Re: Ack! Heirloom tomato question

I'll see your "Black Russian" (Russian Paul Robeson; is there a Jackie Robinson tomato that steals home?!) and raise you a Black Krim, an Amish Paste and a Hillbilly.
---Texas Hold 'em McG
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Subject: Fwd: [cg] Ack! Heirloom tomato question


-----Original Message-----
From: adam36055@aol.com
To: ilexwhite@yahoo.com
Sent: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 8:33 PM
Subject: Re: [cg] Ack! Heirloom tomato question


Kiddo - why make life hard than it absolutely has to be? Grow tomatoes, love them, but you don't need to get into the minutiae of what seed keepers need to to keep the heirlooms pure to enjoy great tomatoes. Compost, chickenshit, sun, watering, pinching off the suckers, and not smoking near the plants helps, and lord knows, rooftop gardening is hard.

Walking the walk, I have huge Russian Paul Robeson tomatoes growing next to common as dirt sweet 100s, in a 8' x 10' plot.. not counting the greenbeans, basil, eggplant and 10 varieties of hot pepper.

Community gardening ain't about purity and perfection. It's great to be organic, but to be really crazed about cross pollination is kind of anti-thetical to what community and community gardens are about. namely cross pollination and sharing.


And having fun!

\Best wishes,
Adam Honigman
Hell's Kitchen, NYC


-----Original Message-----
From: ilexwhite@yahoo.com
To: community_garden@mallorn.com
Sent: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 5:59 PM
Subject: [cg] Ack! Heirloom tomato question


Hello everyone, I'm very new to the list and new to gardening, period, but I got
bit by the bug pretty bad this year and now I even dream at night about growing
vegetables! I'm doomed, doomed... I love the conversation in here and plan on
becoming a dues-paying member next paycheck- this list really brightens my day.
The no-till conversation has been very informative.

I just came across something surprising/ disappointing, and I'd love opinions
on this. It seems that the International Seed Saving Institute recommends
planting heirloom tomatoes 100 feet apart. Now, I have a container garden on my
small porch in downtown Detroit, and I'm planning on creating a community
rooftop vegetable/ herb/ whatever garden for my apartment building next season.
I'm already compiling a list of heirloom tomato varieties I'm dying to try next
year, and I'd be pretty bummed if I could only try one or two. Is the 100 foot
recommendation simply for seed saving, in the interest of keeping the varieties
from cross-pollinating? Just how close can I plant heirloom varieties? I am
interested in learning proper seed saving, but I also want to plant as much as
my family can eat! Input?

Thanks so much-
Holly


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