How productive is Neves Azorean Red?

[Tomstrees]

I KNEW I had a picture somewhere ~

Tom

[Gimme3]

Very Happy...that Jenn, u posed the Question. I , like You, am growin a couple of Neves's , for the First Time. The feedback has been Helpful an Wonderful....an Tom...up there about fish-catchin Time...Awesome Pic... Brother...dont let One pull ya in...still workin Daily...in a never-endin fight...it seems...to propogate True Perrenial Chamomile..dun got whupped in the game...so many times...that Losin dont bother me...)))...i jus Keep tryin...))) Wonderfull picture of a Neves A. R. fruit...ty...for Postin that...)))

[jenn_sc]

THanks everyone, for all the feedback. I am really excited about my NAR now!!!

I remember the naming process for this variety over at GW, but I don't remember much about the history of it prior to that. Could someone tell me more about it's past?

Jennifer

[Tomstrees]

From Carolyn, from GW:


When I moved to my new location in 1999 I was asked to teach an adult ed class on heirloom tomatoes. One of the participants was Chuck Perry and it was from Chuck that I got the seeds.
As the second blurb above said, Chuck had a cousin who knew the man who at that time owned the Neptune Harvest Fertilizer Co ( his children now run it) and Chuck put me in touch with him and that's where I got the history from b/c his couisin had gotten the seeds with no history.
Tony Neves did immigrate from the Azores to the Boston area but I don't know the year. This was a variety he was growing in the Azores and I assume it was an heirloom. His project was to continue upsizing it when he moved to the US, and he did.
He traded fruits with the Neptune guy in return for some of their fertilizer products.
I loved it very much from the get go but the deer also did and so for two years I couldn't get enough seeds to share. it was then that Brian started referring to it as "Perry's Teasum" . LOL
When I did have enough seeds to list in the SSE Yearbook I decided to let the then good folks here name it, as an exercise in how one goes about naming a variety.
And that's how Neves Azorean ( not Azorian) Red got it's name. I then sent seeds of NAR to all 22 folks who had posted in that thread.

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~ Tom

[feldon30]

Carolyn received seeds from Charlie Perry. Charlie got them from a cousin who got them from the man who owned the Neptune Harvest Seaweed Co near Boston.

Tony Neves used to trade fruits of this variety that he brought with him when he immigrated from the Azores, in return for Neptune Harvest fertilizer products.

Originally Posted by Casey's Heirloom Tomatoes seed catalog

Tony Neves and his family immigrated from the Portuguese island of the Azores and settled in the Boston area. The family brought with them their prized family heirloom tomato seeds. Tony traded some of his prized family heirloom tomatoes for fertilizer with the owner of Neptune Fertilizer Company.

Dr. Carolyn Male received the seeds from Chuck Peary whose cousin knew people at the fertilizer company. Dr. Male held a naming contest online and Neves Azorean Red won. The taste is something very special- deep and rich which has made it a main stay in the gardens of heirloom tomato aficionados around the world. Fruit size is on average 1 lb. (450 g).

from Casey's Tomato Seed catalog

More discussion:
http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/l...234825058.html

[carolyn137]

Morgan, it's about the link you gave to Casey's webpage, which brings me to something quite different.

Clearly whoever Casey is he or she read my background info at GW and put it in the catalog.

Do I know Casey? Does anyone? I'm just curious.

[feldon30]

I guessed that the site would go down eventually, but I did not guess this fast.

Fortunately I saved a copy of the Seed Catalog. I find it to be a fantastic catalog and the histories seem to be very well researched.

It should not be a surprise who Jeff Casey is.
http://www.canada.com/calgary/calgar...3d2e54&k=12232
http://members.shaw.ca/jwlcasey/nihonnoyasai.html

[Gimme3]

Dr.. C...i know..i told ya before...probly too many times...but...here it comes Again...)))

Its uncanny...how many Cv's i try an grow, that You...had a Hand...in spreadin. TY...)))

[Suze]

Originally Posted by carolyn137

Do I know Casey? Does anyone? I'm just curious.

Jeff's been a member here at Tville since inception, and also used to regularly contribute over at GW. He posts as dokutaaguriin.

See also:
http://www.tomatoville.com/showthread.php?t=1456

[dokutaaguriin]

Is the cat out of the bag so to speak....????

[Suze]

Originally Posted by dokutaaguriin

Is the cat out of the bag so to speak....????

Maybe (but I won't tell if you don't).

Nice former webpage.

Edited to add, looks like the link is working just fine now.

[carolyn137]

Yes, I finally remembered who Jeff is, sorry about that Jeff, especially when I went thru my book with addresses of folks to whom I'd sent tomato seeds and found his address.

And Jeff also sent me a really nice e-mail about his tomato seed webpage, and Jeff I'll get back to you about that soon.

Most of the time I'm really much more attuned to user names than I am real names and there are so many names whirling around in my head after posting online about tonmatoes since about 1989 that sometimes I don't make an immediate association with a user name and a real name and vice versa.

As it's said, if I were perfect I wouldn't be on earth.

And yes Jeff, I did read thru your tomato blurbs and look at your pictures from the link Morgan gave and as I said above, I will get back to you as you asked me to do and I do so gladly.

[BigdaddyJ]

NAR does great for me in my zone 7 Delaware.

Nothing I don't like about NAR. Pretty tomatoes, good size, good production and great taste. A winner.

Seeds I got this year from TGS were pretty lame though with about a 20% germination rate.

[christschool]

NAR aka Neves Azorean Red Tomato, was brought to America by Antonio Neves who immigrated from the Azores and settled in Boston.

[b54red]

I have found Neves to be the most dependable of the large reds. It produces well in the heat and sometimes I get some real whoppers off of them. It is one of the more disease resistant heirlooms that I have found and the taste is very good.