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Re: Was Traffic, now Tomato.

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 Francoise De Smet wrote:
>What are those favorites of yours? I like the book because I am starting
and do
>not know enough varieties to have favorites yet. The book gives me a good
>starting place.

Southern Night, Black Prince, Mortgage Lifter (Carolyn did cover this one),
Striped German, Green Zebra and Garden Peach for flavor.  For sheer beauty,
I love Schimmeig Stoo and Purple Calabash (it tastes awful).  For canning,
making salsa and paste, I like San Marzano and good old hybrid Roma!  I
tested a new tomato for 2000 this season in my garden--Vita Gold from
Seminis Seeds.  It will be available everywhere.  It has up to 20 times the
beta carotene of a regular tomato.  What I like about it was that is had the
same shape and texture of Roma and was as prolific.  The fruit is orange so
it makes an interesting salsa!  One drawback--the flavor is bland.  But, of
all the tomatoes we picked green and brought indoors to ripen, Vita Gold
held its shape and texture the best.  We didn't have one rotten one.
Doreen Howard
Central Illinois--zone 5b


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