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Re: “How many varieties do you grow normally and what variety?”
There isn't any "normal" yet. I think I've narrowed my future crops down to four or five standard varieties, but I'll always mix things in just to keep it interesting.

I didn't do a garden this year, and the past two years were all about harvesting and renewing seeds. My heirloom pack is seven years old and many of its seeds have now gone bad.

The 2022 crop consisted of several of each of the following, ninety tomato plants in total:

• Purple Calabash
• Striped Stuffer
• Chocolate Stripes
• Ace 55
• Homestead 24
• San Marzano
• Marglobe Improved
• Roma (from the Heirlooms)
• Black Krim
• Beefsteak Red
• Honeycomb Hybrid
• Volunteer Red Cherry
• Roma (from a store vegetable)
• Kerry’s Tomato (A slice frozen since Sept 2017)
• Determinate Rutgers

All but "Kerry's Tomato" were successfully harvested and should be viable until 2028.

In 2021, I had something like 110 plants:

• Ace 55
• Azoychka
• Beefsteak Red
• Big Rainbow
• Black Krim
• Brandywine Red
• Cherokee Purple
• Chocolate Stripes
• Floradade
• Golden Jubilee
• Marion
• Purple Calabash
• Red Cherry Large
• Rutgers
• Striped Stuffer
• Tigerella
• A different large cherry tomato of unknown variety
• Yellow Pear and
• Burpee Honeycomb Hybrid

Like you, I was very impressed with Roma. The roma tomato bought from a grocery store was even more productive than the heirloom Roma seeds. For the reasons you mentioned, along with hardiness and length of season, I'll grow Romas every year from now on.








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Gold is $1,581/oz today. When it hits $2,000, it will be up 26.5%. Let's see how long that takes. - De 3/11/2013 - ANSWER: 7 Years, 5 Months


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By: micro
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Mon, 18 Sep 23 4:55 PM
Msg. 45897 of 60008

I am over run with Roma tomatoes. We learned a lesson though. Plant another variety and only a couple Roma plants. Better boys or Big boys come to mind. Those are real tomatoes. imo... But these plants were free and from the seeds from last years plants and they are going crazy in the ground on the side of the house.

At least we didn't kill them as I have the black thumb of death for most things I plant.. Maybe I am breaking the curse finally.

How many varieties do you grow normally and what variety?


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