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Re: Tomato varieties for taste.

>I am looking for a paste tomato that doesn't taste like paste.  My wife
>prefers them for cooking but the blandness of Roma leaves me cold since I
>often put them is salads.

I definitely have the answer for Bill from SE Pennsylvania:  'Mama Mia.'

But I can't FIND it.  I got the seeds from the Amer. Hort. Soc's free seed
exchange in 1994 and they haven't had it since '95.

I have not yet secured either the Totally Tomatoes or Tomato Supply Co.
catalogs.  If any Square Footers have these, please take a quick peek and
let me know if 'Mama' is in there.  She's terrific--hugely prolific, not
susceptible to any of the various soilborne wilts that plague us here in the
Nation's Capital, the fruit taste excellent and make a very strong sauce,
and they have the longest shelf life at room temp of any tomato I've ever grown.

'Mama':  come to Janet, come to Janet.


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Janet Wintermute             jwintermute@ids2.idsonline.com
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