Tomato seeds on EBAY - Page 2

seaeagle · April 21, 2016

I really have never heard of this one and I would have remembered it.The tomatobase site was basically a blank page with Mr Bruno's name on it, but i did google and found this.

Posted by drhuey 9/10Australia (My Page) on Fri, Feb 23, 07 at 21:48 This summer I'm growing a mix of 20 hybrid and Heirloom American tomatoes. It's been my most productive season to date (fourth year) thanks to the terrific advice and tips gleaned from this forum over the years. I have one 'ring-in' in the plot. This is the story.
In the winter I was given a few seeds of a tomato which is very popular among home gardeners in the Geelong district in Victoria. During WW11 an Italian prisoner of war was assigned to a farmer in the Geelong district to provide labor. He proved such a good worker that the farmer made contact with his 'employee' in Italy and sponsored his return to Australia as a migrant. He arrived in the early '50's and settled in the Geelong area. Like many European immigrants he brought with him vegetable seeds including some favorite family tomato seeds. By the late '50's he was keeping the seeds of his most productive tomato and continued to grow this variety until 3-4 years ago. For many years he helped the local hospital by selling tomato seedlings at the hospital's annual Spring Fair.Apparently the word spread among the local gardeners and 'Mr Bruno's tomatoes' were eagerly sought after. Mr Bruno is still alive and now resides in a Senior Citizen's home. He can no longer grow his tomatoes.I spoke with him recently and he is happy to have the distribution of the seeds widened.
His tomato has done brilliantly for me this season. It is a heavy producer of 7-8 oz slicing tomatoes (see photo).It is a ribbed tomato with a balanced flavor leaning perhaps towards sweet rather than acid.I've already picked 15 lbs from this one bush and it's still producing.
The bush ia a strong regular-leafed grower but not tall ( say 31/2- 4 feet) the shortest of all my bushes this year. It needs supporting.A feature has been the even size of the fruit.
I'm saving seeds and happy to share with anyone interested.
Brenton

It sounds like a true family heirloom story that can actually be verified, now that may be RARE.

And it sounds like that most who tried it loved it, I wonder why it is not more popular?Hmmmm

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April 21, 2016	#16
seaeagle Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: virginia Posts: 733	Mr.Bruno I really have never heard of this one and I would have remembered it.The tomatobase site was basically a blank page with Mr Bruno's name on it, but i did google and found this. Posted by drhuey 9/10Australia (My Page) on Fri, Feb 23, 07 at 21:48 This summer I'm growing a mix of 20 hybrid and Heirloom American tomatoes. It's been my most productive season to date (fourth year) thanks to the terrific advice and tips gleaned from this forum over the years. I have one 'ring-in' in the plot. This is the story. In the winter I was given a few seeds of a tomato which is very popular among home gardeners in the Geelong district in Victoria. During WW11 an Italian prisoner of war was assigned to a farmer in the Geelong district to provide labor. He proved such a good worker that the farmer made contact with his 'employee' in Italy and sponsored his return to Australia as a migrant. He arrived in the early '50's and settled in the Geelong area. Like many European immigrants he brought with him vegetable seeds including some favorite family tomato seeds. By the late '50's he was keeping the seeds of his most productive tomato and continued to grow this variety until 3-4 years ago. For many years he helped the local hospital by selling tomato seedlings at the hospital's annual Spring Fair.Apparently the word spread among the local gardeners and 'Mr Bruno's tomatoes' were eagerly sought after. Mr Bruno is still alive and now resides in a Senior Citizen's home. He can no longer grow his tomatoes.I spoke with him recently and he is happy to have the distribution of the seeds widened. His tomato has done brilliantly for me this season. It is a heavy producer of 7-8 oz slicing tomatoes (see photo).It is a ribbed tomato with a balanced flavor leaning perhaps towards sweet rather than acid.I've already picked 15 lbs from this one bush and it's still producing. The bush ia a strong regular-leafed grower but not tall ( say 31/2- 4 feet) the shortest of all my bushes this year. It needs supporting.A feature has been the even size of the fruit. I'm saving seeds and happy to share with anyone interested. Brenton It sounds like a true family heirloom story that can actually be verified, now that may be RARE. And it sounds like that most who tried it loved it, I wonder why it is not more popular?Hmmmm http://forums.gardenweb.com/discussi...about-mr-bruno