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Re: Tomatoes and More

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The last four sound good to me. I haven't grown or tasted Early Girl.  Dr. 
Carolyn Male's "100 Heirloom tomatoes for the American Garden" lists 
Cherokee Purple and Sudduth's strain of regular Brandywine, which is what 
you have, I presume, so they should grow well for you. She was growing in 
your general neck of the woods.  As long as you're interested in varieties 
of tomato and especially open pollinated ones (rumor has it that even Sun 
Gold is really open pollinated, but claimed to be hybrid by seed companies 
that want to keep selling seeds), let me point you to Chuck Wyatt's tomato 
list (www.heirloomtomatoes.net ). He grows in the Baltimore area, so your 
growing experience should be close to his. Margaret L

>i'm in maryland and have just planted 5 tomatoe plants in my square foot
>garden:
>
>Early Girl
>Sioux
>Cherokee Purple
>Brandywine
>Sun Gold
>
>I did some research and selected these.  Any comments on these varieties?
>
>David


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