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  • From: Deb Taft <growbd AT aol.com>
  • To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] monsanto varieties
  • Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 11:06:16 -0500 (EST)


Thank you for the list - very helpful.

I'm bummed to see Celebrity on it.  It's one of the hybrids I like to grow because it's determinate.  I try to have at least one row that doesn't need a big ol' trellis.

Anybody have other determinate tomato varieties they like?  Not necessary red slicers.  I also grow Roma, Taxi for their compactness.

I like Table Queen better than Table Ace acorns too.

Thanks,
Deb
Mobius Fields
Sleepy Hollow NY



-----Original Message-----
From: Road's End Farm <organic87 AT frontiernet.net>
To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Sat, Feb 5, 2011 5:00 am
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] monsanto varieties


On Feb 4, 2011, at 10:02 PM, Ryan Wood-Beauchamp wrote:

> The following is a list of Monsanto varieties stocked by Johnny's  I  
> was disappointed to learn that Big Beef was one.  Does anyone know a  
> good replacement?
>
>

I'd like to know the answer to that one also; I've been trying to find  
one for several years. I have heirlooms that have better flavor than  
Big Beef; but it's hard to find Big Beef's combination of earliness,  
flavor, and production of large standard round, red, smoothly shaped  
tomatoes for those customers who are unwilling to buy anything that  
doesn't look like their idea of "perfect tomato".

Matchbox is nearly as good as Super Chili; average size of peppers and  
production may both be slightly less, but not by much. Peacework is a  
very good early red sweet pepper, but seed isn't really available this  
year; try Fedco next year.

Johnny's own strain of Delicata has always done better for me than  
Bush Delicata anyway. (Are you sure Bush Delicata is now Monsanto? Did  
you get the list from Johnny's?) And I like Table Queen better than  
Table Ace.

(Let me note here also that I know there are people on this list who  
see no reason not to buy from Monsanto. This is a concern for some of  
us, but not others, for various reasons; I'd rather not have the list  
get into a debate on that issue. If someone has had a bad experience  
with any individual company, for whatever reason, and wants to discuss  
alternative varieties they could source elsewhere, I think that's a  
legitimate question to ask on the list, even if others are happy with  
the specific company. Could we treat this question in that fashion,  
please?)


-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale



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