Member discussion regarding the methods, varieties and merits of growing tomatoes.
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June 21, 2019 | #31 | |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Colorado
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June 21, 2019 | #32 |
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Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: connecticut,usa
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After my mother passed away I was going through her things and she had saved some tomato seeds in a pill bottle dated 2012.
Luckily it was quite a supply and I managed to get some going after 7 years. She worked a garden as a kid and after getting married she always had a garden. She was 98 when she went to the big greenhouse in the sky and had been gardening for 80 + years until she went blind. The plants are doing well and I am curious about the type,since the bottle was just labeled "tomato seeds" |
July 4, 2019 | #33 |
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Probably my Galapagos Island tomato (S. cheesmaniae). Although I have plenty of seeds from 2015, I don't know anyone else who has the same early version of it (with a small but still indeterminate plant). The plant I grew last year was a cross, and it grew a giant plant (although the year before from the same source, it wasn't). I'm trying it again, this year, but the leaves look darker and not as flat (I'm not sure if it's a cross or if it just has more iron—it does have supplemental iron, but I don't know if that's the reason).
If I could only keep one of my tomatoes, though, it just might be Sausage. It's probably my favorite tomato (if last year is an indicator). The 18 plants I'm growing this year (from three sources, including from saved seed, the original seed packet, and a newer packet from the same store) should help to verify the truth, though (especially as I'm growing most of them where other tomatoes struggled last year). So far, they're doing great (and are setting plenty of fruit), but it has been a phenomenal tomato year (for plant growth and production). |
July 6, 2019 | #34 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Colorado Springs, Colorado
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My most precious seed
I've been growing Sleeping Lady tomatoes, and they have to be my most precious seeds. I'm also trying Moreton tomatoes this year.
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July 14, 2019 | #35 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: CA
Posts: 494
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I love the taste ofBrokenbar's Costoluto Genovese in tomato sauces, I first got seeds from her in 2012, I look forward to growing them every year.
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