Planting Tomato Seeds Inside - 45 Different Varieties!

If you want to grow your own tomatoes from seed indoors, you are supposed to start them four to six weeks before setting out the plants. You can't set out the plants until there is no danger of frost because frost will kill tomato plants. Our average last frost here in northern zone 5 is May 15th which is six weeks from now. It is finally time for me to start the main season tomatoes!

Last year I wasn't able to start seeds inside and had to grow only what I could get at the garden center. So with the ability to grow any of the thousands of available tomato varieties, I spent countless hours this winter trying to decide which to grow.

I had many lists of what I wanted to buy but didn't have the money to buy them all. So I got out my cell packs, planted all of the new ones that I did get AND I planted all of the varieties that I still had old seed for! Some go back as far as 2007, so I'm not sure if they will even germinate. For the old seeds, I planted three or four seeds in each cell and will cross my fingers.

All together I had 45 varieties and planted three or six of each one. I have definate reasons why I selected the tomatoes I did - this year and in years past. I will explain the reasons at a later date but for now, I will simply list the kinds that I am trying. They probably won't all make it into the garden, but here are the contenders in no particular order:

Burpee Supersteak
Park's Country Taste
Park's Whopper
Applause
Beefy Boy
Celebrity
Big Zac
Omar's Lebanese
Ultimate Giant
German Tree
Giant Tree
Jerry's German Giant
Brandywine
Yellow Brandywine
True Black Brandywine
Red BrandyMaster
Aunt Ruby's German Green
Aunt Ruby's German Cherry
Japanese Black Triefele
Black Krim
Black Cherry
Prudens Purple
Nyagous
Green Moldovan
Green Zeebra
Bush Goliath
Delicious
Mortgage Lifter
Persimmon
Pineapple
White Queen
Great White
Snow White
Sweet Million
Super Sweet 100
Isis Candy Cherry
Lady Bug
Blondkopfchen
Grape Sweet Chelsea
Djena Lee Golden Girl
Yellow Gooseberry
Roma
Amish Paste
Costoluto Genovese
Principe Borghese

I think that is all of them. Later I will let you know which of these don't germinate and which don't ultimately make the cut. It is exciting to be planting tomatoes again!

Comments

[Dee @ Start Dreaming]

Rats! I started my tomatoes WAY TOO EARLY! They are already about 6 inches tall and going nuts. I am at a loss for what to do about it now too. I have no room to transplant and no bigger pots.

To help them keep from being overly scrawny though I have been using a fan on them. Their stems are huge!

[Daphne]

I wouldn't know where to put all those tomatoes. That is quite a variety.