Tomato keepers, still producing.

Shedra slivka, Pink- mine, mix of pastes- Idaho Hillibilly, Pirkstine Orange, Khirkiv, Shedra Slivka,

2 large Gloria and Yellow Clusters

Keepers list at the end of the year

Compilation of few years

Beef
Biyskaya Rosa-early, productive, tasty
Sakharnyi pudovichok- early productive, still hoping to discover real one 
Russian 117 does well even under not so good conditions
Grightmire pride- great heart
Dana Dusky Rose- yummy dark
Malakhitovaya Shkatulka- one of very few GWR I like
Rozovyi Gigant- large, productive
Orange strawberry- oh my, what it does to sauces
Medvezhia Lapa- one of those ole USSR beefs
Mikado Rozovyi- seriously good
Nicolas Doochov- your typical old fashioned tomato, round red with deep taste. Probably gets bigger in the better year.
Mikhalych- must have for most gardens. Winner
Olena Ukrainian- late, but just love taste
Nikolaevna- same, bit on a late side but what a taste to look forward to
Marianne Peace- one of my very very favorites
Muddy Mamba- this year treasure
Black Magic- you are going to love this one. Good disease tolerance too
Guido- LARGE RED. LOTS. Tasty.
Russian Bogatyr- it is midseason and workhorse. One of those people traditionally think as ole Russian tomato
Novikov Giant- not a giant for me but very productive with great taste
Kukla Portuguese beefsteak- great producer, vigorous, your typical red beef. Gotta have something reliable.
George Detsikas- productive early red
Terhune- worth for taste alone
Shirley S- same, divine taste
Orlov Yellow- my few yellow loves, sharper taste, earlier than Brandywine Yellow. Would say AGG for northern growers
Yellow Clusters- new tomato, code name. Keeper. Very uniform large yellow beefs Excellent producer, good resistance to leaf diseases
" pink"- no name yet- early, lovely pink with childhood memories taste
Tsarskiy Lybimets- large midseason beef. Can't have enough of those
Sereginy- totally worth growing. Great find from Tania
Ukrainka- bit on a late side but LARGE barrel looking or hearts. Excellent taste
Gypsy- smaller than I like but great taste
Black Yum Yum- excellent dark and lots
Missuri Pink Love Apple- does well here and great taste
Indian stripe... nuff said
Purple 1884- workhorse and tasty black
Noire Charbonneuse- seems to be best for me. Forget Black Krim.
Crnkovic Yugoslavian- must have.
Galina Red- must have- large red and sweet, what else anyone wants?
Koroleva- superb taste and productive
Breeding efforts from buddy, Jan- code name Jan- I keep thinking it is Brandywine. Well it is that good.
Morgage Lifter Estlers- late but worth the wait.
Maya and Sion- early and plenty. Goes well into fall too. So planting one early and one bit later gets you covered for whole season.
Milka Red Bulgarian- large, red, distinct and good producer
Raspberry Giant- has everything- taste, size, productivity- does very well here year from year
Stump of the world. Just one of the staples.
Earl Faux- again, gotta have.
Sakharnyi Slon- Sugary Elephant, it is sugary

heart
Gloria- sheesh, it is still producing. Superb.
Sensay- early delish heart
Tsar Kolokol- one of my faves
Alice- love hearts
Bychye Sertse Rozovoe- there are many of them... aka strains, tomato of my childhood
Em Champion- ole USSR gig
Mayo delight- it is not late for me- YAY, and superb varieity
Kermit- early productive heart, what else do you want?
Dagestanskiy- lots of hearts, unusual for heart varieites.
Serbian oxheart- same, lots and lots. Excellent taste for both
Monomakh hat- yummy heart, does well even in shadier spot
Kosovo- one of all times fav hearts.
Hungarian Heart- one of all time favs
Mama Alla- early heart and plenty, does well even in shadier spot. Keeper. Named by Tania after her mom


paste,salad, container, cherry
Klein Early- delish early round.
Khirkiv- large plums? barrels? Pretty juicy to be paste but what a divine taste.
Japanese truffles black- seems do well year after year
Purple Russian- love darks
Altajskij Urozajnii- am hoping this one gets more popular, taste is superb!!!
Pirkstine orange- good for salads and great for sauces. Early and plenty
Chernomor- keeper
Shedra Slivka Tarasenko- oh my, it is generous indeed, translated Generous Plum from Tarasenko. Great taste to eat and dry enough for cooking
Pravda- Truth tranlated. Small but mighty. Productive, excellent distinct taste
Hssiao His Hung shin- yellow plum and one plant is PLENTY
Lagidniy- container plum
Perth Pride- dark and tasty
Jaune Flammee- gotta have some sharp taste
Kimberley- goes on and on and on... early and tasty
Matina- lovely early round tomato
Moravskiy Div- early container, winner
Burshtyn- less spice than Jaune Flammee but distinct taste. Yum.
Beliy Naliv- it is your typical winner- compact, early, productive and goes on for long time. Plenty acidic old fashion taste
Blush- just love for eating and salads
Kazachka- great for eating and nice touch to juices and sauces
Dwarf Wild Fred- one of favs
black plum- must have for every garden
0-33- early, tough to kill, fills the spot when you really really want that darn tomato. Acidic
Idaho hillibilly- excellent paste.
Kiss the sky- larger that Black Cherry and arguably better.
Isis candy- love sweet tomatoes
Blue P20- maybe it is a strain but year from year bunch of my friends looking forward to it.
Russian Queen- have been asked multiple times to grow it again. Workhorse
Medovaya Kaplya- one of my favorite yellow pear type
VB RUssia- loved loved taste of it.
Fiolotoviy Krugliy- did very well, very productive and a bit dark. Winner

Harvest. God tomatoes in a bad year

Here is some of my report. Year was bad for varied reasons, including soil problems at community gardens, very cold and rainy weather, blossom drops, stunted growth... so am unable to evaluate all my new varieties but some did really well. Am thinking it counts. Tomato Pravda, seed from Doublehelix farms. Small plant up to 2 ft, det, oval red, early, saladette size. Very productive and not fussy. Taste sharp on acidic side but still sweet enough to count. Juicy. Black plum- from Casey's. Should be in everyone's garden. Sweet, dark, lots. Guido- workhorse. Loaded, large red beefs. Did very well with disease pressure. More acidic than sweet, juicy beef. Keeper. Seed from Ukraine, only description I got " Yellow clusters" There are no clusters. Large big yellow orange beefs. Plants stood well all the weather/ soil troubles, Taste is middle ground- not too this or that but it is first yellow I decidedly like and can eat a lot. Not too juicy. Plant still standing almost pristine amid all fungal trouble. Pink- same story. Early, large on a sweet side. First ones cracked badly but then we had tons of rain. Still producing well, no more cracks. Pastes Shedra Slivka Tarasenka from Tania- loaded paste. Probably just a bit on juicy side but tasty. Plant does very well with trusses of tasty plums. Keeper. Even in shady place it still trying to do its job. Idaho hillibilly- loaded paste midseason firm, dry. Pirkstine Orange- another loaded paste/ elongated plum with sweetish taste. Good enough to eat but does wonders with the sauce. I got seed from Canada but original seed from Latvia. Khirkiv- looks like paste- small oval barrels but is too juicy to go that route. YUMMY! Loaded trusses and one of the few plants that still setting new flowers. Serbian oxheart- bigger than golfball sized and there are tons of it. Juicy. Midseason. Dagestanskiy- read above. Loaded. Terhune- keeper for the taste alone but production is great considering all blossom drops issues I had. Got from MMM swap. Pink Shirley S- from Tania- see above. Even my daughter who likes only darks, ate it and loved it. I got PL correct variant. Birjinesekutsky- mouthful of the name, from city in Siberia. Large red. Excellent taste. Great production. Just right size and taste for a slicer. Dana Dusky Rose- from Heritage. Keeper. Dark, productive, midseason. Plant did well. George Detsikas- Newer not yet well known. Large red with green shoulders. EARLY for such size and production. Taste more on acidic side, productive. Hearts GLORIA- OMG, this is one heck of a hearts although more fruits are rather round. Large, early and taste great and there are PLENTY. Seed from Tania. Sensay- early, large and taste great. Seed from MMM swap. Probably first heart together with Mama Alla- seed from Tania, named after Tania's mom- early, large and taste wonderful. Gloria and Yellow clusters [IMG][/IMG] Khirkiv [IMG][/IMG] Black plum [IMG][/IMG] Shedra Sliva Tarasenka [IMG][/IMG] Pirkstine Orange [IMG][/IMG] Idaho Hillibilly [IMG][/IMG] Idaho hillibilly, Khirkiv, Pirkstine Orange and Shedra Sliva [IMG][/IMG] Black Magic [IMG][/IMG] Adamovo Yabloko, which is not Adamovo Yabloko but is tasty and very pretty [IMG][/IMG] [IMG][/IMG] Yellow Clusters, which is pretty uniform in size [IMG][/IMG] Mama Alla [IMG][/IMG] Pink, the very early ones, later ones no cracking at all. Sweet. [IMG][/IMG]

First cucumber and zuccini

Have had our first zukes for about a week now.
 Today first couple of cukes came in. So far only Kimberley doing ripe tomatoes...
 but at least blossom drop seems to be better, more greenies on the vine

Disease pressure

First blush on Kimberley, probably another couple of days to fully ripe but yeah, we made it in June!

 Finally corrected my off green color at veggie gardens with lots of Chickity Doo Doo which looks like chicken poop when wet and stinks to high heaven.

 Disease pressure is horrible at veggie gardens, some gardeners just started, there will be nothing left on the plant if they remove all septoria leaves, those pics of my neighbors lots...

June 19 near the house

Doing pretty good. I think Kimberley will be ready by beg of July. Turned pot around so more sun goes to it. 0-33 is impressive with small beefs. Kibitz looks all roma.

What is doing good

Potatoes are blooming. Cukes and zukes are under insect cover and doing great too.
Tomatoes- hmm, inground early ones are so so. It is down to 55 today again. I think they just do not get a chance. Peppers are recovering, put them under insect cover as it does have some heat properties.
Those in containers on south side are fabulous. Kimberley and 0-33 are fantastic.

Remodeling

So I have removed today most of  bags from flower. Lots of blossom drop which is usually very low for me. Hmm, Am going to see if tulle holds better than wedding bags.
 Several green tomatoes noted.
 Removed landscape fabric, added unfinished compost and applied straw to the top for 2 beds. Removed nearly all WOW.
Applied Texas tomato food, mild spray with fish/kelp and chickity doo handfuls  of compost. to peppers, zukes, cukes and tomatoes. It appear my soil was not as high in nitrogen as I thought.
Some potatoes getting ready to bloom.

First green tomato of the season

And of course winner is Kimberley. So to speak as they not were grown side by side.
Of course disaster has struck and I failed- alchemy is not very forgiving
Am thinking humic acid messed up sea minerals which I should have not used on seedlings.
Anyway here is our potatoes and tomatoes. Doing very well.

Will update pics in new blod just wanted to save that first two green tomatoes, today May 23

Peppers went in

Day for planting was horrible- 82 F, sunny and very windy. But day off is day off and had to go. Weekend is busy. So peppers went it. Moved all tomatoes outside even that was windy let it harden...
 I think this was first year I had some sun scald on tomatoes... actually today water inside of WOW was VERY warm...
 Finished last row of tomatoes covered with floating row covers.
 First potato tops are showing.
Lettuce and spinach look great.
 Attempted to put baggies for the buds- sheesh they do not stay in...

what is 2/3

Well, 2/3 of  my total tomatoes  planted into WOW... or as many as I have now. Tested temps of the soil in the WOW 55-60 F which is pretty good so am roots should be happy.
Planted potatoes today- sheesh did not have enough for whole bed... got few fingerlings- Russian banana, French and Rose Finn Apple.
 Hmm, I might have to go buy some from Whole Foods or Trader Joe just to finish the bed.
This year am trying application of black  landscape fabric with floating row cover on top of it. FRC should give couple more degrees of warmth to the soil.
 New trick is also watering with warm water. Yes, it does mean I have to bring buckets with me in the car every time I go to the garden but so far it has been worth it.

Warm weather au?

Planted 40 tomatoes into WOW by now but am waiting for couple more days, temps are just no good.

Good news I transplanted all tomatoes out of seedling trays and have only 5 trays or pepper/eggplants...

bad news some of tomatoes are looking like they going to need to be potted up again...

started seeing some buds forming...

Warm weather where are you?????

 Oh yeah and zukes and cukes have germinated. You going to love new cukes piccolo di parigi!

First buds set

My seedlings have not been coddled this spring... It has been cold, hoophouse, enclosed unheated porch and all that. Out of close to 80 varieties started Red Ruffles from J and L gardens and Pearly Pink Orange from Tania have first flower sets.
Some others are looking like they about start setting buds but there two are sure winners. 
Have not grown either one of them... looking forward, always fun to see which tomatoes are going to have early fruit set.
http://jandlgardens.com/catalog/index.php?main_page=popup_image&pID=313

http://tatianastomatobase.com/wiki/Pearly_Pink_Orange

More tomatoes

Added some more to total 41 and set up another 15 EZ wall protectors.
Hoping to plant rest of 20 tomorrow and get a start on potatoes planting. I have fleece cover to add to the top.
In the meantime garden near the house

Planted

3 tomatoes are planted into Windowsill on south side of the house and covered with poly.
 Started up my WOW on April 21 and planted 17 tomatoes there, added 11 today. This morning after promised 35 F found that we were at least 31 near the house and far lower at the garden as ice started forming on tops of WOW. Plants seems to be fine, got watered with warm water.
Not sure  what temps is soil, might need to invest into thermometer.
Debating whether to plant out other  20 or so tomatoes. Update- did 11.
Lettuce seedlings were frozen too, got drink of warm fishy water as well.
 Yesterday was very overcast day so no sun helped to warm soil or WOW.
Today is different day.
 So blessed for ability to garden!

Yellow 6-

Zolotoy zapas                         planted

Orlov Yelllow                        planted

Pirkstine orange                     planted

Zolotoe Serdse det orange heart

Yellow clusters

Little Lucky  no grow 

Container , small or dwarf 22

Kiss the sky ind tall

Romeo ind tall

Wherokowhai dwarf bicolor

Boronia dwarf

Danko 2ft det

Pearly Pink Orange cherry small container, hanging

Beliy Naliv det / semi 2 ft

Burshtyn early, productive, ind

Dwarf Arctic Rose-dwarf

Kimberley- early, container, 3 ft, branching +

0-33 container, det, early Saraev +

Krainiy Sever, det 2 ft early +

Kibitz early

Mano-2 ft, compact, acidic

Sugar Plum Raspberry

Beliy Naliv-2 ft

Kazachka ind, mid dark

Black Plum mid, ind

Fioletovyi Krugliy ind

Marmeladnye Krasnye cont dwarf early

Apricosa early ind

Bubjekosoko ind red cherry

Chernomor - compact early

Sweet Olive

PASTE 5

Idaho hillibilly

Chilikskie

Sabelka

L'espagnol Lefebvres

Shedra Sliva Tarasenka

 RED 10

Guido                                     planted

Budenovka Red

Adamovo apple                      planted

Kukla's Portuguese Beefsteak tomato

Birjnesekutsky                         planted

Red Ruffles                             planted

Russian Soul                           planted

Tsesarevich

George Detsikas Red

Grosse Serge

PLUM 5

VB RUssia

Ukrainka

Large Plum Romania

Khirkiv

Volovie Ukho

HEARTS 16

Kelli's heart

Serbian oxheart                   planted

Mom's heart

Dagestanskiy

Donskoi

Russian 117- no grow

Gloria

Volovsko Srce

Worlford Wonder                  planted

Bychok                                  planted

Mama Alla

Sen Say

Pink Flamingo                        planted

Fish Lake oxheart

Mrs Shlaubaugh's Famous strawberry

Litvuanian Crested Pink

BEEF 22

Klein Early                                  planted

Amana Pink                                planted

Tsarskiy Podarok- sweet, maybe bicolor?

Our own pink

Shirley S                                      planted

Caspian Pink                               planted

Yaponskiy krab                            planted

Noire Charbonneuse                    planted 

Dana's Dusky Rose

Grosse Verte Rose                       planted

Russian Bogatyr

Indische Fleisch

Black Magic                                   planted

Brandyboy

Chocolate early                              planted

Nicholas Doochov

Novikov Giant 10                            planted

Pravda

Gregori Altai

Pink                                                  planted

Atlasniy Ranniy                                planted

Daniel Burson

Margaret Curtain                                planted

Sakharnyi Slon

Dester

Rebel Yell

More flowers home garden

Garden is such a joy!

Spring full blast

In the meantime near the house, love my riot of colors, small bulbs, species tulips, daffodils are starting the show. Two weeks of landscape fabric and decent weather took care of the soil- it feels nice and warm. Community gardens still do not have water... duh... so have to drive to water my seeds- lettuce, spinach, beets, carrots, kale, broccoli, onions are all in.