So what's the verdict on Julia Child?

[instar8]

I see that it made several of the not-growing-again lists, most complaining that it was lanky and unproductive...one of the regulars (can't remember who, and it disappeared into the ether-net) posted at the 'other place' that it seems to be a heavy feeder.

What did you think?

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by instar8

I see that it made several of the not-growing-again lists, most complaining that it was lanky and unproductive...one of the regulars (can't remember who, and it disappeared into the ether-net) posted at the 'other place' that it seems to be a heavy feeder.

What did you think?

I haven't grown it and won't be doing so and I haven't even seen that many comments about this one or Rowdy Red, so I don't know if that's saying something or not.

But I wanted to share with you some background of the variety Julia Child. Gary Ibsen contacted me and said he wanted to introduce a variety in her honor and asked if I had really good variety that I hadn't yet distributed seeds for and I told him I did.

I was calling it Perry's Teasum, actually coined by Fusion, and I thought it was a great variety but the deer prevented me from getting enough seeds to list in the SSE YEarbook or distribute otherwise yet I kept prising it, thus the TEasum part.

So finally I got enough seeds. I wanted to share with others what goes into naming a variety so posted all the background info I had in a thread at GW several years ago. There were 22 folks who posted in that thread and after a name was decided on I sent seeds to all 22 of those folks.

The name? Neves Azorean Red.

But Gary wanted an exclusive and I don't do that b/c I want to be able to share seeds with everyone, so I had to turn him down.

[Fusion_power]

Julia Child is a temperamental potato leaf nice sized and good flavored tomato that can make little or no fruit or else makes a ton of fruit. I've grown it twice and had different results each time. 2009 gave a huge crop of delicious tomatoes.

The major difference I've seen is that it is susceptible to nematodes and leaf diseases which tends to limit production.

Is it worth growing? Well, if you get good seed and give it fertile soil, it can reward you handsomely.

DarJones

[kimpossible]

Carolyn ... I must admit that I am working 6 days a week, mandatory overtime & the brain is having it's moments, now & then, but I do understand you correctly that Neves Azorean Red is the same variety as Julia Child's ???? .... or am I too tired to make sense of this?? LOL

[rnewste]

Originally Posted by kimpossible

Carolyn ... I must admit that I am working 6 days a week, mandatory overtime & the brain is having it's moments, now & then, but I do understand you correctly that Neves Azorean Red is the same variety as Julia Child's ???? .... or am I too tired to make sense of this?? LOL

Kim, I came to the same "confusion" as well to Carolyn's post, and linkage to NAR.

BTW, I don't mean to be nosy, but are you in the Auto Industry? I look to Auto manufacturing as a "bell-weather" on how the Economy is trending in the future, and if indeed you are working 6 days a week, then I see this as a happy trend.

Raybo

[kimpossible]

Yes Raybo - I am at an automotive manufacturing plant in Southwestern Ontario Canada - called CAMI Automotive - used to be a joint venture between Suzuki & GM ( for the past 20 years ) but we have just recently become 100% GM owned-shares ...

We produce the Chevy Equinox & GMC Terrain. 90% of our sales go to the U.S, - the Equinox is nominated for CUV of the year which we will find out the results of on Monday the 11th of Jan.

Sales have been extremely strong - since early summer (last year we went through almost 6 months of layoff) & we have recently brought back almost 600 laid off workers.

Mandatory Overtime scheduled until at least the end of March.

The auto industry is definitely an economic barometer, & we are booming right now.

[rnewste]

Kim,

EXCELLENT NEWS!!

I am out here in Silicon Valley where some Companies are doing well (ours) and some Companies are still going through the lay-off cycle. Glad to hear your team-mates are back on the Production Line. Think of all the new seeds and gardening supplies we can now buy!!!!

Raybo

[kimpossible]

LOL ... so true. Another plant in Ontario, GM Oshawa, produces the new Camaro - they are extremely busy as well - & if you google it, you can find an article where they have announced new product, & up to 1000 new jobs (just happened this week). Spin-off for the auto industry is for every direct job, there are 7.5 spinoff jobs ( parts plants, community service industries, etc.) Domestic automotive is vital to North American economy, and YES!! I can spend more on my Tomato hobby/addiction ... but have less time to work on it! .... we're never happy

[Worth1]

Neves Azorean Red and Julia Child's are not the same thing and if you go back and re-read the post you will see.
Carolyn said she has never grown the latter but has grown the former. HINT
I think it in rather poor taste to rename a well known tomato just for some celebrity.
But I guess that’s how the rich, snobby and famous do it.

Sorry just the way I feel, bad attitude.
Worth

[remy]

Originally Posted by kimpossible

Carolyn ... I must admit that I am working 6 days a week, mandatory overtime & the brain is having it's moments, now & then, but I do understand you correctly that Neves Azorean Red is the same variety as Julia Child's ???? .... or am I too tired to make sense of this?? LOL

It took me a bit to understand too so don't feel bad. Carolyn is saying the variety used as Julia Child could of been the tomato now known as Neves Azorean Red as opposed to whatever Gary ended up using. Neves is a much loved tomato that would of been a great one to have been named Julia Child. Gary though wanted exclusive rights and Carolyn doesn't like that.
Remy

[carolyn137]

But Gary wanted an exclusive and I don't do that b/c I want to be able to share seeds with everyone, so I had to turn him down.

*****

Is what I wrote above, please reread that post, and what is says in what I cut and pasted is that I did NOT send him what we know as Neves Azorean Red and I have no idea what variety was possibly renamed to Julia Child.

Hey, NAR has turned out to be one of my best tomato kids and heaven help the person who even attempts to rename that one.

[kimpossible]

Thanks all, .... like I said - I'm tired. Going in to work from 3pm to 3am tonight & then another 3pm to 11 pm shift Sat ... Sunday is my laundry, housecleaning, sleeping (hopefully), garden-planning tomato day - a garden with NAR, not Julia Child's, LOL!

[mtbigfish]

Kim
Yes that is good news
At least someone is getting back to work

Raybo
I am in IT also - mainframe programmer (manager) last 13 years with Hughes which was sold (we were outsourced CSC) to GM then Raytheon -Raytheon just switched last year to SAP and all my team and I were laid off except 1 who was on another system
the other manager lost all of his team but 1 and he still got to stay

now I hear Raytheon is going to outsource all ther IT back to CSC - weird
I am still out looking
Dennis

[instar8]

I'm glad to hear things are picking up, I'm in Elkhart County, born in Elkhart, the Pres has been here what has to be a record number of times because this is the RV capitol of the world pretty much, the unemployment rate here was up to 13% at the height of the market collapse/ crazy hi gas price/tight lending apocalypse.

I went from RVs to RN (well actually LPN, got the RN in 05) 19 years ago...so i'm doing OK, from taking sh*t to cleaning up sh*t...plus shoveling sh*t, but that's for fun ;~).

THanks Darrel, i thought you were the one who posted at the other place, i'm happy to plant Mrs. Child in my garden, and i'll feed her well, i have a limited amount of rich silty low pockets on my 3 acres of sandhills on top of gravel pits that the glaciers left here. Plus chicken and horse poo.

NAR is one of my favorite children too, Dr.Male! Now i just have to find a better source for that Black Cherry...

[WVTomatoMan]

IMHO Julia Child was one of the greatest women of the 20th century. She revolutionized cooking shows and introduced French cooking into mainstream America not to mention her contributions to the OSS during WWII.

Oh you meant the tomato. I'm sorry I haven't tried it so I have no idea. It had better taste good though, anything less would be sacrilege IMHO. Can you tell that I hold Julia Child in very high esteem?

Randy