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Thursday, May 28, 2009

Heirloom tomato plants are ready!

Hi from Judy!

No tips today...unless it's a tip to say if you love summer tomatoes as much as we do, you'll love growing and eating heirloom tomatoes out of your own garden!

Here's what I have available in the tomato department (they'll all need to be planted in the next couple weeks before they get too much bigger):

Brandywine--(90-100 days) generally considered the world’s best-flavored tomato. Yields extra-large (up to 1 1/2 pounds) firm, rosy-pink fruits. Indeterminate.
Cherokee Purple--(80-90 days) reliable producer of medium pink-purple fruits, round to oblate, averaging 8 to 12 ounces each. Indeterminate.
German Stripe--( ) pink to red color with yellow striping, medium- to large fruit, round. We’ve picked these unripe after the first snowfall, ripened them inside, and eaten them up until Christmas. Indeterminate.
Green Zebra--(78 days) we found this a wonderful salad tomato! fully ripened fruits are bright green with lighter green stripes; round, smallish (2-4 oz.) with excellent flavor and vigorous habit. Determinate.
Nyagous--(80 days) prolific, baseball-sized 6 oz. fruits are dark, brownish gray color at maturity, excellent texture and full flavor, bearing up to 6 fruits per cluster. Indeterminate.
Russian Persimmon--(81 days) an abundance of medium-size, attractive yellowish-orange fruit with outstanding flavor, especially nice in salads, often the first eating tomato we harvest in the summer. Determinate.
Sweet Chelsea is a hybrid* (67 days) abundant, large cherry tomatoes with wonderful, sweet flavor, good for a quick snack in the garden. Indeterminate. *Hybrids are NOT heirlooms, but this one is just too good not to be on the list.
All tomatoes come in 4" pots ready to plant--$2.50/pot.

What else do I have available for sale/trade right now?
Fresh cow's milk yogurt - $2.00/quart (bring your own refill containers)
Farm eggs - $3.00/dozen

To order, just email me at jlgreenough@gmail.com



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