Tomatoes Being grown out by Jenna 2006

[jennamoondancer]

Common Name
Italian Giant Pear Gransasso
Snow white Cherry
Purple Prince
White Queen
Black
Black From Tula
Garden Peach
Purple Calabash
Moskovich
Moldavan Green
Keepsake
Azoychka
Striped Stuffer
Hawaiian Pineapple
Black Sea Elephant
Big Rainbow
Cherokee Purple
Eva Ball Purple
Aunt Ruby's German Green
Kellogg's Breakfast
Green Zebra
Blanc Du Quebec
Black Krim
Black Russian Carbon
Marizol Purple
Cherokee Green
Druzba
Cherokee Chocolate
Black Cherry
Amana Orange
Orange Banana
Principe Borghese
Vintage Wine
Cluster Grande
Orange Oxheart
Striped Purple
White Potato Leaf

[wandak]

If you don't have acres of land, you must have made dozens of isolation bags. I have made 1 dozen myself. Wanda

[jennamoondancer]

LOL Actually I do. I have tons of them from my classes. But all they are are gauzy little bloom covers anyway. For the larger stuff I use old hosiery that's been stretched out a bit.

[loamlump]

Hi Jenna. I've looked at your lists and wonder about a few of the names...
Black Sea Elephant; is this Black Sea Man? (small fruited).
Blanc Du Quebec; I know this as Beaute Blanche du Canada, aka White Beauty of Canada). A large, late bearer of white indeterminates.

[loamlump]

Black Russian Carbon - these are two seperate varieties as far as I know. Black Russian and Carbon, I mean. I have grown both and know they are different from each other.

[skip]

Hi Jenna and Loamlump

I grew out Black Sea Man this season for the first time. It is determinate but produces very large fruits of very good flavor. This accords with the description in the SSE Yearbook for 2005. Black Sea Elephant is not listed in the 2005 Yearbook and I don’t have the 2006 edition so I don’t know any more, but if it has ’elephant’ in the name I would assume that it is a large-fruited variety.

Jaune is French for yellow. As with a number of varietal names, they have been assigned these ‘trendy’ names by folks with no understanding of French grammar. In French some adjectives are placed before the noun while others go after the noun, depending on how they are categorized. Hence, we have ‘moulin rouge’ for red mill, while we have ‘vieil homme’ for old man.

‘Olpaka’ should be changed to ‘Opalka’. This is the Polish paste variety that Carolyn Male grew out and was impressed enough with to offer it to commercial seed companies. She has included it in her book ‘100 Heirloom Tomatoes for the American Garden’ (page 180) – Smith & Hawken. Carolyn named this variety after the family from whom she obtained it – the Opalkas.

As an anecdote, I can report that our growing season Down Under has ended. We have had many frosts here already so all vines are now dead but, believe it or not, I still have fruits that I have yet to save seeds from. I have sent seeds of a number of tomato varieties to members in trades and have asked them to bank the excess. They should soon be listed at the seed bank site at www.ogseedbank.com/. Members should check in regularly and request seeds of those varieties that are of interest. Of course, it would be great if members could return fresh seed of those varieties for banking after they have grown out those varieties.

Cheers.

Skip
(expecting another huge freeze tonight)

[gardpro4seeds]

Please check my post on General Board, subject "Paste Tomato Seeds".