Sandhill catalog is finally here!

[matilda'skid]

Tell me about Daniels and AC Red. I am making out an order even though I already have plenty of seeds.

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by matilda'skid

Tell me about Daniels and AC Red. I am making out an order even though I already have plenty of seeds.

Fusion is high on those two but there ate about 400 others and I know I have my faves as well;

What are YOU looking for re tomato varieties right now?

Just curious.

Carolyn

[Fusion_power]

Daniels is a large pink potato leaf tomato with excellent flavor, in a class with Brandywine, but with deeper fruit and better production. I wouldn't call it heat tolerant, but it is better than Brandywine. If I were given a choice between Brandywine and Daniels, I would marginally pick Daniels because it produces more good quality fruit.

A. C. Red is another pink potato leaf with good production of fruit in the 1 pound range. Flavor is a tad more assertive than Daniels and just a tad less sweet. If I were ranking pink tomatoes for flavor, I would put Brandywine, Daniels, Omar's Lebanese, Stump of the World, and A. C. Red up in the top 10.

[matilda'skid]

Carolyn I'm just interested in what Fusion recommends. I haven't heard of those tomatoes. I am going to try the beans for sure; I don't really need tomato seeds. I am always interested in good tomatoes. I know I will plant Wes, Pale Perfect Purple and Eva Purple Ball again but everything else is yet to be decided. I have more seeds than good places to plant tomatoes although I have 30 acres of rocks.

[Tormato]

Originally Posted by Fusion_power

Two packs should get you about 100 seed. I'm hoping people will try them as selection material to develop high quality beans with better adaptability than Fortex. The level of genetic diversity in these beans is very high so you will have plenty of opportunity to pick and choose for your climate and taste preference.

As a side note, I have some beans from an Emirite X Purple bean cross that need to be looked at this year. I love the sweetness of Emirite though it is not as bean flavored as I would like.

Like Glenn also notes in his catalogue, I get the poorest production with Fortex. Most of my bush trials will outproduce it.

The "sweetness of Emerite"? Not in my garden. It's always been a strong, kind of grassy, pod flavor. Not as harsh as Contender, though. I wish I had saved seed from the first time I trialed Emerite. It had strong climbing vigorous vines. The last few trials have been very weak climbers, which is what I hear is normal.

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by matilda'skid

Carolyn I'm just interested in what Fusion recommends. I haven't heard of those tomatoes. I am going to try the beans for sure; I don't really need tomato seeds. I am always interested in good tomatoes. I know I will plant Wes, Pale Perfect Purple and Eva Purple Ball again but everything else is yet to be decided. I have more seeds than good places to plant tomatoes although I have 30 acres of rocks.

Understood.

Since in post #17 you had asked Fusion about the two tomato varieties he mentioned, I thought you were also looking for tomato varieties.

My error.

Carolyn

[habitat_gardener]

Still waiting for my catalog!

[matilda'skid]

This weather is making me want to order seeds I don't need. My outside animals think they are house pets. Where did AC Red come from to begin with? I don't find anything about it any where else. Sandhill is so reasonably priced that you can order a page full for under $30 and that is with a pound of soil improving cover crop seed. I wish I had some leaf lettuce right now for a salad. Ordering seed does not bring me a salad but it almost feels like it.

Yea, I found Daniels in my package from Tormato. Who knows what other jewels are in there.

[Tormato]

Make sure Daniels grows out PL.

I've tried the so-called "Daniels RL" version. In a near perfect weather year, the RL rated 99th out of ~100 varieties tried. Number 100 must have been so awful that I can't recall, yet, what it was.

Dr. Lve Apple

[macmex]

Sandhill (and the Drowns, of course) are probably my all time favorite. The catalog isn't the most snazzy. It is not as convenient to order from them, as from an on-line place, but they are "the real McCoy," when it comes to true preservation. This is not only true about seeds, but also sweet potatoes and poultry. Drowns maintain some things for years between orders. That's true dedication. If I had money, I'd be sending gifts their way, just to help them with the mission.

George
Tahlequah, Oklahoma

[Doug9345]

I've always been very impressed with the number of different varieties they maintain, particularly given that it's a part time business.

[carolyn137]

Glenn e-mailed me las tnight and said that Linda had finished updating the tomato section of the website and would be working on updating the other seed categories.

He said he hoped I was warm. Fine, this AM I wake up to minus 7.Enough of this bitter cold say I as well as my wallet when it comes to fuel bills.

Carolyn