Frogleg wrote:
On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 16:46:29 GMT, "Dave Allyn"
(Dave Allyn) wrote:
On 06 Jul 2003 03:15:30 GMT, (Jack1000) wrote:
I bet the tags were switched by the same kids who keep putting dishwashing soap
in the fountain at the mall.
but on the other hand, that can be good too.. that's how I found
yellow pear tom's..... a tag mixup. now I plant them every year...
The tags I mean, not the dish-soap! 
Didja ever see the TV ad for pasta showing happy farm folk harvesting
from their spaghetti bushes? :-)
I'm going back to the supplier of my "jellybean" plant (he lives a few
blocks away) and find out why it's an average 1" cherry type. I'm
pretty sure no one messed with *his* tags, but it sure must happen a
lot with trays of six-packs.
Yellow pears are a lot more fashionable now then when I had one
ultra-prolific plant (and plenty of volunteers the next year). I
wonder about its ancestry -- such a distinctive shape and color. I
don't know of any 'red pear' tomatoes. Perhaps a sport that bred true?
About the "jellybean" plant, don't blame the grower, blame
the seed producer. My garden group grew them this year from
seed for our Spring Sale and I planted one in my own
garden. The tomatoes on it are at least 1" in diameter if
not bigger. I am really disappointed as the picture on the
seed packet shows those little grape size tomatoes you see
in the supermarket.
By the way does anyone know of a seed source that will
reliably produce those little grape size tomatoes. Last
year I tried another variety that was supposed to be that
size, but it too became much larger.
Linda in SW Ohio