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  • From: robert schuler <sunnfarm AT bellatlantic.net>
  • To: market farming <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: More Heirlooms
  • Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 00:52:22 -0400


> I had a chance to meet a plant breeder from Uzbekistan at our South Jersey
> vegetable and
> fruit research farm at Rutgers U., he collected 42 varieties of OP tomatos
> from central
> Asia along with many peppers and melons that are being grow and tested to
> see if they
> can be grown in our climate to be used exclusively for market farming, they
> really did
> not seem all that different than what we already have but I was impressed
> with his
> winter melons, you plant them in the spring harvest in late summer when
> they taste like
> a green watermelon then store them until mid winter when they get sweet and
> juicy I as
> told they can be stored more than seven months. Also got to see some
> excellent pepper
> and eggplant variety trials, these are two of the biggest crops in my area,
> our goal is
> to find a good phytophtora and bacterial spot resistant bell pepper and we
> do have some
> nice looking varietys appearing on the market, just two years ago their
> were none, as
> for eggplants around here the high bush type is number one but a new
> variety from
> Siegers seed called Santana looked very good I will try it in my field next
> year, I hope
> you all can get to variety trials in your area...Bob.




  • More Heirlooms, robert schuler, 08/26/2000

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