The Amazing History of Tomatoes
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- čas přidán 2. 06. 2024
- Tomatoes are the favorite plant of American gardeners. Knowing the story behind different varieties can make them even more special. Gardener Scott shares some of his favorite tomato information and tomato history. Video (#137)
"Epic Tomatoes" by Craig LeHoullier
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Ha, I’m getting a top notch education watching You Tube. You are an excellent gardener and instructor!
Wow, thanks!
Your Galileo moon tomato is also called BKX or black Krim potato leaf mutation. I grew it last year and it is amazing! Bought the seeds from renaissance farm site
Thanks for this video! The book that turned me on to tomatoes was "100 Heirloom Tomatoes for the American Garden" by Dr. Carolyn Male. Way back from the GardenWeb days when Dr. Carolyn and Craig LeHoullier used to post there. Then, we all moved over to Tomatoville. I have since learned that Dr. Carolyn passed away a few years ago. Here are some of my favorites: Carbon, Cherokee Chocolate, Marianna's Peace, Stump of the World (huge plant for me), Omar's Lebanese, Earl's Faux, Old Wyandotte, and no list is complete without Brandywine (Sudduth strain). For hybrids, you can't forget Sun Gold cherry tom's.
I love growing seeds that have a good story. I grow a bean in England that was carried by the Cherokee on the Trail of Tears walk from their land so they clearly loved it. I love that I can grow it from so far away
It's amazing how stories and seed sharing connects all of us.
That is an interesting story for your tomato. I will be looking out for the Galileo Moon in the future!
Amazing stories! I hope to one day grow the Galileo Moon, how fantastic that would be. Keep up the great content! Looking forward to your next Live Cast!
Thanks, Tyler.
Me too!
Opalka is my last year favorite. It was the only one that survived hurricane Dorian and kept producing great paste tomatoes for months after. I love your videos!
Sharon Lynn another variety I will have to try!
I grew Opalka a few years ago. It's good for tough regions.
Well mr Scott I sure hope to see that Galileo moon tomato !! Is it nerdy to love tomatoes?! I think not! ....well maybe a little...but mostly NOT! I loved this episode I love tomatoes. It’s not at all surprising to me that most gardeners love tomatoes,grow tomatoes and want to know more about tomatoes other gardeners love to grow. The tomato might well be the most amazing veg/fruit of all time! 🤓
I don't think it's nerdy at all either. Not just tomatoes. I love it when plants have a story.
Great stories! Brads Atomic Grape is my favorite so far, but I'm a young gardener. Trying at least 14 varieties this year, and would love to get my hands on some Galileo Moon seed someday.
Thanks! Brad's can be a fun one to grow.
I believe that I have some Mexican tomato seeds oh, if you are interested let me know.
Isn't that one of those deep blue streaked type of tomatoes? How's the flavor of those?
@@mew589 It is. I think the flavor is okay and most gardeners grow it just for the appearance.
Opalka.....hands down theeeeeeeee best
Last year I grew Cherokee Purple and had very good luck from purchased seedlings. This year I'm going to try to grow some from seed. My supplies and seeds will be in this week. I'm excited!
Another Russian tomato I highly recommend is Azoychka; I live in a wetter region of 5a and last year I had so many tomatoes from two plants, I will have pizza sauce right up to next harvest.
I'm not familiar with that one. Thanks. I'll check it out.
I read about this one a while back and just saw it in the 2020 tomato growers supply seed catalog. I am looking forward to trying it!
@@Junzar56 Trust me, you will not be disappointed!
I love the stories and will visit the library to read further.... when the Coronavirus is cleaned up! I believe in research. I have purchased to add to my tomatoe collection for this summer Krim. I grew many different varieties last year but in them I did not have success with Kellogg breakfast tomato. Not sure if I will try again this year. This far I have 12 different varieties including Russian. I find your programs very educational. 👍🏽
Jeri Brockington I was just thinking, wouldn’t it be great to listen to him read the whole book during our hunker down time?
Thanks, Jeri. Hope you have a great tomato year.
I would sit with my gardening journal book to take notes. I view my favorite utube videos during my r & r time.
Thank you so much for this video. Knowing the history and stories makes our produce that much more meaningful. It gives me so much happiness that many heirlooms are alive and well. I can't wait until your new variety is available!
Thanks, Lula.
I so enjoy all of your videos. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and expertise. You seem like such a kind and gentile person. Should have guessed you were in education!
I loved this storytelling format. It would be fun to see more videos along the same line. And, a family favorite tomato is the Cherokee Purple.
Thank you. I'll probably do more.
love the stories ....i think you are the mr. rogers of garding love what you bring to us
Thanks, Rachel.
This year I am growing 18 different varieties of tomato. I like to try new ones every year. The one tomato that will always make the cut for me is golden jubilee, hands down the sweetest tomato I've ever eaten. I would be extremely interested in growing your tomato!
I haven't grown that one. I just might have to try it now.
@@GardenerScott if you have a PO box I can send you some that I have been saving for years
Thanks for the offer, but I don't have one. I think you may have motivated me to get that set up.
I have been growing microdwarf tomatoes all winter long. It is so much fun to eat a fresh picked tomato inJanuary, February and March!
That sounds great!
Gardener Scott it is! I love it!
Great stories, thanks for sharing.
Thanks.
Have that book, its a good one.
Very interesting stories - thanks for sharing! Love growing different varieties of tomatoes. They look very pretty in different colors and sizes when put together on a salad.
That's one of the best ways to enjoy them.
Omg. That is so cool. Keep us updated. I am going to order some when they are ready!!
Will do!!
Thank you for your tomato stories! You always cheer me up.
I'm very glad to help. 🙂
It is amazing the story behind the Cherokee purple tomato..thankyou. I hope you do more video of the history of the tomato..
Thanks. I think I will.
@@GardenerScott. If you can you talk about the history of farming an gardening. How it impact day-to-day life. Meaning . The impact on the.food an . Honey bees..
Excellent program scott
Thanks!
Hi Scott, I love tomatoes, I grow them every year from seeds, and then I plant about 30 seedlings in a polytunnel. garden without tomatoes can not.
I agree. 🙂
Great Stories!
Thanks!
great stories
Thanks.
Grew Black Krim last year--fabulous. Trying Paul Robeson
this year amongst 21 varieties. Mortgage Lifter, too--what great stories! Awesome on the Galileo Moon tomato!! Like discovering a star...but far more practical and useful!!
Two of my favorite heirloom tomatoes that have done very well in my NJ garden are Black Cherry and Pink Brandywine.
Those are good ones.
ha i have bought cherokee purple plants from craig here at the raleigh farmers market - great guy
That's great. Lucky you.
@@GardenerScott now he sells them out of the wake forest - just north of raleigh farmers market if you want to get them from him
Hi, I enjoyed this video.(and others) I live in Alaska and a friend gave me a Micro Tomato plant. I love growing it year around. I have saved some seeds from it and I have grown new ones and I have gave them to friends. I would love to send you some.
I grow it in my bay window. I'm in 3b and I going to try the Russian tomatoes you spoke of as well those stated in these posts.
Thank you for what you do! Fr. Randy +
Thanks, Randy. Once I get my new garden set up I hope to have an area to grow shared seed next year. Thanks for the offer.
I love the name Galileo Moon. I admit I have not planted a lot of varieties of tomatoes but i have grown lots of tomato plants over the years. I am learning about more and more interesting varieties and looking to see which ones will grow best in my zone 7b garden.
Thanks.There are a lot to choose from. I hope you find ones you like.
My favorite tomato of late has been the Sleeping Lady tomato. I am not sure of it's history, but it does pretty well in our climate of Colorado Springs.
I haven't grown them. I may have to try it. Thanks,
Great video, Beefsteak seems extremely common. I'm going to try growing a larger variety. Have you had alot of success with Dwarf varieties in ground? Also could you do a similar video for Pepper varieties?
Thanks. I've had success with most varieties, except beefsteak. My season is relatively short and the big tomatoes just don't have enough time to reach harvest. Thanks for the suggestion on a pepper video.
In PreColumbian Mesoamerica, the natives had a very interesting growing method, totally opposite to our industrial monoculture. IIRC, they grew tomatoes, potatoes, squashes, beans and corn all together in a single spot, and the needs of one plant would be supplemented by what the other plants would produce (e.g. the nitrogen fixing beans would supplement the nitrogen hungry corn and so on).
I believe there are studies saying that this growing method made some gene exchanges possible between plants, and thus its possible that this is how your potato-leafed tomatoes got their (unexpressed until now) genes
I learned some of this reading Charles Mann and Jared Diamond
Interesting ideas. I have done Three Sisters planting... corn, beans, and squash together.
great video... as always... last year my wife Jen started some cherry tomatoes,, i planted them in the garden when they were ready and had a few plants left over, i'm not a big fan of cherry tomatoes but,, i decided to try to plant them in buckets and had seen a video on a self watering bucket i don't recall who's video it was as i've seen a number of them, so whoever was the actual idea person,,, ty,, it worked really well. anyway,, one of the plants was not a cherry tomato, instead it made fruit that is a little larger than a golf ball, perfectly round and ripens a few days after it reaches that size.. OMG the flavor is out of this world, perfectly round, perfectly red,, perfect sweet flavor, i saved the seeds and they are growing now, we'll see what we get.. but,, i call them Jenny19,s,, idk if its a mutation,, or was a stray seed in the package she bought,, or what idk.. but they are incredible, we'll see if we get the same result this year.
Thanks! I hope you're able to recreate that tomato.
I would be happy to grow a Galileo Moon in my garden someday. The midwest can be a great environment to test the adaptability of a plant!
I hope to open it up to environmental testing soon.
Gardener Scott do you have a website or email I can contact you with? I’ve noticed you wearing an MCAS shirt before, when did you serve?
I have gardenerscott.com and info@gardenerscott.com. I retired from the Air Force and attended the MCAS air show a number of years ago.
Gardener Scott I thank you for your service even if it wasn’t in my corps sir. My shop teacher in high school was the one who motivated me to join the marines, he had served as a huey/cobra pilot during ‘nam.
Tomatoes, potatoes and beans are originally from Peru. It's not widely known, though.
Oh yeah. Live music is good in our current entertainment predicament.
Great stories! Another question off subject. What temp is ok at night for my seedlings in a greenhouse thats 8.5 feet x 7 feet.
Thanks! It depends on the plant. Cool season seedlings can handle very cold temps, but tomatoes and peppers shouldn't get below 50... warmer is better.
@@GardenerScott ok thanks!
Can you please do an in depth video on the bloody butcher tomato? No one gives it enough attention. I never hear it brought up even though its a very tasty variety in my opinion of course
I haven't grown that. I'll add it to my list. Thanks.
I would love to try your new variety is there seeds somewhere I can buy? I am a tomato fanatic. I love some of the black tomatoes but have tasted some that aren't so good. I think the highly alkaline soil and climate here in Montana may contribute to that. I have a black cherry I just love.
I'm still testing and ensuring the seed is stable so the seeds aren't available yet. I'll let everyone know when they are.
@@GardenerScott I would sure love to test them but I understand not wanting any out there till you are sure!
Hi, do tomato plants only need stakes once the fruit starts to grow, weighing down the plant? Thanks
That can be a good guideline, but it depends on the size of the plant. Indeterminate tomatoes may not need a stake or trellis, but indeterminate varieties will. I usually get them attached to a trellis before the fruit develops.
Gardener Scott sorry Scott I don’t know what you mean when referring to tomatoes as indeterminate, relating to stakes. Thanks.
I have a couple videos that discuss that. Basically, determinate tomatoes grow into a bush and indeterminate tomatoes grow as vines that keep getting longer.
Is there an update on your Gallello Moon tomato yet?
It's still doing well. Last year I let a few others grow it with good results.
I'm sitting here eating a really big pile of spaghetti with fresh cut roma tomatoes as I watch this.
My only good story about tomatoes is taking a big bite out of one fresh off the vine and still warmed by the sun. Not real news to anyone here though.
Thanks for your stories. I had been looking at a couple that you mentioned. I'll take the plunge and try one or two.
Good for you. 👍
Are potato type leaves common? I started a Brandy Boy hybrid from seed and all plants have potato leaves.
They're not common, but there are some varieties where that is a prevailing trait. Brandy Boy is probably one of those.
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Would you be willing to share some of your seeds from the Galileo Moon
I am planning that. If this year's harvest is good, I may be able to do it next year.
Believe a old man that I met that my uncle had interductced me to had raised a eight pounder and was picture in the Columbus Dispatch News Paper probably in 70s or 80s.
Hopefully my memory is truthful.
You are talking very good, I think same you
Thank you.
You intro that book very well thanks you, have a nice day
Not sure on the flavor just picked up the seeds by accident this year.
It would be wonderful if you could introduce your own tomato!
Yes, it would. Thanks!
I've "delicious" tomatoes started. The previous record. Wasn't going for a record, just big ones. Have mortgage lifters, too. A few cherry types, and medium-sized.
9+lbs?... Dog gone!
I'm a bit jealous. The big beefsteaks don't do well in my region.
I thought a tomato was officially a berry- one of the few berries with the seeds inside.
It is a berry. And berries are a type of fruit.
I have been growing tomatoes for over 50 years with my father and grandfather, i tried morgage lifter one year did not come any where near description , not to be negative but many of the seeds dont come true to description , another disapointment was brandywine every body loves it , its a beautiful plant love those potatoe leaves but does not produce much fruit and very late season , my best experence has been with my own seed that i make every year that my grandfather brought over with him from Italy, and Harris seed in New York, interesting video Scott keep up the good work.
Thanks. I tried both Mortgage Lifter and Brandywine and didn't have success with them either.
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Leaves, roots, stalks, fruit? None are not animal or mineral.
Thanks for this video! The book that turned me on to tomatoes was "100 Heirloom Tomatoes for the American Garden" by Dr. Carolyn Male. Way back from the GardenWeb days when Dr. Carolyn and Craig LeHoullier used to post there. Then, we all moved over to Tomatoville. I have since learned that Dr. Carolyn passed away a few years ago. Here are some of my favorites: Carbon, Cherokee Chocolate, Marianna's Peace, Stump of the World (huge plant for me), Omar's Lebanese, Earl's Faux, Old Wyandotte, and no list is complete without Brandywine (Sudduth strain). For hybrids, you can't forget Sun Gold cherry tom's.
I'll look into that book. Your list is a good one. I've grown Carbon, Cherokee Chocolate, and Brandywine. This year I'll be doing Sun Gold.