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  • From: "Adriana" <gutierrez-lagatta AT charter.net>
  • To: <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Market-farming] Question for Bill Shoemaker on Heirloom Tomato Cultivar Evaluation
  • Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 12:29:33 -0600

Bill, I've been studying the results of a study you participated in Heirloom Tomato Cultivar Evaluation at Saint Charles, Illinois - 2003.

I took the data and calculated average yield PER PLANT per week to identify high yielders for commercial production. Then I started looking for information on those varieties which produced an average of 4#/wk per plant or higher. There are some varieties I have not been able to identify either sources for the seeds or other information, among them Ellis island, Bianco Great White, Grandma Mary's Paste, Juane Peach, Landino di Panocchia, Large Polish Pste (same as Polish Giant Paste?), Watermelon.

Can you help?

For those who want my "high-yielder's list" here it is. I have asked for input on the Garden Web tomato forum http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/tomato/ regarding the flavor of these top producers:

Amana Orange - 4.0 #/plant per week (8-week harvest period)
Bianco Great White - 4.5
Black - 5.1
Black From Tula 4.0
Black Krim - 6.0
Brandywine, OTV - 4.0
Bull's Heart - 4.5
Costoluto Genovese - 4.9
Ellis Island - 5.3
Giant Syrian - 4.8
Goliath - 5.2
Grandma Mary's Paste - 4.3
Hungarian Heart - 4.7
Juane Peach - 4.8
Landino di Panocchia - 4.3
Large Polish Paste - 6.5
Mortgage Lifter - 4.0
Pete's Italian Plum - 4.8
Platillo - 5.1
Polish Linguisa - 4.6
Russian Big Roma - 4.9
Russian Rose - 4.3
Rutgers - 4.6
Spitze Russia - 4.9
Striped Stuffer - 5.5
Super Sioux - 4.1
Ten Fingers of Naples - 4.1
Watermelon - 4.3
Zapotec Pink Pleated - 4.0



Adriana





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