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  • From: andrea davis-cetina <andrea.m.davis AT gmail.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Snowing! and another tomato question
  • Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2016 14:58:18 -0700

Rivka
 I personally never get cracking on Cosmonaut and only occasionally green shoulders. But I'm also in Northern California where does not rain in the summer , I use drip irrigation. 
Glacier is an early early tomato, like an early girl. It is my first slicer ready but as the season continues to get hotter those original plants will start to produce smaller tomatoes until it cools down again in the fall then they size up again.
I also sell these as seedlings to home gardeners and the locals always come back saying how much they love the flavors and production of the plants.

Hope this helps ;)
Andrea

Quarter Acre Farm
Sonoma, CA
rainy day filled with greenhouse work

On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 10:44 AM, Road's End Farm <organic87 AT frontiernet.net> wrote:

On Apr 8, 2016, at 8:05 PM, Roots Farm wrote:

2nd Goliath hybrid.  Does well even in tropics without sacrificing taste,  

Karen

On Apr 8, 2016, at 4:12 PM, gofish54 AT centurytel.net wrote:

For an indeterminate, I like Goliath hybrid.  For determinate, Red Deuce or BHN 589.


Interesting. How does Goliath do up north? (gofish, where are you?)

On Apr 8, 2016, at 8:49 PM, GarlicGrower wrote:

Hi, Folks!

Zhong Shu #6 is a stereotypical round red tomato that tastes like people expect a tomato to taste.  Unfortunately, it is late season.  But if anyone wants seeds, email me directly with your address and I’ll send  you some.
 
Dorene
 

Thanks; but late season isn't what I'm looking for on this. It may work nicely for others, though.


On Apr 9, 2016, at 12:17 PM, andrea davis-cetina wrote:

My favorite standard reds are

Andrea

Quarter Acre Farm enjoying some rain
Sonoma, CA

Also interesting.

High Mowing catalog says Cosmonaut Volkov is prone to cracking and has green shoulders. Is that true in your experience? -- the Fedco picture you linked to does seem to show green shoulders.

Glacier's saladette size, according to descriptions, not full sized slicer; and apparently also has green shoulders.

-- What I'll be trialling this year will be Mountain Merit and Ruth's Perfect; but of course I don't know yet whether either of those will work out. I'm dubious about the flavor descriptions of Mountain Merit; but a friend of mine in the area grew it last year and said it wasn't up to the heirlooms but was pretty good. IME tomato flavor depends a whole lot on the specific site, also.




-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 6A now I think
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale





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