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Old 03-01-2007, 03:00 PM posted to rec.gardens.edible
Steve Bonine Steve Bonine is offline
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Default Heirloom tomatoes for Minnesota

Pat Kiewicz wrote:

I forgot to mention 'Anna Russian' which is a nice pink/red oxheart,
available from Tomato Growers Supply.


This suggests another question for you growers of heirloom tomatoes.

How many varieties do you grow in a given season?

Here I sit, both enjoying this task of picking varities to grow next
year and grinding my teeth because there are so many choices. I figure
that I need to narrow it down to somewhere areound five varities, and
grow two plants of each.

Picking five is hard. Picking ten would be easier, but I don't need
twenty tomato plants, especially since I'll plant a few of the
non-heirloom varities for comparison purposes.

Settling on the ones that I like and that grow well is a several-season
process. I figure I'll get it figured out just about the time I'm too
old to garden . . .