun Gold, super sweat 100, and others. One I don't see anyone mention is Rapunzel. Give it a try!
It is a CRAZY growing hybrid and it produces what it wants too honestly. Mine grew about 8ft tall and destroyed my cage lmao. She fell to the floor but kept on going anyways and I just let it do its thing.
Wow, you have the biggest variety of tomatoes I’ve ever seen in one place and they look great! I’m trying to grow the Beef Steak Tomatoes for the second year, whereas it’s late September here in southeast Texas and most of them are finally getting loaded with beautiful tomatoes. Last year, which was my first year growing them across a trellis where they finally did okay very late in the fall as I’ve been told the extreme heat that we have here prevents them from producing and keeps many of the leafs with a scorched appearance. Nonetheless, I have 6 plants for my family use which now has more than 50 tomatoes of various sizes and I’m keeping close watch on them after finding a Caterpillar eating away on one of them. I’m hoping they stay pretty and grow as large as they should but most importantly hoping they have a great taste! Thanks for the informative videos and keep them coming.
The Cherokee purple does well north Ga and Tennessee where it was supposedly given to a gentleman by the Cherokee. I would try some shade cloth , it might keep it from dropping flowers and not producing. Good Luck 😊
I'm about 4 weeks behind you, but I also got the free White Tomesol packet and it's been the fastest growing plant out of about 9 varieties I've got this year (and healthiest growing in the sense that the stems are thicker compared to the other kinds). Supposedly the taste is more mild (my family prefers low acid and sweeter tomatoes), but the other characteristics it has going for it have me considering cross pollinating it with the varieties we like to see what kind of diy hybrid tomatoes we may get next year
My White Tomesol is still producing and actually has set some fruit despite peak heat, but I haven't gotten one that tasted good yet. It's just been too wet. Because the tomato is so mild, rain will wash out the flavor quickly, it seems. Hopefully, I get some fruit that ripen in the dry weather.
Mine are in the bedding yet. Even Porter Improved will not produce with the temps over 90 F, but come the monsoons (Arizona) they'll turn yellow with blooms, then bright red with fruit. Same with chilis and others. Eggplant, wow, very impressive no matter how hot. The pepino melon stopped blooming for now but has plenty of fruit.
Eggplant is such a fun and easy plant to grow. They take the heat so well. I wish I liked the taste more. Generally, one plant is enough for me because they're not my favorite, but they're such cool plants.
@@TheMillennialGardener Yeah, they look good and do well even grown on a brick, like our adobe here. 2 plants keep me in all I want and enough to give some away. My sisters will add it to anything they're cooking, but my best is eggplant parm. It's good in Indian dishes and some Asian food, as well. But, 2 are more than I need :) Keep up the good work.
For a currant tomato, I like Everglades. They fruit well and are very prolific. In south FL, they are considered invasive; they go everywhere. Definitely good for salads and snacking out of the garden. They'll also take our hot, humid summers like a champ.
I've never had them. Are they any good compared to a "standard" tomato? Often, the more wild varieties don't have the flavor and sweetness. If they grow in the Everglades, they're obviously pretty bulletproof.
@@TheMillennialGardener I'm not fond of tomatoes, but I like them. They're about the size of a dime, with good flavor, at least to my palette. Not as tart or sour as what I would expect from most tomatoes.
4-6 weeks of fruit was more as I experienced,As you say 2-3 is often what I hear, .
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I switched from Cherokee Purple to Carbon. The taste is just as good and the production is much better.
I would advise you try Chef's Choice Purple. You'll find them very similar, but with hybrid yields. They'll outproduce the heirlooms 2-3x. The plants were loaded.
I just found a tomato called Cherokee Carbon I'm trying out this year. I've had no success with Cherokee purple tomatoes 2 years in a row so I'm hoping the Cherokee Carbon is a winner it's from Bonnie plants.
I really appreciate just how much you put into these videos. I nerd out on technicalities and fine details. You most definitely provide all of the essential information needed to execute fantastic growing practices and comprehend exactly what you're doing. Thanks for helping me take it to the next level.
Also, I just got a VDB fig tree! The brown turkey was all I knew and grew prior to discovering your channel.
I'm glad to hear it's helpful. It takes a ton of time resetting the camera dozens of times to take all the shots, then edit all those tiny clips together, so hearing how useful these videos are makes it all worth it. I'm also glad to hear that you got yourself a fig tree. Don't let it be your only new tree! Growing figs is the most addicting thing in the garden to me.
A very interesting type of tomato to grow that I never see people talking about is a Litchi Tomato! They are a type of cherry tomato that has a husk and is covered in thorns so harvest can be a pain without gloves but it was very fun to grow such a unique tomato, it even has two colors, red on the outside and yellow on the inside! Its been a few years and I only grew it one year so I can't say much about the taste but I remeber enjoying it!
Could be another video idea if you grow it this year! :)
They're also technically not tomatoes.
So many varieties. So I'm curious what you do with all those tomatoes? I also grow many different varieties but for the most part it's only me and my father eating them at home. The rest I take to work and share with my coworkers. I also freeze some but I can only use so many. I love the challenge of growing different varieties. I live in central FL where heat, humidity, dieseas and insects are a problem so I stick to the cherry varieties and small to mid size varieties. Plus I have to container garden cuz the soil here is crap. All of my tomatoes are grown in 5 gallon buckets. And I still have a fabulous yield. Some of my favorite that you mentioned are the super sweet 100 and the sun gold. I'm going to now try the chef's varieties which I haven't tried before but gonna now. I enjoy your content. Keep it coming.
Great information for serious 🍅 tomato gardening. I have had similar results for varieties you grow. Thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching! I appreciate it.
Grew "Super Sweet" last year. They were very prolofic and I used to take containers of them into work to share. My coworkers raved about them! Like candy they said. I wish I had kept some sseds.
I am in north Delaware and this year production is amazing especially the big beef!
Glad to hear it! Hopefully, we continue to get some dry weather behind this tropical storm. Thanks for watching!
Thanks, great video, good information. Dale is soooo patient! 😆😆
Thank you! Dale is only patient when he knows the appearance of being a Good Boy is going to lead to the immediate reward of a treat. Suddenly, he can win any staring contest. When he wants something and your back is to him, he will pester you in the sweetest, most annoying way possible. He will walk up to you, put his paw on you, if you don't acknowledge his paw, he will repeatedly tap you, then sit like a statue and stare. If you don't acknowledge him, he will leave the room, re-enter the room and begin the process all over again, as if exiting and re-entering the room creates some kind of time warp where you rewind time and you forget the first encounter ever happened. He has more personality than most people. It's unbelievable.
@@TheMillennialGardener Hahaha! Dale sounds like such a sweet guy! Nothing like such a sweet personality in your dog!
He’s the best person I have ever met. I’ve never met a human as kind, myself included. We could all learn a lot from Dale and other dogs like him.
I'm in Pa, BUT, lately we've been having short spring weather. In other words, it's spring for a few weeks and then BAM, it's freakin 80 and 90F out. We even had a few days of 100F or a 102F last summer. I want to grow mostly determinates this coming growing season.
That Abu Rawan looks good. Bella Rosa too. I have seen Celebrity around my area last year.
The rest of these I haven't seen before, nor do I know where I would even get them at.
I've had Super sweet, and they are good, and very productive. Cherokee Purple didn't do very well for me last year. I can only think my potting soil sucked bug time.
I grow tomatoes in 5-6 gallon plastic pots. I see how important phosphorus is to fruit set or growing, and pollinating by shaking the plants.
If I'm going to find any of the varieties you have here, besides the few I've seen and bought here, I'm going to have to go out of town to an actual nursery instead of the big box stores in my area where I usually get my tomato and pepper plants.
I see Cherokee Purple sucked for you too.
I'm growing sungolds this year! I am excited to try them. I'll have to try the super sweet 100.
Both are good, but in my opinion, Sun Gold are much better. They're larger, sweeter, tangier and equally productive. The Super Sweet's are good, but I may look into replacing them with a more acidic red tomato because I like a good acid bite.
I put FISH in the holes. I sprinkle powdered garden lime over fish then a little of dirt. Then plant the tomato. There is a huge difference! We freeze our scraps from cleaning fish. When It is time to plant we thaw and plant.
This is basically what fish emulsion is. If you want to make it more effective, you can puree it in a blender, but it'll be gross 😂
What are your soil mixtures? Are plants grown from seed? How deep should plants be planted?
Thanks. Suggestions for grape tomatoes?
Very informative. Thankyou so much. I will know more about what to plant next time.
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching!
I wish I had good pictures or video to show of my Brandywine Pink, Brandy-boy and Cherokee Purple tomatoes. They get huge and bushy with dozens of large fruit and are are what I plant to get massive yields for making lots of salsa. I have get more pounds of tomatoes from one pair of plants than what you showed in your whole video. I always thought the weather and longer growing season such as yours would be so much easier to grow big crops of tomatoes than what I have to work with in Montana.
Enjoyed the video. Love growing tomatoes!!
Thank you!
This makes me feel a lot better. This is my first year in a very long time trying to grow tomatoes (I have huge pots on my front porch) and I picked Cherokee Purple on a whim. They're doing awful and I thought I was doing something wrong. Sounds like though they're just not great producers. Next year I'll try a determinate variety.
From my experience, indeterminate varieties haven't done well in pots for me. They get too tall and it's hard to support them. The determinate tomatoes are shorter and might do better in a pot. We make our own tomato cages.
Wow just wow. Everything you had said about determinate tomatoes 🍅 I didn't know. Just the opposite. But you get more in long term. This year I'm growing more indeterminate . Thank you. I have to self educated myself on tomatoes. Lol. Funny thing I'm growing from seeds from Baker Creek Seeds ..
I'm glad the video was helpful. Definitely grow determinate tomatoes next year. They're the backbone of my garden. They are always reliable. Indeterminate tomatoes are hit-or-miss, and this year, I lost close to 1/3 of them to bacterial wilt. The determinates were rock-solid, always producing. They produce their crop quickly and are giving you food before the indeterminates roll out of bed.
@@TheMillennialGardenerlol rolling out of the bed. Now thats a first time I heard that. 😆 🤣 😂
Great Vid... I am definitely going to try a couple of the Varieties you suggest... I'm in South Florida and do all Container gardening, so some of these Determinates would work well for me..
Bella Rosa is really impressing me. We just got 5 inches of rain and the fruits are perfect. No cracking. I picked 3, but they need some time to finish ripening on the counter. I hope they taste good, but the fruit itself is impressive.
I always top my indeterminates so they can put energy into the fruits. Interesting vid, some varieties I’ll be sure to try. Thanks man.
That is a good practice in places with shorter growing seasons. If you have a longer growing season, topping them may quit production early. It's hit-or-miss, here, depending on disease pressure. Topping them requires proper timing, so the dryness of the season means everything in a climate like mine. Thanks for watching.
Try dwarf red profusion has lots of early tasty toms I have been picking since June so could easily sow some in April to overwinter in sunny place very tasty indeed a large cherry type by Thompson and Morgan very prolific !!
This might be the best tomatoe video yet. Well made. Im in central FL and looking forward to trying a few of these. I never really thought about it but determinate really do produce better. Thanks for making this video.
Thank you! Determinate tomatoes are often a better selection for Florida and other Southern zones. They are often more disease resistant, and flower better in heat. Some good varieties are Bella Rosa, Celebrity and Margherita VF.
@@TheMillennialGardener Awesome thank you for the tips! I started some Celebration Hybrid seeds a few days ago. Are they the same as celebrity? Thanks again!
I need to get White Tomesol. It’s supposed to be one of the very best tasting white tomatoes. After you saying how productive it is. A guy who grows a lot of varieties did a vid of his top 5 for taste and it was included. His favorite for taste is Black Krim which is also mine until I find one better.
I've never had a white tomato. From the description on websites, it says it's a mid-size, 8oz tomato with mild flavor. Given how productive it is, I should be able to have plenty of tasting opportunities. For an open pollinated tomato, the yields are absurd.
Thanks for listing the names of tomatoes. 😊