Heirloom tomato article in local paper

[Gobig_or_Gohome_toms]

Just thought I would share if you are like me I cannot read enough about tomatoes even if some of the things in the article are not accurate.

http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle...lightModules:5

[Noreaster]

Thanks for posting ! Very interesting......wonder what Tomatoville forum members would need to do to get seeds from this family ! I mean we have so many to trade !

Don't know if attached will come through, but todays NY Times has an interesting article regarding Heirlooms and Ramapos:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/23/dining/23toma.html?em&ex=1216958400&en=00fb849ca817e1fa&e i=5087%0A

[Douglas14]

Thanks for sharing. I live only about an hour from St. Cloud...was just there a couple of hours ago.

[Hilde]

Thanks for sharing, guys!

[Douglas14]

Thanks Noreaster for the link...I just read it...quite interesting. Maybe I'm reading it wrong, but it seems heirlooms are taking a little bit of a hit in the article. Maybe just from the large-scale commercial point of view.
I'm growing a couple of Ramapo plants, and they have good fruit set on them. Be awhile before I taste them though.
I wonder if some of the workhorse/maincrop red heirlooms could be grown successfully on large scale, like Ramapo. I'm thinking of varieties such as Sioux, Red Brandywine, Break O' Day, etc.(maybe some of these wouldn't be classisfied as heirlooms)?

[dice]

I think Break O'Day was once a main cropper itself, back in
the day. Sioux, too, maybe. Anything released by a commercial
seed vendor before the 1940s probably had farmers in mind,
and a lot of agricultural research facility OP cultivars were
also developed for the benefit of local farmers.

[carolyn137]

For those interested, right now there's a thread about the NYTimes article about Ramapo F1 at GW and the article has MANY errors in it, I pointed out some of them in that thread, and the whole tenor of the article bothered lots of folks.

http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/l...612890.html?10

[Douglas_OW]

Here's another recent article about Ramapo.

http://www.nj.com/starledger/stories...650.xml&coll=1

It's from a Jersey newspaper and has the expected romantic slant for "Jersey Tomatos". Of note- it does mention the early Ramapo developers and the parent varieties: Abbie, named after Pollack's daughter, and KCA.

Jim