Mortgage Lifter was bred to be pretty and not bruise easily anything else
was of no consequence. I grew some Rutgers this year because of a childhood
memory. They were comparable to your experience with the ML. If your
heirloom was really good save the seeds. I have several that I save each
year. Their flavor is far superior to "modern" tomatoes, unfortunately their
disease resistance is not.


"Boron Elgar" wrote in message
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So I planted some Mortgage Lifter tomatoes this year. The plants grew
very well, were most prolific in flowering, setting and ripening of
fruit.

The only problem is that the tomatoes are not wonderful. They look
fabulous. They would make ideal magazine shots or state fair entries,
but they are, at least to me, underweight for their size and have no
depth of flavor whatsoever.

I have only two full size varieties growing this year (many cherry,
pear, patios, etc, as they bear and ripen earlier here), the MLs and
some identified only as "heirloom tomato" on the labeling, that latter
having been bought as a lark from a reduced rack at the local grocery
store.

I wish I knew what the "heirloom tomato" really was as it has produced
fruit that is everything that exemplifies a home grown tomato with
indescribably delicious complexity of taste.

It's fun gardening.

Boron