Searching for variety name!

I read a story this year on this forum about a variety I wanted to grow, but can't remember it's name.

The story went as follows:

A real estate agent sold a property to a new owner. While visiting the property, they found some frozen tomato plants in the back yard with dried tomatoes on the vines. The agent saved some seed from the dried fruit and grew them out with outstanding results. Apparently the elderly former owner had grown the variety for many years and shared the fruit with the neighbors but no one knew the variety name so they named it after the new property owner. Can someone who read the story remind me of the name in order for me to make a trade request/order for the variety.

Thanks

Ted

[salix]

Ted, the variety you are looking for is Terhune - saved and named by Darwinslair.

If you only need a few, can share what I received from Knapp's veggies last year.

[carolyn137]

http://t.tatianastomatobase.com:88/wiki/Terhune

Carol is offering it now, Tania will be offering it in 2012 and I'll be offering it in my annual seed offer here in late Dec to early Jan and I'll also be sending seeds for trial to the usual places I send new great varieties to and that usually includes Sandhill Preservation, Gleckler's, Tomato Growers Supply and perhaps Victory Seeds.

I also expect that I won't be the only one newly listing it in the SSE YEarbook for SSE members. And since the owners of many seed sites are SSE members and get their starts from the YEarbook it stands to reason that other seed sites might well be offering it in the future as well.

Just a few comments for others who might be interested.

Oh, and I'm pretty sure others here at Tville might have already offered it or plan to in the seed exchange in the future.

Salix,

Thank you for your kind offer, but I will see if I can buy some before I take some from someone else when they are in short supply. I need to locate some now because I will be planting my seed next month for my 2012 garden. If I can't purchase some, I will P.M. you and arrange a trade for a few.

Ted

[Heritage]

Originally Posted by tedln

Salix,

Thank you for your kind offer, but I will see if I can buy some before I take some from someone else when they are in short supply. I need to locate some now because I will be planting my seed next month for my 2012 garden. If I can't purchase some, I will P.M. you and arrange a trade for a few.

Ted

Ted, Tania has them for sale.

Steve

[cloz]

Knapps Fresh Vegies also has Terhune seed.

http://knapps-fresh-vegies.netfirms....eeds-2011.html

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by tedln

Salix,

Thank you for your kind offer, but I will see if I can buy some before I take some from someone else when they are in short supply. I need to locate some now because I will be planting my seed next month for my 2012 garden. If I can't purchase some, I will P.M. you and arrange a trade for a few.

Ted

I don't think Terhune seeds are in short supply at all based on the link I gave above to Tania's page and comments made here in this thread.

I can only speak for myself in terms of my mentioning that I'll be offering Terhune seeds in my up coming seed offer for and SASE, as I did in my post above, so you wouldn't be taking anything from me at all, rather, you'd be taking from me.

Two points.

For fresh 2010 seeds I send out only 5-6 seeds b/c the whole rationale is to give folks starter amounts and then let then grow the plants and save their own seeds.

Second point.

As I've posted here at Tville many times, I would hope that folks would buy at least half of their tomato seeds from those who have seed sites and are rather small family run businesses. In these hard economic times especially, I think that's a good thing to do. Much better, I think, than trading seeds, but then I don't trade seeds for many reasons with just one exception, and that's when someone sends me a new variety that hasn't yet been distributed anywhere and then I let them chose a few varieties as thanks.

This past season was a banner year for me in terms of many varieties that will new to almost everyone.