Heirloom tomato seeds available

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I had a number of responses to my answer about heirloom tomato seeds. Given that, I suggest you just send me a request with your snail mail address and $1 per 1 or 2 seed vartiety, $2 per 3 or 4, $3 per 5 or 6, etc. I'll get them out to you the best I can as long as they last. I'd also like to trade, although I have no idea what I need at this point. Here's what I have:

1997 seed: Livinston's Favorite (nice red tomato) Reisentraube (very prolific cherry type, good ) Eva Purple Ball (good purple) Haubner's Vollendung (nice, but I wasn't all that impressed) Brandywine OTV (A variation created by Dr Carolyn Male, very good)

1998 Scarab (my favorite purple) Sausalito (few seeds, but a nice sauce type) German Johnson (A very nice red - I plant at least every other year) St Pierre ( My absolute favorite mid-sized red) Valencia (Orange Maine Heirloom - tasty baseball sized, Every year) Matt's Wild Cherry (Very small, marble-sized, VERY sweet and prolific. Will cross pollenate, so should be isolated by 100 ft or more. Snack tomato at it's finest)

1999 Valencia Extra Early Advance (Among the very earliest. Yellow shoulders. Best of the extreme earlies around here. Great 1st tomato. White potato leaf. (Interesting, not a gourmet selection) Maine Volunteer (My favorite large cherry {1" or better} that I personally developed from a hybrid about 12 years ago) Scarab Beauty (Nice red all around) German Johnson Yellow pear (Pear shaped yellow. Nice snack tomato) Pink Grapefruit (Yewllow with pink interior. Smallish. Good flavor, Novelty) St Pierre

2000 Blue Beech (The BEST sauce/paste type I have found) Ropreco (Another sauce/paste type, but not as good in Maine)

2001 Valencia Matt's Wild Cherry Maine Volunteer Blue Beech St Pierre

Well, there you have it folks. Tomato seed remains viable for several years, handled properly. I have raised plants from 10 year old seed, although the germination falls to 40% or so. I will do my best to accommodate other tomato lovers. Be aware that these varieties are what I have found to do well here in Maine (roughly the Portland area). They may do better or worse in your neck of the woods. GL!

-- Brad (homefixer@SacoRiver.net), December 15, 2001

Answers

Brad,

I have Caspian Pink (very very tasty slicer, avg 8-12 oz)& mortage lifter (12-20 oz) slicer in sufficient qty from last summer to trade for some nice purple slicers that aren't terrible crackers if you're interested. I raise tomatoes mostly for market garden, and these are delicious varieties that I wouldn't do without. Both are pink tomatoes.

-- Marty in KS (Mrs.Puck@Excite.com), December 15, 2001.


There's another site (National Home Gardening Club)...aka gardeningclub.com that's is greatly devoted to seed and plant sharing and swapping. Also has gardening tips and a magazine that you can subscribe to. I've been receiving for many years now :-)

-- Cheri Asprion (t.asprion@worldnet.att.net), December 18, 2001.

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