Re: grape tomatoes

**fran gustman f*@juno.com**

Hi, Sharon. How you been? Want to write on this subject for HR? I really
like your style - nice and breezy and informative. I'll be away for a
week or more so don't expect to hear right back from me! We'll be in the
Adirondacks. 

Fran

On Fri, 23 Aug 2002 19:05:37 -0700 "e.merge" <hanna@direct.ca> writes:
> Hello from Tomato Land to the North
> 
> I am now confused. What kind of tomatoes? Variety names? I know 
> there are
> "currant" tomatoes (Martha calls them 'five in a spoon', but never
> mind)....these are the actual first tomatoes (tomatls) grown by the 
> Inca
> zillions of years ago. But they are teeny-weeny. Well, of course 
> they are
> bigger than currants - more like nicoise olives. Completely sweet 
> and very
> tomato-ey tasting. Don't like fertilizer.
> 
> There are also saladette types like "Juliet" (don't like it - it 
> grows
> fine, keeps for months, but isn't very tasty) and a new one called 
> "Olive"
> which I tasted for the first time this year. It was big like a Queen 
> olive,
> featuring a big olive-like indentation almost like a belly button at 
> one end. 
> 
> The absolutely supercallifragalisticex-pee-a ladocious 'cherry' 
> tomato is
> "Sungold" (F1) out of Japan - Tokita is the producer I think. A 
> grower from
> the Okanagan, a tomato specialist, who comes regularly to a couple 
> of the
> local markets - the Granville Market, and the East Van Farmer's
> Market....he has become a bit of a cult figure (Canadians are 
> desperate for
> entertainment, and we infrequently get hot, sunny enough summers to 
> grow
> really good tomatoes)....anyhow, this man takes reservations from 
> people to
> buy Sungold tomatoes in advance. Sungold starts off green, turns 
> yellow,
> and then just as you are tempted to pick it you wait about two more
> days...at the last possible moment, the colour turns orange/apricot. 
> They
> are the sweetest, tangiest tomatoes on the planet. 
> 
> I have seen "grape" tomatoes, both red and yellow, here in Vancouver 
> - they
> are like elongated cherry tomatoes about the size of Tumbler (the 
> container
> one) but are shaped like a grape - that is, sort of oval. I could go 
> on and
> on. If anyone wants the seed sources for these or other tomato 
> varieties,
> pls. let me know. 
> 
> 
> 
>  
> Sharon H. Hanna
> Writer & Urban Agriculturist
> Member, Garden Writers Assoc. of America
> (604) 736 1889
> 
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> harvested
> illegally.  
> 
> Sharon's catalogue writing/recipes:
> http://www.kitchengardenseeds.com
> 
> Xeriscaping/water-wise gardening article on Canadian Wildlife 
> Federation
> site, July 2002:
> 
>
http://www.wildaboutgardening.org/en/whats_new/ten_commandments/hold_wate
r.htm
> 
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Fran Gustman, Editor
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Boston, MA
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