True North Tomatoes

[KarenO]

The way I see it is I just have to finish stabilizing them there, they were born in the frozen north.
K

[coldframer]

Hey, I would love to trial some of these in Montana! Let me know!

[yardn_gardn]

Your potato leaf tomatoes are lovely. I would trial for you next year if you would like me to. Something interesting happened in my garden this spring with some of the potato leaves I am growing. We experienced a frost that must have been about 31 degrees Fahrenheit. It frosted nearly all the regular leafed tomatoes, but most of the potato leafed ones were fine. Have you noticed any thing similar?

[KarenO]

I agree that the thicker heavier potato leaf seems slightly more able to tolerate a light frost. I also think potato leaf plants shelter and shade the fruit better from raid and hot sun if not pruned heavily.

[Kongobongo]

Amazing work and amazing tomatoes.I'm drooling.what are the chances of getting some of your midnight Sun seeds for next season.I am in northern manitoba.

[SharonRossy]

Waiting Karen, waiting, lol!

[KarenO]

F5 seeds will be collected soon.. patience friends, I will send out F6 seed for trials next year so looking forward to seeing what you guys think of my true north tomatoes Potato leaf hearts all.
KarenO

[NarnianGarden]

I'm a volunteer, if you're looking for more growers in the North

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by KarenO

F5 seeds will be collected soon.. patience friends, I will send out F6 seed for trials next year so looking forward to seeing what you guys think of my true north tomatoes Potato leaf hearts all.
KarenO

Remember when you posted this?

first picture Ludmilla's pink heart x Captain Lucky F1

And your source of Lumilla's Pink Heart was?

Now you know I can't do any trial growing,but when you have something stable that Ludmilla contributed to,here I am.

Also letting you know that Neil L who was growing Zena's Gift last summer and lost almost ALL of his plants to unrelenting rains,now has Zena up and growing, and I am very happy about that.

He not only updated on the new regrows from last summer,but also what was up and growing for this summer.

All to say he has over 1000 plants out,and fingers crossed all will be well not only with regrows but he's a long time SSE friend and has done lots of seed production for me,and he has a boatload of new ones as one of my now 7 seed producers for what I'm calling my and Shawn's International Seed Offer.

And that b/c I source seeds and the majority of the new ones are from European countries, and hint,lots of new heart varieties if you ever want to start a new project at sometime in the future.

Carolyn

[Kongobongo]

Spot ready and waiting!

[salix]

Karen, agree with your post #229, also I theorize that the more leaf mass enables more photosynthesis and thusly more sugars and flavour. Well, that's my story and I'm sticking to it. Hope you are all settled in and have a master plan in place for your new gardens. Will you do any raised beds? Not for early warming so much as for shedding rainwater, lol. Hope your babies do as well down there as they did in the north, and it looks like you will have plenty of volunteers to ensure they still do well in a short season.

[KarenO]

I remain humbled and excited that people I admire such as Carolyn and Willa and many others are even the least bit interested in trying my tomatoes. I am really looking forward to sending out stable seed to TV friends who would like to try them

[ginger2778]

Well you already know this, but you can add me to the growing list of those who will trial all of these when stable. I will totally bump 3 other varieties next season. I am an eternal optimist, so I'll also set aside 6 spots for F5 Karmas.

[SharonRossy]

I'm in I'm in! Can't wait!

[heirloomtomaguy]

Ditto