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Fw: Dot's on transplanting tomatoes

Hi all (again):

Thanks to Mark Joslin for letting me know I'm getting through now! It looks
like this forwarding business is a bit cumbersome, but it's almost
over...and I do appreciate your patience. Here is Missing Post #2:

> ----------
> > From: Clifford Drake <c-s-drake@worldnet.att.net>
> > Subject: Can this hybrid be saved? (Was: Dot's on transplanting
> >tomatoes)
> > Date: Sunday, February 23, 1997 8:23 AM
> >
> > Hi Janet (and anyone else interested in seed-saving):
> >
> > Afraid I don't have a source for the Mama Mia paste tomato you're
looking
> > for, but I do have a question for you. You said this is a _hybrid_
tomato,
> > yet it sounds like you (and possibly others in the AHS seed exchange)
have
> > been saving the seeds from it. Did I understand you correctly?
> >
> > If so, I'd like to hear more about this from you or anyone else who has
had
> > success saving 'hybrid' seed. I've had plants like marigolds (that I
bought
> > at garden centers & were clearly marked as hybrid varieties & didn't
seem
> > to be mislabeled when the plants grew & bloomed) self-sow and have been
> > unable to tell any difference in the offspring. Carol Deppe (in her
book
> > _Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties_) talks about 'de-hybridizing'
plant
> > varieties and it's on my list of Things To Try Sometime. The whole
concept
> > also makes me wonder about some of the 'truths' about growing things
that
> > have been handed down over the years. (No, I'm not paranoid -- just
> > curious. Inquiring minds, doncha know?) Thanks for any input ... and
I'll
> > keep looking for Mama Mia -- sounds like a good one!
> >
> > Sue Drake
> > Southeastern WI - Zone 4b/5a
> >
> > ----------
> > > From: Janet Wintermute <jwintermute@IDS2.IDSONLINE.COM>
> > > Subject: Re: Dot's on transplanting tomatoes
> > > Date: Sunday, February 23, 1997 7:45 AM
> > >
> > >  <<snipped interesting stuff here>>
> > >
> > I grow 'Mama Mia' for paste (it's a suberb eating *and* cooking hybrid,
but I
> > > have never seen it in commerce; I used to get my seed from the
American
> > > Horticultural Society's free seed exchange, but MM is not in there
anymore
> > > either....).  This hybrid produces huge quantities of blemish-free
> > Roma-type toms and does not seem to be disease susceptible either.
> > But it's plenty big.  Staked plants make an easy 5 feet tall and spread
out
> > > pretty far left-to-right, too.
> > >
> > > If any square foot listers have seen notice of 'Mama Mia' in a seed
catalog
> > > this year, please please post to the list.  I tried to save seed from
my '96
> > > MM crop, but my husband decided the water glass full of smelly tomato
> > crud near the sink was garbage and threw the brew down the disposal....
> >
> > > Janet
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