Re: [gardeners] "keeping" tomatoes
Kay Lancaster (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Wed, 24 Feb 1999 08:35:42 -0800 (PST)
On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, margaret lauterbach wrote:
> Has anyone grown a "keeping" tomato they're happy with? One that looks
> like and tastes like a real tomato? I grew one (I'd have to do research to
> find out the variety) that tasted like a hotdog. Blech! A friend gave me
> "Graham's good keeper" last year, and it was the first of 60 varieties to
> rot after being picked. Rev. Morrow's Long Keeper was fair, but I think we
> ought to be able to do better. The tomato that has kept longest and best
> for me is the Yellow Stuffer, and that isn't known as a "keeping" tomato.
I haven't found one I'm terrifically happy with... all of the longest
keeping tomatoes in the trials at the Ames PI station were thickskinned,
lignified, and high acid. On the other hand, a thick-skinned, woody,
high acid tomato is still better than the grocery store ethylene-gassed
cardboard tomatoes.
You might poke around in the tomato genetics cooperative newsletter
and see if any cultivars are particularly mentioned.
Kay Lancaster kay@fern.com
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