Re: [tomato] getting ready to order seed. Need opinions.
Aulaire@aol.com (Tomato@GlobalGarden.com)
Fri, 22 Oct 1999 11:27:43 EDT
Michelle--
Your list looks remarkably like my list, with a few variants. I'm a newbie
at heirlooms, so I'll be very interested in the answers you get. The one
perhaps useful comment I can make is that instead of Martino's Roma I'm
growing Opalka. My reasons are: A neighbor grew Opalka, and they were
beautiful, deep red, and utterly delicious for salads as well as for paste;
Carolyn Male, in her book 100 Heirloom Tomatoes for the American Garden,
says Opalka's delicious with a high yield; Opalka tomatoes are nifty looking,
more like hot peppers than tomatoes! Carolyn also says that the plant is
large and vigorous (indeterminate), so I don't know about containers, unless
they're large.
Let's see what others have to say!
Aulaire in the Hudson River Valley