Weisnicht's Ukrainian seed available

Deacondan · January 6, 2013

I wanted to let everyone know that Weisnicht's Ukrainian is available at Fedco Seeds after a long period of development. I know this has been discussed before so I wanted to give a little more detail.

The seed was given to me by a lady in Minnesota. She got the seed from a friend who had brought a tomato to her and then saved the seeds from this tomato. He did not remember the name, but did remember he was given two plants by someone who said the seed had been saved for 120 years or more in their family. That was ten years ago. She indicated that one of the plants succumbed to a critter of some kind and the other had a tree branch fall on it and broke it so that it only bore two tomatoes. Her description was that it was large, more pink than red, had ribbing, lots of seeds and very meaty and sweet and flavorful but not watery.

She had a Smith and Hawken published book and thought it looked like a Ukrainian strain. I would assume this was Carolyn's book which I also have. As this seemed plausible ( I am still saving Polish C potato leaf due to the description in the book.) I named it Weisnicht's Ukrainian and sent seeds to CR Lawn at Fedco. The description comparison to Soldacki at the time was prompted by its popularity, good flavor and a tomato with the same shape and color and also by my enthusiasm of how good the new tomato tasted. I should remove this as the comparison was made at one location and for only one year.

To clear up any confusion, Weisnicht means "know nothing or I don't know" as I quickly found out when I married and was informed as such by my mother in law who is a German immigrant.

January 6, 2013	#1
Deacondan Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Dec 2012 Location: Waupun Posts: 5	Weisnicht's Ukrainian seed available I wanted to let everyone know that Weisnicht's Ukrainian is available at Fedco Seeds after a long period of development. I know this has been discussed before so I wanted to give a little more detail. The seed was given to me by a lady in Minnesota. She got the seed from a friend who had brought a tomato to her and then saved the seeds from this tomato. He did not remember the name, but did remember he was given two plants by someone who said the seed had been saved for 120 years or more in their family. That was ten years ago. She indicated that one of the plants succumbed to a critter of some kind and the other had a tree branch fall on it and broke it so that it only bore two tomatoes. Her description was that it was large, more pink than red, had ribbing, lots of seeds and very meaty and sweet and flavorful but not watery. She had a Smith and Hawken published book and thought it looked like a Ukrainian strain. I would assume this was Carolyn's book which I also have. As this seemed plausible ( I am still saving Polish C potato leaf due to the description in the book.) I named it Weisnicht's Ukrainian and sent seeds to CR Lawn at Fedco. The description comparison to Soldacki at the time was prompted by its popularity, good flavor and a tomato with the same shape and color and also by my enthusiasm of how good the new tomato tasted. I should remove this as the comparison was made at one location and for only one year. To clear up any confusion, Weisnicht means "know nothing or I don't know" as I quickly found out when I married and was informed as such by my mother in law who is a German immigrant.