The Crafty Cultivator

This year, I have done something that I haven’t done for a few years…

I only started ONE of a couple varieties. One. Because last year, I had too many tomatoes, and not enough room for other things. So this will be the first year in a while that I won’t be completely overwhelmed with tomatoes in the fall.

Without much more blabbering on, here are the varieties I have went with this year:

• Silvery Fir Tree
  • Determinant
  • 55-60 Days
  • 1 peat pellet sowed
• Czech’s Bush
  • Determinant
  • 75-85 days
  • 1 peat pellet sowed
• Tasmanian Chocolate
  • Determinant
  • 80-85 days
  • 2 peat pellets sowed
• Old German
  • Indeterminate
  • 80 days
  • Potato Leaf
  • 1 peat pellet sowed
• Marvel Stripe
  • Indeterminate
  • 80 days
  • 1 peat pellet sowed
• Green Zebra
  • Indeterminate
  • 75 days
  • F1 Hybrid
  • 1 peat pellet sowed
• Oxheart
  • Indeterminate
  • 80-90 days
  • 2 peat pellets sowed
• Black Cherry
  • Indeterminate
  • 65 days
  • From my own saved seed, but I linked to the West Coast Seeds Page if you are looking for the seed, or more info on it. It is one of my favourite and well producing tomatoes.
  • 2 peat pellets sowed
• Cherokee Purple
  • Indeterminate
  • 80-90 days
  • From my own saved seed. Another favourite that I plant year after year
  • 1 peat pellet sowed
• Tiny Tim (I haven’t started these just yet, but will around April 1)
  • Dwarf Determinant
  • From my own saved seed, but I linked to the Wildrose Heritage Seeds Page if you are looking for the seed, or more info on it. It is one of my favourite and well producing little cherry tomatoes. The tops of the plant is always so covered in tomatoes that without a little support it can bend over to the ground and snap the stem.

With the exception of the Tiny Tim, I sowed the above on March 15. There is always the possibility that I start a few other early season varieties as well, but for now, I am still determined to not be over-tomatoed this year.

I’m going to do my very best to try and document the whole summer of growing. I know I have been diligent early in the year documenting what I will be growing but a terrible job of actually documenting them growing. My instagram is probably the best for more up to date photos of what is going on. @thecraftycultivator