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Wow so many post since I visited last! Great lsits everyone. It is really nice to see the mixes people put together.
MarkMutt, Let me know about that Muddy Waters later on. It might be named for the Mississippi, but my father was one of Muddy Water's (the musician) good friends. What the heck is Mushroom Basket? Kath, Thanks to the link on Carbon Copy. I missed that thread somehow. BarkEater, You will have to let me know about Sarnowski's Polish Plum. I've thought of growing it. Lapk78, Interesting set up. I had no idea cats would try to eat pepper leaves! Puttgirl, It is not the size of the list, but the quality!! And you might be saner than some of us. Stony, Have you tried Tigrovy? It is a productive red and yellow striped round very neat looking. If you don't like the taste of Green Zebra much, you might like it better. Quote:
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March 30, 2012 | #64 |
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Mushroom basket is here: http://rareseeds.com/mushroom-basket-tomato.html
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Remy, I can tell you about Sarnowski Polish Plum and Bark can tell you how he met Mike Sarnowski in very upstate NY near the Canadian border if he wants to; he may not want to.
When I was growing plants at Charlies farm I came back a few times a week to check on my plants and one time I saw a whole row of plants with no label and asked Charlie what the heck they were. He said he was given a flat of plants from someone who bought wholesale from him , so planted them out. The plants were very vigorous and when they set fruit I got really interested. Not really long but shorter, red fruits that came in singles and doubles and a few triples, and the taste was excellent. It's a paste variety but one of the ones that I've grown that really has great taste along with the others that I think have great taste, of which I don't think there are that many. So I saved seeds, this could have been about 2003 or so, I'd have to check, and asked Sue, Charlie's wife, how I could contact the Sarnowski's for background information, and I did. I wanted to list it in the SSE YEarbooks, which I did, and also offer it in my seed offers, which at that time were at a different site. But I did offer Sarnowski Polish Plum seeds here at TV until I think just last year when I deleted everything pre 2007 but also said that if someone was interested in those older seeds, they'd have to look at my previous seed offers here and contact me over the summer to see if I still had seeds for specific varieties. And I think most of that background info must be at Tania's site, so I'll go there now and post the link if it has that information. Well, not that much more but enough and why should I go on and on about variety backgrounds anyway. http://t.tatianastomatobase.com:88/w...ki_Polish_Plum Note that Suze thought very highly of it as well, as noted at that page. I know she also likes Tony's Italian, another paste type, as does Feldon, which I also sent to Suze.
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Better Boy (my old standby) I'm branching out and trying these heirlooms for the first time: Cherokee Purple Clint Eastwoods Rowdy Red Gardener's Delight --Steve |
March 30, 2012 | #67 |
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Cherry/Small
Jaune Flammée Sungold Black Cherry Green Doctors Frosted Red Pear Dr. Carolyn Pink from Carol - were large last year Dr. Carolyn Pink from Tania - she says they grew small for her Brandywine Cherry Blush Isis Candy Medovaya Kaplya Vince P1 Zima Roma (just started for a friend, I will not grow them personally) Black Black Krim Noire De Crimee Cherokee Purple Spudakee Indian Stripe Indian Stripe PL Pink Berkeley Tie Dye Brad’s Black Heart Big Cheef JD’s Special C-Tex Gary ‘O Sena Kumato Pink Brandy Boy Earl's Faux Terhune Brandywine Suddeth’s Stump of the World Kosovo Vjerino Paradajiz Sjeme Brandywine from Croatia Cowlick’s Brandywine Dutchman yes Soldacki - hasn't germinated, still hoping Todd County Amish Zapotec Red Neves Azorean Red German Red Strawberry (heart) Red Brandywine reg leaf Milka's Red Bulgarian Ludmilla’s Red Plum Russian Bogatyr German Red Strawberry Fish Lake Oxheart Russo Sicilian Togeta Red Penna Cuostralee Great Divide Yellow/Gold/Orange Lemon Boy Maiden’s Gold KBX potato leaf Aunt Gerties Gold Orange Minsk Orange Strawberry Multi-Color Captain Lucky F6&f7 Beauty King Pineapple Lucky Cross Ananas Noire Green when Ripe Cherokee Green Now that I have a couple satellite gardens, I have gone crazy. Now... just what do people do with that many tomatoes?
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Ok...this motivated me to "finalize" my personal garden list this year. I have started over 100 varieties this year, so paring it down was tough!
2012 Worley Grow List Red/Pink Momotaro Neptune Brandywine Sudduth’s Brandywine Cowlick’s Marglobe Kimberly Goose Creek Neve’s Azorean Red Mule Team Frank’s Large Red German Johnson Arkansas Traveler Sioux Aunt Lou’s Underground Railroad Abe Lincoln Fritz Ackerman Bolseno F1 George’s Greek Beefsteak Van Wert Ohio Green When Ripe Absinthe Grub’s mystery Green Cherokee Green Green Doctors Yellow or Bi-Color KBX Persimmon Huang Se Chieh (moon yellow) Black Cherokee Purple JD’s Special C-Tex Ananas Noire Cherry Black Cherry Medovaya Kaplya Matt’s Wild Cherry Green Grape Paste Anna Russian Sylvan Guame Prue
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http://t.tatianastomatobase.com:88/w...._Carolyn_Pink
Tam, I think that Tania has done a good job in trying to summarize where Dr. Carolyn Pink came from, and let me go a bit farther. When I fist grew out the seeds from the SSE member who sent me the seeds for the pink version I got fruits that were larger than what I knew from Dr. Carolyn seeds. I saved seeds, grew them out again and got both small fruited and large fruited plants. Saved seed from the small fruited one separately from the larger fruited ones and same darn thing, so I gave up at that point. Tania may have not seen the larger fruited ones yet but many others have, which is why when I was listing it that I said I thought the smaller fruited one had the taste closet to the original Dr, Carolyn Still making sense here? Darrel Jones says he prefers the small one and I think he said he has it stbilized to one fruit but I could be mistaken on that, and other say they prefer the taste of the larger one, so who knows. It' reminds me of the situation with the cherry tomato Kazachka. Seeds saved from a plant with black cherry tomatoes will give plants that have the same cherries and other plants will have black mini-beefteaks. Save seeds from the latter and you can get plants with either cherries or mini-beefsteaks. Andrey was the source of my seeds and when I asked him he said he was getting the same results. So I posted that info about Kazachka in my seed offer here as well as in my SSE listing for it. And so it goes.
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I remember this Carolyn. I just thought it would be interesting to grow a plant from the seed that produced large ones for me last year and some of Tanias side by side and see what happened. My larger ones tasted good, so if they're the same, fine. If they're even better, great.
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This year I am surrendering a good bit of my space to the quest for some good cherries.
Black Cherry Matt's Wild Cherry Sungold F1 Tomados des Comores Super Snow White Hawaiian Currant Cerise Orange Then there are some to round things out Jubilee Mandarin Cross Cherokee Purple Amish Paste Boxcar Willie Aunt Ruby's German Green Orange Strawberry Anna Russian KBX Pink Floyd Clint Eastwood's Rowdy Red Missouri Pink Love Apple Coustralee Hawaiian Pineapple Giant Belgium Delicious Most are new for me.
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Oh, senior citizen's center is a great idea - I'll have to remember that.
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