Travis, I love your family. It brings me joy everytime you post another video. You are wise beyond your years to do what you have done. Family is the absolutely highest importance and you being centered on your beautiful family will be rewarded and revered forever. Take it from an older man that let career and climbing that ladder take its toll . I truly believe if I was as wise as you at your age, my son would be here on earth and i would not have the regrets. You are doing well!!!
One of my wife's favorite dishes that I make is pan roasted duck breast with sauteed figs and blackberry wine reduction. You can just use blackberries and cook them down if you can't find the wine. Serve it with polenta mixed with mascarpone cheese.
I planted Lemon Boy last year and had great results. This year I planted Golden Jubilee and while they are still producing, they're not near the production of Lemon Boy. The big winner for me this year were the rogue Cherry Red plants that sprouted from last year's garden. they're still going strong and do not seem to affected by the blight that affected the heirloom varieties that I planted. Good to see you're back on RUclips.
Yum yum that pizza sounds delicious. I’m coming next time you make it. Lol I live in Myrtle beach, I like watching you and learning. I’m Zone 8b. So we can grow the same things. I came from Pennsylvania and had no problems growing. Yeah well it’s a whole different ball game down here. My soil sucks! I pretty much am learning to garden all over again. Your baby is adorable.
Travis you have a beautiful family. Your property looks amazing. I see you have grapes are they Muscadine’s. I live in South Florida I planted Muscadine’s this was my first year. Hopefully in a couple more years mine will look as happy and healthy as yours. I enjoy watching your videos very relaxing.
No wonder you all had such a productive afternoon, Ty Ty had to work so hard to make that happen! Where is Mr. Abram? Hope he is doing well. It was so funny to hear poor Ty Ty complain about how much he had worked all day! So sweet and funny! Brooklyn and Travis, you have so much sun where you all live. You need to cut up the paste tomatoes and get them dried in the sun, and then putting them in olive oil with Italian spices, salt, perhaps some balsamic vinaigrette. and bottle it as sun dried tomatoes. You can add them to pasta or even pasta sauce. They are great and very versatile. You will love it.
My hubby and I watched this video and thought, Travis makes his wife do all the hard stuff! What happened to the Southern Gentlemen? Then we watched your video on breaking your back and it all made sense! Context matters....get well quick and God bless!
Cream sausage and Lemon Boy were my winners this year. The San Marzano paste tomatoes are doing better than last year, bigger and more of them. While I love Black Krim and Cherokee Purple and will probably plant again, just don't get much production, though more than last year. Been studying and watching videos on tomato growing. Really working on the soil. Really impressed with your family work ethic and passing it on to the next generation.
I used to grow Better Boy, but tried Mortgage Lifter and had great success. BIG vigorous plants and BIG fruits. Very productive. It would be interesting to see you try that next year.
Them green tomatoes would make some mighty fine relish to go with beans, taters and fried crappie! Coarse you could just fry a mess of them too. If it wasn't so far from southeast Ok to Ga I sure enough would have come and picked them tomatoes for you. We had so much rain here we were two months late on getting ours out. we're just now getting a few turning. Our okrie is just now starting to bloom also. wettest spring I ever remember.
My Uncle swore by Red Bounty. He loved the production and disease resistance. That’s all he grew for the past several years. Super Sweet 100 is my go to cherry tomato as far as production & taste. Sungold is my favorite tasting cherry variety. I love me some Radiator Charlie Mortgage Lifters for indeterminate.
I think I'm mostly done growing indeterminate hybrids. They just can't compete with the determinate hybrids down here. The only indeterminates I plan on growing next are the specialty, colorful types and cherry tomatoes.
Travis I finally found some cherry tomatoes this year like the old bells. They don't get real red just kind pink but boy they have that great acidy taste. I know we've talked about them in the past but I love my parks whopper. I wish you would try a few nest year. Ps that boy is so precious and cute. PS I'm praying for your back to heal.
Thanks Joel. Did you know Park's Whopper is actually a variety bred by Seminis? It's one of those hybrid varieties that just has numbers and letters. I wish I could remember which one it was. Anyways, it's brilliant marketing by Park Seed. They made everyone think that they have something unique, but it's just a name change for something that is pretty common.
Thank God for your sense of humour! So glad to see you laughing through this challenging time Brooklyn (obviously you too Travis, it's no fun being laid up with a spinal injury...been there, no wish to repeat the experience). Much love to you all from Perth, Western Australia x
My big winner this year was Shimmer. Hybrid grape-ish style. Excellent flavor and production. Only planted one and it out produced the sun gold. Can pick them green or let them get dark.
With this being our first garden in 20 years we decided to try Invincible, Florida 91, Rutgers and Purple Cherokee. The Invincible and Florida 91 produced the best so we had paste and slicing tomatoes. Wouldn’t try the Rutgers again not hardly any fruit through this heat, humidity and rain we’ve been having in NWFL. Rain pretty much did in my Cherokee but what I got was so tasty. I’m with you Travis on pecans in everything especially baked goods. Love watching you and your family....brings back memories of ours many years ago. Been praying for a speedy recovery on your back. God bless.
In 2020, I grew a dwarf, determinate, beefsteak-style tomato called "PURPLE REIGN" for the first time. Loved it! Yes, it is in the garden again for 2021! My favorite yellow tomato is "DAD'S SUNSET". Best wishes from Kate in Olympia, WA
The tomato that we grow is Early Girl, and DX52. We planted 120 plants last year, and bottled over 300 quarts of hole tomatoes. This year we added the Summer Pick, seeds we got from Hoss , planted 16, and planted only 80 of the others.
Watching from New Zealand, this channel has inspired me to start growing herbs and flowers this coming growing season. I'm also going to be doing my own little tomato trial too.
Save those little green tomatoes for pickles. I chop equal parts (or what ever you want) green tomatoes, hot peppers and onions. Make a pickling mixture of 3 parts vinegar, 2 parts sugar, and mustard seed. Bring the pickling mixture to a boil, add the veggies and simmer for about 15 minutes. Pack into jars and water bath for 15 minutes. It's really good with dried beans or peas and a chunk of cornbread.
It sounds similar to an East Tennessee recipe called chow chow . It has those ingredients you named but also has some shredded cabbage and a few or things that I’d have to look up . Probably many different variations.
@@gregleach5833 Well I'm in Western NC so we could have very similar recipes. My grandmother could pickle anything. I just took her basic sweet pickle mixture ratio and added my own twist.
I second Sungold for a cherry variety. I think you mentioned before. Sweet, tangy and full of flavor. Too much rain splits them though. - I'm going to have to come back to this thread when I decide what to grow next year. Lots of interesting suggestions.
I am about to start my tomatoes for the year. Trying a lot of new types this year… some old. Super Sweet 100 and Sungold cherries. Celebrity, Red Snapper, Bella Rosa, and Chefs Choice Pink.
@@LazyDogFarm Thanks! I am growing the Red Snapper and Bella Rosa after seeing your reviews actually. I just built my own "dream garden" at the new place. I am going to make this the first year we get to have a real garden for my family. We want to can our own spaghetti sauce for a year. Thank you for all you do!
You dont have a single one of my 14!!!GREEN ZEBRA IS MY ALLTIME FAVORITE(its a saladette size...but the taste is just perfect to me sweet and acid wise!) Yellow pear cherry, lemon ice cherry, unicorn cherry, Cherokee purple, large barred boar, dr wychee, gold medal, Paul robeson, strawberry margarita, pineapple, siletz, striped German, and wild striped boar !!!
That fig pizza sounds amazing! We love plum tomatoes the best, making enough tomato sauce for the year is job one in my garden. We also love the plum tomatoes cut up in a Greek salad, they really hold their firmness. My favourite variety is Picus, that’s all I’m planning to grow next year. Back when I was growing indeterminate varieties I liked Ultra Boy and Hy Beef, I think Hy Beef is a stokes exclusive, they are really firm and meaty for a slicing tomato 🍅.
I live in southern Indiana on the ky border and I don't even have tomatoes coming in yet lol. Just cherry tomatoes. I'm growing everything new this year as far as the big ones. Hillbilly, ky beefsteak, Dr Wyche's, Cherokee purple, speckled Romans, and then 2 hybrid slicing tomatoes. I can't wait until my first one is ready. The cherries are holding me over for now but it shouldn't be much longer
I've been impressed with Jaune Flamme- it's an heirloom indeterminate. It's a prolific orange small sized slicer (smaller than Celebrity) with great flavor. Perfect for one tomato sandwich, cut for salads, or dried (I tend to dry my tomatoes in oven and freeze, then puree when ready for sauce). It's handled our humid north Georgia summers for 4 years, even last year when the rain just didn't stop. For figs, my favorite is to can in balsamic vinegar- great in winter as a reduction sauce for pork or chicken. (cook liquid from jar with onion, thyme and butter until thick, add figs just before serving).
A GREAT cherry tomato that the kids will love is the Coyote tomato. Super Sweet, bite sized, yellow tomatoes. Prolific and easy keepers. A big favorite in our family for snacking and salads
Kellogg’s breakfast and Black Sea Man have been my favorites the the past 2 years and also this year. Black Cherry, White Cherry and Sungold are my favorite cherry tomatoes every year. Great video. I hope you have a speedy recovery.
Another vote for Black Sea Man, I was very surprised. They started ripening before summer got hot and the first 2-3 fruits weren't super impressive... but my two plants made like 50-60 tomatoes each and even though I didn't trellis the plants (yea I know...) about half of those were completely undamaged despite all the fruits being on the ground, plants had no disease issues in south-central Virginia and stayed productive until frosts hit. The best part, of course, is that the tomatoes themselves really were fantastic! Deep tomato flavor and wonderful texture, and they taste like they've been lightly salted without anything added, I mean wow. My friends and coworkers were amazed. I had a lot of other heirloom varieties and only one other came close to the quality and productivity but I have no clue what it was because I forgot to label but it was a giant pink slicer. As far as cherry tomatoes, Adaptive Seeds actually has some very good attempts at dehybridizing Sungold, and they are all worth growing IMO. I grew all four, and I remember Wali's Gold and Sweet Orange II as being the two best. I also really, really liked the Orange Centiflor. They are a more compact indeterminate than those other two, and have enormous clusters of pointy-tipped large cherry tomatoes that have an excellent taste: I actually preferred these to the other orange cherries sometimes, but they were all so good that it's like comparing an 8-8.5/10 to a 9-9.5/10. This is my first year growing the actual Sungold so it will be interesting to compare them with the OP varieties I mentioned above.
Those lemon boys are extremely tasty and productive. They are the only yellow tomato that I have tried and really liked. Them and Cherokee purple's make a nice LSU colored tomato plate.
I sure wish I lived close to you. I would certainly have come and picked tomatoes. What's wrong with people????? They don't know what it is like to eat a home grown tomato. My tomatoes are on the way out until the fall crops get started. I just subscribed to your channel. I didn't know where you went. Glad to see you again!!!!!😃😃😃😃😃
Alright alright alright its fig time y'all forty five hundred three eight eight!! That's a lotta figs. I guess he got his second wind. Its just amazing how much fun kids are you can't write this stuff.
We grew the Old Fashioned Red Cherry tomato from Southern Exposure Seed Exchange and it has been a very vigorous growing plant producing a steady stream of tomatoes.
My winner Tomatoes this year is the Cherokee Purple and the Honey Delight. The Honey Delight are small tomatoes but the flavor and production was out standing. My Cherokee did well but with all the rain they cracked a lot.
Giant Belgium Pink heirloom has been my winner this year. It produces huge, sweet tomatoes and a lot of them. It’s the only indeterminate in my garden that has not been splitting from all the rain in S La. The plant itself is still very healthy too. Got seeds from Gary over at The Rusted Garden.
Sun gold cherries are delicious!! If you like Kellogg’s breakfast, you might do a comparison between it and Dr Wyche’s or Old German next year. Man, those yellow maters are good! Y’all are so fun to watch as a family. I know the broken back has to have been a crazy difficult curveball, but what a blessing to get to see you two work as a team! And TyTy is just a breath of fresh air…too precious!
Enjoyed the video Travis. One of the very best plum tomatoes I have grown for years is Juliet F1 AAS Winner. Outstanding production and all around use tomato !!! This year I'm trying a Determinate called Celebrity, and a new cherry type called Chocolate Sprinkles (Indeterminate). Travis, here in Southern N.H. have had off and on rain since July 1st ! (Elsa 3" alone). Watching my squash and pumpkin plants having a hard time keeping fruit set. Thanks so much for taking the time to do these. Take care !
Really liking the BellaRosa. They are loading up nice and fit in five foot t posts perfectly. Make a neat row. If they are as good as people say I got a winner. Mt Vineyard looks like a flop. Only had a few but so far no better than a store tomato on flavor. May be gratful for them when the heat sets in. Used to could get dried Turkish figs at the International Market cheap. Must take a long time to dry. That big fig's a nice looking tree.
Bella Rosa is a consistent winner for us. Have grown it for 5-6 years now it seems. Just going to give it a break next year to try other varieties. Mountain Vineyard took a while, but started producing well for us. The skins were kind of thick and tough though.
Check out the Momotaro/Tough Boy from seeds & Such. Great disease resistance and a heat set gene to grow well in the deep south. In Texas 8B where we had about 45 days of 100+ degree days, it was the only one that hung in there. Bella Rosa was a close second. Another good heat set gene /disease package.
When researching best practice for fig tree production, my sources (UT Extension office) talked about pruning. A couple winters ago my Brown Turkey fig froze back to the ground here in the Foothills of the Smokys, East Tennessee. Since then, I keep it cut into a particular way every fall/spring before budding. It keeps the tree at a manageable height and is loaded, loaded every year...
My Rutgers, Abe Lincoln, Red Snapper and Atomic Grape have taken off! Still way too early in 7 to harvest but they're getting there. Just hope blight doesn't set in with all this rain.
Yeah we were fortunate to have basically no rain during the prime of our tomato growing season. And now we're getting rain every day, which isn't good for tomatoes.
Lemon boy is my favourite tomato. I don’t really enjoy tomato sauce etc because it’s too acidic and gives my indigestion but I enjoy my lemon boy tomato sauce, they say the yellow tomato is less acidic
I was super impressed by the lemon boy last year here in Ohio. I planted 10 of them this year. Nothing ripe yet but they are super tasty perfect for BLT’s
Great video Lazy dog farm🌄❤Ty Ty is a hard working cute little fella 💙I love lemon boys! I'm gonna have to try the Kellogg's tomatoes! Have a blessed day 🌄✝️🧡🦋
I'm trying 'Pink Berkley Tie Dye" which is said to be the best tasting tomato... we'll see, I'm zone 5b/6a depending on which chart you look at so ours don't come in until late August early September due to still having freezing temps late May. Also' Barry's Crazy Cherry" which is supposed to be extremely prolific, a few new ones is always fun! I'll be sure and update and let ya know how they do. Also, TyTy is just too adorable in his own little seat 😂 love that! GBY 🙏
I agree, Red Snapper are awesome. My Abe Lincoln and Brandywine didn't do much either. But I love the Tachi. Jury still out on the Homestead and Summerpick. And, I love peCANS too. Sad thing is way too many people say it wrong
My most productive cherry tomato this year was the Riesentraube. It’s a fun shape with a pointy bottom. Multi-branching and tons of tomatoes. Other fun ones I tried his year was Ceylon and the Garden Peach. Love your channel! I didn’t pull my determinate plants out yet, but I did spend part of my day trimming up my indeterminates.
I grow a lot of indeterminate tomatoes. Hybrids and OP. Mine are really starting to come on right now and I would recommend Bigdena from Johnnys. Not a cheap seed, but I am liking it better than Jet Star and Big Beef right now for my red hybrids, both of which are also good. But I am giving the edge to Bigdena. Buffalosun is another nice Hybrid with some color and size to it too.
I've heard good things about Bigdena and several of the market farming groups on FB. For some reason I thought that was more of a greenhouse variety, but it sounds like you're growing it outside?
@@LazyDogFarm a guy I know in Texas that grows 30+ varieties outdoors each year told me to grow it. He said it’s great for the heat. I’m in Raleigh NC and so far it’s proving true. It’s productive and consistent on the size and shape of the tomatoes, and tasty!
I would gladly pick your tomatoes if I weren’t too far away! Mine are finally starting to ripen, but they don’t look as good as yours. I tried! Brooklyn is doing an awesome job of walking in your shoes! TyTy is precious!
The timing of the removal ended up working out pretty well. We keep getting more rain and the plants are looking pretty bad -- the ones we didn't pull in this video.
I’m partial to black tomatoes and have found black prince and black japanese trifele to be fantastic producers with excellent flavor. For a larger tomato, Carbon is a favorite, and I’ve noticed that the plant tends to stay smaller, even though it produces well and also has great flavor. On the hybrid side, Steakhouse is a beautiful red beefsteak with good flavor and solid performance every year. Also shocked that ppl didn’t want to pick some tomatoes. If I lived anywhere near I’d be all over that, and I’m pretty fast at picking tomatoes. :D
Another great job Brooklyn 😀👍 we tryed the Black prince inderminmant and a Black Cherry for the first time. They did great here in North Alabama in the hot humid heat. Still loaded and producing everyday. Very sweet taste.
For me in Missouri, Mortgage Lifter is in my garden every year. It's always reliable. I've liked German Johnson in the past, but it's not doing so hot this year. Cherokee Purple always does good. The vines are loaded this year. As far as small fruited, Black Cherry is my go-to and I also love Sungold, but I'm not growing it this year.
Interesting how different varieties seem to get different reviews in certain areas. I've grown Mortgage Lifter in the past and wasn't super-impressed, but lots of folks love it.
Red Snapper, Celebrity, Tachi, Lemon Boy,Cherokee Purple, Atomic Grape, Roadster is promising, lots of green fruit but planted them for a late tomato crop deliberately...celebrity was 1st for ripening big maters, cherokee purple is 1st on flavor(herloom). I am planning the same group next year unless I grow Cheifs' Choice Yellow-excellent keeper off the vine for late fall storage, very good flavor. We like home grown fresh maters thru Nov.-Dec. Zone 7b. God bless.
Might have to find a way to list a few cuttings on our website. I haven't had good luck with getting cuttings going, but I'm sure it's something I'm doing wrong.
Have you checked out Reimer Seeds? I went down a rabbit hole just looking at their selection of tomato seeds! Pretty decent variety information listed and also the country of origin. Been loving the videos, y'all are opening my eyes to new veggies. Thanks
So glad Brooklyn’s going to get a bit of a break. But, oh Travis, you are going to pay it sounds like! 🤣 I am just in amazement at her- working, doing the garden, canning and preserving, 2 kids. You go girl! I don’t know how you do it. I’m retired and just handling the garden and trying to cook is almost too much for me.
If you like them yellers try some chefs choice yellow, its the best by far yellow I have grown! The days to harvest are a little off, they are ready well sooner the than the date on the label.
I literally was given a greenhouse this year because the person who was ahead of me 'in line' on the facebook post didn't want to help the persom giving it away to take it apart. People are LAZY. My neighbour had apples to gift last year too and no one even offered to help pick but were happy to take some bags full🙄
Do you have a video where you go over your drip system? Like what tape, layout flow, etc you use for your certain veggies? Gathering as much information as I can before next year when my wife and I plan to put in a much bigger garden 😂
Your tomatoes looked great this year! I have the Bella Rosa starting to ripen, and am quite happy with the production. A few are some monsters (not much cracking with all the rain)! Might be 2023 before I change variety as I still have enough seed for next year. I can say that I’m happy with going determinate (struggled last year with the indeterminate and disease). Keep on keepin on!
Oh my God! I planted my tomatillos too thick too. They ran me over! Travis, a video or two back, you mentioned that your “pollinator” watermelons 🍉 for the seedless watermelon, haven’t sweetened up. In my pack, we’re the Charleston Grey. They have ripened up and are amazing!
I should have went with the Charleston Grey, but I thought it would be cool to grow some giants -- so I chose Carolina Cross. Little did I know they'd never ripen.
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TyTy has had a tough day working! Bless his sweet little cute self!
Some of the things he says ... lol
Travis,
I love your family. It brings me joy everytime you post another video.
You are wise beyond your years to do what you have done. Family is the absolutely highest importance and you being centered on your beautiful family will be rewarded and revered forever.
Take it from an older man that let career and climbing that ladder take its toll . I truly believe if I was as wise as you at your age, my son would be here on earth and i would not have the regrets.
You are doing well!!!
Wow! Thank you! Life is definitely much better at a slower pace nowadays.
“There’s a few other things I’d like …” 😂 love y’all’s banter ❤️
Guess that means she doesn't want a knife. lol
One of my wife's favorite dishes that I make is pan roasted duck breast with sauteed figs and blackberry wine reduction. You can just use blackberries and cook them down if you can't find the wine. Serve it with polenta mixed with mascarpone cheese.
That sounds wonderful!
That sounds fancy ... and delicious!
I planted Lemon Boy last year and had great results. This year I planted Golden Jubilee and while they are still producing, they're not near the production of Lemon Boy. The big winner for me this year were the rogue Cherry Red plants that sprouted from last year's garden. they're still going strong and do not seem to affected by the blight that affected the heirloom varieties that I planted.
Good to see you're back on RUclips.
I've grown Jubilee in the past and I agree that it does not compare to the production of Lemon Boy. Thanks for watching!
Yum yum that pizza sounds delicious. I’m coming next time you make it. Lol I live in Myrtle beach, I like watching you and learning. I’m Zone 8b. So we can grow the same things. I came from Pennsylvania and had no problems growing. Yeah well it’s a whole different ball game down here. My soil sucks! I pretty much am learning to garden all over again. Your baby is adorable.
Travis you have a beautiful family. Your property looks amazing. I see you have grapes are they Muscadine’s. I live in South Florida I planted Muscadine’s this was my first year. Hopefully in a couple more years mine will look as happy and healthy as yours. I enjoy watching your videos very relaxing.
Thanks David! Once those muscadines get going, they're pretty maintenance-free.
No wonder you all had such a productive afternoon, Ty Ty had to work so hard to make that happen! Where is Mr. Abram? Hope he is doing well. It was so funny to hear poor Ty Ty complain about how much he had worked all day! So sweet and funny!
Brooklyn and Travis, you have so much sun where you all live. You need to cut up the paste tomatoes and get them dried in the sun, and then putting them in olive oil with Italian spices, salt, perhaps some balsamic vinaigrette. and bottle it as sun dried tomatoes. You can add them to pasta or even pasta sauce. They are great and very versatile. You will love it.
My hubby and I watched this video and thought, Travis makes his wife do all the hard stuff! What happened to the Southern Gentlemen? Then we watched your video on breaking your back and it all made sense! Context matters....get well quick and God bless!
Haha. I figured that's going to happen a good bit when some folks watch some of these videos without having seen the back video.
Also, I have never had tomato plants looking that amazing! I almost cried when I saw your wife throw them away...
Absolutely, Brother, Pecans in EVERYTHING...
Cakes, cookies, brownies ... everything!
@@LazyDogFarm Amen...
I pick figs everyday and put in a zip lock bags and hold in freezer until I have enough to process.
Good idea. Fortunately, we've got plenty. We made 18 pints of fig jelly tonight.
I love seeing your wife and kids in the videos. Ty-ty had me cracking up! 😂
Thanks Netty!
Cream sausage and Lemon Boy were my winners this year. The San Marzano paste tomatoes are doing better than last year, bigger and more of them. While I love Black Krim and Cherokee Purple and will probably plant again, just don't get much production, though more than last year. Been studying and watching videos on tomato growing. Really working on the soil. Really impressed with your family work ethic and passing it on to the next generation.
Thanks RuthAnn. I need to try some of those sausage tomatoes. I’ve never grown any.
I used to grow Better Boy, but tried Mortgage Lifter and had great success. BIG vigorous plants and BIG fruits. Very productive. It would be interesting to see you try that next year.
I grew Mortgage Lifter one year and wasn't very impressed. The ones I grew were quite bland. Maybe I need to give them another shot.
You're going to have wild tomatoe plants sprouting up in the forest!
Surprisingly, we never get volunteers there. We've been throwing tomato plants in the woods for years and have never seen anything significant.
Them green tomatoes would make some mighty fine relish to go with beans, taters and fried crappie! Coarse you could just fry a mess of them too. If it wasn't so far from southeast Ok to Ga I sure enough would have come and picked them tomatoes for you. We had so much rain here we were two months late on getting ours out. we're just now getting a few turning. Our okrie is just now starting to bloom also. wettest spring I ever remember.
We were the opposite. Really dry spring and now raining all the time.
My Uncle swore by Red Bounty. He loved the production and disease resistance. That’s all he grew for the past several years. Super Sweet 100 is my go to cherry tomato as far as production & taste. Sungold is my favorite tasting cherry variety. I love me some Radiator Charlie Mortgage Lifters for indeterminate.
Thanks for sharing Brad. If you've never tried Red Snapper, I bet you'd love it!
@@LazyDogFarm Haha. I'm growing Red Bounty and Red Snapper this year after I saw some of your videos. 20 of each.
6:15 Tyty look like he was rolling in that dirt 🤣
He can get dirty in a minute!
Ha! When I was his age, I could just look at dirt and it just jumped up on me. I enjoyed being a kid!
I've never been impressed with better boy. I grew Jet star this year and it did excellent in this NC. heat.
I think I'm mostly done growing indeterminate hybrids. They just can't compete with the determinate hybrids down here. The only indeterminates I plan on growing next are the specialty, colorful types and cherry tomatoes.
@@LazyDogFarm celebrity , marglobe and homestead are some of our favorite determinate plants .
If you like german johnson and the yellow tomatoes, try the german pink. The skin can be thick but it's the best table and sandwich tomato for flavor.
Thanks for the suggestion!
Ty Ty is so cute! Especially when he said, “ Momma set me here.” Lol.
Haha. Bless his heart.
Travis I finally found some cherry tomatoes this year like the old bells. They don't get real red just kind pink but boy they have that great acidy taste. I know we've talked about them in the past but I love my parks whopper. I wish you would try a few nest year. Ps that boy is so precious and cute. PS I'm praying for your back to heal.
Thanks Joel. Did you know Park's Whopper is actually a variety bred by Seminis? It's one of those hybrid varieties that just has numbers and letters. I wish I could remember which one it was. Anyways, it's brilliant marketing by Park Seed. They made everyone think that they have something unique, but it's just a name change for something that is pretty common.
Brooklyn is a fantastic helper. Thank God for your family.
Indeed. Very blessed!
Thank God for your sense of humour! So glad to see you laughing through this challenging time Brooklyn (obviously you too Travis, it's no fun being laid up with a spinal injury...been there, no wish to repeat the experience).
Much love to you all from Perth, Western Australia x
Thanks Zoe!
My big winner this year was Shimmer. Hybrid grape-ish style. Excellent flavor and production. Only planted one and it out produced the sun gold. Can pick them green or let them get dark.
Thanks for the tip Fred!
With this being our first garden in 20 years we decided to try Invincible, Florida 91, Rutgers and Purple Cherokee. The Invincible and Florida 91 produced the best so we had paste and slicing tomatoes. Wouldn’t try the Rutgers again not hardly any fruit through this heat, humidity and rain we’ve been having in NWFL. Rain pretty much did in my Cherokee but what I got was so tasty. I’m with you Travis on pecans in everything especially baked goods. Love watching you and your family....brings back memories of ours many years ago. Been praying for a speedy recovery on your back. God bless.
Thanks Debra. Glad you enjoyed Invincible and Florida 91. They produced well for us too.
In 2020, I grew a dwarf, determinate, beefsteak-style tomato called "PURPLE REIGN" for the first time. Loved it! Yes, it is in the garden again for 2021!
My favorite yellow tomato is "DAD'S SUNSET". Best wishes from Kate in Olympia, WA
Thanks for the recommendations Kate!
For a good purple, try Cerokee Carbon. It will set fruit in heat and not be cat faced. Excellent vigor and flavor. Works for us in O.K.
Thanks for the suggestion Leland.
Omg...i would of come...wow....sounds like my kids.
The tomato that we grow is Early Girl, and DX52. We planted 120 plants last year, and bottled over 300 quarts of hole tomatoes. This year we added the Summer Pick, seeds we got from Hoss , planted 16, and planted only 80 of the others.
Hopefully SummerPick was productive for you. It usually is for us.
I understand, I pick squash everyday and can't get people to come get them but they will take them if I deliver them.
I know right. A little picking ain't never hurt anyone.
Good for you! The squirrels ate all 35 of my tomato plants to shreds. Truly heartbreaking.
Ouch. Might be time to eliminate some squirrels.
Watching from New Zealand, this channel has inspired me to start growing herbs and flowers this coming growing season. I'm also going to be doing my own little tomato trial too.
Go for it! Having herbs and flowers amongst the vegetables is surely a treat!
I bet BROOKLYN never lets you get close to a waterslide again. LOL
Funny story ... We went to a kids birthday party at a friends house this weekend and they had one. Started having flashbacks ... lol
I bet you did!
Save those little green tomatoes for pickles. I chop equal parts (or what ever you want) green tomatoes, hot peppers and onions. Make a pickling mixture of 3 parts vinegar, 2 parts sugar, and mustard seed. Bring the pickling mixture to a boil, add the veggies and simmer for about 15 minutes. Pack into jars and water bath for 15 minutes. It's really good with dried beans or peas and a chunk of cornbread.
That does sound good!
I’m gonna try that , it sounds good !
It sounds similar to an East Tennessee recipe called chow chow . It has those ingredients you named but also has some shredded cabbage and a few or things that I’d have to look up . Probably many different variations.
@@gregleach5833 Well I'm in Western NC so we could have very similar recipes. My grandmother could pickle anything. I just took her basic sweet pickle mixture ratio and added my own twist.
Wish I lived close enough to come pick some of those tomatoes.
We'd surely give you some!
I second Sungold for a cherry variety. I think you mentioned before. Sweet, tangy and full of flavor. Too much rain splits them though. - I'm going to have to come back to this thread when I decide what to grow next year. Lots of interesting suggestions.
Sungold is definitely one of the best tasting ones, if not the best. Splitting being the only downside to that variety.
I'm trying Jersey Devils this year. They are so far five feet tall and branching out almost two feet. This is in PA crazy.
Wow! Sounds like a winner!
My first year with Jersey Devils too and they are killing it. Going to be my go to canning tomato I think
I am about to start my tomatoes for the year. Trying a lot of new types this year… some old.
Super Sweet 100 and Sungold cherries. Celebrity, Red Snapper, Bella Rosa, and Chefs Choice Pink.
Haven't tried all of those, but we really like Sungold, Red Snapper and Bella Rosa.
@@LazyDogFarm
Thanks! I am growing the Red Snapper and Bella Rosa after seeing your reviews actually.
I just built my own "dream garden" at the new place. I am going to make this the first year we get to have a real garden for my family. We want to can our own spaghetti sauce for a year.
Thank you for all you do!
Cant believe you wont have fresh tomato sandwiches for the rest of the summer. TaTa is justifiably upset! :) Mine are just now picking up,
That's life down here. August and September are the months when we get to take a little break.
You dont have a single one of my 14!!!GREEN ZEBRA IS MY ALLTIME FAVORITE(its a saladette size...but the taste is just perfect to me sweet and acid wise!) Yellow pear cherry, lemon ice cherry, unicorn cherry, Cherokee purple, large barred boar, dr wychee, gold medal, Paul robeson, strawberry margarita, pineapple, siletz, striped German, and wild striped boar !!!
Sounds like a great mix of varieties. I've grown a few of those in the past.
@@LazyDogFarm lots of color
That fig pizza sounds amazing! We love plum tomatoes the best, making enough tomato sauce for the year is job one in my garden. We also love the plum tomatoes cut up in a Greek salad, they really hold their firmness. My favourite variety is Picus, that’s all I’m planning to grow next year. Back when I was growing indeterminate varieties I liked Ultra Boy and Hy Beef, I think Hy Beef is a stokes exclusive, they are really firm and meaty for a slicing tomato 🍅.
Thanks for sharing your favorite varieties. Don't think we've ever tried any of those.
I live in southern Indiana on the ky border and I don't even have tomatoes coming in yet lol. Just cherry tomatoes. I'm growing everything new this year as far as the big ones. Hillbilly, ky beefsteak, Dr Wyche's, Cherokee purple, speckled Romans, and then 2 hybrid slicing tomatoes. I can't wait until my first one is ready. The cherries are holding me over for now but it shouldn't be much longer
Hopefully you get some big harvests soon!
I've been impressed with Jaune Flamme- it's an heirloom indeterminate. It's a prolific orange small sized slicer (smaller than Celebrity) with great flavor. Perfect for one tomato sandwich, cut for salads, or dried (I tend to dry my tomatoes in oven and freeze, then puree when ready for sauce). It's handled our humid north Georgia summers for 4 years, even last year when the rain just didn't stop. For figs, my favorite is to can in balsamic vinegar- great in winter as a reduction sauce for pork or chicken. (cook liquid from jar with onion, thyme and butter until thick, add figs just before serving).
Fig reductions are so good!
This is a very enjoyable video. Love to listen and see family interaction. Y’all are so good.
Thank you so much 🤗
A GREAT cherry tomato that the kids will love is the Coyote tomato. Super Sweet, bite sized, yellow tomatoes. Prolific and easy keepers. A big favorite in our family for snacking and salads
Thanks for the recommendation!
Kellogg’s breakfast and Black Sea Man have been my favorites the the past 2 years and also this year. Black Cherry, White Cherry and Sungold are my favorite cherry tomatoes every year. Great video. I hope you have a speedy recovery.
Black Seaman is my favorite, too.
Thanks for the recommendations Sherry!
Another vote for Black Sea Man, I was very surprised. They started ripening before summer got hot and the first 2-3 fruits weren't super impressive... but my two plants made like 50-60 tomatoes each and even though I didn't trellis the plants (yea I know...) about half of those were completely undamaged despite all the fruits being on the ground, plants had no disease issues in south-central Virginia and stayed productive until frosts hit. The best part, of course, is that the tomatoes themselves really were fantastic! Deep tomato flavor and wonderful texture, and they taste like they've been lightly salted without anything added, I mean wow. My friends and coworkers were amazed.
I had a lot of other heirloom varieties and only one other came close to the quality and productivity but I have no clue what it was because I forgot to label but it was a giant pink slicer.
As far as cherry tomatoes, Adaptive Seeds actually has some very good attempts at dehybridizing Sungold, and they are all worth growing IMO. I grew all four, and I remember Wali's Gold and Sweet Orange II as being the two best.
I also really, really liked the Orange Centiflor. They are a more compact indeterminate than those other two, and have enormous clusters of pointy-tipped large cherry tomatoes that have an excellent taste: I actually preferred these to the other orange cherries sometimes, but they were all so good that it's like comparing an 8-8.5/10 to a 9-9.5/10.
This is my first year growing the actual Sungold so it will be interesting to compare them with the OP varieties I mentioned above.
Those lemon boys are extremely tasty and productive. They are the only yellow tomato that I have tried and really liked. Them and Cherokee purple's make a nice LSU colored tomato plate.
Go Dawgs!
Juliet hybrid grape tomato was my favorite in Arizona. It did extremely well, even in the heat.
Sounds like a good one. Have heard quite a few folks mention Juliet as a great variety.
I sure wish I lived close to you. I would certainly have come and picked tomatoes. What's wrong with people????? They don't know what it is like to eat a home grown tomato. My tomatoes are on the way out until the fall crops get started.
I just subscribed to your channel. I didn't know where you went. Glad to see you again!!!!!😃😃😃😃😃
Glad you found us Shirley!
Great family! Enjoy everyone working together!
Thanks Lisa!
OH MY!! I wish I had room for a fig tree. For next year think about trialing a grape tomato called "sugary". It has a brix of 9
Thanks for the recommendation Jack! Lots of folks up north grow fig trees in big pots, so that may be an option?
Alright alright alright its fig time y'all forty five hundred three eight eight!! That's a lotta figs. I guess he got his second wind. Its just amazing how much fun kids are you can't write this stuff.
I don't think we harvested quite that many, but it was close! lol
Our#1 was Red Snapper, 2, Florida91,3 , Bella Rosa, 4, Heirloom , Pink Berkley Tye Dye.
Thanks for sharing your rankings Leland!
GOD BLESS YOU TRAVIS, BROOKLYN, & FAMILY IN JESUS NAME. WE LOVE YALL. SUCH A PRECIOUS FAMILY.
Thanks for watching Melinda!
We grew the Old Fashioned Red Cherry tomato from Southern Exposure Seed Exchange and it has been a very vigorous growing plant producing a steady stream of tomatoes.
Good to know. Thanks for the recommendation.
My winner Tomatoes this year is the Cherokee Purple and the Honey Delight. The Honey Delight are small tomatoes but the flavor and production was out standing. My Cherokee did well but with all the rain they cracked a lot.
Next year I want to grow a 2 lb tomato. Got so close this year, but not quite there.
Your gonna need a 2 pounder to bet me next year..LOL crying laughing!
Giant Belgium Pink heirloom has been my winner this year. It produces huge, sweet tomatoes and a lot of them. It’s the only indeterminate in my garden that has not been splitting from all the rain in S La. The plant itself is still very healthy too. Got seeds from Gary over at The Rusted Garden.
Thanks for the recommendation Lisa!
Sun gold cherries are delicious!! If you like Kellogg’s breakfast, you might do a comparison between it and Dr Wyche’s or Old German next year. Man, those yellow maters are good!
Y’all are so fun to watch as a family. I know the broken back has to have been a crazy difficult curveball, but what a blessing to get to see you two work as a team! And TyTy is just a breath of fresh air…too precious!
I definitely need to compare Kelloggs to Dr. Wyche's next year.
I really liked the Connie pink cherry tomato. I grow in north Florida. This variety produced well for us.
Thanks for the recommendation Katelin.
Glad your back on RUclips! Missed you on the Hoss Tool site. Best wishes, Jim
Glad you found us Jim! Welcome to the channel.
Wish I could come and pick…… still waiting on my tomatoes to blush up north.
That's crazy. We're done and you're just getting started.
Enjoyed the video Travis. One of the very best plum tomatoes I have grown for years is Juliet F1 AAS Winner. Outstanding production and all around use tomato !!! This year I'm trying a Determinate called Celebrity, and a new cherry type called Chocolate Sprinkles (Indeterminate). Travis, here in Southern N.H. have had off and on rain since July 1st ! (Elsa 3" alone). Watching my squash and pumpkin plants having a hard time keeping fruit set. Thanks so much for taking the time to do these. Take care !
We've had rain every day seems like for the last two weeks. It's definitely made things tough on our second planting of squash and cukes.
Really liking the BellaRosa. They are loading up nice and fit in five foot t posts perfectly. Make a neat row. If they are as good as people say I got a winner. Mt Vineyard looks like a flop. Only had a few but so far no better than a store tomato on flavor. May be gratful for them when the heat sets in. Used to could get dried Turkish figs at the International Market cheap. Must take a long time to dry. That big fig's a nice looking tree.
Bella Rosa is a consistent winner for us. Have grown it for 5-6 years now it seems. Just going to give it a break next year to try other varieties. Mountain Vineyard took a while, but started producing well for us. The skins were kind of thick and tough though.
@@LazyDogFarm At least the Mt Vinyard aren't splitting in all the rain. Sorta like a paste grape.
Here in NH I still haven't got my first tomato and here y'all are pulling em out 😉
It is weird, isn't it.
Yep. We're about to take a break and you're just getting started!
Check out the Momotaro/Tough Boy from seeds & Such. Great disease resistance and a heat set gene to grow well in the deep south. In Texas 8B where we had about 45 days of 100+ degree days, it was the only one that hung in there. Bella Rosa was a close second. Another good heat set gene /disease package.
Thanks for the recommendation. I'll give it a look.
When researching best practice for fig tree production, my sources (UT Extension office) talked about pruning. A couple winters ago my Brown Turkey fig froze back to the ground here in the Foothills of the Smokys, East Tennessee. Since then, I keep it cut into a particular way every fall/spring before budding. It keeps the tree at a manageable height and is loaded, loaded every year...
We prune ours so we can mow underneath them, but they're pretty maintenance-free once they get going.
Poor little Ty Ty😊 HE IS SO CUTE!!
He get us tickled all the time by the stuff he says.
My Rutgers, Abe Lincoln, Red Snapper and Atomic Grape have taken off! Still way too early in 7 to harvest but they're getting there. Just hope blight doesn't set in with all this rain.
Yeah we were fortunate to have basically no rain during the prime of our tomato growing season. And now we're getting rain every day, which isn't good for tomatoes.
Lemon boy is my favourite tomato. I don’t really enjoy tomato sauce etc because it’s too acidic and gives my indigestion but I enjoy my lemon boy tomato sauce, they say the yellow tomato is less acidic
Lemon boy definitely has less acidity than the red tomatoes.
I was super impressed by the lemon boy last year here in Ohio. I planted 10 of them this year. Nothing ripe yet but they are super tasty perfect for BLT’s
Yes! Very good on a BLT!
Great video Lazy dog farm🌄❤Ty Ty is a hard working cute little fella 💙I love lemon boys! I'm gonna have to try the Kellogg's tomatoes! Have a blessed day 🌄✝️🧡🦋
Thanks Kelly!
I Liked the Tachis. Great production. I like them for Pico de gallo. Really great tasting. Some actually produced several bunches.
They're definitely the most productive paste type (along with Invincible) that I've seen.
Mini charm is an excellent cherry tomato that I've had great success with. They are very vigorous and disease resistant.
Thanks for the suggestion Andrew!
So enjoyed visiting this morning with yall, and figs is a favorite in our household. Blessings Yall
Thanks for joining us!
I'm trying 'Pink Berkley Tie Dye" which is said to be the best tasting tomato... we'll see, I'm zone 5b/6a depending on which chart you look at so ours don't come in until late August early September due to still having freezing temps late May. Also' Barry's Crazy Cherry" which is supposed to be extremely prolific, a few new ones is always fun! I'll be sure and update and let ya know how they do. Also, TyTy is just too adorable in his own little seat 😂 love that! GBY 🙏
Keep us updated on the Tie Dye. I might be interested enough to try that one.
I agree, Red Snapper are awesome. My Abe Lincoln and Brandywine didn't do much either. But I love the Tachi. Jury still out on the Homestead and Summerpick. And, I love peCANS too. Sad thing is way too many people say it wrong
Glad you know how to say it the right way. I love the Tachis as well -- can't beat the production. I just have a hard time keeping them upright.
My most productive cherry tomato this year was the Riesentraube. It’s a fun shape with a pointy bottom. Multi-branching and tons of tomatoes. Other fun ones I tried his year was Ceylon and the Garden Peach. Love your channel! I didn’t pull my determinate plants out yet, but I did spend part of my day trimming up my indeterminates.
Never even heard of those three, but now I'm interested ...
We are not about that litter 😂 you guys crack me up
Gotta properly dispose of your tomato twine! lol
Thank you!
You're welcome!
I grow a lot of indeterminate tomatoes. Hybrids and OP. Mine are really starting to come on right now and I would recommend Bigdena from Johnnys. Not a cheap seed, but I am liking it better than Jet Star and Big Beef right now for my red hybrids, both of which are also good. But I am giving the edge to Bigdena. Buffalosun is another nice Hybrid with some color and size to it too.
I've heard good things about Bigdena and several of the market farming groups on FB. For some reason I thought that was more of a greenhouse variety, but it sounds like you're growing it outside?
@@LazyDogFarm a guy I know in Texas that grows 30+ varieties outdoors each year told me to grow it. He said it’s great for the heat. I’m in Raleigh NC and so far it’s proving true. It’s productive and consistent on the size and shape of the tomatoes, and tasty!
I would gladly pick your tomatoes if I weren’t too far away! Mine are finally starting to ripen, but they don’t look as good as yours. I tried! Brooklyn is doing an awesome job of walking in your shoes! TyTy is precious!
The timing of the removal ended up working out pretty well. We keep getting more rain and the plants are looking pretty bad -- the ones we didn't pull in this video.
I’m partial to black tomatoes and have found black prince and black japanese trifele to be fantastic producers with excellent flavor. For a larger tomato, Carbon is a favorite, and I’ve noticed that the plant tends to stay smaller, even though it produces well and also has great flavor. On the hybrid side, Steakhouse is a beautiful red beefsteak with good flavor and solid performance every year.
Also shocked that ppl didn’t want to pick some tomatoes. If I lived anywhere near I’d be all over that, and I’m pretty fast at picking tomatoes. :D
I actually prefer smaller plants, so might have to give Carbon a try.
Another great job Brooklyn 😀👍 we tryed the Black prince inderminmant and a Black Cherry for the first time. They did great here in North Alabama in the hot humid heat. Still loaded and producing everyday. Very sweet taste.
Don't think I've tried those. We grew a Black Zebra cherry last year and it was good, but the skins were thick and kind of tough.
Kellogg Breakfast is a keeper in my book.
Paul Roberson was a new one for me this year. I liked it.
Looks like Paul Robeson is a must-grow for next year.
For me in Missouri, Mortgage Lifter is in my garden every year. It's always reliable. I've liked German Johnson in the past, but it's not doing so hot this year. Cherokee Purple always does good. The vines are loaded this year. As far as small fruited, Black Cherry is my go-to and I also love Sungold, but I'm not growing it this year.
Interesting how different varieties seem to get different reviews in certain areas. I've grown Mortgage Lifter in the past and wasn't super-impressed, but lots of folks love it.
Red Snapper, Celebrity, Tachi, Lemon Boy,Cherokee Purple, Atomic Grape, Roadster is promising, lots of green fruit but planted them for a late tomato crop deliberately...celebrity was 1st for ripening big maters, cherokee purple is 1st on flavor(herloom). I am planning the same group next year unless I grow Cheifs' Choice Yellow-excellent keeper off the vine for late fall storage, very good flavor. We like home grown fresh maters thru Nov.-Dec. Zone 7b. God bless.
I liked Chef's Choice Orange the year I grew it. I need to try some of the other Chef's Choice offerings.
We make yellow salsa out of the lemon boys. A great sweet flavor.
We should have did that!
A couple to try. Benevento F1, and Marzano Fire, both from Artisan Seeds
Brandywine pink! Yummy
That's a good one too!
Federle Tomato did great for me in the midwest. wonderful flavor top protection
Thanks for sharing!
Would definitely love a cutting from that fig tree when that time of year come. Love the family
Might have to find a way to list a few cuttings on our website. I haven't had good luck with getting cuttings going, but I'm sure it's something I'm doing wrong.
Have you checked out Reimer Seeds? I went down a rabbit hole just looking at their selection of tomato seeds! Pretty decent variety information listed and also the country of origin. Been loving the videos, y'all are opening my eyes to new veggies. Thanks
I've stumbled across their site a few times, but never bought anything from them. Might have to check them out though!
So glad Brooklyn’s going to get a bit of a break. But, oh Travis, you are going to pay it sounds like! 🤣 I am just in amazement at her- working, doing the garden, canning and preserving, 2 kids. You go girl! I don’t know how you do it. I’m retired and just handling the garden and trying to cook is almost too much for me.
She's amazing. I know she'll be glad when I'm back to full strength.
And she is a working attorney to boot! Amazing, Brooklyn. You go girl!
If you like them yellers try some chefs choice yellow, its the best by far yellow I have grown! The days to harvest are a little off, they are ready well sooner the than the date on the label.
I grew Chef's Choice Orange last year, but definitely want to try more of the Chef's Choice colors.
Try Black Cherry grape tomatoes my favorite
Thanks for the suggestion!
I literally was given a greenhouse this year because the person who was ahead of me 'in line' on the facebook post didn't want to help the persom giving it away to take it apart. People are LAZY. My neighbour had apples to gift last year too and no one even offered to help pick but were happy to take some bags full🙄
That's crazy! Glad you were able to get a greenhouse though!
Do you have a video where you go over your drip system? Like what tape, layout flow, etc you use for your certain veggies? Gathering as much information as I can before next year when my wife and I plan to put in a much bigger garden 😂
We'll probably be doing some of that come fall when we start planting again.
Your tomatoes looked great this year! I have the Bella Rosa starting to ripen, and am quite happy with the production. A few are some monsters (not much cracking with all the rain)! Might be 2023 before I change variety as I still have enough seed for next year. I can say that I’m happy with going determinate (struggled last year with the indeterminate and disease). Keep on keepin on!
Good to hear the determinants are doing well for you. I think a lot of people are hesitant to try them, but they're solid producers.
Oh my God! I planted my tomatillos too thick too. They ran me over!
Travis, a video or two back, you mentioned that your “pollinator” watermelons 🍉 for the seedless watermelon, haven’t sweetened up.
In my pack, we’re the Charleston Grey. They have ripened up and are amazing!
I should have went with the Charleston Grey, but I thought it would be cool to grow some giants -- so I chose Carolina Cross. Little did I know they'd never ripen.