mule team tomato

[tonymalone]

are they good eating tomatoes?

anybody know anything about it?

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by tonymalone

are they good eating tomatoes?

anybody know anything about it?

Tony, Mule Team is not a so called legacy tomato variety so I think you would have gotten more answers had you posted in the General Discussion area, but here you go.

Joe Bratka's father bred a number of tomato varieties including Mule Team, Box Car Wille, Red Barn, Great Divide and Pasture.

Joe found his father's seeds in glass jars in a tool shed, already named, couldn't germinate the seeds and sent them to me.

I was able to germinate the ones above and initially listed all of them in the SSE YEarbooks and from there they spread out to many different commercial sources.

Mule Team and Box Car Willie are quite similar as to taste and production and most folks think the taste is very good indeed.

Pasture is a rampant red cherry and I've oft said that it could cover an outhouse faster than kudzu vine.

I also like Red Barn , larger than Mule Team or BCW, but it itsn't listed commercially at many places.

There were three of the named varieties I couldn't germinate, I don't remember their names now, but I've always wondered what they would have been like.

Hope that helps.

[tonymalone]

i think you pretty much covered it .

thanks

[cottonpicker]

I have grown Mule Team and it was one of the best tomatoes I've grown for productivity, flavor and nice size.
Had no particular disease problems with it either. A good one to haven your garden!