You know it’s funny, year before last I grew super sweet 100 & it was so vigorous I couldn’t keep up with the production. Great video!

@GrownToCook

Жыл бұрын

Than you, Sarah!

@MK-zi7ym

2 ай бұрын

Yep, my Supersweet 100's are super productive.

Beautiful tomatoes, Vera! I look forward to updates.

@GrownToCook

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Patrick! Nothing beats homegrown tomatoes :)

I love your garden and your personality so much.

@GrownToCook

6 жыл бұрын

That's so sweet of you! Thank you!

It’s great that you do these trials for each type of vegetable. I hope you do more of these videos in the future. Thank you and great job!

@GrownToCook

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Jennie! I'm happy to hear you like the videos and I'll try to make some more this season!

Outstanding video.

Thank you great presentation. I will look for some of theses to plant next year. Thanks again!

@GrownToCook

6 жыл бұрын

I'm glad you found the video helpful!

Thanks for the video! I am definitely saving it so we can purchase several of those varieties! This year we are growing Sweet Million and we are very happy with them.

@GrownToCook

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Christa! I'll look up Sweet Million!

I am a first time backyard gardener this year. I have Golden Jubilee and Super Sweet 100's growing in my little garden. I would say the Super Sweet 100's are doing really well. I have 2 plants which are both about 6 feet tall and about 5 feet wide (they grew bushy when we went on vacation for 2 weeks). I live in Los Angeles. We just bought our house last March. Moved in Mid-March and I sowed the seeds early April. I just got my first ripe tomatoes yesterday. My super sweet 100's has bunches of about 20 tomatoes each. I guess they love the heat.

@GrownToCook

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing! Sounds like your climate is much better for growing tomatoes than ours :)

@KevinSmith-dx6xq

5 жыл бұрын

@@GrownToCook When the video started I thought I would recommend the Super Sweet 100. One year I had three of them that would fill a five gallon bucket twice a week. By the end of summer I couldn't give any more away and even the squirrels were tired of them. I think that plant of yours was just a genetic dud. ks

Nice subject to speak on.have a great day

@GrownToCook

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Rob!

I like growing different cherry tomatoes every year. I usually do at least 8 cherry tomato plants every year. Sungold is a fav in my garden and have been growing it for years but the new favorite this year is Barry's Crazy Cherry. You should check that one out for next year! Black cherry is another favorite but I don't grow it every year. That sunchocola looks really nice. I've heard good things about the Supersweet but have not grown it myself. Your plants look very nice, healthy and well manicured!

@GrownToCook

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the recommendation! I'm going to check it out!!

Sungold is my favorite! I think Sweet 100's really like lots of heat, they grow very well here in Texas.

@GrownToCook

6 жыл бұрын

Sungold is rightfully many gardeners' favourite! I'll try to give my Supersweet some liquid comfrey feed to see whether they'll perk up - the greenhouse is pretty hot at the moment (possibly too hot!) so I don't think temperature is the problem...

My favorite is Sungold. We harvest ours June through October (with cover from frost). A goal is to try two new varieties each year, so I'll use this vid as a resource. Thanks! Also would be interested in seeing how you prune your indeterminates. I do minimal pruning (mostly low-lying branches with no flowers), and they sprawl all over any structure I set up. They are very prolific, but I'd like to try taming them a bit.

@GrownToCook

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Trish! I prune my tomatoes to single stem, mainly to improve air flow and prevent fungal disease which is very prevalent in our climate. It makes for tidy plants but of course dicreases the yield per plant. Your climate is probably much more tomato-friendly so you don't need to prune as much

Nice video.

@GrownToCook

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Hello, have you tried the new mochi cherry tomatoes from Johnny seeds?

Like many others, Sungold is one of my favourites. Last year I grew Sweet Aperitif and it didn't grow terribly large either, it's my impression it is not as large as some of the others. Sweet Million an F1 variety also produces very tasty tomatoes, but as I'd prefer to have open pollinated ones I'm not growing it anymore. Instead I'm trying Wild Mexican with seed bought from Pascal Poot, the French farmer who doesn't water his tomatoes at all, and they are incredibly prolific but not ripe yet.

@GrownToCook

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing, Helle! I read an inteview with a Dutch amateur grower of rare tomato varieties and he said he only water s his plants 2x (under cover) - it should also improve the flavour. Very interesting that you can get away with no watering in Portugal! As we go on vacation in summer, it would be good if the tomatoes could survive without watering.

@HelenRullesteg

6 жыл бұрын

Ehm I live in Switzerland not Portugal :-) although at present it almost feels like Portugal, no rain for weeks.

@GrownToCook

6 жыл бұрын

Sorry! I got that mixed up with a different comment on pruning tomatoes :) Here it's the same, record drought...

I wish I lived next to you. I'd eat great!

@GrownToCook

6 жыл бұрын

Haha, yes, during the summer months the produce from the garden is marvelous :)

There are so much old Chocktailtomatos that you don't need Hypridseeds. Look for Better..in German the name is Besser ...very good, many Tomatoes Negro Azteca...she is brown, very good Rose Quarz Multiflora...many, many little Tomatoes with good tomatotaste Artisan Blush Tiger Sunrise Bumble Bee I wish you a good time

@GrownToCook

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for all the suggestions, I will look them up! Is there a seed company you would recommend?

Nice video as always! : ) Do you know why the leaves are curly? Pruning in extreme heat. Something I learned from the Portuguese farmers. I tested pruned and unpruned tomatoes this year, the unpruned are not curley... Has to do with more leaves providing extra shade for the plant and the tomatoes...

@GrownToCook

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Simon! Very interesting info - I thought the curling was a sign of stress due to heat (the greenhouse is too hot at the moment and I'm thinking of painting it). Do you not prune the tomatoes at all? I prune mine to single stem to improve air flow and prevent fungal disease. But I'm very interested in your approach!

@simonallins6010

6 жыл бұрын

I have got pruned tomatoes that provide filtered sunlight to peppers at the bottom. Those have curly leaves, just like yours. I also have unstaked and unpruned tomatoes, no sign of leaf curl there, they produce as much as 3 pruned ones! : ) I am going to continue using both methods because the peppers do much better with some shade from the tomatoes...

@GrownToCook

6 жыл бұрын

I'll se if I can try that next year too and compare! Thanks!

I recommend gardeners delight. They are a bigger red cherry tomato. Ridiculous yields. Sungold is tops in my book.

@paduvihmkannel1542

6 жыл бұрын

i finally got my hands on this variety(Gardeners Delight) this year, the plants are really vigorous (leaves like leather gloves) and taste is good. will be growing again.

@GrownToCook

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I grew Gardener's Delight years ago outside (before we had a greenhouse) and I should try it again under cover since it would probably do much better there!

I wanted to see a taste test at the end

@GrownToCook

6 жыл бұрын

I'm trying to get my family to do a taste test with me in a future video :)

Noticed you don't have much leaves on the plants. I have sweet 100 but not sweet taste. Why?

What varieties were the non-hybrids, please?

@GrownToCook

6 жыл бұрын

Black Cherry (excellent taste!) and Sweet Aperitif. Next year I'll try to trial more open-pollinated varietes so that we can keep saving seeds!

Personally, I don’t like sungold. Too sweet. Black cherry is great. However I tried a new-to-me variety this year called Lucky Tiger. It’s an artisan series from botanical interests. Open Pollinated. The BEST tomato I’ve ever had! And Ive had a lot of tomatoes!

@GrownToCook

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the recommendation, Danielle, I'm writing it down for next year! It's so nice when the varieites are open pollinated so that we can save seed! We did a little taste test with my husband and kids and came to the same conclusion as you - we all prefer the taste of Black Cherry to Sungold.

Lol I have ripe sungold may 10

@mattkelly7413

3 жыл бұрын

I love texas

@GrownToCook

3 жыл бұрын

Haha, I have just planted my tomatoes in the greenhouse - outside is still too cold so will wait at least a week. Very different climate :)