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How to Choose the Best Tomato Seeds for Your Garden

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With such a large amount of tomato varieties to choose from, selecting the best choices for your garden can be a daunting challenge. You can select from many different colors: pink, red, yellow, orange, purple/black, blue, bi-colored, and other colors like white, green, and even brown.

Are you growing in containers or in the garden, or both? And how many containers, and how large is your garden that offers space for how many tomato plants?

Once you determine how many plants you want for your containers and/or garden then you can look at other criteria for your selection:

1. Growth Style: Size and productivity of the plant. What plant growth style suits your needs.

• Determinate varieties are short, generally 2-3 feet. All the fruit matures at the same time. These varieties are best for container planting and cooler/coastal areas, or even desert areas, or high altitude regions, where adverse weather conditions invite you to harvest your tomatoes in a shorter period of time before oncoming and less desirable cold or heat may be upon you.
• Indeterminate varieties usually provide you the most fruit. These plants will continue to grow, flower and provide fruit throughout the season until frost. Most of your largest fruiting varieties and most of the tomato varieties available are indeterminate. Unlike the determinate varieties, the indeterminate varieties will need support with by staking or caging your plants. These varieties are best suited if you have a longer growing season to produce larger plants with larger-sized fruit.

2. Days to maturity of fruit:

• Early-Season varieties (less than 55 days-69 days) are most suited to your selection if you happen to be located in a region that has shorter growing seasons. (Cooler/coastal, hi-altitude and desert regions.)
• Mid-Season varieties (70-84 days) may be most suitable if you are in a region that gets too hot toward the end of summer when hotter conditions encourage flower drop and discourage fruit set.
• Late-Season varieties (85 days or more) where you have ideal warm conditions with sufficient sun that will allow for growing larger plants and harvesting larger fruit until frost.

3. Purpose of Harvest: Will you be growing tomatoes for snacking and salads (which may require some cherry or smaller fruited varieties), for canning or salads (which may require smaller - medium sized fruits, making sauces (which may beg for meatier paste tomatoes, or bigger-fruited varieties for sandwiches, salads or other favorite culinary delights. I suggest including within your total plant count: a selection of different colored cherry varieties, different shapes and colors of medium to larger-sized varieties, and at least one paste tomato variety. This will assure you of having a harvest of distinctive flavors along with a beautiful display of colors and shapes to entertain your family and friends.

4. Open-pollinated, Heirloom tomatoes or Hybrid: There are three different kinds of tomato varieties: Open pollinated/non-heirloom, open-pollinated heirloom and hybrid.

• Open-pollinated varieties (also referred to as non-hybrids) are produced from the seeds of the same variety year after year. The seeds saved from the fruit of an open-pollinated variety will produce identical fruit to the parent. Each of the thousands of open-pollinated varieties may be sustained, unchanged, for hundreds of years.
• Heirloom tomatoes (aka heritage tomatoes) often have valued characteristics (taste/texture/family history). All heirloom tomatoes are open-pollinated but not all open-pollinated are heirloom tomatoes. In the world of heirloom tomatoes there are basically two categories, commercial heirlooms and family heirlooms. Commercial heirlooms are varieties developed or sold by commercial seed companies for the marketplace prior to the s. Family heirlooms are tomato varieties whose seeds have been passed down through a family for generations.
• Hybrid tomatoes are produced by cross-breeding a male flower of one pure and distinct variety with a female of another pure and distinct variety. This can produce a plant that exhibits the best qualities of both parents and expresses more favorable characteristics of either parent. The most admirable characteristics of hybrids are: they are often created to resist specific diseases, they are often bred for having thicker skins to withstand the rigors of shipping and longer shelf-life, they are often bred for producing a more abundant and concentrated fruit production. Hybrid varieties may lack the abundance of flavors offered in open-pollinated and heirloom varieties. And hybrids do not offer you the option of seed-saving since seeds from these fruits will not produce the same fruit as their parents.

Gary Ibsen - TomatoFest.com

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Although the snow is blowing, and the cold is biting, it is not too early to plan your summer tomato harvest. Recall plant performance from the prior year, review current catalog offerings, and seek out reviews from fellow gardeners. Select cultivars you'll enjoy this summer, both for eating fresh or preserving.

Tomatoes are heat loving&#;not only should they not be planted in the garden until after danger of frost, it is best to wait until the soil temperature is warm. Memorial Day is the perfect time to plant tomatoes in much of Pennsylvania. If you plant too early, tomatoes will languish in the cold and may die during an unexpected frosty night.

Two choices are available for home gardeners&#;purchasing the seedlings from a reliable nursery or starting them from seeds (more choices). Plant seeds approximately 5 to 7 weeks before your plant-out date, which would be from early to mid-April. At planting, the seedlings should be short and sturdy. They must be gradually acclimated to the sunny outdoors, a weeklong process called hardening-off. Starting seeds too early can result in leggy plants.

With literally thousands of existing cultivars, how do you choose? Consider the characteristics of the cultivar and how they intersect with your personal wants and needs.

Growth Habit

A tomato plant can either be determinate or indeterminate. Determinate cultivars grow to a pre-determined height, flower and produce fruit within a more narrowly defined timeframe. They are more compact, and some can be grown in a large container. If you are limited in space or want your tomatoes to ripen at the same time for canning, determinate cultivars may be for you. Indeterminate cultivars continue to grow and produce tomatoes through early fall. Some can reach eight to ten feet and they must be staked or caged for support. They are perfect for fresh eating over a longer period of time.

Days to Maturity

The time from planting outdoors until your first ripe tomato is another consideration. 'Early Girl' will provide ripe fruit at 50 days whereas you will have to wait 80 days for a 'Beefmaster' tomato.

Disease Resistance

Consider this parameter if you do not want to spray pesticides or fungicides. Look for the letters indicating the plant's resistance: V (Verticillium wilt), F (Fusarium wilt), N (nematodes), T (tobacco mosaic virus), ASC (Alternaria stem canker), and L (Septoria leaf spot). Practice good cultural practices to help reduce disease: water the soil not the foliage and adhere to proper spacing. Rotating the planting location of tomatoes can also reduce the incidence of disease.

Hybrid or Heirloom

The bulk of commercially available tomatoes are hybrids, created by crossing two different parents, resulting in preferred traits from each. Hybrids demonstrate increased vigor along with good flavor and disease resistance.

Heirlooms are old cultivars that come true from seed, meaning that the plants and fruits are unchanged for generations. Heirloom cultivars may have unique flavor or color prized by cultures and communities. Heirloom 'Brandywine', a large great-tasting tomato, is but one example.

Heirlooms can be hybridized. 'Brandy Boy' is more productive and disease resistant than its parent 'Brandywine', with nearly identical flavor.

Use

Personal use dictates choice. Cherry tomatoes are wonderful for munching and adding to salads. Slicing cultivars are great for sandwiches. If you want to preserve your summer bounty, slicing cultivars are wonderful for making juice as well as crushed and whole tomato products. Paste (Roma) tomatoes are meatier and thus preferred for sauces and ketchup.

Available Space

I always succumb to the bad idea of &#;squeezing-in" one or two more plants each year. Good spacing actually allows for better production and diminishes the potential for disease. Staked plants should be set two feet apart in rows 3 to 4 feet apart. Caged tomatoes should be set 2.5 to 3 feet apart in rows 5 to 6 feet apart.

Flavor

The quintessential factor in any tomato is its flavor: sweet or tart, acidic or not. Taste is very personal. After years of growing tomatoes, I have my personal favorites, but I am always looking for new possibilities. A tomato &#;tasting" is a great way to experience different cultivars. This year my choices will include: 'Bush Early Girl'&#;grown in a container with hopes for harvest on the 4th of July, cherry cultivars&#;'Sun Gold', 'Matt's Black Cherry', 'Sweet Million' and 'Sakura Honey', heirlooms&#;'Mortgage Lifter' and 'Stupice', which is early and delicious, and paste tomatoes 'Amish Paste' and 'Striped Roma'.

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