My Suburban Micro-Farm: The Ultimate Tomato List of 2018

Wow it's been awhile! If you want more Suburban Micro Farm more often, check out my Instagram - @suburbanmicrofarm I post there almost everyday with lots of beautiful photos and my most recent updates! Although I love the instagram format, it's not quite the same as a detailed post about my plans, dreams and ongoing projects.

I have so much to share from 2017, and I will be doing some back-tracking in the coming weeks. 2017 was rough year full of change, loss and reorientation. Thankfully gardening was there to help me and inspire healing. In the spring of 2017, I transformed anunused suburban yard into a glorious 2000sq ft vegetable garden and created a kitchen garden program for adults in transitional housing; the food grown then supplied the in-patient residence kitchen. It was an amazing experience.

This year I want to keep progressing forward and ramp up my personal garden to the level I know I can reach with a couple of dedicated weekend grunts. Like many early starts to the garden season, here I am starting tomatoes once again.

Like always there are new varieties and old classics which I can't imagine not growing year after year. There will be a Ultimate Tomato List Part 2 as I have since added a few more varieties (beacause - why not?).

My tomato varieties for 2018

Banana Legs

Barry's Crazy Cherry

Bing Cherry

Black Beauty

Blane's Pit Viper

Blane's Streak Legal

Blue Fade (breeding project)

Blue Keyes

Blush

Cafe Brule

Copia

Damascus Steel

Dancing with Smurfs

Dark Galaxy

Don's Double Delight

Fuzzy Wuzzy

Garden Peach

Hippie Zebra

Isis Starfire

Kaleidoscopic Jewel

Lil' Nipple (breeding project)

Marizol Magic

Painted Pink

Pertsevidnyi Polosatyi

Reisetomate

Sarandipidy Dwarf

Striped Antho Dawrf

Submarine Blush

Tim's Black Ruffles

Tonnelet

Variegated

I now have over 250 varieties stored in my tomato seed bin (yes, they have their own bin) and it's getting more difficult to narrow-down my grow-out list to a reasonable number before they start to take-over my yard comepletely. Some tomatoes on this list above never seem to perform well, but I always have high hopes. Blue keyes for example; I've been trying to grow this variety for two years without luck. The plant it's self seems to grow narrow spindley vines with narrow leaves and never "makes it" to the fruit stage. This year I have started the remainder of my Blue Keyes seeds in the hopes of producing at least one or two viable plants with fruit for future seasons.

Tomato Seeds for Sale - New for 2018

Amethyst Cream Cherry

Barry's Crazy Cherry Cross

Beefsteak

Black Beauty

Blue Fade (Suburban Micro Farm Original)