On Sun, 02 Feb 2003 14:36:22 GMT, Pat Meadows wrote in
rec.gardens.edible:


A while ago - maybe 15 years or thereabouts - I grew
mini-tomato plants in 8" pots. The plants got to be about a
foot high, and the tomatoes were about the size of ping-pong
balls. I started them under lights and eventually moved
them outdoors.

I grew a red and a yellow. The red one (IIRC) was called
'Red Robin' and I don't remember the name of the yellow one.

I'd like to grow these again this year - and I'd especially
like to be able to give well-started plants in pots to a
shut-in neighbor, but I don't know where to get the seeds.

I *think* they came from Burpee's way back when, but I don't
see them in the current Burpee catalog. Maybe they came
from Park Seed, which inexplicably hasn't sent me a catalog
this year although I've requested one (will try again).

Can anyone help?

Thanks!

Pat
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There are a few such types listed on the US Department of Agriculture site at

http://www.usu.edu/cpl/sd%20tomato%20research.htm .

"We are currently characterizing tomato cultivars ‘Micro-Tom’, ‘Red Robin’,
‘Pixie’ and ‘Reimann Philipp’. ‘Micro-Tom’ is the shortest (15-cm) but ‘Red
Robin’ is also very short (20-cm)." One inch = 2.5 cm.

A search on Google using the following keywords produced several seed
distributors. Be sure to include the quotes in the following search:

tomato "red robin" seed

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