This Year's Tomatoes - The Dwarfs (A-B)

I'm growing dwarf tomatoes almost exclusively hoping to get enough tomatoes to make my salsa and other tomato products this coming year. I'm going to do a little run-down on the varieties for the next few days.  They've all been potted up to Solo cups and we're just waiting for a sign that our frost days are over before putting them in the ground!

Aftershock - Recent variety, F8 in 2017, selected and developed by Blane Horton. Small sister of "Pit Viper". Round salad type from 60 to 80 grams. Little sister of "Pit Viper". Light and dark green striped epedermis with bright red traces. Green bicolour flesh with a red patch in the center. Juicy flesh with a fruity and sweet flavor. Dwarf plant that can reach 4 feet if grown in full soil, a little smaller pot. Regular rugosa foliage, indeterminate. Good production from mid-season to first frost.

Amber Colored Dwarf -  Not exactly sure what this one will be, but possibly this one. I got the seeds from a seed group I belong to on FB, so it's not from a seed house. 1-3 oz, yellow-gold globes are plentiful and early, yielding for quite a while despite being determinate. With very compact and early plants, Amber is dwarf enough for container culture. Russian origin.

Antho Striped - Recent variety from the USA, developed by Mark McCaslin. Fruit from 100 to 150 grams, usually round.Red dress striped streaks dark indigo shoulders. Flesh pulpy and juicy, sweeter taste with small acid, pretty good for a blue. Dwarf plant type compact habit but can reach 1.20 meters, determinate, regular foliage rugosa. Very productive and beautiful.

Barossa Moon - Dwarf Barossa Moon originated in a cross by Ray South in 2009 between Snow White Cherry with a dwarf red F2 selection from the Sleepy line which he named Snowy F1.  Dwarf Barossa Moon is a prolific midseason, indeterminate, potato leaf dwarf producing  2-4 oz ivory colored fruit that range from round to oval with a mildly sweet, slightly citrus flavor. Dwarf Barossa Moon was selected and named by Patrina Nuske Small. The Barossa Valley is a wine growing region in South Australia where German immigrants settled in the 1800s.

Black Seaman - A Russian Heirloom tomato. Tomatofest certified organic tomato seeds produce small determinant, potato-leaf plants that yield an abundant set of 12-16 ounce beautiful tomatoes that are rich mahogany colored with olive green shoulders when mature. Inside of tomato is deep, reddish green and loaded  with excellent, full-bodied, complex, intense, creamy tomato flavors. This is an outstanding tomato for sandwiches and salads. Black Sea Man heirloom tomato does well growing in mid-sized containers. A great early black tomato.

Bush Chaborovsky - Small pink fruit, 2 foot tall plants, determinate. That's all I know about this one. I can't find a photo of it anywhere, but it was a purchased seed from Bunny Hop Seeds. It's no longer on their website.