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Re: Tomato varieties for greenhouses?

>Here in Suburban Md there is a lovely Garden store called Behnke's that has a
>Tomato Festival(a little later than this, of course) where anyone can come
>and sample(taste) a LARGE variety of tomatoes, this quickly gets you hooked
>on different varieties for each year, and is a nice promotional "gimmick" for
>the store.  Needless to say the Festival is VERY popular.
>Margaret (zone7/MD-DC suburb)

I went to last year's tasting and was pretty disappointed.  At 2 PM on the
Saturday they held it at the Beltsville (main) facility, Behnke's offered
only 7 different tomatoes.  Brandywine and Cherokee Purple were the only
heirlooms; all the rest were ho-hum hybrids.

I was hoping for at least 20 different kinds (since they sell at least that
many) so I could try lots I hadn't been exposed to before.  Didn't work out
that way.

Although I will say that Brandywine was head and shoulders above the other 6
on the table!

This is a good idea for an event, though, and Behnke's remains my fave
nursery in the area.

--Janet in Adelphi, MD
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Janet Wintermute             jwintermute@ids2.idsonline.com

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