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Showing Original Post only (View all)So the checker at the store asked "what kind of fruit is this?" ;-) [View all]
Today's story below.
Original post: How A Seed Saver (DU's own NRaleighLiberal) Discovered One Of Our Favorite Tomatoes : http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025319364
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Marta and I were at the store yesterday when he asked the question. I have a voice that carries. Several people got to hear the story on NPR about the Cherokee tomato. I went on about how the high acid level gives it more of the tomato taste everybody loves tomatoes for. I went on to mention I have a small connection to the guy in the story that is responsible for making this variety available to the world. And his book will be coming out in a couple months.
Several people went to the vegetable area and bought out what was left in stock of the Cherokees. There were not many of them in the heirloom section to begin with.
We can't have a garden here because all the animals that pass through our yard to graze. So I can't thank NRaleighLiberal enough for this wonderful favor he did for ALL tomato lovers as the Cherokee legend grows. His page: http://nctomatoman.weebly.com/nctomato-and-garden-blog
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So the checker at the store asked "what kind of fruit is this?" ;-) [View all]
Omaha Steve
Aug 2014
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Somewhere I read that the popularity of the Jersey Beefsteak is due to the iron in the soil..n/t
monmouth3
Aug 2014
#40
I suspect it is also due to the particular varieties that they grow...and your
NRaleighLiberal
Aug 2014
#44
Cherokee Green is one of the green-when-ripes that develop yellow skin.
NRaleighLiberal
Aug 2014
#10
I have a friend who gardens in Augusta who has many heirloom varieties of seedlings available
NRaleighLiberal
Aug 2014
#22
Cherry Tomatoes can make even brown thumb individuals think they are farmer brown.
alfredo
Aug 2014
#15
They are bred for surviving machinery and for shelf life, not flavor or nutrition.
alfredo
Aug 2014
#16
We grow Cherokee Purple in the backyard -- they're the best heirloom variety IMO.
Auggie
Aug 2014
#9
Hmm. I wonder that Monsanto hasn't sued because they probably control a patent on a
PatrickforO
Aug 2014
#12
Both. The farm was a small patch that the farmer's father had started jus afer WW II
eridani
Aug 2014
#37