Floridity?

**carolyn137** · May 16, 2011

Oh, I love heirloom tomatoes, until a customer asks if we have all heirlooms and I state that they are mostly heirlooms or bred from heirlooms (which kinda applies to everything, when you think about it). Some walk away when we don't meet the "all-heirloom" test. Others walk away (softly cursing) when they find out we occasionally stoop to selling hybrids (Momotaro this year).

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Fred, you gave me the laugh I needed today when you said you failed the "all-heirloom" test.

And hybrids aside why don't you offer up some red and yellow currant varieties with maybe a dash of S.cheesmanii thrown in, and tell them THERE, those are heirlooms, straight from South America where tomatoes first originated thousands of years ago. And as long as they don't realize that there are many different attempted definitions of what an heirloom tomato is, and no consensus, you're home free.

May 16, 2011	#30
carolyn137 Moderator Emeritus Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Upstate NY, zone 4b/5a Posts: 21,169	Oh, I love heirloom tomatoes, until a customer asks if we have all heirlooms and I state that they are mostly heirlooms or bred from heirlooms (which kinda applies to everything, when you think about it). Some walk away when we don't meet the "all-heirloom" test. Others walk away (softly cursing) when they find out we occasionally stoop to selling hybrids (Momotaro this year). ***** Fred, you gave me the laugh I needed today when you said you failed the "all-heirloom" test. And hybrids aside why don't you offer up some red and yellow currant varieties with maybe a dash of S.cheesmanii thrown in, and tell them THERE, those are heirlooms, straight from South America where tomatoes first originated thousands of years ago. And as long as they don't realize that there are many different attempted definitions of what an heirloom tomato is, and no consensus, you're home free. __________________ Carolyn