Tomatoes so good they're illegal

[cdntomato]

http://www.slowfood.fr/france/00000009en.html

[dokutaaguriin]

canadiantomato
Always love reading the links you post .....
Any possibilty of expanding on a certain other post about a couple of seed companies near you....inquiring minds want to know (lol)
Jeff

[lumierefrere]

Interesting article. I contacted Terre de Semences (no it wasn't, it was Graines Baumes, sorry!) about some seeds they have and they curtly told me they don't sell to America. (This part is true.) This French law is probably why. Too bad. They had a really cute little Polish tomato...
(And Andrey has it listed. Malinowy Ozarwhatever.)

[Emaewest]

Took me awhile, but I read through that article. It's encouraginig to see that there are always a few "radicals" who won't let themselves be bound by outrageous laws.

Thankfully this isn't happening in Canada or we'd all have huge power bills from running grow lights in the closet. :wink:

[cdntomato]

Subsequent to the Slow Food France article's publication comes a petition at Kokopelli. This non-profit seed saving org mentioned in the article is under attack itself for illegal selling of seeds.

http://www.kokopelli.asso.fr/actu/ne...cgi?id_news=57
Only in French at present.

Emaewest, Canada is very rapidly heading in the same direction as Australia and the EU in becoming full signatories to the OECD Seed Scheme which will require official listing of ALL veggies and fruit seed ( see France :>). I have become involved in seed politics for that very reason.

Jennifer

[carolyn137]

Barb,

Are you yet an SSE member?

I ask b'c I've grown one of the Malinowys, aka Malinowe, and many that Andrey lists are already being offered in the SSE Yearbooks.

I can't open the list Andrey posted here, either thru IE or cutting and pasting it to AOL since I have to go back and forth here, per the Sticky that my nephew Garrett wrote, and I do have excel loaded and can download all other spread sheets that have been sent to me.

When Andrey sends me his list via e-mail I have no problems.

Jennifer, I'm pressed for time this AM but will come back and read that article later.

Carolyn

[lumierefrere]

No, I'm not an SSE member yet. $ has been awfully tight for a while.

I couldn't access Andrey's list by address either primarily because I don't have Excel, I'm a Corel girl. I don't even have a copy of Word (take that Microscoff!) But he unfortunately posted it and I saw several that were very alluring!

I couldn't get a photo to upload from Photobucket--anyone?

[Andrey_BY]

Malinovy Ozharovsky (or Malinowy Ozarowski in Polish)



http://www.ogrodnik.net.pl/sklep/pop...2f7920642ce73e



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They had a really cute little Polish tomato...
(And Andrey has it listed. Malinowy Ozarwhatever.)

[lumierefrere]

Hi Andrey

Good photo. (I pasted the address into the browser)

I one I got from Graines Baumaux shows something that looks mottled or bicolor. Yours is plain red.
Which is it--I hope it's a plain red because that will hold zero allure!

Barb

[carolyn137]

Andrey,

Any chance you could send me your updated list link via e-mail b'c as I said above I cannot open the one you linked to here.

I think you probably know from reading here and there that I fell over a year ago and am still in a walker so my tomato growing from here on out is suspect, but I'd like to see what you're now listing for reference purposes in terms of helping others locate varieties.

Thanks so much.

And I really enjoyed your pictures and descriptions in the Picture Gallery. Glad to see you've got bleeding heart and peonies and roses and all else along with the veggies, b'c my prime love is perennials, especially fragrant ones, and I've also bred miniature roses and daylillies ( Hemerocallis).

Carolyn

[travis]

Where is Andrey's link to his data base or Web site?

I know I saw something about it last night, but I can't find it this morning.

PV

[carolyn137]

PV, go to the varieties available for trade. That's where he posted a link to his varieties, not a website.

And now he's posted the whole there since so many folks could not get the link to work, even tho they have Excel.

Carolyn

[Andrey_BY]

Barb, the real Malinowy Ozarowski is raspberry-pink and not bi-color at all ;-) The word Malinowy means Raspberry in Polish 8)

Unfortunately they don't mention the name for that beautiful small bi-color which was on the picture inside that article.

Carolyn, I will e-mail you my list as attachment and also the link to it.

Originally Posted by lumierefrere

Hi Andrey

Good photo. (I pasted the address into the browser)

I one I got from Graines Baumaux shows something that looks mottled or bicolor. Yours is plain red.
Which is it--I hope it's a plain red because that will hold zero allure!

Barb

[cdntomato]

How curious that the very company, Graines Baumaux, discussed in the thread hijack, is the one cited as initiating the legal action against Kokopelli.



Very nice to hear from you again, Andrey! Absolutely fabulous pictures from the dacha; thanks so much for sharing them.

Jennifer