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Originally Posted by PNW_D
From http://exchange.seedsavers.org
Big Ray's Argentina
85 days, Elongated paste variety. Regular leaf plant with very good taste and good production of 7" red fruit. Great for sauce and salsa. This is a relatively obscure variety - at least I haven't found it listed anywhere - and it would be great to get a few others growing it.
Spagnoletta
Potato leaf, small, flattened, segmented fruit with unique Mediterranean flavor. Adapts to saliferous soils. Small plant, used to prepare dried tomatoes or good in salads if picked half-ripe Grown in the Gaeta Gulf and Formia areas of Italy. I received seeds from my barber who came from this area in Italy where it is well known and appreciated for the gem that it is |
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Originally Posted by k3vin
Spagnoletta is also known as Casalino. A flattened, ribbed Costoluto type, similar to Costoluto Genovese. I grew it last year and sent in seeds. It's a great saucer, just like the other Costolutos.
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Thank you both!
Big Ray's Argentina would be interesting to grow along side some of the other elongated varieties I will grow.
And knowing that Spagnoletta is from the Gaeta, I'll definitely have to give it a go. That's where my daughter-in-law's Italian side of the family came from, but the old family tomato varieties apparently stopped being grown a generation or two ago.