They have exceeded my wildest expectations. Next year I'll use a 6 ft trellis.

With giant macaroni and Cajun bell peppers and Mexican Cucumbers/gherkin .

was listed in a seed catalog - I got the seed in 1990, grew and named and saved seed from it, sent it to Southern Exposure Seed Exchange (my friend Jeff McCormack ran it) - he first listed it in his 1993 catalog! I am astounded at how popular it has become.

Below is the listing from the 1994 catalog (I misplaced the 1993, sadly!)

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Indeterminate (21)

Dester
Lucky Cross
Ferris Wheel
Cherokee Green
Brandywine
Cherokee Purple
Cherokee Chocolate
Lillian's Yellow Heirloom
Sun Gold (2)
Speckled Roman
Egg Yolk
OTV Brandywine
Polish
Nepal
Red Brandywine
Mexico Midget (3)
Mimi's Heirloom (family heirloom shared with me at a local event)
Cutler Heirloom (local heirloom shared with me at the Oakland County event)

Released dwarfs from our project (13)

Rosella Purple
Dwarf Blazing Beauty
Dwarf Firebird Sweet
Dwarf Golden Gypsy
Chocolate Lightning
Dwarf Beryl Beauty
Tanunda Red
TastyWine
Rosella Crimson
Uluru Ochre
Tennessee Suited
Dwarf Sweet Sue (2)


36 experimental plants from our dwarf breeding project (some with anthocyanin fruit, some with variegated foliage)

18 experimental plants from our microdwarf breeding project (aim is to improve on Red Robin)

So, around 88 plants total (though the number is still a bit fluid as I add this or replace that).

A smaller effort for me this year! But it is still a pretty big R&D garden

BTW in a community garden project .... produce to charity

I have

San Marzano

Cherokee Purple

Better Boy some people like their tomatoes to look like tomatoes ...... BTW the better boy is
a good producer too.

and sun golds to eat when I am working there.

I also have red skins and kennebeck potatoes, onions,
red chilies, and jalapeno peppers

A variety called Sun Sugar planted in an ornamental obelisk in the front garden. It’s sweet, orange, and about the size of a golf ball.

cherokee green and purple
lillians yellow
red plum
sorrent
a black plum from a friend
and a big yellow that had a name when craig gave it to me 6 years ago, but i forgot it, so i just call it moah's yellow.

dwarfs

adelaide festival
barossa
brandy fred
tazmanian chocolate
summertime green
and a black from a friend.

2018 list:

Cherokee Purple

Black and Brown Boar (been producing for a week now...a favorite last year too)

Pink Boar (already producing beautiful plum sized guys...yum )

Pork Chop (lots of green ones taking their time to turn yellow)

Black Sea Man (I know!)

Lizzano (been producing for a month...tons of little red guys with good flavor)

HoneyBee (2018 surprise so far...profusion of balanced, cherry sized yellows just keep coming and coming on small ish plant)

Madame Marmande

Summer of Love (can't wait!)

Clementine (been producing for couple of weeks...so reliable and easy)

Black Krim (just picked the first 3)

Japanese Black Trifele (huge plant, loaded. will have the first ripe one tonight)

Frosted Green Doctor's (don't look delicious but they are!)

Pink Berkeley Tie Dye (gotten several already...smokey, salty)


Have planted a second round from cuttings off some of the young plants of the first round and given away several. On my third planting of Summer of Love, which was awesome last year.

Most in pots, about a quarter in the ground. Knock on wood...all doing great. So far so good. Had to quarantine one that looked suspicious but it's doing fine...but still not allowed to play near others

So fun!

Dwarf Tomato Breeding project releases:

2 Wherokowhai
1 Dwarf Crimson Sockeye
1 Adelaide Festival


Regular types:

5 Brandywine Pink (Sudduths/Quisenberry)
4 Stump of the World
5 Black Cherry
2 Pink Wonder (F1)
2 German Pink
1 Rose
1 Black Krim
1 Black Beauty
1 Mortgage Lifter