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RE: SQFT: Open-pollination and tomatoes

A good heirloom variety for hot areas is Creole.  I grew it last year,
and it survived some pretty hot Texas summer sun.  My other tomatoes
(Celebrity and Big Girl) stopped producing during summer, but picked up
again in september/october.  This year I am going to try to save the
seeds from Creole.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	robloach@JUNO.COM [SMTP:robloach@JUNO.COM]
> Sent:	Thursday, January 29, 1998 8:06 AM
> To:	sqft@lists.umsl.edu
> Subject:	SQFT: Open-pollination and tomatoes
> 
> Hi y'all!
> I have been reading the different posts about open-pollination with
> great
> interest. I would *really* like to raise heirloom tomatoes especially,
> but also other veggies this year and save the seed, but here are a
> couple
> of my reservations about doing it:
> 
> 1. You will instantly detect that I still may not have all the facts
> straight about cross-pollination, etc. as you read my other points,
> but I
> *am* trying to learn and understand. :-)
> 
> 2. In this part of the country, we have *lots* of trouble raising
> tomatoes that aren't disease resistant. I've had the best success with
> Celebrity and with Sweet Million tomatoes. Since we can much of our
> harvest for use the rest of the year, we really don't want to have a
> small harvest. Could I continue to raise Celebrity and Sweet Million
> but
> still have a variety like Brandywine? I figure that I couldn't save
> the
> seeds from the Celeb. or from the S. Million, but would they affect
> the
> Brandywine? I could put them about 50 yds apart, but from I've read,
> that
> may not be sufficient.
> 
> 3. Because of our problems here with disease (our climate in the
> summer
> is very hot and very humid), would Brandywines even make it? If not,
> what
> heirloom variety might and what would be a good source for it?
> 
> I know that some of you are really experienced in all of this and I
> would
> appreciate any advice, and probably others would too. I know that I've
> talked mainly about tomatoes, but that has been one of our main garden
> crops, which last year I grew successfully in a kind of sqft method. I
> caged the tomatoes, but in groups of ten cages -- two rows of five
> cages,
> but all right up against each other. I hope that my description of it
> makes sense to you. :-)
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> Rob Loach in Greenville SC  --<--{@
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