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  • From: "Tom at Limerock" <limerock AT thirdplanet.net>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Market-farming] Re: Question for Bill Shoemaker on HeirloomTomatoCultivar Evaluation
  • Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 07:21:35 -0500

Adriana,

Several of the varieties you are looking for are in the 'Tomato Growers Supply Company' 2005 catalog. Although I have not checked out their website, it is www.tomatogrowers.com. Their tele is 888-768-3476.

Among their extensive list, they include

Great White (no Bianco in the name)
Grandma Mary's Paste
Polish Linguisa (a paste tomato)
Watermelon Beefsteak

Hope this is of some help.

Tom
Limerock Orchards





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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