Tomatoes – 2024

Sow And Grow With Kare

Tomatoes – Reveiw

Tomatoes – 2019-2020-2021

Tomatoes – 2022-2023

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Varieties

Celebrity
Sungold
Candyland
Ildi
Delicious

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2024 Update

Last season (2023) I let some of the tomatoes rot in the pots that they were planted in hoping for volunteers to come from them. It is way to early to tell what will come as we just had a little bit of snow and there is more bad weather on the horizon. So until the weather flies right, we will have no tomatoes before it is time.

Meanwhile, we can review our previous notes from last year and years before that are posted above and stay warm!

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March- Updates

March 23, 2024 – I decided to get some tomato seed for a large variety. I settled on 2 pals of Celebrity. I have always had decent luck with them,have not decided which kind yet. Hopefully in a day or so I will make that decision. So this large variety and the two cherry tomatoes of unknown heritage should do it.

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Tomato – Celebrity

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Cherry Tomato – Sungold (Orange)

*One of the sweetest, tastiest and brilliantly colored cherry tomatoes we’ve found! This cherry-type hybrid tomato adds super sweet, juicy flavor and color to summer salads. Sungold Hybrid Tomato has an exceptionally high sugar content and produces loads of ½ in. fruits that are perfect for salads and snacking. An indeterminate, it continues to grow and produce fruit up until frost. Plants exhibit resistance to fusarium wilt race I and tobacco mosaic virus. Seeds can be planted indoors about 6-8 weeks before transplanting outdoors in the garden. Plant outdoors after any chance of frost is passed. Disease Resistance: F TMV. 65 DAYS.

Gurny’s Sungold

Plant Data

Botanical Name: Lycopersicon lycopericum ‘Sungold’
Height: 4 -6 feet
Spacing:24 – 36 inches.
Depth:Plant seeds 1/4 inch deep. For plants, plant them deeper than in the pot. Plant them just below the first set of leaves.
Spread:3 feet
Light Required:Full Sun
Pollinator:Self pollination.
Size: 20 Seed Pkt
Fruit: Exceptionally sweet, bright tangerine-orange cherry tomatoes about 1/2 ounce each. Vibrant color and outstanding flavor.
Days To Maturity: 65 Days
Zone: 3-9

Germination: 8 – 10 Days
Form: Vegetable, fruit, cherry tomato, indeterminate
Flower Form: Small yellow flowers.
Soil Requirements: Rich, deep, well-drained soil. pH 5.5 – 6.8
Growth Rate: Moderate growth rate.
Seed Count: Approximately 20 seeds per packet.
Pruning: Prune by cutting out suckers (auxillary shoots between the stems and the leaves) to produce larger fruit. Fruit also ripens earlier since the sun can reach it more easily.
Foliage: Medium green foliage.

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Cherry Tomato – Candyland Red

*Dark red fruits deliver a flavor so rich and sweet, you’ll be eating them straight from the garden. Smaller than cherry-types, Candyland Red Tomato is a currant-type that’s the ideal size for snacking and salads. Each bite-sized fruit delivers an explosion of flavor! The only currant-type tomato All-America Selections winner, Candyland’s fruits form in clusters on the outside of the plant making it easy to harvest. The compact, manageable plants produce high yields-so you can enjoy sweet snacks for weeks, sometimes months. Indeterminate. 55-65 DAYS.

Gurny’s Candyland

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Plant Data

Botanical Name: Solanum lycopersicum ‘Candyland Red’
Height: 72 – 96
Spacing:Plant 18-24 inches apart in rows 3-5 feet apart.
Depth:1/4 inch deep.
Spread:3 feet
Light Required:Full Sun
Pollinator:self-pollinating
Color: Yellow flowers.
Size: 20 Seed Packet
Blooms: Early Summer, Mid Summer, Late Summer, All Summer
Fruit: Sweet, dark red fruit, bite sized
Days To Maturity: 55 – 65 days
Zone: 4-8

Germination: 6 – 10 days
Form: Vegetable, tomato
Flower Form: Small flowers.
Growth Rate: Moderate growth rate.
Foliage: Green foliage.

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Update

5-28-24 – we acquired a few tomato plants today.

5-28-24 – Tomato “Ildi”

5-28-24 – DELICIOUS

5-28-24 – celebrity tomatoes – 2 paks of 4@

5-28-24 – Celebrity – 2 paks of 8

5-28-24 – Celebrity – 2 paks of 8

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Celebrity

5-29-24 – still need to plant the celebrity tomatoes in this tray.

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Delicious

5-30-24 – Planting Poppa’s tomato called “Delicious”

5-30-24 – a tomato called “Delicious”that Poppa picked out.

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Celebrity

5-30-24 – Celebrity tomatoes in the hoop trellis

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Ildi

5-30-24 – A tomato called Ildi that we have not tried before. It is a white-yellow fruit.

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Tomatoes, watermelons and pumpkins

5-30-24 – tomato on the far side, the pots in the middle are for the watermelons and pumpkins. there are 4 sugar melons, 2 pie pumpkins and 4 crimson watermelons

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6-05-24

The tomato called delicious is sporting flowers

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6-7-24

Bellini Tomato – A Proven Winner Brand

Bellini

USDA Hardiness Zones: 10 – 11

Plant Type: Annual

Light Exposure: Full Sun (6+ Hours Direct Sunlight)

Mature Height: 30 – 42 Inches

Mature Spread: 24 – 30 Inches

Mature Spacing: 24 – 30 Inches

Habit: Mounded

Flower Color(s): Yellow

Flower Description: Yellow – not grown for flowers

Bloom Period: Summer, Spring

Foliage Type: Herbaceous

Foliage Color(s): Green

Foliage Description: Deep Green

Seasonal Interest: Spring Flowering, Summer Flowering

Watering: Consistent

Resists: Disease

Tolerates: Heat

Attracts: Birds

Container Role: Thriller

Uses: Borders, Containers, Mass Planting

Features: Attracts Pollinators, Low Maintenance

Brand: Proven Winners

Common Name: Tempting Tomatoes® Bellini Cocktail Tomato

Other Name(s): N/A

Scientific Name: Solanum lycopersicum

6-7-24 _ I acquired a tomato called Bellini. It is a cocktail tomato that is orangish in color at maturity

6-7-24 – Bellini location east (left) of Park’s Whopper on trellis garden south side and south of the cabbage

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Parks Whopper

Genus	Lycopersicon
Species	esculentum
Variety	Park’s Whopper Cr Improved, VF1F2NT Hybrid
Product Classification	Seeds, Vegetables
Tomato Fruit Set	Indeterminate
Sun / Shade	Full Sun
Habit	Vining
Days To Maturity	65.00
Resistance	Disease Resistant, Fusarium Wilt Race 1, Root-Knot Nematodes, Verticillium Wilt
Characteristics	Edible
Uses	Beds, Containers, Cuisine, Outdoor