They are Anaheims and bakloutis. Gotta check my notes from last year.
ETA: Those Anaheims should be up by now. Last two years they took 18ish days.
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Just yesterday I got an order in for a last few packets of herb seeds I want to try this year as well as some nifty-looking silicone seed starting pots. I already ordered a bunch of seeds in December and January (couldnât wait) and will get going with my early stuff as soon as the potting supplies arrive. Iâll be cleaning up and mending my plots this weekend; wonât be putting anything in except snap peas in February but hope to have lots of lettuces and flowers ready for March.
I am super excited to try starting tomatoes from seed for the first time this year. Fuzzy on whether or not the ones I saved are from an open-pollinated variety or an F1 hybrid, but I was impressed enough with this one variety to have a go at collecting a few seeds. Wish me luck! (Iâll be buying tomato starts as usual in May either way). Happy 2024 gardening!
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I do the cascadia snow peas myself. Even if I put them in tonight I cannot fathom having snap peas in April; there just isnât enough sun here!
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Iâm behind. I have to start getting some seedlings started. 
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You can do it, little one!
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Iâm considering using most of my garden space for flowers this year, and returning to growing tomatoes in containers. My very first tomato crop, the first summer of the pandemic, was in containers, and it âworked,â but was very chaotic because I was growing enormous heirloom plants without understanding that Iâd need to support them.
I also feel like I need to do this because my garden is small and I understand youâre not supposed to grow tomatoes in the same spot year after year, and I donât have much flexibility within the garden.
Folks who have grown dwarf varieties: whatâs your favorite?
For context, the (heirloom) varieties weâve decided we love to eat for several years running (1) purple cherokee for slicer, and (2) black cherry for cherry tomatoes. I donât want to grow paste tomatoes, and I absolutely loathe the super-hybridized varieties that are commonly available.
Any dwarf variety recos appreciated.
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Yay! I have been growing Dwarf Tomatoes in containers for about 10 years! I can tell you which ones I grow every year.
I think Iâve been trying to grow Uluhru Ochre And Dwarf Caitydid for awhile, but couldnât get seed for one of them.
I get my seeds at Victory Seeds,
and they have more than Tomato Fest, or even the Dwarf Tomato Project website. One of the two original leaders, Craig Lehoulier, runs the Northern Hemisphere website, and did a podcast. Iâm not sure if he still does.
I grow every year, and the only tomato I grow two of . I mostly grow because I like to grow tomatoes; more than I like eating them! I grow larger tomatoes and try to get all the colors, but aside from gazpacho, mostly appreciate the ones I can cook with.
Awesome
Sneaky Sauce (I know you donât want pastes, but these are the only tomatoes, besides Principle Borghese (not a Dwarf, and the only small/cherry )
Brandyfred
Perfect Harmony
Beauty King
Blazing Beauty
Purple Heart
Wild Fred
Fredâs Tie Die
Rosella Purple - said to be most like Purple Cherokee
Malee Rose
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Given what I specified as my preferences I canât tell which ones you are recommending or why you are recommending them. I very much enjoy eating tomatoes. Which do you enjoy eating and why?
Also are none of these cherry tomatoesâŚ? Canât tell from your post.
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My apologies!
I was so hoping you wouldnât ask that! I was so excited, perhaps I didnât read carefully.
I did notice you asked about cherries, and confessed the only cherry I grow is Principe Borghese. I donât grow Dwarf cherries.
I canât recommend many for eating if you donât want pastes. I actually prefer pastes in the kitchen.
Not really a recommendation, but I grow most or all of these every year because I like the colors and size. Thatâs not a good reason to recommend them for eating. They are pretty though, and the plants are attractive and compact. I think they all make pretty slices if you can water them right, and they donât crack or get blossom end rot. That depends a lot on your climate. Mine is extremely hot and dry. How about yours?
I think most of these are âbeefsteakâ sized, or âslicersâ.
I do like Awsome for sandwiches because they are sweet and fruity, but I donât know if you like that.
I like almost any of these in gazpacho, but not the purple ones, because I donât like how they look in gazpacho.
I do recommend Rosella Purple, if you like Purple Cherokee.
Wish I could be more help. I do love growing Dwarf Tomatoes.
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I am ready. I still have some shishito seeds, and thai chili pepper seeds from last yearâs harvest. The challenge now is trying to figure out how to fit this in my pots and garden.
I bought a few varieties of green onion/scallion seeds too. Waiting for those to come. I expect what I had last year to pop up again, but Iâve noticed that the squirrels have been digging up a lot of my onion bulbs the last few summers. 
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You got this @kobuta ! All of us do!
Aji Amarillo and Scotch Bonnet âJeanâ seedlings in an aerogarden. The Scotch Bonnet are the smaller ones, and they are all about 18 days from seeding.
In a week or so I hope to start tomatoes and ann peppers.
Oooh. I love collards.
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And I love it when people post recipe ideas with their garden surplus. 
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This is my 2024 Dwarf Tomato Seed Spreadsheet. I havenât included flavor, but I prefer a variety of foliage and colors, 8-12 ounce oblate fruit, with days to maturity no more than 80 days because it is so hot here by August, they wonât set fruit.
