Old Time Tomatoes

TomatoDon · July 10, 2013

It's been discussed here before but I wanted to bring it up again.

We often here people say they want a tomato that tastes like the ones they ate back in the day....the 1950's, 60's, 70's. I asked some older local tomato growers and they mentioned Marion and Rutgers.

Outside of the OP growers, I'm curious how many people here remember the variety your parents and grandparents grew back then that give you so many happy and tasteful tomato memories form childhood.

As I understand it, there weren't nearly as many varieties readily available. I don't remember anyone in my area mentioning growing from seed. Obviously there were seedlings available, so I'm curious to know what the most common varieties were.

TD

July 10, 2013	#1
TomatoDon Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: MS Posts: 1,523	Old Time Tomatoes It's been discussed here before but I wanted to bring it up again. We often here people say they want a tomato that tastes like the ones they ate back in the day....the 1950's, 60's, 70's. I asked some older local tomato growers and they mentioned Marion and Rutgers. Outside of the OP growers, I'm curious how many people here remember the variety your parents and grandparents grew back then that give you so many happy and tasteful tomato memories form childhood. As I understand it, there weren't nearly as many varieties readily available. I don't remember anyone in my area mentioning growing from seed. Obviously there were seedlings available, so I'm curious to know what the most common varieties were. TD __________________ Zone 7B, N. MS