Just found your channel and happy to subscribe :) May I ask what zone you are in? Im 9B. I really enjoyed your video. This will be my first time growing Dwarf tomatoes and I have ordered seed for Rosella Purple. Ive decided that I have to try the Beronia as well.

Those babies look tasty as all get out!

Thank you for warning people about needing to plant in containers, it also bears mentioning that people will definitely want to chop those seed pods as soon as they start to see them forming. If milkweed sprouts in the lawn, butterflies may lay their eggs on them only to have the plants mowed down, might be kind of a belgian bummer. Thanks again. 🦋 I'm struggling a demoralized with this common milkweed thing, it's a pain in the back (side).

I grew out 2 plants of the next gen Corbello for a winter grow room back-cross (F4s) to JN. I kept the strongest one of the two and dang if it didn't revert back to green! So, a Winter season cross goes bust. Will likely do the cross this Spring. All to expand on you speaking of hoping they'll stay consistent (not changing) until finished in the comments. Certainly pays to grow out a few to select from. I guess they call it unfinished for a reason, eh?

Looks nice and very productive. Is Jimmy Nardello part of its ancestry?

Interesting, I've seen mortgage lifter at the garden center often, but I didn't know it was a ridged/beefsteak shaped tomato. I assumed it was a more perfect round tomato. Will have to give it a try. Currently I have 4 plants, Sweet 100, Early Girl, Brandywine Pink and Russian Red. I mainly have Early Girl as a backup because if everything gets infected Early Girl will already have produced lots of tomato's because it fruits so fast.

Thank you, this was great!

Hi Jim. I Love your videos! I love Black Krim and Cherokee Purple as well but they do not produce well for me. I am growing Carbon this year to see how it does for me. Any suggestions on any that I can grow besides the black Krim which will produe more and tastes similar?

Thank you for your help.

Your plant looks nice and bushy. I am growing the fish pepper and black pearl. Somehow the fish pepper turn out much bigger than the black pearl, 2ft vs 1ft in 3 months. Both were planted on same day. Are black pearl supposed to be smaller?

Man, that looks delicious.

I was just wondering were do you live?

You're voice saonds so nice and your plants look amazing 😊

That looks like it is going to be a great pepper to eat with bean dip or any veggie dip!

Great to think about gardening when I'm looking out at snow, next-to-no sun etc.

It looks and sounds delicious. By your description of taste, it is something I would like to eat. I will be looking for this in the future on the Matt's Peppers site. Say warm Jim, there is a nasty cold front coming through. Take care - Larry

What a yummy looking pepper. Sounds very crunchy too. Let us know if your seeds are at Matt's peppers. Thanks for sharing. Take care and stay warm.

Would love to get some of your seeds here to Argentina. Thanks for sharing your info.

Looks like another great sweet to add to the 'grow bucket' list. Thanks for the share!

Hello. I would like to know if you sell any of your tomato and pepper seeds.?

Great looking pepper. You sure can turn out some good ones. Have a great weekend Jim and stay warm.

Good Morning Jim - At first I thought that might be a cross with Jimmy Nardello as I just love growing those but look forward to the final cross on this one too. Stay warm in the coming arctic blast and have a great weekend...

Thank you for your help. I’m about to divide my very first rhubarb plant so your video is very helpful 🙏🏽

Very helpful video. Thanks!

Can you do Tomacco next?

Hello from Michigan! Cold here as well, but we're supposed to get a warmup tomorrow. Would really like to grow flowers that are blooming by end of May or beginning of June. Not sure how to go about that with just a south facing window in the kitchen. Probably need a whole set up with grow lights and whatnot?

What zone are you in. I am in AZ and summer is toooo hot to grow spinach.

Black Krim is my top tomato, too, and it does pretty well most years here in Central KY, whereas I have real trouble with other heirlooms sometimes; it tastes best in my opinion when there is still a hint of green on the shoulders, but others might like it better a bit riper. The best tomato I have ever tasted, however, was actually a volunteer Brandywine that came up on its own (a BW was there the year before and dropped a damaged tomato). The parent was not impressive at all in terms of production the previous year, so I didn't put any effort into the volunteer. In terms of production, the volunteer was about equal to the previous gen, but I got two excellent, large tomatoes from it with very little care from me. Those were hands-down the best I have ever tasted, but I have not been able to replicate the magic :(, and production wise, there are a lot more productive tomatoes that still taste great, just not quite as good. I bought seeds for a hybrid called Pink Girl one time, and it was a very good tomato for me with excellent production and taste, but I couldn't find the seeds for a while. Rutgers is not bad either, and good for just about everything. The best cheap thrill tomato for me has been 4th of July, which produces very heavily and tastes good, plus it can be really early -- the size is too small for a real slicer, but it quarters up very easily for eating alone or putting in a salad. Anyway, I like all tomatoes in a good year, but those are my five choices that come to mind as standing out.

I love how organized and beautiful your garden looks, even in January! Your dedication to maintaining both indoor and outdoor spaces is truly admirable 💚

Never did I think I’d enjoy a video about someone talking about tomatoes

Do you have the video on starting beets from seed in grow bags from the beginning

Can we save the pickling liquid and reuse it for making a later batch?

So you get half a yield of popped corn compared to commercial popcorn?

It looks quite cold there! I have a number of Midwest peppers started and looking forward to warmer days!

On the south coast of California zone 10a, its been mostly sunny, days in the 50s and 60s, nights in the 30s and 40s. Mostly sunny. Persimmon and pomegranate season is ending, some apple, orange, lemon, lime and avocado trees have fruit on them year round, they produce a lot, theres a lot of guavas and grapefruit at this time as well.

Yup, that looks like my garden…😁

Sounds like you had some magic genetics on the Black Krim. Should have taken a clone of it and kept it going indoors for the next season. Cloning is easy and is the only way to keep a true genetic producing identical fruit. I'm sure you know that but its something to think about if you ever come across another "perfect" tomato. Or maybe I'm crazy and I just love tomatoes too much. Either way thanks for the time you put into this channel, I'm glad I found it.

Hard to beat Carbon for me

This is our second year of using wood chips. Observation #1, weeds come out so much easier!! I wasn't sure if I needed to add chips every fall... So I skipped it, and will let you know the outcome this spring! I do know that I had more weeding than I thought- half of which was Bermuda grass, but I anticipate I'll be adding more chips and that will be solved. It is much preferred to any traditional gardening method! Thank you Paul Gautschi and Creator, for team teaching us all!

Im growing 4 different peppers indoors and the rest I'll pick up at my local gtrrnhouse

Get well Jim! Sorry for the setback.

Happy new year. My January garden update is: my seeds are in the fridge and the garden is empty. We're actually having a mild winter here in Northern BC, it has not really got properly cold yet, and we've only had 2 big snow dumps, both of which have totally melted. Now it's mossy and soggy, like I'm in Vancouver. Hopefully the plants (and animals/insects) that need a deep freeze will be okay, and it won't be a strange year like the past one was. They are messing with the weather to generate climate change taxes and fear. This is causing havoc for farmers and gardeners across North America. We have not had a normal weather year in BC for more than 10 years - it's always either severe cold, floods, wildfires, June frosts, February heat waves, and so on. Hoping for a better 2025! Best of luck to you.

(Oi your windchimes have a pretty tone 🤩)

Here in Florida it's been cold too, just enough to keep me indoors. We've had quite a bit of cold weather lately and more to come next week. Thanks for the update of your garden. I'm looking forward to spring too, I'm getting my garden ready to plant. I'm converting to grow bags instead of 5 gallon buckets. They're starting to break and get dry rotted. They can cut you badly. I hope your tomato project works well for you. Take care and stay warm.

We’ve got an old fashioned winter here south of Kansas City. Kinda forgotten what it’s like. Ice, sleet, snow, and more snow have made hibernating the activity of the day. That and pushing snow and hauling firewood.

It's been cold here in Illinois also. Two snow systems moved through leaving around 9 inches of snow. Spring time can't get here soon enough. Great project you have growing. Have a great weekend Jim.

Good Morning Jim - Yes I think winter and the snow is finally here for most of us now. We have 2-3 inches at most but it will be gone before I can get my ski boot on. The steady stream of seed catalogs are stacked beside my chair but I have not started any seedlings yet. Thanks for sharing your outdoor/indoor projects and hope for an early spring but more cold is on the way..

Here in east central Minnesota, we had a cold snap in December, but warmed up a bit now, currently +18 F. Not much snow on the ground. I hope we are not going to have another dry year. The seed catalogs are arriving. Their arrival lift my spirits and I start planning my gardens. I do enjoy trying something new each year. Belated Happy New Year, Jim. Take Care - Larry

I’m ready for spring! Spent last week in the hospital with an aggressive virus that’s still kicking my butt. I’m trying to entertain myself by looking through seed catalogs and thinking about gardening this year. There is about a foot of snow on the ground and it’s been very cold. Thanks for the update on what’s growing at your place. Have a great week and stay healthy.