One last crack at Brandywine.

[michael johnson]

I am having one last crack at trying to get the original brandywine with flavour-that has so far eluded me, I was fortunate enough for another TV member who sent me some very well sealed Brandywine seeds from Johnny's selected seeds, that were about ten years old, also some Brandywine Joyce's that were roughly the same age.

Using the plastic bag zip lock method I managed to get two out of ten Johnny's seeds to germinate, but was a bit luckier with the Joyce's as several of those germinated ok.

So- if all goes well, I should be able to taste the results about mid august, If I fail to get the right taste this time-then thats it- I wont bother to grow brandywines again,the taste of all the other variations of it I have tried have been ok but nothing special and I have yet to discover what all the fuss has been about, in fact I much prefer the Brandywine Red Landis valley strain, for flavour and a better growing strong plant, and to my way of thinking the flavour beats the other brandywines hands down.

This year I am going to try the horse manure /seaweed mix around the base of the new Brandywines to see if that makes any difference to the flavour.