2025 Tomato Grow List

It's getting towards that time of year again. What are you all planning on growing?

I have some seeds on the way from Russia, if they arrive safely my 8 greenhouse tomatoes will be (varieties with * are new for this year):

Cowboy - black beefsteak bred by Karen Olivier from Canada, named in memory of her father 
Daniel Burson - black beefsteak
Mat-Su Express - red beefsteak, early to ripen, love the flavour, didn't grow it last year and missed it
Pink Honeymoon F1 - pink beefsteak
Red Lithium* - red beefsteak with yellow stripes, a accidental cross of Lithium Sunset and an unknown variety, quite hard to find
Shake The Disease* - dark beefsteak with green, metallic stripes
Strangelove* - bicolour orange/red with anthocyanin shoulders
Suffer Well* -  dark beefsteak with green, metallic stripes

These will all be grafted onto Estamino F1 rootstock, since last year every tomato in the greenhouse soil did badly except the two grafted plants. This year I'm going to try side grafting, and I've ordered extra rootstock seeds to account for losses. 

If you're a fan of Depeche Mode you may have realised that the last three in the list are named after their songs. They were bred by Bill Yoder from Georgia, USA. He also has a family of tomatoes named after Prince songs. 

Not 100% sure what I'll be growing outside this year, except for 9 x Nagina F1 (Crimson Plum). Possibly Cherrola F1, Sakura F1 and Yellow Mimi F1 or Honey Delight F1 for vining cherries, and some blight resistant bushes e.g. Orangeto F1, Terenzo F1, Orangello F1, Romello F1.

Pink Honeymoon was a no show, unfortunately. I did sow some Bountiful and Rose Crush when I realised it wasn't going to germinate, but I think they're going to be too far behind the rootstocks to graft properly. So if I don't manage to get the graft to work, I'll grow an extra of one of the remaining seven varieties. 

I also didn't sow Cowboy, since three of the tomatoes are already dark ones, and replaced it with True Colours which was beautiful delicious a few years ago. Hopefully it will perform better on a grafted plant. 

All 24 of the Estamino rootstocks germinated, so I have plenty of plants too practice on! 

Bush cherries will be two each of Orangeto and Terenzo. Outdoor vines still undecided!