Member discussion regarding the methods, varieties and merits of growing tomatoes.
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August 27, 2022 | #31 |
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The more I see, the more beautiful they get. Hope they have the flavour you are looking for
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August 27, 2022 | #32 |
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September 3, 2022 | #33 |
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A small white bicolour beefsteak with antho. Long stemmed compound trusses of about 15-20 blooms.
I don’t know if other bicolour white antho tomatoes so it’s an interesting one. Very sweet and surprisingly good flavour KarenO |
September 6, 2022 | #34 |
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Karen, you posted real beauties under #30! If these pics were mine, they would get a page in my 2022 photobook!
I admire your ability to create such works of art! And when I think of Midnight Sun, it's even a dream of taste! (Others also, but I fell in love with M.S.) |
September 6, 2022 | #35 |
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KerenO, you should give tours of your Land and Gardens.
And Sell your Tomatoes too,!!!!!!! Amen!!
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September 6, 2022 | #36 |
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Thank you ladies!
Trying to inject some flavour using some of my own lines. I’m pretty optimistic based on these F2 growouts that I can make some that I like the flavour of. I have several other crosses and I’ll do a couple more of the most promising F2’s next year. My KarenO |
September 7, 2022 | #37 |
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I tried your Polaris this year. It was either that or midnight Sun and I went for Polaris. It was a VERY tough year, we are in a severe drought, had multiple, long heat waves after a very humid start. I suffered from just about everything this year but my plants were nice enough to just keep hanging on, lack of leaves and appropriate water. I was blessed with some tomatoes, not as many as usual. Polaris was a treat and I look forward to trying many more. I follow you on FB as well. I guess with the blessing from post #34, I will have to add MS to my garden next year. Your pics make me salivate!
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September 7, 2022 | #38 | |
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September 7, 2022 | #39 |
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KarenO how can I buy your Seeds. I love Buying everyone seeds over the last 25 years, Amen!
That's why I think "US Farmers" needs to Love Each Other. How can I get your Seeds?
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September 8, 2022 | #40 |
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Depends what you want Joyce, artisan seeds Has a couple of my varieties. If you Google Karen olivier tomatoes you’ll find quite a few. I sell all of my own varieties through the SSE and privately
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September 8, 2022 | #41 | |
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I don't think Polaris was a fan of the humidity, and it might not have liked the heat very much but it dealt with it begrudgingly, but it didn't seem as fizzed as some with the dryness. |
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September 8, 2022 | #42 |
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My Great Grandfather was handed to the Kecoughtan Native Americans by the Cherokee Native from North and South Carolina to get his Freedom as a Contraband Slaves at Fort Monroe in the safe hands of The Late Great Major Benjamin Butler. I have the Cherokee Purple from the Cherokee Native Americans, But I have been looking for Relatives of the Kecoughtan Native that grew a Blue Tomato. After the Civil War The Contraband Slaves Celebrated by Giving a Tomato Decorative Plate to Fort Monroe Soldiers that was Red White and Blue. But your 'True North True Blue may be the best Tomato to Make the "4th of July Celebration Plate: the Contraband Slaves with the help of My Great Grandfather & Sheppard Mallory farming skills to the Soldiers of Fort Monroe after the Civil War.
Looking for these Blue Tomatoes that grows back by itself by Kecoughtan Native Americans years is Hard, Amen!! I have been keeping up with the Research the from the College of William & Mary where i do all my Legal Research. Hoping that they will find a Living relative of the Kecoughtan Native Americans to learn the Food & Farming skills they taught to my Great Grandfather. During my Crop Rotation this year only the Indigo Rose came back in the same location. The late Dr. Carolyn 'Gray's 4th of July is Very Red, but hardly able to see the Blue Color; which I think she named after Gary Ibsen. If you send me 50 seeds just include a price.
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September 8, 2022 | #43 |
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Hi Joyce, the anthocyanin Varieties shown in this thread are all experimental and unstable at this stage so they aren’t available at this time.
I do have quite a number of stable tomatoes that I have released and are already available via the SSE, and other avenues and I will be releasing some new beefsteaks and a couple of new dwarfs this winter as well. I dont know Caroline’s mind but I never got the impression she was much of a fan of Gary or tomatofest overall but I could be wrong I do know Carolyn never named any anthocyanin tomato after anyone as far as I know and overall wasn’t much of a fan of them in general. In any case, I am just posting my blue project tomatoes here for fun and information as well as a record if the progress of the project as I did for the others. I will definitely post somewhere down the road when I may have some seeds from this project to offer. As always, more details are available on my @NortherGardenerCanada Facebook page and on Instagram for those interested in my breeding work or general gardening information and photos. I try to post daily to both. KarenO |
September 8, 2022 | #44 |
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I found you on facebook.
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October 9, 2022 | #45 |
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Welcome Joyce!
I’m not hard to find @NorhernGardenerCanada on Facebook and Instagram If others are interested! Happy thanksgiving from Canada to everyone here. I am very grateful for a bountiful summer, and I have SIX New introductions this year including Chinook, Cowboy and One Trick Pony along with the first three small dwarfs in the wizard of Oz series. Message me on NG if interested in seeds. The dwarfs are shown n my short and sweet thread. Emerald City, Yellow Brick Road and Ruby Slippers. The blue project was very interesting and I’m looking forward to what comes of it as we go along. Lovely to still have a lot of ripening fruit here in October thanks to a warm fall so far. We will love it while it lasts. Adventures and tomato travels in the future… Have a wonderful weekend! Last edited by KarenO; October 9, 2022 at 05:23 PM. |
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