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I would be happy to send you a box full of them. I Am drowning in tomatoes from five plants. I took about 15 tomatoes over to my older brother last night.. He only lives about 5 miles from me. He is getting ready for a major kitchen remodeling and has everything there to get started now. I won't be volunteering to help as I am physically a train wreck from being eaten by arthritis in my spine, hips, shoulders, knees. I just keep on moving and do my best to not aggravate the arthritis which is why I hire my grandson to do yardwork like weed-eating around the entire fence line on both sides and other things I cannot do.

But I can help my wife plant tomatoes and flowers. I am considering buying a small roto tiller for our shrub bed areas. Only problem I have is storage so it would have to stay outdoors likely covered up with a tarp. I also do not know if I could even handle it myself. I am afraid if I wrestled with it I would not be able to walk or stand for the back, hip, shoulder pains. SO I think I am basically just SOL.

You have inspired me to try to grow tomato plants which I did and miz micro gives the tomatoes away to her nieces and sisters. I still want to take about a dozen to my next door neighbor who was in high school with my youngest daughter. Small world.. They are nice and good neighbors. The husband has serious medical problems so she has a lot to deal with beside being the medical director at a large medical practice.

If they enjoy tomatoes I suspect they may like a bunch of these because we cannot eat them all and I really don;t eat any except sliced on a burger. Or in a salad.

Got a long day ahead today so got to get going.. Later!


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Re: De
By: Decomposed
in 6TH POPE
Tue, 19 Sep 23 2:04 AM
Msg. 45924 of 60008

micro:

Re: “How many varieties do you grow normally and what variety?”
There isn't any "normal" yet. I think I've narrowed my future crops down to four or five standard varieties, but I'll always mix things in just to keep it interesting.

I didn't do a garden this year, and the past two years were all about harvesting and renewing seeds. My heirloom pack is seven years old and many of its seeds have now gone bad.

The 2022 crop consisted of several of each of the following, ninety tomato plants in total:

• Purple Calabash
• Striped Stuffer
• Chocolate Stripes
• Ace 55
• Homestead 24
• San Marzano
• Marglobe Improved
• Roma (from the Heirlooms)
• Black Krim
• Beefsteak Red
• Honeycomb Hybrid
• Volunteer Red Cherry
• Roma (from a store vegetable)
• Kerry’s Tomato (A slice frozen since Sept 2017)
• Determinate Rutgers

All but "Kerry's Tomato" were successfully harvested and should be viable until 2028.

In 2021, I had something like 110 plants:

• Ace 55
• Azoychka
• Beefsteak Red
• Big Rainbow
• Black Krim
• Brandywine Red
• Cherokee Purple
• Chocolate Stripes
• Floradade
• Golden Jubilee
• Marion
• Purple Calabash
• Red Cherry Large
• Rutgers
• Striped Stuffer
• Tigerella
• A different large cherry tomato of unknown variety
• Yellow Pear and
• Burpee Honeycomb Hybrid

Like you, I was very impressed with Roma. The roma tomato bought from a grocery store was even more productive than the heirloom Roma seeds. For the reasons you mentioned, along with hardiness and length of season, I'll grow Romas every year from now on.






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