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Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Featured tomato: San Francisco Fog

 This indeterminate plant bears small to medium size tomatoes that are red and tasty. It is a variety I got from an Australian gentleman last year. It should be able to set and ripen fruit if the weather is cool, foggy, and cloudy. We've had a hot, humid summer and it's doing just great as well. Very juicy fruit.

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Featured tomato: Banjan roomi

Banjan roomi. This is the first year I've grown this tomato. I traded tomato seeds with someone and this is one of the varieties I got. I was told it is a Middle Eastern variety. Sorry, I've forgotten to take a picture of it, but it is red, slightly pleated, flattened, and of small to medium size. It has been very productive...especially impressive because we had 100 degree weather for a week and it still managed to set blossoms. The taste is good, like a tomato ought to taste and could be used for fresh eating as well as for sauce.


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Featured tomato: Tondino

Italian Tondino maremmano. Italian variety of tomato. It is an excellent sauce tomato from the center of Italy. It bears 3 oz fruit all through the summer. It is a determinate variety that may not require staking and would be suitable for containers. 

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Featured tomato: Great white

Great White. This is an indeterminate plant with beefsteak type white tomato.  It is a meaty tomato that has a creamy texture. Can weigh up to one pound with plenty of feeding and water, but usually stays under a pound. A colorful addition to salads, sandwiches, and slicing. One of those old time favorites.

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Featured tomato: Brown Berry

Brown Berry  is a sweet little jolly to pop in your mouth when working in the garden. It is dark brown, somewhat like Chocolate Cherry. It bears well and the flavor is excellent. Black tomatoes are healthier than red tomatoes because it is higher in antioxidants than red ones. These are great on a vegetable dip platter and it really looks attractive if you have a mix of black, red, white, green, and yellow cherry type tomatoes This is an indeterminate tomato and the fruit is borne in clusters of 8 or so. 

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Featured tomato: Tlacalula pink

This Aztec variety is an indeterminate plant which bears small to medium size tomatoes that are very flavorful. The predominate shape is like a pouch. It has one of the most complex flavors I have ever tasted in a tomato. I almost want to say there is a hint of floral. Makes an interesting addition to summer salads, sandwiches and home made fresh salsa...especially mixed with red, white, yellow, pink, and black tomatoes. What's so special about heirloom tomatoes? The idea that an heirloom is a variety that has been grown by generations and passed down from person to person is really very fascinating.

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Featured Tomato: Scabitha

This indeterminate plant bears small to medium size tomatoes that are very flavorful and prolific Even the meat is tasty and most often all the taste is in the gel around the seeds. I won't pull any punches, the fruit itself is, well...somewhat ugly. It's pretty with it's bright red color and gold streaks. But, it often has many scabs. The scabs do not harm the eater or the tomato and this variety is becoming one of my favorites for taste.

Featured tomato: yellow pear

Yellow Pear,  This indeterminate plant bears a multitude of cherry size, sweet, mild, yellow, pear shaped fruit. The best part is, they are a great vegetable platter and dip veggie. It all ready sports a handle!  The fruit is about 1-2" long . These are great favorites with kids because they have a handle. What's so special about heirloom tomatoes?  The idea that an heirloom is a  variety that has been grown by generations and passed down from person to person is really very fascinating. And they just taste better.

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Featured tomato: White Currant

White currant It is a good grower, bears loads of tiny tomatoes the size of a woman's thumbnail or a dime. The tomato itself has a tart/sweetness that is difficult to describe. Very juicy and excellent in salads or just eating while out in the garden. Indeterminate.


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Featured tomato: Montseraat

Montserrat.. This will be the first year I have grown these tomatoes so I will only be able to tell you what I have read about them. The fruit is red which is flattened and oblate. It also has pleats like an accordion, but somewhat twisted. Very unusual and very rare. It has good flavor.

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Featured tomato: Green Giant


Green Giant. This indeterminate plant bears larger green tomatoes. The one in the picture is 10 oz. It managed to grow that large even with the lousy, rainy summer we had. As you can see from the second picture, they are very meaty with few seeds. Green tomatoes are full of flavor. Out of all the tomatoes, I think they taste best, not as acidic as red tomatoes. Makes an interesting addition to summer salads, sandwiches and home made fresh salsa...especially mixed with red, white, yellow, pink, and black tomatoes.

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Featured tomato: Oaxacan Pink


Oaxacan Pink, Mexican Oaxacan Indian variety. This indeterminate plant bears small to medium size tomatoes that are very flavorful. Pink, very juicy, and flavorful. The pleats make it look quite interesting. Makes an interesting addition to summer salads, sandwiches and home made fresh salsa...especially mixed with red, white, yellow, pink, and black tomatoes.

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Featured tomato: Feuerwerk


Feuerwerk, Germany,This indeterminate plant bears medium to large size tomatoes that are very flavorful. Even the meat is tasty and most often all the taste is in the gel around the seeds. It has flavor that can stand up to mayo. The patterns of gold stripes often look like a chrysanthemum firework and it seems no two tomatoes look alike . Makes an interesting addition to summer salads, sandwiches and home made fresh salsa...especially mixed with red, white, yellow, pink, and black tomatoes.

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Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Update on tomatoes I am growing

The links on the pictures are no longer valid. Until I get them fixed, you can buy seed here. Be aware, some of them may be unavailable as this is the first year I will be growing them.

Tondino Maramemmo-Italy, red sauce
Togorific-African, red, flat, pleated
Tlacalula Pink- pink, pouch shaped, Aztec Indian
Garden Peach-yellow, fuzzy
Humar-Ukraine, yellow
Green sausage-long, ripens green.
Gypsy-black, Russian
Aunt Ruby's German Green, self explanatory
Black Sea Elephant, huge, red, Russia
Nepal- small, red, cold tolerant, early ripening
San Francisco Fog-small, red, tolerates and ripens even in cloudy weather
Kazakhstan Giant-huge, red, from Kazakhstan
Pink Grapefruit-large pink
Qui Hung-China, yellow
Porec-Croatia, small red
Giant white oxheart- large heart shaped, white
Slovene Black- medium black
Pink Oxheart
Čadrg- Slovenia
Zapotec- Mexico
Riesentraube
Bali
Matt's Wild Cherry
Monomoka's Hat-Russian, red
Nuša-Slovenia
Plate De Haiti
Phantom du Laos
Ghana
Galopogos
Cream and Green-Ireland, variegated leaves, red
Kamnik-Slovenia, red
Maodovian Green-Moldovia
Italian red pear, huge, red, sauce
Cuban Black
Polish Pastel
Spitze-Romania
Pineapple, large, yellow and red
Opalka-Poland, red sauce
Polish Ligusia-red sauce
Tarasenko-Ukraine
Val-Slovenia
Montseraat
Great White
Behemouth King, red
White Queen
Skorspelka-Russian
Banjan roomi-Middle east
Tigerella, Mr. Stripey, UK, cloudy weather tolerant
Scabitha-red, yellow striped, has scabs on it....most tasty
Druzba-Bulgaria
Oaxacan Pink-Mexico, Indian
Liguria-Italy, sauce
Green Giant
Brown Berry
Green Zebra
Črn-Slovenia. The tomato is red, the name means black, that's the man's name who introduced it
Vietnam
Woodle Orange-organge
Carbon
Zapotec sport, tolerates growing conditions in India
Chocolate Cherry
Pusta Kolox-Hungary
Ceylon
White Currant
Novosadatsky 37, Soviet
Feuerwerk, German, red with yellow stipes
German Red Strawberry
Braun pflaume, black plum, Russian, excellent sauce
Green Grape
Muchamiel
Ildi, yellow grape, Russian
Yellow Pear, small cherry type,pear shaped
Red Boar


I will be adding others as I purchase the seed.